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| Jill Davis | |
Jill Davis has held editorial positions at Random House, Penguin, Bloomsbury, FSG and HarperCollins, and is celebrating her 30th year in children's book publishing by launching a new imprint at Astra Publishing House. Hippo Park books are for all ages up through middle grade and tween and will include mostly humorous picture books and graphic novels. She lives in New York City and Long Island with her husband and has two grown sons.
Welcome to Hippo Park! Our debut list reflects the joyful, surprising, often befuddling and endlessly fascinating world our children live in. We want to make the kind of books kids ask for again and again--with stories that tickle their funny bones, respect their intelligence and support their need for emotional connection. Our focus is on what children see and feel when they open up our books and look inside--words and ideas that are funny, silly and often true, and illustrations that convey emotion when words might not. We like to say that we take silly seriously, and we hope our books will bring children wonder and delight. --Jill Davis