APW/8/FRI - Friends and Brothers (formerly Try Counting Sheep)
Reference code
APW/8/FRI
Level of description
File
Title
Friends and Brothers (formerly Try Counting Sheep)
Date/s
1982-1988
Quantity & Format
33 items
Scope and content
Memorandum of agreement, 19/11/82.
Story written for Mara Bergman at Walker Books, which is rejected. Other feedback from publishers, on the submission of TRY COUNTING SHEEP, comes from Ingrid Selberg at Heinemann. A contract is drawn up with Heinemann and the book is submitted under a new collection title FRIENDS AND BROTHERS. (See also letter in general correspondence describing DKS’ grandchildren in this story, letter dated 25/8/86).
One of the stories in the collection is called SNAPDRAGON.
Heinemann ask DKS if he’d like to do an anthology of animal stories.
Little, Brown and Co (US) seek rights in FRIENDS AND BROTHERS, as does Morehouse-Barlow.
Other titles referred to in this file: THE HODGEHEG.
Story written for Mara Bergman at Walker Books, which is rejected. Other feedback from publishers, on the submission of TRY COUNTING SHEEP, comes from Ingrid Selberg at Heinemann. A contract is drawn up with Heinemann and the book is submitted under a new collection title FRIENDS AND BROTHERS. (See also letter in general correspondence describing DKS’ grandchildren in this story, letter dated 25/8/86).
One of the stories in the collection is called SNAPDRAGON.
Heinemann ask DKS if he’d like to do an anthology of animal stories.
Little, Brown and Co (US) seek rights in FRIENDS AND BROTHERS, as does Morehouse-Barlow.
Other titles referred to in this file: THE HODGEHEG.
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