Big Machines: The Story of Virginia Lee Burton

Kate O'Sullivan of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt has bought world rights to Jinnee and the Big Machines, a picture book biography of children's author-illustrator Virginia Lee Burton by Sherri Duskey Rinker, illustrated by John Rocco. Publication is slated for fall 2017, to coincide with the 75th anniversary of Burton's The Little House. Amy Rennert at the Amy Rennert Agency represented Rinker, and Rob Weisbach at Rob Weisbach Creative Management represented Rocco.