Eric Litwin and Tom Lichtenheld Ink Three-Book Deal With Scholastic

By Maryann Yin 

Groovy Joe (GalleyCat)Eric Litwin and Tom Lichtenheld will join forces to launch the new Groovy Joe picture book series. The collaborators have signed a three-book deal with Scholastic.

Book one, entitled Groovy Joe: Ice Cream and Dinosaurs, will be released in Fall 2016. Litwin and Lichtenheld may also craft some Groovy Joe-style board and novelty books.

Here’s more from the press release: “The deal was negotiated by Amy Rennert from the Amy Rennert Agency for both Eric Litwin and Tom Lichtenheld, and Liza Baker, VP/Executive Editorial Director for Cartwheel and Orchard Books at Scholastic. Groovy Joe is a first-time collaboration of two of today’s most brilliant and successful children’s book creators: Eric Litwin, the #1 New York Times best-selling author of the first four Pete the Cat series books, and Tom Lichtenheld, the #1 New York Times best-selling illustrator of Goodnight, Goodnight, Construction Site.”