We’re pleased to report that foreign rights sales have continued to add up for Joann Davis’s magical fable, THE BOOK OF THE SHEPHERD, which HarperStudio will publish 10/27/09. Here are the 16 publishers/countries on board so far:

Slovakia/Ikar; Norway/Juritzen; Czech/Euromedia; Dutch/De Arbeiderspers; French/Michel Lafon; German/Pattloch (an imprint of Droemer); Hebrew/Matar; Italian/Mondadori; Japanese/PHP Institute; Korean/Munhakdongne; Polish/Proszynski; Portuguese in Brazil/Rocco; Portuguese in Portugal/Planeta; Russian/Eksmo; Swedish/Forum; Turkish/Dogan Kitapcilik