Penguin Young Readers has announced the launch of a new imprint, called Kokila, that will focus on diverse books for children and young adults. According to Penguin, the imprint’s mission is to “add depth and nuance to the way children and young adults see the world and their place in it.”
Namrata Tripathi, previously associate publisher and editorial director of Dial Books for Young Readers, has been named publisher of Kokila. The Kokila team includes editor Joanna Cárdenas, currently an editor at Viking Children’s Books, and art director Jasmin Rubero, currently associate art director for Dial Books for Young Readers.
Kokila will release approximately 15–20 fiction and nonfiction titles annually, ranging from picture books to middle grade to young adult, as well as graphic novels. The debut list will launch in the summer of 2019. Authors and illustrators already set to be published under the Kokila imprint include Pablo Cartaya, Sherine Hamdy, Myra El-Mir, Isabel Quintero, Zeke Peña, John Corey Whaley, Calista Brill, and Nilah Magruder.
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