Caitlyn Dlouhy Launches Own Imprint at Atheneum

Caitlyn Dlouhy

Children's book editor Caitlyn Dlouhy is launching an eponymous imprint, Caitlyn Dlouhy Books, as part of Atheneum Books for Young Readers at Simon and Schuster Children's Publishing. The imprint will publish about 20 titles a year, beginning in spring 2016. The projects will range in age from picture books to young adult.

Dlouhy, whose new title is v-p, editorial director, Caitlyn Dlouhy Books, joined Atheneum in 1998 and has worked on books by, among others, Laurie Halse Anderson, Kathi Appelt, Ashley Bryan, Andrew Clements, Doreen Cronin, Frances O'Roark Dowell, Sharon Draper, Richard Jackson, William Joyce, Cynthia Kadohata, Uma Krishnaswami, Betsy Lewin, Alison McGhee, Phyllis Reynolds Naylor, Jason Reynolds, Peter Reynolds, Janne Teller, Tor Seidler and David Small.

"The creation of this new imprint within Atheneum Books for Young Readers is a celebration of quality books for kids, and also a celebration of one of the publishing industry's finest editors," commented Justin Chanda, v-p and publisher of Atheneum Books for Young Readers.

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