FSG Books for Young Readers to Publish New Jules Feiffer Book
September 26, 2012
Legendary children's editor Michael di Capua will be overseeing the editorial direction of a new Jules Feiffer book to be published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Macmillan Children's Publishing Group. The project, titled Rupert Can Dance, is scheduled for release in winter 2014. The story stars a young dancer named Mandy.
"What di Capua especially likes about the new work is the energy that Feiffer, now 83, unleashes when Mandy and Rupert finally perform their pas de deux...Rupert Can Dance will be Feiffer and di Capua’s 11th book together. The two met in the early 1990s after Feiffer wrote a draft of what would become his first children’s book, The Man in the Ceiling, and asked a friend in children’s books if he could recommend an editor. The friend, Maurice Sendak, introduced him to di Capua."