McArthur & Company Welcomes Margaret Atwood

Toronto (January 14, 2011) McArthur & Company is delighted to announce the upcoming publication of a new illustrated children’s book by Margaret Atwood, with illustrations by Dušan Petričić: WANDERING WENDA AND WIDOW WALLOP’S WUNDERGROUND WASHERY.

WANDERING WENDA will be Atwood’s seventh children’s book and will incorporate the same alliterative wordplay as her previous books with Petričić, which include Rude Ramsay and the Roaring Radishes and Bashful Bob and Doleful Dorinda.

McArthur & Company will re-publish Rude Ramsay and the Roaring Radishes and Bashful Bob and Doleful Dorinda in paperback, along with audio read by Margaret Atwood and enhanced e-books, in May 2011. WANDERING WENDA AND WIDOW WALLOP’S WUNDERGROUND WASHERY is scheduled for publication in Summer 2011.

Atwood_Credit_George_Whiteside Margaret Atwood is the award-winning author of more than forty books of fiction, poetry, and critical essays. She is an internationally bestselling author whose novels include Cat’s Eye, shortlisted for the Booker Prize; Alias Grace, which won the Giller Prize and the Premio Mondello in Italy; The Blind Assassin, winner of the Booker Prize; and Oryx and Crake, shortlisted for the Booker Prize. Oryx and Crake and The Year of the Flood are the first two novels in a planned science fiction trilogy. She lives in Toronto. www.margaretatwood.ca

Dusan_Petricic Dušan Petričić is an award-winning editorial cartoonist and the illustrator of more than twenty books for children. His work has appeared in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, and The Toronto Star. He lives in Toronto.