{"id":90878,"date":"2025-08-18T02:39:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T02:39:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/90878\/"},"modified":"2025-08-18T02:39:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T02:39:07","slug":"larrikin-acquires-harrys-the-fast-lane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/90878\/","title":{"rendered":"Larrikin acquires Harry\u2019s \u2018The Fast Lane\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\tMonday, 18 August 2025 \u00a0 Books+Publishing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/booksandpublishing\/\" class=\"entry-social\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> @booksandpublishing<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Larrikin House has acquired world rights to The Fast Lane, a picture book written by Pip Harry and illustrated by Katrin Dreiling.<\/p>\n<p>According to the publisher,\u00a0The Fast Lane\u00a0is \u2018charming, funny picture book for kids with a competitive side\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>Harry said, \u2018The Fast Lane captures my 40 years as a passionate (and fairly speedy!) pool swimmer through the story of Daisy. She\u2019s a fierce and uncompromising fast-lane swimmer, who is frustrated when slow-stroking and unserious Frank, the frog, blocks her lane. It has themes of sport, acceptance, inclusiveness and what happens when your competitive side prevents you from having fun and making friends.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>The publisher said, \u2018Pip Harry is a wonderful writer and has captured the conflict of being a high-achiever and having fun, in our beautiful protagonist Daisy \u2013 a fast swimming piggy!\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Larrikin House plans to publish\u00a0The Fast Lane\u00a0in April 2026.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"catlist\">Category: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.booksandpublishing.com.au\/?category_name=local-news\" class=\"catitem\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Local\u00a0news<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.booksandpublishing.com.au\/?category_name=rights-news\" class=\"catitem\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rights\u00a0and\u00a0acquisitions<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>\t\t<script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Monday, 18 August 2025 \u00a0 Books+Publishing @booksandpublishing Larrikin House has acquired world rights to The Fast Lane, a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":90879,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[1204,1246,61985,61988,61982,7103,223,61987,12435,88,61984,25136,61986,61983],"class_list":["post-90878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-books","tag-asia-pacific","tag-australia","tag-author-interviews","tag-book-awards","tag-book-news","tag-book-reviews","tag-books","tag-bookseller-jobs","tag-ebooks","tag-entertainment","tag-library-news","tag-new-zealand","tag-publishing-jobs","tag-publishing-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90878\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}