Book Deals: Week of July 22, 2019

FROM THE U.S. Kimmel Does One for the Kids Comedian and late-night host Jimmy Kimmel sold his debut picture book, The Serious Goose , to Random House Children's Books. The novel is set in the video game industry and, Taylor elaborated, is "a hate-to-love" tale in which a Korean-American video game producer working on a feminism-themed game finds herself constantly at odds with an intern at her company who has an MBA. The project will be a coproduction of Amazon Studios, Paramount Television, and Skydance Television. * Streamline Global (a production company targeting high-net-worth investors who can claim tax deductions on their investment) optioned the nonfiction title Crescendo: The Story of a Musical Genius Who Forever Changed a Southern Town by Allen Cheney and Julie Cantrell, which HarperCollins published last week.