University of Queensland Press has acquired the next middle grade novel from Fiona Wood, in a two-book deal. The Boy and the Dog Tree will be published in March 2026.
Wood is the award-winning author of four YA novels, including Six Impossible Things, Wildlife, Cloudwish, and Take Three Girls, co-written with Simmone Howell and Cath Crowley. Her debut middle-grade novel, How to Spell Catastrophe, was published in 2022. She has received three Children’s Book Council of Australia Book of the Year Awards.
The full request from UQP can be found here.
