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Sony and Penguin will be developing a worldwide licensing and consumer products campaign with Penguin Ventures managing the licensing across the UK and Ireland, Australia, New Zealand and Japan.

Ameet will create a range of colouring, creativity and sticker books based on the hit franchise, bringing in elements of both Harry Potter and Fantastic Beasts films. All the books will contain new film-based and film-inspired artwork.

October marks 30 years since the masterpiece Matilda was first published, introducing the character, her nemesis Miss Trunchbull and her Miss champion Miss Honey to young readers across the world.

Centum Books, Signature Publishing and Kennedy Publishing have each joined the growing licensee portfolio for the popular pre-school IP.

The firm has teamed with Sony Pictures and Scholastic to bring the best-loved Goosebumps book series by R L Stine to the fashion world with a line of apparel and accessories for juniors and young men.

“The hugely positive response we have received to The Elf on the Shelf from potential licensees and retailers has very quickly translated into significant signings and some really fantastic product entering the UK market this Christmas."

The licensing agent will focus on gifting, apparel, stationery and toys. It will target both adults who grew up with the author’s books as well as a new generation of children.

The firm has appointed Global Licensing Limited to develop and manage the merchandise licensing programme for Roald Dahl across the region, with a focus on the titles Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, The Enormous Crocodile, The BFG, James and the Giant Peach and Matilda.

Published by Usborne, That’s Not My… is a best-selling series of touchy-feely board books aimed at babies and pre-schoolers by the author Fiona Watt and illustrator Rachel Wells.

A Bookmobile tour of the UK follows results of a survey that found only six in ten kids enjoy reading.