• Meet the Imprint

Disney Hyperion | July 31, 2013

By Laura Schreiber

Disney ∙ Hyperion is an imprint of the Disney Book Group. It was launched in 1990 under the name Hyperion Books for Children, and has since published a wide variety of books for children and young adults of all ages. They are known for bestsellers such as the Percy Jackson and Artemis Fowl series, award-winning works such as Sold and We Are the Ship, and are home to many notable authors and illustrators including Mo Willems, Jonathan Stroud, Eoin Colfer, Rick Riordan, Cinda Williams Chima, Ally Carter, and Sara Pennypacker.

One exciting new title:
All Our Yesterdays by Cristin Terrill
A debut YA novel that Kirkus called “time travel done right” in a starred review.
Published September 2013.

One classic title:
Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus by Mo Willems
A Caldecott Honor book that has had children and adults in stitches.
Published April 2003.

One title you may not have heard about:
The True Meaning of Smekday by Adam Rex
A brilliant, laugh-out-loud funny middle grade novel published in 2007 about a girl named Tip and an alien named J. Lo who go an adventure in a flying car named Slushious…and it just gets better from there. A DreamWorks movie based on the book is coming out in 2014.
Published May 2009.