A British children’s book writer hailed as “the next JK Rowling ” has landed a multi-film deal with Walt Disney Studios.

Disney has bought the rights to Katherine Rundell’s best selling fantasy series “Impossible Creatures ” her publishers Bloomsbury announced today.

The books are set in the fictional world of the Glimouria Archipelago, with the most recent installment, “The Poisoned King,” making Rundell the first British children’s author since the Harry Potter creator to simultaneously reach No. 1 on the children’s book charts in the UK. and America.

Rundell, who is a fellow of St Catherine’s College Oxford and Quondam fellow at All Souls College, has sold more than four million copies worldwide. In 2024 she was awarded both ‘Author of The Year’ and ‘Children’s Book of The

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