“We’re going to try to replicate the original colors as closely as we can.” “The blue is more blue and less black,” said Hayes. Though the new book will share its ISBN with the previous edition, unlike its predecessor it will have a jacket and cream-colored stock, and Viking is using a first-edition copy of Blueberries to “re-originate” the book’s art.
Viking plans to print 50,000 copies of Blueberries, which should be available in late May or early June. Blueberries for Sal will return to print, and will, along with the rest of McCloskey’s picture books (including Make Way for Ducklings, Homer Price and Lentil), remain at Penguin. Finally, last Thursday, an agreement was reached between Viking and the McCloskey estate for the entire body of McCloskey’s work. “Hardly a day went by when reps didn’t say, ‘What’s happening with Blueberries?’,” Hayes recalled. “We essentially did not have the rights, but neither did anyone else,” said Hayes. But coming to terms took time, and on April 3 of last year, Viking was informed by Penguin’s corporate counsel that they had to take the book off the market. “As soon as we got notice that the estate was considering this, we began negotiating to keep those rights,” Hayes said. According to Regina Hayes, president and publisher of Viking Children’s Books, the division first learned four years ago that McCloskey’s estate was interested in reclaiming rights to Blueberries for Sal and other titles.
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