Jodi Harris has been named editorial director of HarperCollins‘s children’s book imprint Festival. Harris joined Festival in 2002 as an editor and she is currently the executive editor in charge of the entertainment group (in this position, she has overseen projects such as The Lion, the Witch & the Wardrobe and both Spider-Man films). She had previously handled novelty and movie tie-ins at Putnam.
Moving into Harris’s old position, Erin Stein has been promoted to executive editor of Festival. Stein has been working at Tokyopop on the Horseland series and the tie-in editions of Stardust and Bridge to Terabithia until 2005.