Francesco Sedita has been named vice president and publisher of Grosset & Dunlap and Price, Stern Sloan, reporting to Penguin Children’s president Don Weisberg. He’ll start in the new job on 29 September. He’s moving from Scholastic, where he was executive creative director for the last seven years.
Weisberg says of his new hire, “Francesco’s varied background in creative marketing, school book clubs, in addition to his involvement with the campaigns for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows and Brian Selznick’s award-wining The Invention of Hugo Cabret, makes him the perfect fit. For Grosset and PSS, I was searching for someone who is totally immersed in the trends of kids today and thinks outside of the box; Francesco possesses both of those qualities.”