Anybodies Series Acquired by Movie Studios

Posted on January 3, 2005

Nickelodeon Movies and Paramount Pictures announced that they have jointly acquired the motion-picture rights to The Anybodies, written by bestselling author Julianna Baggott and illustrated by Peter Ferguson. Julianna Baggott is an award-winning novelist known for her adult literary fiction which includes bestsellers Girl Talk and The Miss America Family. The Anybodies is Baggott's initial foray into children's literature and is the first in a planned trilogy from HarperCollins Children's Books. The next book following is entitled The Nobodies. The trilogy begins with eleven-year-old eleven-year-old Fern who learns she was switched at birth and that she is a member of "The Anybodies" -- a rare breed of human with powers to change shape.