‘Life With Derek’ Gains Literary Life with Penguin

Shaftesbury Films’ live-action kids’ comedy television series “Life with Derek” has been licensed to Grosset & Dunlap, a division of Penguin Young Readers Group, for chapter novels. In a deal brokered by Joy Tashjian Marketing Group L.L.C., Grosset & Dunlap’s first novel will hit North American shelves during the summer of 2008.