Volker Surmann’s young adult novel Leon Hertz and the Thing About Sadness has won this year’s Protestant Book Prize. This is a wonderful and certainly most deserved honour for this outstanding book, which had already received several other accolades and nominations. More information can be found here. The jury’s verdict: “His school presentation in the…
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Lena Hach’s Sweet-Salty Popcorn has been shortlisted for this year’s German-French Children’s Literature Award! This is what the jury had to say: “Romance is the best-selling young adult genre in Germany – and Lena Hach skilfully plays with a wealth of so-called tropes, which she weaves into a fast-paced game of confusion with surprising twists…
Franziska Höllbacher’s Peggy’s Period Project – Paint It Red! has been shortlisted for the German-French Children’s Literature Award! This is what the jury had to say: “By embedding the topic of periods in an exciting, humorous story, enlivened by chat conversations and funny drawings, Franziska Höllbacher succeeds in breaking the taboo and allowing a relaxed…
Misadventures of a Giant Pig at the National Library by Marta Azcona and Anna Font has won the VIII Premio Muestra del Libro Infantil y Juvenil – which is a children’s and young people’s book fair prize, awarded with the aim of highlighting both the intellectual and artistic work as well as the editorial work of…
Four books from our portfolio have been nominated for the 2025 German Children’s Literature Award: Burying Grandma (Oma verbuddeln) by Birgit Schössow Rainy Day (Regentag) by Jens Rassmus The Cucumber Squad (Die Gurkentruppe) by Leslie Niemöller & Liliane Oser On Yer Bike (Fahr Rad) by Ondřej Buddeus and Jindřich Janíček – For more…
We are thrilled to share the news that three books from our portfolio have been selected for the 100 Outstanding Picture Books 2025: Dream Days by Clara Thomasset On Yer Bike by Ondřej Buddeus & Jindřich Janíček Rainy Day by Jens Rassmus – click on the covers for details –
The Berlin illustrator Nadia Budde receives the Uwe Lüders Prize for Illustration Art in Children’s and Young Adult Books 2025 for her previous work and in particular for the illustration of The Band Nobody Knows (Die Band, die keiner kennt), Peter Hammer 2024. – click on the cover for further details – The Jury: ‘Nadia…
Burying Grandma by Birgit Schössow & Leon Hertz and the Thing About Sadness by Volker Surmann have both been shortlisted for the Protestant Book Prize 2025! Click on the covers for more information: The Jury on Burying Grandma: “Three siblings, lots of dying and a spectacular happy ending. First off: there is a lot…
The 2024 White Ravens List includes three books from our portfolio: * Jörg Mühle’s Tomorrow I am the Boss! – Link to White Ravens Review * Jens Rassmus’ Rainy Day – Link to White Ravens Review * Kathrin Schrocke’s White Tears – Link to White Ravens Review [click on the covers for more information] …
For the tenth time, the German Academy for Children’s and Young Adult Literature, together with the Börsenblatt and the Frankfurt Book Fair, is awarding the ‘Serafina’ prize for young illustrators. “I Wish I Were a Tree”, written by Andrea Hensgen and illustrated by Hannah Brückner is one of the five nominees! This is what the…
Nils Mohl has been awarded the James Krüss Prize for International Children’s and Young Adult Literature for his profound humour and high degree of experimentation. The prize is endowed with 8,000 Euros. The Jury: “Nils Mohl, born in Hamburg in 1971, tells of the difficulties and chaos of growing up ‘in an inimitable way’ in…
The Italian edition of ASK ME! by Antje Damm has won this year’s Premio Andersen – in the category ‘Best Book Ever’! Congratulations! – click on the image for more information –
This wonderful silent book has already won several prizes: Leselotse, March/April 2024 Leipzig Reading Compass 2024 7 Best Books for Young Readers Lektorix of the Month “An absolutely successful, visually enormously powerful work that is suitable for young and old to stimulate their own imagination!” – Jury of the Leipzig Reading Compass 2024 –…
Life Everywhere – The amazing coexistence of species on our planet by Sascha Mamczak, Martina Vogl & Katrin Stangl has won the EMYS Non-Fiction Prize! The jury’s verdict: “A wonderful book that provides so much information and aha-experiences that you won’t want to put it down. […] After reading it, our view of our surroundings,…
Eirlys Hunter is off to Rome in December 2023 for the awards ceremony of Premio Strega Ragazze e Ragazzi 2023, where The Mapmakers’ Race is one of three finalists in the 11+ category. Alongside the jury, the award involves nearly 4000 school students choosing favourite stories, characters and authors. Full details about the book
Four titles from my portfolio are a White Raven 2023: Super Glitter by Nele Brönner & Melanie Laibl (Luftschacht) Courage is a Good Thing by Arne Rautenberg & Wolf Erlbruch (Peter Hammer Verlag) The Grizzled Grist Does Not Exist by Juliette MacIver & Sarah Davis (Gecko Press) How We Once Kidnapped…
“What Are You Doing There?” won the Troisdorf Children’s Jury Picture Book Award! The children’s jury had chosen her book with a clear majority. This is already the second honour for the young German-Ukrainian artist Alexandra Prischedko. Congratulations! This special picture book has already been shortlisted for the Serafina 2022, which is the Illustration Newcomer…
LILI FLIES AT THE TOP by Julia Willmann has won the Korbinian Paul Maar Newcomer Award 2023! Congratulations! This prize is awarded by the German Academy for Children’s Literature and the jury said: „Exciting, full of linguistic wit and close to the facts, Julia Willmann succeeds in adapting Nature Writing for a younger audience, sensitizing…
WILD BIKE RIDE WITH VELOCIRAPTOR by Nils Mohl and Halina Kirschner has been selected as the MINT (STEM) Book of the Month by STUBE in April 2023. It was also selected as one of the ‘7 Best Books for Young Readers’ the same month. From the STUBE review: ” … the encounter between author and…
How to Rescue Art has won the Toad of the Month by STUBE in March 2023 and was also selected as one of ‘7 Best Books for Young Readers’ in April. What dangers threaten paintings, how can works of art be restored and what actually happened to Hugo von Rangenstein’s nose? Restorers Fabienne Meyer and…