A scrumptious collection for anyone who loves good healthy food— and an occasional indulgence. Here are after-school snacks, breakfast on a stick, cakes, slices and dinners. Egg and Spoon is for children learning to cook independently and families to enjoy cooking together. Much of the food is naturally gluten-free or vegan. Alexandra Tylee is the…
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FLUFF AND THE BURST OF COURAGE by Malene Walter has won this year’s LovelyBooks Readers’ Prize in the picture book category! Click on the image for more information.
“There are about a thousand things for Tractor to do in the city. At least a thousand.” What are you saying? The tractor is not supposed to come along? I can hardly understand why we will be moving from the countryside into the city, but okay, if you wish to do so … But I…
“You haven’t been here, peanut. You don’t know what that means: Forest. You know nothing, but I’m gonna show you everything.“ Imagine a forest. Without beginning, without end. Imagine lakes, rocks, valleys, gorges. Imagine the wildest animals. Imagine a sea of trees, a continent of wood and green. Imagine the maximum forest. And now imagine…
I am thrilled to announce that Heiko Hentschel’s THE HUNGRY GLASS is one of the books recommended by the Rattenfänger Literature Prize 2020 [Pied Piper Literature Prize]. This is prize is awarded once every two years and given to outstanding children’s/young adult books of particular expressiveness in both text and imagery. 2020 saw a total…
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The Day Saida Arrived by Susana Gomez Redondo, illustrated by Sonja Wimmer, translated into English by Lawrence Schimel is one of the finalists for the Jane Addams Children’s Book Award, which is awarded in January 2021. It is the only book among the 12 finalists that has been translated from another language. The annual Jane Addams…
A large family of fuzz leads a quiet life on a scratchy old wool blanket. The days go by uneventfully—and the fuzz family is quite happy about that. Only one tiny bit of lint gets bored and dreams of the big wide world. But the other family members are afraid of anything beyond the wool…
The old man liked to talk about the war and told us how it all began, how everyone was excited until we started losing. He was a soldier in the division “Das Reich”, served in the SS regiment “Der Führer”, which was almost completely worn down several times and was involved in numerous war crimes….
The Bukowskis fight their way through The Bukowski siblings have had a long summer at the lido. The days are getting shorter – but no less exciting! For Alf, the narrator, who finally takes up boxing and still thinks about the beautiful Johanna. (So often that he drops his guard while boxing and that hurts!)…
Absolutely thrilled to announce that two book on my portfolio have won the German Children’s Literature Award 2020! Will Gmehling’s OUTDOOR POOL in the children’s fiction category and David Böhm’s A IS FOR ANTARCTICA in the non-fiction category! Congratulations! Here are the links to the…
When the new day finally dawns in the forest, the animals come together and meet in a pretty little library. They enjoy precious momoments around books, activities, and games. A beautiful and poetic book. by Seoha Lim Maison Eliza | hc | 32 pp | 245 x 175 mm | 2+ Rights sold: Korean,…
Paula has always wanted to go to the moon. She‘s tried all sorts of schemes to get there, from trying to reach it on Dad‘s shoulders to building her own rocket and flying it with soap bubbles and kites. Paula still dreams of flying to the moon. Every night she thinks about how she will…
“Hurry up,“ says mum. “I‘ll be right there,“ says Peter. With a glance at her watch, the mother urges him to be quick. But Peter is detained by major sensations that demand his full attention: The beetle on the stairs, a thousand flying umbrellas in the summer air and the very friendly dog next door….
It is a stormy morning in November when her mother takes Emma to a big, chunky house. Above the entrance it says “School“ and inside the grey giants that sometimes assign really tricky puzzles keep watch. “You, hammer nose, this calculation is very easy. No witchcraft. So do try a bit harder!“ So Emma is…
Balthasar Bloodberg is a terrifying creature who rules the entire world! He lives in the vastest and deepest of all oceans, the almost infinite Pacific … well, in in all honesty Bobo, as he calls himself, is a leech and lives in an overgrown pool. To him this actually is his whole world, into which…
Aunt Agneta has come up with something very special for her favourite nephew Leo‘s birthday: They fly to the moon with spaceship Amelia and household robot Albert. There‘s even a fast lunar mobile on board. But it‘s not just eating and drinking that prove to be a real challenge in space—what do you do if…
True or a Lie? Can you pick rain drops from trees? Are cowboys riding on flowers? Can snowmen survive the summer time? And is it toothpaste which comes out of the blue and white tube – or is it a greedy caterpillar? Illustrator and writer Carolin Löbbert has created a special book with riddles for…