Many years have passed since the Little Prince left Earth … The Little Prince returns – at Christmas. He is looking for the pilot. On Earth, he learns a lot about Christmas and even more about people. However, he does not find the pilot, but hears about his death. Deeply saddened, he tries to come…
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How I Suddenly Became Rich and Thought Everyting’s Going to be Cool by Stephanie Polák has been nominated for the Book Summer Readers’ Prize 2018. The Book Summer Readers’ Prize is part of the Saxony-wide holiday reading campaign “Buchsommer Sachsen”. The participating readers choose their favourite book. It is an award that focuses on the…
Since its foundation, the German Academy for Children’s and Youth Literature monthly marks three new publications in the sections young adult, children’s and picture book as the ‘book of the month’. The titles are selected by an honorary jury from all new publications. These well-established ‘book of the month’ selections function as directory and are…
The EMYS non-fiction book prize has been awarded since 2013 and is the only monthly non-fiction book prize for the best titles in children’s and youth literature. Out of the twelve awarded monthly titles, the winner of the annual prize will be announced. The EMYS honors special, professionally competent and appealing non-fiction books for children…
Johannes Gutenberg & the Printing Press has been awarded the EMYS Non-Fiction Book Prize in July 2018! The EMYS Jury said: “This book belongs into every children’s bedroom” The book has also previously been selected as “Book of the Month” in March 2018.
A teemingly funny picture book about chaos and order What a wonderful mess this is! Dozens of colourful tiny animals are bustling about the white pages. On two, four or more legs, with feathers, fins and tentacles. Scrawly and somehow in a good mood. Then someone calls for a bit of order: Please queue up…
I live in a house on the edge of a forest. Where does the forest begin? I do not really know. Where does our garden begin? Animals do not know it either. Ever since I can remember we have shared each other‘s space. And we were all fine with that. But one day, Dad installed…
Mizu is keen to learn how to fly. Always accompanied by his friend Yoko, he comes up with funny ideas how to achieve this: jumping from a springboard, building a strange propeller machine, hanging onto the back of another bird… Will he manage to fly in the end? by Marjorie Béal & Laurie Cohen Maison…
Mizu is a cute little penguin; a little bit awkward, but very touching. His feeling lonely comes to an end when he meets Yoko, a big polar bear. They become friends for life and from now on share their adventures. Because out there, on he huge empty ice floe, it feels good to have a…
In 1994, Swiss author and publisher Barbara Kindermann founded her own publishing company, Kindermann Verlag in Berlin. That was long before everybody talked about the PISA study and the boom in literary canon. And even today her publishing company occupies a unique niche: With her unmatched series ›World Literature for Children‹ Kindermann realizes her dream...
We publish books on subjects that children and adolescents find in their everyday lives, books in which they recognize themselves and their problems, books that help them to work on their issues, books that are fun and full of imagination. worldwide Rights List
Südpol is an independent publisher of children’s books and books for young adults, located in Grevenbroich – in the heart of the Rhineland between Cologne and Duesseldorf. Since 2011 we publish 14-16 novelties every year and offer an animating, exciting and imaginative program. Our focus lies on stories beyond the world of glitter-fairies, topmodels...
Gecko Press is an independent publisher based in Wellington, New Zealand. Every year Gecko Press translates and publishes a small number of carefully-selected children’s books by some of the world’s best writers and illustrators, from countries including France, Germany, Japan, Poland and the Netherlands. Gecko Press also publishes two or three books each year by (mostly) New...
Most of what is constituent for the publishing house in Wuppertal is implied in the name that was chosen by its founders in 1966. “Peter Hammer” is the literal translation of French “Pierre Marteau”. In the 17th century authors of oppositional works started to use “Pierre Marteau” as a code name to escape the sanctions...
Moritz Verlag was founded as a subsidiary of the Paris-based leading French children's book publisher l'école des loisirs in Frankfurt on the Main in 1994 with Markus Weber as the publishing director. The publishing house quickly made its mark with picture books that had a strong appeal thanks to their unusual...
Beautifully illustrated children's books for children aged 3 to 9 as well as for passionate adult book lovers. Each book page lends a sense of lightness, dream and escapism, accompanied by carefully crafted illustrations of wanderlust, discovery and creativity. worldwide - excl. Mainland China ENGLISH CATALOGUE
The artists of this circus share a secret: Despite their triumphs in the arena, everyone dreams of doing other acts. The clown would love to get on the trapeze, the trapeze artist dies for juggling, the juggler dreams of being the human cannonball and the human cannonball would like to walk on a rope several…