Deniz Jaspersen, Rasmus Engler & Mareike Engelke That’s How You Sleep, Little Wombat Wombats can do almost anything – they are masters at climbing, swimming, crawling, burrowing and building dens! And little wombats love to do all of these things at the same time. There’s just one thing they don’t like so much: sleeping ……
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Michael Heinze & Katrin Stangl Muscle In! Wild Games for Children Children love to romp and tussle! A book full of opportunities to get to know and accept your own limits and those of others through games. Training dexterity, measuring strength or winning together – all this is best done through play. Games for outdoors…
Lena Hach & Julia Dürr Tomke Digs Digging – what else! Tomke is in the garden. Tomke is digging. The hole gets bigger and deeper. ‘It’s already a real pit!’ exclaims Mum. ‘You must be looking for pirate treasure!’ Tomke doesn’t answer. If you dig, you can’t answer. In her first picture book, bestselling author…
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…
Alexandra Helmig Off the Beat Always out of sync somehow Ina is fifteen and everything in her life seems to be out of sync: School is mediocre, she hates her body, her parents’ marriage is just a façade and her love life is a mess. When Ina falls in love with Phil, the boy from…
Lutz van Dijk & Renate Schlicht Jewish Lives – Reports from 4,000 years From Abraham’s time to the present day Lutz van Dijk takes young readers on a journey through 4000 years of Jewish history. Clearly structured, calmly narrated and packed with stories of special people looking for ways to lead a happy life in…
Uwe Becker & Ina Krabbe Sam Stripe in Search of the Apple Thief Great humour, lovable characters: a very special reading experience – now with colour illustrations! An apple thief is on the loose in Mrs Beehive’s allotment! Only the gnawed-off apple cores are left dangling from the branches. Sam Stripe is outraged! What is…
Andreas Völlinger and Pascal Nöldner Leo’s Wild Adventures – Dinosaur Alarm Leo and his inventor aunt travel to the dinosaurs—unfortunately one of the huge creatures travels back with them and is suddenly standing in Aunt Agnetha’s garden! Leo is to give a presentation about his favourite animal in class. But how is he supposed to…
Lena Hach & Maja Bohn The Christmas Superheroes – Darn! Snowed in! Advent is saved – it has never flown by so quickly Father Christmas has his hands full during Advent. Saving the world, for example. But because that’s practically impossible to achieve on his own, he quickly enlists help and founds “The Christmas Superheroes”….
Julian Tapprich Tiger Dreams Leo was really no ordinary bird. He found the chirping and trilling and singing of the other birds boring enough to fly away. These same old songs! He preferred to indulge in his daydreams, which unfortunately he couldn’t tell anyone about, especially not the other birds. Because Leo dreamed of a…
Jürg Schubiger & Rotraut Susanne Berner When Death Came Calling Jürg Schubiger and Rotraut Susanne Berner tell us the story about a village somewhere back in time when Death was still completely unknown. Nobody had ever encountered him and everything that existed remained safe and sound. But then one day Death walks into the village…
Iris Genenz & Corinna Böckmann My Secret Life as a Monster Hunter – Why You Should Never Jump into a Monster Lake A wild ride through the Otherlands – super fun and fast-paced fantasy Charly and Martin are finally in the Otherworld – the magical parallel world that was founded thousands of years ago to…
Wiltrud Wagner Spectacles for Fatouma Fatouma can draw well, but she doesn’t learn how to read and write properly because she doesn’t recognize the letters on the blackboard. Everything that is further away is blurred. Until one day opticians come to her school. They can give all schoolchildren with poor eyesight the right glasses on…
Katinka Manzau-Feddern Moyo and the Glow The little shell Moyo admires the colorful shimmering fish of the sea, the graceful seahorses, the huge whales and the mighty sea turtles. Everyone else is so beautiful and impressive, only Moyo is inconspicuous and small. One day she meets the giant octopus, who cheers her up and tells…