FRANZ SUESS, * 1961, lives and works in Vienna. In 2018 he was a finalist with Paul Two at the Leibinger Stiftung Comic Book Prize Stuttgart (2019 also a finalist with Schlieren), in the same year he received the Romulus Candea Prize for his picture book Last Night (Luftschacht 2018, text: Elisabeth Führlinger). Published…
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Andrea Poßberg & Corinna Böckman The Green Pirates – Alarm at the Seal Rescue Station Sabotage at the Seal Rescue Station – A new case for the Green Pirates Holidays at the North Sea at last – sun, beach and collecting shells! But shortly after their arrival, the five friends come across the ransacked fishing…
Andrea Poßberg & Corinna Böckman The Green Pirates – Hunting the Waste Disposal Mafia The Green Pirates – Children care about their environment! Rubbish collection campaign in Bieberheim: The five friends never thought that there would be so much rubbish in the city park. And now all the rubbish bags are simply supposed to disappear…
Andrea Poßberg & Corinna Böckman The Green Pirates – Whales in Distress The Green Pirates – Who kidnapped the little porpoise? There is great excitement among the Green Pirates: Ben, Flora, Pauline, Jannik and Lennart are allowed to accompany their chemist friend Miranda to a research ship in the Baltic Sea, where the behaviour of…
Philipp Stampe The Carnival of the Animals Can you spot who has dressed up as which animal? The bullfinch discovers a poster one morning with an announcement about the Carnival of the Animals – and the best costume will win a prize! The news spreads like wildfire throughout the animal kingdom. With fervour, animal costumes…
Franz Suess Paul Two Paul’s First SummerIt’s Paul’s first summer in the big city, and expectations are high. He has finally escaped the religious-moral care of his grandmother, he hopes for freedom and – above all – horny adventures. He needs a cool pair of sunglasses and sexy underwear, then things will work out. Paul…
Andrea Poßberg & Corinna Böckman The Green Pirates – Monkey Business at the Chicken Farm The Green Pirates – daring mission in the chicken coop The Green Pirates – that’s what friends Pauline, Ben, Flora, Lennart, and Jannik call themselves. Wherever they intervene to protect the environment, they leave behind their signature: a green skull…
Nicolas Gorny & David Füleki Detective Agency Creep & Co.: Danger! Space Goo Secret Service … Aliens … Highest Alert Level—This is serious stuff! Rocko Grusel and Luis Zack—experts in spooky matters of all kinds—one evening observe how a large meteorite hurtles down to earth and shortly afterwards a glistening column of fire shoots up….
Tino Schrödl When We Went to Catch a Panther and Found Something Much Bigger Three boys, a panther and the feeling of deep friendship 11-year-old Nico, a city kid and loner, finds his life complicated. His parents are on the verge of divorce and he himself has no friends at school. But now it’s the…
Nicolas Gorny & David Füleki Detective Agency Creep & Co.: Caution! Ghost Glue Rocko Grusel and Luis Zack are the experts for spooky matters of all kinds. A new case for the two detectives Rocko Grusel and Luis Zack: hotel manager Schnörkel fears that his house is haunted and asks the detective agency Creep &…
Hanna Jansen, Leonard Erlbruch Bottom in the Hay A story about arriving in a new home When Jakob moved to the countryside in the summer, he thought everything was stupid. Life as a threesome with his mother’s boyfriend Hannes, the villagers, their dogs, the smell – just everything. But then Pia turned up and showed…
Claire Caillebotte Porcelain Turn a weakness into strength Irina is a clumsy young woman and she feels bad about her constant mishaps. She collects and keeps all the objects she has broken in a large trunk. It is when she returns from a nature trip that she has an idea which changes everything … A…
August Kopisch & Klaus Ensikat The Elves of Cologne A humorous homage to the Cologne Heinzelmännchen, who did all the unpleasant work at night. With his best-known poem, August Kopisch takes readers young and old into the bustling world of Cologne’s famous house ghosts. The Heinzelmännchen are said to have crept secretly into craftsmen’s rooms…
Brigitte Schär, Heike Herold The Christmas Party At Christmas of all times, the triplets Lola, Linus and Levin have to do without their grandparents, who are on holiday recovering from looking after the children. Now the three children want to ask Father Christmas to be their grandfather, at least over the holidays. On the morning…
Britta Bolle I Feel … A Book on Empathy This book has no back cover, it just has two beginnings. It is written from two perspectives that meet in the middle of the book. Because what one person feels, someone else in the same situation may feel completely differently. Feeling the feelings of the other…
Philipp Stampe & Dörte Horn Who’s Yawning Here? “Hello, I’m Digger Dan. Do you want to know how my friends from the construction site kindergarten and I fall asleep every night? Then take a look at this book. Maybe you and I like exactly the same things!?” Find out how digger Dan and his friends…
Markus Orths & Kerstin Meyer Grandpa Flies In the end, air and love remain Grandpa Winnie is incredible. In his life he has set 857 records. Today, Grandpa Winnie is planning a new record: with the help of a potion, he wants to become the lightest person in the world, because his doctor has told…