Jordi Ventura & Valentí Ponsa The Squirrel Class On the first day of school, it’s time to choose the name the class will have for the entire school year. Olga suggests “The Squirrel Class,” and her idea is the one everyone likes best. The next day, Olga is in for a huge surprise: all her…
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Roberta Gibson & Anne Lambelet How to Build an Insect See what the buzz is about in this fresh, fun look at insect anatomy. Let’s build an insect! In the pages of this book, you’ll find a workshop filled with everything you need, including a head, a thorax, an abdomen, and much more. Written by…
Kate Hosford & Gabi Swiatkowska Infinity and Me When I looked up, I shivered. How many stars were in the sky? A million? A billion? Maybe the number was as big as infinity. I started to feel very, very small. How could I even think about something as big as infinity? Uma can’t help feeling…
Jörg Mühle That’s Pretty Brave! Fear and courage are siblings – and Nini, Goldi and Klaus are best friends. They’re desperate to find out what it means to be brave. It certainly isn’t being afraid of something that isn’t dangerous at all! Being brave means breaking new ground and saying ‘No!’ every now and then….
Nadia Budde All Eels The life of eels is crazy, and that’s exactly how it ends: with a wild party in the depths of the Sargasso Sea. Foam, chaos and mayhem! In the morning, little eels lie slumbering in their ‘baby seats’. The young eels don’t have much time to play; they have to make…
Katherine Speller The Beasts in Your Brain Understanding and Living with Anxiety and Depression It can be hard to find the words to describe the icky feelings that seem to come from nowhere and sap all your joy and energy. You can tell that your brain just isn’t pulling off the same tasks as others,…
Rebecca E. Hirsch & Mia Posada Plants Can’t Sit Still Do plants really move? Absolutely! You might be surprised by all ways plants can move. Plants might not pick up their roots and walk away, but they definitely don’t sit still! Discover the many ways plants (and their seeds) move. Whether it’s a sunflower, a…
Calvin Alexander Ramsey & R. Gregory Christie The Library in the Woods After a storm devastates the farm his parents have been renting, Junior moves with his family to Roxboro, North Carolina. The year is 1959, and the nine-year-old boy has to navigate the realities of the segregated South while adjusting to life in town….
Andrea Lienesch & Sabine Sauter Henriette Piggyback – Hocus Pocus Celium, What’s Going On At the Museum? When technology meets magic – Henriette Piggyback’s got what it takes! Young witch Henriette Piggyback had actually just wanted to spend an exciting day at the museum. But then her great-aunt Martha reads a mysterious inscription aloud there…
Kathrin Schärer The Neverending Line The line in front of the ice-cream stand keeps growing. Who takes so long to decide on a flavor while everyone else is waiting? What are the beavers arguing about as soon as they have to line up? And for whom is the queue outside the bathroom simply too long?…
Lorenz Pauli & Nele Palmtag The Unbelievably Old Cat Grandma’s cat is older than any other — it has been by her side since her childhood! Grandma loves to tell the incredible story again and again, and her grandchild adores it. When Grandma was still a child, the cat was in a serious car accident….
Lorenz Pauli & Miriam Zedelius Look after Me! Here, the adult asks the child how best to look after children. And the child admonishes him when the man’s suggestions lead to dangerous games. But that is not the whole story yet: Why does Mr Snip not fall from his hammock when you turn the book…
Kathrin Schärer Death in the Apple Tree An old fox catches a magical weasel. He lets the weasel go when it promises that from now on, any apple thief will get stuck to the tree – for evermore. Now the fox can enjoy his apples in peace … until his Death comes to claim him….
Sandra Markle Call the Bee Doctor! How Science is Saving Honey Bees From the Series Sandra Markle’s Science Discoveries Honey bees are among the world’s most important insects. They help pollinate many of the crops we depend on for food. Without them, the global food supply would be in great danger. In 1998, beekeepers in…
Anna Gusella The Magic Glasses On a journey of discovery with Lotta and Ella Propella Lotta and her dog Ella Propella are inseparable and love going for walks together. One day, they find a pair of magic glasses. They are thrilled to discover that when they put the glasses on, they can see the world…
Cornelia Boese & Stefanie Jeschke Boa’s Ark Loud fanfare for all animals In times of climate change and species extinction, thousands of animals compete in a spectacular show. The prize: a ticket aboard the luxury liner “Boa’s Ark”. Twelve animals appear in the grand finale and explain why their habitat and thus their existence is…
Dita Zipfel, Finn-Ole Heinrich & Nele Brönner Eely Has to Go Eely has spent almost his entire life in a very beautiful canal, happily doing his laps with his friend Frank. But suddenly Eely realises that he is changing, that he has to say goodbye and take the plunge into new waters: A long, exciting…
Ella Grace Foutz Lullabies for the Insomniacs A teen with bipolar disorder fights for survival in Ella Grace Foutz’s memoir in verse. Foutz weaves an intimate and gripping chronicle of her experience with mental illness. Amidst the turbulence of manic and depressive episodes, often accompanied by insomnia, Foutz relentlessly pursues stability and self-understanding. She examines…
Lupe Ruiz-Flores The Pecan Sheller In 1930s San Antonio, thirteen-year-old Petra dreams of going to college and becoming a writer. But with her beloved father dead, two younger siblings to care for, and with a stepmother struggling to make ends meet, Petra has to drop out of school to shell pecans at a factory. Hoping…
Jona Manow Spy No. 9 and the Art of Not Being Noticed The adventure of being different Estrick is different. He counts things in steps of nine, often doesn’t understand his fellow human beings and has countless questions: Why are there zebra crossings but no zebra stripes on the road? Why are some people nice…