Commotion at the swimming lake – what’s going on? “A crocodile in the lake!” – That can’t be true. Or can it? Twelve wonderful and colourful scenes tell of the great commotion caused by this headline. There is a lot to look out for, to discover and to puzzle over in each picture. Great fun…
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Full of humor and heart, author Kathrin Schrocke tells the story of Karl’s pubescent highs and lows – without disregarding the important questions in life. Ever since Karl’s Grandpa has appeared in his dream, he only has one plan: Becoming a famous YouTuber. But there’s always something coming up: his Grandma wants to move into…
What is time? Each day, Sören, the little green stone, gazes longingly out at the ocean. He yearns to feel the sea and fathom its secrets. But it takes the sea forever to reach him. He waits for days, for years, for centuries. Until one day a little girl finds Sören – her lucky stone….
Summer holidays – time for Hollercamp! Each year, Leon, Emily and Jakub meet at the camping site. The prospect of heavenly weeks full of sun, swimming and icecream are spreading before them. But this time, the idyllic holidays are overshadowed by mysterious events. Who is the strange man sneaking around the campground? And what’s the…
Love in all colours—totally normal, right? Barnie‘s life is anything but straightforward. She is raised by two fathers who are still shockingly old-fashioned. Smartphones & Co. are absolutely taboo. Instead, she is given a dull diary for her 13th birthday. In this diary, she talks about her chaotic life, above all about the project at…
Ulff has a problem. His tummy rumbles and he has a crazy appetite for squirrels! But the little rodents are way too fast for him. There only seems to be one solution left: find the suitcase in which he has stored his dangerous lasso. But this isn’t going to be as easy as he thinks. …
Berlin, in the middle of Kreuzberg: Lotte, new girl in town, exceptionally clumsy, wonderfully self-deprecating, averagely talented but crushing hard on Vincent of Green Gherkins. Which is probably not his name. Anyway, she has a crush on the guy who always shows up at the kiosk opposite her house on Mondays, buying exactly ten green…
Who’s switched the light off? And what’s an UFO doing there? For twelve everyday words – such as Car, Rain, Air or Friend – Susanne Straßer has created a vividly colorful scene each. Each spread is teeming with crazy fun motives and artistic ideas. This colourful, imaginary and funny picture book without words invites children…
Why do apples fall from the tree? That’s the simple opening question posed by world-famous physicist Isaac Newton. More than 300 years later it is Albert Einstein who lets us take on a different perspective on this question. 12-year-old Limbradur enters the famous Albert Einstein Museum at night. He meets Alby X3, a little quirky…
Waaaaah?! Big commotion in the henhouse! A hawk! Danger! And what does the rooster do? He helps the bird of prey out of the hatch and looks dreamily after it? What‘s going on here? The hawk and the rooster are actually enemies by nature, everone knows that. Yes, normally they are—but the two have discovered…
Rosa Sardina Collective & Roser Rimbau Lota the Sperm Whale In the sea, everywhere you look, there’s more and more debris and waste. Lota, the spermwhale, is wondering where all that dirty rubbish comes from. She and her friend Malacu, the crab, decide to undertake an investigation that leads them first to a boat with…
The beaver had thought of everything. He wanted it to be a perfect day out. The views were spectacular. He took out his cell phone to immortalize the moment with a selfie, but it seemed as if all the animals in the woods wanted to be in the picture with him. Will the beaver be…
It‘s not every day that a horse rings the doorbell and comes to a child‘s birthday party. But today is that day! The guests are thrilled because Robin, the horse, takes them on his back and gallops with them through the wide prairie, past fertile oases up to highest vantage point and to a bubbling…
How about that! After more than two decades, there finally is a Christmas successor to Nadia Budde‘s One Two Three Me. In a handy gift book format, One Two Three Reindeer nicely fits into Santa‘s Christmas bag and any Secret Santa package or stocking. Again, it is as simple as it is ingenious: three Christmas…
The tiny woman makes a coat of leaves with the help of friends in this vibrant rhyming tale. The trees, geese, porcupine, horse and plants all share something so the tiny woman can snip, snip, snip and stitch, stitch, stitch a coat to keep herself warm. Resourcefulness and friendship are at the heart of this…
Makes you want to go to the museum—an exciting mixture of narrative text and non-fiction picture book Museum moth Heribert is a great lover of art. After a visit to his family in the countryside, he takes his niece Jolinde to the museum where he lives to show her how great art is and how…
The Extinction and Survival of the Species “Larger than a swan, with the body of an ostrich and the talons of an eagle.“ At the end of the 16th Century, the Dodo was discovered on the island of Mauritius, a flightless bird that lived peacefully among exotic plants and animals. Just a hundred years later,…
Good night, little Mia Frog, hedgehog, cat and mouse rustle, mew and snort through the garden in the evening. The sounds of the animals lull little Mia to sleep. The scene is probably familiar to all parents: It‘s bedtime, but the child is jumping around on the bed, happy as a lark. There is no…
Valentin is dreaming. When he wakes up the dream is still there. What will happen if he catches the dream and plants it? A huge tree grows out of the tiny dream bean and it‘s amazing. There‘s even a lift in it. Valentin gets in. This story tells what he experiences in the miracle tree….
The land holds the truth … the maps will reveal it. Sal, Joe, Francie and Humphrey Santander are mapmakers looking for their father, a famous explorer who disappeared on his last expedition. Their search leads them to a curious new land and a township under siege. The all-powerful Grania Trading Company plans to uproot the…