Maike Siebold & Franziska Detlefsen Elf Magic in the Bottle Garden Elves, wishes and a magical bottle garden Five-year-old Tilda wants nothing more than to spend time with her parents – baking cookies, doing crafts, just being together. But Mummy and Daddy are too busy and Tilda feels alone. One evening, she receives a mysterious…
Picture Books
Michaela Schwamberger Coco Raccoon In the middle of the forest sits a small grey bear. His name is Coco. He has black fur around his eyes like a mask, small, sharp claws and a soft, cuddly tail. He sets off into the bear forest to find bear friends. But he can’t stay with the big…
Stefanie Kolb A Tortoise for Evelyn Evelyn’s turtle is called Shelby and has to join in everything: playing the piano, painting, skateboarding, swimming, sliding, and jumping rope. Shelby puts up with everything, and Evelyn doesn’t worry about whether Shelby is having fun or not. Poor Shelby. But one day, everything changes for Evelyn. Edition Pastorplatz…
Stefanie Kolb Gwendolin Wants a Pet Gwendolin wants a pet. But which one? It has to be cute, soft, cuddly, strong, cheeky and funny. It has to be able to fly, protect Gwendolin, and be beautiful, big and small at the same time. The animal has to be a real friend. One day, a box…
Andrea Hensgen & Stefanie Kolb Rita is New at the Nursery Sascha loves and spoils his little dog Rita very much. Just like all the customers at his bookshop. Then a pipe bursts behind the shelves, everything is flooded and Sascha has his hands full. Rita has to go to daycare. Now she sits alone…
J.F.W. Zachariä & Alexandra Prischedko The Peacock and the Crane Being one among many who strive for knowledge and freedom makes life colourful and interesting. Vanity and the desire to please make people lonely and rigid. A timely message when expensive clothes and mobile phones sometimes seem more important than shared experiences and adventures with…
Elizabeth Everett & Shelley Hanmo All by Myself (But Sometimes I Need a Little Help!) I can do many things all by myself, but sometimes I need a little help. A young child boasts about all the new things they can do such as stack blocks, connect two puzzle pieces, and put on their shoes….
Danna Zeiger & Josée Bisaillon Rewriting the Rules How Dr. Kathleen Friel Created New Possibilities for Brain Research and Disability When Kathleen Friel was young, she was diagnosed with cerebral palsy, and a doctor told her parents all the things she’d never be able to do. They left his office for good and found a…
Kelly Rice Schmitt & Jam Dong I Truck – A Big Rig’s Epic Trip From the Series On the Move Honk! Honk! Follow along as a semitruck travels cross country with a load of toys. Turbo-powered text and illustrations will appeal to truck-loving kids everywhere! Climb on up into the cab of a semitruck and…
Kelly Rice Schmitt & Jam Dong I Fuel – How Energy Powers Our Busy World From the Series On the Move We’re mighty fuel—ready to power the world! From lightbulbs and stoves to cars and planes, many things around us need fuel to work. Where does that fuel come from? Follow oil on its journey…
Kelly Rice Schmitt & Jam Dong I Fuel – How Energy Powers Our Busy World From the Series On the Move Honk! Honk! Follow along as a semitruck travels cross country with a load of toys. Turbo-powered text and illustrations will appeal to truck-loving kids everywhere! Climb on up into the cab of a semitruck…
Andrea Hensgen & Hannah Brückner We Children on the Train Jamil, his friend Sergey and many other children have been travelling across the country by train for weeks. The train is their home, where they learn, play and sleep, safe and cared for until their parents have rebuilt their destroyed homes. Every Sunday, the train…
NIkolaus Ober & Nina Ober Tiger Learns to Fly Sometimes, it’s hard to believe, even a tiger is bored. And sometimes, no amount of playing football with the vultures, singing with the wildebeest or acting with the monkeys can help a tiger against this boredom. Learn to fly, that would be it, Tiger thinks one…
NIkolaus Ober & Nina Ober Spectacled Bear’s Inventions ‘I’m going to invent SOMETHING,’ said the spectacled bear. He didn’t know what it would be yet, but it would come. Something USEFUL, he added a little later, something COMPLETELY NEW! ‘Otherwise it wouldn’t be an invention,’ said a baboon nine times wisely, but by then the…
Will Gmehling & Antje Damm At the Very Beginning Was the Ball Kiki, Coco, Klaas and Kalle, every burbot, every jellyfish – they all love football, all of them! As fast-paced and cheeky as a rap song, this picture book celebrates football as a passion that spans the globe: Me near the Rhine and you…
Sabine Kranz That Wasn’t Me! It Was the Pirates! Dad doesn’t realise what Flora has long since discovered: Pirates are in town! On the way home from the nursery, Flora saw the ship dock and when Dad gets down to work at home – tidying up, doing the laundry, cooking dinner – the pirates are…
Jörg Mühle But I Didn’t Mean To! It has snowed heavily during the night, and Bear and Weasel have a lot to do. When Bear accidentally throws snow all over Weasel – on purpose? – and covers him in snow, Weasel demands an apology. But Bear just grumbles: ‘I didn’t mean to.’ Weasel doesn’t accept…
Kelly Rice Schmitt & Jam Dong I Ship – A Container Ship’s Colossal Journey From the Series On the Move Cast off on a journey across the ocean with a container ship as a guide in the delightful picture book I Ship. Come aboard a massive container ship as it pulls into port, loads up…
Humera Malik & Ravan Sader Saif’s Special Patches Saif is “just shy,” or at least that’s what everyone tells him. When his mom comforts him with a patchwork quilt made of his special memories, he remembers that he’s so much more. He was brave when he went down the biggest slide at the Eid picnic….
Beth Mills No More Gnomes Herbert is the politest kid in town! But when Ms. Goat, his neighbour and after-school babysitter, starts collecting creepy garden gnomes, he freaks out. How can he tell Ms. Goat how he feels without being rude? Carolrhoda Books Picture Book Age 5+ 32 pp | US$ 18.99 hc | 229…