Stephanie V. W. Lucianovic & Chris Park Touch the Sky Old cat Hunca Munca thinks his family’s baby is a new cat (with hardly any fur!). As the baby grows, he teaches it all the things a growing cat needs to know: how to clean himself, how to share food, and the best way to…
Picture Books
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…
Marilyn Singer & Julian Plum Wose Tree Is This? Poems About the Mighty Oak and Its Companions Whose tree is this? Reaching high, spreading wide, this oak, so gracious, so spacious, giving gifts throughout the year. Acorns for eating, tree crooks for nests, leaves that shelter many guests. Explore an oak tree through poems written…
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….
Kao Kalia Yang & Seo Kim A Home on the Page Nou loves her family, and she likes the brown house where they live, surrounded by trees with sheltering branches. But the young Hmong American girl’s sense of safety and belonging is shattered after she wakes one day to find a hateful message spray-painted on…
Claire Mabey & Jill Calder Cass and the Beast A sweeping and original picture book about a girl who chooses not to be afraid When a fearful beast arrives in the township, Cass finds her courage and is rewarded with a wild and magical journey. The creature takes her on a thundering ride through a…
Michael Roher On Foot This is Mr Mandelmus. Mr Mandelmus never walks. This is how Michael Roher introduces the protagonist of his new picture book. Mr Mandelmus is a portly and cheerful chap, but he never takes a single step more than he has to. A scooter, a car, a delivery service – these are…
Gundi Herget & Mele Brink How the Huge, Nasty Monster Nightmare Found a Child Who Would Dream It to Its End The huge, nasty monster nightmare has one burning desire: it would love to know how it ends! But it never finds out. Because no child ever dreams it to the end. They all wake…
Andreas Thamm & Melina Lebel This Is Me! “More!” I shout, “more photos!” And I’m a bit annoyed because Mum’s putting her phone away again. But there aren’t any more photos yet – only in my head… A picture of a boy jumping over ramps on his BMX. One where he’s playing on the computer…
Chiara Delle Donne & Luciano Lozano A Boy Like Any Other In Ana’s room there was a trunk full of things to dress up with: hats, glasses, gloves, blouses, dresses, scarves, wands, necklaces, tiaras, furry ears, fabrics of different textures and colors… She dressed up all the time and everywhere, at home, at school or…
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….
Heidemarie Brosche & Kathrin Schärer The Flying Goat “Don’t jump too high!”, “Don’t play so wildly!”, “Beware of the night birds!”, warn the worried goat mothers. Each kid has its own special character. There’s a goat that loves to hug, a goat that loves to lie down and a goat that loves to fly. –…
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….
John Coy & Phung Nguyen Quang The World Game – Soccer Circles the Globe Thwaack! Whummpp! Klangg! From a park in the United States to a pitch in India, from the seaside in Nigeria to a stadium in Uruguay, there’s one game that brings the world together. Whether you call it football, soccer, or any…
Jilanne Hoffmann & Khao Le The Ocean’s Heart – The Tiny Creatures Essential to Life Far below the ocean’s surface live tiny, restless creatures called zooplankton. They are the ocean’s heart. Dive into the incredible undersea lives of zooplankton, miniscule animals that race to the ocean’s surface to feed on plants. It’s the largest migration…
Susanne Straßer Congratulations, Bear! It’s Bear’s birthday and he’s eagerly awaiting his guests, because he desperately wants … Ding-dong! Here they come, one after the other: Crocodile, Goose, Pig, Cat, Dog. And each guest brings a present – but none of them is what he hoped for. Ding-dong! The mouse is late. What will she…
Joy Cowley & David Barrow My Tiger A boy’s pet tiger is apprehensive about his first trip to the dentist—but the twist ending of this funny picture book turns the dentist’s advice satisfyingly on its head (and that’s the end of the dentist). My tiger loved cake, and I went with him to the cake…
Patricia Newman & Becca Hall Sharks Unhooked The Adventures of Cristina Zenato, Underwater Ranger Some people are scared of sharks. Not Cristina Zenato. As a little girl, Cristina dreamed of making friends with the sharks deep in the ocean. When she grew up, she made those dreams come true, becoming a diver, conservationist, and shark…