Martin Baltscheit The Little Prince Celebrates Christmas The Little Prince. I wonder how he’s doing? The muzzle had no strap, remember? Did the sheep eat the rose after all and did the planet get blown up by the baobab trees afterwards? What would the prince do without the rose and the planet? What has Antoine…
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Martin Baltscheit The Little Prince Gives Presents Even bad people get presents – maybe they’ll be one of the good guys soon Still on earth after his last adventure, the Little Prince helps the Christ Child distribute presents at Christmas. But to those who are usually forgotten: The strange, the lonely, the mean, the lazy,…
Ondřej Buddeus & Jindřich Janíček On Yer Bike! “When it’s alone, it waits and acts like a sleeping animal. But when you saddle up, it suddenly has the power and lust for life that you give it.” The bicycle has been man’s humble companion for more than 200 years, serving both young and old on…
David Böhm Now. By the time you’ve finished reading this sentence, another 24 children will have come into this world. How long does the now last? What is time? Why do people think they can have time? How do you measure time? When the display shows that the next bus will arrive in three minutes,…
Ana Popescu & Clemens Bruno Gatzmaga Ellea and the City There are days when you can hear the fish whispering if you put your ear very close to the surface of the great ocean. In the past, the monkeys still lived in tree hollows on the mountain. Then they moved down to the city. Only…
Sascha Reh & Adrian Wylezol How We Once Kidnapped Dirk Nowitzki Thirteen-year-old Billie is a huge fan of Dirk Nowitzki. Together with her friends, she is looking for a training place to emulate her idol. The four “Mavericks” have already torn up the backyard, and the bullies in the public square are severely lacking in…
Fabienne Meyer, Sibylle Wulff & Martina Leykamm How to Rescue Art? Art is known to save the world. But who saves art? Works of art are unique and irreplaceable. No copy is as good as the original, for it usually remains soulless. Yet works of art are exposed to dangers from all sides: ravenous mites,…
Reinhard Kaiser-Mühlecker, Marie Bonnin When Are You Coming, Papschku? 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…
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,…
A large format pop-up book about a tiny little bump that grows into a huge mountain. To the natural question of where mountains actually come from, this book provides the right answer for the whole family: they have grown over an incredible number of years. When this particular mountain in the story is very small,…
Agonisingly boring bedtime stories Our everyday life is basically the same as Emmental cheese: a few holes here and there improve the quality considerably. Time to calm down. Time to just be yourself. Great people know how important this is once they have celebrated their birthday about three dozen times; or when they have been…
Have you ever tried to read the Little Prince to little children? You will soon have realized that it doesn‘t work. Just like Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s little hero, you must have learned a fair bit about the world before the fabulous story becomes accessible to you. Children‘s book author Isabel Pin has undertaken to recount…
The awe-inspiring southernmost place on our Earth Who discovered the Antarctic? How cold is it there, and do polar bears live at the South Pole? Everyone knows it, but hardly anyone can say more than three sentences about it: the continent that belongs to no one, but to all of us, which may only be…