The Berlin illustrator Nadia Budde receives the Uwe Lüders Prize for Illustration Art in Children’s and Young Adult Books 2025 for her previous work and in particular for the illustration of The Band Nobody Knows (Die Band, die keiner kennt), Peter Hammer 2024. – click on the cover for further details – The Jury: ‘Nadia…
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Burying Grandma by Birgit Schössow & Leon Hertz and the Thing About Sadness by Volker Surmann have both been shortlisted for the Protestant Book Prize 2025! Click on the covers for more information: The Jury on Burying Grandma: “Three siblings, lots of dying and a spectacular happy ending. First off: there is a lot…
The 2024 White Ravens List includes three books from our portfolio: * Jörg Mühle’s Tomorrow I am the Boss! – Link to White Ravens Review * Jens Rassmus’ Rainy Day – Link to White Ravens Review * Kathrin Schrocke’s White Tears – Link to White Ravens Review [click on the covers for more information] …
For the tenth time, the German Academy for Children’s and Young Adult Literature, together with the Börsenblatt and the Frankfurt Book Fair, is awarding the ‘Serafina’ prize for young illustrators. “I Wish I Were a Tree”, written by Andrea Hensgen and illustrated by Hannah Brückner is one of the five nominees! This is what the…
Nils Mohl has been awarded the James Krüss Prize for International Children’s and Young Adult Literature for his profound humour and high degree of experimentation. The prize is endowed with 8,000 Euros. The Jury: “Nils Mohl, born in Hamburg in 1971, tells of the difficulties and chaos of growing up ‘in an inimitable way’ in…
The Italian edition of ASK ME! by Antje Damm has won this year’s Premio Andersen – in the category ‘Best Book Ever’! Congratulations! – click on the image for more information –
This wonderful silent book has already won several prizes: Leselotse, March/April 2024 Leipzig Reading Compass 2024 7 Best Books for Young Readers Lektorix of the Month “An absolutely successful, visually enormously powerful work that is suitable for young and old to stimulate their own imagination!” – Jury of the Leipzig Reading Compass 2024 –…
Life Everywhere – The amazing coexistence of species on our planet by Sascha Mamczak, Martina Vogl & Katrin Stangl has won the EMYS Non-Fiction Prize! The jury’s verdict: “A wonderful book that provides so much information and aha-experiences that you won’t want to put it down. […] After reading it, our view of our surroundings,…
Eirlys Hunter is off to Rome in December 2023 for the awards ceremony of Premio Strega Ragazze e Ragazzi 2023, where The Mapmakers’ Race is one of three finalists in the 11+ category. Alongside the jury, the award involves nearly 4000 school students choosing favourite stories, characters and authors. Full details about the book
Four titles from my portfolio are a White Raven 2023: Super Glitter by Nele Brönner & Melanie Laibl (Luftschacht) Courage is a Good Thing by Arne Rautenberg & Wolf Erlbruch (Peter Hammer Verlag) The Grizzled Grist Does Not Exist by Juliette MacIver & Sarah Davis (Gecko Press) How We Once Kidnapped…
“What Are You Doing There?” won the Troisdorf Children’s Jury Picture Book Award! The children’s jury had chosen her book with a clear majority. This is already the second honour for the young German-Ukrainian artist Alexandra Prischedko. Congratulations! This special picture book has already been shortlisted for the Serafina 2022, which is the Illustration Newcomer…
LILI FLIES AT THE TOP by Julia Willmann has won the Korbinian Paul Maar Newcomer Award 2023! Congratulations! This prize is awarded by the German Academy for Children’s Literature and the jury said: „Exciting, full of linguistic wit and close to the facts, Julia Willmann succeeds in adapting Nature Writing for a younger audience, sensitizing…
WILD BIKE RIDE WITH VELOCIRAPTOR by Nils Mohl and Halina Kirschner has been selected as the MINT (STEM) Book of the Month by STUBE in April 2023. It was also selected as one of the ‘7 Best Books for Young Readers’ the same month. From the STUBE review: ” … the encounter between author and…
How to Rescue Art has won the Toad of the Month by STUBE in March 2023 and was also selected as one of ‘7 Best Books for Young Readers’ in April. What dangers threaten paintings, how can works of art be restored and what actually happened to Hugo von Rangenstein’s nose? Restorers Fabienne Meyer and…
PIZZA CAT by Will Gmehling and illustrated by Antje Damm has already been selected and awarded as One of the 7 Best Books for Young Readers, May 2023 (Deutschlandfunk Leselotse, March 2023 Poetry Tipp, STUBE, March 2023 This funny rhyming story about Pia the Pizza cat, who delivers the most delicious pizza to everyone…
After having received a number of awards already – including Book of the Month (Akademie KJL), with the Toad of the Month (STUBE) or the LesePeter (AJuM of the GEW) – Nils Mohl’s YA novel “Henny & Ponger” has now been nominated for the German Children’s Literature Award 2023. This is what the jury had…
SUPER GLITTER by Nele Brönner and Melanie Laibl has won the Austrian Children‘s Book Award 2023! It has also previously been selected as one of the Seven Best Books for Young Readers and received the Lektorix in November 2022. Click here for more information
Two books have made it onto the 2022 IBBY Honour LIst: THE LIDO by Will Gmehling & THE GREY GIANTS by Raffaela Schöbitz. Click on the covers for more information!
It is with a heavy heart that I announce that Wolf Erlbruch has passed away. He died on 11 December 2022 at the age of 74. Wolf Erlbruch was the first German author/illustrator to win the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award in 2017 and one of the most renowned picture book artists internationally. The picture book…
Jörg Mühle’s brilliant children’s fiction title WHEN DAD’S HAIR TOOK OFF has won the Luchs Award! “This fast-paced story is told by a child who can only be seen once in the 70-page book – when he and his mother watch his distraught father through the window. The quirky adventure is the brainchild of Jörg…