Südpol is an independent publisher of children’s books and books for young adults, located in Grevenbroich – in the heart of the Rhineland between Cologne and Duesseldorf. Since 2011 we publish 14-16 novelties every year and offer an animating, exciting and imaginative program. Our focus lies on stories beyond the world of glitter-fairies, topmodels and knights.
Our intention is to motivate and support the enjoyment of reading. We publish books that inspire, entrain, surprise and especially: entertain without being superficial. A palm tree at the South Pole – our logo – is pathbreaking: every book, every story contains surprises and it’s worth changing the point of view sometimes.
We want to pay attention to nowadays different situations in which children grow up: single parents, different cultural backgrounds, patchwork families or families with two mums or two dads. That’s why we publish exclusively German-speaking authors.
We have evolved the ›LeseweltEntdecker / explorers of the world of reading‹ trying to build a bridge between taking first steps in reading and extensive children’s books. Funny and exciting subjects, short chapters and illustrations on any double page invite to dive into the big, wide world of stories.
Nature is another issue of importance: „Die Grünen Piraten“ want to create interest in nature and environment by enthralling stories, that could happen in eyery town.
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Michaela Beck Me, My Awfully Nice Family and Other Disasters Family is really nice and sometimes really exhausting! Once again, 13-year-old Martha has to get used to another one of her mum’s boyfriends. She already has enough on her plate with her stepfathers, her two half-brothers Tobi and Justus and various grandparents. But this time…
Iris Genenz & Corinna Böckmann My Secret Life as a Monster Hunter – Why You Should Never Hang on to a Giant Worm As if it wasn’t bad enough that Charly has to dance with grumpy German teacher Mrs Schmidt-Habicht instead of his flame Dalia at the school party, he suddenly discovers a small hippo-like…
Simak Büchel & Larisa Lauber A Heart for Monsters – The Flying Dragon Grotto Light and airy adventure: of flying otters and floating islands Cloud traveller Bella needs help, because the floating islands and her parents’ cloud fortress are constantly being ravaged by swarms of monsters that seem to devastate everything for no reason. Ainu…
Andrea Lienesch & Sabine Sauter Henriette Piggyback – The Darned Witchy Search for the Fungus Muffle Kiss Henriette Piggyback – the cheerful little witch with a great inventive spirit Henriette Piggyback and Great Aunt Martha go on an expedition to the Miefenthal cave, because this is the only place where the fungus Muffel Kiss grows,…
Rebecca Mönch Yuna and the Thing About Being Liked Important message wrapped up in a sugar-sweet package: Not everyone has to like you – be yourself! Yuna is still quite new to the human world. As a little dog, there are lots of exciting things to discover. But some things are not so easy to…
Iris Genenz My Secret Life as a Monster Hunter – Why You Should Never Fall into a Storm Drain 13-year-old Charly Hartnuss, a comic and fantasy fan, lives in the world’s most boring small town in the world – Darknest. He dreams of having superhero powers, then the others would surely stop bullying him and…
Petra Bartoli y Eckert Behind the Stars Real Close A touching coming-of-age novel about loss, grief, new beginnings and first love After her older sister Sina is killed in a car accident, her entire world falls to pieces for 15-year-old Felicitas. The only thing she has left of her sister is the shared chat. Feli…
Nicole Mahne & Caroline Opheys Nelly & Dash – A Pig Hits the Road Funny, cheeky and endearing: reading fun with Nelly and her dog Dash Nelly, Max and Berta are thrilled: Lorenzo Spitzo, the world’s best dog trainer with his own TV show, has moved into the neighbourhood! The three of them immediately set…
Lars Meyer After Dawn – The Flowing Crystal The spectacular finale of the Young Adult dystopia: thrilling, gripping, enthralling. Ember is back in Dornwall after helping her family and best friend Ryan escape from the Dawn Empire’s Wandering City. Thanks to the green crystal, which they have retrieved, there is new hope for the people…
Dr. Johanna Klement & Stephanie Marian Rebel Cells – A wild journey through the body An adventurous journey through the body with three little rebel cells The little body cells Mio, Nea and Fago are desperate to know what the world outside looks like. So they plan a daring journey through the human body to…
Lars Meyer After Dawn – The Wandering City “How are we going to free them? How are we even supposed to get into the city? And how can a whole city wander?” A major earthquake in the Grounders’ underground realm allows Ember and Devan to escape to the surface. At last, Ember is getting closer…
Nicole Mahne Forget Forever! Being in love is terribly beautiful – and terribly awful! 14-year-old Flora finds her puberty-induced physical changes creepy. She wraps herself in baggy jumpers and wears a cap to hide the pimples on her forehead. But that’s not Flora’s only problem: her mother is currently trying out a course in positive…
Andrea Poßberg & Corinna Böckman The Green Pirates – Plastic Plague in Bieber Lake While cleaning out the new clubhouse of the Bieberheim football club, Ben and Lennart find a real treasure map. To recover the treasure in Bieber Lake, the Green Pirates go diving and discover huge amounts of plastic waste floating around in…
Andrea Poßberg & Corinna Böckman The Green Pirates – Perilous Poison Underwater Trouble in cosy Bieberheim! A citizens’ initiative is fighting to return the Els brook, which has been encased in concrete, to its natural course. When the Green Pirates suddenly discover masses of dead fish during a paddling tour, they are unexpectedly drawn into…
Simak Büchel & Larisa Lauber A Heart for Monsters – The Shadow Slayer A very special team gets going: Tabati & daughter – pest controllers and monster hunters extraordinaire 8-year-old Ainu moves from village to village with her mother Tabati and pony Bifi, offering their services as pest controllers and monster hunters in a class…
Andrea Lienesch & Sabine Sauter Henriette Piggyback – Pudding Magic in the Witch’s Garden Chaos in the witch’s garden: Of rebellious witch herbs and nimble speed sponges Great-aunt Martha is on holiday and Henriette has to look after her witch’s garden: The dandelion mustn’t get any cavities, the chives must be combed and the parsley…
Anna Marshall Cloud Button What is it like to arrive in a country where you don’t understand the language? Liah and her mother have come from a faraway country. The foreign language intimidates Liah, it sounds to her as if many pebbles were falling onto the floor; one after the other. When Liah is given…
Inge Brendler & Stephanie Marian Sound Caper – A Note Steps out of Line An exciting journey through the world of music with numerous audio examples The little note Finn no longer feels comfortable within his birthday song, because the other notes claim that he doesn’t sound nice, not festive enough. He decides to jump…
Andrea Poßberg & Corinna Böckman The Green Pirates – Alarm at the Seal Rescue Station Sabotage at the Seal Rescue Station – A new case for the Green Pirates Holidays at the North Sea at last – sun, beach and collecting shells! But shortly after their arrival, the five friends come across the ransacked fishing…
Andrea Poßberg & Corinna Böckman The Green Pirates – Hunting the Waste Disposal Mafia The Green Pirates – Children care about their environment! Rubbish collection campaign in Bieberheim: The five friends never thought that there would be so much rubbish in the city park. And now all the rubbish bags are simply supposed to disappear…
Andrea Poßberg & Corinna Böckman The Green Pirates – Whales in Distress The Green Pirates – Who kidnapped the little porpoise? There is great excitement among the Green Pirates: Ben, Flora, Pauline, Jannik and Lennart are allowed to accompany their chemist friend Miranda to a research ship in the Baltic Sea, where the behaviour of…
Philipp Stampe The Carnival of the Animals Can you spot who has dressed up as which animal? The bullfinch discovers a poster one morning with an announcement about the Carnival of the Animals – and the best costume will win a prize! The news spreads like wildfire throughout the animal kingdom. With fervour, animal costumes…
Andrea Poßberg & Corinna Böckman The Green Pirates – Monkey Business at the Chicken Farm The Green Pirates – daring mission in the chicken coop The Green Pirates – that’s what friends Pauline, Ben, Flora, Lennart, and Jannik call themselves. Wherever they intervene to protect the environment, they leave behind their signature: a green skull…
Nicolas Gorny & David Füleki Detective Agency Creep & Co.: Danger! Space Goo Secret Service … Aliens … Highest Alert Level—This is serious stuff! Rocko Grusel and Luis Zack—experts in spooky matters of all kinds—one evening observe how a large meteorite hurtles down to earth and shortly afterwards a glistening column of fire shoots up….
Tino Schrödl When We Went to Catch a Panther and Found Something Much Bigger Three boys, a panther and the feeling of deep friendship 11-year-old Nico, a city kid and loner, finds his life complicated. His parents are on the verge of divorce and he himself has no friends at school. But now it’s the…
Nicolas Gorny & David Füleki Detective Agency Creep & Co.: Caution! Ghost Glue Rocko Grusel and Luis Zack are the experts for spooky matters of all kinds. A new case for the two detectives Rocko Grusel and Luis Zack: hotel manager Schnörkel fears that his house is haunted and asks the detective agency Creep &…
Nicole Mahne & Caroline Opheys Nelly & Dash – Breakfast with Frog Funny, cheeky and endearing: reading fun with Nelly and her dog Dash Nelly’s sister Sophie has an exchange student from France as her guest. Nelly is determined to make Elisa feel at home, because the guest is king. Luckily, Nelly’s friend Max happens…
Lars Meyer After Dawn – The Hidden World “Our life is not easy. But it’s the only one I know – now I’m afraid that even that might be taken away from us.” The world is poisoned, in Dornwall the inhabitants have adapted to the inhospitable life. No one ventures out of the town without…
Nicole Mahne & Caroline Opheys Nelly & Dash – Freshly Painted Poodle Funny, funnier, Nelly & Dash—dogs are the greatest of all! Nelly loves dogs more than anything, especially her terrier Dash. It‘s great that her new neighbours Berta and Elmar also have a dog: the candyfloss white poodle lady Cinderella. It‘s just a shame…
A fascinating voyage of discovery through the flavours of the world! How does food taste in different countries of the world? This non-fiction book takes young readers on a journey around the globe: 13 children from different continents introduce their country. The authors Paola Frattola Gebhardt and Leyla Köksal-Mergner conducted interviews during their work in…
Inés María Jiménez A Little Confetti Does Not Make a Friend A moving novel about a toxic friendship between girls When 16-year-old Cecilia, called Cilia, arrives at her new school, she expects all sorts of things, but not this: On her very first day, she is approached by Hel and accepted into her clique. And…
Andrea Lienesch & Sabine Sauter Henriette Piggyback – A Good Screw is Better than Crooked Magic Broken clock? It will be fixed! Learning spells? Quite complicated! Henriette is not a very talented witch.—she constantly forgets her magic spells and misplaces her spell book. Instead of brewing potions and practising spells, she is far more interested…
The action-packed monster hunt continues! Moritz and his sister Konstanze are looking for a powerful being with healing powers – the mock! Only the mock can release their friend Helene from the 300-year-old curse that condemns her to live as an undead. In the dark town of Bad Greifenstein, which suffers from the nocturnal visitation…
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…
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…
When the tomcat Mr. K wakes up one morning, he feels that something is different. He is sure: he is—a dog! His fiancé, the shrew Mimosa, however, cannot tell the difference. Mr. K can neither bark, nor does he sit on command. Still, Mr. K is certain—he is a dog. And what more does he…
Love story between the worlds of light and shadow Half-angel Anna lives a sheltered life in a convent and even though she loves the 16-strong group of nuns and her martial arts teacher Master Li like a family of her own, she feels increasingly restricted by the monotonous daily routine. In addition, she struggles with…
What is the Alpaca doing in the senior citizens‘ flat share? Mr. Rippel, one of the residents from the supervised senior citizens‘ flat in Mia‘s street, suddenly turns up with an alpaca in tow. Did he kidnap it? Or did it run to him? Carer Holger wants to get rid of the animal as quickly…
Deceptive wilderness—What lurks beneath the surface? 11-year-old Jorin dreams of an exciting life as an agent with undercover missions and surveillance assignments. But instead he is only bored in the allotment garden where he has gone into hiding with Agent Smuts. Things suddenly change when a mysterious video from the Arctic Circle emerges in which…
Aunt Agneta has come up with something very special for her favourite nephew Leo‘s birthday: They fly to the moon with spaceship Amelia and household robot Albert. There‘s even a fast lunar mobile on board. But it‘s not just eating and drinking that prove to be a real challenge in space—what do you do if…
Rabbit, mouse and bear have discovered a delicious apple high up in the tree. Everyone wants to have the apple for themselves. Rabbit can do high jumps, but unfortunately he ends up in the wrong place. Mouse is clever and builds a tower. She is about to reach the apple when the bear‘s paw grabs…
Monster hunt above the rooftops of Ravenbrück – dark, exciting and action packed! Moritz’s worst nightmare comes true when his sister Konstanze is abducted by a ghastly monster in the middle of the night. When the monster returns to Ravenbrück to carry off more girls, Moritz follows the monster hard on its heels. But he…
Helge is horrified: A flying robot suddenly turns up wherever danger threatens and steals the show from him and Super Pug. Three heroes in one city are clearly too many! Helge and Super Pug urgently need a new, bombastic heroic adventure to outdo the robo hero. And that comes up faster than expected when Eel…
A deceptive paradise—who can you trust? Ever since 11-year-old Jorin ran away from his foster family, he has struggled along. But then his life suddenly changes: A mysterious agent turns up and tries to win him over for an undercover mission. The billionaire Borax Dosch enrols Jorin in the Mimesis Project, a school for disadvantaged…
Poodle Hugo loves tidying-up, sorting, putting away and cleaning until everything shines. Cat Kalina, on the other hand, cannot imagine anything more awful, because what could be more boring than cleaning-up! But on cleaning-up day, Kalina must also help—a deal is a deal! Fortunately she knows a few tricks that make the room look tidy…
Mia is in 3rd grade and is looking for her first case as a detective when she meets Mr. Rippel. He lives in No. 19, with the ‘odd birds‘. That‘s what everyone calls the crazy old people who live in Mia‘s street, but Mia doesn‘t mind them because she is to-le-rant. She learns from Mr….
17-year-old Anna leads a sheltered life behind monastery walls, where the only highlight is the daily martial arts training with Master Li. Leo—dark, mysterious, attractive—suddenly appears out of nowhere. Not only does he confuse her feelings, but just like her he seems to be able to look deep into other people. But is there a…
They are looking for you, they are hunting you, but you will get them … The Great War dates back more than 20 years. Large parts of Berlin are destroyed and radioactively contaminated. 16-year-old Will manages to make a living as an illegal computer player. As one of the “Returns“—genetically optimised and sorted out because…
Villains beware: Super Pug is back! A new neighbour moves into the house next to the home of Helge and his pug. And they both know immediately: Madame Magenta and her cat, Marylin, are super villains! When Helge’s unsuspecting Dad walks right into Madame Magenta’s nasty cell phone-hypnosis-trap, Super Pug and Helge act like true…
What Helge really wanted was a dangerous pet like a snake or crocodile. Instead, he got a pug for his birthday. A fat and boring pug. But then, a rotten sausage gives Helge’s pug superhero powers. And right away, the heroic team gets to work. They have to stop Dr. Clockpoison! The crook developed a…
Helge is in desperate need of cash so that he can buy the hottest sneakers in town. In order to help his friend, Super Pug takes part in the Samurai-Super-Show. But then the two super villains Dr. Clockpoison and Madame Magenta burst into the arena to take revenge on Helge and Super Pug. And they…
Blond is for good girls Lu steals a bottle of pink hair dye from the drugstore. Her blond hair must go! Obstinate and gruff as she is, she continuously rubs people up the wrong way. Especially Christopher has it in for her and bullies her at school. Her only support is her invisible friend Rhys….
Camping at Loch Ness?! Scary! Mac Stink is appalled: Finn, his favourite human, wants to go camping and fishing at Loch Ness. When every child knows that a huge monster lives in that lake! Surely, the monster will consider Finn to be a yummy snack. One thing is clear for Mac Stink, he has to…
When guinea pig Maffi drops from the removals van—cage and all—her world falls apart. No food, no home, cars everywhere– where should she go? Utterly exhausted, she seeks refug in an empty house. But this isn’t any old house—it is the Wild House! All sorts of different wild animals live here, who regularly run special…
Hugo hates rain, Kalina, however, can imagine nothing better than jumping into water puddles in the rain so that the water splashes to all sides. This picture book narrates in sweeping images how nice it is to have a friend who carries you along. Even if you’d much rather retreat into your shell in a…
Lena-Frieda rides a skateboard and wants to become a biologist in order to examine fruit flies, just like her beloved granny. Since her best friend Nele has moved away she doesn’t enjoy going to school any longer: The predominant stroppy cows from the fifth grade are giving her a hard time because she prefers to…
An insightful and authentic narrative Silence is not always golden Mimi collects perhaps-mothers. She stalks and photographs women who resemble her. The hair color, the shape of the nose, the profile of the face. Her own mother allegedly died while giving birth to her. At least, that is what Mimi’s father says, who has raised…
Oskar All the Way to the Top What nobody knows: Actually, there were five of them! While his parents are on a research journey, the little dog Oskar has to move in with his Grandpa, who lives in Bremen. As if this were not bad enough, he gets mobbed by two pompous mutts in his…
Lene and Pip are doing an internship with the English doll maker Mr. Smith when he receives a visit from rat boy Paolo, a living rag doll that can even speak! He comes from Mumford Village, a secret place in which the most fabulous and amazing stuffed creatures live. Paolo has bad news: toad Kalle…
A kidnapping in the community garden! Sam Stripe is looking forward to his vacation: Mrs. Beehive is out of town and the community garden is quiet and peaceful – until Victoria shows up, Sam Stripe’s niece. Soon after her arrival, Vicci is kidnapped by Blackcat and her cat-buddy, Daddel. As ransom, the two kidnappers demand…
The Mega-Monster-Princess-Party For cool girls only: monster-hilarious reading fun! Pauline is sick – one day before the birthday party of Lina, her very best friend! Monster uncle Rotzbert knows what to do and takes Pauline to Gully Lane to Mister Wambolin. But his remedy has a devastating effect: Pauline grows arms that look like tentacles!…
Hipp & Hopp Save Daddy Greenleaf The frog children Hipp and Hopp watch helplessly, as their Dad is being kissed against his will by a long-legged, pale creature. After the kiss, the frog children are horrified to see the beautiful green color leave their dad’s thighs, as he grows hideously long arms and legs! Hipp…
Suddenly as small as a beetle!Adventure in the garden jungle By accident, Leo and his inventor aunt Agnetha shrink to the size of bugs. The only thing that can make them grow back to their normal sizes is the shrink-ray device but the neighbor’s cat stole it and carried it away. So Leo and Aunt…