Yayo Kawamura & Harriet Grundmann I Have to Go, said the Bear When the bear said goodbye, everyone was at a loss. Do you want to look for sweeter berries? asked the blackbird. Do you have an appointment? the dog wanted to know. Nobody understood why the bear had to leave, not even Bear himself….
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Susanne Straßer So far up At the bottom is the bear, he’s hungry. At the top is the cake. Tasty, sweet and out of reach. This story has begun before you’ve even opened the book and even the very young will grasp the problem at one glance. Not to be able to reach – that…
Susanne Straßer So Light So Heavy 12 o’clock – time for soup! Everyone can swing and slide, but seesawing is the ultimate discipline at the playground, because there are only two options: utter frustration or huge fun! Susanne Straßer puts an elephant onto the seesaw and it is immediately clear that an entire menagerie of…
Susanne Straßer Raccoon Does the Laundry There’s nothing Raccoon likes better than washing dirty things clean again. Scrub, scrub, wipe, wipe. The frog brings his green socks, the tiger his yellow skirt, the sheep his white jumper. Scrub, scrub, wipe, wipe. The line on which everything hangs to dry in the sun gets longer and…
Susanne Straßer The Whale Takes a Bath Today is bath day. The whale takes a bath. Lovely! But what the whale enjoys is also craved by the others—as is to be expected. Here they are already and keen to join the whale amidst the bubbles: The tortoise, because her back hurts, the beaver, because he…
Susanne Straßer Fox Goes For A Ride Fox drives a car. Tap tap, with his feet. Slow at first, then faster and faster. Over gravel – helter-skelter! Through puddles – splash! The fox whizzes through the pictures so fast that he doesn’t even notice others hopping on on every double page: mouse and mole, beetle…
Susanne Straßer Can I Be in the Middle, Please? “Come on, let‘s read a book!“ calls the child and right away everyone sits on the sofa: the zebra, the cat, the child, the hamster, the lion. They are ready to go. “Wait!“ whinnies the zebra, “the stork isn‘t here yet!“ Here he comes. So they…
Susanne Straßer So Tired and Wide Awake Tired, yet wide awake; the eternal bedtime issue! And there are many characters in this perky board book who cannot with all the will in the world fall asleep. Hedgehog, Fox, Donkey, Pelican and Crocodile are so tired. Only Seal is wide awake. He skips out of bed—he…
Arne Rautenberg & Nadia Budde This Day is My Friend Poems for the good minutes Arne Rautenberg puts all senses on reception, touches the long ears of rabbit and dog with nose and mouth. Inhale someone’s scent deeply: half of sleep, half of sand and full of the scent of the land of milk and…
Jan Kaiser & Maja Bohn For Marylee Mary likes her grandpa very much, especially the funny things he always thinks up for her. His neighbours do say: “The old man has lost his marbles”, but grandpa can reassure Marylee – as he calls Mary: He’s not only not lost his marbles, he’s a poet! And…
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!
Birgit Schössow Oskar Holidaybear Holiday time! Excited Mimi is expecting guests for the first time at her hotel by the sea. Already the bus arrives with lots of people, suitcases and boxes – and a bear! The big, shaggy guest introduces himself at Mimi’s reception as “Oskar Holidaybear”. The adults anxiously keep their distance from…
Julia Willmann & Alexandra Junge Lili Flies at the Top When the little fly Lili tries to get out of the room into the light, she hits the window so hard that she loses her “L”. As “itte fy ii” she finds her way out into the open and sets off on a long journey….
Andrea Liebers & Susanne Göhlich The Bee Tree Story about a new kid at school that surprises everyone No one wants to have anything to do with Albert, the new boy in Finn’s class. Because he wears shirts with too long sleeves and a funny cap. So it makes sense that no one wants to…
Antje Damm & Will Gmehling Pizza Cat Here’s comes Pia the pizza cat, nimble and nippy – MAMMA MIA! She whizzes through this picture book on her yellow Vespa, loaded with pizza that is so delicious that you won’t forget it. Will Gmehling gives the pizza cat a boost, in fast-paced verses he lets her…
Susanne Straßer Zebra, Bear, and Pelican A birthday calendar by Susanne Straßer When is grandpa‘s birthday? Susanne Straßer‘s everlasting calendar not only reliably reminds children (and parents!) of the birthdays of the most important people. Zebra, bear and pelican and all the other funny characters from much-loved picture books ensure a good mood in children‘s…
Will Gmehling The Kiosk on Elser Corner – The Bukowskis Keep Going Here they are again, the Bukowskis: Alf, a real boxer by now and still in love with Joanna. Katinka, his annoying but ingenious sister, always busy with the fashion world. And the dreamy Robbie, who should never be underestimated. Things are going well…
Julia Willmann & Jens Rassmus Rascha and the Door to Heaven For Rascha, Ima is the dearest person. There is always a smile on his grandma’s face, even when she looks serious. Ima doesn’t say many words – and when she does, they are sentences like boulders, so powerful that no one can get past…
Friederike Dammermann Not Without My Duck Giraffe and Duck sit in the bathtub, warble a song and feel: there is talent at play here; it demands a microphone and a stage! In a paper boat they paddle into the harbour of the big city. And really, success is not long in coming. Giraffe and Duck…
Susanne Straßer Soup’s Ready! 12 o’clock – time for soup! Everyone knows what goes in: the horse brings a red turnip. Lid open – lid closed. The goat brings tender twigs, the dog a crunchy bone, the squirrel fresh spruce cones. Lid open – lid closed. Finally ready: Bon appétit! But what if the soup…