A mysterious and compelling literary fantasy that weaves magic, mathematics, love, family—and riddles within riddles. Sixteen-year-old Canny Mochrie has always been different; she has a calculating, mathematical mind and she sees something extra. When she begrudgingly joins her stepbrother on a trip to research a 30-year-old coal mine disaster, she meets the alluring Ghislain Zarene,…
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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…
One moment—one disaster—one love Tara and Alún are attractd to each other. But an argument tears them apart. And before they can reconcile, a devastating chemical accident catapults them into a different life. Alún stays in the safely distant big city, risking his neck with his street art. Tara returns to the contaminated area and…
Patrick Bonato Toubab in Senegal A white man travels for the first time to Senegal, a country he knows almost nothing about. His inner images and diffuse fears, shaped by a generalized Africa, travel with him. In West Africa, people like him are called “Toubab“, white bread. The young man is a comic artist and…
The very funny picture book THE SELFIE by Joaquín Camp & Pilar Serrano has been highlighted as a ‚recommendation‘ as part of the Premio Fundación Cuatrogatos. The jury selected 100 books out of a total of 1203 entries. This is a hilarious rendition of a beaver wanting to take the perfect selfie – whilst trying…
Wieke is angry. She likes neither Xandra, her dad‘s new girlfriend, nor her annoying little daughter. And now she is supposed to spend her holiday in an Italian mountain village with them! When Ken comes along, the refugee boy from Nigeria for whom Xandra has taken over guardianship, Wieke has had enough. As it happens,…
Little Sophie can hardly wait for her visit to the zoo today. Full of anticipation, she walks through the city and already discovers animals everywhere. Aren‘t those two pandas sitting at the table in the café over there? Or is the lady with the sunglasses sitting there all alone? Sophie‘s fantasy world and reality merge…
Lua feels so alone since her father‘s heart has stopped beating. One day she finds a magic marble that shows her the way to a circus. When she enters this magical world and looks behind the life of the circus’ artists, she finds a way to get closer to her father‘s memory. He had given…
Every morning, in her shop in the rue des Soupirs, Madame Hortense composed pretty bouquets – delicate and harmonious. In this little world of petals and foliage, flowers were her only company. And that reassured her. Every afternoon, she went for a walk by herself, never talking to anyone. Until the day when a traveling…
I am delighted to share the news that THE VISITOR by Antje Damm can now be enjoyed as a puppet theatre play at the Ljubljana Puppet Theatre!
“The sky is particularly clear today“, says Dad and points to the skyscraper in the distance. Like every evening, Paul and his dad are standing in front of the skylight and look across the the roofs of the city. Paul loves watching the trains with his dad before he has to go to sleep. In…
Lena Hach & Daniela Kulot The Crazy Inventors’ Hut – The Soda Bubbler All huts fly … high! Tilda, Walter and I are now inventors! Walter had the idea. He always has all the ideas. The super ideas and the shit ideas. The lemonade bubbler was one of the super ideas. At least we thought…
I am thrilled to report that four books from my portfolio have made it into the 2021 selection of the White Ravens! LITTLE FOX IN A BOX by Antje Damm HEY, HEY, HEY, TAXI by Saša Stanišić & Katja Spitzer THE INKBERG ENIGMA by Jonathan King THE SNOW LEOPARD by Verena Hochleitner Click on the…
Connie Hill-Turner has prepared a fantastic English sample translation of Henning Wagenbreth’s Land in Reverse [Rückwärtsland], which can now be seen on the Translators Aloud YouTube Channel! Click on the cover for more information about this outstanding book:
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…
Out into nature! Into a new reading adventure! Peace, joy and happiness on the campsite? That was once upon a time. After Leon, Emily and Jakub successfully fought off the creeps from the village during the last holidays, they are now out for revenge. But the three of them have other worries: they have to…