Born in 1966, Anna Schindler grew up in a house full of books in the Odenwald with four siblings. She was deeply impressed by personal encounters with Astrid Lindgren and Michael Ende. At the age of 14, she moved to Switzerland. She wrote stories, a play and read. Since 2015, she has immersed herself as…
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Fish Sammy and frog Ogi embark on an adventurous journey from the source of the river to the sea. The two friends experience quite a lot of adventures along the way. They swim past mills, meadows filled with flowers and through a dark tunnel. Sammy and Ogi meet the squirrel, a beaver and the little…
A is for Antarctica by David Böhm has been nominated for the German Children’s Literature Award! This is what the jury had to say: “Antarctica, the southernmost continent on earth, is extraordinary in many ways: As a place of extremes and supposedly the last, untouched wilderness, the eternal ice is invaluable, but also – but…
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…
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…
It only takes a butterfly emerging from its cocoon, shouting out “Hello world! Here I am!“ to trigger a chain of small pleasures … A feel-good-book that reminds us that kindness is contagious and that happiness can easily be found in the smallest of things. by Margaux Grappe & Clémence Sabbagh Maison Eliza | hc…