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 –
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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 –…
Gundi Herget & Katrin Dageför Oh Dear! Camillo Is Gone! The animals in the jungle of Madagascar have lots of fun playing. One day they discover something new: when Camillo the Chameleon gets scared, his colours change! When he gets angry, too! How funny! From then on, the friends can’t get enough of teasing and…
Antje Damm The Nori Says No! The Nori lives underground and loves red berries and life in nature. But one day a giantess throws something into its cave, destroys the table and chair and snatches it away from its world. She sees the Nori as her toy, which is to live in a doll’s house…
Martin Baltscheit The Little Prince Celebrates Christmas The Little Prince. I wonder how he’s doing? The muzzle had no strap, remember? Did the sheep eat the rose after all and did the planet get blown up by the baobab trees afterwards? What would the prince do without the rose and the planet? What has Antoine…
Martin Baltscheit The Little Prince Gives Presents Even bad people get presents – maybe they’ll be one of the good guys soon Still on earth after his last adventure, the Little Prince helps the Christ Child distribute presents at Christmas. But to those who are usually forgotten: The strange, the lonely, the mean, the lazy,…
Birgit Schössow Burying Grandma Siblings Mina, Paul and Annie now only have their neighbour, Mrs Mattuschke. From one day to the next, they are orphaned and the shock is followed by a wild decision not to go to a home. Fortunately, a grandmother turns up, albeit an unknown one. She had been travelling the world…
Susanne Straßer Stop the Ball! Stop the ball! Duck plays ball. Oops – what’s the ball doing, where is it going? The duck chases after the ball and an animal is added on each double page until a whole menagerie is whizzing through the book. Hold the ball! It bounces – BAMM! – against the…
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,…
Joy Cowley & David Barrow A Lot of Silly World-renowned Joy Cowley brings her silly side to this collection of rhymes and nonsense old and new, illustrated in colour by master of the absurd David Barrow, for families to recite and remember. Joy Cowley knows what makes children laugh. In this book full of absurd…
Irene Penazzi By the Sea The sea, a beach, shells, 3 children… 4 seasons and a multitude of stories to invent. Like “In the garden” and “In the Mountains”, Irene Penazzi’s previous picture books, “By the Sea” is a silent book that can be enjoyed in different ways by different ages A contemporary picture book…
Gavin Bishop Miro – Look This arresting board book of first words in both Spanish and English by award-winning Gavin Bishop pairs family faces and toys to show connections while building vocabulary for shapes and colours. A member of the extended family looks directly at the reader alongside a familiar toy. Labels give the Spanish…
Patricia Thoma & Brothers Grimm The Twelve Dancing Princesses The Brothers Grimm’s fairy tale deals with the timeless yet very topical subject of the transition from childhood to adulthood. The king’s twelve daughters withdraw from their father into a world of their own and guard this secret closely. Only twelve pairs of completely worn-out shoes…
Ramón D. Veiga & Iván R. It’s Raining! A new adventure with Earthworm Earthworm loves the rain, but none of his friends is willing to get wet to play with him. Well, maybe there’s someone who doesn’t mind the rain … guess who? Get your mackintosh ready and dive into this new adventure of your…
Margaux Grappe & Maylis Daufresne A Flower What is so beautiful at the top of the mountain? – Trust me, says Zélie to her brother Noé, you won’t be disappointed… This poetic picture-book tells two parallel stories: the story of a flower (the edelweiss) that blossoms and learns about its environment, the fauna, the flora…
Sandro Ramseier Shantiland Shantiland tells of the inner turmoil of a young spiritual master who, in the midst of a perverted, hyper-capitalist society, struggles to live up to his father’s expectations and successfully run the company he founded, Shanti Enterprise. Unhappy in the role of the mendacious commercial guru imposed on him, unconscious inclinations and…
Ondřej Buddeus & Jindřich Janíček On Yer Bike! “When it’s alone, it waits and acts like a sleeping animal. But when you saddle up, it suddenly has the power and lust for life that you give it.” The bicycle has been man’s humble companion for more than 200 years, serving both young and old on…