Ada Limón & Gaby D’Alessandro And, Too, the Fox Comes with its streak of red / flashing across the lawn, squirrel / bound and bouncing . . . U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón has a keen eye for the natural world. This poem pulses with the joyful energy of a fox bounding through backyards, piecing…
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Kelly Rice Schmitt & Jam Dong I Fuel – How Energy Powers Our Busy World From the Series On the Move Honk! Honk! Follow along as a semitruck travels cross country with a load of toys. Turbo-powered text and illustrations will appeal to truck-loving kids everywhere! Climb on up into the cab of a semitruck…
Christine Ziegler & Stephanie Marian Art Eater – From the Life of a Museum Moth 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…
Kristina Scharmacher-Schreiber & Stephanie Marian All Dance! – A Mouse Whirls Through Tap Dance and Ballet Exciting mix of history, factual information and hands-on tips Little mouse Marie loves to dance. When she wins dance lessons from the famous dancer Momo Mouse at a competition, she quickly realises that she wants to take part with…
Volker Surmann’s young adult novel Leon Hertz and the Thing About Sadness has won this year’s Protestant Book Prize. This is a wonderful and certainly most deserved honour for this outstanding book, which had already received several other accolades and nominations. More information can be found here. The jury’s verdict: “His school presentation in the…
Jörg Isermeyer & Kai Schüttler Badger and Rocket – The Double Badger When Badger and Rocket visit a museum of modern art, they are faced with a conundrum: What is a work of art and what is not? And is Badger, the passionate craftsman, allowed to repair what is lying broken on the floor? The…
Andrea Hensgen & Hannah Brückner We Children on the Train Jamil, his friend Sergey and many other children have been travelling across the country by train for weeks. The train is their home, where they learn, play and sleep, safe and cared for until their parents have rebuilt their destroyed homes. Every Sunday, the train…
NIkolaus Ober & Nina Ober Tiger Learns to Fly Sometimes, it’s hard to believe, even a tiger is bored. And sometimes, no amount of playing football with the vultures, singing with the wildebeest or acting with the monkeys can help a tiger against this boredom. Learn to fly, that would be it, Tiger thinks one…
NIkolaus Ober & Nina Ober Spectacled Bear’s Inventions ‘I’m going to invent SOMETHING,’ said the spectacled bear. He didn’t know what it would be yet, but it would come. Something USEFUL, he added a little later, something COMPLETELY NEW! ‘Otherwise it wouldn’t be an invention,’ said a baboon nine times wisely, but by then the…
Susanne Straßer Come On and Slide, Badger! Badger wants to slide. Tap, tap, tap, tap, tap, he’s already at the top. Oh, that’s high! Badger doesn’t slide. How Susanne Straßer puts her anxious badger at the top of the slide, how she makes the animals of all weight classes trudge, tap, tap and wait patiently…
Will Gmehling & Antje Damm At the Very Beginning Was the Ball Kiki, Coco, Klaas and Kalle, every burbot, every jellyfish – they all love football, all of them! As fast-paced and cheeky as a rap song, this picture book celebrates football as a passion that spans the globe: Me near the Rhine and you…
Sabine Kranz That Wasn’t Me! It Was the Pirates! Dad doesn’t realise what Flora has long since discovered: Pirates are in town! On the way home from the nursery, Flora saw the ship dock and when Dad gets down to work at home – tidying up, doing the laundry, cooking dinner – the pirates are…
Jörg Mühle But I Didn’t Mean To! It has snowed heavily during the night, and Bear and Weasel have a lot to do. When Bear accidentally throws snow all over Weasel – on purpose? – and covers him in snow, Weasel demands an apology. But Bear just grumbles: ‘I didn’t mean to.’ Weasel doesn’t accept…
Jennie Liu The Red Car to Hollywood Los Angeles, 1924 Sixteen-year-old Ruby Chan considers herself a modern, independent American girl. But when her secret relationship with a white boy implodes—and then is revealed to her very traditional Chinese parents—she’s in a tough spot. Horrified that Ruby’s reputation is at risk, her parents hire a matchmaker…
Kelly Rice Schmitt & Jam Dong I Ship – A Container Ship’s Colossal Journey From the Series On the Move Cast off on a journey across the ocean with a container ship as a guide in the delightful picture book I Ship. Come aboard a massive container ship as it pulls into port, loads up…