Rosemarie Eichinger & Thomas Kriebaum Daredevil Theophil Theophil Ringelblum doesn’t like excitement or adventure. It involves tearing your trousers, scraping your knees, getting bumps, ticks or other unpleasantries. Theophil is neither a lively boy nor a hero. He loves to sit still, read or play on the computer. When his parents tell him that he…
Children’s Fiction
Nicole Mahne & Caroline Opheys Nelly & Dash – A Pig Hits the Road Funny, cheeky and endearing: reading fun with Nelly and her dog Dash Nelly, Max and Berta are thrilled: Lorenzo Spitzo, the world’s best dog trainer with his own TV show, has moved into the neighbourhood! The three of them immediately set…
Andrea Poßberg & Corinna Böckman The Green Pirates – Plastic Plague in Bieber Lake While cleaning out the new clubhouse of the Bieberheim football club, Ben and Lennart find a real treasure map. To recover the treasure in Bieber Lake, the Green Pirates go diving and discover huge amounts of plastic waste floating around in…
Andrea Poßberg & Corinna Böckman The Green Pirates – Perilous Poison Underwater Trouble in cosy Bieberheim! A citizens’ initiative is fighting to return the Els brook, which has been encased in concrete, to its natural course. When the Green Pirates suddenly discover masses of dead fish during a paddling tour, they are unexpectedly drawn into…
Simak Büchel & Larisa Lauber A Heart for Monsters – The Shadow Slayer A very special team gets going: Tabati & daughter – pest controllers and monster hunters extraordinaire 8-year-old Ainu moves from village to village with her mother Tabati and pony Bifi, offering their services as pest controllers and monster hunters in a class…
Andrea Lienesch & Sabine Sauter Henriette Piggyback – Pudding Magic in the Witch’s Garden Chaos in the witch’s garden: Of rebellious witch herbs and nimble speed sponges Great-aunt Martha is on holiday and Henriette has to look after her witch’s garden: The dandelion mustn’t get any cavities, the chives must be combed and the parsley…
Lena Hach & Daniela Kulot The Crazy Inventors’ Hut – The Looping Twirler Admittedly, Tilda, Walter and Fred’s first invention was a proper write-off. But the friends have made an awesome new discovery. They have pimped the boring playground around the corner. The set of swings now includes a loop inverter. No kidding! Unfortunately, the…
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…
Nils Mohl & Halina Kirschner Wild Bike Ride with Velociraptor Wait a minute – velociraptors? Those were very fast dinos, weren’t they? The narrator, a writer with a rusty talent for storytelling and a great passion for bicycles, is astonished when suddenly such a feathered prehistoric reptile stands in front of him. The quick-witted and…
Joy Cowley Dunger Dunger is a highly readable novel from New Zealand’s beloved Joy Cowley. William and Melissa have been roped into helping their old hippie grandparents fix up their holiday home in the middle of the Sounds. They’ll have no electricity, no cellphone reception, and only each other for company. As far as they’re…
Brigitte Endres & Mele Brink Dragobert of Crumblestone The poor but brave knight George finds a dragon’s egg and takes it back to his castle of Crumblestone. He names the little dragon that hatches from it Dragobert and brings him up as his son. He is to become a knight one day. On his sixth…
Andrea Behnke & Mele Brink Flower Sisters Lilja’s mother is a flower photographer. Since Lilja’s father moved out, Lilja has the feeling that her mother talks to the flowers. One day Reni moves in with Lilja and her mum for a few weeks during the holidays. Lilja does not know Reni and does not want…
Andrea Poßberg & Corinna Böckman The Green Pirates – Alarm at the Seal Rescue Station Sabotage at the Seal Rescue Station – A new case for the Green Pirates Holidays at the North Sea at last – sun, beach and collecting shells! But shortly after their arrival, the five friends come across the ransacked fishing…
Andrea Poßberg & Corinna Böckman The Green Pirates – Hunting the Waste Disposal Mafia The Green Pirates – Children care about their environment! Rubbish collection campaign in Bieberheim: The five friends never thought that there would be so much rubbish in the city park. And now all the rubbish bags are simply supposed to disappear…
Andrea Poßberg & Corinna Böckman The Green Pirates – Whales in Distress The Green Pirates – Who kidnapped the little porpoise? There is great excitement among the Green Pirates: Ben, Flora, Pauline, Jannik and Lennart are allowed to accompany their chemist friend Miranda to a research ship in the Baltic Sea, where the behaviour of…
Andrea Poßberg & Corinna Böckman The Green Pirates – Monkey Business at the Chicken Farm The Green Pirates – daring mission in the chicken coop The Green Pirates – that’s what friends Pauline, Ben, Flora, Lennart, and Jannik call themselves. Wherever they intervene to protect the environment, they leave behind their signature: a green skull…
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…
Nicole Mahne & Caroline Opheys Nelly & Dash – Freshly Painted Poodle Funny, funnier, Nelly & Dash—dogs are the greatest of all! Nelly loves dogs more than anything, especially her terrier Dash. It‘s great that her new neighbours Berta and Elmar also have a dog: the candyfloss white poodle lady Cinderella. It‘s just a shame…
Hanna Jansen, Leonard Erlbruch Bottom in the Hay A story about arriving in a new home When Jakob moved to the countryside in the summer, he thought everything was stupid. Life as a threesome with his mother’s boyfriend Hannes, the villagers, their dogs, the smell – just everything. But then Pia turned up and showed…