Katrin Dageför & Henrike Lippa In the Deep Wide Sea In the deep, wide sea, … a bag fish swims around. Have you ever heard of the bag fish? What is a can crab or a bottle fish? The sea creatures have a huge problem. The sea is full of things that don’t belong there….
Picture Books
David Barrow Have You Seen Dinosaur? In this follow-up to the bestselling picture book Have You Seen Elephant?, boy, dog and elephant search in a dramatic cityscape for a dinosaur that’s surprisingly good at hiding. Best friends boy, dog and elephant are VERY good at hide-and-seek. There’s a missing dinosaur in the city – who…
Philipp Stampe & Dörte Horn Happy Birthday, Digger Dan! Let’s have a party, Digger Dan! As Dan rolls into the construction site nursery this morning, his friends are already eagerly awaiting him. Because it is a very special day today: It is Digger Dan’s birthday! The mice have come up with a great idea on how…
Sarah Engelhardt & Dörte Horn Off to Bed, Matti Moped! A bedtime story from the big city It’s time for bed! Dusk is falling in the big city and it’s time for Matti, the little police moped, to go to sleep. But Matti is not tired at all! So he sets off to visit his…
Anna Marshall Cloud Button What is it like to arrive in a country where you don’t understand the language? Liah and her mother have come from a faraway country. The foreign language intimidates Liah, it sounds to her as if many pebbles were falling onto the floor; one after the other. When Liah is given…
Antje Damm Ask Me! 118 questions for children to get into conversation with each other. Revised new edition In this new edition of Ask Me!, which was first published in 2002, Antje Damm has revised and rethought questions, illustrations and photographs. With this type of book, which was new at the time of its first…
Popy Matigot & Sandra Le Guen Revolt! What’s going on in the creepers forest? The jungle is watching with all its eyes. Astonished, frightened, alarmed eyes. The jungle is under attack, deforestation has begun. Tiger and the other animals unite to resist. Maison Eliza Picture Book Original title: Révolte! Age 4+ 40 pp | €…
Merle Goll & Beate Teresa Hanika Mr Kleemann and his Fish A fish is a friend Mr Kleemann loves fishing and he loves delicious fish. One day he catches a very special specimen. The fish is silver, has light blue eyes and golden spots on its belly. Mr Kleemann has never seen anything so beautiful!…
Birgit Schössow Oskar Holidaybear Holiday time! Excited Mimi is expecting guests for the first time at her hotel by the sea. Already the bus arrives with lots of people, suitcases and boxes – and a bear! The big, shaggy guest introduces himself at Mimi’s reception as “Oskar Holidaybear”. The adults anxiously keep their distance from…
Maurèen Poignonec & Sandra Le Guen The Pack The pack is proud, fearless, fast, playful, joyful, funny. The pack is long-haired, long-nosed, long neck, long body. The pack is Azzuro, Babeth, Cassia, Marie-Sophie and Nestor; five inseparable dogs until the day when … Marie-Sophie is missing! Maison Eliza Picture Book Original title: La meute Age…
Mele Brink & Thomas Endl Wherever You Want Marie and Gustav really don’t always see eye to eye. When they find a ticket to Whereveryouwant in an old tramcar, however, they do fly to a jousting tournament, to the Emperor of China’s lantern festival and even to the Man in the Moon together. But as…
Katinka Manzau-Feddern Ophelia and the Moon Bumblebees have dreams too. Can you imagine that? Bumblebee Ophelia is very, very fond of dreaming and wonders night after night what it looks like on the moon. Ophelia has heard so many stories about the moon. But none of the meadow dwellers has ever visited the moon. Surely…
Katja Gehrmann & Constanze Spengler No Further Than the Ice Cream Van Dad and Mika are on a beach holiday: setting up parasols, swimming, reading, playing badminton. Until the ice cream van rings its bell. Mika runs to get the ice cream, but is held up – and the van is already gone again. So…
Antje Damm & Will Gmehling Pizza Cat Here’s comes Pia the pizza cat, nimble and nippy – MAMMA MIA! She whizzes through this picture book on her yellow Vespa, loaded with pizza that is so delicious that you won’t forget it. Will Gmehling gives the pizza cat a boost, in fast-paced verses he lets her…
Katharina Naimer Hans in Luck The fairy tale Hans in Luck deserves to be looked at afresh and attentively through the images created by the artist Katharina Naimer. At the beginning of the fairy tale, Hans receives the gold nugget as a reward for seven years‘ work, then he exchanges the gold nugget for a…
David Acera & Ina Hristova Why Don’t Birds Have a King? Birds are the liveliest and freest animals in the world. But has that always been the case? Many years ago, that was about to change. One fine day, the sun, tired of the merry morning songs, decided that the time had come for the…
Rosa Sardina Collective ON/OFF “We already have a lot of electronic devices at home. There are new ones and older ones, but we are all important, necessary, essential… Or maybe not so much? Another new one has arrived and it has started to ask us questions: Why aren’t we always on? What do the humans…
Tàssies Stolen Names Bullying in schools is often a taboo. Stolen Names makes the topic tangible and wants to encourage people to take a stand. In a school, all the people are depicted with apples as heads. There is a lively hustle and bustle in the schoolyard and in the classroom. Only one boy is…
Inge Brendler & Stephanie Marian Sound Caper – A Note Steps out of Line An exciting journey through the world of music with numerous audio examples The little note Finn no longer feels comfortable within his birthday song, because the other notes claim that he doesn’t sound nice, not festive enough. He decides to jump…
Philipp Stampe The Carnival of the Animals Can you spot who has dressed up as which animal? The bullfinch discovers a poster one morning with an announcement about the Carnival of the Animals – and the best costume will win a prize! The news spreads like wildfire throughout the animal kingdom. With fervour, animal costumes…