For 15 years, Edition Bracklo has stood for high-quality children’s books with artistically designed covers, fine paper and lovingly realised book themes for bibliophile children’s literature and fairy tale lovers. To date, Edition Bracklo has published numerous, often award-winning books and Kamishibai (picture card sets). A speciality of the publishing house are the bilingual Kamishibai Japanese tradition – large-format A3 card sets for a stage to perform in front of an audience, for example in schools, kindergartens and libraries. The publishing programme includes richly illustrated stories from distant countries such as Japan, Ukraine, China, the USA, Finland, Indonesia, Catalonia, Latvia and Syria and promotes young German-speaking talent.
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…
Alexandra Prischedko One Way and Another In this special picture book on diversity and open-mindedness in one’s own experience and actions we encounter fantastic animal images from the underwater world. Masterly precision characterises the splendid and poetic pictures. They offer everything that illustration has over a photograph. A single clownfish in the multitude of male…
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…
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…
Tàssies The Lost Child Children experience flight and new beginnings, migration and integration. This book inspires confidence through children’s eyes and children’s ears. A Christmas story about migration, flight and new beginnings. Sensitive and clear images evoke dialogue in viewers of all ages without being frightening or trivialising. A Christmas story with special potential for…
Little Sophie can hardly wait for her visit to the zoo today. Full of anticipation, she walks through the city and already discovers animals everywhere. Aren‘t those two pandas sitting at the table in the café over there? Or is the lady with the sunglasses sitting there all alone? Sophie‘s fantasy world and reality merge…
The world-famous fairytale by the Brothers Grimm has fascinated readers for centuries and has firmly rooted the image of the bad wolf and the innocennt human child in our heads.. This new, artistic interpretation by Katharina Naimer surprises and at the same time invites the reader the discover the complexity of the fairy tale in…