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<strong>Foreign</strong> <strong>Rights</strong> <strong>Catalogue</strong><br />

Autumn 2012


2<br />

Renate Reichstein<br />

<strong>Rights</strong> Director<br />

r.reichstein@verlagsgruppe-oetinger.de<br />

Phone: + 49 40 607 909 713<br />

Katharina Scholz<br />

<strong>Rights</strong> Manager<br />

Teresa Heinze<br />

Junior <strong>Rights</strong> Manager<br />

t.heinze@verlagsgruppe-oetinger.de<br />

Phone: + 49 40 607 909 782<br />

Dear Colleagues and Friends,<br />

we are very happy to present our new <strong>Foreign</strong> <strong>Rights</strong> <strong>Catalogue</strong>,<br />

which is Nr. 5 already (for the collectors amongst you).<br />

As some of you know, Katharina Scholz has been on maternity leave<br />

since June and will be back in time for Bologna next year. In the<br />

meantime, she gave birth to a little daughter and we are delighted to<br />

have our first "department-baby". Teresa Heinze stepped in for Katharina<br />

and you will have the chance to meet her in person in Frankfurt.<br />

For the first time, our <strong>Catalogue</strong> also presents Apps produced by<br />

<strong>Verlag</strong> <strong>Friedrich</strong> <strong>Oetinger</strong> for which we can offer translation rights.<br />

For details please see pages 24 and 25.<br />

This <strong>Catalogue</strong> only emphasizes on autumn novelties. For all other<br />

titles – and they are very many! – in our portfolio, please see<br />

www.book-rights.com. For quite a lot of titles we can offer either an<br />

English sample or even complete translations.<br />

Please feel free to ask for reading copies!<br />

We are looking forward to receiving your e-mails and / or seeing<br />

you at the Frankfurt Book Fair.<br />

Best wishes<br />

Renate Reichstein<br />

<strong>Rights</strong> Director


Table of Contents<br />

Subject Page<br />

Board Books Age 12 Months + 4<br />

Board Books Age 18 Months + 4/5<br />

Board Books Age 24 Month + 5<br />

Board Books Age 36 Month + 6/7<br />

Picture Books Age 3 + / 4 + / 5 + 8–9<br />

Maxi Picture Books Age 3 + 10<br />

Activity Books Age 3 + 11<br />

Stories to Read Aloud Age 3 + / 4 + 11/12<br />

Beginning Readers 13<br />

Children‘s Fiction Age 6 + 14<br />

Children‘s Fiction Age 8 + 15/16<br />

Children‘s Fiction Age 10 + / 11 + 17–19<br />

Juvenile Fiction Age 12 + 19/20<br />

Young Adults Age 14 + / 16 + 21<br />

Non-Fiction Age 5 + 22<br />

Non-Fiction Age 8 + / 10 + 23<br />

Apps 24/25<br />

Our Favourites 26<br />

Contact Addresses 27<br />

3


Realist yet cute<br />

Classically simple<br />

concept, ideal<br />

first books<br />

4<br />

Board Books Age 12 Month +<br />

Anne Möller<br />

All Our Baby Animals<br />

16 Pages | ISBN 978-3-7891-6888-8<br />

Puppy, kitten, lamb and duckling –<br />

the baby animals the children know<br />

from home and the farm are so sweet.<br />

This little book with its padded cover<br />

introduces 16 animals by name, realistically<br />

and charmingly drawn.<br />

Anne Möller<br />

Our Baby Animals at the Zoo<br />

16 Pages | ISBN 978-3-7891-6887-1<br />

Tiger, camel or monkey? Parrot or<br />

giant giraffe? In this baby animal<br />

book, children will find all their favourite<br />

zoo animals, large and small,<br />

harmless ones and ones like the<br />

baby lion, who will one day become<br />

a large and dangerous lion. But<br />

the cutest is the kangaroo baby his<br />

mother is carrying in her pouch! This<br />

little book with its padded cover<br />

shows 16 well-loved baby animals,<br />

beautiful, realistic and charmingly<br />

drawn.<br />

Board Books Age 18 Month +<br />

Miriam Cordes, Susan Niessen<br />

Open the Window and Take a Look!<br />

16 Pages | ISBN 978-3-7891-6627-3<br />

Who is the little bear taking that cake<br />

to? Who’s driving the red train? And<br />

what’s hidden in the brightly coloured<br />

box? There are some super surprises to<br />

be found behind the big windows. This<br />

board picture book by Miriam Cordes<br />

and Susan Niessen has big windows,<br />

simple rhymes, appealing pictures and<br />

cheerful colours. Fun for old and young.<br />

Who’s hiding here? A book with<br />

windows and fascinating things<br />

to guess and discover.<br />

With clear, striking illustrations,<br />

large windows and age-appropriate<br />

rhymes, lovingly adapted to<br />

children’s lives<br />

Steffen Walentowitz, Susan Niessen<br />

Look – Feel – Discover: Building Site!<br />

12 Pages | ISBN 978-3-7891-7342-4<br />

A building site is the most exciting<br />

place to be! But what happens when a<br />

road is laid down, how are houses built<br />

and what does it take to put on a roof?<br />

Behind big discovery windows, the<br />

children can find details of important<br />

tools and jobs. Several windows as well<br />

as classic and innovative touch elements<br />

create the realistic feel of sand, gravel<br />

and a bulldozer’s roller. Steffen Walentowitz<br />

and Susan Niessen have created<br />

a play and knowledge book all in one,<br />

in a handy format with clear children’s<br />

illustrations.<br />

Three more titles available in<br />

the „Look – Feel –<br />

Discover“ series!<br />

978-3-7891-7331-8<br />

978-3-7891-7763-7<br />

978-3-7891-7253-3


Board Books Age 18 Month + Board Books Age 24 Month +<br />

All the Best, Little Star!<br />

A delightful goodnight story for cuddly kids<br />

The little bear rests his weary head.<br />

The big bear tells him, „Time for bed!“<br />

But first they want to say good night<br />

To all the shining stars so bright.<br />

The sun goes down; the moon flies high.<br />

The big bear looks up to the sky:<br />

„The little star might have a cold.<br />

He doesn‘t seem too bright and bold.“<br />

Eleni Zabini, Suanne Lütje<br />

Goodnight, Little Star!<br />

16 Pages | ISBN 978-3-7891-7352-3<br />

Before they go to bed, the little bear and the big bear take a last look at the stars.<br />

But today one little star is not shining as brightly as the others. The bears immediately<br />

begin looking for a way to help it. They climb up a ladder to reach the little<br />

star and put a warm hat on its head. Now the little star is sure to feel better soon<br />

and the little bear can sleep without worrying about it. Susanne Lütze and Eleni<br />

Zabini tell a poetic goodnight story in beautiful, evocative pictures and with lovely<br />

rhymes for the children to join in with.<br />

Also available:<br />

The Nicest Dad in the World!<br />

978-3-7891-7350-9<br />

The Nicest Mummy in the World!<br />

978-3-7891-7351-6<br />

More than 60,000 copies sold!<br />

Translation rights sold to Lithuania,<br />

Spain and South Korea.<br />

Dagmar Geisler<br />

The Little Nappy Monster<br />

16 Pages | ISBN 978-3-7891-6586-3<br />

All Flo’s little friends already use the<br />

loo. Flo’s the only one still saying,<br />

“Sorry, but I’m not ready yet, I still get<br />

my nappy wet.” Fips and Faps and<br />

Giselher and also the little girl monster<br />

have started holding their noses<br />

when Flo’s about, but he couldn’t care<br />

less. He’s quite happy being a nappy<br />

monster! Then one day everyone stops<br />

trying to persuade him and suddenly<br />

Flo is ready to use the loo after all!<br />

Colourful pictures and affectionate,<br />

amusing rhymes children<br />

can easily join in<br />

Marina Rachner, Hans-Christian Schmidt<br />

Have You Seen the Star?<br />

10 Pages | ISBN 978-3-7891-7098-0<br />

A star is shining brightly up in the sky!<br />

What lies beneath it? Fold-out page after<br />

fold-out page, the children accompany<br />

the three kings, a family, a young<br />

couple, and sheep and their shepherds<br />

on their way to the manger, where<br />

Mary and Joseph laid their little baby.<br />

With an integrated christmas crib!<br />

5


Board Books Age 36 Month +<br />

We’re Playing Mummy Today!<br />

This book’s a real bag of surprises<br />

Tina Frankenstein-Börlin<br />

I Love Playing With This!<br />

What’s in Mummy’s Bag?<br />

10 Pages<br />

ISBN 978-3-7891-7773-6<br />

Fancy a chocolate bar? Want to try the comb or the lipstick?<br />

Children can find all sorts of great things in mummy’s bag,<br />

like a box of chocolates that can be opened, a purse, a dummy,<br />

eyeshadow and lipstick, a mobile phone and hankies.<br />

Playing mummy is lots of fun! In this modern book with<br />

jigsaw pieces, the children can browse and try things out to<br />

their heart’s content without any danger of losing them or<br />

of an other mishap. This special, bag-shaped play book with<br />

authentically illustrated objects inside could easily become<br />

every future handbag wearer’s favourite training ground!<br />

6<br />

Screw, Hammer, Drill!<br />

Every little workman’s favourite book<br />

Tina Frankenstein-Börlin<br />

I Love Playing With This!<br />

Daddy’s Toolbox<br />

10 Pages<br />

ISBN 978-3-7891-7774-3<br />

A treasure trove for all children who want to use<br />

tools! Here they will find a screwdriver, a hammer,<br />

a drill with different-sized bits and even a saw just<br />

like the ones in their Daddy’s toolbox. On every<br />

double page there are jigsaw pieces of tools the<br />

children can use to copy how the grown-ups hammer,<br />

saw and drill. This modern book looks just like a genuine<br />

toolbox and its realistic pictures of tools are<br />

an invitation for children to browse to their heart’s<br />

content without any risk of injuring themselves.<br />

Birgit Antoni<br />

What We Already Know<br />

About Animals<br />

14 Pages | ISBN 978-3-7891-6286-2<br />

Giraffe, duck or frog, which animals<br />

have the children heard of? Who lives<br />

in the garden and where do you find<br />

cows, sheep and chickens? What does<br />

the cat or the dog like best? And how<br />

do the little animals grow up? On<br />

every double page, the children learn<br />

something new about their favourite<br />

animals and can playfully increase their<br />

knowledge with discovery windows,<br />

jigsaw pieces and sliders.<br />

The big knowledge book of<br />

animals for tiny tots<br />

Also available:<br />

What we Already Know!<br />

978-3-7891-6276-3


Board Books Age 36 Month +<br />

Hedwig Munck<br />

The Little King – Merry Christmas<br />

12 Pages | ISBN 978-3-7707-5281-2<br />

Christmas jigsaw fun. Christmas time<br />

is jigsaw puzzle time. Five different<br />

jigsaws, each with twelve pieces and<br />

short texts showing the Little King and<br />

his friends in the Christmas season.<br />

They bake Christmas goodies together,<br />

wrap presents and then Christmas Eve<br />

finally arrives. It’s great fun! With five<br />

super Little King jigsaw puzzles and<br />

matching pictures for beginning puzzle<br />

fans to follow.<br />

Strong and likeable identification<br />

figure for children, whose amazing<br />

ideas will delight every reader<br />

Many more titles available in this<br />

series!<br />

Hedwig Munck<br />

The Little King Says Goodnight<br />

12 Pages | ISBN 978-3-7707-5284-3<br />

A goodnight story for royal dreams.<br />

The Little King has thought up<br />

some-thing very special for his dear<br />

animal friends: he’s going to put<br />

them all to bed today! But when<br />

Peeps, Bushel, Tiger, Wuffi and Greta<br />

are all asleep, he begins to wonder<br />

who will say goodnight to him.<br />

Luckily, his teddy is still awake!<br />

With a detachable king’s crown to<br />

play with.<br />

Over 80,000 read-aloud books<br />

about the Little King sold<br />

The Sound-and-Feel Books<br />

That Have Everyone Giggling at Once<br />

Stroke Me and I Quack!<br />

978-3-7891-7338-7<br />

Stroke Me and I’ll Growl!<br />

978-3-7891-6797-3<br />

Stroke Me and I‘ll Squeal!<br />

978-3-7891-6705-8<br />

Tickle Me and Make Me Giggle!<br />

978-3-7891-7340-0<br />

There are lots of animals to be seen in this books and<br />

if you stroke them, you can hear them, too. Each double<br />

page presents a particular animal that comes with a<br />

special touch element. And when the children run their<br />

hands over the animals’ soft tummies, it will start<br />

to bark, squeal, quack, neigh, laugh, roar or meow!<br />

The stroke-and-listen animal books with merry little<br />

rhymes to join in with has everyone feeling happy!<br />

7


8<br />

Picture Books Age 3 +<br />

3,2,1, Mine?<br />

The animal’s winter jumble sale<br />

Wonderfully whacky and at the<br />

same time warm and affectionate:<br />

the sequel to the surprise hit ‘To Go<br />

or Not to Go?’<br />

English translation available<br />

Anja Fröhlich, Gergely Kiss<br />

Caught Out Cold.<br />

A Winter’s Fairy Tale<br />

32 Pages | ISBN 978-3-7891-6741-6<br />

What? Winter isn’t coming this year?<br />

Peter Piek the hedgehog can hardly<br />

believe his ears. Now what are the<br />

other creatures going to do with<br />

their winter things? Of course, they’ll<br />

hold a jumble sale! And very soon<br />

they are swapping back and forth: The fox’s ice hockey helmet becomes a paddle<br />

boat for the hedgehog, Aaron the stag’s sleigh is turned into a garden swing and<br />

someone else is using the warm bearskin as a bathing costume. But just as the<br />

animals are about to hold their summer party, the first snowflakes begin to fall.<br />

What now? An imaginative story full of fun and surprises, told in appealing, cheeky<br />

pictures with lots of interesting details.<br />

To Go or Not to Go. A Little Loo Story<br />

978-3-7891-6519-1<br />

Translation <strong>Rights</strong> sold to Hong Kong,<br />

Taiwan, Macao, South Korea, Italy, U.S.A.,<br />

The Netherlands, Belgium, Denmark,<br />

Australia, U.K. , Ireland and Canada<br />

Lieve Baeten<br />

The Great Big Little Witch Book<br />

150 Pages | ISBN 978-3-7891-7775-0<br />

Enchanting little Lisbet! The Little<br />

Witch is very inquisitive and very busy<br />

discovering the world. Who can repair a<br />

broken broomstick? How can she make<br />

sure she is admitted to Witch School?<br />

And where on earth can her beloved<br />

cat have got to?<br />

Hocus pocus, let five be one!<br />

An anthology of all of the Little<br />

Witch picture books<br />

Best-selling „Little Witch“:<br />

altogether more than 1.5 million<br />

copies sold!<br />

Translations rights sold to<br />

Belgium, Brazil, China, France,<br />

The Netherlands, Liechtenstein,<br />

Sweden, U.S.A., Switzerland,<br />

U.K., Canada, Denmark, Taiwan,<br />

Turkey, New Zealand, Australia,<br />

South Korea<br />

English<br />

translation<br />

available<br />

Iris Wewer<br />

7 Grim Grommels and a Small Pig<br />

32 Pages | ISBN 978-3-7891-7341-7<br />

It’s the middle of the night when the<br />

small pig’s curiosity gets the better<br />

of him and he sneaks into the white<br />

house at the edge of the village and<br />

settles down for a sleep on the sofa<br />

there. He has absolutely no idea that<br />

this is the house where the great big,<br />

greedy Grommels live.<br />

This is the story of a small pig with<br />

great courage!<br />

A particularly lovely picture book<br />

about not being frightened any more<br />

The Hippo, Who Had a Dream<br />

978-3-7891-7332-5<br />

Me and My Wild Sister<br />

978-3-7891-6621-1<br />

Translation rights sold to<br />

Switzerland and Denmark


Picture Books Age 4 + Picture Books Age 5 +<br />

When Grannies and Monkeys Get<br />

Together, Life is Sure to Turn Interesting<br />

Imke Sönnichsen<br />

Granny Rose and a Bundle of Joy<br />

32 Pages | ISBN 978-3-7891-7156-7<br />

Affectionate, amusing and<br />

profound – a pleasure for child<br />

listeners and adult readers<br />

English translation available<br />

Granny Adele lives a quiet, retiring life in her house on the<br />

coast. She keeps her home tidy and in the evening knits the<br />

grey socks she sells at market. But one day down on the beach<br />

she finds a little monkey called Puck and takes him home with<br />

her. Puck has some pretty extraordinary ideas when it comes<br />

to tidiness. Suddenly nothing in Adele’s life is as it used to be.<br />

But is that really such a bad thing?<br />

Successful illustrator Imke Sönnichsen has written and drawn<br />

an affectionate story full of mischievous humour to delight<br />

any child and also entertain the adults reading it.<br />

Birgit Busche-Brandt<br />

The Little Eary-Spook<br />

32 Pages | ISBN 978-3-7707-4391-9<br />

There’s no need for the eary-spooks to<br />

be scared of Lisa. Lisa’s new home is<br />

haunted! On her very first night there,<br />

she discovers lots of eary-spooks. She<br />

befriends Fitz, the smallest spook, and<br />

when he tells her that the other ghosts<br />

make fun of him, the pair think up a<br />

plan. An amusing, sensitively told story<br />

about friendship.<br />

Dirk Steinhöfel<br />

Jacob and the Big Car<br />

88 Pages | ISBN 978-3-7891-7150-5<br />

Jacob is a little boy. One day he wakes<br />

up to discover that his dream has disappeared.<br />

He would like to find it again<br />

and sets out on a wonderful journey<br />

that takes him all the way to the stars.<br />

But the only person who can help him<br />

is an old woman who collects all the<br />

lost dreams.<br />

With this picture book, Dirk Steinhöfel<br />

has created an artistic masterpiece, as<br />

beautiful and lyrical as a dream.<br />

In search of his lost dream.<br />

Overwhelming image worlds for<br />

children and adults.<br />

Also available:<br />

P. B. Shelley‘s “The Cloud”<br />

978-3-7891-7147-5<br />

9


Maxi Picture Books Age 3 +<br />

Many more titles<br />

available in this series!<br />

Many more titles<br />

available in this series!<br />

10<br />

Brigitte Weninger, Eve Tharlet<br />

Pauli Isn’t Frightened!<br />

24 Pages | ISBN 978-3-7707-7513-2<br />

Pauli and his brothers and sisters are all alone at<br />

home in the evening. As it turns dark outside, the<br />

baby rabbits cuddle up cosily together in bed.<br />

But what are those shadows outside the window?<br />

Could it be a ghost? Luckily, Pauli isn't frightened<br />

of anything!<br />

Sabine Streufert, Silke Voigt<br />

Fairyspell the Pony – An Exciting Riding Lesson<br />

24 Pages | ISBN 978-3-7707-7541-5<br />

Nina and Fairyspell have been allowed to take a real<br />

“Red Indian” riding course, where they will learn how<br />

to ride without a saddle. This is no problem at all, of<br />

course! But on the ride out to the old castle ruin, Laura’s<br />

pony, Arabella, suddenly falls ill. What a good thing<br />

Nina and Fairyspell were there to fetch help quickly.<br />

Hedwig Munck<br />

The Little King Doesn’t Want a Kiss!<br />

24 Pages | ISBN 978-3-7707-4277-6<br />

Aunt Rosie is coming to stay! The Little King doesn’t<br />

really mind her coming, especially as she always brings<br />

a delicious chocolate cake and lots of presents. The<br />

only trouble is, she has an annoying habit of greeting<br />

him with a big kiss. If he could, he would hide under<br />

the sofa – but then things turn out very differently…<br />

Many more titles<br />

available in this series!<br />

Petra Steckelmann, Silvio Neuendorf<br />

Mimi and Father Christmas<br />

24 Pages | ISBN 978-3-7707-7560-6<br />

Mimi has written her Christmas list and is waiting for<br />

Father Christmas to collect it. But he won’t come until<br />

everyone in the house has written down what they<br />

would like for Christmas, says the woman next door.<br />

Soon all the letters are written – only grumpy Mr Bang<br />

hasn’t posted his. Then Mimi thinks of a way she<br />

might be able to change Mr Bang’s mind. If it works,<br />

will Father Christmas finally arrive?<br />

Katharina Wieker<br />

Tim and the Christmas Surprise<br />

24 Pages | ISBN 978-3-7707-7569-9<br />

Santa Claus turns up at Tim’s nursery school again this<br />

year. Tim is terribly excited – just like Annika, his friend.<br />

But then the pair begin to wonder where Santa Claus<br />

comes from and why he brings a small present for every<br />

child.<br />

Petra Steckelmann, Marc-Alexander Schulze<br />

A Christmas Carol<br />

24 Pages | ISBN 978-3-7707-7558-3<br />

Scrooge is a miserly, money-grabbing old skinflint with<br />

a heart of stone, it seems. Although he is very rich, he<br />

gives nothing to the poor, lets Bob, his clerk, work in a<br />

freezing room and has no compassion for poor, sick Tiny<br />

Tim. But then – on Christmas Eve – Scrooge receives a<br />

visit from three ghosts and they change his life for ever…


Activity Books Age 3 + Stories to Read Aloud Age 3 +<br />

Die Krickelkrakels<br />

Scrawls and Scribbles<br />

Mix-Max Drawing Fun<br />

50 Pages | ISBN 978-3-7891-6630-3<br />

How many legs does the caterpillar<br />

have? What’s behind the molehills?<br />

What do the polar bear’s feet look like?<br />

Scrawls and Scribbles Mix-Max Drawing<br />

Fun comes with 50 of the best<br />

motifs from the big Scrawls and Scribbles<br />

books for children to colour in.<br />

On tear-off half pages that can<br />

be assembled in all kinds of<br />

extra combinations.<br />

On Your Crayons,<br />

get Set, Go!<br />

Die Krickelkrakels<br />

Scrawls and Scribbles<br />

Animal Drawing Pad<br />

50 Pages | ISBN 978-3-7891-6631-0<br />

The Scrawls and Scribbles Drawing<br />

Pad comes with 50 of the best there<br />

are motifs from the big Scrawls and<br />

Scribbles books. For children to colour<br />

in on tear-off pages.<br />

Scrawls and Scribbles<br />

Activity Book<br />

978-3-7891-8534-2<br />

The Scrawl and Scribble Book 1–3<br />

978-3-7891-6615-0<br />

978-3-7891-6622-8<br />

978-3-7891-6620-4<br />

The series has been sold to<br />

10 countries!<br />

Scrawls and Scribbles Greetings<br />

30 Postcards to Colour-In<br />

978-3-7891-6625-9<br />

Sabine Streufert, Silke Voigt<br />

Fairyspell the Pony –<br />

Adventure Stories<br />

48 Pages | ISBN 978-3-7707-3600-3<br />

Enchanting adventures. Nina’s pony,<br />

Fairyspell, is simply incredible, it can<br />

even fly! And the pair experience many<br />

an adventure together. They save a<br />

little dolphin who’s stranded on a<br />

sandbank, recover a treasure and even<br />

find a way to save their stream from<br />

becoming polluted. Nina and Fairyspell<br />

the pony are simply unbeatable! With<br />

glitter on the cover.<br />

A flying pony and a brave little<br />

girl everyone will love – a fantastic<br />

partnership<br />

Anne Ameling, Katharina Wieker<br />

Short “Get Well” Stories<br />

32 Pages | ISBN 978-3-7707-3975-2<br />

“Get well” wishes for all young story<br />

fans! Children need lots of attention<br />

when they’re ill in bed. These wonderful<br />

stories tell of dragons, pirates<br />

and, of course, children. Little patients<br />

will start to feel better simply from<br />

listening to the stories.<br />

A fascinating selection of stories<br />

full of humour and lots of realistic<br />

and fantastic characters<br />

11


Stories to Read Aloud Age 4 +<br />

Usch Luhn, Barbara Korthues<br />

Heidi – A Read-Aloud Classic<br />

128 Pages | ISBN 978-3-7707-3162-6<br />

Heidi – child of the mountains. Heidi<br />

loves the mountains. But then her aunt<br />

takes her away to Frankfurt, where she<br />

meets Clara, a crippled girl. The two<br />

immediately become friends, but that<br />

doesn’t stop Heidi from missing her<br />

mountains, her grandfather and the<br />

alm more and more every day. Then<br />

one day, Clara’s father has a real surprise<br />

for Heidi! Johanna Spyri’s classic<br />

retold for young children.<br />

12<br />

Sabine Rahn, Andrea Offermann<br />

Peter Pan – A Read-Aloud Classic<br />

128 Pages | ISBN 978-3-7707-3510-5<br />

Who could ever tire of hearing about<br />

Neverland? One night, Wendy and<br />

her brothers have a visitor: a boy called<br />

Peter Pan and a tiny fairy turn up in<br />

their room. The two show them how<br />

to fly and take them along to Neverland<br />

– a place inhabited by mermaids,<br />

Indians and real live pirates.<br />

J. M. Barrie’s classic retold for young<br />

listeners, with beautiful, atmospheric<br />

illustrations by Andrea Offermann.<br />

Christian Dreller, Katrin Oertel<br />

Why Have We Got Tomatoes<br />

on Our Eyes?<br />

128 Pages | ISBN 978-3-7707-2374-4<br />

Twenty-two super read-aloud stories along<br />

with some very funny illustrations explain<br />

to the young listeners why things are sometimes<br />

all Greek to us or we have a screw<br />

loose. Everyone can learn something new<br />

here, not just children!<br />

Why Are Bananas Curved?<br />

Read-aloud Stories<br />

for Inquisitive Children!<br />

978-3-7707-4014-7<br />

More than 30.000 copies<br />

sold in Germany!<br />

You Could Knock<br />

Me Over With a<br />

Feather!<br />

Many of our sayings sound<br />

really funny.<br />

22 exciting stories connected<br />

with questions frequently asked<br />

by children<br />

Amusing, colourful pictures


Beginning Readers – For Year One Children For Years One and Two For Years Two and Three<br />

Erhard Dietl<br />

The Ogglies and the Mucky Mut<br />

48 Pages | ISBN 978-3-7891-1262-1<br />

The Oggly kids are fart-blastingly bored<br />

with their pets. Firebottom is asleep,<br />

the rats are dozing and the flies are<br />

dropping dead to the floor. What a<br />

toad-slimy piece of luck that a dog<br />

turns up on the rubbish tip at the right<br />

moment. He can even do tricks and<br />

loves rolling in mud! Welcome to the<br />

Ogglies’ world, dear first-time beginning<br />

readers.<br />

Over 100,000 Oggly copies sold<br />

in the beginning readers’ category<br />

alone<br />

Susanne Lütje, Mara Burmester<br />

Robin and the Thingumajig –<br />

The Right Nose<br />

48 Pages | ISBN 978-3-7891-1257-7<br />

Robin has found a mysterious little<br />

creature in the park. It’s called a thingumajig<br />

and it can actually talk. Now<br />

Robin is eager to find out what talents<br />

a thingumajig like this has. Can it lay<br />

eggs perhaps? Or climb about in trees<br />

like a monkey? The thingumajig can’t<br />

do either of these, but it does have such<br />

a good nose that it can smell what<br />

happened the night before. If it can do<br />

that, it must be able to find out who<br />

lost the leather glove Robin found!<br />

Heart-warming and full of suspense, an<br />

affectionate story of discovery for beginning<br />

readers from the series about<br />

the mysterious Thingumajig.<br />

A fantastic adventure about two<br />

friends with a nose for adventure!<br />

Melanie Garanin<br />

Maras Almost Perfect Pony<br />

48 Pages | ISBN 978-3-7891-1254-6<br />

Mara is being allowed to take riding<br />

lessons – on a proper horse. But she<br />

still pays a daily visit to her “secret<br />

pony”, the old mare Mimi-Mathilda.<br />

When her neighbour tells Mara that<br />

her daughter used to ride Mimi-Mathilda<br />

in lots of gymkhanas, Mara can’t<br />

help thinking that she could do that,<br />

too! Another episode in the series of<br />

warm, funny books about the great<br />

friendship between an old pony and a<br />

little girl. Two double pages of pictures<br />

in the middle section give eager young<br />

readers a short reading break.<br />

Volume 2 in the warm, funny<br />

pony series<br />

Bright, amusing pictures<br />

Juma Kliebenstein<br />

Finn Hot on the Trail<br />

64 Pages | ISBN 978-3-7891-0747-4<br />

Finn loves playing detective. When he<br />

sees a boy of his own age picking up<br />

and keeping a wallet that has just fallen<br />

out of a man’s pocket, he knows he<br />

has to stop him! But when he catches<br />

up with him, Finn is in for a surprise<br />

because the boy lives in the same building<br />

as Finn! This beginning reader’s<br />

book by Juma Kliebenstein is so full of<br />

suspense that reading comes easily.<br />

A case for Finn?<br />

A case for beginning readers!<br />

A theft, a new friendship and<br />

lots of surprises – exciting and<br />

not without a “message”<br />

13


Cheeky, enchanting, affectionately<br />

told story full of mediaeval mystery<br />

and “magical” elements<br />

14<br />

Children‘s Fiction Age 6 +<br />

Susann Niessen<br />

Fips Fidibus and Black<br />

Hardrick’s Secret<br />

128 Pages | ISBN 978-3-7891-4334-2<br />

What rotten luck! During his exam at<br />

the hocus pocus primary school, Fips<br />

Fidibus somehow managed to turn the<br />

chairman into a sack of barley, and now<br />

a pig has gobbled it all up. The only<br />

person who can help Fips now is his<br />

father, Ferdinand Fidibus, but he has<br />

gone missing without a trace. Fips sets<br />

out with Scallion, the little dragon, to<br />

search for him and stumbles into the<br />

thick of a great adventure.<br />

Short chapters, also ideal for<br />

reading aloud<br />

Dagmar Chidolue<br />

Millie Goes to the North Pole<br />

192 Pages | ISBN 978-3-7915-2741-3<br />

On board an ice-breaker and warmly<br />

muffled up in her bright-red anorak,<br />

Millie is on course for the North Pole.<br />

Ooh, it really is cold here! But sooo<br />

exciting, too. She spies big, fat moustachioed<br />

walruses lolling lazily on ice floes,<br />

baring their huge tusks. And then,<br />

almost close enough for Millie to touch<br />

his fur, a real, live polar bear! Her trip<br />

to the frozen North is something Millie<br />

will never forget.<br />

Millie awakens self-confidence,<br />

curiosity and tolerance in children<br />

aged 6 and over. Travel guide<br />

Millie’s stories are the ideal preparation<br />

for family holidays!<br />

Many more titles available in<br />

this series!<br />

Andrea Schütze, Joëlle Tourlonias<br />

Mrs Zimpernickel’s<br />

Christmas Rules<br />

112 Pages | ISBN 978-3-7915-1927-2<br />

Mrs Zimpernickel likes everything<br />

to be just so and in its proper place,<br />

even at Christmas. Things are very<br />

different at the Weber’s house, where<br />

a merry chaos reigns all year round.<br />

And Mrs Zimpernickel’s rules really are<br />

too weird: Take rule No 5, for instance:<br />

the home must be sparingly decorated<br />

and fairy lights are not allowed.<br />

That’s such a shame! Isn’t having fun<br />

supposed to be the point of Christmas?<br />

An amusing, tumultuous<br />

Christmas story<br />

A book for children and parents<br />

alike about Christmas chaos,<br />

serenity and solidarity<br />

Maren von Klitzing<br />

School is Fun<br />

128 Pages | ISBN 978-3-8415-0169-1<br />

Rasmus will soon be starting school!<br />

And he has some rather unusual ideas<br />

about what he needs for school, such<br />

as a penknife and the detective’s case<br />

he’s wanted for ages. Luckily Mummy<br />

doesn’t have the time to take a proper<br />

look at the things he bought when he<br />

was out shopping with his godfather.<br />

Everything could be just perfect. Now<br />

all Rasmus needs to do is find out<br />

whether his friend Ida is going to be in<br />

his class.


Children‘s Fiction Age 8 +<br />

Erhard Dietl<br />

The Ogglies and the<br />

Magician’s Spell<br />

160 Pages | ISBN 978-3-7891-3327-5<br />

A circus has come to town and Smelliville<br />

is all agog! But then the sinister magician<br />

hypnotises Oggly-Grandma and<br />

turns her into his assistant – all dressed<br />

up in a fancy lace costume! He also wants<br />

to have the rubbish tip cleared. Naturally,<br />

the Ogglies are determined to save<br />

their home and their granny. With the<br />

aid of the ingenious Professor Bubbly,<br />

the Ogglies discover that the magician<br />

is mixed up in an unsolved art theft and<br />

that the booty is supposed to be buried<br />

somewhere in Smelliville. In this exciting,<br />

hilarious, action-packed children’s<br />

novel by Erhard Dietl with lots of colourful<br />

illustrations by the author, it’s a clear<br />

case of red alert for the Ogglies!<br />

A new book about the<br />

bestseller family<br />

Antonia Michaelis<br />

Code 007 – Advent Alarm<br />

196 Pages | ISBN 978-3-7891-4267-3<br />

It’s December and Berlin is full of<br />

Father Christmases handing out flyers<br />

to passers-by. One of them is distributing<br />

strange visiting cards, though, and<br />

immediately catches Pelle, Max and<br />

Bella’s eye. A few days later, the police<br />

announce that they are looking for that<br />

very man. The three are sure: A crime<br />

must have been committed!<br />

Lively, sparkling children’s whodunnit<br />

Agent 007. The Graffiti Gang<br />

978-3-7891-4283-3<br />

Agent 007.<br />

Mission Green Monster<br />

978-3-7891-4280-2<br />

Agent 007.<br />

Secrets in the Backyard<br />

978-3-7891-4288-8<br />

It's Miss Braitwhistle Again!<br />

New adventures with the exchange-teacher from<br />

England<br />

Sabine Ludwig<br />

Miss Braitwhistle Gets Going<br />

208 Pages | ISBN 978-3-7915-1241-9<br />

The second book in the crazy<br />

school series featuring Miss<br />

Braitwhistle: a delightfully written<br />

book that simply trips off the page.<br />

With wonderful illustrations<br />

by Susanne Göhlich.<br />

Also available:<br />

The Fabulous<br />

Miss Braitwhistle<br />

978-3-7915-1239-6<br />

More than 35,000<br />

copies sold!<br />

Class 4a is very excited to have Miss Braitwhistle back again! She immediately<br />

sets to work, and no matter what she turns her hand to, a school outing in<br />

a golf buggy, a cycling proficiency test for left-hand traffic or a visit from two<br />

English tortoises called Harry and Willy, this teacher is always good for a<br />

surprise. Miss Braitwhistle is enchanting, in the truest sense of the word. And<br />

this time she really pulls out all the stops and – as though by magic – ends<br />

up saving more than the day on 4a’s tedious school outing.<br />

15


Children‘s Fiction Age 8 +<br />

Paul Maar<br />

I’m as Tense as an Electric Fence –<br />

The Sat’s Sattiest Sayings<br />

128 Pages | ISBN 978-3-7891-4270-3<br />

In seven chapters, this book of sayings<br />

and rhymes contains the best poems<br />

from all of the Sat books, arranged in<br />

order of Sat subjects and preferences. A<br />

fascinating collection of weird widsoms<br />

and topsy-turvy rules, joyful and impudent<br />

songs and tantalising tongue twisters.<br />

This special edition with colourful<br />

illustration by Paul Maar, wordsmith and<br />

creator of the Sat, is a treasure trove of<br />

surprises, humour and ebullient impudence,<br />

and therefore the perfect gift for<br />

all Sat fans. For fans to read aloud, read<br />

to themselves, carry on rhyming, learn<br />

by heart and never again forget!<br />

Satsational! The great gift book<br />

for all Sat fans.<br />

16<br />

Full english<br />

translation<br />

available!<br />

New Series!<br />

Susanne Lütje<br />

Pauli Poltergeist.<br />

Welcome to Villa Funkelstein<br />

176 Pages | ISBN 978-3-7891-4175-1<br />

Paul and Pauline Poltergeist are twins.<br />

They share everything, even their<br />

nickname. Because everyone calls them<br />

both “Pauli” they are constantly getting<br />

confused about which of them is<br />

meant. The two Paulis live with Mummy,<br />

Daddy and Grandad Poltergeist at<br />

Villa Funkelstein and everything could<br />

be quite wonderful if they still had<br />

some humans living there, like there<br />

used to be. What wonderful tricks the<br />

pair could play on them! At last, along<br />

comes Frank Locke, the rightful heir,<br />

and he decides to turn the crumbling<br />

villa into an adventure hotel. As far<br />

as the Poltergeists are concerned, he<br />

can have all the adventures he wants!<br />

Banging about and knocking things<br />

over, haunting the rooms, twisting noses,<br />

oh, it’s going to be such a laugh!<br />

Family Shaken by a Big Bang!<br />

It's the family-univers that matters.<br />

A wonderful family story:<br />

warm-hearted, funny and a<br />

little bit crazy, too!<br />

Salah Naoura, master<br />

of warm-hearted comedy!<br />

Salah Naoura<br />

Dilip and the Big Bang and How It Changed Our Family<br />

176 Pages | ISBN 978-3-7915-1428-4<br />

„The day I scored an own goal twice in an E-youth friendly was the day<br />

my parents decided they wanted a second child. Preferably a second<br />

son, said Dad.” Anton, 9 years old, corrector of fairy tales and narrator<br />

of this amusing family story doesn’t have an easy time of it. Luckily<br />

for him, Dilip joins his family as his adoptive brother. Dilip comes from<br />

India and he’s already a brilliant physicist – well not quite yet.<br />

But at least he doesn’t have a chance of a career in football, either.<br />

But it takes a big bang for Anton’s family to finally settle into place.<br />

Auntie Mel<br />

becomes invisible<br />

978-3-7915-1427-7<br />

Mr. Red in Need<br />

of a Bed<br />

978-3-7915-1425-3


Children‘s Fiction Age 10 +<br />

Lippel is Still Dreaming!<br />

The second adventure with the great little inventor of worlds<br />

Paul Maar<br />

Lippel, You’re Dreaming Again!<br />

240 Pages | ISBN 978-3-7891-4269-7<br />

A wonderful, realistic novel –<br />

and at the same time a highly childappropriate,<br />

eloquent narrative<br />

extolling the power of dreams, the<br />

power of the imagination<br />

The mysterious world of the trolls<br />

and their amusing habits and<br />

customs will strike a chord with<br />

children<br />

Lippels Dream<br />

978-3-7891-1957-6<br />

Over 265.000 copies sold!<br />

Translation rights sold to<br />

China, South Korea,<br />

The United Arab Emirates<br />

Lippel loves to dream and because you need peace and quiet to dream,<br />

he would be happiest if he could spend the holidays at home. But he’s<br />

out of luck! His parents take him with them to the Lofoten islands and<br />

there, high in the Far North, he has the greatest adventure of his life. He<br />

meets Luna, a girl who could just as easily be a troll the way she looks,<br />

with her red hair, bare feet and ragged trousers. No wonder Lippel is<br />

soon dreaming again, this time about the troll princess Ganaxa with her<br />

cute bat ears and fluffy tail, who captures his heart and leads him into<br />

all kinds of unsuspected dangers.<br />

Freedom for Coolman!<br />

Knockout for Kai<br />

Rüdiger Bertram, Heribert Schulmeyer<br />

Coolman and Me. Right on the Head<br />

192 Pages | ISBN 978-3-7891-3195-0<br />

The sixth book in our comic book<br />

series featuring dramatic chaos accelerator<br />

Coolman: When he suddenly<br />

disappears from Kai’s head, he causes<br />

even more chaos than ever.<br />

With lots of comic strips!<br />

COOLMAN and Me 1–5<br />

978-3-7891-3185-1<br />

978-3-7891-3186-8<br />

978-3-7891-3187-5<br />

978-3-7891-3188-2<br />

978-3-7891-3192-9<br />

The series has been sold<br />

to The Netherlands, Spain<br />

(Castilian and Catalan<br />

language), France, Italy,<br />

Norway, Israel, Poland<br />

and China.<br />

If you thought Kai and COOLMAN were inseparable, think again because this<br />

time, COOLMAN suddenly disappears! Not exactly of his own free will, and<br />

actually under rather painful circumstances, at least for Kai. It all begins when<br />

Kai ends up on a boxing course. Luckily he’s got COOLMAN to help him out<br />

and advise him – which is sometimes good, but usually not. But then COOL-<br />

MAN suddenly disappears. Kai without COOLMAN? An impossible situation!<br />

And very soon it becomes clear that neither of the two can manage without<br />

the other. Never change a winning team!<br />

17


Children‘s Fiction Age 10 +<br />

Off to the land of fantasy!<br />

A children’s adventure of false worlds and evil lookalikes.<br />

Thomas Mendl<br />

In the Land of the Time Thieves<br />

416 Pages | ISBN 978-3-7891-4294-9<br />

18<br />

With vignettes by the author Kleeberg writes a story that will<br />

make your head spin.<br />

In the truest sense of the word,<br />

a dream debut work about the<br />

power of imagination<br />

Intelligent reading with a philosophical<br />

background, a likeable<br />

gang of children and a wealth of<br />

surprising ideas<br />

Anna had really only wanted to go into the cellar with her brother Ben to<br />

check the fuses. But suddenly the pair find themselves in the year 1919, where<br />

they are promptly placed in an orphanage. There they meet other children<br />

who are also from other times. In their search for an explanation, Anna, Ben<br />

and their new friends become caught up in an incredible adventure. They<br />

meet real princes, bogus scientists and mysterious lookalikes in worlds that<br />

really should not exist.<br />

Of Cats and Rats<br />

The faboulous world of Luca Puck.<br />

Michael Kleeberg<br />

Luca Puck and the Lord of the Rats<br />

272 Pages | ISBN 978-3-7915-1170-2<br />

Realistically told, but with<br />

magical elements<br />

A fantastic, atmospheric setting<br />

and a wonderful, almost classical<br />

turn of phrase<br />

English sample translation<br />

available!<br />

By the time 11-year-old Luca discovers that she can talk to her<br />

tomcat, Scottie, she is already in the thick of an adventure. That’s<br />

because Scottie is a wise cat, and once again the rats and their<br />

overlord are poised to take over the great Paris cemetery – and<br />

that’ something only wise cats can prevent this. Together, Luca,<br />

her friend Aristide and Scottie set out to avert disaster.


Children‘s Fiction Age 11 + Juvenile Fiction Age 12 +<br />

Sabine Rahn<br />

fairytalewedding.com<br />

160 Pages | ISBN 978-3-86430-000-4<br />

Matilda is twelve years old and a great<br />

inventor. She and her friend Sophie<br />

plan to start a colony on Mars together<br />

some day in the future – provided<br />

Oscar Weaver spoil everything (Sophie<br />

currently has a crush on him). Matilda<br />

is fed up with the whole situation<br />

and decides nothing like that is going<br />

to happen to her. But she couldn’t be<br />

more wrong. Sabine Rahn plunges the<br />

reader head first into a whirl of narrative<br />

strands. Secret grandparents, a<br />

wedding agency and more than one<br />

occasion when someone puts their<br />

foot right it in – all make for a fantastic<br />

read. A many-layered story with strong<br />

characters and all kinds of crazy twists.<br />

Angie Westhoff<br />

Heroes’ Birthdays<br />

160 Pages | ISBN 978-3-86430-001-1<br />

Lilith is certain there’s something very<br />

special about her family because it is<br />

100% women. Not a man far and wide!<br />

When someone gives her a book about<br />

the Amazons, she thinks she’s found<br />

the answer. But that would mean that<br />

her first love is threatened. It’s high<br />

time she got to the bottom of the<br />

family mystery. Angie Westhoff takes<br />

the reader on a very special journey<br />

of self-discovery. Hilariously written!<br />

A wonderfully crazy story about the<br />

desire to be someone special.<br />

Anja Fröhlich<br />

Miss Crassikovski Vol. 2<br />

176 Pages | ISBN 978-3-86430-007-3<br />

Paulina is head over heels in love!<br />

She’s never had it this bad before. But<br />

instead of roses raining for Paulina,<br />

chaos reigns! That’s because Paulina is<br />

not the only one to have noticed that<br />

Liam Broadshoe is the coolest boy in<br />

school; Muckel, her best friend, has<br />

also fallen in love with him. Paulina’s<br />

Mum is in the opposite situation; she is<br />

coolly dating two men at once. Paulina<br />

decides that this state of affairs<br />

simply cannot continue and forges a<br />

plan. Anja Fröhlich tells two-and-a-half<br />

unconventional love stories – without<br />

tugging at heartstrings or squeezing<br />

tear ducts, but with amusing pictures<br />

by Silke Schmidt. A wonderfully whacky<br />

story of friendship and family. And the<br />

craziest story about falling in and out<br />

of love.<br />

Miss Crassikovski<br />

978-3-86430-003-5<br />

19


Juvenile Fiction Age 12 +<br />

Anja Fröhlich<br />

Lemon Yellow and Apple Green<br />

176 Pages | ISBN 978-3-8415-0178-3<br />

May can’t stop thinking about the<br />

kiss Leon gave her. But Leon is Nele’s<br />

boyfriend, and Nele is her best friend.<br />

Or rather, Leon was Nele’s boyfriend<br />

and Nele was her best friend. Suddenly,<br />

May seems to be losing everyone she<br />

cares about. And then, to make matters<br />

even worse, her father moves out<br />

after a big family row. Can May make<br />

the courses of love and friendship run<br />

smooth again?<br />

20<br />

Eva Maria Kulka (Hrsg.)<br />

Summer, Romance, Holiday Flirts<br />

192 Pages | ISBN 978-3-8415-0171-4<br />

Summer at last! The holidays are here<br />

at last! And at last there’s plenty of<br />

time for flirting and romance. But it<br />

doesn’t necessarily take a romantic<br />

diving trip with a good-looking instructor<br />

on a dreamy island in the Maledives<br />

or amore in Bella Italia to make Janina,<br />

Linn, Mara and Jolie’s hearts beat<br />

faster. The four can always find plenty<br />

of opportunities to fall in love wherever<br />

they are!<br />

Also available in<br />

Juvenile Fiction Age 12+<br />

Betty’s Definitive Advisory Blog –<br />

No Subject too Embarrassing<br />

978-3-7891-4051-8<br />

Translation rights sold to Turkey<br />

Betty’s Definitive Advisory Blog –<br />

Not One Whit Smarter<br />

978-3-7891-4053-2<br />

Raven-Black and Rose-Red<br />

978-3-8415-0148-6


Young Adults Age 14 + Young Adults Age 16 +<br />

Eye Witness<br />

The Story of an Escape<br />

The author was awarded the<br />

2010 Gustav Heinemann Peace<br />

Prize for the first in the series,<br />

“Shut Away”.<br />

“This is a story that gets under<br />

your skin and should be read by<br />

young people and adults alike.”<br />

DIE ZEIT on “Shut Away”<br />

Grit Poppe<br />

Runaway<br />

320 Pages | ISBN 978-3-7915-1633-2<br />

The Torgau juvenile detention centre,<br />

GDR, 1989: Rebellious Gonzo, like her<br />

friend Anja, the heroine of “Shut Away”, has been sent to the jail-like detention<br />

centre in Torgau, where she is to be forced to become a “socialist personality”.<br />

There, she finds herself at the mercy of harsh educators and is driven almost to<br />

breaking point by the experience. On the transport back to her old juvenile workhouse,<br />

she sees her chance, makes a break for it and gets away. All she wants<br />

is to be free at last! Hiding out in some allotments, she meets René, who is also<br />

planning to escape to the West.<br />

Together they make it across the Green<br />

Border to Prague and the West German<br />

Embassy there. The story is based on<br />

interviews with contemporary witnesses<br />

and historical facts.<br />

Shut Away<br />

978-3-7915-1632-5<br />

More than 90,000<br />

copies sold!<br />

Translation rights<br />

sold to Egypt<br />

A Wood and a Mystery<br />

A wanderer, who loses his way. A story that will take the reader’s<br />

breath away.<br />

As dark as “The Storyteller”, as<br />

poetic as The Words of the White<br />

Queen – the new novel by popular<br />

author Antonia Michaelis<br />

Caught between fairy-tale beauty<br />

and the darkest depths of the human<br />

soul: the gripping story of an<br />

innocent who turns to murder<br />

Antonia Michaelis<br />

As Long as the Nightingale Sings<br />

448 Pages | ISBN 978-3-7891-4293-2<br />

On completing his carpenter’s<br />

apprenticeship, Yari sets out as a journeyman<br />

to enjoy his new-found freedom and the countryside. Along the way, he<br />

meets Yasha, the most enchanting girl he has ever encountered, and follows her<br />

to her enclave in the middle of the wood. Caught between fairy-tale beauty and<br />

the darkest depths of the human soul, the harmless carpenter becomes a ruthless<br />

hunter. Popular author Antonia Michaelis is poetic in her telling of this captivating<br />

story of a love for which no secret is too dark and no sacrifice too great. A true<br />

storyteller’s masterpiece.<br />

The Storyteller<br />

978-3-7891-4289-5<br />

Translation rights sold to Sweden,<br />

Poland, U.S.A., Belgium and the<br />

Netherlands.<br />

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Non-Fiction Age 5 +<br />

A Trip Around the World!<br />

Join Polo and have fun exploring the planet.<br />

Maren von Klitzing<br />

Discover the World with Polo Propeller –<br />

Our Earth<br />

22 Pages | ISBN 978-3-7891-8492-5<br />

What is the earth made of? How are mountains formed? What<br />

happens when a volcano erupts? Polo Propeller, the explorer<br />

duck with the pilot’s goggles, takes the young readers on a journey<br />

of discovery and finds the answers to some big questions.<br />

Transparent sliders bring movement to the pictures. The volcano<br />

erupts lava, a glacier pushes forward into the valley and a glorious<br />

rainbow appears behind a house wall! This brightly coloured<br />

knowledge book for little explorers, with a large wheel on the<br />

cover, describes natural phenomena, foreign cultures and much<br />

more, in a language that children can easily understand.<br />

Weewah, weewah!<br />

An exciting visit to the fire brigade and the police.<br />

Annett Stütze<br />

Discover the World with Polo Propeller –<br />

The Police and the Fire Brigade<br />

22 Pages | ISBN 978-3-7891-8498-7<br />

Polo Propeller, takes the young readers on a visit to the fire<br />

brigade and the police station and shows them what police<br />

officers and fire fighters have to be able to do and how they<br />

are trained. Will the children be able to help catch the pickpocket,<br />

take fingerprints and get the water level to go down<br />

after a flood with the help of the transparent sliders?<br />

With a big wheel on the cover. Nursery school children love<br />

Polo and really enjoy all the interactive fun. In this book, the<br />

inquisitive duck presents not one but two interesting subjects,<br />

the police and the fire brigade.<br />

Also Available:<br />

The Body 978-3-7891-8464-2<br />

Wild Animals 978-3-7891-8465-9<br />

The Building Site 978-3-7891-8466-6<br />

The Woods 978-3-7891-8463-5<br />

Giants and Robbers 978-3-7891-8476-5<br />

Marine Animals 978-3-7891-8475-8<br />

Vehicles 978-3-7891-8477-2<br />

The Farm 978-3-7891-8479-6<br />

Animal Babies 978-3-7891-8478-9<br />

The Knights 978-3-7891-8491-8<br />

The complete series has been sold<br />

to China.


Non-Fiction Age 8 + Non-Fiction Age 10+<br />

Silke Brix<br />

Grandpa and Me<br />

112 Pages | ISBN 978-3-7891-8545-8<br />

Silke Brix<br />

Granny and Me<br />

112 Pages | ISBN 978-3-7891-8544-1<br />

What was it like when Granny was little? Did television exist? And what<br />

was her favourite food? Children want to know so much about their grandparents<br />

and they, in turn, often know too little about their grandchildren’s<br />

daily lives. In this shared memory book, both can enter the things that are<br />

most important to them and so preserve their best memories in word and<br />

pictures for all time. Because the two generations fill the album together,<br />

it becomes a treasure that could never be bought. On 112 beautiful pages<br />

in a child-appropriate four-colour design and with an opulent layout, a<br />

host of questions invite grandparents and grandchildren to provide the<br />

answers. The cover has slits especially for a cover photo. The perfect personal<br />

present for Granny/Grandpa and grandchild!<br />

Markus Bennemann<br />

Well, I’ll Be a Monkeyfrog’s Uncle!<br />

204 Pages | ISBN 978-3-7891-8533-5<br />

Paws Up! Nature‘s<br />

Cleverest Killers<br />

978-3-7891-8444-4<br />

Never Seen One?<br />

Never Heard of One?<br />

The definitive dictionary of<br />

unbelievable animals<br />

Discover surprising, incredible and amazing<br />

creatures and get to know the eight-eyed<br />

throat leech, the dopey eye, the steamer<br />

duck and the fairylight spider! This definitive<br />

reference work contains 155 of the most unusual animals in the natural<br />

world, arranged in alphabetical order, with weird and wonderful illustrations<br />

and classified according to weight, size, number of eyes and legs and also<br />

their giggle and killer factor. After all, it’s important to know whether you’re<br />

supposed to laugh or be horrified when you meet one of them! A game of<br />

happy families is also included in the form of colour playing cards for the<br />

children to cut out depicting 32 of the animals. Author Markus Bennemann<br />

has come up with a fascinating way to introduce children to the subject of<br />

animals and the way they adapt to their environment.<br />

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Apps<br />

App Licensing<br />

Go digital – using our<br />

apps for your territory!<br />

We offer our very successful animated book apps for Apple iOS<br />

(iPad, iPhone) and Android devices (Samsung Galaxy, Amazon Kindle<br />

Fire, Barnes & Noble Nook, etc.) as licenses to partner companies<br />

worldwide.<br />

All our apps offer professional animation and sound effects and are<br />

loved by kids and parents alike because of the easy and intuitive controls.<br />

If you are interested we will localise the app(s) of your choice for your<br />

territory. For this you provide us with the translated texts and the audio<br />

recordings of your preferred narrator.<br />

As soon as one app is localised you can upload the app via your own<br />

developer accounts to many different App Stores (Apple, Amazon,<br />

Barnes & Noble, Google). You are of course allowed to publish the app<br />

with your company's name or logo on the app icon.<br />

When you read this we are already working on our next apps, so please<br />

feel free to contact us for more information about our next generation<br />

of apps for kids!<br />

Markus Pfister<br />

Good Night, Little Rainbow Fish<br />

14 interactive animated scenes,<br />

three games | Age 3 +<br />

Already published in: German, Dutch<br />

When Little Rainbow Fish can’t fall<br />

asleep, there’s only one thing that can<br />

help—his Mommy! Little Rainbow<br />

Fish’s mom promises to watch over<br />

him, no matter if he is in the ink cloud<br />

of an octopus, lost in the deep blue sea,<br />

or having a bad dream. It works. Little<br />

Rainbow Fish is soon sound asleep.<br />

Michaela Sangl<br />

Princess No-I-Won't!<br />

15 interactive animated scenes,<br />

one game, one song | Age 3 +<br />

Already published in: German<br />

Princess Matilda is a lucky girl, having<br />

great friends and wonderful parents.<br />

But one day the little princess discovers<br />

her strength by using the words „No-Iwon't“<br />

all the time! She is first feeling<br />

very powerful but soon discovers that<br />

you become very lonely by using „No“<br />

in this inflationary way...<br />

The great “Princess Song” is performed<br />

by the author together with the famous<br />

children's song composer Craig Smith<br />

(Wonkey Donkey Song, New Zealand’s<br />

children's song 2008).


Apps<br />

Hans de Beer<br />

Little Polar Bear<br />

20 interactive animated scenes,<br />

three games | Age 3 +<br />

Already published in: German, Dutch<br />

It's a big day for the little polar bear<br />

Lars! His father takes him hunting for<br />

the very first time, and that night he is<br />

so tired from all his lessons that he falls<br />

fast asleep. He sleeps so soundly that<br />

he doesn't hear the ice crack, doesn't<br />

feel himself slowly drift away from his<br />

father – and that his adventures have<br />

just begun...<br />

“The Little Polar Bear“ already starred in<br />

a TV series and two feature-length films<br />

by Warner Bros.<br />

Kirsten Boie, Silke Brix<br />

The Little Pirate<br />

36 interactive animated scenes,<br />

five games | Age 3 +<br />

Already published in: German, Danish,<br />

Dutch<br />

The little pirate really doesn’t have<br />

an easy life. He is always looking for<br />

ships to rob. But when a ship actually<br />

comes into view, the crew screams and<br />

disappears below deck! Yet the little<br />

pirate would dearly love to have a nice<br />

talk with the people. So he decides to<br />

celebrate a big party, inviting everyone<br />

he knows. In five games he is collecting<br />

shells for necklaces he wants to give<br />

to all his new friends as a present. And<br />

suddenly the little pirate doesn't feel<br />

lonely at all!<br />

Erhard Dietl<br />

The Ogglies – A Dragon Party<br />

for Firebottom<br />

14 interactive animated scenes,<br />

three games, one song | Age 3 +<br />

Already published in: German, English,<br />

Danish, Dutch<br />

Slimy sludge and cheesefeet, what’s<br />

the matter with Firebottom? Why is he<br />

so sad? The Ogglies are worried about<br />

their dragon. But then they have a<br />

positively poopy idea. Supposing they<br />

celebrate Firebottom’s birthday by inviting<br />

a few of his dragon friends?<br />

The Ogglies are small green creatures,<br />

living on the rubbish tip in Smelliville.<br />

They are fascinating German children<br />

for more than twenty years now, being<br />

real stars.<br />

Anke Damman<br />

Finding Frankie Frog<br />

Six interactive animated scenes,<br />

two games | Age 2 +<br />

Already published in: German, English,<br />

Danish<br />

Where is Pinky Piglet hiding? Where are<br />

Robbie Rabbit and Frankie Frog? You<br />

can find all the animals yourself if you<br />

touch the right spot in the pictures, but<br />

they will disappear again as soon as<br />

you’ve found them. You’ll have lots of<br />

fun with this game of animal hide-andseek.<br />

With the integrated audio recorder<br />

you and your kids can record your own<br />

narration – great fun for everyone!<br />

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Our Favorites<br />

Books We Love!<br />

The licence department presents:<br />

Lippel's Dream<br />

Renate<br />

“This is my long-time favourite! The joy<br />

of reading and the gift of friendship –<br />

both open the eyes of Philipp - called<br />

Lippel - to realize that the real world<br />

is worth living in. It all starts with the<br />

marvellous "Tales of 1,001 nights". I'm<br />

very happy that we will have a sequel<br />

this autumn.”<br />

The Words of the<br />

White Queen<br />

Gabi<br />

“It's this striking story about family<br />

violence and the power to overcome<br />

it, which I like best. Antonia Michaelis<br />

ingeniously mixes fairytale with reality.<br />

This touching novel for young adults<br />

is a tribute to the power of words and<br />

fantasy.”<br />

Extraterrestrial is<br />

Somewhere Else<br />

Teresa<br />

“I like the light and humorous way<br />

'Extraterrestrial is Somewhere Else'<br />

handles the topic of social differences.<br />

It teaches curiosity, tolerance and selfdetermined<br />

thinking when it comes<br />

to the point of discovering the best<br />

friends' real identity. This book truly<br />

tells an extraordinary story of friendship.”<br />

Turn-Me, Shake-Me,<br />

Rock-Me Book<br />

Katharina<br />

“I love the Turn-Me, Shake-Me, Rock-<br />

Me Book because of its endless creative<br />

potential. Thirteen different art styles<br />

and stories composed as one complete<br />

story summed up in an adventurous<br />

rollercoaster ride. A book that comes<br />

alive in the hands of the child!”


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