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Board Books6 Three Sheep Go To Sleep Iris Wewer

8 Ten tiny, spooky Ghosts The Characters of the successful Series

10 Ten Tiny, Spooky Ghosts – The Ghosts' Kitchen Susanne Göhlich

12 Ten Tiny, Spooky Ghosts – In the Forest Susanne Göhlich

14 Ten tiny, spooky Ghosts – The Present Susanne Göhlich

15 Ten tiny, spooky Ghosts – On the Swing Susanne Göhlich

16 Ten tiny, spooky Ghosts go on a trip Susanne Göhlich

17 What a girafe sounds like Susanne Weber / Tina Schulte

18 What does the Queen do all day? Catharina Westphal

19 Look an Colour! – Christmas is coming Katja Schüler / Anke Fröhlich

20 All Aboard! It’s Farmer Max’s Birthday Susanne Weber / Catharina Westphal

21 Kicking, climbing, standing on your head Marc Locatelli

22 Not tired at all! Peter Friedl

23 Look and Colour! – My Zoo Animals Katja Schüler / Anke Fröhlich

24 Look and Colour! – My Vehicles Katja Schüler / Anke Fröhlich

25 Look and Colour! – My farm animals Katja Schüler / Anke Fröhlich

26 Look and Colour! – My World Katja Schüler / Anke Fröhlich

27 Advent, Advent! Marion Elitez

Picture Books30 Leon's Excavator Christian Tielmann / Dirk Hennig

31 Mamma Mia → Series containing three volumes Gardi Hutter / Catherine Louis

32 Very Best Friends – The Flyalong Antje Bohnstedt 33 Very Best Friends – A Plague of Gnomes Antje Bohnstedt

34 The Badger and the Scaredy-Rabbit Nicolas d’Aujourd’hui

35 Spider ABC Liz Pompe

First Reader38 Ten Tiny, Spooky Ghosts – No Treasure for Flit Britta Nonnast / Susanne Göhlich

40 New Friends for Gabriel Sunil Mann / Tine Schulz

42 Four Riddles, Five Friends and a Treasure Hunt Frank Kauffmann / Eleonore Gerhaher

44 Luke and the Mistery of the talking Animals Joachim Friedrich / Minna McMaster / Astrid Henn

45 Who's afraid of the gloomy Ghost? Britta Nonnast / Susanne Göhlich

46 Theo's dream elephant Kirsten Vogel / Susanne Weber / Sabine Büchner

47 Nothing but Trouble with Gabriel Sunil Mann/ Tine Schulz

48 Sarah and the Sea – Of Fish Passing Gas and Floating Stones Carsten Otte / Christine Brand

49 Burley & Tallish: We’ll Fix It! Christian Tielmann / Markus Spang

50 Tsozo and the Foreign Words Frank Kauffmann / Beate Fahrnländer

51 Ravi & Oli in Green-Land Lea Guidon und Andreas Neeser / Marc Locatelli

52 Ksss! Liz, Paul and the Changing Room Monster Daniele Meocci / Bernd Lehmann

53 Here he comes, Fred – A Clever Plan Katja Alves / Nicolas d’Aujourd’hui

54 Here he comes, Fred – Moving Day Katja Alves / Nicolas d’Aujourd’hui

Comic56 The Villagers of Munggenstalden in Devil's Gorge Martin Weiss / Rolf Willi

58 The Villagers of Munggenstalden: The Monastery Raid Martin Weiss / Rolf Willi

59 The Villagers of Munggenstalden: The Great Morgarten Battle Martin Weiss / Rolf Willi

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Board Books

When three sheep prepare to go to sleep, it takes a little time.Who gives whom a goodnight kiss? Who may sleep next to whom? Who gets the cuddly pillow, and who the bedtime book? Until the three sheep have sorted them-selves out, many a double-page has been turned. But finally, everybody falls asleep peacefully.

Iris Wewer, born in Cuxhaven, studied communications design in Wiesbaden. Her first picture book was published in 2009: 'Me and My Wild Sister'.'7 Grumbling Grumblies and One Pig', a picture book as well, published in 2013, was awarded the prestigious 'Leipziger Lesekompass' children's book prize.

Three Sheep Go To Sleep

Iris Wewer

World Rights available20 pages | board book | 18 × 16 cm | 1+ | 2017

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Ten Tiny, Spooky GhostsMarty the Coole-Woole-Hat-Ghost: Very cool, cheeky, ad-venturous and brave in any situation, leader and taking ac-tion, squirelly and sometimes impatient. Does not go any-where without his beanie hat, used to live in a launderette and likes Lucy very much.

Lucy the Pattern-Mix-Ghost: She loves pattern, pattern and pattern and to decorate everything, too, wears chains and sometimes tiaras and is a bit vain. Her decoration ob-session gets funny results but is sometimes annoying for everyone else. Not the adventurous type but structured and well-arranged, sticking to her plans without getting dis-tracted, keeping a cool head in chaotic situations, touchy. She is the instigator of the ghost community and Marty’s best friend.

Scotty, the Bookworm-Ghost: Does a lot of research in the internet, a bit nerdy, eloquent with knowledge of eccentric vocabulary . Couch potatoe who only feels comfy when in-doors, hates fresh air, likes to withdraw, cookie chips and lemonade and is sometimes hardly trackable. Very smart and technology-crazed. Real adventures are not his thing.

Raffi, the Rumpelstiltskin-Ghost: He's a very emontional ghost who quickly hits the ceiling and gets as angry as Rumpelstiltskin. It is no easy job to soothe him down. Full of spirits, loves action and sports. Gets dissed from time to time, because he has such a high temper. Hangs around the graveyard quiet often, and used to live there as well, before moving in with the other ghosts.

Lilly, the Friendly-Ghost and her dog Chilli: Very friendly, empathetic, helpful with a big sense of justice. Interested in all kinds of animals, especially in dogs. Her dog is a fine scout but on the contrary to the ghosts is not able to fly. He wanders between the ghost-world and the human-world.

Uncle Oscar, the bulky Ghost-in-Charge: Chubby because he loves eating so much, especially fancy cake. As most ex-perienced ghost he ist he leader of the group with good ad-vice for anyone and the intermediator. He also scolds (his nephew Flitty gets most), and keeps everything in order and takes on responsibility.

Rufus, the Gloomy-Ghost: Nocturnal and lonely before he got to know the other nine ghosts. Loves to scare others, but never in a mean way. A sensitive character, from time to time blue.

Balduin, the Gatherer- Ghost: early-bird and always on the run. Collects things and always carries his red bag to be able to store newly found things for his various collections. Gets along well with the Bookworm-Ghost Scotty. Loves ex-peditions and cannot wait to go out and detect new places. When at home, often sorts his souvenirs, by spreading every-thing on the barn floor. Bibbi, the Jittering-Ghost: the tall, slender ghost is afraid of thunderstorms and rain. Then she hides and trembles even more than usual. She also detests snow as well as any form of water. The other ghosts sometimes tease her because of her timidity. She wants to be part of the group and does not like to be on her own, except when she is dancing.

Flitty, the Mini-Ghost: Very tiny ghost, fits through every-thing, even keyholes. Very flexible and able to change his form. Defiant, stubborn, not always telling the truth, often hiding in his soup can to think about things.

When the ghosts are cooking – yummy!There's a rumbling in my tummy!

The Tiny, Spooky Ghosts are preparing pancakes. When they lack a crucial in-gredient, though, they have to become resourceful.

Susanne Göhlich, born in Jena in 1972, began to illustrate her own stories while studying art history. As well as having

worked for educational publishers, she has written successful bedtime stories, picture books and board books for sev-eral renowned children’s books’ pub-lishers (e.g. 'Bettzeit ist’s – It’s Bed-time' for Moritz Publishing House). She lives in Leipzig with her family.

Ten Tiny, Spooky Ghosts – The Ghosts' Kitchen

Susanne Göhlich



Hocus-pocus, flash and blast,everybody's running fast!

The Tiny, Spooky Ghosts lose their way in the forest. However, they find a place to spend the night, getting home safely the following morning.

Susanne Göhlich, born in Jena in 1972, began to illustrate her own stories while studying art history. As well as having

worked for educational publishers, she has written successful bedtime stories, picture books and board books for sev-eral renowned children’s books’ pub-lishers (e.g. 'Bettzeit ist’s – It’s Bed-time' for Moritz Publishing House). She lives in Leipzig with her family.



Ten Tiny, Spooky Ghosts – In the Forest

Susanne Göhlich

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Who is first on the swing? A tiny, spooky ghost is playing on the swing in the moonshine. But it has not been alone for long when another one comes along and joins it. And there are more to come: There is another, and another... until all ten of them spill to the ground, along with the swing. After their crash land-ing, the new rule is: One ghost at a time on the swing! A wonderful counting-out rhyme for young children and a lot of fun to count along with.

Susanne Göhlich, born in Jena in 1972, began to illustrate her own stories while studying art history. As well as having worked for educational publishers, she has written successful bedtime stories, picture books and board books for sev-eral renowned children’s books’ pub-lishers (e.g. 'Bettzeit ist’s – It’s Bed-time' for Moritz Publishing House). She lives in Leipzig with her family.

Ten tiny, spooky Ghosts – On the Swing

Susanne Göhlich


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Children love to celebrate their birth-days. And the best thing about a birth-day is – the cake! And … presents! But what if none of them are really suitable? It is Flitty’s birthday and he cannot wait to open his presents from the other nine tiny, spooky ghosts. But not one of them is really spot-on. What is he supposed to do with an enormous cap, a dog’s bone or a pair of old hiking boots? Flitty’s birthday party is about to turn into a re-ally sad affair – but then, suddenly, there it is: the perfect present!


Ten tiny, spooky Ghosts – The Present

Susanne Göhlich

Every animal produces its own charac-teristic sounds: deep, loud, high, beauti-ful ones. A lion roars, an elephant trum-pets, a parrot screeches. But what does a giraffe sound like? The riddle is only solved at the very end of the book.A colourful board book that requires no batteries and fosters language develop-ment, with lots of fun guaranteed!Rhymes encourage children to guess at and imitate animal sounds – a timeless favourite with young children.

Susanne Weber is a freelance editor and a successful writer of children’s books. Her board book 'The Bruised Owl' has been on the prestigious Spiegel best-seller list for two years now, with 170‘000 copies sold.

Tina Schulte studied graphic design, fo-cusing on illustration. She has illus-trated children’s books (stories by Paul Maar among them) for numerous re-nowned publishing houses. She lives in Münster with her family and, as a freelance illustrator, is a member of the Atelier Hafenstrasse (Hafenstrasse Workshop).

What a girafe sounds likeSusanne Weber / Tina Schulte



with thumb index

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Susanne Göhlich

World Rights available ― Rights sold to: China24 pages | board book | 22 × 16 cm | 3+ | 2017


Ten tiny, spooky ghostsspent the daytime in a shed.One didn’t hear the wake-up call,so there were nine instead.

Come the witching hour, the ten tiny ghosts fly out together, looking for ad-venture. But their group becomes small and smaller, until just one tiny ghost is left. But it will not be lonely for long – in the end, they all meet up again.


Ten tiny, spooky Ghosts go on a trip

with punch-out stencil pages

There are lots of things to discover on eight hidden object pages!What does the queen actually do from morning to night? Where does she have breakfast and when does she turn in at night? What happens when she needs the toilet while she is out and about? And what does her favourite dog get up to when he is bored? Questions that only a royal hidden object book with an abun-dance of exciting scenes can answer!

Catharina Westphal is a qualified de-signer. She studied illustration at Mün-ster technical college, Germany, and can look back on many years as a suc-cessful children’s book illustrator. Her amusing, light-handed style is to be found in numerous board books, picture books and story books.

What does the Queen do all day?

Catharina Westphal


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There are not only small, atmospheric Christmas scenes to discover in this book – but the six punch-out stencils in-cluded will also help children design and paint their own Christmas angel, advent wreath and tree decorations.Clear, quiet illustrations that are neither saccharine-sweet nor garish.

Anke Fröhlich, born in Suhl (Germany) in 1978, studied book illustration and classical graphic design at the Hoch-schule für Kunst und Design, Halle. She lives in Leipzig now, working as an illus-trator and graphic designer.

→ More from this illustrator: page 23 ff.

Look an Colour! – Christmas is coming

Katja Schüler / Anke Fröhlich



with half page flaps

Farmer Max wants to celebrate his birthday. He invites all his farm animals to a big party and comes to pick them up with his tractor and trailer. First, a don-key gets into the trailer, then a cow and a pig, three dogs, four shee … and how many more are waiting at the next cor-ner? The answer is to be found behind the next flap. At last, all the guests ar-rive at the brightly-lit marquee where they have an amazing party, celebrating until … yes, until a totally exhausted Farmer Max has to be hoisted onto his tractor trailer and driven home by the donkey.

Susanne Weber, a young writer from Berlin, has had several successful chil-dren’s books published by different pub-lishing houses. 'The Owl who Knocked his Head' was on The Spiegel bestseller list for two years.

Catharina Westphal, a qualified de-signer, studied illustration at Münster technical college, Germany, and can look back on many years as a successful children’s book illustrator. Her amusing, light-handed style is to be found in nu-merous board books, picture books and story books.

All Aboard! It’s Farmer Max’s Birthday

Susanne Weber / Catharina Westphal

World Rights available 24 pages | board book including 6 half page flaps | 18 × 16 cm | 3+ | 2016


You can do sports in all kinds of places; you can get some exercise and play practically anywhere: in the water, in the park, in the schoolyard, at the ice rink or in the football or sports stadium. The sports and games played in the hidden object pictures are just as varied. There is a whole palette of sports pictured, be it trampoline jumping, tug-of-war, jugg-ling or swimming, rock-climbing, cy-cling or sack-races. The pictures en-courage children to take a closer look

and try to find out what is happening to Hugo, where the child in the polo-neck jumper is and what a group of children in numbered T-shirts are up to.

Marc Locatelli was a sports enthusiast even as a child. Equally early, he began to draw, with sports scenes still his fa-vourite subject. He is a qualified graphic designer who lives and works in Zurich.

→ More from this illustrator: page 51

Kicking, climbing, standing on your head

Marc Locatelli

World Rights available16 pages | large-format hidden object sports book | 26 × 34 cm | 3+ | 2016


Parents with young children are familiar with the situation: The more tired a child, the bigger the chaos. Scenes that both parents and children will instantly recognise and chuckle at.Lea just won’t go to bed, although she is at least as tired as Ben, her dog. They play and romp until they are ready to drop. But the nicest part always comes at the end, when it is wonderfully cosy under the blankets, especially when Daddy reads a story and Ben is peace-fully asleep on his dog cushion. Pictures drawn with loving attention to detail and

appealing characters tie in perfectly with the real-life experience of very young children.

Peter Friedl studied art in Halle, Ger-many, and has been working as a free-lance artist and children’s book illustra-tor since 1990. He is well-known for his likeable series protagonists who appeal to children as young as two. His endear-ing illustrations make it easy for chil-dren to recognise themselves and their everyday environment, thus promoting empathy.

Not tired at all! Peter Friedl


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What does the baby elephant do at the zoo? What is the seal’s favourite toy? What animals are there in a petting zoo?There is more to the board book My Zoo Animals than just their favourite ani-mals for children to discover. There are also surprising changes to be seen. A lioness can be turned into a roaring lion with a mane, or a pony might be-come a zebra.


→ More from this illustrator and author: pages 19, 24, 25 and 26

Look and Colour! – My Zoo Animals






punch-out stencil stencil pages

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Whether it is a police car on patrol, the fire brigade in action or a garbage truck at work: The subjects of the pictures have been hand-picked to suit the taste of their target audience.Here, children can discover exciting lit-tle scenes as well as turn a lorry into a fire engine or a dinghy into a pirate ship, with the help of the cut-out stencils. In the 'My Vehicles' board book, the settings keep changing until the reader has lan-ded on the moon in a rocket.



Look and Colour! – My Vehicles



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There is so much to see on a farm. Thanks to the punch-out stencil pages, children can start drawing at once! There are lots of animals on the farm: piglets playing in the mud, lambs jump-ing about, chicken and cats. But there are not only little farmyard scenes to discover: The four animal stencils in-cluded allow children to create and col-our their own animal pictures. Turning

the stencil pages also transforms the scenes in surprising ways, encouraging children’s creativity. With many punch-out stencils and surprise effects!



Look and Colour! – My Farm Animals




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Advent, Advent, the candles light – this beautiful edition of the well-known Ad-vent poem is designed to prepare chil-dren for Christmas and to help them look forward to this special day even more. Lovingly illustrated scenes with a lot of details show a family and their dog during Advent season, right up to the day itself. The thumb index with the Ad-vent candles enables children to count the four Advent Sundays one by one, be-fore the reader is taken, as a final sur-prise, into the Christmas room itself.

Marion Elitez has a degree in design, studied in Krefeld, Paris and Münster and has been a successful children’s book illustrator for ten years. Her pic-tures (their water-colours still applied by hand) are to be found in more than 40 books published by various children’s book publishers.

Advent, Advent!Marion Elitez

World Rights available16 pages | board book | 18 × 18 cm | 1,5+ | 2015


What colour is the wild flower and how many balloons are there in the sky? How colourful is the T-shirt and what is an umbrella for? There are not only amus-ing little scenes from day-to-day life to discover: The four stencils included al-low children to create their own pictures and to colour them. Turning the stencil pages also transforms the scenes in surprising ways, encouraging children’s creativity.



Look and Colour! – My World





Picture Books

There is nothing that Leon wants for his birthday as badly as a Behemoth 3000, the fantastic yellow excavator that can do anything.When his greatest wish comes true, ti-mid Leon suddenly manages to rise to any occasion: Be it the neighbour’s vi-cious dog, bullies or dark corridors – with Behemoth 3000 at his side, Leon can coolly face any challenge and the timorous boy becomes Brave Leon.

Christian Tielmann, born in 1971, is a well-known author living in Cologne who has written more than 80 books for chil-

dren and young adults. Among his most popular works is the very successful Max series (published in Pixi format by Carlsen). His books have received nu-merous awards and have been trans-lated into 20 languages so far.

Dirk Hennig, born in Dortmund, studied graphics design with a focus on illustra-tion) at the University of Applied Sciences in Münster. After starting his career as a graphics and advertising designer, he began to illustrate novels and children’s picture books in 2005, with great suc-cess. He lives in Münster.

Leon's ExcavatorChristian Tielmann / Dirk Hennig

World Rights available ― Rights sold to: Denmark32 pages | bound | 21,5 × 27,5 cm | 5+ | 2017


Vol. 1: No More Magic!Mama Lila is a wonderful mother. Lou-ise knows that. But why can’t Lila stop doing magic? She turns Louise’s break-time snack into a singing surprise, and the stairs at home into an escalator. Great fun for the kids! But disagreeable for Louise.Vol. 2: Weeping With Laughter!A planet where crying is as pleasant an experience as laughing is in our world? It’s laughable, for crying out loud! An amusing story, showing that both crying and laughing are part of life.Vol. 3: Please Don’t Go!Mama Lila wants to go to a witches’ con-ference. Well! Who is going to look after little Louise? Finding a solution is sur-prisingly easy – and practical into the bargain!

Three books full of wonderfully eccen-tric stories about a mother and a daugh-ter who are totally different personali-ties, but who love each other with all their hearts.

Gardi Hutter, born in Switzerland in 1953, is a Swiss actor and author. Most importantly, though, she is a clown co-median, on tour with her own plays, usu-ally performing in theatres rather than circuses. By now, she is acknow-ledged internationally as the doyenne of clown theatre.

Catherine Louis, born in Switzerland, studied at the Ecole d’Arts Visuels Berne et Bienne, and for another two years with Claude Lapointe at the Ecole Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs in Stras-bourg. Then she opened her own studio in the canton of Neuchâtel, where she creates illustrations, posters, stage sets and paper dolls.

Mamma MiaGardi Hutter / Catherine Louis

World Rights available32 pages | bound | 22 × 29,3 cm | 5+ | 2016


Three books full of wonderfully eccen-tric stories about a mother and a daugh-

Three friends who stick together, no matter what. A story about friendship, courage and inventiveness.

Three friends who are as different from each other as can be: Moe, the good-natured bear, is fond of his pantry and long naps. Hugo, however, is an ex-tremely curious rabbit who tends to act more quickly than he can think.

And then there is Pete, a brilliant pen-guin who lives in a disused fridge at the junk yard. When the three friends crash-land their home-made airship on the high seas and are caught by a pirate wolf, only the most ingenious of ideas will save them

Antje Bohnstedt studied graphics de-sign in Karlsruhe, Germany, and worked at an advertising agency for a long time. She has been a freelance illustrator for ten years now, having illustrated several children’s books. This is Antje Bohn-stedts' first large-format picture book.

→ More from this author: page 33

Biscuit tins emptied, honey jars licked clean, sandwiches nibbled at – by whom? Soon, our three friends get wise to the thieving gnomes’ ways and find out how to get rid of them. In the end, they teach the gnomes how to prepare all the de-li-cious things they used to steal from the bear before. So, finally, it is not just the three friends who are happy but also their tiny, new allies.

Antje Bohnstedt studied graphics de-sign in Karlsruhe, Germany, and worked at an advertising agency for a long time. She has been a freelance illustrator for ten years now, having illustrated several children’s books. This is Antje Bohn-stedts' first large-format picture book.


Very Best Friends –The Flyalong

Very Best Friends – A Plague of Gnomes

Antje Bohnstedt Antje Bohnstedt

World Rights available ― Rights sold to: China, Denmark, Russia32 pages | bound | 21,5 × 27,5 cm | 4+ | 2016

World Rights available ― Rights sold to: China, Korea, Russia32 pages | bound | 21,5 × 27,5 cm | 4+ | 2016

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When a badger meets a scaredy-rabbit – what happens? Two very different per-sonalities collide: One is scared while the other thinks he is not. But both of them are about to learn something, becoming friends in the process.Little Badger is cheeky, small, brave and sometimes, he suffers from delu-sions of grandeur. He never listens to his parents, he is untidy and some-times downright naughty. In short: He does everything one should not do.

His parents and his brothers and sis-ters, however, are hard-working, tidy and they keep their heads down. They are decent citizens of the forest. In short: They do everything normal badg-ers should do.In his first adventure, Little Badger runs away from home. He is roaming the for-est and hanging around the farm, where he plays 'chicken Indians' and sets the rabbits free. That is how he meets Scaredy-Rabbit. Together they tease the billy goat and escape from the farm’s big, bad dog by the skin of their teeth.A zippy and exciting story about being naughty and being scared.

Nicolas d’Aujourd’hui, born in Basle in 1965, did a four-year course in Fine Arts and worked as an art teacher at a Basle grammar school for several years. He is writing and drawing picture books, car-toons and comics as well as designing games and running his own publishing business, 'nix-productions'. He is excel-ling at live drawing performances for children and grown-ups. Nicolas d’Aujourd’hui lives in Basle with his wife and children.

→ More from this illustrator: page 53 ff.

The Badger and the Scaredy-Rabbit

Nicolas d’Aujourd’hui

World Rights available ― Rights sold to: China, Denmark32 pages | bound | 19×25 cm | 3+ | 2013


Liz Pompe’s spiders are foolish, fancy or just as good as gold - at least from time to time … They love trips to the cinema, they like to bike and sometimes they even paint the bathroom. From clever Auguste up to old Zvonimir very different spiders are bustling in this wonderful and fancy ABC-book. Each doublepage attends to one spider and to one letter. The respective letter can also be found in the corresponding picture. This spider ABC is for all that love to laugh and of course especially for all those who want forget their fear of spiders for a moment!

Liz Pompe was born in Vienna 1968 where she studied artwork and grafics. Since over 20 years she works in the film- and printed media sector. For some time past she draws again. Mad spiders, snakes, volcanos, bikes – and all that other dangerous stuff says her daughter, who is the one to blame for all that.

Spider ABCLiz Pompe

World Rights available48 pages | bound | 28,7 × 24,7 cm | 5+ | 2014


First Reader

Even ghosts dream of a stroke of good luck: lots of money, a magnificent pal-ace to haunt and a splendid coach – wouldn't that be great?Flit, the tiniest ghost, has a great dream: He wants to become the richest ghost of them all. This, he is sure, would make him deliriously happy. But all his at-tempts to get rich as fast as possible just show him that making your dreams come true is not that easy. And before you know it, you have overlooked your obvious chance to be happy!

Britta Nonnast graduated in commer-cial studies and worked as an econom-ics editor for years. Since her first chil-dren’s books were published by Beltz, she has been writing mainly books for young readers and story books. She lives in Potsdam with her family and, at the moment, she likes nothing better than immersing herself in the world of the Ten Tiny, Spooky Ghosts.


→ More from this illustrator: pages 8 ff. and 45

Ten Tiny, Spooky Ghosts – No Treasure for Flit

Britta Nonnast / Susanne Göhlich

World Rights available96 pages | bound | 17,5 × 23 cm | 4+ | 2017


Young angel Gabriel has started his sec-ond year at school now, and it's going to be a special one: Three trolls, two elves, a witch and a devil are coming to stay at Cloud Castle Boarding School, taking part in a student exchange programme.And they all need somebody to show them the ropes. Lively Gabriel is to look after Lucia, the young devil. After some initial difficulties, they hit it off. To show her his qualities as a guardian angel, Gabriel takes her along on a trip to Earth. Bad idea! Being the devil she is, Lucia is trying to tempt Gabriel's charge, Eleanor, to horse around and do forbid-den things. They have an almighty row.

But when Eleanor finds herself in a re-ally dangerous situation a short time later, things are literally heating up – and Lucia has to use her special talent to save her.

Sunil Mann, was born the son of Indian immigrants in the Bernese Oberland. He lives in Zurich. His debut novel 'Fang-schuss – Coup de Grâce', introducing ethnic Indian private eye Vijay Kumar, was awarded the Zürcher Krimipreis – Zurich Thriller Prize in the year of 2011. 'New Friends for Gabriel' with Gabriel is Sunil Mann’s second novel for children.

→ www.sunilmann.ch

Tine Schulz, born in Anklam in 1981, first trained as a media designer and worked for several design studios and publishing houses before finally getting around to studying communication de–sign at Hochschule Wismar. Since then she has been living on the Baltic coast, working as a freelance illustrator out of Rostock.

→ More from this author and illustrator: page 47

New Friends for GabrielSunil Mann / Tine Schulz

World Rights available144 pages | bound | 13,8 × 21 cm | 8+ | 2017


Ida Goose, Flora Cow, Marlon Mouse, Thelma Goat and Otto Pig have been left a restaurant in a beauty spot by their parents. But pretty soon, the guests stop coming.While their parents were famous for their delicious blueberry pie and wonderful cocoa, the new generation soon become notorious for their constant bickering. 'Lousy mouse!', 'Stupid cow!' and 'Silly goose!' - it goes on and on. It's no won-der the guests stay away.

The restaurant runs into debt in no time, and only when it is to be put up for public auction do the new owners realise that they're knee-deep in trouble. They re-member that there is supposed to be a family treasure hidden away for just such times of need. But where can it be? They start searching – individually. However, they soon find out that, without working things out together, there's no chance they will ever find their treasure.

Frank Kaufmann, born in 1967, studied German philology, didactics and Roma-nian in Zurich. He worked as assistant producer and dramatic advisor in the in-dependent theatre scene. For the Uni-versity of Zurich he has co-develop con-cepts for tuition. He works as a free writer and a staff member of the Lan-guage Center of the University of Zurich and ETH Zurich. His picture book 'Waschbär feiert Ge-burtstag', which was illustrated by Vanya Nastanlieva has been published by At-lantis, an imprint of Orell Füssli Verlag in 2012.


Four Riddles, Five Friends and a Treasure Hunt

Frank Kauffmann / Eleonore Gerhaher



Luke can communicate with animals when he switches to ‘animal wave-length’. So he understands perfectly well what troubles his hypochondriac cat or what Mary’s timorous Great Dane is thinking. Even if adults do not quite believe it: His weakness is actually his strength. When a neglected cat is brought to Luke’s mother’s veterinary practice, there are special talents called for to put a stop to a vicious cat breeder’s activities. With Mary and their two four-legged friends, Luke manages to solve this exciting case.

A story about an unusual friendship, with a lot of witty dialogue penned by popular children’s author Joachim Friedrich and illustrated in Astrid Henn’s unique style.

Joachim Friedrich, well-known chil-dren’s author from Bottrop, has en-thralled generations of children with his gripping series, e. g. '4 ½ Freunde' – 'Four and a Half Friends'. He began to write his internationally successful chil-dren’s books while in his mid-thirties. Many of them have been adapted for tel-evision and for the screen.

Minna McMaster (her pen name) worked at a kindergarten specialising in speech therapy before writing her first chil-dren’s books. Her title 'Im Dunkeln - In the Dark', illustrated by Julia Duerr, won a prize from Stiftung Buchkunst as one of the most beautiful German picture books of 2008.

Astrid Henn graduated in visual com-munications and worked as an art direc-tor for several advertising agencies in Hamburg. She then became a freelance designer and illustrator. Her books have been published with great success by various well-known publishing houses.

Luke and the Mistery of the talking Animals

Joachim Friedrich / Minna McMaster / Astrid Henn

World Rights available 144 pages | bound | 13,8 × 21 cm | 8+ | 2017


Even tiny, spooky ghosts hate being alone. Lucy has just had to give up haunting a theatre, when she meets lo-nely Marty at the launderette. He helps her find a new home as well as mutual friends. So the two of them meet a new ghost in every chapter. And they all have got something in common: Each and every one of them is afraid of the black Gloomy Ghost! When they finally catch him, they realise that there was nothing to be scared of – this ghost may be gloomy, but he hates being alone just as

much as anybody else. Finally, they all have a wonderful foam party at the launderette, deciding that, from now on, they will all share a flat.

Britta Nonnast graduated in commer-cial studies and worked as an econom-ics editor for years. Since her first chil-dren’s books were published by Beltz, she has been writing mainly books for young readers and story books. She lives in Potsdam with her family and, at the moment, she likes nothing better than immersing herself in the world of the Ten Tiny, Spooky Ghosts.

Susanne Göhlich, born in Jena in 1972, began to illustrate her own stories while studying art history. As well as having worked for educational publishers, she has written successful bedtime stories, picture books and board books for sev-eral renowned children’s books’ pub-lishers (e.g. Bettzeit ist’s – It’s Bedtime’ for Moritz Publishing House). She lives in Leipzig with her family.

Who's afraid of the gloomy Ghost?

Britta Nonnast / Susanne Göhlich

→ More from this illustratorr: pages 8 ff. and 38



Luke and the Mistery of the talking Animals

Joachim Friedrich / Minna McMaster / Astrid Henn

Theo is delving into his own world, along with his trusty elephant and a lot of other charactersAn elephant that can sneeze? As usual, Theo’s parents don’t believe a word he says. But the cuddly toy elephant from the flea market has got a secret: Theo simply has to twitch one of the large el-ephants’ ears before falling asleep at night, and – atchoo-elephantissimo – he is in the middle of a new adventure. In the South Seas, in Dino-Land or with the fire brigade, by the swimming lake or at the zoo at night: With his new, large friend, Theo can meet any challenge.

When Kirsten Vogel and Susanne We-ber, both born in 1977, aren’t taking their children to a Berlin playground together, they think up stories and work on books’ texts for children.Kirsten Vogel used to be a producer for the family series Der Landarzt – The Country Doctor and writes screenplays. Susanne Weber is a freelance editor and a successful writer of children’s books. Her board book Die Eule mit der Beule – The Bruised Owl has been on the pres-tigious Spiegel best-seller list for two years now, with 170'000 copies sold.

Sabine Büchner, communication desig-ner, has worked on numerous animated cartoon productions for the much-be-loved Die Sendung mit der Maus – Mouse TV. In 2006, she was awarded the Trois-dorf Picture Book Grant for the text and illustrations of Seven Forever. She has been a freelance illustrator since then, working for several large publishing houses with great success.

Theo's dream ElephantKirsten Vogel / Susanne Weber / Sabine Büchner



Gabriel is the youngest pupil at ‘Cloud Castle’ boarding school for angels – and he does not have an easy time of it. The principal is very strict and the short, spirited angel’s behaviour leaves a lot to be desired.It is hardly surprising then that Gabriel has to do some extra homework all too often. However, he will not be deterred from his great goal; neither by strict teachers nor by extra chores like swee-ping the Milky Way or sharpening ar-rows for Mr Cupid: He really, really wants to become a guardian angel!

When the Archangel Gabriel, who is get-ting on a bit, returns from Nazareth with a terrible cold (it took him several at-tempts to make Mary believe his glad tidings), Gabriel rises to the occasion. He is allowed to spend an afternoon on Earth, to look after Jan, a primary pupil who is actually the Archangel’s protégé. Spurred on by the trust set in him, Ga-briel rises to peak form ...

Sunil Mann, was born the son of Indian immigrants in the Bernese Oberland. He lives in Zurich. His debut novel 'Fang-schuss – Coup de Grâce', introducing ethnic Indian private eye Vijay Kumar, was awarded the Zürcher Krimipreis – Zurich Thriller Prize in 2011. 'New Friends for Gabriel' with Gabriel is Sunil Mann’s second novel for children.

→ www.sunilmann.ch

Tine Schulz, born in Anklam in 1981, first trained as a media designer and worked for several design studios and publishing houses before finally getting around to studying communication de–sign at Hochschule Wismar. Since then she has been living on the Baltic coast, working as a freelance illustrator out of Rostock.


Nothing but Trouble with Gabriel

Sunil Mann / Tine Schulz

World Rights available ― Rights sold to: Italy144 pages | bound | 13,8 × 21 cm | 8+ | 2016


Nothing but Trouble

If you keep your eyes open, are curious and use your imagination, you’ll always have interesting stories to tell.Sarah is a pert and inquisitive girl living in a little town by the sea with her par-ents. Her father runs a fish smoke-house, her mother works in an office. Sarah is very interested in all things maritime or to do with nature in general. She always reports everything she has seen, heard or thought up to her friends in kindergarten.

A number of fascinating natural phe-nomena are explained in ten separate stories. What causes a storm tide? Are fish really mute or can they communi-cate with each other, or even with hu-mans.

Carsten Otte was born in Bonn in 1972 and studied philosophy. He has written several novels and non-fiction books, all of them much reviewed, the latest of these being a bestseller about men in the kitchen, published by Campus Verlag. 'Sarah and the Sea' is his first children’s book – it is the result of a grant from the Schleswig-Holsteinisches Künstlerhaus Eckernförde. Otte lives in Baden-Baden with his wife and their child.

Christine Brand, born in the Ore Moun-tains, spent most of her time at school daydreaming, trained as an industrial seamstress, then fled to the Kunsthoch-schule Berlin-Weissensee to study for a degree in fashion design.She taught at the Fachschule für ange-wandte Kunst in Schneeberg and has been a freelance illustrator since 1988. She lives and works in Leipzig and on the island of La Gomera.

Sarah and the Sea – Of Fish Passing Gas and Floating Stones

Carsten Otte / Christine Brand



An ice-maker jamming or a fire-hose stuttering at the Firemen’s Party? No problem for these resourceful work-men! Burley and Tallish are always there, in their bright red workshop van, if anything needs tinkering, soldering or generally fixing. Results may not be ex-actly as intended, but usually lead to a happy ending, anyway. Ten short, stand-alone episodes about two original work-man characters and the likable resi-dents of a small town, to marvel and chuckle at.

Christian Tielmann, born in 1971, is a well-known author living in Cologne who has written more than 80 books for children and young adults. Among his most popular works is the very success-ful Max series (published in Pixi format by Carlsen). His books have received numerous awards and have been trans-lated into 20 languages so far.

Markus Spang, born in Karlsruhe in 1971, studied illustration and typogra-phy in Krefeld and Münster. His bril-liantly funny illustrations have appeared in more than 20 novels, mystery stories and crime riddles for children.

Burley & Tallish: We’ll Fix It!

Christian Tielmann / Markus Spang



Tsozo and his parents move from their village to another country where every-thing is new, especially the language. He does not understand the foreign words, he is sad and longing for his old home. On the phone, his grandma advises him, 'Open your eyes, prick up your ears, be patient, and the new language will come to you.' A new language is like a wild mustang, she also says. Thanks to her, Tsozo does not give up. It takes him a lot of patience and careful study to finally tame the new words.

In the playground, Tsozo meets three children and learns his first words. A short while later, his new friends face a dangerous situation, and his grandma is proven right: Tsozo can make himself understood in his new language and get help.

Frank Kaufmann, born in 1967, studied German philology, didactics and Roma-nian in Zurich. He worked as assistant producer and dramatic advisor in the in-dependent theatre scene. For the Uni-versity of Zurich he has co-develop con-cepts for tuition. He works as a free writer and a staff member of the Lan-guage Center of the University of Zurich and ETH Zurich. His picture book 'Waschbär feiert Ge-burtstag', which was illustrated by Vanya Nastanlieva has been published by At-lantis, an imprint of Orell Füssli Verlag, in 2012.


Beate Fahrnländer was born in Leipzig in 1965, gaining her first experience with painting and graphics early on, at the lo-cal Hochschule für Grafik und Buch-kunst. She studied graphic design in Berlin and Paris, focusing on illustra-tion. After spending four years in the US, she now lives in Lörrach with her family.

AWARD WINNING

TITLE Tsozo and the Foreign Words

Frank Kauffmann / Beate Fahrnländer



Ravi, the ravioli girl and Oli, the ravioli boy crash-land in old Mrs Green’s gar-den. With a rambunctious group of veg-etables calling the shots, it is a wild and wonderful place. Ravi and Oli marvel at the garden’s inhabitants: There is the Rash family, three radishes who are quite agile but also rather cheeky. Coco Cucumber, on the other hand, is a real lady, if a little slow when playing hide-and-seek. Ken Kohlrabi is the undis-puted leader, bossing everybody about when the need arises. But just when everybody is having a great time playing and becoming everybody else’s friend – Slimey Slug, voracious arch-enemy of all vegetables, turns up. Will our heroes be able to escape?

Lea Guidon, born in 1971, has a degree in nutrition psychology and is a kinder-garten teacher. She works as a therapist and regularly teaches workshops for children about nutrition and language.

Andreas Neeser, born in 1964, studied German philology, English language and literature as well as literary criti-cism at Zurich University. From 2003 to 2011 he set up and headed the Argovian House of Literature in Lenzburg. He has been awarded several prizes for his multi-discipline literary work.

Marc Locatelli, born in 1954, studied to be a graphics designer and, after some further training, an illustrator. About Ravi & Oli, he says, 'Having read the story, I immediately knew it was my story! As a vegetarian and a ravioli fan, I’m practically a member of the Green-Land Garden Cooperative in the book.'


Ravi & Oli in Green-LandLea Guidon und Andreas Neeser / Marc Locatelli



Shortlist Readers Choice Arward 2015 (Category Children's Book, Lovely Books)

includes a flip book sequence

No, Ksss is not a real monster – he is small and his voice is rather filmsy. Who should be afraid of him? Fortunately, Liz and Paul discover Ksss in their school’s gym and take care of him. Life is not easy for Liz and Paul, either. Liz is the only girl to play football and wear dun-garees. Paul, on the other hand, has a slight lisp and is the least athletic boy in his class. When the caretaker surprises the three friends, disaster looms – and Ksss shows everybody what he can do!

Daniele Meocci was born in 1964. After his primary teacher training he began to write. Next were a literary award and a year’s studying at the Deutsche Litera-turinstitut, Leipzig. He was hardly back at his teaching job, when a little monster moved into the gym’s changing room.

Bernd Lehmann was born in Cologne in 1982. He studied illustration in Münster. Since getting his degree in the summer of 2009, Bernd Lehmann has been work-ing as a freelance illustrator for several children’s book publishers, among other projects. After some years in Berlin and Cologne, he now lives in Seoul, South Korea, with his wife.

Ksss! Liz, Paul and the Changing Room Monster

Daniele Meocci / Bernd Lehmann

World Rights available144 pages | bound | 13,8 × 21 cm | black/white illustrations | 8+ | 2015


Fast, fun and a little rebellious , the title starts off a new series with a likeable hero.If the day will bring an unpleasant sur-prise, you can feel it as soon as you are getting up: If your feelers are itching like crazy, it‘s a sure sign. And today is one of these days.Fred, the shrewd little ant from Anthill Section Five, gets suspicious when his cousin Albertina tells him the Head Ant wants to see him.Seeing the Head Ant always means she wants you to do some tedious chore. Fred is way too busy for

things like that. He is much more inte-rested in the fine art of walking back-wards, for example.Today, however, any resistance seems pointless. Fred is in a tight spot. The Head Ant wants him to guard her booty cellar. Horrible! Fortunately, Fred‘s best friend, Greg Greenfly, has a fabulous idea how to get rid of tiresome tasks. Isidore, an ambi-tious (and, above all, stupid) scavenger beetle, is just who they need …

Katja Alves, born in Coimbra, Portugal, has worked as an air traffic assistant, a concert promoter, a bookseller and a musical editor. She writes children‘s stories, radio plays for children and works for Nord-Süd publishing house.

Nicolas d’Aujourd’hui, born in Basle in 1965, did a four-year course in Fine Arts and worked as an art teacher at a Basle grammar school for several years. He is writing and drawing picture books, car-toons and comics as well as designing games and running his own publishing business, 'nix-productions'. He is excel-ling at live drawing performances for children and grown-ups. Nicolas d’Aujourd’hui lives in Basle with his wife and children.


Here he comes, Fred – A Clever Plan

Katja Alves / Nicolas d’Aujourd’hui

World Rights available ― Rights sold to: China32 pages | bound | 19 × 25 cm | 5+ | 2014


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Fred hates chore days in his anthill. And this time, cleaning is the order of the day. That means a lot of work, and Fred is al-lergic to work.He’d much rather practise handstands, because BELOW IS THE NEW ABOVE! But to avoid cleaning-up day, Fred needs to think of something. He discusses the problem with his best friend, Greg Greenfly, who comes up with an unusual idea ...

A fast and funny story about Fred, the slightly different ant. There are two new characters being introduced in the se-cond Fred volume: Igor, the scavenger beetle Isidore’s son and Roderick, a conceited woodlouse looking for a bride.

Katja Alves, born in Coimbra, Portugal, has worked as an air traffic assistant, a concert promoter, a bookseller and a musical editor. She writes children‘s stories, radio plays for children and works for Nord-Süd publishing house.

Nicolas d’Aujourd’hui, born in Basle in 1965, did a four-year course in Fine Arts and worked as an art teacher at a Basle grammar school for several years. Since then, he has been writing and drawing picture books, cartoons and comics as well as designing games and running his own publishing business, »nix-productions«. He is just as sponta-neous, quick and cheeky as his charac-ters, excelling at live drawing perfor-mances for children and grown-ups. With him and his audience batting ideas back and forth, impromptu stories and characters pop into vigorous being. Nicolas d’Aujourd’hui lives in Basle with his wife and children.


Here he comes, Fred – Moving Day

Katja Alves / Nicolas d’Aujourd’hui

Geschichte Katja AlvesIllustrationen Nicolas d’Aujourd’hui

GeschichteKatja AlvesIllustrationenNicolas d’Aujourd’hui

Hier kommt Fritz

World Rights available ― Rights sold to: China32 pages | bound | 19 × 25 cm | 5+ | 2014


Comic



The Munggenstalden Villagers cross Gotthard Pass: In the spring of 1327, Al-bin comes to Munggenstalden. He is the boss of the mule caravans that cross the Alps carrying valuable goods.Albin asks the villagers for help: The Devil is on the rampage in Schöllenen Gorge. Apparently, he keeps throwing huge rocks that are blocking the mule tracks. Could Annekäthy and Chrütlis-tine please cook up a cauldron of thei fa-mous Devil's Water, to send Old Nick

(whom the people from Uri call 'Horä-baschi') back to where he came from?The villagers approve of Albin's idea. But will the two wise women agree? And if so, will their brew really drive the Devil away?The third book in the series recounts a fascinating episode from Switzerland's history, sending its protagonists on an exciting journey: Up through Devil's Gorge, across the Gotthard Pass to Ticino and all the way down to Milan on the navigli, the ancient canals.

Martin Weiss, born in 1948, is a jour-na-list, film maker and author of the suc-cessful 'Urchuchi' book series. 'Globi’s Swiss Cookbook' was published by Globi Verlag. Martin Weiss also lectures on journalism and literature at the School of Applied Linguistics SAL and writes articles for Marmite and Wandern.ch magazines.

Rolf Willi was born in 1949 and has been a freelance commercial artist in Zurich since 1978. After working in advertising for years, he has lately been focusing on illustration.

→ More from this author and illustrator: pages 58 ff.

The Villagers of Munggenstalden in Devil's Gorge

Martin Weiss / Rolf Willi

With 8 pages knowledge and background

Volume 3


The Villagers of Munggenstalden: The Great Morgarten Battle


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In the second volume, things come to a head between the rebellious confeder-ates and the Habsburgs – with the in-habitants of Munggenstalden caught in the middle. The second 'Munggenstal-den' volume, 'The Great Morgarten Battle' continues where volume 1 ('The Monastery Raid') left off, depicting the 'Battle of Morgarten' in a historically ac-curate way, even if the details are some-what exaggerated (this includes lots of knights flying through the air and a hail of spiked maces). Finally, the peo-

ple from Schwyz – who used to be mocked as 'country yokels' – together with their allies from Uri and Nidwalden put the Habsburgs to flight. King Leop-old is forced to sign a peacy treaty grant-ing the confederates their freedom.







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There aren’t any magic potions, Romans or Gauls – but this new comic series about Swiss history is every bit as thril-ling, amusing and entertaining as the adventures of Asterix and Obelix. In 1313 AD, the cantons of Uri, Schwyz and Unterwalden are ruled by Habsburg administrators. In Munggenstalden, a small Alpthal village, a group of rebels from Schwyz has cleared a patch of land for cultivation and settled there – smack in the middle of an area belonging to Einsiedeln Monastery. And that is only

the beginning: Another band of settlers is soon to arrive in Alpthal, lock, stock and barrel. The abbot of Einsiedeln does not like it one bit. The quarrel escalates, with the monastery’s patron, Habsburg king Leopold I., muscling in ...




The Villagers of Munggenstalden: The Monastery Raid




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