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F O R E I G N R I G H T S C ATA LO G U E
                                                  CHILDREN‘S BOOKS
                                                      N E W B O O K S 2019
   © Illustration Einar Turkowski

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A Fox in Search of Happiness

                                                                                                                                          NEW

                                        5+

                          Einar Turkowski

           Out of the Shadows
                Stepped a Fox
            Aus dem Schatten
                  trat ein Fuchs
            40 pages, two coloured printing,
                      28 x 28 cm, hardcover
                                    € 24.95

                       All rights available

            »Out of the shadows stepped a fox« ... this is how Einar    and reassuring, other times forbidding and threatening.
           Turkowski's new masterpiece begins. For the first time       The night is still young, still long. But the more it advances,
           ever, he combines his unique pencil drawings with colour.    the more power it gains. The wanderers are close to losing
      15   He takes the viewer on a search for happiness in his very    heart and close to giving in to the dark mood. But the
           own visual language. The fox roams through the night and     colour has been waiting to be found. It shows itself and
:08        a bird of paradise joins him. Both are colourful, both are   gives the fox new courage for facing life. And the bird?
           looking for something, and neither one is quite sure where   He too finds his place and enchants us with his sad songs.
           he’s going. The landscape sometimes seems enchanted

                                                                        Einar Turkowski, born in 1972, studied illustration in
                                                                        Hamburg with Rüdiger Stoye. His works have received
                                                                        numerous awards both nationally and internationally,
                                                                        including the Grand Prix of the 21st Biennale of
                                                                        Illustrations in Bratislava, the Troisdorfer Bilderbuch-Preis,
                                                                        and the Book Art Foundation. His work was also nomina-
                                                                        ted for the Deutscher Jugend Literatur Preis. The author,
                                                                        illustrator, and lecturer lives in Schleswig-Holstein near
                                                                        Kiel.
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The Fascinating Hunters
           of the Animal Kingdom

                                                                                                                                 NEW

                              8+

          Markus Bennemann ·
                 Janine Czichy

 Deliciously Deadly
    Tierisch Tödlich
          64 pages, fully coloured
                     20,5 x 28 cm
            boardbook with flaps
                           € 19.95

             All rights available

Did you know that lions dig graves for their kill? Or that     open in all directions, inviting us to delve in to the fascina-
fish be caught using a net made of bubbles? What makes         ting world of eating and being eaten.
the golden eagle such a housebreaker? This book introdu-
ces us to ten masters of the hunt, from the sneaky short-      · With short informational texts, animal fact sheets,
tailed weasel, which leads its victims in a deadly dance, to     and many vignettes
the exotic Bolas spider, a true queen of marksmanship.         · With spectacular, panoramic illustrations that continue
The atmospheric illustrations and large fold-out pages           under the flaps in unexpected ways

Markus Bennemann studied history and English litera-           Janine Czichy is from Jena, Germany. She studied Visual
ture. He was editor of a daily newspaper, has written crime    Communication at the Bauhaus Universität in Weimar and
dramas for television, and now works as a science editor in    is currently pursuing a masters degree in design and illus-
Wiesbaden. He has published several children's books on        tration at the HAW Hamburg. Appetötlich, her first book,
animal-related themes.                                         grew out of her bachelor’s thesis at HAW Hamburg.
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For the 500th Anniversary of Leonar-
do da Vinci’s Death on May 2nd, 2019

                                                                                                                             NEW

                              8+

       Stephan Martin Meyer •
       Thorwald Spangenberg

  Leonardo´s Flying
          Machines
         Leonardos
      Flugmachinen
          80 pages, fully coloured
                     21,5 x 30 cm,
              hardcover with flops
                           € 19.95

             All rights available

Umbria, 1539: Fourteen-year-old Anselm has lost his family      · With many detailed black & white and colour
to the plague. He finds a new home in a remote Capu-              illustrations and graphic novel elements
chin convent, where he is to help his uncle Ignatius as a       · With technical drawings of Leonardo da Vinci's designs
carpenter's assistant. It is difficult for Anselm to get used   · With info boxes and a detailed appendix
to the deprived life of the monks. But when he discovers        · Published 500 years after the death of this famous
the mysterious drawings of a certain Leonardo from Vinci          painter and polymath
in his uncle's workshop, Anselm embarks on an exciting
adventure. Could it really be possible for humans to fly?
An exciting story with lots of interesting facts about Leo-
nardo da Vinci, his flying machines, and life at the begin-
ning of modern times.

Stephen Martin Meyer, born in 1973 in Georgsmarien-             Thorwald Spangenberg, born in 1982 in Hamburg and
hütte and raised in Osnabrück, studied German, Scandi-          raised in Uelzen, studied design and illustration in Essen
navian culture, and philosophy in Cologne. He has wor-          and Münster. He lives and works in Cologne as a freelance
ked as a project manager and editor, and as a freelance         illustrator since 2012.
author and writer since 2007.
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Biking adventure with
                Paul and Grandpa

                                                                                                                                NEW

                               4+

                   Karsten Teich

            Grandpa
Goes for a Bike Ride
       Paul und Opa
     fahren Fahrrad
          40 pages, fully coloured
                        25 x 21 cm
                            € 13.95

             All rights available

Paul is spending his summer holiday with Grandpa in the          helmet. Finally they’re ready and Paul and Grandpa ride
country. Grandpa’s great – but life in the country sure isn’t!   uphill and downhill on the path to the lake. Not even a flat
No Internet, no cinema – Grandpa doesn’t even have a car!        tire can stop them now!
But then the two find a red folding bicycle in a ditch on the    In this heartwarming and humorous picture book, children
side of the road. They work together to fix it up. The tires     learn all the essentials about owning and riding a bicycle.
need to be patched and the chain oiled, and of course it         It’s a grandfather and grandson holiday adventure for bike-
needs working brakes and a bell. Paul also has to get a          lovers great and small!

                                                                 The author and illustrator Karsten Teich was born in 1967
                                                                 in Hannoversch Münden. After earning an arts degree at
                                                                 the Kunsthochschule Kassel, he worked for a number of
                                                                 magazines and daily newspapers and wrote and designed
                                                                 very successful children’s books. Today he lives with his
                                                                 family in Berlin.
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Exciting Facts About Everyone’s
                     Favourite Beetle

                                                                                                                             NEW

                                 5+

    Bärbel Oftring • Jana Walczyk

       Look, a Ladybug!
             Schau mal,
        ein Marienkäfer!
              40 pages, fully coloured
     25 x 21 cm, hardcover with flaps
                               € 14.95

                      Sold to Korea

Look! Who’s crawling over there? In the first rays of           Bärbel Oftring, born in 1962, studied biology and worked
springtime sunlight, a ladybug is emerging from its hiding      as an editor in the garden and nature departments of a
place. From this point on we accompany this living good         large publishing company. Today she works as a freelance
luck charm through the year. We observe its development         author and editor. As an author of over sixty books, she
from larvae to the pupa scage and to fully-grown beetle,        especially loves communicating astounding, interesting,
learn that the little insect is good at defending itself from   and valuable information about nature and the environ-
predators, and come to understand why the ladybug likes         ment to children. Not accidentally, she is also an outdoor
to spend time with gardeners. We can even peek under its        and experiential educator. Oftring published the volumes
polka-dotted wings!                                             Wald and Wale und Haie in Gerstenberg’s series Lesen—
                                                                Staunen—Wissen.
Under the fold-out pages there are lots more facts about
the seven-pointed ladybug and its colourful relatives.          Jana Walczyk, born in 1989 in Bramsche bei Osnabrück,
                                                                studied design and illustration at the Fachhochschule
                                                                Münster and earned her master’s degree at the HAW
•      With many fold-out pages                                 Hamburg. Since graduating she has worked as a freelance
•      With a discoverer’s journal and fact sheet               illustrator for books and editorial.
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Learning about animal life –
                     for the littlest ones!

                                   3+                                                                                               NEW

                     Thomas Müller

    Animals on the Farm
Tiere auf dem Bauernhof
               16 pages, fully coloured,
    20,5 x 15 cm, hardcover with flaps
                                 € 12.95

              All rights available

                                   3+                                                                                               NEW
                     Thomas Müller

  Animals in the Garden
        Tiere im Garten
               16 pages, fully coloured,
    20,5 x 15 cm, hardcover with flaps
                                 € 12.95

                 All rights available

    Let's go to the farm! Thomas Müller takes us on a journey      What's crawling and creeping and flying over there? There
    through the stables and fields. What is made from sheep's      are many different animals in the garden to discover! We
    wool? How do cats live on the farm? When does a chick          learn where the peacock butterfly lays its eggs, what the
    break out of its eggshell? In this picture book, young         hedgehog eats, and how the wasps buzz around inside
    farm-lovers learn the most important things about how          their nests. In this book, with seven lovingly designed
    to look after all sorts of farm animals. They not only learn   fold-out pages, you will take a closer look at these and
    what each animal does on the farm, but how their young         many other animals in the garden. Brief texts provide
    are born.                                                      some fascinating insights, so you can learn even more
      • Sturdy and thick pages with child-appropriate texts        about each animal!
    		 and illustrations – for kids to look at on their own and      • Robin, snail, dormouse, butterfly, frog, wasp, hedgehog
    		 read together
      • With seven fold-out pages

                                                                   Thomas Müller was born in Döbeln and studied at the
                                                                   Academy of Visual Arts in Leipzig, where he still lives and
                                                                   works as a freelance illustrator. Until today he has illustra-
                                                                   ted more than 30 children’s books.
                                                                   www.thomasmueller-illustration.de
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A Tale of Dangerous Pirates
   and Daydreaming Boys

                                                                                                                              NEW

                              ?+

   Jens Sparschuh · Julia Dürr

         Jakob´s Shell
       Jakobs Muschel
         64 pages, fully coloured
         18,5 x 24 cm, boardbook
                           € 13,95

            All rights available

When Jakob holds his shell to his ear, he hears the sound     eyes and suddenly he can see him: Jonny the pirate, the
of the ocean. And when he closes his eyes, he can even see    notorious thief of the high seas. With that wart on his
it. One day, while he’s sitting on the jungle gym between     nose, he sure looks a lot like Jonas. A storm closes in and
the apartment buildings, who shows up but Jonas — Jonas       the pirate ship goes down. Unfortunately not all of the pi-
the cool kid with the expensive tennis and sharp tongue       rates can swim. Does Jonas know how? A humorous story
who always picks on him. Quick as a flash, Jonas swipes       about little tough guys, big dreamers, and the power of the
Jakob’s shell. Jakob takes one look down and, frightened      imagination.
of falling, holds on tight with both hands. He closes his

Jens Sparschuh, born in 1955 in Karl-Marx-Stadt (today        Julia Dürr, born in 1981 in Frankfurt am Main, studied
Chemnitz), grew up in East Berlin. He studied philosophy      illustration in Münster. She has lived in worked in Berlin
and logic in Leningrad (St. Petersburg) and completed a       since 2010. Dürr also illustrated Jens Sparschuh’s children’s
doctorate in 1983 at Humboldt University. Since then, he      book Der alte Mann und das Meerschweinchen (The Old Man
has lived in Berlin as a freelance writer. Sparschuh writes   and the Guinea Pig), which was awarded the Prix Chronos
radio plays and novels for children and adults.               in 2018.
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The Pig has a Round Belly. Me too!

                                                                                                                        NEW

                        3+

           Daniela Kulot

             Me too!
           Ich auch!
    28 pages, fully coloured,
   22 x 15,5 cm, hardcover
                      € 9,95

     All rights available

                                From head to toe, children love to learn and discover things about their bodies.
                                And it's twice the fun when Mom and Dad are there to help!
                                An activity book that makes it fun to learn facts about your body. Look at the
                                pictures, read aloud, rhyme along, and play together!

                                                        Born in 1966, Daniela Kulot already loved drawing and
                                                        painting when she was still a kid. After studying graphic
                                                        design and illustration at the Fachhochschule Augsburg
                                                        she now works as a freelance painter, illustrator and writer,
                                                        with numerous picture books to her credit, many of which
                                                        have been translated.
Who will pull the sword out
                              of the stone, will be the
                                 next king of Britannia!
                                                                                                                                NEW

                              8+
               Ilka Sokolowski ·
                  Helmut Dohle

                       Arthur
      King of Camelot
                         Artus
  König auf Camelot
          64 pages, fully coloured
            22 x 30cm, hardcover
                           € 13,00

             All rights available

The message spreads like wildfire: a stone has appeared         country? But Arthur quickly proves that he is set on being
near the arena with a giant sword stuck in it. The inscripti-   Britain's king and with the help of the wizard Merlin he's
on promises a new king for Britain. When the five-year-old      ready to face any adversary. An immortal tale of love and
Arthur is the one to pull the sword out of the stone, there     betrayal, intrigue and power, and the search for the Holy
is much disappointment. How can a child unite the divided       Grail—grippingly written and wonderfully illustrated.

Following her studies in philosophy, German studies, and        Helmut Dohle is a freelance painter and illustrator. After
English studies in Hanover, Ilka Sokolowski worked for          working for several years in a gallery, he devotes himself
several years as an editor for the magazine »Playing and        fully to painting today. He lives with his family in Münster.
Learning« spielen und lernen and for Treff Youth Books. She
has been a freelance author focused on fact-based books
for children since 1998.
An atmospheric novel about saying
goodbye and beginning anew –
             poetic and spellbinding
                                                                                                                                    NEW

                              13 +

                  Dirk Reinhardt

Over the Mountains
  and Over the Sea
  Über die Berge und
      über das Meer
                        320 pages
             14 x 22 cm, hardcover
                           € 14,95

             All rights available

Every year in spring, the nomads stop by Soraya's village           should be living as a girl again in the quiet of her home. In
on their way to their summer home in the Afghan moun-               fact the Taliban has, in no uncertain terms, mandated that
tains. Accompanying them is Tarek, who knows sheep bet-             she do so. They have also threatened Tarek and expect him
ter than anyone else and is a wonderful storyteller. But this       to put his excellent animal tracking abilities to work for
year Soraya waits for him in vain. According to an old tradi-       them. The nomads' plight worsens dramatically. Tarek and
tion, as the seventh daughter in her family, she was raised         Soraya can see no other way and each journey out into the
as a boy and was able to move freely and attend school.             world, without knowing where the other is or what they're
But as a 14-year-old, she has reached the age where she             doing. Unexpectedly, they cross paths in the mountains.

Dirk Reinhardt, born in 1963, studied History and German
Studies. He worked as an adjunct faculty member in the
History department at the University of Münster and as
a freelance journalist. Today he is dedicated to writing books
full time. His hit novel Train Kids, now in its 8th printing, was
awarded numerous prizes, including the Friedrich Gerstäcker
Prize, and was nominated for the Deutscher Jugendliteratur-
preis.
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