New Releases and Backlist Spring 2019 Foreign …...We proudly present: Ten Tiny, Spooky Ghosts Marty the Coole-Woole-Hat-Ghost: Very cool, cheeky, ad-venturous and brave in any situation,

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New Releases and Backlist Spring 2019

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Board Books6 Ten Tiny, Spooky Ghosts

8 Ten Tiny, Spooky Ghosts Are DreamingSusanne Göhlich

10 Ten Tiny, Spooky Ghosts – A Big Party in the CastleSusanne Göhlichs

11 Ten Tiny, Spooky Ghosts at the ZooSusanne Göhlich

12 Ten Tiny, Spooky Ghosts – The Ghosts’ KitchenSusanne Göhlich

13 Ten Tiny, Spooky Ghosts – In the ForestSusanne Göhlich

14 Ten tiny, Spooky Ghosts – The PresentSusanne Göhlich

15 Ten tiny, Spooky Ghosts – On the SwingSusanne Göhlich

16 Ten tiny, Spooky Ghosts go on a tripSusanne Göhlich

17 The ManyphantAndreas Német / Hans-Christian Schmidt

18 Outdoors, Indoors, AnywhereMarc Locatelli

19 What a girafe sounds likeSusanne Weber / Tina Schulte

20 What does the Queen do all day?Catharina Westphal

21 Kicking, climbing, standing on your headMarc Locatelli

22 Look an Colour! – Christmas is comingKatja Schüler / Anke Fröhlich

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

24 Look and Colour! – My VehiclesKatja Schüler / Anke Fröhlich

25 Look and Colour! – My Farm AnimalsKatja Schüler / Anke Fröhlich

26 Look and Colour! – My WorldKatja Schüler / Anke Fröhlich

27 Advent, Advent!Marion Elitez

Picture Books30 Leon’s Excavator

Christian Tielmann / Dirk Hennig

31 Mamma MiaGardi Hutter / Catherine Louis

32 Very Best Friends – The FlyalongAntje Bohnstedt

33 Very Best Friends – A Plague of GnomesAntje Bohnstedt

First Reader 36 Miri, Mats and their Weird Neighbour

Britta Nonnast / Dirk Hennig

38 Luke and the Niggle PigsJoachim Friedrich / Minna McMaster / Astrid Henn

39 Gabriel 3 – Complete Chaos!Sunil Mann / Tine Schulz

40 New Friends for GabrielSunil Mann / Tine Schulz

41 Nothing but Trouble with GabrielSunil Mann / Tine Schulz

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

43 Luke and the Mystery of the talking AnimalsJoachim Friedrich / Minna McMaster / Astrid Henn

44 Ten Tiny, Spooky Ghosts – The Would-Be GenieBritta Nonnast / Susanne Göhlich

45 Ten Tiny, Spooky Ghosts – No Treasure for FlittyBritta Nonnast / Susanne Göhlich

46 Ten Tiny, Spooky Ghosts – Who’s afraid of the gloomy Ghost?Britta Nonnast / Susanne Göhlich

47 Sarah and the Sea – Of Fish Passing Gas and Floating StonesCarsten Otte / Christine Brand

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

49 Tsozo and the Foreign WordsFrank Kauffmann / Beate Fahrnländer

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

51 Ksss! Liz, Paul and the Changing Room MonsterDaniele Meocci / Bernd Lehmann

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ILLUSTRATION: DIRK HENNIG 'MIRI, MATS AND THEIR WEIRD NEIGHBOUR'© 2019 ORELL FÜSSLI VERLAG

Board BooksIt all began in 1519,

with Christoph Froschauer and Huldrych Zwingli …

Christoph Froschauer is the first quali-fied printer to settle in the city of Zurich. Originally from Bavaria, he becomes a naturalised citizen of Zurich in 1519 – the same year Huldrych Zwingli is elected to the post of priest at the Gross-münster cathedral. Zwingli and Fro-schauer get on well. Their cooperation lays the foundations for a publishing house of European standing …

500 Years: Events and Milestones

16th Century

1531 Froschauer prints Zwingli‘s ‚Zür- cher Bibel‘ (Zurich Bible).

1534 One of the first maps of the world showing America is published.

1564 Froschauer dies of the plague after publishing more than 700 books.

17th Century

1650 Rudolf and Conrad Meyer‘s ‚Ster-bensspiegel‘ (The Mirror of Death) is published – a highlight of Baroque book illustration.

18th Century

1732 A translation of John Milton‘s ‚Paradise Lost‘ is published.

1756 Salomon Gessner‘s ‚Idyllen‘ (‚Idylls‘) are published, causing a sensa-tion throughout Europe.

1762 The first edition of Shakespeare‘s works in German is published.

1778 The publishing house presents the first complete translation of Homer‘s works.

19th Century

1812 Johann David Wyss‘s ‚Der Schweiz-erische Robinson‘ (‚The Swiss Family Robinson‘) is published and becomes a children‘s classic.

1833 The University of Zurich is estab-lished and the publishing house focuses on non-fiction, pedagogics and text-books.

20th Century

1924 The publishing department be-comes independent from the printing office, establishing a market presence of its own.

1971 Carigiet‘s picture books ‚Schel-len-Ursli‘ (‚A Bell for Ursli‘), ‚Flurina‘ (‚Flurina and the Wild Bird‘), etc. switch to Orell Füssli.

21st Century

2003 Orell Füssli‘s children‘s book de-partment is extended. Atlantis is inte-grated as an imprint.

2007 Globi Publishers (home of the ‚Papa Moll‘ series) is integrated as an-other imprint.

2013 A brand-new children‘s book pro-gramme is established: ‚Orell Füssli Kinderbuch‘.

2019 It‘s the publishing house‘s 500th birthday. It is part of the Orell Füssli Holding AG and is run as one of its four divisions.

500 YearsOrell Füssli Publishers

We proudly present:

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.

Baldwin, 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.

with thumb index

→ 10 different dreams→ Falling asleep and dreaming – an important subject→ Thumb index included

Dream Your Fantasies!

When the Ten Tiny, Spooky Ghosts fall asleep, they each dream their own, indi-vidual dream. Ralphie dreams he‘s sail-ing a pirate ship to Treasure Island, Ru-fus sees himself as a bold knight at a jousting tournament. Fairy tales are popular, too. Lucy is being visited by the witch while Marty is heroically protect-ing the Seven Little Goats from the Big,

Bad Wolf. In the last scene they‘re all flying to dreamland together, on a magic carpet.

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 Are Dreaming

Susanne Göhlich

World Rights available24 pages | board book | 22 × 16 cm | 3+ | 2019

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Ten tiny, spooky ghostsAre going to the zoo.It’s hot, they take a break and thenThey buy some ice cream, too.

But – oops! A thief has pinched the tini-est ghost’s ice cream.So quickly that Flitty only caught a glimpse of a dark, furry shape.Who was it? And where is the hairy mis-creant hiding?


Susanne Göhlich

World Rights available ― Rights sold to: China24 pages | board book | 22 × 16 cm | 2+ | 2018

Ten Tiny, Spooky Ghosts at the Zoo

with thumb index

A Hidden-Object Book with the Ten Tiny, Spooky Ghosts

The Ten Tiny, Spooky Ghosts have their hands full: Tonight, they’re having a ghostly party at their castle. Until then, there’s a lot to do. Things would be much easier, though, if Chilly, the small dog, didn’t keep sabotaging their prepara-tions. His main goal is to save every last one of the delicious bones that he’s hid-ing from the cat in every scene...It’s not easy for their young audience to find the ghosts and their dog in the busy rooms of the castle. Finally, however, the party begins and it’s going on until

the drawbridge has been winched up again, everybody has left and every last ghost has literally hit the hay.


Susanne Göhlich

World Rights available18 pages | board book | 24,5 × 32,5 cm | 3+ | 2018


Ten Tiny, Spooky Ghosts – A Big Party in the Castle


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.

World Rights available ― Rights sold to: China, Spanish Worldwide24 pages | board book | 16 × 18 cm | 2+ | 2017

Ten Tiny, Spooky Ghosts – In the Forest

Susanne Göhlich


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



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.


Ten tiny, Spooky Ghosts – On the Swing

Susanne Göhlich




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

Andreas Német / Hans-Christian Schmidt


1, 2, 3... many phants!An elephant with 2 ears and a measly 3 hairs on his head stands on 4 legs, pro-duces 5 heaps of droppings, is followed by 6 flies and so on. The likeable elephant doesn’t just encourage children to help him count and get to know the numbers from 1 to 10. He also has an appetite for bananas – lots of bananas! And so, in the end, he doesn’t only eat 10 of them, no, he eats a great many – too many, actually, as he finally has to admit!As simple as it is amusing – a beginners’ guide to counting.

– Simple pictures encourage young chil-dren to help the elephant count

Andreas Német works as a freelance graphics and product designer. Cooper-ating with Hans-Christian Schmidt, Német has developed and designed nu-merous books for various well-known publishing houses.

Hans-Christian Schmidt is famous for his creative board books, one of which (’The Apple Miracle’) has been nomi-nated as one of the ’Schönste Bücher 2017’.

The Manyphant



with thumb index

Susanne Göhlich


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

The Big Holiday Hidden Object Book

Marc Locatelli

A hidden object book about everybody’s favourite time of the year: the long vaca-tion. Here are seven large-format double pages about a family who are spending their holiday at a campsite. They soon find new friends who join them for day trips in the vicinity.There are countless details to be discov-ered in these teeming pictures, and they all tell new stories of their own: What are the family doing? Or the troop of boy scouts? What is the lady in the overalls tinkering with this time? And on every

page, there are things that seem out of place. What is an elephant doing in the Alps? Or a bouquet of flowers down a mineshaft?

Marc Locatelli, born 1954, is a qualified graphic designer, an illustrator and a sports enthusiast who lives and works in Zurich. Outdoors, Indoors, Anywhere is his second Hidden Object Book pub-lished by Orell Füssli Kinderbuch.

→ More from this illustrator: pages 21 and 50

Outdoors, Indoors, Anywhere 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, focusing 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



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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, cycling or sack-races. The pictures encourage 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 num-bered 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.


Kicking, climbing, standing on your head

Marc Locatelli

World Rights available ― Rights sold to: China16 pages | large-format hidden object sports book | 26 × 34 cm | 3+ | 2016


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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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.

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 and author: pages 22 ff.

Look and Colour! – My Zoo Animals

Katja Schüler / Anke Fröhlich


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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.


Look an Colour! – Christmas is coming





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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 set-tings 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 pictures (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

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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 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.

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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, Russia, Korea32 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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First Reader

→ Witty dialogue, modern kids→ Everybody‘s favourite genre: a mystery→ Prejudice makes you blind→ For advanced first readers and second-level readers

The twins can‘t believe what they‘ve just heard on the radio: a jewel robbery, only a few blocks away? At once, they both think of their new neighbour. They hav-en‘t really seen him yet, but they feel he might be responsible for the crime. Why else would he behave so strangely?

Miri and Mats begin to tail him, using every trick in the book. A sleepwalking neighbour and a cat in love aren‘t exactly helping, either. In the end, though, they get their reward – with Mats making a useful observation in passing …

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.

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.

Miri, Mats and their Weird Neighbour

Britta Nonnast / Dirk Hennig

World Rights available112 pages | bound | 15,4 × 20,5 cm | 6+ | 2019


Luke and his friends are dealing with a baffling mystery

Luke, a confident, hearing-impaired boy, can communicate with animals by tun-ing in to their wavelength, so to speak. He knows exactly what’s worrying his tomcat, Millicent, and he’s aware of the secret thoughts of his girlfriend Mary’s Great Dane.

When Lilly, the guinea pig, disappears from the zoo, Luke is the first to hear – from his animals. With Mary and his four-legged friends, he starts to investi-gate. Lilly has vanished through a tun-nel; where does it lead to? What does the mysterious owl know and why are the niggle pigs bickering all the time?

And what is Bill, the keeper, up to at the zoo at night? A hot trail leads the inves-tigators straight into Luke’s mother’s veterinary surgery.

A fast-paced mystery featuring unusual friendships, a wide range of personali-ties and witty dialogue.

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 children’s books while in his mid-thir-ties. Many of them have been adapted for television 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.

→ More from these authors and illustrator: page 43

Joachim Friedrich / Minna McMaster / Astrid Henn

World Rights available176 pages | bound | 13,8 × 21 cm | 8+ | 2018


Luke and the Niggle PigsThere’s been a kidnapping at the board-ing school, Gabriel and his friends need a lot of courage.

One evening, young Gabriel the guardian angel sees Madame Longbec receiving visitors. What business can the Cloud Castle headmistress have with those two shady characters? With his friend Aurora, Gabriel begins to investigate. And when Madame Longbec gets kid-napped everybody is scandalized. She must be saved. But that’s a tall order.Madame Longbec’s abductor, Dr Mar-falach, has recently been fired from his job as principal of the Goetheburg Boarding School for Angels.

He is spending large sums of money buying up schools, which then have do adopt his outdated teaching methods and opinions. And now he wants Cloud Castle.Gabriel and Aurora set out for Dr Mar-falach’s castle. On their way, they have to deal with the Fog of Fear, the Lying Compass Roses and the Cyclone of In-sanity. In the breathtaking finale, things seem to be getting literally too hot for them to handle and they have to call in Lucy the she-devil to help them out.

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: pages 40 f.

Sunil Mann / Tine Schulz



Gabriel 3 – Complete Chaos!

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.


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: pages 39 ff.

New Friends for GabrielSunil Mann / Tine Schulz


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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.


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: pages 39 ff.

Nothing but Trouble with Gabriel

Sunil Mann / Tine Schulz

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

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 independent 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 Atlantis, 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 children’s books while in his mid-thir-ties. Many of them have been adapted for television 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.

→ More from this author and illustrator: page 38

Luke and the Mystery of the talking Animals

Joachim Friedrich / Minna McMaster / Astrid Henn

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


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Ten Tiny, Spooky Ghosts – The Would-Be Genie

Britta Nonnast / Susanne Göhlich

World Rights available ― Rights sold to: China96 pages | bound | 17,5 × 23 cm | 5+ | 2018

Bibbie, the shaky ghost, is tired of being scared all the time. She’d love to be brave, admired by the others. But what can she do? Out of sheer desperation, Bibbie takes a course – taught by a for-est witch – on how to become a genie. Suddenly, everything seems different and she can even grant wishes. But in-stead of being admired, she’s in trouble. Bibbie has to learn her lesson before re-alising that she has been tricked by the witch. Finally, however, she rises above herself, becoming the bold ghost she has always wanted to be.


→ More from this author: pages 45 f.


→ More from this illustrator: pages 6 ff. and pages 45 f.

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?Flitty, 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 attempts 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!


→ More from this author: pages 44 and 46


→ More from this illustrator: pages 6 ff., 44 and 46

Ten Tiny, Spooky Ghosts – No Treasure for Flitty


World Rights available ― Rights sold to: China96 pages | bound | 17,5 × 23 cm | 5+ | 2017


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



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.


→ More from this author: pages 44 f.

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.

→ More from this illustrator: pages 6 ff. and 44 f.


World Rights available ― Rights sold to: China 96 pages | bound | 17,5 × 23 cm | 5+ | 2017

Ten Tiny, Spooky Ghosts – Who’s afraid of the gloomy Ghost?

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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

World Rights available96 pages | bound | 15 × 20,5 cm | 6+ | 2015


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 Atlantis, 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



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

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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



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


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