YA & Children’s Fiction

The cast of characters who sleep under the sofa in Jakob Borg’s room sure are a motley crew: there is Snout the donkey, who feels called to be a professor and loves nothing more than a good meal....

Edvard is going to be fifteen soon and to his annoyance he is not yet the cool guy he would like to be: he has no hair on his chest, his voice is much too high-pitched and Constanze is not the least bit interested in him. To get to her, Edvard creates a fake social media profile pretending to be Jason from Chicago. What sounds like an ingenious plan at first soon begins to snowball...

»Axel has been missing for three days. I subtract the hours that have passed without him here from the eighty hours that I have known him. Twenty-six hours are left. In little more than a day it’ll be like I never knew Axel Peschke.«

Hamburg, 1977. Julle is fourteen. Shortly before the summer break, a new student, Axel, joins his class. Julle falls...

Together with his newfound companions, Pig meets even more friends, a crocodile, gnomes, a giant and many more. But Pig still feels very lonely and abandoned. But is that really the case? Of course not!

In catchy rhymes, Jörg Hilbert talks about loneliness. But also about the fact that you are not always alone when you think you are.

The physician John Dolittle lives in the small town of Puddleby-on-the Marsh, and he is not on good terms with the local people. Things are entirely different with the animals, he is able to help...

All beginnings are difficult. This little bird also knows a thing or two about that. The big day has arrived, it’s time to leave the nest. But that’s pretty high! Will it be OK? Just...

When the wind comes to life and the rain becomes a danger, the storm gets a soul and weather a face: Vega

Germany 2052: The hot, dry summers are causing the people to suffer. To alleviate the water shortage, Vega works as a weather maker – she manipulates the clouds and brings rain. But she has a secret: unlike her colleagues, she doesn’t use chemicals and drones...

»Jimi the Polar Bear was lying in the arms of the sleeping child, his paws crossed. It was 1 very young polar pear the size of a puppy and he hardly dared to breathe so as not to wake the child. The child was dreaming that Jimi was lying in its arms and told him 1 story.«

Thus begins the short poetic story of Jimi the Polar Bear and the child Emma, told by the great Austrian poet...

Thousandfurs is probably the most beautiful and best-known collection of nursery rhymes in this country. Following the two famous examples Des Knaben Wunderhorn and the Oxford Nursery Rhyme Book, Hans Magnus Enzensberger first compiled nursery rhymes in 1961 and added hundreds of atmospheric illustrations. 777 beautiful nursery rhymes, old and new, well-known and...

It all starts with the old nursery rhyme: »There once was a man who had a sponge ...«. But then the rhyme and the plot take on a life of their own, and the man with the child's...