aracari verlag

The Publishing House and its History

Aracari Publishing was founded in 2009.

Aracari Publishing believes that more space needs to be made in everyday family life for the realm of the imagination, for dreams and stories, so that children as well as their parents can relate to themes of true authenticity, emotion and the elemental. Our almost unlimited access to material goods is no substitute for the search for answers to fundamental questions like love and security, life and death, friendship and loneliness and so much more. Only through negotiating such topics does true self-awareness and a deep relationship with the world become possible.

Aracari Publishing seeks to return to children and adults the wealth of experience gained through reading and to do so in a contemporary way. Aracari’s goal is to publish books that do not seek to romanticise and gloss over the real world but rather to produce exciting works tinged with humour and profound insights, books that are highly artistic, of fine quality and have stunning images, while simultaneously plumbing the essence of things and venturing into the past.

The themes are as diverse and multi-faceted as the regions from which the authors and illustrators come. The very name of the publishing house - aracari - a brightly coloured South American toucan – says it all, because the focus of our publishing house is on sophisticated picture books with original illustrations by international artists from France, Italy, New Zealand, the US, Canada, Korea, Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium and Switzerland - the work of writers of fine literary talent!

Program

At its launch in the autumn of 2010 aracari had 9 titles on its list. In the meantime the range of published works has grown to over 50 books and various non-book-products. Not only does aracari offer the classical picture book range but also a boardbook series, a small library of philosophical books, picture books without words and a Christmas series.

Authors and Illustrators

Aracari is for example working together with: Brigitte Endres, Marc-Alexander Schulze, Mies van Hout, Leo Timmers, Michael Mantel, Anna Karina Birkenstock und Claudia de Weck.