Carlsen

• Madlen Ottenschläger
• Illustrated by Marta Balmaseda
• Spring 2023, 32 pages, 22.2 x 28.8 cm
• Picturebook
• ab 2
• All rights available
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Like every evening, Mom is asking Anton to go to bed so she can call it a day. But what is that anyway – closing time? Anton will reveal this secret tonight! So he gets up again and is amazed: Mom isn’t alone at the end of the day. Together with stuffed elephant Rosi she is eating chocolate biscuits, singing pirate songs and playing tag… Anton can hardly believe it. Is he dreaming?

Funny and imaginative bedtime story, in which dream and reality blur.

• Gesa Neitzel
• Illustrated by Julian Meyer
• Spring 2023, 32 pages, 22.6 x 27.8 cm
• Picturebook
• ab 3
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Join Matti, the little mongoose, and Elias, the sad old elephant, on an exciting tour through the savannah. There Elias learns that it is better to let your feelings run free – like the lion that is anxious, the hippopotamus that is grazing during the day or the leopardess taking care of a baby monkey.

A story that encourages children to accept and allow feelings.

• Saša Stanišić
• Illustrated by Regina Kehn
• Spring 2023, 160 pages, 15.8 x 21.5 cm
• Hardcover
• ab 11
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At summer camp, Kemi is part of a diverse group of youngsters. And he meets Jörg, who is quite special, but whom Kemi is very interested in. He watches closely what the others are doing with Jörg and how everything is slowly escalating. How far? In his dreams, Kemi encounters a wolf, his own fear. He learns to live with the wolf and to be brave.

A book about friendship and empathy, grandiosely told by the award-winning bestselling author Saša Stanišić.

• Mario Fesler
• Illustrated by Nikolai Renger
• Spring 2023, 167 pages, 14.8 x 21.0 cm
• Hardcover
• ab 10
• All rights available
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Fred finally gets a smartphone for his birthday, but why on earth does it only have one app? Quickly Fred realizes that with a single click he can beam himself in and out of his brother’s body. What is funny at first soon becomes quite uncomfortable. What does his brother have to do with the gangsters who stole from Fred’s best friend Svetlana? Fred only has four tries and 24 hours to save his brother from this mess.

Many funny illustrations and the focus of the story make it a perfect read especially for boys.

• Martin Muser
• Spring 2023, 128 pages, 13.8 x 22 cm
• Hardcover
• ab 14
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Five teenagers in a house in the country. Manuel tried to mediate. Selin tried to fight back. Knut tried to correct the error. Philip tried to get help. Esther tried to escape. To no purpose. A perfidious game about power, violence and fear … Martin Muser’s thrilling debut for young adults, gloomy and oppressive!

• Anja Reumschüssel
• Spring 2023, 368 pages,
• Hardcover
• ab 14
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75 years of Israel: The conflict of Jews and Palestinians well researched and touchingly described from two perspectives. Novel & Non fiction in one.

In her first novel the renowned journalist Anja Reumschüssel succeeds in telling the complex story of Israel and its two peoples in an exciting and knowledgeable way. Set in the present and yet with flashbacks to the time of the founding of the state, a differentiated picture of the Middle East conflict emerges here that promotes understanding and gives rise to hope.