Jumbo Verlag

• Hanna Müller, Carla Swiderski
• Illustrated by Miren Asiain Lora
• Autumn 2022, 48 pages, 21.5 x 28 cm
• Hardcover
• 5+
• All rights available
• Website

Elephants withdraw from others to die while relatives stand guard. Chimpanzees carry their deceased to their final resting place. Cats show less interest in playing and eating when they lose an animal or human with whom they had formed a close bond. Many animal species express grief in their own unique ways, this is being researched more and more. There is no right way to deal with loss and grief, but many variations.This book illustrates that grief and death have a place in life and helps children understand and talk about these difficult topics.

• Carla Swiderski, Hanna Müller, Hannah Stollmayer
• Illustrated by Adolfo Serra
• Spring 2023, 32 pages, 24.6 x 24.4 cm
• Hardcover
• Ages 3+
• Rights sold to Denmark
• Website

Ricki, the shy little octopus, has to move! Because the shipwreck in which he lived has been salvaged. He starts to look for a new place to live, with a lot of help from his friends. Will Ricki find a place in the cave with a moray eel? Or live with the seahorse in the seagrass meadow? None of this really seems to suit Ricki – if only he had such a great house like the turtle, which always carries its shell with it! But Ricki and his friends won’t give up until they find a suitable home for him.

• Andrea Reitmeyer
• Illustrated by Andrea Reitmeyer
• Spring 2023, 32 pages, 24.6 x 24.4 cm
• Hardcover
• Ages 3+
• All rights available
• Website

Pelle, a brown bear, and his best friend Yoko, a small fox, live together with other animals in the forest. One day, the stream that is the centre of their lives gradually dries up. Where has the water gone? Pelle and Yoko go on an adventurous search and eventually find out that the beavers have built a huge dam to keep all the water to themselves. The two friends now have an important task: they must bring the water back to the other animals!

• Klaus-Peter Wolf
• Illustrated by Franziska Harvey
• Autumn 2022, 136 pages, 12.5 x 19.5 cm
• Hardcover
• Ages 9+
• All rights available
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Laura and Leonie Wonder are twin sisters, but they couldn’t be more different. Shy Laura loves numbers and science while lively Leonie is happiest when she can scramble up rocks or the climbing wall in her room. Nevertheless, the two are always there for each other when things get dicey. Since Laura solves crimes with her keen sleuthing skills, the twins have had many adventures. When Leonie is accused of a theft she didn’t commit, Laura is the only one who believes her. She sets out to solve this difficult case, daring herself much more than ever before.

• Bettina Göschl, Klaus-Peter Wolf
• Illustrated by Franziska Harvey
• Autumn 2022, 160 pages, 12.5 x 19.5 cm
• Hardcover
• Ages 8+
• All rights available
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Burglars in the Villa Janssen! Just as Emma and Lukas are alone at home. Due to a severe onset of winter, daddy Mick and mommy Sarah are stuck on the North Sea Island of Juist. Fortunately, the North Sea Detectives know how to help themselves and get to safety. But that’s just the beginning of their tricky new case! What were the thieves looking for in their great-uncle’s old house? And why does not even the police believe that they are in great danger? Emma and Lukas develop a courageous plan.

• Dorothée Böhlke
• Illustrated by Dorothée Böhlke
• Spring 2023, 176 pages, 12.5 x. 19.5 cm
• Hardcover
• Ages 7+
• All rights available
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Billie has to spend the summer with her grandmother in the country – and she has absolutely no desire to do so. She is convinced that she is in for the most boring vacation imaginable. But there she is mistaken. Grandma Gisela is anything but boring, as Billie soon realizes. And then, a pony mysteriously appears in the apple orchard of grandma’s farm. Billie and Stüx get along right from the start and become inseparable. But how did Stüx actually get into the garden? Where did the pony come from? Jenny from the village helps Billie find the answers. An exciting, adventurous summer begins for the two girls.