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• Martina Walther
• Illustrated by Martina Walther
• Spring 2023, 44 pages, 20.3. x 29 cm
• Hardcover
• Ages 4+
• All rights available
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Business is quiet at Alberta’s secondhand shop in a little seaside town. One day, however, a man desperately searching for a parking space triggers gossip that there is something extra-special about Alberta’s shop. People come flooding in, each with their own particular request: a chair with a long back and short legs, a grumpy cloud, more pepper in their life, an inflatable dumbbell ... Alberta darts eagerly back and forth among the crowded shelves, looking for a fitting item – and she always comes up with the right answer.Then one day Alberta’s loyalest customer, Pepe the fisherman, comes to town again and asks her the question that changes everything.

• Einar Turkowski
• Illustrated by Einar Turkowski
• Autumn 2022, 40 pages, 30.5. x 19.3 cm
• Hardcover
• Ages 12+
• All rights available
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I remember how it all began.Lost in thought, I wandered the hills, up one road, down another, following more or less beaten tracks that gradually coalesced into a net of pulsating veins I needed to be able to breathe freely. Clutching my bike’s golden handlebars tightly, I pushed it through the tougher sections in the usual manner.The narrator remembers his childhood days when he went on exploratory bike rides along the winding local roads around his new home in Pinewood Hills.

• Reto Crameri
• Illustrated by Reto Crameri
• Spring 2023, 56 pages, 18.4 x 24.5 cm
• Hardcover
• Ages 3+
• All rights available
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Children’s games open a door into a fantastic world we will call Alula, a place full of adventures and surprises, danger and exotic creatures. Alula is also a special kind of word – a palindrome. Read it backwards and see!Two children are tracking a cat – or is it an exotic butterfly they’re following? In this reversible book without words, Reto Crameri gives two different versions of a daring expedition.

• Jürgen Banscherus
• Illustrated by Franziska Neubert
• Spring 2023, 32 pages, 20.7 x 29 cm
• Hardcover
• Ages 4+
• All rights available
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Louise is a very normal child – apart from the fact that everything she does goes hopelessly wrong. She even manages to leave a trail of devastation as a baby in her pram. As a young girl she accidentally lets a herd of horses run wild through the city and drains all the water from the sea. At each new gaffe the grownups exclaim “Oh Louise!”.It is therefore entirely foreseeable that a visit to a rocket launchpad winds up with Louise being shot into space. On an alien planet she runs into a boy called Louis, who is in the same situation. The two children join forces to show what you can achieve with a little cunning and a lot of self-confidence.

• Luca Tortolini
• Illustrated by Judith Auer
• Autumn 2022, 32 pages, 20.7 x 27.3 cm
• Hardcover
• Ages 5+
• All rights available
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Do you know Mr Momo?He lives on the top floor of the big palace by the park. Every morning he comes down and goes out for a long walk. Every day, no matter the weather. He never misses his stroll.Mr Momo is a man of habit who has lots of adventures on his daily walk. He says hello to everyone (even statues), sometimes makes new friends, picks flowers and if he doesn’t happen to find any, he’ll buy a particularly fragrant specimen at the florist’s. Every day he ends his stroll with a trip to the park museum where he has a very special job, a secret job that makes his heart sing.

• Daniel Fehr
• Illustrated by Pei-Yu Chang
• Spring 2023, 32 pages, 22 x 28 cm
• Hardcover
• Ages 4+
• All rights available
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Joan, his sister and their parents are setting off on holiday. The female first-person narrator has to sit in the back with her father, who is bugging her with questions about school and marks. All of a sudden, Joan claims he has spotted a church tower in a lake. At first his sister is sceptical, but she really sits up and takes notice when their mother says she can see it too.What is a church tower doing in the water, and what else might be hiding under the surface? Could there even be a fish vicar or a school for fish children down there? Joan and his sister come up with all kinds of imaginative ideas about what this underwater world might look like.