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• Reto Crameri
• Spring 2023, 56 pages, 18,4 x 24,5 cm
• Hardcover, Printing in four special colours
• 3+
• Website

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. One story shows two children playing in a garden. They spot a cat and then follow it through long grass past a hose, along a washing line and flowerbeds, to a pond. Read the book the other way around, though, and an innocent garden hunt becomes an intrepid journey through thick jungle. The cat turns into a colourful butterfly, the hose becomes a giant snake and instead of moving hand over hand along a washing line, the children swing through the air on long vines.
The charming illustrations offer a creative take on the role of imagination in children’s playing.

• Pauline Pete
• Spring 2024, 40 pages pages, 21 x 29,7 cm
• Hardcover
• 5+
• Rights sold: Turkish (World)
• Website

In her first original picture book, Pauline Pete, in sparse words and beautiful images, tells the story of a special bond between a girl and her grandmother. The two of them go ballooning, visit a museum and take a stroll through town. Even when the girl is on her own, she thinks of her grandmother whenever she wears her special sweater. The garment symbolizes the close and happy relationship between the two and gives solace as a difficult farewell looms ahead. She keeps her sweater for many years along with all her beautiful childhood memories until handing it down to her own son, hoping he will feel as loved, cozy and warm as she once did, while collecting his personal memories and adventures.

• Martina Walther
• Illustrated by André Meier and Franziska Kolb, meierkolb
• Spring 2023, 44 pages, 20,3 x 29 cm
• Hardcover with pearl effect
• 4+
• Website

Business is quiet at Alberta’s secondhand shop in a little seaside town. She spends most of the time alone, mending and polishing and cleaning things. 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.

• Sabine Rufener
• Illustrated by Sabine Rufener
• Autumn 2024, 36 pages, 21 x 29 cm
• Picture book
• 8+
• All rights available
• Website

The big shaggy dog that Emma encounters at the edge of the meadow is sad. So sad that he can no longer see any meaning in life. Emma can’t just stand by and do nothing! And so the little girl decides to help the dog to see that life is worth living, day by day. The dog is never won around by Emma’s suggestions, but, being generous, he always gives her another chance to find the one good reason that will finally convince him. A conversation develops between these two very different characters about the meaning of life, friendship, and – last but not least – strawberry ice cream.

• Inga Krause
• Illustrated by Inga Krause
• Spring 2025, 32 x 23.8 cm
• Picture book
• 4+, Silent Book
• All rights available
• Website

Prick your ears, open your eyes and nostrils, and dive into the mysterious, colorful world of the city! A frightening thunderstorm? Feel how beautifully the rain hits your skin, how the thunder roars in your ears! An annoying traffic jam? Cycle right past it! Where others see nothing but everyday gray, you get to enjoy what makes the city special. Like “PETRICHOR”, the smell of rain on dry earth.

• Julia Neuhaus, Till Penzek
• Illustrated by Julia Neuhaus, Till Penzek
• Spring 2020, 36 pages, 23,5 x 30 cm
• Hardcover with partial UV varnish
• Rights sold to: Brazil
• Website

The climate pigs are in clover, with every luxury they could ever want. Meanwhile, faraway Penguinland is getting hotter and hotter. So Professor Penguin takes his students on a trip to Pigland to confront the climate pigs with the facts.

At first the people of Pigland refuse to listen to them, and only when the temperatures there also start to become unbearable are the pigs willing to change. But how?