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• Bärbel Oftring
• Illustrated by Alexandra Helm
• Autumn 2021, 64 pages, 22 x 27 cm
• Hardcover
• Ages 5+
• All rights available

Baby alert! This book encourages kids to imagine they are all kinds of baby animals. From little foals to dragonfly larvae, it explains the early lives of countless different animals. Whether with siblings or without; on land, in the water, or high in the sky – they all have one thing in common: they still have a lot to learn! Bärbel Oftring narrates in the second person and uses simple emotive language to explain what it is like to be each animal. The perfect opportunity for children to explore nature up close in their imagination.

• Miriam D’Oro
• Illustrated by Miriam D’Oro
• Autumn 2021, 120 pages, 18 x 26 cm
• Hardcover
• Ages 10+
• All rights available

A book for writing, doodling, coloring, crafting, playing, and fantasizing! This creative book for all seasons guarantees fun all year round. Each page introduces a new idea – from calligraphy, painting tutorials and gift ideas through decorating and scrapbooking to delicious recipes.

• Carola von Kessel
• Illustrated by Arno Kolb
• Autumn 2021, 50 cards pages, 9.4 x 13.3 cm
• Paperback
• Ages 6+
• Rights sold to Belgium, Brazil, Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovak Republic, The Netherlands

50 illustrated cards present gold, silver, quartz, and many more. The perfect companion for little excavators and stone collectors! Featuring countless fascinating facts and quiz questions about the individual minerals and stones.

• Nicola Berger, Michael Reimann
• Illustrated by Lucie Göpfert
• Spring 2021, 48 pages, 21 x 29.7 cm
• Paperback
• Ages 8+
• All rights available

This book uses simple origami models to help kids get a feel for different shapes, lengths, and angles. It includes step-by-step folding instructions, along with the required origami paper – allowing 15 simple shapes to be created immediately. Kids are at the same time able to learn where the different shapes can be found in nature or architecture. Featuring fascinating creative tasks and quizzes to further kids’ knowledge.

• Aygen-Sibel Çelik, Markus Gerhards
• Illustrated by Katja Jäger
• Spring 2020, 96 pages, 22 x 27 cm
• Hardcover
• Ages 6+
• All rights available

A mix of a story and factual information – in cooperation with the Bee Initiative “Deutschland summt!". Buzz-buzz invites children to strike up a personal relationship with Ari the bee through a fictional tale, then combines this with factual information about the life of a honey bee. It opens an emotional door to familiarize themselves with a creature that we initially react to with fear. Young readers will be drawn into Ari’s exciting story and finally come to understand just how closely connected we all are. The ideal combination of emotions and knowledge about nature!

• Corinna Harder, Andrea Köhrsen
• Illustrated by Helmut Kollars, Andrea Köhrsen
• Spring 2021, 50 cards; 2-222 Minutes pages, 9.4 x 13.3 cm
• Hardcover
• Ages 8+
• Rights sold to Argentinia, Belgium, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Japan, Latvia, Lithuania, Mexico, Peru, Poland, Romania, Slovak Republic, Spain, Sweden, The Netherlands

Unbelievable things happen in these mysteriously puzzling stories about parrots, swallowed diamonds, and consumed murder weapons. Their secrets can only be uncovered with crafty cunning and a good sleuthing nose.

• Saskia Gaymann
• Illustrated by Saskia Gaymann
• Spring 2021, 7 pages, 27,5 x 17,1 cm
• brochure with punched leporello
• Ages 3+
• All rights available

A SEASIDE ADVENTURE WITH THE RED THREAD
Flying kites on the beach! That’s what Ella and Luis like to do best. But then the pesky kite breaks free. Chase it quick! The wild pursuit leads among sandcastles, across the waves, and underwater! Get the kids to help out and pass the red thread through the punched holes as they pursue the kite. A funny story that lets imaginations run wild while taking a playful approach to practicing fine motor skills.

• Jürgen Winzer
• Spring 2021, 7,5 x 10 cm
• 50 cards in a box
• Ages 8+
• Rights sold to Czech Republic

100 QUESTIONS ABOUT THE EARTH IN A HANDY SIZE
How much does the earth weigh? What is the oldest existing republic in the world called? And where does a popular greeting translate literally as “Have you already eaten rice today?”? Travel the globe with these 100 questions of geography, history, culture, and astronomy, and test your knowledge of our remarkable planet’s countless secrets.

• Anita van Saan
• Illustrated by Dorothea Tust
• Spring 2021, 96 pages, 17,3 x 22 cm
• Spiral binding
• Ages 8+
• All rights available

ALL ABOUT WATER – INCLUDING COUNTLESS EXPERIMENTS
Without water, there would be no life on our blue planet! Learn in this expert’s guide everything there is to know about our most important resource. What is water actually made of? Why are our seas and rivers under threat and what can we do about it? The extensive knowledge is complemented with countless experiments to try at home. From the world’s ocean to the groundwater, this book explains everything you could possibly need to know about H2O.

• Ilka Sokolowski
• Illustrated by Steffen Walentowitz
• Spring 2021, 32 pages, 27 x 29 cm
• Hardcover
• Ages 5+
• All rights available

AN ILLUSTRATED GUIDE TO THE SYMBIOTIC RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN HUMANS, ANIMALS, AND PLANTS
In this book, we visit various habitats in the different seasons and explore – with the help of kid-friendly explanations – how all these habitats link together and also influence and depend on one another. It features vivid explanations of why we need each other – in other words, why climate protection is so incredibly important.

• Nicola Berger and Michael Reimann
• Illustrated by Lucie Göpfert
• Spring 2021, 48 pages, 21 x 29,7 cm
• English brochure
• Ages 8+
• All rights available

AN INNOVATIVE CONCEPT THAT COMBINES GEOMETRY AND ORIGAMI
This book uses simple origami models to help kids get a feel for different shapes, lengths, and angles. It includes step-by-step folding instructions, along with the required origami paper – allowing 15 simple shapes to be created immediately. Kids are at the same time able to learn where the different shapes can be found in nature or architecture. Featuring fascinating creative tasks and quizzes to further kids’ knowledge.

• Laura Bednarski
• Illustrated by Laura Bednarski
• Autumn 2019, 48 pages, 26 x 33 cm
• Hardcover
• Ages 5+
• All rights available

Who doesn’t know them … Yet – the crested Shriketit, the Blobfish and the eland Antelope?

Breathtakingly beautiful illustrations and entertaining facts worth knowing about each animal. In this lovely animal ABC, Laura Bednarski uses each letter to indroduce a plethora of both well-known and littleknown animals. A book of wonder that you’ll fall in love with!

• Anna Bernhard & Silvia Schmitz
• Illustrated by Dorothea Tust
• Autumn 2019, 120 pages, 14.8 x 21 cm
• Paperback
• Ages 6+
• Rights sold to Czech Republic, Slovak Republic

101 Games, active and quiet, for indoors or out, for small and large spaces, some that require preparation and others that can be played with no preparation at all. In addition there are lots of tips on how to plan and structure the party, decorations and food and drink. Happy Birthday!
Contains references to age groups, preparation time, lists of materials and recommendations for indoor and outdoor activities.

• Nicola Berger
• Illustrated by Ina Worms
• Autumn 2015, 48 pages, 25 x 20.3 cm
• Hardcover
• Ages 6+
• Rights sold to South Korea, Turkey
• Website

The best games of all often arise in situations when children get together and are given space for their ideas. The children’s games presented here can be played with little or no materials, they’re easy to understand and they’re explained step by step. These classic games from around the world originate in no fewer than 22 countries on five continents. A journey of play around the world can begin – beginning in Germany and landing in … Uganda maybe?

• Anita van Sann
• Illustrated by Arno Kolb, Kirsten Schlag, Thomas Müller & Stefan Walentowitz
• Autumn 2019, 96 pages, 17.3 x 22 cm
• Spiral binding
• Ages 8+
• All rights available

Snow and ice conjure up magical landscapes and even though it’s cold outside, the winter season also offers lots of opportunities for little nature explorers.

This book not only includes interesting facts about nature in winter, but also lots of experiments, recipes and art and crafts ideas. Let’s go outside during the fascinating cold season – and than back inside for some experiments and crafts.

• Bärbel Oftring
• Illustrated by Angelika Neiser, Arno Kolb, Thomas Müller, Axel Nicolai
• Spring 2016, 96 pages, 17.9 x 22.6 cm
• Spiral binding
• Ages 8+
• All rights available
• Website

With its majestic trees, plants and small and big animals the forest is always a place where there is much to discover. This colourful book is packed with information and facts on its flora and fauna. Moreover, it contains tips, ideas, tasks and experiments which help to discover this fascinating ecosystem.

• Sophia Schrade
• Spring 2021, 9,4 x 13,3 cm
• 50 cards in a box
• Ages 8+
• Rights sold to Argentina, Belgium, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Japan, Mexico, Peru, Slovak Republic, Spain, The Netherlands

50 CARDS: PUZZLES. GAMES. KNOWLEDGE
The future belongs to the kids! This set of cards provides 50 ideas for the Fridays for Future generation to help protect our environment. With everything from instructions on how to make your own beeswax tissues, through a recipe for delicious lemonade to make at home, to upcycling ideas and suggestions for getting involved – there’s something for everyone!

• Carola von Kessel
• Illustrated by Katja Wehner
• Autumn 2019, 50 cards in 4-colour-print pages, 8.7 x 12.6 cm
• 50 boxed cards
• Ages 8+
• Rights sold to Argentina, Belgium, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Japan, Mexico, Norway, Peru, Russia, Slovak Republic, Spain, The Netherlands

The first sun rays and it’s back outside! In this deck of cards, there a fifty ideas and simple instructions to inspire outdoor play and to get creative with sticks, stones, shells, chestnuts, etc.

• Nicola Berger
• Illustrated by Nastja Holtfreter
• Spring 2015, 50 cards, 8.7 x 12.6 cm
• 50 cards, 8.7 x 12.6 cm
• Ages 8+
• Rights sold to Canada, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Italy, Japan, Norway, Poland, Slovak Republic, United Kingdom
• Website

The ideas in this set of cards all have one thing in common: they’re easy and quick to do. Make decorations for a kid’s room, new games to play or a gift for Mother’s Day – all in a flash. On your scissors, get set, go …

• Ingrid Ickler
• Illustrated by Dorina Tessmann
• Autumn 2017, 50 cards pages, 8.7 x 12.6 cm
• 50 boxed cards
• 8+
• Rights sold to Czech Republic, Denmark, United Kingdom, Canada, France, Japan, Belgium, Norway, Slowak Republic, The Netherlands
• Website

Classwork, homework, projects, workgroups – a school day can involve an awful lot of work! This set of cards offers 50 ways of relaxing which children can use easily and playfully at home, alone or with others – and maybe even at school or with their parents.

Relaxation and fun are guaranteed.

• Nicola Berger
• Illustrated by Christine Thau
• Spring 2017, 100 pages, 8.7 x 12.6 cm
• Box with cards
• Ages 12+
• Serial rights sold to Czech Republic, Denmark, United Kingdom, Canada, France, Japan, Belgium, Norway, Italy, Slovak Republic, The Netherlands
• Website

A new and great title to the popular 50 Cards series!

How exactly do you become a babysitter? And what do you have to know when working with children? In this set of cards prospective babysitters can find all the information they need. Moreover, the cards contain advice on how to master difficult situations. Creative crafting and gaming ideas for children of different ages round up this guide to babysitting.

• Anke Küpper
• Illustrated by Angelika Neiser, Johann Brandstetter, Arno Kolb, Sandra Kretzmann
• Spring 2016, 64 pages, 22.4 x 22.5 cm
• Hardcover
• Ages 4+
• All rights available
• Website

With this herbarium kids can learn about ten trees and ten flowers and their leaves, fruits and blooms: the sweet scent of violets, the vibrant colour of bluebottles and poppies, mighty oaks and chestnuts, evergreen spruces and many more.

Collect their flowers and leaves from your garden or the playground, and put them into this book. Beautifully illustrated, this book contains useful information on the plants and leaves enough space for your own findings.

• Bärbel Oftring
• Illustrated by Melanie Dahmen
• Spring 2018, 96 pages, 17.3 x 22 cm
• Spiral binding
• 8+
• All rights available
• Website

You are curious about flowers, herbs, vegetables and fruits? You are patient, like to care about others and are happy about a nice reward? Then you are the perfect gardener!

There is always something going on in your little garden and it doesn’t matter if it is a big bed, a pod or a box. You can grow a garden nearly everywhere and this book shows you how it works.

• Bärbel Oftring
• Spring 2019, 256 pages, 13 x 18 cm
• Paperback
• 8+
• Rights sold to: China
• Website

On your marks, get set, go! Carving, building, playing or geocaching, spring, summer, autumn or winter – this book contains 120 ideas for a true outdoor adventure.

Bärbel Oftring is a qualified biologist. She has published over 140 titles for children and adults, all of them involving nature and animals.

• Jürgen Winzer
• Illustrated by Götz Rohloff
• Autumn 2017, 50 pages, 8.1 x 15 cm
• Spiral binding
• 8+
• All rights available
• Website

Everyone knows dynamite. But do you know who invented it? Or do you know what Alexander Graham Bell is famous for?

With this quiz you can test and enlarge your knowledge about famous inventors playfully. All questions and facts are furnished with many pictures and colourful illustrations. Charming texts and answers make playing and learning funny and cheerful.

• Anita von Saan, Carola von Kessel
• Illustrated by Lisa Apfelbacher
• Autumn 2017, 25 cards pages, 9.5 x 12.8 cm
• 25 cards in a tin box
• 8+
• All rights available
• Website

Experiments are boring? Not at all! This box contains 25 experiments with water. See for yourself how exciting science and experiments can be with everyday household items.

Try to make your own rainbow with items you can find in the bathroom and kitchen or see how tulips change their colour within some minutes. With these 25 experiments fun is guaranteed.

• Bärbel Oftring
• Illustrated by Alexandra Helm
• Autumn 2019, 64 pages, 22 x 27 cm
• Hardcover
• Ages 5+
• All rights available

“Imagine You were …” invites children to experience the world from the perspective of animals – and keep them interested with their favourite method of playing – Role Play.

This volume takes children to the wide wide world of Africa! What’s a lion’s daily routine like? Does an ostrich have friends? What kind of a “house” do lemmings live in? Simply and emotionally, in the second-person point of view, Bärbel Oftring shares what it would be like to be an animal in the savanna.
A combination of stunning illustrations and photos with fascinating facts about the animals.

• Bärbel Oftring
• Illustrated by Alexandra Helm
• Spring 2019, 64 pages, 22 x 27 cm
• Hardcover
• 5+
• All rights available
• Website

What is a fox’s daily routine? Do hedgehogs have friends? The new series ›Imagine You Were ...‹ invites children to experience the world from the point of view of animals – and does so in their favorite way: role-playing. Addressing young readers from the ‘you’-perspective, Bärbel Oftring uses her easy, engaging style to describe what it would be like to be an animal.

• 20 animals per book
• Combination of stunning
illustrations and photos

Vol. 1: »Imagine You Were ...
An Animal in the Forest«

Vol. 2: »Imagine You Were ...
An Animal in the Garden«

• Sonja and Arne Schirdewahn
• Illustrated by Arno Kolb, Thomas Müller
• Autumn 2016, 96 pages, 17.3 x 22 cm
• Spiral binding
• Ages 8+
• All rights available
• Website

Pirate’s ship, slingshot, magic wand … This book from our successful Expedition Nature Series contains more than 30 sets of instructions at three levels of difficulty on how to make wonderful and useful things that children can carve and make using a woodcarving knife or penknife. Step by step, it shows how to carve a bow, build simple nesting aids for wild bees and make a mobile phone holder. It also has information about types of trees, woodland animals and tracking, encouraging readers to get out of doors.

• Ingrid Ickler
• Illustrated by Yayo Kawamura
• Autumn 2016, 48 pages, 20 x 16 cm
• Metal box with booklet, wool and knitting spool
• Ages 8+
• All rights available
• Website

This classic game set helps kids make their own exciting things with a knitting spool. A 48-page booklet explains how to knit with the knitting spool, step by step. There are also more than 15 great new ideas about what you can make with it: how about an ornate cushion, crazy shoelaces, a colourful scarf or a trendy mobile phone sock?

• Carola von Kessel
• Illustrated by Dusan Senkerik, Sonja Egger
• Autumn 2018, 68 pages, 17.3 x 22 cm
• Spiral binding
• 6+
• All rights available
• Website

The knot book for children – leaves your hands free for tying knots!

30 knots, step by step, clearly explained with illustrations. This practical stand-up book leaves your hands free to tie knots, and you can get started right away with the enclosed strings.

• Carola von Kessel
• Autumn 2019, 50 cards pages, 8.7 x 12.6 cm
• 50 boxed cards in 4-colour-print
• Ages 6+
• Rights sold to Czech Republic, Slovak Republic, The Netherlands

Dog, Cat, Hamster and co are introduced on fifty illustrated cards. The perfect present for everyone who wants a pet or for those who would like to learn more about the one they have. With countless interesting facts and quiz questions about each animal.

• Carola von Kessel
• Illustrated by Arno Kolb
• Spring 2019, 50 boxed cards pages, 9.4 x 13.3 cm
• 6+
• Rights sold to: Czech Republic, Slovak Republic, The Netherlands
• Website

From apes to zebras, this set of cards presents the 50 foremost zoo animals. It’s the perfect companion the next time you visit the zoo and contains lots of fascinating facts and quiz questions about different subjects.

• Entertaining quiz questions
• Detailed profiles
• Illustrations that children love

• Carola von Kessel
• Illustrated by Thomas Müller, Arno Kolb, Steffen Walentowitz
• Autumn 2017, 50 cards pages, 8.7 x 12.6 cm
• 50 boxed cards
• 6+
• Rights sold to Czech Republic, The Netherlands, Slovak Republic
• Website

These 50 cards are the perfect companion to classify small animals, fish, amphibians, birds and plants at lakes and rivers.

Take it with you, when you go hiking and it will be the ideal assistant for anyone who loves nature.

• Charlotte Wagner, Ari Plikat
• Illustrated by Charlotte Wagner, Ari Plikat
• Spring 2019, 50 boxed cards pages, 8.7 x 12.6 cm
• 6+
• Rights sold to Belgium, Canada, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Japan, Norway, Russia, Slovak Republic, The Netherlands, United Kingdom
• Website

Riddles, nonsense puzzles and crazy illustrations that will have you laughing out loud – the perfect combination for 6-year-old chatterboxes and anyone who would like to be one.

• Illustrated by Dorothea Tust
• Autumn 2015, 736 pages, 15 x 15 cm
• Paperback
• Ages 8+
• All rights available
• Website

Every day a little bit cleverer ...

This tear-off pad contains masses of fun sudokus for budding puzzlers in three different grades of difficulty and with detailed instructions to get you going. With 365 sudokus you can train your powers of logic every single day of the year.

• Tara Guber and Leah Kalish
• Illustrated by Sophie Fatus
• Spring 2017, 100 pages, 13.9 x 18.8 cm
• Box with cards
• Ages 8+
• All rights available
• Website

This set of cards helps parents and children to learn 50 basic yoga exercises. Yoga is not only healthy and a perfect work-out for the whole body, it also improves our concentration. After a stressful day at work or school, yoga is the ideal way to relax body and mind.

• Jürgen Heel
• Illustrated by Monika Suska
• Autumn 2017, 54 pages, 17 x 13.5 cm
• Box with 1 fairy tale book and 36 memo cards
• 4+
• All rights available
• Website

It’s fairy tale time!

Each of the three fairy tales in this game is split up into twelve scenes. They are placed face-down in the middle of the table and the player whose turn it is has to turn them over one by one. It sounds simple, but you’ll need a good memory because you can only win if you can turn over the twelve scenes in the exact right order. The little fairy tale box also contains the three most popular stories by the Brothers Grimm which you can read out while playing the fitting memo game: Hansel and Gretel, Snow White and Little Red Riding Hood.

• Andrea Köhrsen
• Illustrated by Andrea Köhrsen
• Autumn 2016, 200 pages, 10.2 x 14.3 cm
• Metal box with cards
• Ages 8+
• Serial rights sold to Czech Republic, Slovak Republic, Denmark, Finland, Poland, Japan, Spain, Canada, France, Belgium
• Website

Savage vampires, spectral apparitions, mysterious beings and dark creatures of the night send a shiver up your spine and guarantee goose-bumps. Surrounded by magic powers and dreadful secrets, who can break the spell and solve the puzzle? But garlic and magic won’t help … fearless ghost-hunters and savvy sleuths will only shed light on the darkness by asking, guessing and puzzling.

• Andrea Köhrsen
• Illustrated by Andrea Köhrsen
• Autumn 2015, 80 cards, 10.2 x 14.3 cm
• Cards in Tin Box
• Ages 8+
• Rights sold to Belgium, Canada, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Japan, Poland, Slovak Republic, Spain
• Website

Speed around the world in eighty puzzles, experience adventures and meet pirates, space travellers, Indian chiefs, wild animals and subterranean beings. Shed light on darkness by questioning, guessing, and working things out. Whoever explores the forests, deserts, outer space and the world of water first wins!

• Corinna Harder
• Illustrated by Helmut Kollars
• Spring 2019, 50 boxed cards pages, 9.4 x 13.3 cm
• 8+
• Rights sold to: Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Japan, Poland, Slovak Republic, Spain
• Website

Rainbow stories have a touch of magic: there are eager elves, fearless fairies and unique unicorns, but you’ll only work out their sparkling secrets by asking, guessing and puzzling.

How it’s played:
black stories Junior are fabulous mysteries on cards that you solve together. Only one person knows the right answer. By asking, guessing and puzzling, young detectives aged 8 and above can move step by step towards solving the mystery …