Ravensburger Verlag

• Jennifer Benkau
• Spring 2022, 512 pages, 14 x 21 cm
• Paperback
• Young Adults
• All rights available
• Website

Hanna is missing a year of her life. A year that she doesn’t discuss with anyone and that still overshadows her present. All her dreams seem impossible now: making a living with her voice and her guitar, travelling the world, living freely. When she meets Sawyer, a pub owner from Liverpool who invites her to perform there, she seizes the opportunity.

Vol. 1: A Reason to Stay

• Sandra Grauer
• Spring 2022, 512 pages, 14.3 x 21.5 cm
• Hardcover
• Young Adults
• German Audio Rights sold
• Website

After defeating Aiden, Kailey returns to Fairyland, where she is shocked to discover that the Fae queen is playing a double game. Kailey is set to be executed so that the queen can secretly continue to prepare for war with the dragons. Kailey wants to prevent the dragons’ extinction at all costs.

Vol.1: Flame & Arrow 1: Dragon Prince

• Barbara Laban
• Illustrated by Jérôme Pélissier
• Spring 2022, 320 pages, 15.3 x 21.5 cm
• Hardcover
• Ages 9+
• All rights available
• Website

Nova and Henry have a special talent: they can talk to cats. But not only that! They are Felidix, cat guardians, and must stop a fur-raising crime: Penelope the Siamese has cat-napped the rightful cat queen of England and is holding her captive. Now she just has to get rid of all the midnight cats! For Nova and Henry an adventure begins that takes them all over London.

• Anja Fröhlich, Patrick Krause
• Spring 2022, 224 pages, 14.3 x 21.5 cm
• Hardcover
• Ages 10+
• All rights available
• Website

A school trip with Paul?! That means catastrophes are practically guaranteed. As if Karline wasn’t busy enough keeping self-appointed yoga king Noel out of her hair and secretly arranging a date with her crush Felix. The last thing she needs is her patchwork brother planning some wacky moves of his own to impress his adored Roberta!

Vol. 1: How my idiot brother became class president in my own class at school.
Vol 2: How My Embarrassing Brother Invited Himself to My Party ...

• Carola von Kessel/ Sandra Noa
• Illustrated by Silke Voigt/ Astrid Vowhwinkel
• Spring 2022, 64 pages, 17.6 x 24 cm
• Hardcover
• Ages 7+
• All rights available
• Website

• Simple texts for independent
• Detailed illustrations and photos make it easier to understand the text
• Features entertaining reading puzzles, a game and stickers

Thanks to simple texts and numerous images, early readers are able to find out for themselves. With reading puzzles and stickers.

Vol. 1: Dinosaurs
Vol. 2: Volcanoes
Vol. 3: Whales and Dolphins
Vol. 4: Space

• Fabian Lenk
• Illustrated by Jan Saße
• Spring 2022, 100 pages, 15.2 x 21.5 cm
• Hardcover
• Ages 7+
• All rights available
• Website

The popular children’s book series “1000 Dangers. You decide!” is finally available for early readers! Every path takes you on a new adventure. You work in a tavern called the “Flying Fish” on a remote island – the perfect hideout for pirates. One day, a treasure map is stolen. Will you go look for it and find the treasure? Or will you set sail with Captain Perkin? Will you board the enemy’s pirate ship or will you end up getting stranded on a desert island?

Vol. 1: Evil at the Dino Park
Vol. 2: Turmoil at the Knights’ Castle

• Sandra Grimm
• Illustrated by Kathrin Wessel
• Spring 2022, 24 pages, 19 x 19 cm
• Boardbook
• Ages 18 months +
• All rights available
• Website

With cheerful rhymes and images of things to find, this book provides first search-and-find fun for children 18 months and over. Like all Edition Piepmatz titles, its distinctive look and playful sense of humour sets this book apart.

Series Edition Piepmatz:
Parents and children alike will be enthusiastic about the appealing, simplified illustrations and charming texts of the series Edition Piepmatz. The concepts are loving and wellthought-out.

• Frauke Nahrgang
• Illustrated by Christian Lindemann
• Spring 2022, 24 pages, 21 x 23.5 cm
• Boardbook
• Ages 2+
• Rights sold: Hungarian
• Website

More than 200 large and small, flying, rolling, quiet, noisy, colorful and exceptional vehicles are waiting to be discovered. A very special, entertaining and colorful vehicle lexicon with lots of details, for children 2 years and over.

This is also a title of our successful series Edition Piepmatz.

• Bernd Penners
• Illustrated by Henning Löhlein
• Spring 2022, 12 pages, 22.5 x 22.5 cm
• Boardbook
• Ages 2+
• Rights sold: English
• Website

Cheerful rhymes encourage children to join in. Match the food chips to the appropriate animal, feed them into the slit at the top edge of the book and fill the animals’ visibly empty tummies.

• Cornelia Frank, Mila Rulff
• Illustrated by Carol Herring, Steph Hinton, Matthew Scott
• Spring 2022, 12 pages, 17 x 17 cm
• Boardbook
• Ages 12 months +
• All rights available
• Website

Using large slider effects, this dictionary introduces terms as well as first factual knowledge for very young children.

• Illustrated by Nico Sternbaum
• Spring 2022, 72 pages, 22 x 22 cm
• Paperback
• Ages 4+
• All rights available
• Website

This anti-stereotype coloring book features a variety of motifs depicting fascinating professions as well as room for children’s own drawing ideas. It aims to encourage children to follow their own interests and believe in their dreams.

• A coloring book that encourages children
• Features many fascinating professions
• Coloring in and getting creative

• Illustrated by Nico Sternbaum
• Spring 2022, 72 pages, 22 x 22 cm
• Paperback
• Ages 4+
• All rights available
• Website

This anti-stereotype coloring book features a variety of motifs depicting fascinating professions as well as room for children’s own drawing ideas. It aims to encourage children to follow their own interests and believe in their dreams.

• A coloring book that encourages children
• Features many fascinating professions
• Coloring in and getting creative

• Klara Tünner
• Illustrated by Federica Iossa
• Autumn 2020, 12 pages, 13 x 13 cm
• Boardbook
• 12 month+
• All rights available

Features 5 large and soft fabric flaps; Small and handy format to carry around; With short texts to read aloud and speak along to; More titles to come!

• Sandra Grimm
• Illustrated by Katja Senner
• Autumn 2020, 16 pages, 19 x 19 cm
• Boardbook
• 18 months+
• Rights sold: Slovakian (Slovakia)

Lovely series with a new concept; The combination of photographs and illustrations offers many details to explore; On-trend topic Nature; More titles to come!

• Sandra Grimm
• Illustrated by Katja Senner
• Autumn 2020, 16 pages, 19 x 19 cm
• Boardbook
• 18 months+
• Rights sold: Slovakian (Slovakia)

• Klara Tünner
• Illustrated by Rachael McLean
• Spring 2021, 10 pages, 19,5 x 23,5 cm
• Boardbook
• Ages 3+
• All rights available

In this entertaining search-and-find play book, some animals are really well hidden: Only under the light of the magic flashlight will little chickens hatch from the eggs, glow-worms begin to glow and little colorful fish swim through the ocean.

Each of the five double pages depicts a different habitat. The small images on the vignette strip at the edge of each page invite children to take a closer look. And with the help of the flashlight and a little bit of skill, they can be found in the large search-and-find image as well.

Short sentences accompanying the images present a great mix of little clues for searching, basic information about the animals and fun distinctive features.

• Cally Stronk
• Illustrated by Patrick Fix
• Autumn 2020, 100 pages, 14,7 x 21,5 cm
• Hardcover
• Ages 7+
• All rights available

Similar concept to the successful “Black Hand Gang”, but for beginner readers!

Bursting with amusing illustrations, hidden clues and fun protagonists

A mysterious suitcase takes centre stage in Cally Stronk’s new series for beginner readers. The suitcase contains everything a good detective needs: a magnifying glass, a map and much more besides. It soon turns out that the suitcase’s contents have magical powers! And there is a clumsy pair of villains who are trying to get their hands on it too...

Vol. 1: The Hunt Begins
Vol. 2: Look Out, Villains!
Vol. 3 to come in spring 2021

• Stella Tack
• Autumn 2020, 448 pages, 14 x 21 cm
• Paperback
• Young Adults
• German audio book rights sold (Germany, Austria, Switzerland)

Over 100.000 copies sold in Germany of the KISS THE BODYGUARD-SERIES!

A humorous story about love, fighting againts preconceptions and new friendships.

Silver is one of the few female graduates of the Miami bodyguard academy. She is tough as nails and graduated top of her class, yet job opportunities are scarce. Until Silver receives an offer to work undercover as a security escort for Prince Prescot – none other than the heir to the throne of Nova Scotia. Silver usually has no time for pampered royals but Prescot turns out to be extremely charming. And she soon realises that she not only needs to protect Prescot from political enemies and paparazzi – she will also have to protect her heart from the irresistible prince.

• Usch Luhn
• Autumn 2020, 224 pages, 14,3 x 21,5 cm
• Hardcover
• Ages 8+
• German audio book rights sold (Germany, Austria, Switzerland)

This shoemaker’s workshop is full of magic! Here, you can buy shoes that make you faster, more courageous or more popular. But only children who are in real need of magical shoes can find Lilly Wonder’s workshop, the dragon Archibald and Mrs Wu, the wise turtle.

Vol. 1: The Secret Workshop
Vol. 2: The forbidden Boots
More titles to come!

• Bianca Iosivoni
• Autumn 2020, 352 pages, 14 x 21 cm
• Paperback
• Young Adults
• All rights available

Action-filled romantic fantasy with a strong heroine about nordic myths.

More than 80,000 copies of Bianca Iosivoni’s books with Ravensburger sold in Germany!

Powerful, immortal and mysterious. Valkyries are the descendants of the Nordic gods and the only ones who can save humanity from final destruction. Their mission: to accompany souls of fallen heroes to Valhalla. Blair, who as the daughter of a Valkyrie has no powers of her own, has nothing to do with all this – until her mother dies in a car accident. But Blair is sure that it was no accident but murder. However, nobody wants to believe her, not even her best friend Ryan, for whom she has long felt more than friendship. On her own, Blair sets out on a search for the truth and soon realizes that her fate is intimately linked to that of the Valkyries – and to that of Ryan.

Vol. 2 is about to be published in Spring 2021

• Jennifer Benkau
• Autumn 2019, 512 pages, 14.3 x 21.5 cm
• Hardcover
• Young Adult
• Rights sold: German audiobook rights (Germany, Austria, Switzerland)

Bestseller!
An epic fantasy adventure in two volumes set in a destructive parallel world, featuring a captivating young heroine.

• Jennifer Bennkau
• Spring 2020,
• Hardcover
• Young Adults
• 14.3 x 21.5 cm

• Michael Petrowitz
• Illustrated by Marek Bláha
• Spring 2020, 224 pages, 14.3 x 21.5 cm
• Hardcover
• Ages 8+
• All rights available

New series: A fantastic and humorful adventure for brave heroes ages 8 and up.

• Andrew Lane
• Spring 2020, 384 pages, 14.3 x 21.5 cm
• Hardcover
• Ages 12+
• Original language: English translated into German. All rights available

Further volumes in preparation

Dramatic action, fast-paced storyline, cool protagonist The new action series for young adults 12 and up by bestselling author Andrew Lane!
He’s smooth. He’s buff. He prefers to fly under the radar. But when the chips are down, Lucas Crowe will take on the toughest adversaries.

• Gina Mayer
• Illustrated by Clara Vath
• Spring 2020, 288 pages, 15.3 x 21.5 cm
• Hardcover
• Ages 10+
• All rights available

Situated on six islands in the middle of the raging sea is a secret boarding school for bad animals. Here only the best of their kind gain entrance: royal leopards, poisonous scorpions, and fierce sharks, but also special boys like Noël, if they pass the tough entrance test.

• Bernd Penners
• Illustrated by Kathrin Wessel
• Spring 2020, 16 pages, 23.5 x 31.5 cm
• Boardbook
• Ages 2+
• All rights available

A fun search-and-find book with short, rhyming text for children 2 years and up provides endless new things to discover!

• Frau Annika
• Illustrated by Frau Annika
• Autumn 2019, 16 pages, 19 x 19 cm
• Boardbook
• 18 month +
• All rights available

A first book about colours for children ages 18 months and over.

• Gina Mayer
• Illustrated by Horst Hellmeier
• 64 pages, 15.2 x 21.5 cm
• Hardcover
• Ages 6+
• iRights sold: German Audio Rights (Germany, Austria, Switzerland)

• Gina Mayer
• Illustrated by Horst Hellmeier
• 64 pages,
• 15.2 x 21.5 cm
• Ages 6+

Further titles in preparation.

• Gina Mayer
• Illustrated by Joëlle Tourlonias
• Autumn 2016, 144 pages, 15.2 x 21.5 cm
• Hardcover
• Ages 8+
• Rights sold: Denmark, Audio rights to Germany, Japan, Latin America, Poland, Romania, Spain (Spanish + Catalan), Korean (South Korea)
• Website

NEW SERIES
For 9-year-old Violet, there is no better place than her Auntie Abigail’s flower shop in a small British town. Both of them share a special gift: With the aid of a book of ancient flower recipes that only Violet and her aunt can read, they use flowers to heal and help people. Over the course of the series, Violet is being introduced to the secret flower magic. In each self-contained volume, she solves a major problem, though of course not without a few hiccups. Her friends, twins Jaqueline and Zack, everyday life at school and cheeky animals play important roles as well.

Vol. 1: Secrets upon Secrets
Vol. 2: Jinxed Plans
Vol. 3: Magic is Not For the Fainthearted
Vol. 4: Journey to the Magic Berries

Series to be continued with 2 titles annually.

• Daniela Prusse
• Illustrated by Esther von Hacht
• Spring 2016, 24 pages, 14.5 x 16.7 cm
• Spiral binding
• Ages 4–7
• Rights sold: China
• Website

• Angelika Lenz
• Illustrated by Steffen Walentowitz
• Spring 2016, 24 pages, 14.5 x 16.7 cm
• Spiral binding
• Ages 4–7
• Rights sold: China, Russia
• Website

8 titles available in the series. Over 100.000 copies sold since publication in 2015.

• Katja Reider
• Illustrated by Franziska Harvey
• Autumn 2016, 16 pages, 19 x 19 cm
• Boardbook
• Ages 18 months+
• Rights sold: China, Hungarian (Hungary)
• Website

Successfull series of 3 titles centering around a rabbit family.

Vol. 1: ...GO TO SLEEP
The Rabbit family wants to go to bed. But something is always missing: Mommy Rabbit, Hoppy Rabbit, Mousy Rabbit and Cuddly Rabbit. When finally the five little rabbits are in bed, they still can’t sleep. Then all of a sudden they know: a goodnight kiss is missing.

Vol. 2: ... HAVE A PICNIC
Vol. 3: ... ARE HUNGRY

• Katja Reider
• Illustrated by Sebastien Braun
• Spring 2019, 20 pages, 17 x 20.5 cm
• Boardbook
• 18 months +
• Rights sold: Hungary, Russian (worldwide), Dutch (worldwide), French (worldwide)
• Website

You’ll Get a Sibling, Little Sparrow (spring 2019)
The little sparrow is so excited: There’s an egg in the nest! Will this be his sibling? He cannot wait! At last the hatchling takes its first breath, as the family now becomes four members. A loving story that shortens the waiting time for the sibling.

I Love You, Little Mouse (June 2018)
A testament to a mother’s love for her child.

Take Comfort, Little Bear (June 2018)
A testament to the power of empathy and caring.

Further titles in preparation.

• Usch Luhn
• Illustrated by Carola Sieverding
• Autumn 2016, 144 pages, 15.2 x 21.5 cm
• Hardcover
• Ages 8+
• Rights sold: Audio rights Germany, Romania
• Website

NEW SERIES
The Paws Brigade – that’s Leni, Harry, Max and Paula, and don’t forget their dogs, the sweet golden retriever Lotta, the stubborn beagle Socks, the clever border collie Kiwi, and the Jack Russell terrier Mogli. The four children experience the most amazing adventures with their four-legged friends.

Vol. 1: Lotta Saves the Puppies
Vol. 2: Socks Makes a Scene
Vol. 3: Kiwi Celebrates Its Birthday
Vol. 4: Mogli Goes On A School Trip (Autumn 2017)

Series to be continued.

• Ruth Rahlff
• Illustrated by Laura Bednarski
• Spring 2018, 32 pages, 21.5 x 30 cm
• Picturebook
• 3+
• Rights sold: Romanian (Romania)
• Website

The bear has been dreaming of a garden in the forest for a long time. Day after day he plants, digs and pours. But every time short after, his garden is completely devastated again: The salad is nibbled, the tomatoes are stolen and molehills can be found on the carefully laid out bed. That’s enough! The bear decides to find out who the wrongdoer is, and lies at night on the wait – in vain, because he falls asleep. Deeply sad, the bear withdraws. Only now the other animals realize that they have made their friend unhappy. It was not their intention. They apologize and work on a new garden altogether.

• Charlotte Habersack
• Illustrated by SaBine Büchner
• Spring 2016, 32 pages, 21.5 x 30 cm
• Hardcover
• Ages 3+
• Rights sold: China, Denmark, Luxemburg, Sweden, Romanian (Romania)
• Website

The animals of Mount Blockhead are in uproar: The Gripsy intends to move in with them! Admittedly, no one has ever seen him, but they all have a very clear conception of what he is like: Gruesome! A Gripsy smells like wet dog, poaches eggs and his favorite dish is roasted rabbit! Such a critter they don’t want to live with them. But too late! Moving boxes stand already in front of his house. He’s here! The animals bar their doors and of course nobody wants to come, when the Gripsy invites for a ‘real treat’ – a trap, obviously! Only one can’t resist: the Partyrabbit. Against all warnings he rings the doorbell of the Gripsy’s house. The animals agree: He won’t survive that!

• Stefanie Hasse
• Autumn 2019, 384 pages, 14.3 x 21.5 cm
• Hardcover
• Young Adult
• All rights available
• Website

College thriller with „Gossip Girl“-factor

The stars are aligning for seventeen-year-old Ivy. Thanks to her mother's new job, she's landed a scholarship for St. Mitchell, a high society private school. This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to make her dream of becoming a lawyer come true. Initially intimidated by her classmates, New York, and the life of the upper crust on the Upper East Side, in the first weeks Ivy relies on her new friend Kelly and especially Heath, another student at St. Mitchell. She and Heath experience a summer full of romance and heart-throb before their senior year begins – and everything changes.
With senior year begins The Game. Rumors about this St. Mitchell's tradition abound, and have frightened Ivy ever since she first heard about it. The Game means blackmail, lies, and intrigues – a time in which no one knows who they can trust. The winner knows the sins and secrets of everyone who plays, and anyone who gets caught is expelled.
Ivy, worried about her scholarship and her future, tries with all her might to stay clear of The Game. But when Heath suddenly starts giving her the cold shoulder and the leaders of the game exert more and more pressure on her, she is quickly caught up in a swirl of dares, love, and betrayal from which there is no turning back.

• Nana Rademacher
• Spring 2016, 352 pages, 14.3 x 21.5 cm
• Hardcover
• Ages 12+
• Rights sold: Latin America, Spanish (worldwide)
• Website

Berlin in the year 2039: the city lies in ruins, and any kind of orderly civic life has long since collapsed. The people who have survived are simply struggling for their existence. How are they supposed to endure the horror of each day, the hunger and the cold? In the midst of this is 15-year-old Anna, who is fighting for her life and for love – and for a world in which she might have a future, in spite of everything.

»... maybe there is someone, somewhere, who can read this. And sometimes I wonder how it would be if someone reads this in a hundred years or so. And I hope that someone is happy, and has a full belly, and says, ›Am I ever glad that dark time is over with and all people are free and have enough to eat.‹«

• Laura Foster
• Autumn 2015, 384 pages, 14.3 x 21.5 cm
• Hardcover
• Ages 12+
• All rights available
• Website

The first volume of this mystery trilogy tells the story of fourteen-year-old Lisa, who seems to magically attract bad luck. First her parents split up, then her English mother decides to move back to her home town of Cliffmoore in Yorkshire, taking Lisa along. After the old housekeeper next door tells her about a mysterious curse that Lisa’s family is supposedly under, Lisa is sure that she has finally lost her mind completely. Especially since she got into a fight with the super-jerk Ashley at school, her mother has found a new partner just as fast as her father, and Lisa gets no answers to her many questions. So Lisa decides that she’ll get to the bottom of the family secret – which seems to have something to do with feuding Scottish clans – on her own initiative. In the course of her investigations Lisa encounters not only ancient witches’ tales and talkative church sextons, but also finally finds a good friend, learns to believe in herself, and takes interest in a certain young man: Ben, who turns out to be related to Ashley and the awful neighbor, Edna...

The second and third volumes of this mystery trilogy will be published in 2016.

• Kester Schlenz
• Illustrated by Maximilian Meinzold
• Autumn 2016, 192 pages, 14.3 x 21.5 cm
• Hardcover
• Ages 10+
• Rights sold: Romania
• Website

What was supposed to be a fun day at the annual fair for Till, Meck and Bea has ended in a catastrophe. The hot-tempered fortune-teller Madame Malus has banished them to another world, one crawling with moaning monsters, ghastly ghosts and even a vampire. Madame Malus looks into her crystal ball with satisfaction. She showed those three brats a thing or two, and they will never, ever find the way out of the underworld. But the friends identify some kindly spirits among all the others who may be able to help them.

Vol. 2: Hunt Across The Devil’s Sea

• Richard Dübell
• Autumn 2016, 448 pages, 14.3 x 21.5 cm
• Hardcover
• Ages 12+
• All rights available
• Website

A new adventure/fantasy trilogy inspired by Viking mythology.

A cunning plan of the treacherous god Loki propels Viggo back into the past to find his biological parents. In reality, the god of lies wants to use Viggo to prevent the approaching end of the world – the legendary Ragnorök. Viggo lands in the midst of the rugged world of the Vikings, where he is enslaved to a pirate captain and has to fight for his survival.

Vol. 2 and 3 to be published in 2017.

• Sara Oliver
• Autumn 2016, 416 pages, 14.3 x 21.5 cm
• Hardcover
• Young Adult
• Rights sold: Poland
• Website

NEW TRILOGY
Recommended by New Books in German (Autumn 2016)

16-year-old Vi is supposed to spend the holiday with her father. When she arrives in his castle in the Alps, there is no sign of him. She stumbles across some high tech device, activates it by mistake – and suddenly finds herself face-to-face with her doppelgänger, Nicky. Vi is in a parallel world. Also Nicky’s father has disappeared. Vi and Nicky have to join forces to find him.

Then she meets Finn. Sparks fly between them, but Vi is not sure if he can be trusted. Nicky is kidnapped and Vi has to make difficult decisions on her own. Her only chance to return to her world is to be braver than she ever dreamed possible, and maybe even sacrifice a great love...

Vol. 2 and 3 to be published in 2017.

• THiLO
• Illustrated by Jan Birck
• Spring 2017, 192 pages, 14.3 x 21.5 cm
• Hardcover
• 8+
• Rights sold: Danish (worldwide), French (worldwide)
• Website

The Animal Heroes are seemingly normal kids who become superheroes when they are with their magical animals, and take on the ability to swim like a ray, run like a cheetah, fly like a falcon, or climb like a gecko. Their enemies, the Beast Boys, will stop at nothing to get their hands on a sculpture the Animal Heroes have, which has the power to make any creature in the world magical. The elements of magic, animals and superheroes make the Animal Heroes series compelling and unforgettable.

• Animal Heroes (Vol. 1):
Falcon Wings

• Animal Heroes (Vol. 2):
Stingray

• Animal Heroes (Vol. 3):
Gecko Gaze

• Michael Petrowitz
• Illustrated by Benedikt Beck
• Autumn 2017, 224 pages, 14.3 x 21.5 cm
• Hardcover
• 8+
• Rights sold: Spanish (worldwide)
• Website

The wild Uff lay down for a short nap 66 million years ago, and just woke up again. Now it has all kinds of crazy ideas, and is creating all kinds of chaos for the Peppel family.

4 titles of the series available:

• The Wild Uff (Vol. 1):
The Wild Uff Looks for a Home

• The Wild Uff (Vol. 2): Vacation

• The Wild Uff (Vol. 3):
Treasure Hunt

• The Wild Uff (Vol. 4):
The Wild Uff Needs a Friend

• Charlotte Habersack
• Spring 2019, 32 pages, 21.5 x 30 cm
• Picturebook
• 3+
• Rights sold: Luxembourgian (Luxembourg), Romanian (Romania), Spanish (Latin America and the Spanish speaking parts of the USA)
• Website

The bear is suspicious: His neighbors must be wanting to steal all his money. For safety, he builds a wall with barbed wire around his cave. A story of tolerance and friendship that opens the eyes of young and old.

Previous and very successful title: The Gruesome Gripsy (January 2016)

A story about xenophobia and how it’s worth giving strangers a chance and getting to know them first. Because just like the gruesome Gripsy, strangers can turn out being very sweet and friendly fellows.

Rights sold: Simplified Chinese (worldwide except Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macao), Danish (Denmark), Luxembourgian (Luxembourg), Swedesh (Sweden).

• Susanne Gernhäuser
• Illustrated by Wolfgang Metzger
• Autumn 2017, 12 pages, 23.5 x 27 cm
• Boardbook
• 2+
• Rights sold: Czech (worldwide), Dutch (The Netherlands), Hungarian (Hungary), Chinese (worldwide except Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macao)
• Website

This large-format board book with lots of movable elements (flaps, sliders, etc.) invites children to move, load and unload a wide variety of vehicles found on farms, in cities, on construction sites and at a farmer’s market. They can drive a tractor into the barn, load a horse into a trailer, empty garbage cans into a garbage truck, take a damaged car off a tow truck, and much more. Short texts animate readers to get involved and name what they see, and children will have hours of fun exploring and playing with this spectacular book.

• Illustrated by Martina Badstuber
• Autumn 2017, 24 pages, 16 x 16 cm
• Boardbook
• 2+
• Rights sold: Norway, Italy, Hungary, Turkey, Chinese (worldwide except Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macao)
• Website

Bright, vibrant images resting on a prominent, continuous line throughout each book distinguish this series of lift-the-flap board books. Many flaps of all sizes invite toddlers to interact with each scene and name and talk about what they see.

4 Topics: Vehicles, Animals, Construction Site, Farm

• Sandra Grimm
• Illustrated by Johanna Fritz
• 12 pages, 19 x 19 cm
• Boardbook
• 18 months +
• Rights sold: Chinese (worldwide except Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macao)
• Website

Large, sturdy sliding elements integrated into the interactive board books in this series invite toddlers to take an active role in discovering various aspects of their environment.

Titles available:
• My Vehicles (January 2018)
• Young Animals (January 2018)
• At the Nursery School (January 2018)
• On the Farm (January 2018)
• At the Construction Site (December 2018)

• Gina Mayer
• Illustrated by Marc-Alexander Schulze
• 144 pages, 17.5 x 24 cm
• Hardcover
• 5+
• All rights available
• Website

Vol. 1: The Magical Pony Farm (June 2018)
Lila’s father owns a carousel, and Scruff is Lila’s favorite pony on it. She usually knows what Scruff is thinking. When her father decides Scruff is worn out and should be replaced, Lila runs away with the pony. After an adventure-filled search they find the magical pony farm, where all the horses have a special gift. At first Scruff doesn’t seem to fit in, but when Lila is in danger, he, too, discovers his magical talent. This enchanting read-aloud story will delight young horse fans and adventurers.

Vol. 2: A Pony in Danger (Spring 2019)
The beautiful mare Honey has disappeared from the pony carousel. This will be Zausel’s first mission, but he does not yet master his magical ability properly.

Further titles in preparation.

• Usch Luhn
• Illustrated by Lisa Brenner
• 192 pages, 14.3 x 21.5 cm
• Hardcover
• 8+
• Rights sold: German Audio Rights (Germany, Austria, Switzerland)
• Website

The Luna Wunderwald series takes place in a magnificent location: in the middle of the forest. The heroine Luna has been chosen to play a magical flute that allows her to communicate with the forest animals. She comes to their rescue when an animal is in danger or needs help. The stories combine magical realism with environmental themes for girls 8 and up.

Titles available:
• Vol. 1: A Key in an Owl’s Beak (February 2018)
• Vol. 2: A Mystery on Cat’s Paws (March 2018)
• Vol. 3: Raccoons in Search of a Home (August 2018)
• Vol. 4: The Magical Robin Redbreast (spring 2019)
• Vol. 5: A Lynx with Lovesickness (fall 2019)

Further titles in preparation.

• Rose Snow
• 416 pages, 14.3 x 21.5 cm
• Hardcover
• Young Adults
• Rights sold: German Audio Rights (Germany, Austria, Switzerland)
• Website

Romantic Urban Fantasy Trilogy.

The first book of The Truth of Lies (August 2018)
Never would June have imagined her year in England like this: A magnificent manor house on Cornwall’s wind-swept coast will be her new home, two very different brothers will magically attract her, and an age-old gift will awaken in her.

The second book of The Truth of Lies (spring 2019)
June does not believe in the mysterious curse that purportedly prohibits her from meeting Blake or Preston. She is looking for answers with her friend Lilly – and at the same time she senses that her gift of the truth of lies is becoming stronger and stronger.

The third book of The Truth of Lies will be available in fall 2019.

• Bianca Iosivoni
• Autumn 2017, 480 pages, 14 x 21 cm
• Paperback
• Young Adults
• All rights available
• Website

Rayne lives in a small town near Chicago, blissfully unaware of the continual struggle between light and shadow souls going on all around her. They have special powers and live among humans, who sometimes fall victim to them. One night she is attacked by a shadow soul, and two men come to her aid and kill the attacker. In spite of her outrage about the killing, Rayne is intensely drawn to the younger of the two, who are light souls. Colt is handsome, mysterious, and irresistible – and he seeks out Rayne, too. Rayne finds herself caught up in the contest between the worlds of light and darkness. Colt and Rayne are soul partners, and Colt belongs to the light. Rayne isn’t sure where she stands, but she has to decide, and the connection between them could either save them or destroy them both.

• Soul Mates, Vol. 2:
Call from the Dark