Trip with Drip

»That's not true!« What fate has foisted upon him is an imposition even for the most casual wolf: because it has accidentally saved his life, he suddenly has a... rabbit on his hands! If it weren't for the wolf code, which obliges him to take care of the little rodent's well-being. The rabbit can tell you a thing or two about impositions, after all, it drags an annoying drip and a metre-long medication schedule through life. And now a wolf!

Josephine Mark sends her unusual group of fates on a fast-paced road trip with everything that goes with it: trigger-happy hunters, cheap motels, bears, freezing IV bags. And the big question of whether it's really just the wolf code that binds them together.

»Without exaggeration: I love this book. Rarely has the subject of illness been put on paper as gently as it is pleasurably. A comforting encouragement for young and old and, quite incidentally, a comic that is rarely produced in this country: warm-hearted and very, very funny!« - Ralf König

Rights sold: Basque, Belarusian, Catalan, Complex Chinese, Czech, Danish, French, Italian, Polish, Serbian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish (EU, LatAm), Swedish, Turkish, World Portuguese. 

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12+ years
ISBN 978-3-948690-14-4
192 pages, coloured
17 × 23 cm, Hardcover
20,– € (D)

Boris and Babette: Skeletons Everywhere

A pet! When a neighbour asks Boris to take care of her pet Babette, he doesn't hesitate for long. There's just one catch: Boris' parents don't want any animals in the flat. So he has to hide Babette well. But that is less tricky than the question of WHAT kind of animal Babette actually is? She is yellow, walks on two legs and likes television, flips and scary things. The craziest fact: Babette can talk!

His secret flatmate really upsets Boris' life. Because Babette is always sad. To make her feel good, Boris has to turn his children's room into a ghost train! But where is he supposed to get SKELETONS?! When Mum and Dad discover Babette and she disappears shortly afterwards, the adventure really begins...

With lovable characters and lots of wry wit, Tanja Esch tells of feeling strange and finding one's own identity and a place in our world.

Rights sold to Catalan, French, Italian, Korean, Polish, Russian, World Spanish, Ukrainian.

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8+ years

ISBN 978-3-948690-17-5

160 pages, coloured

17 x 23 cm, hardcover

20,- € (D)

Box

Matthew likes to build and invent things. So, finding a box sitting in front of his house one day is a real stroke of luck. But he has to pinch himself when it suddenly starts talking. A living toolbox! Even better, Box loves to invent things too, so the two become fast friends. But where did Box come from, and how did he get to be so magical? When his secret comes out and accidentally leaves Matthew’s parents frozen, the two friends will have to race to find the answers and save the day.

Rights sold to Finnland, China (Simplified Chinese), Slovenia, Turkey, World English, World Spanish.

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6+ years

ISBN 978-3-948690-23-6

72 pages, coloured

17 x 23 cm, hardcover

15,- € (D)

Box: Summer Holidays

Holiday time! Matthew is on vacation with his grandparents at the shore for a week. He and his grandfather want to build an observation tower on the beach. But wait, why is construction already halted on the first day?! Just because Grandpa has to go into town to do some silly shopping? No way! Matthew quickly gets his friend Box to help - and then it’s all going! But when the two turbo hobbyists actually stand on their tower and a storm comes up, their next great adventure is ready to unfold.With a wizard's living toolbox as a friend, you never get bored! Especially if he has the talent to throw everything around him into chaos.

Rights sold to China (Simplified Chinese), Slovenia, Turkey, World English, World Spanish.

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6+ years

ISBN 978-3-948690-24-3

80 pages, coloured

17 x 23 cm, hardcover

15,- € (D)

Box: No Funny Business

A babysitter?! Matthew is probably old enough to stay home alone for an evening! Adding insult to injury, it’s the evil Jana from next door. It doesn’t take long for the two of them to start having problems. To save the situation, Matthew comes up with a plan that requires the help of his friend Box. Too bad that Box promised the magician Bartelstrunk to stay out of trouble. And even worse: Box thinks Jana the witch is actually quite nice ...An iconic reunion of Matthew and the greatest toolbox in the world! The third volume of this highly acclaimed series is bursting with loving humor and weird ideas.

Rights sold to China (Simplified Chinese), Slovenia, World Spanish.

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6+ years

ISBN 978-3-948690-25-0

80 pages, coloured

17 x 23 cm, hardcover

15,- € (D)

Box: Robot Alarm

At school?! Matthew is so confused when his friend Boxe asks him to take him there. School is totally boring! In addition, nobody can know about Box. But when the school hosts an inventors competition, Box's wish finally comes true: Matthew unceremoniously pretends that Box is his voice-controlled robot. But Box wouldn't be Box if everything went according to plan on the big day. In no time chaos reigns sovereign again and the two friends are right in the middle of a new adventure. What a successful first day of school for Box!The fourth volume in the successful series about Matthew and his enchanted toolbox is a wonderfully comical friendship story with irresistibly vivid drawings.

Rights sold: China (Simplified Chinese), Slovenia.

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6+ years

ISBN 978-3-948690-26-7

80 pages, coloured

17 x 23 cm, hardcover

15,- € (D)

Box. Mathmagics

»I hate maths!« Mattis doesn’t have a clue when it comes to calculations and mathematics and fears the worst for the test the next day. His mother can’t help and even his best friend Box is of no use. Box builds things and doesn’t calculate… When the magician Bartelstrunk, who was also bad at math, promises to help, salvation is near. But was there ever a situation with Box involved who turned out easy and smoothly? This mathemagic is about to go wrong in a big way.



Box – Mathemagic is the fifth volume of the funny and bestselling series by Patrick Wirbeleit and oscar-nominated animator Uwe Heidschötter. Like every volume it can be read separately and is a stand alone story. Volumes 1–4 are available through Reprodukt.



Rights sold: China (Simplified Chinese), Slovenia

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6+ years

ISBN 978-3-948690-01-4


88 pages, coloured

17 x 23 cm, Hardcover


15,–€ (D)

Kiste: The Sneaky Gnome

Mattis is thrilled: For their holiday in Scotland, his parents have not rented just any accommodation, but an ancient house on the ruins of an even more ancient castle! It's just a shame that his best friend Kiste couldn't come along. Especially because the creepy vaulted cellars of the mansion are supposedly haunted...

How fortunate for Mattis that Kiste meanwhile causes such chaos at home that the wizard Bartelstrunk finally sends his friend to Scotland after all. Not a moment too soon, because Mattis actually makes the acquaintance of the ghastly gnome who is up to his mischief in the cellar...

An exciting and equally funny Box story with wonderfully lively illustrations by Màriam Ben-Arab (Zack!).

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8+ years

ISBN 978-3-948690-19-9

80 pages, b/w

15 x 21,5 cm, hardcover

12,- € (D)

Granny Cucumber

What happens when a granny in a retirement home accidentally ends up crime hunting in an intergalactic trading post? Good question!

Granny Cucumber is a bored and slightly grumpy old lady who lives in a retirement home where nothing, literally nothing, ever happens. That is until one day she's suddenly teleported into the intergalactic trading post Alpha Centauri 43B, light years away from the Earth.Sometimes you have to be careful what you wish for! Yes, Granny Cucumber had hoped that something would finally happen. But she couldn't have known that this long awaited sparkle in her life would send her from doing crosswords in her room to crime hunting in outer space through the armour of a space policewoman!Meanwhile, Space cop BotBot is also quite perplexed of having ended up without his armour at a senior citizens' residence... Nothing he had been programmed for. Is this the beginning of an AI nightmare?In Patrick Wirbeleit's and Stephan Lomp's fast-paced comedy, a despondent old lady rises above herself in the midst of an alien conspiracy, while a hardened combat robot is suddenly old news and forced to think for himself for the first time.

Rights sold to France.

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8+ years

ISBN 978-3-948690-22-9

96 pages, coloured

17 x 23 cm, hardcover

15,- € (D)

Murr

A new edition of Josephine Mark's debut, a black-humoured but tender story about life, death, and everything in between.

Murphy, known as Murr, is a natural born villain. Even as a child, neither monsters under the bed nor classmates were safe from this fierce rogue. Career recommendation: bandit.Without thinking about it twice, he immediately sets out to become the most feared gunslinger in the neighbourhood: gunfights, double-crosses, you name it; Murr pulls out all the stops, but his dissolute lifestyle will eventually lead him to the gallows, where he will face death himself.Confronted with his own mortality, Murr learns to fear death, and so he makes a deal with the Grim Reaper: he will be allowed to cheat death and never be afraid of dying again, if he opens himself up to another unknown emotion – love. Will he keep his promise or will his villainous ways get the better of him?

Rights sold to Poland.

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12+ years

ISBN 978-3-948690-34-2

136 pages, coloured

17 x 23 cm, hardcover

18,- € (D)

The ZYX

A rhyming book for all those children who really don’t want to go to bed, that begs to be read aloud and will take you on a whirlwind of adventure through fantastic worlds.

ZYX is brushing his teeth and is supposed to go to bed, even though he’s not tired at all. After he hears a loud noise and his bathroom disappears, he finds himself in another dimension full of doors. Which one will bring him back to his own dimension? Maybe that giant horned monster behind door 666 can help...It’s the start of a series of adventures that will take ZYX to many incredible places, including a pirate ship, an island made of pasta, and a jungle inhabited by giants.However, so many adventures would be exhausting for anyone, including ZYX, who is finally ready to put on his pj and go to bed.Each paragraph begins with a different letter of the alphabet, starting with Z and ending with A, making The ZYX a unique cross between an ABC book and a funny rhyming story in the vein of Julia Donaldson’s The Gruffalo

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4+ years

ISBN 978-3-948690-31-1

48 pages, coloured

23 x 27 cm, hardcover

15,- € (D)

Oh dear! Crisis in the meadow

Phew! It's so hot! Ida Hedgehog and the other animals in the meadow can hardly find anything to eat this summer. Many plants have dried up and the pond is just a puddle. When it rains, it's so hard and stormy that everything is washed away.Is it true that people have made the weather crazy? Don't they know that this is really bad for small animals? Ida sets out with her friends to talk to plants and animals around.Children have questions about the climate crisis. This book is here to give them answers that they can easily understand. Here native animals and plants tell how their environment has changed dramatically over the years and show that it is worth doing something about it.

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5+ years

ISBN 978-3-948690-30-4

48 pages, coloured

20 x 26 cm, hardcover

15,- € (D)

Granny for Sale

Granny For Sale is a twistingly funny comic book about a girl who accidentally sells her little sister and then gradually sells the whole family because making money is so much fun. Or is it?When the little entrepreneuraccidentally sells her little sister at a yard sale, mum and dad are very angry. After all, she was brand new. But maybe they could get another one at the junk shop across the street? Meanwhile bigbrother also gets sold off and granny gets mortgaged. This is a true family business making real money!However, when even the last family member has been sold... The budding businesswoman will have to come to terms with the fact that you cannot actuallylove money. Or at least it won't read you a bedtime story.

Rights sold: World Spanish.

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5+ years

ISBN 978-3-948690-28-1

48 pages, coloured

23 x 23 cm, hardcover

15,- € (D)

The Grumpy Bear

The Grumpy Bear loves being in a bad mood. He doesn’t like the sunshine because it makes him sweat, and he can’t stand rain either because it gets him wet. There’s not a thing in the world that will make him happy. The Grumpy Bear doesn’t like having visitors and he doesn’t want to visit anyone either.But the friendly creatures in his neighbourhood don’t let that put them off. So we’ll just keep on practicing this whole visiting business, says Tingeli. The Grumpy Bear’s surliness just washes off him like water off a duck’s back. Tingeli is always full of good ideas; it takes charge and chivvies the rest of the animals into line so they can all do things together.The end result is a cheerful little community in which everyone thoroughly enjoys themselves: the Grey Heron family with its overprotective mother, the King Penguin whose favourite treat is sardine jam, the Rabbit family with their countless bubbly children – and Marie, the little girl who is glad she can pour out her woes to her new friends.

Rights sold to Spain (incl. Catalan and Basque), Poland.

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5+ years

ISBN 978-3-948690-27-4

96 pages, coloured

17 x 23 cm, hardcover

15,- € (D)

Diego´s House under the Firecracker Bush

„HERE you want to have a party?!" Diego can't get Mr. Mole's reprimanding words out of his head. What if he is right now and Diego's house really isn't good enough to invite his friends over? Could he make it nicer? How would the others like it? Excited, Diego rushes off to ask them.

But the more animals Diego meets, the more confused he becomes. Labyrinthine corridors. A look at the stars. Living here today and there tomorrow. How is Diego supposed to make all this happen? A party is out of the question! Luckily, his friends invite themselves without further ado...

Author Matthew Burgess and Box illustrator Uwe Heidschötter enchant young and old readers with a poetic and expressive story about what really counts: Be yourself!

Rights sold to: English (China, Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan), French, Swedish.

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4+ years

ISBN 978-3-948690-18-2

64 pages, coloured

23 x 29 cm, hardcover

16,- € (D)

What the Hell?!

Jonas needs money! And urgently! After all, he is head over heels in love. But in order to end up with Annika – Jonas is sure of it – he needs a Vespa to drive her around, just like the trendy guys. A job must come along!

„Ash sweeper wanted. Ask for Satan", this job ad doesn't sound very tempting. But in the absence of other offers, Jonas becomes a cleaner in... hell. A bossy boss, colleagues who are even more dull than the work, a talking pile of ashes with an urgent need to communicate about love matters and two demons who kidnap Annika, of all people – what Jonas experiences in his nightmare job only allows one reaction: What the hell?!

Rights sold to Sweden.

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10+ years

ISBN 978-3-948690-20-5

96 pages, coloured

17 x 23 cm, hardcover

15,- € (D)

Kaya & Flo: Razzle-dazzle in the superstore

»When I've saved enough money, I'll be a superhero!« On Kaya's birthday, the time has finally come. Already in the department stores' she puts on her new superheroine mask and becomes... Flora-Girl! All of a sudden, the barren shelf canyons are transformed into an exciting labyrinth: ice-cold frozen robots, nasty robber cutlets and lousy corsetry monsters lurk around every corner! Now it's superheroine versus supermarket!

With great joy in the hullabaloo, author Jonny Bauer and illustrator Stephan Lomp put (almost) every child's dream on paper in their comic picture book: to be all alone in the department stores' just once!

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6+ years
ISBN 978-3-948690-16-8
48 pages, coloured
27 × 23 cm, Hardcover
14,– € (D)

Mr. Elephant & Mrs. Grey

Safaris are a drag! Gawking tourists who arrive in droves at the waterhole. But somehow these naked monkeys in their noisy jeeps have a little something. When the gazelle Mrs. Grey and her friend Mr. Elephant meet a curious black flat beetle who introduces himself to them as Siri, a great adventure begins for them.  

Siri shows them pictures from the world of tourists: Stores, streets, the big train in the mouse tunnel called »Ubahn«. Oh, how the gazelle and the elephant would love to go there one day!

Rights sold: French, Swedish, Ukrainian, World Spanish.

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6+ years
ISBN 978-3-948690-12-0
64 pages, coloured
17 × 23 cm, Hardcover
14,– € (D)

Mr. Elephant & Ms. Grey: Take Off

Elvira and Horst can finally realise their dream of living in the big city: they can already see themselves going places with the subway and living in an apartment with their own bathtub and a cute balcony. With the help of "Sara", their trustworthy helper bug, they start planning their trip to Hamburg.Too bad that Sara didn't explain that they need money and documents in order to travel. Their adventure might just end at the Nairobi airport, but maybe that cunning chameleon can help the two lovebirds reach their dream destination with one of those big metal birds...Here comes the sequel to the hilarious yet profound adventures of two animals who set out to live among humans.

Rights sold: French, Swedish, Ukrainian, World Spanish.

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8+ years

ISBN 978-3-948690-29-8

96 pages, coloured

17 x 23 cm, hardcover

15,- € (D)

Zack!

»Are you... a pirate?« The man Bonny finds sleeping (and snoring) at the beach doesn’t remember anything, not even his name. With his scrubby beard and only one leg he must be a pirate,  in need of a crew and a name. So without hesitation, Bonny names him Zack and they set sail together. When their path crosses a real pirateship with Zack’s old nemesis Eye Patch Peter on board it gets dangerous. But Bonny is determined to save the day.

Rights sold : Catalan, French, Spanish (EU).

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6+ years


ISBN 978-3-948690-09-0

96 pages, coloured


17 x 23 cm, Hardcover


15,–€ (D)

Jeppe Out and About

When the king asks him to be his messenger, the good-natured Jeppe dashes off into the hills, only to be stopped every so often, because, well, he just can't help it. If there's an animal in need, like the old squirrel or the exhausted mom of eight, he has to do something. And something else. And one more thing. Until it's rather late for his message to arrive…

This faboulous storybook by renowned children's author Jutta Bauer mixes classic illustration with comic book elements and tells a timeless story of staying true to yourself under all circumstances.

Rights sold: Catalan, Complex Chinese, Italian, Korean, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), Simplified Chinese, Spanish (EU; LatAm), World English.

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4+ years


ISBN 978-3-948690-08-3

48 pages, coloured


22 x 30 cm (Oversize), Hardcover


14,–€ (D)

The Invisible Spaceship

A most unusual space adventure: the crew of the Invisibility 2 discovers that it's easy to turn on the new invisibility drive, but quite harder to turn it off again, since everything on board is invisible now, buttons and switches included. The situation worsens because they cannot move their ship out of the nebula, have to deal with old archenemies and even sticky hair balls, regugitated by technical officer Honk.

This is quite a different comic book! There’s not much to see (Some wonderful panels by Box artist Uwe Heidschötter are included, though), but so much to imagine as the readers follow the word balloons and funny sounds Patrick Wirbeleit and Andrew Matthews came up with for this very hilarious story.

Rights sold: Italian; Simpified Chinese; World Spanish. 

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6+ years


ISBN 978-3-948690-05-2


80 pages, coloured


17 x 23 cm, Hardcover


15,–€ (D)

Gorm Grimm. Big, strong, hungry

As great as finding new friends is: if your new companion is a big, bold, not-too-bright viking torn out of his own time, there’s gonna be trouble! And it’s trouble Julius gets when his new friend encounters cars, strange modern devices, that can take your picture – and delicious wildlife.

This funny story reverses traditional roles, where the grown-up is impulsive and the kid has to try to be the reasonable one.

Beautifully drawn by Kim Schmidt (Die drei ??? Kids ) and written by Patrick Wirbeleit (Box ), this is truly a joy to read.

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6+ years


ISBN 978-3-948690-06-9


96 pages, coloured


17 x 23 cm, Hardcover


15,–€ (D)

Gorm Grimm.

Reading, writing, hammering

That's how it is with Vikings: Out of nowhere they take you by surprise, eat the hair off your head and don't give a damn that you might have had something completely different in mind. Julius can tell you a thing or two about it: Since he's had Gorm Grimm on his back, he suddenly feels like he's in the trickiest level of his favourite computer game.

So Julius is having a lot of fun! If only his Viking friend wasn't so much of the past! High time to familiarise Gorm with today's customs. But why waste a knife and fork on food when a warrior can just as easily attack your laughing muscles with it?!

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6+ Jahre
ISBN 978-3-948690-15-1
96 pages, coloured
17 × 23 cm, Hardcover
15,– € (D)

Gorm Grimm.

Hunt, gamble, relax

Hilde Balkenbrech is not a woman to be messed with! Every child in Europe knows this, and even the shaman of her village should have thought twice about it before sending her beloved son Gorm through time. The fact that this was a... well, regrettable oversight is of little concern to Hilde: the shaman will travel into the future and bring Gorm home!In the meantime, in our "future", every day is a great adventure for Julius. After all, no one has a friend like Gorm! But all the chaos that a Viking causes is gradually getting on top of him. When Gorm gets homesick, Julius is almost glad that another one of these viking weirdos suddenly appears on his doorstep...The turbulent finale of the hilarious Viking adventure!

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6+ Jahre
ISBN 978-3-948690-21-2
96 pages, coloured
17 × 23 cm, Hardcover
15,– € (D)

Ulf and the Riddle of the New Girl



A group of aspiring junior detectives finally finds their first case. The target of their observations is the new girl in their class, who seems to hide something of great importance from everybody else. She also seems kind of strange with her bearded, skateboarding dad and her weird, axtravagant mum. The perfect opportunity for this dynamic group to make a mark as real detectives.

Tanja Esch captures this thrilling and charming story about friendship in colourful drawings and sequences.



Rights sold: Czech, French, Italian, Russian, World Spanish.

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6+ years


ISBN 978-3-948690-00-7


128 pages, coloured


17 x 23 cm, Hardcover


18,–€ (D)

House No. 8. A Mousy Family

Tim and his parents move to an old house in the outskirts of a big nameless city. While exploring their new home he finds the house to be very peculiar. When he accidently pulls a plug in the basement he and his family suddenly lose all of their colours and appear to be black and white. A problem difficult to hide, especially from their only, creepy and very nosey neighbour… But there is much more to discover. The house itself bears a great secret as does Tim's Mom, who doesn’t seem to be distressed by their unconventional mishap at all.

Patrick Wirbeleit writes this rapid mystery adventure for all ages and Sascha Wüstefeld creates spectacular images.


Rights sold: World Spanish

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9+ years

ISBN 978-3-948690-02-1


96 pages, coloured

17 x 23 cm, Hardcover


15,–€ (D)

House No. 8. The Time Charm

The glasses are gone! Tim's magic glasses, with which he can reach the invisible tower room of house no. 8! And of all people, the dubious neighbour Ernst Grumback has stolen them from him. It's no use, Tim has to ask Grandpa Birne for help. In his time of need, Birne fulfils Tim's most fervent wish: He teaches him how to do magic. But it's like a jinx! It can't be that difficult!

For the second time, Boxauthor Patrick Wirbeleit and cartoonist Sascha Wüstefeld open the gates of House No. 8 for a thrilling new adventure.

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9+ years

ISBN 978-3-948690-13-7

96 pages, coloured

17 x 23 cm, Hardcover


15,–€ (D)

Selma Trades Places. A Dog's Life

The saying »Dogs that bark won’t bite« doesn’t help Selma. She is afraid of dogs and finds them scary. But Selma has a secret gift: She can trade places with anything. So when her mother asks her what the little dog must think of a big girl like Selma, she trades places with the dog and a great adventure ensues.



With a lot of wit, optimism and empathy Martin Baltscheit, one of Germany's most respected writers for children tells this story about fear and facing it and the importance of staying curious in this conflicting world and Anne Becker finds the fitting illustrations.

Rights sold: Catalan; Swedish; Ukrainian; World Spanish.

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6+ years

ISBN 978-3-948690-03-8


88 pages, coloured


17 x 23 cm, Hardcover


15,–€ (D)

Selma trades Places: It´s a grandpa´s life

Every time Selma cycles to the bakery with her dad, an old grandpa sits on the bench opposite and scolds people loudly. "He has complainitis", says Selma's father. What? How do you get such a thing? Selma wants to know, and thanks to her special power she can literally walk in that grumpy old man's shoes and become a grumpy old lady herself. Witty, thoughtful and empathic, this book his the only approved remedy against complaints!

Rights sold: Catalan, World Spanish.

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6+ years

ISBN 978-3-948690-13-7

88 pages, coloured

17 x 23 cm, hardcover

15,- € (D)

Genius Gifts

What’s better than to drop by an old friend and wish him a happy birthday? Cake, candles and gifts are in order, but the host won’t act like one. Is it the flowers that are wrong? Or is it the guest?

Anke Kuhl, one of Germany’s most renowned illustrators for children tells this hilarious little story about presents, birthday parties and a big surprise.

Rights sold: Portuguese (Brazil), World English.

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4+ years


ISBN 978-3-948690-04-5


24 pages, coloured


14,5 x 14,5 cm, Hardcover


10,–€ (D)