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• Christina Röckl
• Illustrated by Christina Röckl
• Spring 2024, 36 pages, 17 x 27.7 cm
• Hardcover
• Ages 3+
• All rights available
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A bus runs day in, day out. It is a morning like any other. You wake up, leave the house, go to the bus stop, get into the bus. All the other passengers’ faces look grim or even angry. Rain. Wet. Oh well. And then you feel somebody nudging you. “Isn’t this a beautiful day?” Accompanied by a broad grin. You’re baffled. Briefly. One, two, three. And then you smile back. You smile and wish the lady in the green and pink fleece jacket a good morning. She looks dumbfounded. One, two, three.

• Mareike Postel
• Illustrated by Ann Cathrin Raab
• Spring 2024, 40 pages, 19.5 x 26 cm
• Hardcover
• Ages 3+
• All rights available
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A child comes upon a long red thread. Soon, the thread gets tangled – at the same time entangling the child. When the child uses scissors in an attempt to control the increasing chaos, a living creature grows from the giant knot and starts to interact with the child. This is the starting point of a thrilling seesaw story that ends with the two characters’ alliance in search of new adventures.

• Charlotte Müller
• Illustrated by Charlotte Müller
• Spring 2024, 56 pages, 21 x 29.7 cm
• Hardcover
• Ages 5+
• All rights available
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Clara lives in a big city. Every day she rides her bicycle to school. There is always something new to discover. The seasons change and along with them do weather and nature. Construction sites, wild animals, the cherry blooming season, special bicycles – a broad variety of ever new attractions. And some days, Clara drifts off into a dream – and in her imagination, her way to school looks completely different!

• Pauline Pete
• Illustrated by Pauline Pete
• Spring 2024, 40 pages, 21 x 29.7 cm
• Hardcover
• Ages 5+
• All rights available
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images tell 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 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.

• Anna Gusella
• Illustrated by Anna Gusella
• Autumn 2023, 84 pages, 17.5 x 25.2 cm
• Hardcover
• Ages 6+
• All rights available
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Clouds can form any shape they want – animals, plants, faces and many more things. They look soft and fluffy, float through the sky and generally take it easy. Not all clouds are happy with this stereotypical existence, though. One particularly headstrong cloud just loves experimenting. It seems to have an inexhaustible trove of shapes. Despite its adventurous life, though, it feels an inexplicable sense of nostalgia. Then, one days, the wind carries it off into uncharted territory where our little cloud suddenly undergoes a new kind of change . . . and the ending becomes a new beginning.

• Verena Hochleitner
• Illustrated by Verena Hochleitner
• Autumn 2023, 352 pages, 17 x 23 cm
• Flexcover with thread stitching, printed in special colours
• Ages 12+
• All rights available
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An awkward fall jumping off a bus, some shoplifting and Pizzeria Anarchia, the new punk pizzeria in Katha’s building, unexpectedly bring Sydney, Nico and Katha together. Their budding friendship is strengthened by the experience of losing the rest of their class during a hiking trip and having to spend a night in the wilderness. This welds them together, and so Sydney and Nico are on the scene when the authorities move in to clear the block of flats Katha and her mother live in.