Foreign Rights Catalogue · Autumn 2015 THIENEMANN · ESSLINGER

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THIENEMANN · ESSLINGER · GABRIEL · PLANET GIRL
CHILDREN’S NOVEL
l Atmospheric world packed with flamboyant characters
l Outstanding adventure novel in the tradition of Oliver Twist
Plunge into a world of gangsters,
beggars and master thieves!
l Debut novel of a promising author
English sample
translation available
„This definitely makes for
gripping reading for
night owls age 11 and above.“
Eselsohr
TOP
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Patrick Hertweck
Maggie and the city of thieves
10+
Illustrations by Maximilian Meinzold
Children’s Novel
304 pages
Patrick Hertweck was born in 1972. After his A-levels and
leaving school he cycled round many parts of Europe before spending several years successfully working in the
management of a media company. Then the father of
three sons decided to make his secret passion into his job
and ever since has been freelancing as a writer in Freiburg
im Breisgau.
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New York, 1870. After being abducted from the orphanage, twelveyear-old Maggie goes into hiding in Five Points, a slum area in Manhattan. On the run from her kidnappers, she finds shelter with a gang
of young thieves. Before long, however, Maggie realises that the slums
are strangely familiar to her. She must have lived here before. While
looking for her past, Maggie stumbles across a dwarf, a master thief and
a mysterious Chinaman. There is only one person who can shed any
light on the matter: Mephistophelean Mose, the legendary and feared
ruler of New York crime.
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CHILDREN’S NOVEL
l New book for children by Spiegel bestselling author Oliver Scherz
l Thrilling but sensitive road movie
As a stowaway to Sicily!
l Artwork by bestselling illustrator Peter Schössow
English sample
translation available
Recommended by
English sample translation available
New Books in German.
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Backlist:
in, Die Zeit
Oliver Scherz (1974) is an actor, cutter and director. He
writes children’s books and his aim is for his stories to have
an impact on children and adults alike. For him, reading
aloud is something important for the whole family; and
a good children’s book does not have an age limit. Oliver
Scherz lives with his wife and two children in Berlin.
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Oliver Scherz
65.000
copies sold!
Rights sold to
CZ, SK, DK,
E (Catalan)
and HU
Nobody Can Stop Don Carlo
8+
Illustrations by Peter Schössow
With black-and-white illustrations
Children’s Novel
112 pages
www.oliverscherz-autor.de
© Doris Künster
Peter Schössow, born 1953 in Hamburg, is considered being
one of the most important picture book illustrating artists in
Germany. For his works he was awarded among others with
the German Juvenile Literature Prize, the Picture Book Prize
of the city of Troisdorf, of the Foundation Book Art and the
Art Director‘s Club in Germany.
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Ten-year-old Carlo has already been waiting for months
for his father to come back. For five months, two weeks
and six days. Ever since Carlo‘s mother threw him out and
his father has been sending postcards from Sicily. His mother
doesn‘t want him. His father won‘t come back. So Carlo makes up his mind to set off alone to his Italian father and bring
him back home.
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CHILDREN’S NON-FICTION
l New volume in our popular series of questions children ask
What fascinates children –
what children want to know
about the world religions
l Over a hundred pictures by world-famous photo artist Jan von Holleben
l Topics: One world and many religions – Who is God? – Living your belief – Places for prayer and meditation – It is not all over when death comes
English sample
translation available
How hot is hell?
Recommended
by the
Global Ethic
Foundation
Backlist:
TOP
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What is the difference
between meditating
and praying?
Jan von Holleben · Jane Baer-Krause
So What is Your God‘s Last Name?
8+
Children asking questions about
five world religions
Jan von Holleben (1977) studied Special Education and
this was followed by studies of Theory and History of
Photography at the Surrey Institute of Art and Design in
London. He now lives in Berlin and works for Geo, Geolino,
Die Zeit, Zeit Leo, Spiegel, Dein Spiegel, Neon, Eltern,
Chrismon, SZ Magazine and other magazines.
© Anna Schäflein
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www.janvonholleben.com
30.000
copies sold!
Rights
sold to 12
territories.
In our multicultural world, children are bursting with
questions about other religions. For this reason, in co-operation with the award-winning and popular web site religionen-entdecken.de, we have compiled over seventy questions
about the most important things religions have in common
and how they differ, without leaving out such tricky questions
as „Are ‚Holy Wars‘ good wars?“ Jane Baer-Krause, our author,
is one of the editors responsible for the web site, and she wrote
the answers in collaboration with the many religion experts
who contribute to the homepage. The accompanying pictures
were designed by photo artist Jan von Holleben with the help
of children from many different cultures. For only when we
know more about each other is mutual acceptance possible.
Children’s non-fiction
184 pages
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ALL-AGE NON-FICTION
l Shows a differentiated picture of the prophet
l Fascinating historic and cultural background
l As a novelist and Islamic scientist, the author is a guarantee
of atmospherically dense and instructive reading
English sample
translation available
English sample translation available
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Mohammed, the prophet –
his life as it has never been
told before
Lorenz Just was born in 1983, studied Islamic sciences at
the University of Halle-Wittenberg and has been at the
German Literature Institute in Leipzig since 2011. While at
university he spent a longer period of time in Cairo and
at the Orient Institute in Beirut and travelled through Yemen and Syria. He was also recently in Iran for research
purposes. In spring 2014 he was a finalist for the MDR
literature prize.
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Lorenz Just
Mohammed – for Muslims a fascinating and inspiring person, but for many
others a closed book. Where did he come from? What sort of person was
he? What made him into an example for millions of people?
Lorenz Just, Islamic scholar and promising young writer, takes readers to the Arabian Peninsula, to the area now known as Saudi Arabia. It was in this barren and
remote area that an impoverished orphan boy grew up who was to become the
most important prophet and leader of the Muslims. At the time his message was
revolutionary for he proclaimed that idols should be renounced, that there was
only one God and that there should be peace among people. Lorenz Just depicts
Mohammed against the cultural and historic background of the oriental world in
which he grew up and went about his daily business. The fascination of this man
becomes tangible for everyone reading this book – regardless of their religious
affiliation. It is a biography told in the oriental tradition; it unites the historic aspects of Mohammed with what is poetic about him and shows his relevance for
here and now. This is thus a book against ignorance about Islam, against fear and
mistrust and is an invitation for a very special first encounter with this important
figure in world history.
Mohammed
The prophet‘s unknown life
14+
All-age narrative non-fiction
240 pages
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l The bestselling „4 ½ Friends-series“ can now be seen on television
l Launch of the new animated film series on ZDF television: autumn 2015
l TV film rights sold to 20 countries so far
Rights
sold to: Czech
Republic and
Portugal
Bestselling
series
Joachim Friedrich
4 ½ Friends and the Panther
in the Playground
8+
Joachim Friedrich
CHILDREN’S NOVEL
New adventures
with the 4 11⁄2
2 Friends
4 ½ Friends and the Curried
Sausage Conspiracy
Children’s Novel
Children’s Novel
96 pages
96 pages
8+
Joachim Friedrich
4 ½ Friends and the Lisping Decoy
8+
Joachim Friedrich
4 ½ Friends and the Salami Avenger
Children’s Novel
Children’s Novel
96 pages
96 pages
8+
Help! Maths teacher in troublE
The mysterious boyfriend
Look out, double-dealer!
Stop thief!
It can‘t be happening! The maths teacher of the 4 ½ Friends
races his motorbike over the school playground. He is wearing
motorcycling gear and on his jacket there is a snarling panther.
It looks like he is being pursued. There is nothing for it, the
4 ½ Friends must help their teacher. And so they tumble into
a new case …
Friedhelm loves curried sausage. He could eat some
every day. If it weren‘t for Lukas, his mother‘s new boyfriend.
All this guy goes for is organic food. And so when he appeared
on the scene, curried sausage went by the wayside. Friedhelm
is desperate – until he finds out that Lukas‘s name is not Lukas
at all. The 4 ½ Friends leave no stone unturned to get behind
his secret.
It can‘t be true! Radish‘s grandpa is broke. He has been taken in by a double-dealer. Luckily, the 4 ¼ Friends have a
good idea: they set a decoy for the fraudster. But the decoy
makes a fatal mistake …
Watch out, there‘s a thief up to mischief! Some valuable
pieces of art have been stolen from a gallery – including an
edible sculpture made of salami. Daisy, the 4 ½ Friends‘ greedy
dog, picks up the scent, for there is nothing she likes more than
salami …
Joachim Friedrich‘s (*1953) very successful books for
children and teenagers have been translated into 21
languages and he has been awarded many prizes.
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CHILDREN’S NOVEL
READINGGALS
READINGGALS
BOOKS FOR GIRLS WHO ARE
l New series for girls of 10+
l By the bestselling writers of girls‘ books Bianka Minte-König, Hortense Ullrich
and Patricia Schröder, with over 7 million copies sold
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Bestselling
author
Bestselling
authors
Bianka Minte-König was born in Berlin and since 1980 has been a professor of Media, Literature
and Theatre at the University of Applied Sciences in
Braunschweig. She has been writing bestsellers for
children and young adults for many years.
Patricia Schröder, who was born in 1960, lives with
her husband and a handful of animals on the North
Sea coast. By profession she is actually a textile
designer, but instead of making patterns for blouses,
T-shirts or ties she much preferred to think up stories
for young girls, so a few years ago she quit her
first job and is now one of the most successful and
popular writers of books for children and teenagers
in Germany.
Hortense Ullrich studied Design in Wiesbaden and
worked in an Advertising and Public Relations Agency in Frankfurt. As an editor-in-chief she worked in
various magazines until she began writing screenplays. She has been writing screenplays and scripts
for television comedies and bestselling children’s
books.
First title:
Bianka Minte-König
READING GALS
What‘s New, GIRLS?
10+
Patricia Schröder
READING GALS
Emely – Completely Entangled!
10+
First title:
Hortense Ullrich
READING GALS
Luna Makes It Possible!
Children’s Novel
Children’s Novel
Children’s Novel
224 pages
192 pages
192 pages
Lotti‘s compass of life is at last pointing in the right
direction. Céline is to join the GIRLS club, Dad and Mum
seem to be slowly making up again, and Lotti thinks she‘s
on the winning side in the reading contest. But suddenly
everything changes. Céline starts bitching, the Chicks are
getting on her nerves, and Mum is meeting this photographer guy far too often. Lotti is annoyed, but then Mum
needs her help: an unknown girl is swamping the agony
column of her girls‘ magazine with the strangest of letters.
Who is behind it? Lotti and the GIRLS start to investigate.
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First title:
The time has come at last! Emely and her best friend,
Anna, set off for camp – two weeks crammed with high
rope courses, tenting and so on and so on. Just to be on the
safe side she has packed all sorts of DIY clobber so as to be able
to file at her latest blog project with Anna. But then it turns
out that Horsey Laura is going to be there, too. Her of all people! She spends the whole day boasting about her super mare
Rhapsody and thinks skateboarding is not the thing for proper
girls to do. Emely is totally rattled and tries to find solace with
her best mate, Jona. But Jona has nothing better to do than
enthuse to her about a girl he has met at a contest who is really good at skateboarding …
10+
A Luna without a solution to a problem is like a flower without water or a field mouse without a field.
Talking of which … Luna obviously wants to help these
little animals because they are an endangered species. But
not only as a reporter for the school magazine is she highly
motivated. After „world peace“ and „doing homework“ on
Luna and her best friend Pia‘s to-do list there comes „growing vegetables tasting of chocolate“. And then they have
to find a new job for Pia‘s mother and en passant make
sure that Luna‘s little brother doesn‘t blow everything up
with his physics experiments …
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l With turbulent scenes by bestselling illustrator Barbara Scholz
l Exciting stories of adventure - ideal for story time
l Powerful topics of high interest to the target group: tests of
courage, adventure and friendship
l Illustrated in colour throughout by Sibylle Hammer
Knight Sir Kuno Chain Stocking on a long journey!
One for all and all for one!
Bestselling
Author
First title:
Kuno ChainmailStocking has found a message in a bottle. At last some news from his longlost father! As a genuine knight, Kuno of course
immediately sets out to rescue his father from
the Coconut Islands. He is joined by his friends
Prince Nepomuk, elf Aurin, damsel of the castle
Konstanze, eagle Arthur and dragon Dragobert.
But the journey takes the friends in a boat over the
Pearly Sea, where they face lots of adventures!
A new Scout group is to be set up in the village!
The ideal opportunity for Joris, who has only
just moved here, to find friends and try out
something new. A little bit of outdoor knowhow
can‘t be all that difficult, he thinks to himself; after
all, even in the city he‘d already seen trees. He has to
prove himself as a Scout: only if he manages to do a
good deed every day, as is usual among the Scouts,
and he can use his outdoor knowledge, will Niklas
even listen to his suggestion.
Pirates, sea giants, mermaids, sea snakes: the valiant knight Kuno and his friends can get the better
of every challenge! Reading fun is guaranteed!
Luckily there is Lia, who always knows what to do,
and Joris quickly realises that when push comes to
shove, Scouts always stick together.
Oliver Pötzsch
Knight Sir Kuno Chain Stocking
and the Mysterious Message in a Bottle
© Gerald v. Foris
Oliver Pötzsch was born in 1970, spent years working for
Bavarian Broadcasting and now devotes his time entirely to
writing. He lives in Munich. His historical novels featuring
hangman Jakob Kuisl made him internationally famous.
Kuno ChainmailStocking is his first book for children.
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CHILDREN’S NOVEL
CHILDREN’S NOVEL
l Oliver Pötzsch has sold over 2 million books worldwide
Bettina Obrecht
5+
The Racoon Pack
A Scout adventure
Illustrations by Sibylle Hammer
Illustrations by Barbara Scholz
With four colour illustrations throughout
With black-and-white illustrations
Children’s Novel
192 pages
Bettina Obrecht, (*1964) studied
English and Spanish. She works
as an author, translator and radio editor and has received many
awards.
8+
Children’s Novel
160 pages
www.oliver-poetzsch.de
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l Heart-warming children‘s book
l Over 100,000 copies sold of her series „Our Animal Clinic“
l An author who has not forgotten what it is like to be a child
l A fascinating look behind the scenes of a zoo
l Have courage to believe in your own wishes
CHILDREN’S NOVEL
CHILDREN’S NOVEL
l Bestselling media savvy author with a passionate love of animals
A book to make
you feel happy!
Just too cute for words!
Backlist:
The At home in the Zoo Series:
„Life is not a wish list!“ my mother always
says when I keep on saying I wish I could
have ... For example, when we‘re out shopping
and there is something in every shop window I
wish I could have. For no particular reason. And
there is so much I wish I could have fornoparticularreason. Wanda says something different. She
always says, „Wishes are ten a penny and you can
wish for whatever you want!“ That is why Rosalie
sends a wishing rocket up into the sky with her
three most urgent wishes: a dog, a friend and a
daddy. And because wishes sometimes need a little
bit of help, Rosalie does all she can to make the
wishes come true a little bit more quickly …
A koala is coming to live in Schönhagen Zoo.
Lea immediately falls in love with the cuddly little fellow. But if her mother, the zoo director, has
understood correctly, her new little darling won‘t
be able to stay very long for the little koala is always hungry and needs a regular supply of fresh
eucalyptus leaves that has to be flown in specially
from Australia. Lea can‘t believe that she won‘t be
able to keep her cuddly koala. That is simply a no
go and mustn‘t happen! She and her friends Melli
and Max hatch out a crazy plan …
Tatjana Geßler
At home in the Zoo
Cuddly Koala Bear
Sabine Bohlmann
8+
Life Is (not) a Wish List
Illustrations by Petra Eimer
With black-and-white illustrations
With black-and-white illustrations
Children’s Novel
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www.tatjana-gessler.de
Children’s Novel
144 pages
© Christian Hartmann
© Hans Kollmer
Tatjana Geßler studied economics and engineering,
worked as an advertising copywriter and has been a
television journalist, film maker and anchorwoman since 1998. She has created her own series called Tatjana’s
Animal Stories, in which she visits animals and tells fascinating stories about them.
9+
After training to be an actress, Sabine Bohlmann has been
in various films and series on television. She also works as a
dubbing artist and has lent her voice to characters like Lisa
Simpson and actors such as Vanessa Paradies. Since 2004
she has been writing guides, children‘s CDs and children‘s
books.
272 pages
www.sabinebohlmann.de
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l Entertaining and interactive children‘s book for girls of 8 and up
l With a dog quiz, a dog ABC and a dog owner’s licence to be filled in and cut out
l With a cat quiz, cat alphabet, lots of ideas for making toys for cats, and much more besides
Emma and her happiness
at having a cat
Charming Story about a friendship between a girl and a dog
English sample
translation available
English sample
translation available
Mia’s biggest wish is to have a little dog. And
she has already found 1000 super-convincing
arguments why she simply has to have a four-legged friend. She actually even manages to get her
parents on her side, and as a result she is given a
Golden Retriever puppy for her birthday. But the
puppy can’t be collected immediately, and so Mia
and her parents get all the information they can
because before Lino’s arrival there is a great deal
dog owners need to know and rules to follow.
This way, readers find out a lot about dogs, not
least with the help of Mia’s 8-point plan mingled
in the story.
Emma and her little sister Mathilda have
moved. As consolation, their mother promises them a pet – and they quickly decide on
a cat. When three kittens are born in the neighbourhood, the two girls make up their minds
that one of the babies is to be the new member of
their family. The name of the kitten they choose
is to be Emilio. And no sooner has he moved in
than he turns everything topsy-turvy. The little
fellow even has the fire-brigade called out! And
when he has a stint as a „therapy cat“ in the retirement home, he is the hero of the day.
Andrea Schütze
Mia and Lino
An (almost) perfect doggy miracle
As a child, Andrea Schütze tried out
just about every conceivable hobby.
At some stage she fell in love with
reading, which is one reason why
she so enjoys writing books. She is a
trained dressmaker, graduated from
university in psychology. She and
her family live in the very South of
Germany.
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CHILDREN’S NOVEL
CHILDREN’S NOVEL
l Hot topic for girls: wanting a dog
8+
Andrea Schütze
Emma and Emilio
(Almost) Perfect Happiness with a Cat
Illustrations by Joëlle Tourlonias
Illustrations by Joëlle Tourlonias
With black-and-white
With black-and-white illustrations
illustrations
Children’s Novel
Children’s Novel
224 pages
Joëlle Tourlonias was born in 1985 in
Hanau and studied visual communication at the Bauhaus University in
Weimar, with the focus on illustration
and painting. She started working
freelance in 2009 and now draws,
paints and lives in Düsseldorf.
8+
224 pages
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CHILDREN’S NOVEL
CHILDREN’S NOVEL
l Loveable and self-confident main character with a very lively imagination
l Eagerly awaited by fans: the brilliantly
creepy finale of Lilith Parker
l Waltraud Moegle writes under the pseudonym Enid Blyton
The stunningly suspenseful finale
The Lilith Parker Series:
Everything could be so wonderful, thinks Elli,
if it weren‘t for the stinking silly reality in
which her best friend Hannah has suddenly
started hanging around with the new girl in
the class. The fact that she no longer plays first
fiddle in the playground is bad enough. But that
she is the only one not to have been invited to the
coolest birthday party of the year is something Elli
is not going to take sitting down. She hatches out
the perfect plan – but then Elli‘s annoying little
sister, Mrs Runmskötter‘s great big clumsy terriers
and that swot Annemie (who turns out to be not
as uncool as she‘d thought) all start interfering …
And in the end everything turns out much better
than Elli ever thought it would!
The atmosphere on the island of Bonesdale
is tense. Since by now the humans have also become aware of Lilith Parker and her nocturnal folk,
the Nocturi are flocking to the island from all parts
of the world in search of protection there. Lilith
and Rebekka have got their hands full to keep
order. But it seems to be only a matter of time
before they are discovered – be it by the humans, the demon hunters or the vampires. To top
it all, Lilith is extremely worried about the state
of health of her little demon, Strychnine, not to
mention a terrifying apparition that is positively
pursuing Lilith.
Waltraud Moegle
Elli‘s dog walker chaos and other disasters
Janine Wilk
10+
Lilith Parker
The Curse of the Shadow Realm
Illustrations by Lisa Brenner
With black-and-white illustrations
Illustrations by Christopher Gibbs
Children’s Novel
Waltraud Moegle was born on the Lower Rhine in 1964,
studied German literature and now works as an author and
translator. Her books include the Hanni & Nanni stories she
writes under the pseudonym Enid Blyton.
Children’s Novel
Janine Wilk was born in 1977 as the daughter of a musician and a painter. She wrote her first stories at the age of
eleven and in her early 20s started work on her first book.
This was soon followed by her first publications in the field
of poetry and short stories. Janine Wilk lives near Heilbronn
with her husband and two children.
160 pages
© Terzo Algeri
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11+
416 pages
www.janine-wilk.de
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l Popular reading for mothers and daughters
Charlotte and Won Da Pie
an inseparable team
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Over 4 milion books of auth
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Bestselling
Author
Rights
sold to: France,
Hungary, The
Netherlands
and Poland
Backlist of this bestseller series:
Over
165.000
copies
sold
Nele Neuhaus
The Horse of Charlotte‘s Dreams
First Love, First Tournament
10+
Children’s Novel
Nele Neuhaus was born in 1967 in Münster. After studying Law, History
and German, she initially worked in an advertising agency. A keen writer
since her youth, she was soon succeeding in establishing an admiring
and ever-growing readership and fan base with her first thrillers for
adults. In summer 2010, the thriller Snow White Must Die became an
international bestseller. Now writing the series on Charlotte, she could
finally combine her biggest passions for writing and horses.
www.neleneuhaus.de
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Dein Spiegel 09/2014
272 pages
It is her first tournament – and Charlotte wins a jumping contest with the horse of her dreams, Won Da Pie!
And Simon, who she has been in love with for a long time,
asks her if she will be his girlfriend. Everything could be so
wonderful, but then suddenly everything changes. A group of
dressage riders is planning to make an exclusive dressage facility in which there is no room for school classes and show jumpers. And then there is a nasty row with Doro! What a good
thing that Charlotte has Simon and Katie at her side – and Won
Da Pie of course …
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l A mysterious love
l Psychologically sophisticated and perfectly thought out right through to
the ultimate showdown
l Magnificently told by bestselling author Marliese Arold („Magic Girls“)
YOUNG ADULT NOVEL
YOUNG ADULT NOVEL
l The finale of the successful thriller series
l The unexpected twist in the plot makes for suspense
Beware – gets you hooked!
A „Romeo & Juliette“ story
Awardwinning
Author
The Lost Souls Series:
New town, new friends, new life: After her
mother‘s death, nothing is as it used to be for fifteen-year-old Rebekka. She feels out of place at her
new school until she meets the enigmatic Juri. He
is a maverick, very creative, very spontaneous, and
his attendance at school is very irregular. Rebekka
is fascinated by him and the way he is calm and
self-confident. But after their first kiss, he seems
to have disappeared from the surface of the earth.
When on an outing one day she falls into the water and almost drowns, Juri is miraculously at
hand and rescues her, only to disappear again – something Rebekka cannot fathom out. She decides
to get to the bottom of his strange behaviour and
stumbles across an ancient secret …
An empty car above the cliffs. Adyen‘s jacket on the backseat, money and papers in the
pockets. The third Black Rain album is in the
CD drive, volume at full blast. The CD booklet
has been slipped under the screen wipers, open
at the lyrics of Suicide Embrace, like a suicide
letter. Kata and Nathan don‘t believe in suicide.
Then a dead body is found in a garage. This is
the beginning of a revenge campaign. Its aim: to
destroy Lost Souls Ltd.
Alice Gabathuler
Lost Souls Ltd.
Red Rage
Marliese Arold
14+
Pirate Heart
13+
Young Adult Novel
Young Adult Novel
320 pages
288 pages
© Scott Schmith
Alice Gabathuler (*1961) lives in Switzerland. Amongst
other things, she has worked as a teacher, radio presenter
and advertising copywriter. She now runs a private English
school.
www.alicegabathuler.ch
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Marliese Arold (*1958) bought her first typewriter with her
pocket money at the age of twelve because she wanted to
become a writer. After school, she studied Librarianship and
published her first book when she was 25. Marliese Arold
is married and has two grown-up children. Her books have
been translated into about twenty languages.
www.marliese-arold.de
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l Author: 4 million copies sold
l Leaving school – a very special time in life!
l Cool, amusing, chaotic: super reading for young teenage girls
l Promising young author who knows her target group
l Topical: patchwork sisters
YOUNG ADULT NOVEL
YOUNG ADULT NOVEL
l Four girls, four points of the compass and a blog
Best Friends Forever –
or a ren‘t they?
Goodbye school – hello life!
Bestselling
Author
The Best Friends Forever Series:
The last exam is over – that‘s that as far as
school is concerned. What now? Anni, Marlene, Clara and Lotte have always been inseparable.
But now they are going their separate ways, without their best friends, scattering to the four winds
– from Berlin to Malaysia. In spite of everything,
however, they are going to keep in touch via their
blog. What they will all experience in this year
ahead of them, be it on aid projects, at university
or on a farm in the Netherlands, who they will love
and what they will find out about themselves – all
this is written in the stars. Only one thing is for
sure: in exactly one year they are going to meet up
again - at Lotte‘s, in the garden.
That really is the end: Luca‘s father and Vanessa‘s mother have ganged up against their
girls. As if it weren‘t bad enough that they forced
the two of them to live under one roof. But one
thing is a no-go: they are not going to become
sisters! And there is one other thing Luca and Vanessa agree about: their parents‘ wedding must
be prevented! They make one plan after the other
– they stir the mother‘s jealousy, emphasise the
father‘s flaws and keep putting spokes into their
wedding plans. But in the end they cannot stop
the trip to Las Vegas …
Karolin Kolbe
Now Life Can Begin!
Hortense Ullrich
13+
Best Friends Forever
Luca & Vanessa: Rather Best Enemies
Young Adult Novel
304 pages
12+
Young Adult Novel
240 pages
Karolin Kolbe was born in Kassel in 1993 and has been making up stories ever since she could make recordings and
hold a pencil. She started writing at elementary school and
hasn’t stopped since. After passing her Abitur, she spent a
year doing voluntary environmental work in Berlin, where
she is now at university.
© Tabita Rudek
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Hortense Ullrich studied Design in Wiesbaden and worked
in an Advertising and Public Relations Agency in Frankfurt.
As an editor-in-chief she worked in various magazines until
she began writing screenplays. The whole family lived in
New York for eight years, today they live in Bremen, where
she is writing screenplays and scripts for television comedies and children’s books.
www.karolin-kolbe.de
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PICTURE BOOK
Mr Squirrel:
The cult picture book series
l The latest masterpiece by Sebastian Meschenmoser
l Stunningly illustrated, entertaining and a little wise
l Award-winning illustrator
Rights
sold to: France
and The
Netherlands
Backlist:
The Mr. Squirrel Books:
Rights sold
to BR, CN, F,
TW, U.S.A.
and Latin
America.
© Jan-Ulrich Schmidt
www.sebastian-meschenmoser.de
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Mr Squirrel
and the King of the Woods
4+
Picture Book
With four colour illustrations throughout
Rights sold
to eight
territories.
Sebastian Meschenmoser was born in Frankfurt am Main in
1980. He has been studying Fine Arts in Mainz since 2001.
With Learning how to Fly he published his first book with Esslinger in 2005. This very special gift book has received a lot of
attention in the media and the book world. The illustrations
from it were chosen from over 2,700 entries and the book was
presented at the Children‘s Book Fair in Bologna as one of the
most innovative new publications.
Sebastian Meschenmoser
64 pages
When Mr Squirrel wakes up one morning he can hardly
believe his eyes: an unknown and mysterious creature has
appeared right under his tree – a creature that can only be the
legendary King of the Woods. The question is, will this creature be able to pass his wisdom on to Mr Squirrel and the other
animals and show them the way to a better life, as the legend
says? And low and behold, the King of the Woods does indeed
tell the animals his one and only and most important rule of
life. But this soon turns out to be anything but kingly.
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l A magnificent picture book debut
l By world-famous author Otfried Preußler
l Friendship-story that goes straight to the heart
The little donkey and the
miracle of Christmas!
PICTURE BOOK
PICTURE BOOK
l Poetically and atmospherically narrated
What‘s in here?
Rights sold
to: Italy
When the little donkey wakes up one
morning, his Mummy has disappeared!
Luckily the little donkey is not alone for very
long, for a little angel knows where she is –
with the baby Jesus in the stable where the
miracle of Christmas has taken place. The little
donkey and the little angel set off together for
the stable and invite everyone they meet to go
along with them: the children, the shepherd
and his flock of sheep, the baker and his family, the woman from the hot-dog kiosk and
the police constable. A tale full of the mood of
Christmas narrated by that master of storytelling, Otfried Preußler. Christiane Hansen has
newly illustrated the tale with pictures that
are cheerful and warm-hearted.
Mr Lotti is a postman down to the very
bottom of his heart. One day he finds a parcel on the pavement. Something is scratching
and snarling inside. This is a clear-cut case – it
must be alive! The parcel does not have an address on it and so Mr Lotti takes it home with
him. Mr Lotti would obviously never dream
of opening a parcel not meant for him, but he
does push all sorts of goodies to eat through
the air holes for the unknown creature. Each
day, the animal in the parcel grows a little larger – until one day the parcel bursts open. And
what is in it? – A real live tiger!
Otfried Preußler
The Donkey and the Little Angel
Martin Gülich
4+
Mr Lotti Finds a Parcel
Illustrations by Christiane Hansen
Illustrations by Amélie Jackowski
Picture Book
Picture Book
Otfried Preußler (1923 - 2013) is one of the best known
and most successful authors of children’s and juvenile
literature in Germany and the world. His books have a
world-wide print-run of nearly 50 mio. copies in more
than 275 translations, some of them like The Little Witch
or Robber Hotzenplotz have been translated into more
than 45 languages.
© Francis König
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www.preussler.de
3322 pages
© Christine Steinhart
32 pages
4+
Martin Gülich was born in 1963 and lives
and freelances as an author in Stuttgart.
His first young-adult novel was Preseason
(1999), and since then he has published a
volume of short stories and five more novels, his latest being What Doesn’t Belong
to Us (2012, Nagel & Kimche, Zürich). His
books have been translated into nine languages and won several awards.
Amélie Jackowski, was born in Toulon,
France, in 1976, studied at the art
school in Strasbourg and has been
illustrating children‘s and young adult
books for various publishers since
1999. Her books can be seen at exhibitions in France and other countries.
www.ameliejackowski.com
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l A journey round the world with over 250 confoundedly crazy mistakes
l With an extra searching task
l Volume 2 of the ingenious series of books with look-and-find fun
with Professor Knacks
CHILDREN’S
PICTURE BOOK
NOVEL
BOARD BOOK
l Unrivalled: the first look-and-find book on Europe
lWith solutions at the end of the book
Wow – what a fascinating
journey through Europe!
All the fun of finding mistakes for the
eagle-eyed and closer-lookers
First title:
Rights
sold to: Denmark and
Poland
At last it is holiday time for Professor
Knacks. He sets off in his latest invention,
the TurboTrabbiNaviMobile – and can‘t believe his eyes: no matter where he goes or where
he is – on the water, on land or in the air, in
the North, in the South, in the jungle or at the
South Pole – there is always something not
right. There are icicles in the desert, the penguins are wearing tail coats and bow ties, and
since when have you been able to open the
window in a plane? More than 250 errors are
waiting to be discovered in the look-and-find
pictures. The search can be tricky and leads to
no end of fun!
A fascinating journey to the Netherlands, England, Italy, Austria, France,
Spain and Germany: the Look-and-find
family travels through seven countries and
find sall sorts of sights and attributes that are
typical of each country. Off they go – from the
Piazza San Marco in Venice to Schönbrunn
Palace in Vienna, from the Eiffel Tower in Paris to the grachten in Amsterdam and then on
to traffic on the left round Piccadilly Circus in
the middle of London. They also take a look at
Rothenburg and see one of the most unusual
churches in the world in Barcelona.
Guido Wandrey
The Big Look-and-Find Book
of Europe
Dirk Hennig
3+
Professor Knacks‘s Confoundedly
Crazy Journey Round the World
Board Books
Picture Book
16 pages
Guido Wandrey was born in Hanover in 1959. Even as
a small boy he always took a drawing pad and crayons
with him wherever he went. He studied graphic design
at the University of Art and Design in Hanover and has
been freelancing as an illustrator since 1984. He has been
illustrating mainly children‘s books since 1997 but is also
continually involved in artwork on various topics.
4+
32 pages
Dirk Hennig who was born in 1972 in Dortmund, studied Graphic Design in Münster and worked several
years in advertising. Since 2005 he works as a freelance
illustrator and has already illustrated numerous picture
books and books for children. He still lives in Münster.
www.guido-wandrey.de
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l World literature in a top quality
l Brilliantly retold by Sybil Gräfin Schönfeldt
l Imaginatively illustrated by Lev Kaplan
l Impressively illustrated by Marina Marinelli
The best-known cock and bull stories
in the world
Somewhere over
the rainbow ≥≥≥
Be honest – does anyone not know the story
of Munchausen‘s ride on the flying cannonball? Or his legendary excursion to the moon?
And so it is all the more surprising that there have
hardly ever been any versions of his stories told
especially for children. Sybil Gräfin Schönfeldt has
retold the lying baron‘s legendary escapades, and
the tales are exciting and easy for children to understand. The magnificent and imaginative illustrations show that picture book artist Lev Kaplan
particularly enjoyed this task. There are little lies
and symbols hidden away everywhere. This is a
true treat for the eyes of young and old.
What a terrible thing to happen: a
cyclone has blown poor little Dorothy
and her dog Toto far, far away to an
unknown country. Before long they are
joined by the scarecrow, the Tin Woodman and the Cowardly Lion. They set off
together to look for the Wizard of Oz, for
only he can help them get to where they
wish to go …
Sybil Gräfin Schönfeldt
The Wizard of Oz
Sybil Gräfin Schönfeldt
6+
Munchausen
His extraordinary adventures
Illustrations by Marina Marinelli
Illustrated Classics
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Marina Marinelli, born in Perugia (Italy), studied graphic design at the ISIA Urbino, focussing on illustration. This was followed by work
for various publishing houses and the award
in 2008 of the special prize for illustration
techniques at the Scarpetta d‘oro competition. Her pictures have been exhibited and
printed internationally. For her drawing is the
most wonderful game in the world.
6+
Illustrations by Lev Kaplan
64 pages
Sybil Gräfin Schönfeldt (*1927) studied German and History of Art and works as an author, journalist, translator and reviewer for various magazines, newspapers and the radio.
She has already received numerous awards
for her work, among others the German Storyteller Award, the German Jugendbuchpreis
and from the German Book Trade Society the
plaque The Developer of the German Book.
ILLUSTRATED CLASSICS
ILLUSTRATED CLASSICS
l World literature in an unusual new look
Illustrated Classics
Sybil Gräfin Schönfeldt (*1927) studied German and History of Art and works as an author, journalist, translator and reviewer for various magazines, newspapers and the radio.
She has already received numerous awards
for her work, among others the German Storyteller Award, the German Jugendbuchpreis
and from the German Book Trade Society the
plaque The Developer of the German Book.
© Caplio R7 User
Lev Kaplan was born in Lugansk, Ukraine,
in 1967 and was learning to draw and paint
when he was seven. He first went to a children‘s art school and later studied architecture
in Kiev, the Ukrainian capital. He and his family have been living in Stuttgart since 1992.
Soon afterwards he first illustrated a children‘s book and has not been able to stop
ever since.
56 pages
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Plunge into a world of gangsters,
beggars and master thieves!
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