Children's Books on Tour - Spring 2022

Through their rhythm and musical component, poems activate several areas in the brain - the texts are more easily retained...

Through their rhythm and musical component, poems activate several areas in the brain - the texts are more easily retained and often accompany children for many years.

Michael Hammerschmid presents a particularly fine selection of his poems in this book: playful with language, associative and with unexpected twists, he opens up worlds that make children marvel and invite them to fabulate.

The Argentinian illustrator María José de Tellería was hitherto unknown in the German-speaking world. With her multi-layered and poetic illustrations, she succeeds in capturing and intensifying the moods of the poems. Her lively pictures tell their own stories and develop a magic that is impossible to resist.

Poetry: imaginative, sensual, playful - brain jogging for children

The sky is full of stars — all of them just waiting to fly down to earth and become a human child....

The sky is full of stars — all of them just waiting to fly down to earth and become a human child. One little star has been waiting a very long time, though – a million years! At long last, he finds the right mummy and the right daddy. But he just can’t seem to get any closer to them. Luckily, Star’s best friend Owl has a brilliant idea.

“How the Little Star Came to Earth” is a delightfully humorous story and a poetic birds-and-bees book.  Thomas Meyer was born in Zurich in 1974. His novel "Wolkenbruch’s Weird" and "Wonderful Journey into the Arms of a Shiksa" became a bestseller and its movie adaptation was a big hit in Swiss cinemas in 2018. Thomas Meyer lives in Zurich. Mehrdad Zaeri, born in Esfahan, Iran in 1970, left for Turkey and later Germany with his parents and three siblings at the age of 14.  Mehrdad Zaeri now lives in Mannheim with his wife.

Is a cloth bag always more environmentally friendly than plastic? What is the ecological footprint of pets? And what causes...

Is a cloth bag always more environmentally friendly than plastic? What is the ecological footprint of pets? And what causes less CO2? Streaming via the smartphone or the TV? 50 unique and vivid graphic illustrations, specially developed for this book, present climate and environmental protection from an extraordinary perspective. It quickly becomes clear that we should all care about the environment. The infographics help to make facts easier to understand, to better classify contexts and provide new perspectives. A book that both children and adults will enjoy picking up again and again.

Lani knows what it’s like not to belong anywhere, because with her acute sense of justice, she keeps offending everybody....

Lani knows what it’s like not to belong anywhere, because with her acute sense of justice, she keeps offending everybody. Whispering Water is her last hope. On this colourful island, outsiders find a place where at last they are allowed to be who they really are. But all of this comes at a price: no secret must ever leave the island – otherwise, this idyll will end. When Lani arrives, mysterious things begin to happen: the omnipresent water that protects the island suddenly flows backwards. The school’s secret is in danger! Might this somehow be connected to Lani – and will she be allowed to stay on Whispering Water?

Irmgard Kramer was born in 1969, began her career as a teacher, and then became a freelance writer. Through her children’s books, she has become known to a broad reading public, and has enchanted young and old readers alike with books full of adventure and humour. Irmgard Kramer lives in Vienna and in the Bregenzerwald, and her head is always full of bright and colourful stories.

Florentine Prechtel alias Betina Gotzen-Beek, was born in 1965 in Mönchengladbach, and right from early childhood knew that her one and only desire was to paint. After studying graphic design and painting, she went on to illustrate children’s books. She loves to experiment with new techniques. Florentine lives with her family in Freiburg.