German Children’s Books on Tour 2023 – Spring Collection

Children’s and Young Adult books play a central role in the German market – these days, from the moment a new bookshop opens its doors you can be sure that one of the areas it will specialise in is literature for young people. Where other market segments have seen declining sales for several years now, sales of children’s books have increased. So how big is the audience for children’s and YA books? There are currently 8.3 million people aged between 15 and 24 living in Germany – meaning that this age group, both in terms of its number and as a proportion of the overall population, is the smallest it has been since 1950. At 10.7 million, the number of children aged 0 to 13 has risen slightly and accounts for 12.9 percent of Germany’s population.