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Rotraut Susanne Berner
Christmas in Wimmlingen
Weihnachten in Wimmlingen
Waiting for the Presents
On December 24th, citizens of Wimmlingen meet and gather in the Park Café to celebrate together as they await Christmas Eve.Petra brings her craft supplies, and Daniela offers hot soup. After the meal everyone helps build a snow family and romps around during the snow flurry, afterwards warming up with punch and cinnamon stars. Pedro, Ina and Ludwig lead a carol sing. As the sky darkens and people think about returning home, it’s thick with snow outside. But how will the Wimmlingers manage to get home in time to sit under their Christmas trees? Aha! Here come Fred and Carlos with the snowplow to bring everyone home!
Vitali Konstantinov
Crazy Strings
Crazy Strings
Musical Strings on Every Page
Wherever there are people, there’s music. And where there’s music, there’s usually a stringed instrument. This book takes us on a tour of world music and shows us over fifty plucked instruments from over 44 countries – from banjo to ukelele, from bouzouki to balalaika.
A short and helpful introduction demonstrates some basics of music theory. Following that is an immersion into the fabulous world of Crazy Strings – an age-old source of music. We begin with the six-string guitar, the world’s most widely used plucked instrument, and end with one-stringed instruments like the berimbau which is known for its use in the Brazilian martial arts dance capoeira. The twenty-four pages in between reveal the astonishing diversity of plucked string instruments. Best of all is that many of these instruments can be made by hand (building instructions are included)!
Vitali Konstantinov, himself an enthusiastic musician, applies his entertaining comic-illustration style to the description and history of the most interesting plucked instruments in the world, and the interesting people that play them!
Meike Töpperwien, Cornelia Franz
It's Called Good Luck
Das nennt man Glück
Today Is Our Lucky Day
A family with five children looking for an apartment? In Hamburg? Even though they don’t have much money? No way! And yet . . . Janan and her brothers take matters in hand. It occurs to them how they can earn some money to help pay for a decent apartment. Even when their plans fail at first, the Mirza family doesn’t give up. Then, it’s their Lucky Day!
A turbulent family story about the need for housing, along with cheerful illustrations by Meike Töpperwien.
Julie Völk, Judith Burger
Grandpa's Heart
Opas Herz
Good Thing that Grandpa's Always Right
Hans has waited so long to see Grandpa and Grandma! But everytime he asks, Mama and Papa make an excuse not to go. This time, they packed up and left quickly. Why? Because something’s happened: Grandpa’s heart is fluttering!
Hans doesn’t understand what it means to have an irregular heartbeat. But he knows this: first one is little, then big. First one is sick, then healthy again. It’s just that way! At least, that’s what Grandpa says. And Hans knows: Grandpa’s always right.
A heartwarming tale of a special relationship, sensitively illustrated by Julie Völk. For reading aloud and as a primer.
Janine Czichy, Ilka Sokolowski
Wildlife in Ancient Trees
Wildes Leben in alten Bäumen
Do You Know Who is Living in an Old Tree?
Trees are fascinating creatures. They provide us with vital oxygen, keep the air clean and ensure a good climate. They can become very old too! During their long lifetime, they provide food, shelter and a home for countless animals. We will meet many of these animals in this book – from stag beetles to black storks, from beavers to bats. As we get to know these veteran trees, we’ll learn who lives in the alluvial forest and by the river, what the moor and heath have to offer, what secrets there are to discover in the beech forest and what makes an oak forest so special. Even old fruit trees are teeming with wild life!
With a tree encyclopaedia at the end of the book and tips on planting your own tree.
Theresa Schwietzer, Anita van Saan
Little Fox, You're Getting Bigger
Kleiner Fuchs, bald bist du groß!
A Fox Grows Up
From a secluded building in the middle of the forest, a young fox catches sight of the light of the world. After just a few weeks it leaves the den. The young fox loves to circle around its mother and to wrestle with its siblings. The mother fox shows the young ones how to find food to eat and where its enemies are lurking. Soon the young fox has grown into a clever hunter – always on the lookout for adventure.
This is a nature primer about a beloved indigenous wild animal: the red fox. The story of this young animal is accompanied by evocative pictures with factual information about the fox and the typical plants and animals of the forest.
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Katrin Stangl
Strong as a Bear
Stark wie ein Bär
Great Picture Book Art by Katrin Stangl
Are you wild as a tiger or shy as a roe deer? As talkative as a parrot or still as a mouse? Maybe you’re as stubborn as a mule, mad as a bull, or dirty as a pig? Kids are all that and more. Katrin Stangl’s animals and children agree that versatility makes life fun. The book’s brightly colored, compact, and clear illustrations tell short stories that inspire reflection.
Maja Nielsen
The False Life
Das falsche Leben
Life in Divided Germany
Hannover 1979. The bags are packed, the school is notified – Thomas, 16 years old, is literally ready at the drop of a hat to move with his family to the German Democratic Republic. The reason for the hasty move is not his terminally ill grandfather in Usedom, as his father has claimed. It is the Cold War era, rife with espionage in the East and West alike. Thomas‘ father is a spy whose role was uncovered in a failed mission, and who must now return to the GDR. Thomas finds himself living a false life in East Berlin. He attends a school governed by the state security agency that requires flag oaths and military instruction. All the family’s attempts to return to the West fail. Then Thomas and his parents end up in the notorious state prison Bautzen II . . .
A true story by Maja Nielsen from the time of the divided Germany. Like Nielsen’s successful novel THE TUNNEL CONSTRUCTOR it’s dense and suspenseful.
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Katrin Stangl
Does Bread Float in Milk?
Schwimmt Brot in Milch?
Invitation to Discover the World
Can a person whisper out loud? Or splash a puddle dry? Wake up stuffed animals by moving oneself? Children discover their world by watching, asking questions and trying things out. In these richly colored picures, Katrin Stangl answers questions that all of us may have asked ourselves at one time or another. But then the game starts – every question has multiple answers. And the answers themselves generate more curiosity!
A fun-filled argument for outings that can help us discover and understand our world. Recognized as the most beautiful picture book of 2018.
Thomas Müller
Eagle, Bear And Marmot
Adler, Bär und Murmeltier
To the High Places with Wild Animals
No other landscape is so diverse and makes such a deep impression. From the mountain forest to the meadows, the rocky zone and high into the glaciers, mountains offer a wide variety of living environments at different heights. Many animals - even the camouflaged ones that we rarely see - call this home. They can all be discovered in this large format, practical book that shows colorful life in the mountains in all its variety.
Besides the familiar ones, like the sparrow, the fox and the bear, we discover animals that are difficult to spot and are seldom noticed because they blend in to their surroundings so well. Birds, mammals, insects, and amphibians and reptiles - for all of them the mountains are an incomparable habitat.
Award-winning illustrator Thomas Müller makes the mountain animals come to life with every careful brushstroke.
The Mountains - The Alps - The Four Height Stages of the Alps - The Mountain Forest - The Meadows - The Rocky Zone - The Glacier Zone - How the Mountain Region Changes