Children's Books / Young Adult Autumn 2024

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Usch Luhn

Meet the Christmas Gnomes: 24 Advent Stories for Little Ones

Board picture books with removable gnome doors and decorations

Date of publication: October 2, 2024
Hardcover | 26 pages | With illustrations from: Yvonne Sundag | Recommended age group: 3+
Finally, the 1st of December has arrived, which means it’s time for Gnome Milli to move in to the house behind the magic gnome door. Mats can’t believe his eyes when he discovers the door in his ...
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Nina Blazon

Whispy the Will-o’-the-Wisp and the Secret of the Woods

The first picture book by this bestselling children’s author

Date of publication: October 2, 2024
Hardcover | 32 pages | With illustrations from: Denise Hughes | Recommended age group: 4+
Whispy the Will-o’-the-Wisp and her best friend, the hazel dormouse Hoo, live in a little ball-shaped nest in a hawthorn hedge. Whispy would love to dance the nights away with her fellow moorland...
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Anke Girod

Fairy Smith: What a Mess!

An entertaining picture book about tidying your room

Date of publication: September 25, 2024
Hardcover | 32 pages | With illustrations from: Irina Avgustinovich
One day, Simon finds a very special visitor in his bedroom: Fairy Smith is as short as a pencil stub and has wings like a dragonfly. Judging by the state of Simon’s room, Smith must be the famous...
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Annette Moser

Mumble and Mr. Wide-Awake

Date of publication: August 28, 2024
Hardcover | 32 pages | With illustrations from: Olga Strobel
The marmot kids are all sleeping peacefully in their beds. Except for Mumble. He’s wide awake! He would love to go to sleep, but Mr. Wide-Awake, who lives in his tummy, won’t let him be. Nothing ...
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Christine Sinnwell-Backes

Arts and Crafts with Animals

25 brilliant crafting ideas for playful learning

Date of publication: July 24, 2024
Hardcover | 64 pages | Recommended age group: 2+
Conjure up a gang of mice on paper with a potato, make a chameleon sun catcher, turn play dough into sparkling fish or wool into a llama – in this crafting book, animals are the stars. Here, litt...
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Ute Krause

Cheese Galore! Picandou’s Christmas

A "Muscleteers" Yuletide picture book

Date of publication: October 2, 2024
Hardcover | 40 pages | Recommended age group: 4+
Picandou is the foodie among the Muscleteers. And as his name suggests, cheese is his favourite! He will do anything to hunt down the perfect specimen, even climb up to the Moon… At the end of th...
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Christian Seltmann

The Most Wonderful Christmas Ever

Picture book

Date of publication: October 2, 2024
Hardcover | 32 pages | With illustrations from: Anna Galitskaya | Recommended age group: 4+
Hibernate? Not this year! The little hedgehog is enchanted by the glittering wintry wonderland awaiting him outside his nest. What is it all about? It seems that Mummy Hedgehog was wrong: not eve...
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Ingo Siegner

Little Dragon Coconut: Mission Kindergarten

Date of publication: September 25, 2024
Hardcover | 32 pages | With illustrations from: Ingo Siegner | Recommended age group: 4+
Coconut, Oscar and Matilda are helping to organise a sleepover at the nursery. While the teachers are out getting provisions for the barbecue, a big storm suddenly rises up over Dragon Island. It...
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Christine Sinnwell-Backes

Fantastic Treasure and Scavenger Hunts

The solution to the perennial children’s birthday party problem

Date of publication: September 18, 2024
Paperback | 80 pages
Kids love treasure hunts and scavenger hunts – they’re the highlight of any birthday party. Whether the theme is space, pirates, fairies or sports, Sinnwell-Backes has 10 brilliant ideas for the ...
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Norbert Pautner

I Can Draw 500 Animals

Date of publication: November 20, 2024
Paperback | 176 pages | Recommended age group: 8+
Elephant, goat, blue whale, butterfly – the detailed instructions accompanying these 500 animal motifs create a comprehensive drawing school with quick results. Short, step-by-step instructions s...

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