Children's Books / Young Adults Spring 2023

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Giuliano Ferri

Refugee Child: My friendship with Jesus

Jesus and his friend

Date of publication: March 29, 2023
Hardcover | 32 pages | With illustrations from: Giuliano Ferri | Recommended age group: 6+
Refugee Child is the tale of an unlikely friendship between two boys: one is the son of a Nile fisherman, the other the son of a refugee carpenter from Judea. The fisherman’s son has inherited hi...
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Luzie-Linn Beeke

First Form: Ready, Steady, Go! – Martha and Lalu Go to School

Date of publication: May 11, 2023
Hardcover | 112 pages | With illustrations from: Marie Zippel | Recommended age group: 6+
Starting school is exciting – and a big step. Whenever Martha thinks about it she gets butterflies, and she has lots of questions too: what do they expect you to know already? And how is school d...
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Sven Gerhardt

Zara Cylinder: A Magical Journey through Someoneland

A fantastic story for children aged 6+

Date of publication: March 1, 2023
Hardcover | 128 pages | With illustrations from: Mareike Ammersken | Recommended age group: 6+
When Minna Melon returns to Truleigh Wood, she finds everything changed: the stage on the forest’s edge is overgrown, and Zara Cylinder, the little squirrel, has left the settlement and ventured ...
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Ingo Siegner

Little Dragon Coconut: Havoc at Dragon School

Date of publication: May 11, 2023
Hardcover | 80 pages | With illustrations from: Ingo Siegner | Recommended age group: 6+
At Dragon School, Mr Cauliflower is telling the little dragons all about the animals that once lived on Dragon Island. When Coconut says that a three-headed cave dragon used to live there too, ev...
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Rudyard Kipling, Christian Seltman...

Penguin Junior – Children’s Classics for Early Readers: The Jungle Book

Date of publication: March 29, 2023
Hardcover | 88 pages | With illustrations from: Leonie Daub | Recommended age group: 7+
Thanks to the classic Disney film, Baloo, Bagheera and foundling Mowgli, who was raised by a family of wolves, are famous all over the world. But if you really want to know what Mowgli and his fr...
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Teresa Hochmuth

Shane the Little Shark: The Secret Voyage

The first book in a new series for practiced early readers

Date of publication: March 15, 2023
Hardcover | 96 pages | With illustrations from: Petra Bergmann | Recommended age group: 7+
Red, yellow, blue, green – Shane’s teeth glow in every colour. Tiburon and Sharkira laugh at him, because no one else in Sharkford has teeth like that. So Shane decides to leave home and ask his ...
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Rüdiger Bertram

Welcome to Green Meadows Hotel

Insect adventures for little kids

Date of publication: March 1, 2023
Hardcover | 128 pages | With illustrations from: Christiane Fürtges | Recommended age group: 6+
Grasshopper Adlon loves managing Green Meadows, and looks after his guests with the help of super-keen ant Alexa and grumpy-but-kind fly Margot. It isn’t always easy, though: the dung beetle in n...
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Rüdiger Bertram
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Patricia Schröder

First Me, Then You: Hunting for Treasure

A story for early readers

Date of publication: May 11, 2023
Hardcover | 96 pages | With illustrations from: Iris Hardt | Recommended age group: 6+
Lea has just started second form, and everything has changed: her friend Mai-Britt is now friends with Alina, and her old teacher Mrs Fox has been replaced by a stranger. Luckily she still has Be...
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Ingo Siegner

Little Dragon Coconut: My First Forest Book

Packed with games and creative ideas

Date of publication: May 17, 2023
Hardcover | 64 pages | Recommended age group: 6+
Little dragon Coconut, devouring dragon Oskar and Matilda the porcupine have learnt a lot about woodlands from their Biology teacher Mr Cauliflower. While they go to check on the little trees the...
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Amelie Plaas-Link

Penguin Junior for Early Readers – Magic Horseshoes – Our Magical Pony Farm: Chaotic Kaspar

Date of publication: April 26, 2023
Hardcover | 112 pages | With illustrations from: Miriam Cordes | Recommended age group: 7+
Lina’s dream has come true: there’s a pony farm near her new home! And she is allowed to learn to ride during Magic Pony Week! Unfortunately, she is paired up with chaotic Kaspar… but as her less...
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