Children's Books / Young Adults Spring 2024

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Stefanie Duckstein

Wolves Like Noodles with Poodles

Picture book with fold-out pages

Date of publication: March 27, 2024
Hardcover | 36 pages | With illustrations from: Stefanie Duckstein | Recommended age group: 4+
Do wolves like noodles with poodles? Or has something gone very wrong? Illustrator and author Stefanie Duckstein takes us on an exciting voyage around the world – a colourful and entertaining pic...
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Britta Teckentrup

When I Feel Brave

Date of publication: March 13, 2024
Hardcover | 40 pages | With illustrations from: Britta Teckentrup | Recommended age group: 4+
What you don’t know can be scary. In this stunningly expressive picture book, Britta Teckentrup explores what it means to be brave. She tells the story of a girl who walks through a dark wood all...
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Norbert Pautner

My Pin-Prick Zoo: Prick Holes, Fold and Play – with 25 animals

Paper animals for preschool or at home

Date of publication: March 27, 2024
Paperback | 48 pages | Recommended age group: 4+
Pin-pricking is a popular crafting technique for little ones. It promotes fine motor skills, concentration and hand-eye coordination. If you still find using scissors a bit tricky, the pin is a g...
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Norbert Pautner

Let’s Make Some Magic

Date of publication: June 26, 2024
Paperback | 64 pages | Recommended age group: 8+
Want to create spellbinding magic tricks using just paper, scissors, glue and pens? No problem! With these simple crafts ideas, any child aged 6+ can become a proper little wizard. Here, they’ll ...
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Wolfram Hänel

The Epic Pet-Sitting Club

Fun for animal lovers

Date of publication: March 20, 2024
Hardcover | 112 pages | With illustrations from: Olena Kvitka | Recommended age group: 4+
Milli-Lilli, Lia and Tassilo love animals – but sadly their parents won’t allow them to keep pets. The obvious solution, of course, is to set up a pet-sitting club. All animals are welcome, big a...
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Ute Krause

Helma’s Big Egg Problem

New edition of this classic picture book

Date of publication: February 21, 2024
Hardcover | 40 pages | With illustrations from: Ute Krause | Recommended age group: 4+
Helma needs help: she’s the only one in hen school who can’t produce white eggs. She lays one after another, but they’re all brightly coloured! No one must find out about it – but what to do with...
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Nico Sternbaum

Shake the Apple Tree – The Cutout Book: Cut, Stick, Colour

The first crafting companion for this perennial bestseller. With easy-to-detach perforated pages

Date of publication: February 28, 2024
Paperback | 64 pages | Recommended age group: 3+
Cutting, gluing and colouring in – these are three basic skills that children aged 3+ can practise here, with help from the much-loved protagonists of Sternbaum’s "Shake the Apple Tree". Includes...
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Norbert Pautner

My Colourful Template Book: Fuse Beads – 3D Crafts

3D fuse bead projects for kids – includes standard square and hexagonal pegboards

Date of publication: September 18, 2024
Paperback | 80 pages | Recommended age group: 5+
These 3D fuse bead templates are simply brilliant – and there are more than 37 exciting things for you to craft. No matter what your interests are, or how dextrous (or not) you are, there’s somet...
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Jan Haft

My Meadow: Discover a Wonderful World

Non-fiction picture book

Date of publication: February 29, 2024
Hardcover | 64 pages | With illustrations from: claire Lenkova | Recommended age group: 6+
Rustling grass, brightly coloured flowers, butterflies, humming insects – join Jan Haft on a journey of discovery in a meadow paradise. Here, hundreds of plants and fascinating animals live along...
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Katharina E. Volk

Brave Like a Lion – Around the World in 15 Tales: My Favourite Stories, Told in 3, 5 or 10 Minutes

Date of publication: April 24, 2024
Hardcover | 128 pages | With illustrations from: Anne Grobe | Recommended age group: 4+
Taio the lion isn’t just hungry for adventure – he also has the best ideas. Now he’s decided to travel around the world in a flying machine he has built himself. He really is a brave lion! Along ...

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