- 08.11.11:
- Oscar and the very hungry dragon nominated for three prices in the US!
- 12.09.11:
- New Foreign Rights Guide Autumn 2011 available for Download here!
- 09.08.11:
- Frankfurt Book Fair
- 26.05.11:
- Paul Maar nominated for Hans Christian Andersen Award 2012!
- 27.01.11:
- World English Rights sold of Antonia Michaelis novel Storyteller (Der Märchenerzähler)
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Welcome!
We like to invite you to explore Oetinger´s Foreign Rights Website.
Our new publications Autumn 2011 have just been released and by browsing this website you´ll find all necessary information about them!
We like to highlight one of our new books:
Dirk Steinhöfel has created a brilliant visualisation of P.B. Shelley´s famous poem "The Cloud" - magical, dark and utterly beautiful!
P.B. Shelley´s The Cloud
illustrations by Dirk Steinhöfel
translated by Andreas Steinhöfel
128 pages
We hope you will enjoy browsing this website and we´re looking forward to hearing from you!
Kind regards,
Your Foreign Rights Team
New and Innovative:
touch and feel elements and sound modules combined in one book
Bo the bear has a soft, furry tummy – and when the children stroke his fur, he gives a happy growl. Each animal has a sound element hidden beneath soft material – just stroke its fur and the animal will growl, roar or meow!
Innovative stroke/sound concept with five cuddly toys and five different animal sounds.
Stroke Me and I Growl!
Stroke Me and I Quack!
text by Susan Niessen
colour pictures by Sabine Kraushaar and Ulrike Waas-Pommer
12 pages
19,5x19,5 cm
The most fantastic aunt in the world!
An amusing and heart-warming family story with detective elements
Lena’s Auntie Mel used to be an artiste with Pirelli’s Circus and now works as a fortune teller and tarot card reader. She has the gift of telepathy – and that is how Lena and Mel communicate with each other every night before going to sleep. After Lena finds out that Auntie Mel has been killed in a car accident, she hears her voice again – and it’s not just in her head, it’s her real live voice. Her aunt is sitting beside Lena’s bed, invisible, telling her what has happened. She isn’t dead, she says, but “semi-material”, in other words, only her body died in the accident, but her soul and an invisible outer shell have survived...
Auntie Mel becomes invisible
by Salah Naoura
cover and inside illustrations by SaBine Büchner
190 pages
Children´s Fiction Age 8+
English sample translation available here
COOLMAN and ME
The ultimate series for boys!
Kay is twelve years old and he’s basically a perfectly ordinary boy. Basically – if it weren’t for COOLMAN, who is always there at his side. COOLMAN is a bit of a big mouth and always ready with a wisecrack; and there isn’t anything he hasn’t already seen or done. He’s the ultimate superhero – in his words. The fact that Kay is the only person who can see COOLMAN doesn’t make matters easier – especially when his sometimes rather dubious advice gets Kay into embarrassing situations...
- Fast-paced, simply hilarious narrative and with lots of amusing comic strips
- Coolman and ME ist the kind of series to turn unwilling readers into booksworms
Volume One - 35.000 copies sold
Volume Two - 18.000 copies sold
Volume Three - 14.000 copies sold
Volume Four to be published in September
Volume Five and Six are planned for 2012
Translation Rights have been sold to The Netherlands, Spain, France, Italy, South Korea, Israel and Poland
English sample translation available here
Please click on the cover to download our Rights Guide Autumn 2011!
Discovery Picture Fun!
The first Pettersson and Findus board book
Where’s the hen going? Where’s Pettersson’s sock got to? Where does the harebell grow and where’s the tiny spider creeping to? Seek and find indoors and out, in house, yard and garden – with pictures to search for in the margin.
Come and Visit Pettersson and Findus!
by Sven Nordqvist
16 pages
Board Book Age 2+
Translation Rights sold to Sweden
Blunderblog!
No subject too embarrassing
Betty is 14 and since her last birthday has at last been the proud owner of a laptop! What better reason to share the details of her chaotic life with others? So she starts to write a blog.
Funny, frank, young girls will recognize and laugh out loud at the situations told in authentic social network style in this novel.
Betty’s Definitive Advisory Blog
by Juma Kliebenstein
cover and inside illustrations by Carolin Liepins
Young Adults Fiction Age 12+
What’s the best way to sleep?
Upside down, on one leg or in your own bed?
When the little girl simply cannot fall asleep, her mother tells her how each of the animals go to sleep: the leopard in a tree, the bat hanging upside down and the fish even does it with its eyes open. But what’s the best way for children to go to sleep? Perhaps it would help to if they simply tried it out? Or is your own bed the best place after all?
Mummy, I can´t sleep
A delightful goodnight book from the picture-book dream team Brigitte Raab and Manuela Olten
32 pages
English translation available here
Translation Rights sold to Denmark
