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Our Foreign Rights Catalogue Spring 2010 is available here!
COOLMAN and Me
The tumultuous daily life of an almost perfectly ordinary 12-year-old: chaotic, funny, sometimes embarrassing and always exciting!
Kai is twelve years old and he’s basically a perfectly ordinary boy – if it weren’t for COOLMAN, who is always there at his side. COOLMAN is a bit of a big mouth and there isn’t anything he hasn’t already seen or done. He’s the ultimate superhero – in his words. The fact that Kai is the only person who can see COOLMAN doesn’t make matters easier – especially when his sometimes rather dubious advice gets Kai into embarrassing situations. Not that this is COOLMAN’s fault! For Kai there there’s only one thing to do: to face the situation like a hero!
- With lots of amusing comic strips
- Fast-paced and simply hilarious narrative
- The first volume in a new series for boys (initial launch of four books)
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English sample translation available here!
The adventurous journey
to the isla maldita
What will José and Marit discover on the cursed island?
As Marit´s father has been declared missing in France and her mother and little sister have both died in the bombing of Hamburg in 1943, all she wants to do is die. She dives off the ship in attempt to drown herself in the Atlantic as the ship approaches the Galapagos Islands, where her uncle had brought her, but José, a local boy, saves her in the belief that he has rescued a British boy called Jonathon, who is really Marit using a false identity. José is on the way to the isla maldita, with its boat, the Mariposa, to discover why people call it “curse island” and to find out if there is any truth in the tales of its legendary treasure. He takes Jonathan along slowly the two realize that they are already in the middle of a big adventure...
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More books by Antonia Michaelis
Welcome to the Land of Milk and Honey
The peferct holiday destination!
Philip (soon to be 12) and his father are off on a hiking holiday – on the way there they pick up Carmen Schultze (who runs a beauty studio in Berlin) and her children Samantha (13) and Justin (5). But then everything goes wrong: Their new, bargain-priced navigation device sends them into a pretty dense forest – and very soon the branches brushing against the windows of the car are replaced by a thick, gooey mass outside. When the car finally comes to a halt, they find themselves in a curious world. Everywhere they look, they see mouthwatering sweets, and nearby there are fish fingers swimming in a stream. Then suddenly, right out of nowhere, a roast suckling pig scoots across their path. Have they landed bang slap in the middle of the all-inclusive holiday paradise Mrs Schultze and her children were heading for?
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256 pages
Age 10 +
To Go or Not to Go - A little Loo Story
It could be a day like any other for the animals in the wood...
...if the blue something hadn’t suddenly appeared on the edge of the wood. It’s a loo, of all things! And it’s been put there because the forester is tired of the wood smelling nasty and his dog treading in sticky hare droppings. From now on, the animals are all supposed to do their business here, if you please. But was the loo really such a good idea…?
Translation Rights have been sold to Italy and Belgium
Across deserts and through storms...
A delightful story about friendship and happiness, full of adventure, imagination and surprises!
Freddi’s best friend is a hippopotamus who lives in a zoo but dreams about Africa. Freddi would like to help him – and sets out with the hippo on an adventurous journey. Will they ever reach the place where the air smells of honey and a little bit of bananas, too; where there are palm trees laden with coconuts and lots of lots of friends for the hippo?
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English sample translation available here!
Translation Rights have been sold to Denmark.
Can fish drown?
For inquistivie children and everyone who wants to know exactly what’s what!
This book provides surprising answers to some of the burning questions children ask and playfully imparts knowledge almost by chance.
Why are bananas curved? How does the salt get into the sea? How does cheese get its holes? Why do milk teeth fall out? Why don’t woodpeckers get a headache when they drum? These are just some of the children’s questions the book answers!
Authentic Breathtaking Cool
A fantastic novel from the traceur world
Dipper, Corone, Skylark and Jay are traceurs. As often as they can, they practise parkour – a sport that involves overcoming obstacles in the most elegant and efficient way – in old factory buildings and parks, and on sportsfields.
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World English Rights sold!
The author spent months in the company of a group of Leipzig traceurs. Her novel speaks their language and reflects their experiences.
Find out more about Parkour! View a short film here
