For all those who have always shied away from the sheer length of the original Urs Widmer has carefully abridged the wonderful Tales From the Arabian Nights while preserving their oriental flavour. Highly vivid and amusing, he recounts the six most famous tales of the immortal Sheherazade: The Fisherman and the Jinni, Alibaba and the Forty Thieves, Aladdin and the Magic Lamp, The Magic Horse, The Adventures of Haroun-al-Raschid, and Sinbad the Sailor.
As Hermann Hesse pointed out, the original of this great collection of fairytales is »a source of infinite pleasures and the most opulent picture book in the world«. To ensure that this holds true, Tatjana Hauptmann has richly illustrated this work, conveying Oriental lavishness and subtlety.

It is a peaceful life the lobsters live there at the shore of Monhegan, mostly only interrupted by looking for the next tasty clam. A perfect idyll, if it wasn’t for the lobster traps, which, despite all the warnings, keep claiming victims. When they catch the uncle of young Daniel Lobster, he is determined to fight back. After being caught himself, he builds up a resistance group together with the other crustaceans, and starts to make life very difficult indeed for the big land creatures.

Whadd’ya reckon, whadd’ya think: What’s the longest animal of them all?

There should be much more ice cream! So much that if I stand beside it, I look as tiny as a dwarf:

An iceberg.
An icecreamberg.
A berry icecreamberg.
The strawberry icecreamberg.

A zanily playful picture book in rhymes, dreamily illustrated by Uli Krappen.
For young word artists and imagination jugglers.

A fairytale-like story about helicopter parents who smother their children with their love.

To make sure nothing can harm his son Jan, King Ferdinand surrounds him with an entire army of minders, from walkers and insect hunters to clothes warmers and cod liver oil administrators. It is no wonder that Jan is such a shy and pale little guy. Until he meets wild Sophie, who does all the things he is forbidden to doing, and whose way of life is so different from his – wild and dangerous!

Lukas Hartmann’s best-selling children’s book, which has also found success as a children’s play.

»The twilight of evening. Big flakes of wet snow are whirling lazily about the street lamps, which have just been lighted, and lying in a thin soft layer on roofs, horses' backs, shoulders, caps. Iona Potapov, the sledge-driver, is all white like a ghost. He sits on the box without stirring, bent as double as the living body can be bent.«
Thus begins the story of a sledge-driver and his horse. The story referred to in the title is about the dachshund Kashtanka who, having lost his master, discovers the colourful world of the circus. Grisha, a tubby little boy, goes walking out on the boulevard with his nurse for the first time in his life. And when Major-General Buldeeff is suffering from toothache, everyone searches desperately for a »horsey name.«
Chekhov's stories have been referred to as a fin de siècle encyclopaedia of Russian life. They are the illustrated newspaper of his times, based on Chekhov's observations of everything and everyone: the middle classes, officials, the aristocracy – but animals too, and miracle-workers and, last but not least, children.

The little plastic dinosaur – gone. Karl's left goalkeeper's glove – missing. The new umbrella cover – lost without a trace. Karl is always losing things. ›You have to start looking after your things better!‹ say his parents. That is what Kasper says too. Kasper is Karl's best friend – a hand puppet who comes to life when he puts his hand in it. But that does not help Karl. Things come to a head when he loses Kasper in the park. Karl sets out on an expedition for somewhere, there must exist a place where all the lost things end up. And Karl does not mean the lost property office. One night, under a full moon, his little dog Timo puts him on the right track... An adventurous story about how you sometimes have to lose (almost) everything to find the thing that's most important.

Pit and his sister Lena are bored on holiday in Greece. Their parents are always quarrelling, and there are no other children on the beach. But then Pit and Lena have the good fortune to find the wizard Zervan. He has been hiding away from the world on a tiny island for two hundred and fifty years – or rather, he has been hiding his nose. Because it is so huge and fiery red that it takes Pit and Lena's breath away when they first see it. Zervan is terribly ashamed of this protuberance, which a wicked rival has stuck on his face by a magic spell. Lena feels sorry for him, and has a brilliant idea. That is the start of an adventurous journey on a flying carpet.
A story for children of 8 and upwards, told by Pit and Lena themselves.

Easy to become king, being one the hardest thing.

After numerous adventures and practical tests, this is the insight gained by the children Robert, Moritz and Johanna, king Schwarte the pig, Charlie ›Tasso‹ Trunk the mouse and Caro Spannagel the donkey, Miss Bellmouse the cat, and Dr Johannes Loy the owl.

F. K. Waechter and Bernd Eilert lure the reader into a cheerfully upside-down yet fundamentally good world. This rollicking book for children, parents and other demanding readers which was first published in 1972 crowns it all: apart from reading it, one can join in the fun with fold, rhyme, puzzle, paint, sing, and even maltreat it with a pair of scissors.

Karla and her family are especially good at one thing: making a racket. Karla finds a cello in the attic, as well as a stone lion, guarding a rusty door, who shows her the world of silence and gentle notes. 

The artist Tatjana Hauptmann, recipient of many international awards, spent several years working on her meticulous illustrations of ›The Great Book of Legends‹. The Best Medieval Legends of Gods, Heroes and Knights, edited by Johannes Carstensen. The result is two beautiful volumes, the first of which has now been issued. The unique drawings and colour plates breathe life into the world of the Nibelungen, King Arthur, Robin Hood, Tristan and Isolde and many others, and take us to a land of fantasy which it is always a joy to visit.

Who doesn't know them, Alm-Öhi, Peter the goatherd, Aunt Dete and poor Klara in Frankfurt – Heidi enchants them all. Their story is as old as it is topical, a parable that has attained the status of a classic, a tale about the victory of humaneness and the power of love in a society that has become heartless. The first edition of the children's book classic was published in 1880 when the dark side of technological progress was beginning to make itself felt. It is no coincidence that love of nature prevails over the blessings of modern civilisation.
Tomi Ungerer's wonderful sketches, all the more realistic and lively for their minimalism, allow the text to shine, just adding a punchline here and there – a refreshing addition to one of the most beautiful children's classics in the world!

»Allumette« is Tomi Ungerer’s wild adaptation of Hans-Christian Andersen’s »The Little Match Girl«. Allumette, too, wanders the cold streets around Christmas time, cold and hungry and with no money or home to return to. But unlike the poor girl in Andersen’s tale, Ungerer’s heroine Allumette does not die of the cold, but gets everything she has ever wished for – and uses the power of that original wish to effect the betterment of society as a whole. A wonderful story with a happy ending and of course, Tomi Ungerer’s indispensable illustrations.