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.

Tomi Ungerer answers children’s questions with the irreverent wisdom of a great artist who has never forgotten his inner child. The column from ›Philosophie Magazine‹ – in book form for the first time. »Why am I not you, and why are you not me? Who created God? If someone hits me, is it ok to hit back? Why does money exist? Could it be that I am only dreaming my life? Is there such a thing as nothing? Why do we have to love others and not just ourselves?« The great philosophical questions remain the same, be it two thousand years ago or yesterday, whether we are eighty or eight years old. Tomi Ungerer, the world-famous artist and children’s book writer, is also an idiosyncratic thinker and an untiring champion against prejudice and narrow-mindedness. Children from France and Germany asked him their questions. Ungerer’s answers are surprising, cheeky, funny, thought-provoking – and always inspiring. A philosophy book that makes readers want to think – whether they are children or adults.

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.