Frances doesn’t want to go to bed – just like every child in the world, just like you. But then her dad has a good idea: We'll play the face-making game! Frances has to look angry. Then happy. Then surprised. And now it’s your turn! Join Frances in making all sorts of faces: confused, sick, snooty, sweet, thoughtful ... It makes you really tired, and before you know it, it’s slumber time.

»One, Two, where's my Shoe? – Three, Four, on the Floor!« – These are the only words Tomi Ungerer needs for a story. The rest is told by his subtle and shrewd pictures, which seem to take the viewer for a fool – until he can't help but smile in recognition: Across the book's pages, Tomi Ungerer's pencil conjures up dragonflies, soldiers, scarecrows, a pig and even an ocean liner. And the line is always: ›One, Two, where's my Shoe?‹

Idi and his parents have moved to a new town. He doesn't know anyone there and so nobody comes to his birthday. Thank goodness that, since he was little, his father has always given him tools as presents – at least Idi has something with which to keep himself busy. Out of the things that others throw away, he makes that which he does not have: friends. When Ki, the girl next door, hears the noise coming from Idi's workshop, she grows curious. What is that boy doing? »I'm making friends for myself,« he replies. All of a sudden Ki wants to help out with her sewing machine. The two of them have a lot of fun: while making friends, they become friends. Idi's and Ki's imaginative creations soon fill the whole front garden – the other children come to marvel and would like nothing better than for Idi and Ki to show them how to make ›new friends‹ like that. A children's book about the power of friendship, overcoming prejudice, the joy of creating something together and the unifying force of art and imagination.

A treasure box of children's books by Tomi Ungerer with four of the greatest classics: ›The Three Robbers‹, ›Moon Man‹, ›I am Papa Snap‹, ›Crictor‹. Anniversary edition to commemorate Tomi Ungerer's 80th birthday.

For weeks now, all of the children in town have been hiding in trunks, barrels, and basements to avoid becoming the hungry ogre's breakfast – all of the children, that is, except Zeralda, who lives in a clearing in the woods and doesn't know much about ogres. She does, however, know everything about cooking, and the scrumptious feasts that she prepares transform the ogre's eating habits when they finally come face to face.

Long ago, in a wonderful old castle with tall towers and lots of secret rooms, there lived a sorcerer who could weave all kinds of spells. This sorcerer had a young and rather lazy apprentice who worked for him in return for lessons in magic. One day, when the sorcerer was away from the castle, his apprentice conveniently forgot what he had been taught: that magic is more than just casting a spell! He unlocked the secret magic book, memorized a secret magic spell, and decided to use it to save himself some work: Sharrrroom ta! Sharrrroom ta! Old broom perk, bring water and do all my work! And with that, the old broom in the corner came to life and began bringing buckets of water up the steep stone steps to the castle from the river below. The young apprentice was delighted – until the water began to flood the castle and he realized that he didn't know the magic words to make the broom stop!

Orlando, the brave vulture, begins his series of heroic deeds, down Mexico way, when he starts searching for a lost gold miner who has gone astray in the cactus-studded deserts of Chihuahua.
Trying to help the missing man's worried wife and son, Orlando encounters a menacing pack of night-riding, gunslinging bandits, everyone of whom (huge sombrero, sinister moustache) is a dead ringer for Pancho Villa.

All children who love an ambush or a hairbreadth escape, a mad pursuit or a perfectly happy surprise ending will revel in this uproarious adventure south of the Rio Grande. So will gringos of all ages.

Why are sea horses always fidgety on Fridays? And how can you tell when a Rolls-Royce is hungry? You don’t know? Don’t worry, because it turns out the whole world is a question mark. Or at least the world created in this book of questions by Tomi Ungerer’s ingenious drawings: never before has someone created such cryptic but beautiful shenanigans with a punctuation mark. Pictures you will wish to look at again and again, absurd questions without answers, illustrations of unique beauty: this book is sure to leave all questions open!

If there's one thing Piper Paw hates, it's being kissed by his doting mother, Mrs. Velvet Paw. And one day she does the unforgivable: she kisses Piper in front of his friends! »Kisses, kisses all the time,« howls Piper. »I don't like it. I don't want it. Good-morning kisses, licky kisses, soggy kisses!« What can Mrs. Paw do? She answers her son with a surprise of her own – and it's not a kiss. Piper Paw's rambunctious story is sure to fascinate ist readers – kissers and non-kissers alike. No kiss for mother? All right! But a big one for Tomi Ungerer.

Finally they return: Tomi Ungerer's original picture book family – the marvellous Mellops. Whether as cave explorers or aircraft builders, when drilling for oil or hunting for treasure – it is soon apparent that the Mellops family is no ordinary family of pigs. The Mellops family love challenges. The result – spectacular lastminute rescues from a rubber dinghy punctured by stalagmites, forest fires and beaches on deserted islands ... But one thing is certain: having survived the most perilous adventures, the pigs can always look forward to Mrs. Mellops’ wonderful cream cake. All five adventures of the Mellops family in one volume.

Papa Snap is a collector of hair-raising stories: like the one about Robinson Rutabaga, who ran away from home and took the family bathtub with him. Or the one about the hungry sofa. Or about Mr Balduin Breadcrumb, who gave his wife a steamroller for their silver wedding anniversary – very practical for ironing or rolling out pastry. Take a look at the pictures accompanying these sixteen bonkers, wonderful, genuinely original stories, and you will discover characters from Tomi Ungerer’s toy collection, which is on display at the Tomi Ungerer Museum in Strasbourg.

The two crocodiles Cromwell and Beowulf are lonely, because it is not easy for them to find friends. And then, just when they need it, they get a letter from Scotland! Their cousin Warwick would like to come and visit them. But it doesn't take long before their visitor starts to cause problems. And then when Warwick chokes on postman Willi's blond beard, chaos reigns. Albicoco, the blue monkey with the cunning eyes, has to rush to their aid ...

For everyone who thinks the moon is made of green cheese (and for the few who do not), here is Tomi Ungerer's ›Moon Man‹ to tell the story of the man in the moon and how he came to visit us one night. Watching the people on earth dancing happily, the Moon Man decides to fly down and join the fun. But instead of giving their distinguished guest the hearty welcome he deserves, the people he meets send the Moon Man off to jail. Alone in his cell the Moon Man uses his special lunar powers to slip through the hands of the law (by means of a strategem too original and too appropriate to be divulged here). His ensuing adventures in the forest and his encounter with an odd, three-hundred-year-old scientist create a gently satiric fable that children are sure to find delightful. Tomi Ungerer's engaging tale and his superb pictures will charm the most worldly of readers-aloud as well as the youngest of sleepyhead listeners.

This is the story of Monsieur Racine, retired tax-collector and prime pear grower, whose contented life is disturbed by a strange beast that comes into his garden to steal his golden pears. But Monsieur Racine befriends the beast by feeding it all sorts of delicacies, and they enjoy marvellous outings together. At the same time, Monsieur Racine is determined to discover more about his strange creature and carries out extensive research – to no avail. He writes to the Academy of Sciences, and when its members invite him to bring his bizarre specimen to Paris, Monsieur Racine and his beast are given a rapturous welcome. What the beast turns out to be causes uproar, but leaves Monsieur Racine a happier man. 

The Beast of Monsieur Racine is a hilarious story which parents will beg to be allowed to share with their children.

A handsome black top hat living on top of a rich man's head… there is nothing remarkable about that, but a hat that answers to its owner's beck and call is something else again! Tired of the rich man's company, the hat takes off and lands on the head of Benito Badoglio, a penniless veteran of the Crimean War. At once the magic of the hat begins to work, taking old Benito through a series of spectacular rescues. Before long Benito finds himself rich and dressed like a gentleman, and that is when he saves the Contessa herself from a runaway horse. True love blossoms, and the hat, having done its work, flies off… hither and yon… Heaven knows where. The happy tale will capture the fancy of children and adults alike, and Tomi Ungerer's illustrations, with their broad humor and careful attention to detail, make this a picture book to treasure.