Adelaide's parents are surprised when they notice that their baby kangaroo has wings. Adelaide herself takes them quite for granted. One day she kisses her family good-bye and flies away, following the first airplane she encounters, finding fame, fortune, adventure, and a handsome kangaroo named Leon.

Benny discovers the world of plants, where everything grows and shoots and sprouts. What does a bean turn into? And an orange pip? And what is a pistill, anyway? A book that invites you to playfully discover nature, and to be curious.

Tomi Ungerer takes one final bow to the children.

The last book from the creator of The Three Robbers and Moon Man is enchantingly playful and kind.

Big and small, smiling and crying, dancing and singing, reading and writing: Tomi Ungerer has sketched and painted sixteen word pairs with love and mischievousness: with both opposites and complementing terms. A game of contrasts and surprising perspectives, a wonderfully inspiring picture- and wordbook for young children. 

Do birds move in herds?
Who lives in a shoal?
How’s life in a group?
Who does what in which troop?

Timon and Julian Meyer shake up the animal kingdom, showing young readers the different ways animal families live together. 

Have fun with rhymes while learning!

Litter, covey, pack, horde? Clear as day – or as mud? Then this is the picture book you need to become an expert on the animal world. It’s also incredibly funny: where else do you get to see a paddling of ducks driving some trucks or a shrewdness of apes and giraffes sharing grapes? The reader is given a tour of the animal world, learning all its crooked, unexpected connections – with pitch-perfect rhymes and fabulous illustrations. 

If a field mouse gets bored
then same goes for the horde.
But a colony of beavers
is full of overachievers.
In a cauldron of bats,
hang on to your hats.
Why a murder of crows?
Well, nobody knows.

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. 

Whether you are a child or an adult – anyone who loves books will love Knigi! Ghosts do not celebrate their birthdays, but ›birthnights‹. When little ghost Knigi gets to the age when human children learn to read, his aunt gives him a book on his birthnight. But something is wrong with it, for it is completely empty and the pages are white. Knigi decides to get to the bottom of the matter, to find out how reading works. And he ends up getting the surprise of his life. Knigi discovers the adventures and happiness that reading can bring.

With his vibrant colours and skilful lines, Tomi Ungerer sketches the captivating picture story of a snail’s shell – except, where is the snail? As is always the case when Tomi Ungerer pulls out his pencil, the world looks a little bit different afterwards: snail shells become wind instruments, a boat rides over the squiggly crest of a wave, and not only the jester’s hat is coiled, but his shoes too! And as so often when Tomi Ungerer draws, it means the viewer is embarking upon a search: Discover the confusing twists and turns in an inimitable art of drawing; vibrant with colour and rich in detail. This time the question is: »Snail, where are you?«

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!

Tomi Ungerer has created many unforgettable, much-loved animal characters in his picture books: from the flying kangaroo Adelaide to the Mellops family of pigs, Piper Paw the cat from No Kiss for Mother to Emile, the helpful octopus. All of them feature in this fun and lively colouring book for children aged four years and up. 

Whether it’s on the ostrich farm, at the gym, the currywurst stand or the beach, in this hidden object book you'll find countless people, animals and little stories on every page – and in their midst, Hazel Brugger and Thomas Spitzer. For their series Deutschland Was Geht, these two comedians visited bizarre locations and events all over the country. Children will love this hidden object book, and fans will find familiar locations and details.

»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?‹

More than 200 German folk songs and children's songs from the 14th to the 20th century, compiled by Anne Diekmann with the help of Willi Gohl. Illustrated with more than 150 pictures by Tomi Ungerer.

As Novalis said, »Everything is a fairy tale.« But not all fairy tale anthologies are like The Giant Book of Fairy Tales by Tatjana Hauptmann – a true classic for the entire family, a book of magical beauty. This collection of the 100 best fairy tales from Europe is magnificently adorned with a colourful and enchanting palette of 600 drawings and watercolours.

Reiner Zimnik’s melancholy, tender, dreamy fairy tales for adults and children. A gallery full of kind, truculent, naive, tragicomic loners and misfits in the shape of humans and animals, that oppose this world with a more ideal and innocent one.

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.