A picture book for both adults and children, about friendship, trust and humanity – a classic in the making.

We all need someone to look after us. And someone to care for.

Planet Earth is devastated and empty. Everyone has escaped to the moon. Only Vasco is still there, determined to bring little green Poco to safety. Luckily, he has an ally: his own shadow, which rescues him and the baby from a thousand threats – just in time! – and shows him the way on his adventurous journey through destroyed cities and apocalyptic landscapes. Right up until the unexpectedly sweet ending.

A Unique Christmas Book – Typical Tomi Ungerer Whoever wants to celebrate Christmas with Tomi Ungerer has something to look forward to: Tomi Ungerer is always good for a surprise. Christmas with him is guaranteed not to be the bleak, cloying, sugary festival of commerce and boredom. Nevertheless, Tomi Ungerer's ›Beware of Christmas‹ is a splendid house book completely stuffed like a stocking with both deceptive and surprising yet still contemplative stories and poems by authors from around the world: from Charles Dickens and Martin Suter to Doris Dörrie and Urs Widmer. And as a very special gift: the more than 70 colored drawings by Tomi Ungerer, who interprets Christmas dreamily, romantically, jokingly, cheekily, frivolously and subversively.

Tomi Ungerer is nine years old in 1940 when German troops march into Alsace. German becomes the official language, French is banned under threat of severe punishment, and Jean-Thomas, who everyone calls Tomi, becomes Hans. Tomi Ungerer shares his experience of everyday life under Nazi occupation, of the war, of the libération — and of the utterly normal pranks, joy and experiences of a young boy growing up. Enriched with countless childhood drawings and Tomi Ungererʼs boundless humour, this is an incredibly spirited memoir.

The first Diogenes Hausbuch appeared over 20 years ago: Das große Liederbuch, regarded by many as Tomi Ungerer's masterpiece. Now, at last, Diogenes has published another genuine house-book, with numerous illustrations by Tomi Ungerer. Das große Katzenbuch with the best stories, poems and aphorisms about cats from world literature, chosen by Anne Schmucke with approximately 100 beautiful illustrations by Tomi Ungerer.

»For 'normal' human beings a torture chamber is hell. However, for other people the normal, everyday world is hell and the torture chamber is a cell of refuge, isolated from the outer world by a protective dominatrix – a guardian angel from hell. In this work, I am concerned with a question which I have asked myself again and again throughout my life: what is normal?«

The Party is an ingeniously drawn satire which is every bit as evil as the most vitriolic works of the likes of Hogarth, Goya or Grosz. What a resemblance between the pictures and the times. Tomi Ungerer's early satirical master works – now as topical as ever: The Party is over – once again...