Those who shout abuse at a cat must be prepared for everything, maybe even for the cat putting a spell on them … A modern fairytale with all the typical ingredients: tests of courage, seductions, incantations – and a silly protagonist who turns out to be wise in the end.

Grandpa Hucke is back! And he has brought along his crazy joining-in cabinet. Picture book, reading book, activity book, comic, games and puzzle book rolled into one – and much more besides. This book is full of stories and pictures. And it grows even larger and more beautiful when in the hands of a child (or two children, or three, or four). For then it becomes an entirely new book with stories and pictures all of its own ...

This unique picture story from the late great artist F.K. Waechter tells a timeless story in intense, powerful strokes.

F.K. Waechter was one of the most astounding and versatile artists of our times. His award-winning books are beautiful, his cartoons humorous and to the point. Yet with this impressive posthumous find, Waechter once again breaks down all genre boundaries and will thrill readers with his dark and memorable fable of a hellish hound.

»I write and draw for all those who were once five years old, who still remember it and would like to live to ninety-nine.«
F.K. Waechter

A sleepy village in an indefinite time and place – what spectacular things can possibly happen? A group of mourners eat butter-cream cake at a funeral feast, young lads get blind drunk and stagger through the streets… Unremarkable enough, if it were not for this wondrous bird. A buzzard, omnipresent, hovering above the village, fields and treetops. Nothing escapes its sharp eyes, and the villagers are uncannily aware that something even more mysterious is lurking above the crooked roofs. Wit and satire dance lightly through the pages of Waechter's new picture book, and he tells his story in wonderfully simple yet trenchant pictures and short, pithy sentences.

A small dog among wild wolves – can this turn out well? A small dog with a wolf's habits among people – can this turn out well? 

F. K. Waechter provides a possible answer with this story of a small dog who is swept this way and that by events and which always manages to fit in. Since the dog always finds someone to look after him, he takes life as it comes. He surpasses himself as a wild hunter in the Russian forests, he is Olga's placid companion on her walks in the little town. And Olga knows that a dog can have a wolf's soul – even if it looks like a little lapdog.

This is a book about life, particularly since the little dog knows that everything – even life itself – comes to an end one day.

»There were three of us. We were born in August. Mother had already had four in May. There were too many of us.« So the little kitten has to look after itself and make its own way in the big wide world. A story about coping with life, and about how it is possible to find your place in the world despite all the adversities, the place where you belong, where there is someone waiting for you, and where it is enough just to say: ›Here I am!‹«

In fairy stories it was thrown against the wall and changed into a prince; in the Middle Ages it was burned as ›unchaste‹ – now it is threatened by extinction. But hardly anyone knows that it is to this animal that we owe two of the most beautiful things in the world: music and love.

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.

The story of the toad who with his golden moon scarves sets off for the King's castle and undergoes a strange transformation.

The classic, already remodelled in a classical way. A delightful standard work of anti-authorian education. A riotous nostalgic book on the '68 movement.