Gift Books

A beautiful Mum and Cake make a perfect Pair

Where does this traffic jam lead to? What’s the use of a moustache? Such philosophical children’s questions have been collected by Thomas Müller and provided with sympathetic illustrations which are ...

Anywhere is easily missed

Jürg Schubiger’s stories always have a deeper meaning. Picking from a long life’s experience, he presents his philosophy seemingly en passant in this petite novel. It is about life, where ...

Book Diary

If you love books you’ll want to share them with friends – give them as a present, lend or borrow them. You’ll want to make notes about things you read ...

Gifts and Sneezes

Presents are the best medicine! The humorous rhymes and equally amusing illustrations in this lovely book will bring a smile to every patient’s face. “Here you go, this is for ...

Glove Puppets

No matter whether it’s Kasperl, Kaschberle, Chasperli, Harlequin, Punch or Punchinello: They’ve all gathered in this book to delight us with their buffoonery – culled from life by a true ...

Just fancy, the Frog’s been taken ill

Many nursery rhymes are about animals – in the magic world of children there is but a small difference between animals and humans. Katrin Stangl has created some magnificent illustrations ...

Mum’sdog

Funny, isn’t it – "true-life" stories often turn out to be more droll and bizarre than anything a writer might dare to dream up. Life is stranger than fiction, indeed. ...

Rats

Besides writing and illustrating successful children’s books, Wolf Erlbruch has illustrated various literary texts of such authors as Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Karl Philipp Moritz. Gottfried Benn’s expressionist poem ...

The Brave shall inherit the Future

All his life he’d been dreaming of following the call of the wild – so Yvonne Kuschell tells us – before he follows his wife-to-be into the safe haven of ...

The Morose One

Inspired by Bechstein’s poem Der Verdrüßliche (The Morose One) Axel Scheffler has added his own heart-rendingly funny illustrations which perfectly capture the mood of the title. Much-read in his lifetime, Ludwig Bechstein ...