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Atlanis_FBF 2014

Foreign Rights Catalogue
Fall 2014
Dear Publishers, dear Editors, dear Agents,
We control worldwide translation rights for all titles
mentioned in this catalogue and for all Atlantis backlist titles. We would be delighted to provide reading
copies or PDFs and more information on the titles
(English rough translations).
Please contact Ms Anne Wieser until I am back from
my parental leave in November 2014.
Best regards,
Sindhya Bergamin
Rights Contact: ANNE WIESER
Atlantis / Orell Füssli Verlag AG
Dietzingerstrasse 3
CH-8036 Zurich
Switzerland
Phone: ++ 41 44 466 74 33
Fax: ++ 41 44 466 74 12
Email: anne.wieser@ofv.ch
Homepage: www.atlantis-verlag.ch
ATLANTIS VERLAG
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Special News Page 2
Award winning titles Page 3
Best- and Longsellers Page 4
Lorenz Pauli / Miriam Zedelius
Zum Mitnehmen - Please Help Yourself Page 24
PICTURE BOOKS
Lorenz Pauli / Kathrin Schärer
Nur wir alle – Just All Of Us Page 25
Da bist du ja! – There you are! Page 5
Suse Schweizer
Oh Schreck! ... und dann? – Shock! Horror! Page 26
Peter Menne
Wie Papa ein Kaninchen wurde – How Daddy Became a Rabbit Page 6
Hilde Heyduck-Huth
Weihnachten – Christmas Page 27
Knut Laaser / Jasmin Schäfer
Der späte Gast – A Late-Night Visitor Page 7
Selina Chönz / Alois Carigiet
Das grosse Buch vom Schellen-Ursli – The Big Book of Ursli Page 28
Narisa Togo
Weihnachtsspuren im Winterwald – Tracks in a Christmas Forest Page 8
Einar Turkowski
Der Rauhe Berg – The Rough Mountain Page 29
Sonja Bougaeva
Wie Frau B. so böse wurde – How Mrs B. Became So Crabby Page 9
Erna Kuik
Lieber, lieber Pulli – Jumper Dearest Page 30
Anne-Kathrin Behl
Matze vor, tanz ein Tor! – Go, Matt, Go! Dance Us a Goal! Page 10
Pippilothek ??? – Fox Goes Library Page 31
Eilika Mühlenberg
Camping – Camping Page 11
Ermanno Libenzi / Adelchi Galloni
Robin bei den Piraten – Robin and the Pirates Page 32
Doro Göbel / Peter Knorr
Die schönste Seifenkiste der Welt – The Greatest Soapbox on Earth Page 12
Max Huwyler / Jürg Obrist
Suse Schweizer / Manuel Süess
Kind und Katze – Child and Cat Page 13
Das Beste überhaupt – Best Ever Page 14
Georg Kohler / Claudia de Weck
Jakob, das Krokodil – Jacob Crocodile Page 15
Alfons Weber / Jacqueline Blass
Elisabeth wird gesund – Elizabeth Gets Well Page 16
Eilika Mühlenberg
Katzen mit Haus – The House Comes with the Cats Page 17
Konrad Beck
Alle einsteigen – All Aboard! Page 18
Hans-Christian Schmidt / Andreas Német
Hase und Schneemann – The Rabbit and the Snowman Page 19
Cally Stronk / Andrea Peter
Wir Nestbauer sind schlauer – Building Nests is Simply Smarter! Page 20
Anne-Katherin Behl
Tobi und die Alten – Toby and the Old Ones Page 21
Parastu Karimi
Unser Garten mitten in der Stadt – Our Garden in the Middle of the City Page 22
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Heinz Janisch / Hannes Binder
Ich ging in Schuhen aus Gras – I Walked in Shoes of Grass Page 23
Das Zebra ist das Zebra – A Zebra Is a Zebra Page 33
Lorenz Pauli / Katrin Schärer
Oma, Emma, Mama – Grandma, Emma, Mom Page 34
Kathrin Schärer
Johanna im Zug – Joanna in the Train Page 35
Mutig, mutig – The Test of Courage Page 36
Ich mit dir, du mit mir – You and Me Page 37
Kathrin Schärer
So war das! Nein, so! Nein, so! – It Was Like This! No, Like This! No Way! Page 38
Sonja Bougaeva
Zwei Schwestern bekommen Besuch – Two sisters have a visitor Page 39
NON-FICTION
Anne Möller Zehn Blätter fliegen davon – Ten Leaves in the Wind Page 40
Anne Möller Rotschwänzchen, was machst du hier im Schnee? – Little Redstart,
What do You do Here in the Snow? Page 41
Anne Möller Über Land und durch die Luft – Over Land and trough the Air Page 42
SCHELLEN URSLI
Selina Chönz / Alois Carigiet
Schellen-Ursli – A Bell for Ursli, and other titles by Alois Carigiet Page 43
ATLANTIS VERLAG
SPECIAL NEWS
We are proud and very happy to announce that
TOBY AND THE OLD ONES
by Anne Behl
is the winner of the
Prix Chronos de Littérature
for more information please look at page 21.
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ATLANTIS VERLAG
AWARD WINNING TITLES
Prix Chronos de Littérature
Anne-Kathrin Behl
TOBI UND DIE ALTEN
TOBY AND THE OLD ONES
For more information please take a look
on Page 21.
Swiss Picture Book Award 2006
Lika Nüssli
UNTERM BETT EIN WUNDERSTEIN
A MAGIC STONE UNDER MY BED
For more information please contact me.
Swiss Children’s Media Award 2013,
Heinz Janisch / Hannes Binder
ICH GING IN SCHUHEN AUS GRAS
I WALKED IN SHOES OF GRASS
on Page 23.
LesePeter Dezember 2012
NUR WIR ALLE
JUST ALL OF US
on page 25.
Ich ging in Schuhen aus Gras
Heinz Janisch | Hannes Binder
Swiss Children’s Media Award 2011
Kathrin Schärer
JOHANNA IM ZUG
JOANNA IN THE TRAIN
on page 35.
Golden Pen of Belgrad 2009
Einar Turkowski
DIE MONDBLUME
THE MOON FLOWER
at the backlist catalogue.
BIB (Biennial of Illustrations Bratisilava) Grand Prix Award 2007
Troisdorfer Bilderbuchpreis 2007 Spanish Visual Award
Einar Turkowksi
ES WAR FINSTER UND MERKWÜRDIG STILL
IT WAS DARK AND EERILY QUIET
For more information please take a look at the backlist catalogue.
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Swiss Picture Book Award 2006
Sandra Luchsinger
PAOLO’S GLÜCK
PAOLO’S HAPPINESS
For more information please contact me.
Hans Christian Andersen Award in Gold
Alois Carigiet
SCHELLEN-URSLI
A BELL FOR URSLI
on page 43.
German Children’s book Award 2005
Anne Möller
NESTER BAUEN, HÖHLEN KNABBERN
BUILDING NESTS, DIGGING CAVES
ATLANTIS VERLAG
BEST- AND LONGSELLERS
Pauli / Schärer
PIPPILOTHEK??? –
Eine Bibliothek wirkt Wunder
FOX GOES LIBRARY
Over 25’000 copies sold.
For more information please take
a look on page 27.
Pauli / Schärer
MUTIG, MUTIG
THE TEST OF COURAGE
Over 65’000 copies sold!
For more information please
take a look on page 32.
Pauli / Schärer
ICH MIT DIR, DU MIT MIR
YOU AND ME
Kathrin Schärer
JOHANNA IM ZUG
JOANNA IN THE TRAIN
Swiss children’s Media Award 2011.
For more information please take a
look on page 31.
Kathrin Schärer
SO WAR DAS! NEIN, SO! NEIN, SO!
IT WAS LIKE THIS! NO, LIKE THIS!
NO WAY!
For more information please take a
look on page 34.
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Kathrin Schärer
WENN FUCHS UND HASE SICHT
GUTE NACHT SAGEN
WHERE FOX AND BUNNY SAY
GOODNIGHT TO EACH OTHER
Over 64’000 copies sold in Japan!
For more information please take
a look at the backlist catalogue.
Stephan Brülhart
LEOPOLD UND DER FREMDE
LEOPOLD AND THE STRANGER
For more information
please take a look
Spang / Bougeava
DAS GROSSE GÄHNEN
THE HUGE YAWN
please take a look
Brigitta Garcia Lopez
FLIEG, FLENGEL FLIEG
FLY, FLANGEL FLY!
please contact me.
Anne Möller
NESTER BAUEN, HÖHLEN
KNABBERN
BUILDING NESTS, DIGGING
CAVES
please take a look
Hilde Heyduck-Huth
TANZEN KÖNNEN AUCH
DIE STEINE
THE STONES ARE EVEN
ABLE TO DANCE
contact me.
Anne Möller
ROTSCHWÄNZCHEN
LITTLE REDSTART
Nele Maar / Verena Ballhaus
PAPA WOHNT JETZT IN DER
HEINRICHSTRASSE
MY DAD HAS MOVED TO
HENRY STREET
contact me.
ATLANTIS VERLAG NEW TITLE FALL 2014
Author:
LORENZ PAULI
Illustrator: KATHRIN SCHÄRER
Title:
DA BIST DU JA!
DIE LIEBE, DER ANFANG – ALLÜBERALL
English title: THERE YOU ARE!
THE BEGINNING OF LOVE
2014
32 pages, bound, coloured illustrations
size 15,8 × 21 cm
4 years and up
world rights available
«Sometimes I love you so much I wish there were two of you.»
«Why?»
«So we could hold hands on both sides.»
«Oh! But we can do that, even if there’s only one of me.»
Impish, dreamy, rapturous or quiet; surprising themselves and each other, «the Smaller One» and
«the Larger One» explore what it is like to be close to each other – to feel love, to feel at home.
Love is a universe. Love conjures up worlds of togetherness.
This is a story of creation. But a different one.
For children... and for those walking hand in hand.
Lorenz Pauli, born 1967, he trained as a kindergarten teacher and has been teaching sind 1989,
while being much in demand as storyteller in recent years. And in 2012, Lorenz Pauli gained formal
recognition as well: He was awarded a place on the IBBY Honour List for the extraordinary quality
of his text for the picture book Grandma, Emma, Mom (2010, Atlantis Publishers).
Kathrin Schärer, born in Basle in 1969. She graduated as an art teacher as well as in arts and
crafts from the Hochschule für Gestaltung in Basle. She teaches children with speech disorders
and works as an illustrator. While she sometimes illustrates her own stories, she is best known for
her longstanding and very successful collaboration with Lorenz Pauli. Kathrin Schärer has been
nominated for the prestigious Hans Christian Andersen Award 2012 for her complete works. And
Joanna on the Train (2009, Atlantis Publishers) was awarded the Swiss Childeren’s Media Award
2011.
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ATLANTIS VERLAG NEW TITLE FALL 2014
Author / Illustrator: PETER MENNE
Title:
WIE PAPA EIN KANINCHEN WURDE
English title: HOW DADDY BECAME A RABBIT
2014
size 29 × 22 cm
5 years and up
Aunt Connie has brought Charles a conjuring set. «Nonsense», says Daddy when Charles tries to
pull a white rabbit from a hat. «Absolutely impossible.»
Next morning, however, there are weirdly long whiskers growing in his face. At the office, his ears
attract attention, as do his front teeth.
Daddy is embarrassed by his metamorphosis. He goes into hiding. But he is tracked down by some
paparazzi – now there is no way back: He appears in talk-shows and becomes an advertising star
for Cooper’s Carrots. His family is getting tired of it all. Daddy’s last chance is to trust in Charles’s
and Aunt Connie’s conjuring abilities...
Peter Menne, born in Delbrück (Westphalia) in
1962, studied graphics design (focusing on illustration) in Bielefeld. He admits to having started
his career in the art room there, drawing nudes
and managing to reduce top models to cartoons.
He works as an illustrator and a caricaturist for
numerous dailies, specialist journals and publishing houses.
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ATLANTIS VERLAG
Author:
Illustrator:
Title:
English title:
NEW TITLE FALL 2014
KNUT LAASER
JASMIN SCHÄFER
DER SPÄTE GAST
A LATE-NIGHT VISITOR
2014
size 22 × 25 cm
5 years and up
e Tür klopft,
Hund,
nliches Bedürfnis:
n.
rhund sich laufend
anz sich selber ist (und bleibt),
gutes Ende –
Franz einen Anfang.
www.atlantis-verlag.ch
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Knut Laaser & Jasmin Schäfer Der späte Gast
First, there is a knock at the door, then a muzzle pushes through the letter slot. «Good evening,
would you let me in, please? I’m catching cold out here!»
Franz opens the door to a dachshund carrying an umbrella.
A strange guest and an even stranger dog. He sounds hectoring, although all he wants to do is please
the boy. He fulfills every wish he thinks the boy might have, turning himself into all kinds of things,
before Franz finally gets a word in – «Dogs are my favourite animals!»
Now the dachshund has found a home, a friend and himself!
Knut Laaser &
Jasmin Schäfer
Knut Laaser, born in Berlin in 1981, studied social sciences in Hamburg and London, getting his
doctorate in Glasgow. He had started writing short stories while still very young. A Late-Night Visitor
is his first picture book text. Being a dog-lover himself, Knut Laaser is looking forward to the strange
dachshund’s arrival.
Jasmin Schäfer, born in Frankfurt am Main
in 1981, studied illustration at HAW Hamburg.
She illustrates, writes and collects children’s
books.
Much like Der Kragenbär / The Black Bear
(Bajazzo, 2011), A Late-Night Visitor charms
with its own brand of headstrong but impish
humour.
www.jasmin-schaefer-illustration.de
ATLANTIS VERLAG
Author/ Illustrator:
Title:
English title:
NEW TITLE FALL 2014
NARISA TOGO
WEIHNACHTSSPUREN IM WNTERWALD
TRACKS IN A CHRISTMAS FOREST
2014
size 21,5 × 21,5 cm
3 years and up
It’s freezing outside; surely, there is nothing to see.
But Mum says, «Let’s go for a walk! You never know...»
And then, it is the girl who discovers something.
«Look at this little fir tree!»
«Could it be a Christmas tree?», Mum asks.
«Yes, this is where the rabbits celebrate Christmas. They decorate the tree with berries and bits of lichen.»
And so, a question-and-answer game begins, which, based on a child’s imagination, encourages a dialogue when read
aloud. The sequence of «discovery» and «explanation» is accessible to children from a very young age. And the winter fairy
tale at the end once again enumerates all the stops along this quietly magical Christmas journey.
Narisa Togo, born in Japan in 1987, studied
ecology at the Tokyo University of Agriculture
and Technology before her interest in illustration brought her to England. Studying children’s
illustration at the Cambridge School of Art,
she sketched plants, birds and landscapes in her
leisure time.
She wants her books to reflect how fascinating
nature can be to children.
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ATLANTIS VERLAG NEW TITLE SPRING 2014
Author / Illustrator: SONJA BOUGAEVA
Title:
WIE FRAU B. SO BÖSE WURDE ...
und warum sie jetzt wieder nett ist
English title: How Mrs B. Became So Crabby
... and Why She Is So Much Nicer Now
2014
size 27 × 23,5 cm
5 years and up
Rights sold to: Spain, Catalonia, Denmark
Sonja Bougaeva’s books are beloved by children as well as critically acclaimed and have been awarded
numerous prizes.
Everybody is afraid of Mrs B., especially the children. She loves to sit near the playground – all the
better to hate kids.One day, she watches a boy bullying a little girl. THIS scene touches a nerve and
makes Mrs B. remember, and we find out what she experienced and why she became the way she
is now. Now – in the present – Mrs B. stands up for the little girl and wins back her peace of mind.
Sonja Bougaeva’s pictures have the power to fascinate
not just by being drastic and witty; her brushstroke also
creates an atmosphere that is instantly recognizable.
Sonja Bougaeva, born in St.Petersburg 1975, now
living in Hamburg, studied book art and painting at the
Academy of Arts. Subsequently, she trained as a designer
for animated movies and worked for a cartoon film studio.
Her first picture book was nominated for the German
Children’s Book Award.
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Author/Illustrator: ANNE-KATHRIN BEHL
Title:
MATZE VOR, TANZ EIN TOR!
English title: GO, MATT, GO! DANCE US A GOAL!
2014
size 23,5 × 29 cm
4 years and up
Rights sold to: Denmark
Matt likes to play with his friend, Emil.
But Matt LOVES ballet dancing.
«Ballet is for girls!’, the other boys think. They are training for the football match against the
Bumpkinsville Bombers.
On the great day, Matt is only watching the game from the sidelines. But when their best striker is
injured and carried off the pitch, it is Matt’s turn - Matt, of all people! Matt, who is afraid of the ball!
But Matt quickly finds out how to bring his ballet expertise into play...
With wit and a light touch, Anne Behl captures the drive
and energy of the game.
Anne-Kathrin Behl was born in 1983. Her mother
being a bookseller and her father a forester, it is no
wonder she went on to study illustration at HAW in
Hamburg, and that she is particularly fond of drawing
animals. Today, Anne-Kathrin lives in Leipzig. Touring
with the satirical cabaret group teewurst, she sings
songs for grown-ups while also organising creative
workshops for children.
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Author / Illustrator: EILIKA MÜHLENBERG
Title:
CAMPING - URLAUB MIT WIND UND WIRBEL. Eine Wimmel-Geschichte
English title: CAMPING – A WINDY, WHIRLING
HOLIDAY. A Hidden Object Book
2014
size 23 × 29,4 cm
3 years and up
Camping on the lakeside – the ultimate in summery delight and holiday fun (there is a lot going on,
even when it is raining!).
Our protagonist is a large – or, to children, a gigantic – inflatable crocodile. Carried away by the wind,
it sails through the pages, only to return at last, having a rest after the happy ending.
And, of course, there are many characters figuring throughout the book, each with his or her own
story.
Eilika Mühlenberg belongs to the school of illustrators picturing people of any age with an eye for
their eccentricities and with a sense of humour. She draws children and adults alike with much flair
for their everyday lives as well as for their holiday pleasures.
After The House Comes With the Cats, Camping is Eilika Mühlenberg’s second picture book published
by Atlantis – and very much inspired by the artist’s own life ...
www.eilika-muehlenberg.de
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TLANTIS VERLAG NEW TITLE SPRING 2014
A
Author:
DORO GÖBEL
Illustrator: PETER KNORR
Title:
DIE SCHÖNSTE SEIFENKISTE DER WELT
English title: THE GREATEST SOAPBOX ON EARTH
2014
size 23,5 × 29 cm
4 years and up
Ben and Mia want to join the soapbox derby. They cannot wait to get started, so they ask the
carpenter next door for a large, wooden board. He does not mind giving them one, but asks them to
help him sweep out his workshop in return.
The same thing happens with the youths tinkering with their mopeds, at the gardener’s and in the
grocery shop, where they ask for a box to use as their bonnet.
Giving and taking, working and tinkering ... and, finally, everybody is watching their first drive!
Doro Göbel (born in Bad Kreuzach in 1958) and Peter Knorr (born in Munich in 1956) met while
studying art in Mainz. They are married, living in Nierstein am Rhein with their two daughters. As
freelance illustrators, they have illustrated numerous children’s books and designed book covers, e.g.
for novels by Erich Kästner, Peter Härtling, Klaus Kordon, Willi Fährmann and Rafik Schami. For some
years now, they have also been designing hidden object books for first readers.
Doro Göbel and Peter Knorr have been awarded prizes in the Die schönsten deutschen Bücher*
competition.
* The most beautiful German books
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TLANTIS VERLAG NEW TITLE SPRING 2014
A
Illustrator:
SUSE SCHWEIZER
Concept: SUSE SCHWEIZER/MANUEL SÜESS
Title:
KIND UND KATZE
English title: CHILD AND CAT
2014
20 pages, board book, coloured
illustrations
size 16,5 × 16,5 cm
2 years and up
The cat is stretching her cat’s back – the child is rubbing her tired eyes.
The cat is licking up milk from her bowl – the child is drinking from her baby’s bottle.
The cat is cleaning her fur with her tongue – the child is washing with a flannel.
This board book for very young children accompanies a child and her cat through the day. From getting
up to falling asleep, small children can follow the course of a typical day, recognizing themselves and
their surroundings.
The juxtaposition motivates children to speak; comparisons improve basic vocabulary.
A book to encourage even the youngest children to help tell its story.
Suse Schweizer, born in 1973, studied at Bauhaus University, Weimar, and is a prize-winning
freelance illustrator.
Manuel Süess is a graphics designer with a passion for drawing. For years, he has been lucky
enough to be able to do what he likes best, namely the typography for picture books.
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ATLANTIS VERLAG
Author:
LORENZ PAULI
Title:
DAS BESTE ÜBERHAUPT
English title: BEST EVER
2013
size 26 × 23,5 cm
from 4 years on
Rights sold to: Denmark, China and France
A bustle to the left, a melee to the right, teeming crowds all around and Guy Guinea Pig in the thick
of it! If he were taller, he would stand out, or if he could whistle a song. And if he could ... But at that
moment, Guy realises that the others have left. They are on their way to the meeting place where
the «Best Guinea Pig Ever” is to be elected. On the way, everybody tries to impress everybody else:
with cleverness, with daring or just with jumping very far. And right before the election, the boasting
reaches fever pitch. Suddenly, somebody yells, «Let’s get to the point! Why don’t we vote for Guy?
Guy doesn’t have to be special to be happy. He does all he can, as best as he can!’
When he is voted «Best Guinea Pig Ever», Guy feels a little lonely on the winner’s throne. He wants
the best thing ever: To be right in the middle of everything. A bustle to the left, a melee to the right
and teeming crowds all around. An aboveaverage book about the joys of being average – by Pauli/
Schärer, of course.
while being much in demand as storyteller in recent years. And in 2012, Lorenz Pauli gained
formal recognition as well: He was awarded a place on the IBBY Honour List for the extraordinary
quality of his text for the picture book Grandma, Emma, Mom (2010, Atlantis Publishers).
2011.
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ATLANTIS VERLAG
Author:
GEORG KOHLER
Illustrator: CLAUDIA DE WECK
Title: JAKOB, DAS KROKODIL
English title: JACOB CROCODILE
2013
size 22 × 31,4 cm
from 5 years on
Children’s books often tell stories about animals in unusual surroundings, in a comical and fanciful
way. This story, however, is true.
A jazz musician comes home from a tour abroad, bringing along a present for his children: a
crocodile. But Jacob grows. Finally, the family turn one room of their flat into a jungle. School
classes come to marvel at the animal. Even when their children move out, the parents continue to
live with their special pet. Jacob reaches the ripe old age of 42, which is practically unheard-of for
a crocodile in captivity.
The illustrations show a modern family flat. But Claudia de Weck treats this true story (which took
place in the Zurich region) not as a local curiosity but as a situation that - however incredible became part of the daily routine of an actual family.
There is an appendix explaining zoological matters and Georg Kohler’s epilogue encourages readers
to consider the ethics of keeping pets.
Georg Kohler, Prof. em., PhD, lic. iur., born in 1945, is lecturing as a visiting professor at the TU
Dresden, Germany, at the moment. He studied philosophy, literature and law in Zurich and Basel.
From 1983 to 1991, he was a journalist as well as managing a family business. After teaching at
Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich, he moved to Zurich in 1994 and lectured on philosophy
at its university until 2010, specialising in political philosophy.
He has written an afterword to Jacob Crocodile, encouraging readers to reflect on two-legged
creatures keeping four-legged ones as pets.
Claudia de Weck was born in Zurich. She trained as an artist, locally as well as in Paris and
Hamburg. Today, she is an illustrator and a writer.
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ATLANTIS VERLAG
Author:
ALFONS WEBER
Illustrator: JACQUELINE BLASS
Title:
ELISABETH WIRD GESUND
English title: ELIZABETH GETS WELL
2013
size 30,5 × 21,7 cm
from 4 years on
Elizabeth’s belly hurts. The kindergarten teacher sends her home. When the pain does not stop,
Elizabeth’s family start to worry. Elizabeth is examined by a pediatrician and diagnosed with
appendicitis. She needs surgery. At the hospital, she meets the other little patients in her room.
There is also a visit from the hospital clown. At the end, it is hard to say good-bye. Apprehensive and
fearful at first, Elizabeth is now trustful and interested. When ’Elizabeth Gets Well’ was published
in 1969, it caused a stir: It was perfectly knowledgeable yet perfectly suitable for children – the first
of its kind. 26 editions in Switzerland and 12 in Germany have made this picture book an enduring
bestseller. There being a great demand, a new edition was published in 2004, its text updated
by the author and its pictures adapted by the illustrator to depict the daily routine of a modern
hospital.
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Alfons Weber, MD, (1921 – 2013), studied medicine in Zurich and Basel. 1965 he was appointed
to a position at the Zurich Children’s Hospital. As a senior physician, he often found his little
patients to be frightened because nobody had explained to them why they were in hospital at all;
at least not in terms they could understand. Elizabeth Gets Well, written by a competent doctor
and critically examined by his four children, became a sensation (and a sensational success) in 1969.
Jacqueline Blass-Tschudi, born in 1934, studied at the Kunstgewerbeschule and at the Académie
Julian in Paris. The youngest of her three children fell ill with leukemia in 1965. She came to know
not only the children’s hospital but also the fears of children who had to go there. As a freelance
illustrator, she was happy to oblige when asked if she would illustrate a picture book on the subject.
Elizabeth Gets Well was published in 1969. The artist still enjoys drawing, if mostly for her six
grandchildren.
www.autillus.ch/plattforms/Blass-Tschudi.html
ATLANTIS VERLAG
Author/ Illustrator: EILIKA MÜHLENBERG
Title:
KATZEN MIT HAUS
English title: THE HOUSE COMES WITH THE CATS
2013
size 29 × 24 cm
from 4 years on
Two cats are watching a removal van pull up to the house. A man, a woman, a boy and a little girl
start lugging cardboard boxes and furniture into the house. The two cats have always lived here, so
they sneak in. They are hardly through the cat flap when the woman trips over one of then, crying
out in surprise.
«You’ve frightened them!», yells the boy.
«They’ve frightened ME!», says the mother.
How do you stop cats caterwauling at night?
Who likes whom... and who does not? The family are settling in, the cats are learning, too. Soon,
their purring is more important than their paw tracks on the sofa.
In the evening, under the bedcovers, the mother mumbles, «Don’t cats belong at the foot end?»
But nobody hears her, everybody is asleep.
With humour and with a light touch, but always keeping within familiar day-to-day routine, the
illustrator tells us about people and animals who need to get along with each other, who want to
and who finally manage pretty well.
Eilika Mühlenberg was born in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, in 1969. She studied art education
in her native city and children’s book illustration at the Design Academy in Hamburg. After sharing
a studio for several years, she has her own rooms now. Her favourite subjects are people and
animals in motion.
She lives in Hamburg with her husband and two sons and she was happy to move into a house that
came complete with two cats...
www.eilika-muehlenberg.de
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ATLANTIS VERLAG
Author/ Illustrator: KONRAD BECK
Title:
ALLE EINSTEIGEN
English title: ALL ABOARD! – TRAVELLING BY TRAIN
2013
size 21 × 31 cm
from 4 years on
Rights sold to: France
A busy station in the morning, the same view in the evening, and in between: everything that
happens before a train departs, passengers changing to buses or boats, a suitcase on its way from
A to B, but also the reloading of goods from Rhine barges to train wagons, a rolling stock workshop
and a track construction site - all those (and more) are shown in twelve large spreads depicting the
day-today routine of the Swiss Federal Railways.
In a word: What children now and then catch a glimpse of is given context and becomes part of a
system. There is very little text but all the more to see.
The concept was designed in cooperation with Swiss Federal Railways experts. Illustrator Konrad
Beck has condensed every subject into a beautifully- crafted scene. He has taken photographs and
sketched on the spot and has peopled these stages with staff and passengers.
The ultimate hidden object picture book for children, railway buffs and tourists!
Konrad Beck was born in 1980. After training as a primary teacher and working in his job for three
years, he went on to study illustration in Lucerne and Brussels. His degree thesis, Love Town, was
published by Edition Moderne in 2010.
He works as a freelance illustrator and comic strip artist vor various print media, advertising agencies
and educational publishers.
You can have a look at his work including his own comic strip, cartoon and picture book projects:
www.konradbeck.ch
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Author:
Illustrator:
Title:
English title:
HANS-CHRISTIAN SCHMIDT
ANDREAS NÉMET
HASE UND SCHNEEMANN
THE RABBIT AND THE SNOWMAN
2013
16 pages, board book
coloured illustrations
size 20,5 × 20,5 cm
with cu
from 3 years on
t-o
Dann schuf er ohne Schwierigkeiten einen mittelgroßen
zweiten.
ut ope
nings
A small rabbit rolls a large snowball down into the valley. Then, he shapes another medium-sized
one and puts it on top of the first. And a third one to complete the figure: It’s a snowman!
The rabbit says to him, «Must fly! Why don’t you take a walk? Good-bye!»
A few hours later, the rabbit returns. The sun is shining, the snowman has gone. He has only left his
hat. «Travel safely! Best of luck!», the rabbit calls after him, waving. The snow that the rabbit rolls
away from the left-hand page and piles up on the right-hand page is punched out of the cardboard
material and glued back on in its new place – abracadabra, a three-dimensional snowman, no
3D-glasses necessary! This simple but brilliant twist by renowned board book authors Német/
Schmid enables children to see the story and feel its shapes – even the hat left behind in the field.
Hans-Christian Schmidt, who was born in the winter of 1973, is a high school German and
history teacher. He lives in Dresden, Germany, and has two children who have not quite outgrown
building snowmen. He is very proud of having won various awards in the ongoing contest Tenants’
Best Snowman. With Andreas Német, he has had several very successful picture books published,
this latest one now by Atlantis. We shall definitely root for him next winter!
Andreas Német, born in 1973, trained first as a china painter at the Staatliche Porzellanmanufaktur
Meissen and then as a cabinet maker. In Schneeberg, Germany, he studied wood design and
product design at the Hochschule für Angewandte Kunst.
He has been working as a freelance illustrator, commercial artist and product designer. He specialises
in illustrating children’s books which he usually plans with Hans-Christian Schmidt. Andreas Német
lives in Dresden, he has got two sons.
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Author: CALLY STRONK
Illustrator: ANDREA PETER
Title:
WIR NESTBAUER SIND SCHLAUER
English title: BUILDING NESTS IS SIMPLY SMARTER!
2013
size 20 × 25 cm
from 4 years on
When Squeaky Squirrel spots the excavator, she is shocked. Luckily, her friends help her fight the
giant monster. Cheering, the animals watch as the walls built by the «two-legged aliens» collapse.
But then, the squirrel sa ys, «Don’t humans have children, too? Where are they going to live now?»
And suddenly, the tide has turned: Every animal knows how to build a nest, and soon Chief Beaver
shows the workers which trees will make the best timber for building. There is a buzz of unheard-of
activity, and as a human family enters their newly-built home, the last animals are making themselves
scarce – through the back windows.
Cally Stronk, born in 1977, studied social communication and economics communication at the
Universität der Künste, Berlin. After various freelance projects in editing, film and music, Colly
Stronk has been working mainly as a children’s author since 2010. Rhyming or unrhymed, board
books, poetic non-fiction, riddles or adventure stories – she feels at home in a great many genres.
Andrea Peter, born in 1982, studied illustration after training as an elementary school teacher.
Nowadays, she has got an artist’s studio in Berne as well as one in Berlin. She moves between free
design and commissioned work, between silk-screen printing and specifications with the greatest
of ease.
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Author/ Illustrator: ANNE-KATHRIN BEHL
Title:
TOBI UND DIE ALTEN
English title: TOBY AND THE OLD ONES
2013
size 25.3 × 23.5 cm
from 4 years on
Rights sold to: Denmark, France, Korea and Brazil
fragt Tobi.
die Karte her?«
Wo hast du denn
er erlebt ...«,
»
habe viele Abenteu
ich selbst Pilot und
»Früher, da war
.
hlen
erzä
mann zu
beginnt Herr Geiß
Toby is bored to TEARS! There is nobody to play with in the whole city - just old people feeding
pigeons and pushing their walking frames about. Only when his red ball ends up in old Mr Billygoat’s
lap, it gets another ball rolling in Toby’s mind. Mr Billygoat used to be a pilot, and he has got lots of
stories to tell. Toby is listening, captivated, forgetting that he ever found old folks boring. And after
hearing Mrs Hornhilda (a former diva of the stage) and Mr Greybeard (an ex-master detective) talk
about their past, Toby knows what he wants to be when he grows up...
By responding to the memories of an older generation, Toby forgets his prejudices and becomes an
avid listener. Playing and moving about are parts of life; stories give it a richer texture.
Anne-Kathrin Behl was born in 1983. Her mother being a bookseller and her father a forester, it
is no wonder she went on to study illustration at HAW in Hamburg, and that she is particularly fond
of drawing animals. Today, Anne-Kathrin lives in Leipzig. Touring with the satirical cabaret group
teewurst, she sings songs for grown-ups while also organising creative workshops for children.
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ATLANTIS VERLAG
Author/ Illustrator: PARASTU KARIMI
Title:
UNSER GARTEN –
MITTEN IN DER STADT
English title: OUR GARDEN IN THE MIDDLE
OF THE CITY
2013
size 21 × 31 cm
from 4 years on
Tete has never walked as far along the wall, and suddenly, he sees an idle plot of land: space for
a green island that could grow here, like plants grow from cracks in the walls! He tells his friends
about his idea. They ask for tools and seeds at home, then they set out. Secretly, the three children
cultivate the land between the old walls. Some plants grow, some do not.
One day, they discover a chick between heads of lettuce. And a man looks across the back wall,
asking whether they have seen his little runaway. Mr Mika invites the children to his side of the wall:
He has been working here for years; he needs his garden so he can relax after his work at the office.
Child’s play becomes a community project and a summer party suddenly involves several generations.
With its visions of rampant greenery as well as with realistic scenes, Parastu Karimi’s first picture
book promotes awareness of our need for green spaces and introduces children to the joys of
gardening.
Parastu Karimi lives and works as an illustrator in Berlin. Her work is much influenced by urban
impressions as well as by flora and fauna. At first glance, many of her pictures seem poetic and
dreamy, disclosing their bizarre and enigmatic nature only gradually.
In addition to her illustrations for children, she draws comic strips for adults, paints murals and
experiments with installation art.
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Author:
Illustrator:
Title:
English title:
HEINZ JANISCH
HANNES BINDER
• Swiss Children’s Media Award 2013
ICH GING IN SCHUHEN AUS GRAS
I WALKED IN SHOES OF GRASS
2013
size 19 × 26 cm
Ich ging durch einen hellen Garten mit hohen Figuren
und Schatten, die sich bewegten.
Eine Katze sprang vom Fensterbrett und schmiegte sich an meine Beine.
I walked in shoes of grass through a city of stone. Everything was strange. (...)
I could hear animals, and I saw them, too.
The first person narrator in Heinz Janisch’s poem suddenly stands in front of a door. There is a
bright garden behind it; a stairway takes him or her up to a house, a woman, a man, a cat-home!
Hannes Binder tells exactly the same story which is vastly different: He translates the magic of the
poem into the poetry of his pictures. So, in the end, the child’s journey takes us beyond the text,
into fantastic realms.
Hannes Binder’s illustrations have hardly ever been as close to the way children experience the
world. His scraperboard artwork gently welcomes the dreamer, even in its surreal moments,
therefore some pictures have been nuanced in subtle, friendly colour.
Ich ging in Schuhen aus Gras
Heinz Janisch | Hannes Binder
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Heinz Janisch, born in 1960, studied German and journalism in Vienna. There are many books
for children and young adults among his publications. He was awarded the Austrian State Prize for
Children’s Poetry, the Bologna Ragazzi Award, the Austrian Children and Young Adult Book Prize
as well as many other awards.
Hannes Binder, born in 1947, studied art at the Kunstgewerbeschule in his native town Zurich. He
worked in Milan as a graphic designer and spent three years in Hamburg as an illustrator. Today, he
lives in Zurich again, lecturing at Lucerne’s Kunsthochschule and working as a freelance illustrator
and artist – mostly in his favourite technique, scraperboard. In addition to several crime classics
by Friedrich Glauser, he has illustrated Lisa Tetzner’s The Black Brothers and works by Friedrich
Dürrenmatt, Urs Widmer, Peter Bichsel, Eduard Mörike and Klaus Merz.
ATLANTIS VERLAG
Author:
Illustrator:
Title:
English title:
Rights sold to:
LORENZ PAULI
MIRIAM ZEDELIUS
ZUM MITNEHMEN
PLEASE HELP YOURSELF
2012
Size 21 × 31 cm
From 4 years on
Denmark, Brazil, Taiwan, China
There are so many ripe apples that Mr Snip fills a large basket, writing »Please Help Yourself« on a
piece of paper. A little boy (who can’t read yet) sees the fruit, grabs an apple and runs, convinced that
he has stolen it. He’s hardly gone when a woman arrives: She reads «Please Help Yourself» and is
very happy about the pretty basket. There is no end of confusion. A park bench is carried off, a boy is
suspected of having eaten a bicycle – but finally, there’s apple-pie for everybody.
Lorenz Pauli has invented a delightful succession of misunderstandings and newunderstandings, a
sequence of situational humour that children will enjoy – not least because they can see through
the calamities. And Miriam Zedelius has staged the punch lines in a world of vivid colour and simple
shapes.
Also available: an English rough translation.
recognition as well: He was awarded a place on the IBBY Honour List for the extraordinary quality of
his text for the picture book Grandma, Emma, Mom (2010, Atlantis Publishers).
Miriam Zedelius was born in Heidelberg in 1977 and lives in Leipzig with her family. She also studied
there at the Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst. Today, she’s a freelance illustrator, designing
postcards, posters and picture books in her own small silk-screen printing workshop with great success.
Her two children enjoy being their mum’s test audience – she has already published two picture books
with their seal of approval, both of them written by Lorenz Pauli; last year saw the publication of
H.C. Andersen’s The Wild Swans by Stämpfli Publishers.
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ATLANTIS VERLAG
Author:
Illustrator:
Title:
English title:
Rights sold to:
LORENZ PAULI
KATHRIN SCHÄRER
NUR WIR ALLE
JUST ALL OF US
2012
Size 30 × 23.8 cm
from 4 years on
Denmark, China, Korea, Russia
A stag (slightly bored), a mouse (who practises her balance), a fish (who wants to belong so much
that he actually develops a voice), a meerkat (unusually excited) and a bear (allegedly hungry) – they
all play their parts in this story. When the bucket containing the fish starts to leak, they save him
in a joint effort, and with a bit of luck. Their adventure gives them a sense of community and the
mouse nods, «Playing? Just all of us? That would be fun … »
At first, they’re strangers to each other, but finally they manage to combine their wildly divergent
ideas. If they had rejected each other as being too strange, there would only have been several
rather boring stories to tell. However, together they are able to fuse the strands into one single,
exciting story! Lorenz Pauli tells it in his inimitably mischievous way, bearing out children’s dayto-day experience. And Kathrin Schärer once again manages to illustrate (and gently mock) the
animals’ typical character traits with her wonderful pictures.
2011.
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ATLANTIS VERLAG
Title:
English title:
SUSE SCHWEIZER
OH SCHRECK! ...UND DANNN?
SHOCK! HORROR!
2012
Size 23 × 16 cm
from 3 years on
Some children are playing outside. A boy peeks around the corner, gapes, and yells, «SHOCK!
HORROR!» They all run inside. All the children, all the chairs, EVERYTHING! And then – turn the
page - we are in the children’s hiding place. They are all listening with rapt attention to what’s going
on outside; one child quietly asks another what she’s afraid of. «Of witches», «of our neighbour’s
dog», «of my parents»... «Of you!» – «Of me?»
«Of you!» – «Of you!» – the children point at each other, laughing. They are sitting in their hiding
place together. It looks like a fortress - or maybe like a monster? But children are looking out of it,
all over, and they ask, «What shall we play now?
Suse Schweizer uses very few words to create a hectic, crazy, but then
again very quiet sequence of events. Just like child’s play: A simple idea
leading to lots and lots of fun!
Suse Schweizer, born in 1973,
studied at Bauhaus University, Weimar,
and is a prize-winning freelance illustrator.
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ATLANTIS VERLAG
Title:
English title:
Rights sold to:
HILDE HEYDUCK-HUTH
WEIHNACHTEN
CHRISTMAS
2012
20 pages, board book,
Size 20 × 23.3 cm
from 2 years on
GB/USA, Netherlands
In simple scenes extremely generous for a cardboard book, Hilde Heyduck-Huth tells the story of
Christmas: the star leading the way, an angel calling. Shepherds, the Magi, women, men and many
children come to the stable. There’s a content baby lying in the manger. Everyone who has seen
him happily returns home, telling everybody else.
It would be hard to find a simpler retelling of the birth in the stable. By focusing instead of reducing,
the artist manages to convey a meditative atmosphere; her pictures radiate great calm.
The cardboard book was first published in 1971. New lithographs have now been created from
the originals and have been slightly enlarged, so the pictures can unfold their full effect. A quiet
retelling for very young children, unmatched in its simplicity.
Hilde Heyduck-Huth, born in 1929, studied painting, graphic design
and pedagogics in Kassel, Germany. In 1963, she was awarded the
Premio Grafico di Bologna, her first international prize, for Three Birds
(Ravensburg).
Her books have been published throughout the world, from Japan via
Iceland and South Africa to the USA. The Stones Are Even Able To Dance,
a perennial long-seller, has seen eleven editions so far. Hilde HeyduckHuth’s books are famous for their uncompromising quality and reflect
the artist’s respect for children.
For her book TANZEN KÖNNEN AUCH DIE STEINE – THE STONES
ARE EVEN ABLE TO DANCE please contact me.
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ATLANTIS VERLAG
Author:
Illustrator:
Title:
English title:
SELINA CHÖNZ
ALOIS CARIGIET
DAS GROSSE BUCH
VOM SCHELLEN-URSLI
THE BIG BOOK OF URSLI
2012
Size 31.1 × 24 cm
from 4 years on
Ursli, Swiss picture book hero extraordinaire, would have deserved a special edition like this years
ago! Based on early prints, new lithographs have been created, with the colours the way the artist
originally intended them to be.
The so-called Engadine Trilogy, the three stories about Ursli and Florina, are available in a single
volume for the first time, complemented by articles about Alois Carigiet and Selina Chönz, about
the book’s history and its importance.
Also available: an English rough translation: A BELL FOR URSLI, FLORINA and THE SNOWSTORM.
Selina Chönz was a writer and a kindergarten teacher from the Engadine Valley. In 1945,
her «Uorsin» story appeared in print for the first time. Illustrated by painter Alois Carigiet, the
picture book became a world-wide bestseller. Ursli is the protagonist in a tale about setting out
and coming home, about acting autonomously and proving one’s worth. Soon, there was a
second book, about his sister, Florina, and another about their adventures during The Big Snow.
Compared to Heidi, in terms of international sales, Ursli might be her little brother. From an
artistic viewpoint, however Alois Carigiet’s illustrations made Ursli a monument of 20th century
Swiss graphic design, an icon of Swiss children’s literature and a genuine ambassador of Alpine
self-assertion. Tourists from all over the globe come to see Ursli’s world every year. Even more
important, though, is his perennial popularity as a big hero of little heroes.
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Detail from «The Rough Mountain»
ATLANTIS VERLAG
Title:
English title:
Rights sold to:
EINAR TURKOWSKI
DER RAUHE BERG
THE ROUGH MOUNTAIN
2012
32 pages, bound,
black-and-withe illustrations
Size 19,6 × 32,5 cm
Japan, Spain and Latin America,
South Africa
In a country where it rains from the ground, there is an uncanny mountain shrouded in legend.
However, one man dares approach. At the foot of the mountain, he is greeted by a sign, «See, if
you can».
Taken aback, the man walks on, starting to look at things more closely. The path takes him through
a dark forest, past strange creatures. Ever steeper becomes the climb, and ever more dangerous.
An artist’s parable, a story about daring to take a closer look, staged brilliantly by Einar Turkowski
whose worlds always include the discovery of tiny detail and whose art focuses on the infinitesimal,
only to unfold into sweeping, breathtaking vistas.
Also available: an English summary.
The BIB Grand Prix for his debut, It Was Dark and Eerily Quiet was only the first of a number of
prestigious awards that continued with Turkoswki’s second book, The Moon Flower, which received
the 2009 Golden Pen of Belgrade.
Einar Turkowski lives and draws in Schleswig-Holstein near Kiel. He gives readings and offers
workshops.
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ATLANTIS VERLAG
Title:
English title:
Rights sold to:
ERNA KUIK
LIEBER, LIEBER PULLI
JUMPER DEAREST
2012
32 pages, bound,
Size 29 × 24 cm
from 5 years on
China
Consumer behaviour? Throwaway society? Whatever – every child has got a favourite piece of
clothing he or she would NEVER part with.
And so does Bastian, who, by accident, spatters his favourite jumper with paint. But when his friend
Pip washes the jumper in hot water, it shrinks! Pip has a guilty conscience - and an idea: He creates
new clothes out of old trousers, jackets, socks. But will a colourful patchwork jumper really comfort
Bastian? Unexpectedly, the smallest rabbit finds a solution ...
Even in Erna Kuik’s rabbit children’s world, one sometimes has to let go of something. And just like
these «children», who forget the world around them while painting or making things, the Dutch
artist glories in vibrant colour and keeps finding new ways of expressing herself.
Erna Kuik, was born 1967, studied free graphic design at Kampen Art Academy and was awarded
the Greta and Adri Pieck Prize for young artists. Today she works as art teacher for children. She is
a passionate painter, often taking her inspiration from the world of children. She also designs and
creates felt animals.
For more books by Erna Kuik please take a look at the backlist catalogue.
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ATLANTIS VERLAG
Author:
Illustrator:
Title:
English title:
Rights sold to:
LORENZ PAULI
KATHRIN SCHÄRER
PIPPILOTHEK??? – EINE BIBLITOHEK
WIRKT WUNDER
FOX GOES LIBRARY
2011
Size 24 × 24 cm
from 5 years on
France, Brazil, Denmark, Sweden, Netherlands, Spain and Latin America, Korea,
China, Taiwan, Japan, Italy, USA, UK,
Arabic Language Worldwide and Iran
Bestseller!
Over 10’000 copies sold in 12 weeks.
Fox is chasing a mouse, in through the cellar window, around the corner, along a narrow corridor.
And suddenly, they both find themselves in a room with lots of bookshelves and even more books.
«This is a library», the mouse explains.
«A lie-brary?», Fox asks. But then, he begins to like the books – even if that means he’ll have to
learn to read. With a chicken teaching him, no less!
There’s information on just about anything – chicken bones as well as magic spells – in the library.
Everybody finds something that interests them. And in the middle of such a multitude of books,
even a fox and a chicken can get along. Kathrin Schärer perfectly translates Lorenz Pauli’s wit into
wonderful pictures of an impish mouse an her two (very different) companions.
Also available: an English and Italian rough translation.
2011.
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ATLANTIS VERLAG
Author:
Illustrator:
Title:
English title:
ERMANNO LIBENZI
ADELCHI GALLONI
ROBIN BEI DEN PIRATEN
ROBIN AND THE PIRATES
2010
64 pages, bound
size 24 × 27.5 cm
from 6 years on
Rights sold to:
France, Finland, Sweden, Denmark
and China
A kraken guarding a golden treasure, a ghost ship, an island teeming with pirates – as soon as Robin
puts to sea, the wildest adventures begin! Yesterday, he was living peacefully in his grandfather’s
lighthouse – today he has to help Moby Dick hide and he becomes Captain Hook’s apprentice,
meeting all sorts of weird and wonderful (and some very well-known) people: Captain Nemo, for
example, aboard his submarine, or an inventor who helps Robin fly home in the end, in a pigeonshaped airship.
Ermanno Libenzi is an expert teller of tall tales from the high seas, alluding to popular heroes
galore, while Adelchi Galloni – an «old master» belonging to Tomi Ungerer’s generation, steeped in
Yellow Submarine imagery – has created a wonderful buccaneer fantasy, Seventies style!
Also available: an English summary. A French, Italian and Spanisch translation.
Ermanno Libenzi, born in Milan in 1936, studied literature and pedagogics and has worked as
a journalist and editor as well as writing for children and young adults – more that 30 books. His
stories are full of fascinating historical and scientific detail, while fantasy and ecological thinking
complement each other in his nature descriptions.
Adelchi Galloni, born in 1936, grew up in Milan and had his art first exhibited when he was
hardly out of school. He has designed animated cartoons and worked for national and international
advertising agencies, magazines and newspapers while always illustrating childrens’ books. His
work has been the subject of numerous exhibitions and he has been awarded several prizes. He
was also an university lecturer and directed an animation film after a text by Dario Fo.
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ATLANTIS VERLAG
Author:
Illustrator:
Title:
English title:
Rights sold to:
MAX HUWYLER
JÜRG OBRIST
DAS ZEBRA IST DAS ZEBRA
A ZEBRA IS A ZEBRA
2010
size 21,5 × 29 cm
from 5 years on
Russia, Denmark, France, Moroco,
China, Taiwan, Korea and Iran
Is a zebra’s fur white with black stripes, or black with white stripes? The little zebra racks his brains,
and his dreams are curiously shaped and dotted with colourful patterns. «Are you sick?», the other
zebras ask. «I’m thinking», replies the zebra, wishing he wasn’t striped at all, for a change. But
that can’t be the solution, either. Who am I, and where do I belong? A thoughtful story by Max
Huwyler, to help children with their inevitable, age-old question, complemented by Jürg Obrist’s
bold pictures of the little zebra’s philosophical quest, but also of his feeling safe and secure.
Also available: an English and an Italian rough translation.
Max Huwyler writes short as well as absolutely tiny stories, song lyrics, radio and stage plays,
idylls, poems, stories and language games for children. He has published numerous children’s
stories, individually or in anthologies and textbooks. He has been awarded several prizes for children’s literature, poetry and radio plays. Projects with artists from other fields inspire him; he has
been working with musicians, designers and illustrators.
Jürg Obrist was born in Zurich in 1947. After training as a retoucher, he studied photography
at the Schule für Gestaltung, Zurich. He lived in New York as a photographer for nine years,
working as an illustrator for publishing houses and children’s and young adults’ magazines. His first
picture book was published in the United States in 1978; it was to be followed by many others.
Jürg Obrist has been living in Zurich again, with his family, since 1985. He is a freelance writer and
illustrator. In 1990, he was awarded the Schweizer Kinder- und Jugendmedienpreis.
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ATLANTIS VERLAG
Author:
Illustrator:
Title:
English title:
Rights sold to:
LORENZ PAULI
KATHRIN SCHÄRER
OMA, EMMA, MAMA
GRANDMA, EMMA, MOM
2010
size 29.3 × 28 cm
from 5 years on
France, Brazil, Sweden, China,
Denmark, Korea and South Africa
Bestseller!
Emma wants to play hide-and-seek. But Grandma laughs – chameleons are practically invisible,
anyway. Emma sulks, «Whenever I’ve got an idea, nobody will help me. And whenever I want to do
something on my own, I mustn’t.» This sounds familiar to Grandma, so she begins to count while
Emma is looking for a hiding place: in the stinkyflower bush? With the tenrecs? Behind a tree? But
already, Mom is calling her. She’s looking for Grandma. And Grandma rolls her eyes.
«Whenever I want to do something on my own, I mustn’t...»
Playing hide-and-seek becomes role-play. Maybe Grandma’s, Mom’s and Emma’s experiences
aren’t all that different?
A placating and cheerful story by Lorenz Pauli about different generations trying to get along. And
Kathrin Schärer doesn’t just make Emma change colours, but uses the illustrator’s art to make us
believe in metamorphosis.
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2011.
ATLANTIS VERLAG
Author/ Illustrator: KATHRIN SCHÄRER
• Swiss Children’s Media Award 2011
Title:
JOHANNA IM ZUG
English title: JOANNA IN THE TRAIN
2009
34 pages and 12 half pages, bound,
size 26.3 × 23.8 cm
from 5 years on
Rights sold to:
France, Netherlands, Denmark, Sweden, Hungary, Italy, UK / USA, Korea, Spain
and Latin America, China , Taiwan, Japan, Brazil
Bestseller! Over 14’000 copies sold.
Also a bestseller in the Netherlands!
The illustrator draws a train, then its passengers. A pig wants to know what she’s called. Thus, a
story unfolds, the tale of a train journey full of meetings and surprises.
But then, the pig wants the artist to go back one page. It’s possible in a book – but in real life? A
wonderful story game, a story about a lovable, rebellious pig and about how stories may develop ...
and those who want to read more into it, will find hints in the pictures and on Kathrin Schärer’s
desk, for that is where the story begins!
Joanna on the Train (2009, Atlantis Publishers) was
awarded the Swiss Childeren’s Media Award 2011.
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ATLANTIS VERLAG
Author:
LORENZ PAULI
Title:
MUTIG, MUTIG
English title: THE TEST OF COURAGE
2006
size 29.3 × 23.8 cm
from 5 years on
Rights sold to: Brazil, United Arabic Emirates, Iran, France,
Spain and Latin America, Netherlands,
Hungary, Denmark, Korea, Taiwan
and China, English worldwide
Longseller! Over 65’000 copies sold!
The four friends Mouse, Snail, Sparrow and Frog meet by the pond, and suddenly, some
one comes up with the idea of a competition. Who can think of the most outrageous test of
courage – and pass it himself? Who is the most courageous of them all? When Mouse –
such bravery! – swims underwater all the way across the pond, Frog thinks it’s no big deal.
And when Frog gobbles down a water lily, Snail just says: «That’s delicious, not brave!»
So, there’s a smattering of applause, but everybody is disappointed – until, finally, it’s Sparrow’s
turn. He hesitates, coyly, and in the end he says: «Count me out. I’m not doing anything.» Is that
courage? The friends wonder, wavering, but then, they cheer as one: «Yes, that’s real courage!» A
book about friendship and not giving in to peer pressure.
2011.
36
ATLANTIS VERLAG
Author: LORENZ PAULI
Illustrator:
KATHRIN SCHÄRER
Title: ICH MIT DIR, DU MIT MIR
English title: YOU AND ME
2008
size 29.3 × 23.8 cm
from 5 years on
Rights sold to:
Denmark, Netherlands, Israel, France, Brazil,
United Arabic Emirates, China, Korea, Taiwan,
New Zealand and Australia
Bestseller!
The dormouse has got a pipe, the bear, a soft pillow: «Shall we swap?» Sure! But then, the bear’s
paws are too large to play the dormouse’s pipe, and the dormouse can’t relax - the squealing is
horrible. So here they go again, swapping the pipe for some music, a bear’s dance for a lucky
pebble, a lucky pebble for a handful of hazelnuts: «You win, I win.»
Swapping is a game for children ... and a serious business. Pleasure and hesitation are but the two
sides of one coin. This is where Lorenz Pauli comes in. He addresses mixed feelings, he talks about
bartering, claiming and swapping and shows us that adding up doesn’t have anything to do with
friendship. And Kathrin Schärer has captured the noisy and the quiet moments ... as well as the
heartfelt ones towards the end of this lovely book.
2011.
37
ATLANTIS VERLAG
Author/ Illustrator: KATHRIN SCHÄRER
Title:
SO WAR DAS! NEIN, SO! NEIN, SO!
English title: IT WAS LIKE THIS! NO, LIKE THIS!
NO WAY!
2007
size 26.3 × 23.8 cm
from 5 years on
Rights sold to: France, Denmark, Catalonia, Spain and
Latin America, Brazil, Korea, China and
Taiwan
Bestseller! Over 16’000 copies sold.
It was like this», Badger says. «My friend Bear and me built this tall stack of stones. Then Fox came
«
by, kicked it over and totally destroyed it!» «No», Fox says, «no, it was like that ... !» Of course, Bear
has a third version, and here they go again, arguing. And when Squirrel interrupts them with his
own «outside view», yet another quarrel erupts. Sometimes, arguments happen. The crucial thing
is to find a solution. So Kathrin Schärer’s strikingly simple set-up of differing views becomes a plea
for listening to each other and playing together.
2011.
38
ATLANTIS VERLAG
Author/ Illustrator: SONJA BOUGAEVA
Title:
ZWEI SCHWESTERN BEKOMMEN
BESUCH
English title: TWO SISTERS HAVE A VISITOR
2005
size 28.9 × 22.9 cm
from 5 years on
Rights sold to:
Taiwan, Romania, Korea, New Zealand, Australia and UK, Denmark,
United Arabic Emirates, China, Spain,
Catalonia and Netherlands
Innocently and without a care in the world, two sisters live on a tiny island. But one day the ferry
delivers a postcard: «Expect me on Tuesday, your cousin John.» «Tuesday? But – this is Tuesday!»
Actually, their cousin has arrived by the same ferry. At first, the sisters are pleased, visits being a
rare event on their island. However, Cousin John finding fault with everything soon becomes a bit
tiring. True, he’s good at repairing things, but with the cat and dog banned from the house and
the freshly-weeded garden looking bleak, all coziness is disappearing fast. Eventually, the cousin
decides to paint the house a new colour, and ... A story about a different way of life, a plea for
keeping an open mind, and, most of all, a wise and witty fable.
Sonja Bougaeva, born in St.Petersburg 1975, now living in Hamburg, studied book art and
painting at the Academy of Arts. Subsequently, she trained as a designer for animated movies
and worked for a cartoon film studio. Her first picture book was nominated for the German
Children’s Book Award.
For more titles by Sonja Bougeava please take a look at the backlist catalogue.
39
ATLANTIS VERLAG
NON FICTION
Author/ Illustrator: ANNE MÖLLER
Title: ZEHN BLÄTTER FLIEGEN DAVON
English title: TEN LEAVES IN THE WIND
2008
32 pages, bound,
size 20.7 × 27.4 cm
from 3 years on
Rights sold to: France, Denmark, Netherlands, Korea, Thailand, China, Brazil and
United Arabic Emirates
An autumn storm rips ten willow leaves from their twigs, carrying them away. One leaf ends up
in the water, others on the ground. People and animals welcome them: Children gather the leaves
to make little boats, lanterns and pictures. A squirrel carries a leaf away for its nest, a grasshopper
uses another as a life raft. And an earthworm finally pulls the last leaf underground: He eats and
digests it. The leaf becomes fertilizer for the willow tree which will grow new leaves come spring ...
Where do leaves fall? Never leaving a child’s world of experience, Anne Möller tells her lyrical tale
with great care – for the diversity of nature and the circle of life.
Anne Möller was born in Freiburg, Germany, in 1970. After high school, she studied illustration
and design at the Fachhochschule Hamburg. Since graduating in 1998 she has been a freelance
illustrator for various publishers. Her Atlantis picture book NESTER BAUEN, HÖHLEN KNABBERN
won the Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis (Non-Fiction) 2005!
For more titles by Anne Möller please take a look at the following pages and at the
backlist catalogue.
40
ATLANTIS VERLAG
NON FICTION
Title:
ROTSCHWÄNZCHEN
WAS MACHST DU HIER IM SCHNEE?
English title: LITTLE REDSTART
WHAT DO YOU DO HERE IN
THE SNOW?
2003
size 21 × 28 cm
from 5 years on
Rights sold to: Netherlands, France, Poland, Slovenia, Taiwan, China, United Arabic Emirates,
Denmark
hen the days grow shorter lots of birds fly south. This time Little Redstart cannot fly with them.
W
His hurt wing is healing well, but for a long journey the little bird is still too weak.
How does a migrant survive in the cold? Little Redstart watches other animals looking for food.
Blackbirds and tits show him what they eat. Hedgehog and mouse want to help him. They all have
their own ways of getting through winter. But none of them works for Little Redstart. Finally, with
deers and wild boars he can find something to pick. An animal story which tells us vividly about
survival in winter.
For more titles by Anne Möller please take a look at the backlist catalogue.
41
ATLANTIS VERLAG
NON FICTION
Title:
ÜBER LAND UND DURCH DIE LUFT
English title: OVER LAND AND TROUGH THE AIR
2001
size 21 x 28 cm
from 5 years on
Rights sold to: Denmark, Slovenia, Russia, United Arabic
Emirates, France, Japan, Thailand,
Korea, China and Taiwan
Over 45’000 copies sold by our partner,
the Chinese publishers THINKINGDOM.
If people want to travel, they take the train, the car or even the plane. And for shorter journeys
there are bikes. Or our own feet. With plants this looks differently. But nevertheless they meet
at the most unexpected places. For example in the sand-box. Or in the gutter. How did they get
there? Plants travel as well. Overland and through the air. But plants don’t travel themselves, they
send their seeds travelling. Some seeds use the wind to fly away. Other travel with animals by
whom they are eaten. And in those places where the seeds are put down, new plants can grow.
For example in the sand-box. Or in the gutter.
Also available: all plant names in Latin.
For more titles by Anne Möller please take a look at the backlist catalogue.
42
ATLANTIS VERLAG
HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN AWARD IN GOLD
Author: SELINA CHÖNZ OR ALOIS CARIGIET
Illustrator: ALOIS CARIGIET
Title: SCHELLEN-URSLI
English title: A BELL FOR URSLI
1971, 48 pages, bound, coloured illustrations
Size 31 × 24 cm, Form 5 years on
Rights sold to:UK, Japan, Korea, China, Iran and Italy
Longseller! Over 500’000 copies sold!
This Swiss childrens´s book classic tells of Schellen-Ursli and his search for a big cowbell so he can
head the spring festival´s procession in his village. To get this bell he goes alone to his family´s summer-hut high up in the mountains and spends a lonely scary night there. Carigiet (1902-1985) was a
famous Swiss artist depicting life in his native Engadine Alps.
Also available: an English, a French and an Italian translation.
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Title: ZOTTEL, ZICK UND ZWERG
English title: ZOTTEL, ZICK AND ZWERG
Rights sold to: Japan, Korea and China
Longseller!
Maurus, the goatherd, discovers that the 3 goats Zottel, Zick
and Zwerg got lost in the mountains. He sets off on a dangerous
search with his dog, survives a storm, crosses a torrent, wounding his foot. Finally, he finds the runaways on a cliff and brings them back to the village.
Title: FLURINA UND DAS WILDVÖGELEIN
English title: FLURINA AND THE WILD BIRD
Title: BIRNBAUM, BIRKE, BERBERITZE
English title: PEAR TREE, BIRCH TREE, BARBERRY BUSH
Rights sold to: UK, Iran, Japan, Korea and China
Longseller!
Longseller!
Flurina finds a wild baby bird and rears it with loving care at home
until the time comes to set the bird free. As autumn comes, Flurina
climbs high up in the mountains in search of her bird. Instead of the bird she finds a beautiful, perfect
cristal.
Also available: an English translation.
A story of a brother and sister from the Engadine Mountains who,
over the season, follow the history of a thieving magpie in her
birch tree, a pair of crows in their pear tree and the nesting of the garden warbler couple in their protective barberry bush.
Title: DER GROSSE SCHNEE
English title: THE SNOWSTORM
Title: MAURUS UND MADLEINA
English title: MAURUS AND MADLEINA
Rights sold to: Iran, Japan, Korea and China
Longseller!
Longseller!
On a winter-evening Flurina returns home to the farm. On the
way she looks for a whimpering animal under an old tree. In that
moment, an avalanche thunders down to the valley and buries Flurina. Brother Ursli searches for her.
Luckily the branches have protected her and Ursli carries her home.
Also available: an English and a French translation.
Madleina lives in Zürich and shows her cousin Maurus, the goatherd from the mountains, city-life. In turn Maurus introduces
Madleina to his native mountain village and they even participate in a mountain-rescue-operation and
fly in the helicopter.

Atlanis_FBF 2014

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