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CONTENTS HIGHLIGHT TITLES 4 CHILDREN’S BOOKS AGE 8+ 8 AGE 10+ 10 AGE 14+ 12 NON-FICTION 14 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER 15 KLETT KINDERBUCH 16 PREVIEW SUMMER 2021 20 dtv Verlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG Tumblingerstraße 21 80337 München Germany 3 rights@dtv.de www.dtv.de
C H I L D R E N ’ S B O O K HH I Gi g H hL lI iGgHhTt s / R e c o m m e n d a t i o n s f r o m o u r B a c k l i s t Juli Zeh Socks and Sophie - How to Speak “Horse” With 4c-illustrations by Flix 240 pages Pub. Date: February 2021 Age 10 and up • Juli Zeh skillfully weaves information about horse communication into an exciting story • Entertaining and enlightening, thanks to the special narrative perspectives of both the human AND the horse • Includes funny and informative colour illustrations by Flix • Books by bestselling author Juli Zeh have been translated into 35 languages 4 dtv Verlagsgesellschaft dtv Verlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG Tumblingerstraße mbH & Co. KG Tumblingerstraße 21 80337 München21 80337 Germany München Germany 11 rights@dtv.de www.dtv.de rights@dtv.de www.dtv.de
Highlights / Recomm CHe nI LdDa Rt iEoNn’ sS fBr O omO Ko H u rI GBHaLcIkGl iHsTt H ENGLPILSE M SA ATION TRAANSL E VAILABL © Peter von Felbert Highlight Spring 2021 JULI ZEH is an attorney, constitutional judge and award-winning author. Her books have been translated into 35 languages. JULI ZEH has been honored with numerous prizes, including the Heinrich Böll Prize and the The Problem is Sitting in the Saddle Federal Cross of Merit. FLIX holds a degree in Socks, the pony was abused and has lost all faith in humans ever since. Sophie, communication design however, is overjoyed when she is allowed to take Socks into her care. But her and works as a freelance dream is quickly broken. Sophie is soon forced to admit that she and Socks simply illustrator and cartoonist in can’t live in harmony. The ongoing misunderstandings between the pony and the Berlin. His comic strip Lucky girl lead to a number of dangerous situations. And then, when she thought things Kid appears on Mondays in couldn’t get any worse, something tragic looms on the horizon – if Socks won’t the FAZ. FLIX’s works have let himself be ridden soon, he will be put to sleep by people who dismiss him as a received various awards and “problem horse”. Sophie has to learn how to speak horse - and fast! have been translated into nine languages. dtv Verlagsgesellschaft dtv Verlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG mbH Tumblingerstraße & Co. KG Tumblingerstraße 21 80337 München 21 80337 Germany München Germany 115 rights@dtv.de rights@dtv.de www.dtv.de www.dtv.de
CHILDREN’S BOOK HIGHLIGHT Jan Strathmann Milla and the Rhino Bus © Sabine Würich Reihe Hanser _ JAN STRATHMANN has written 144 pages stories for children for the past with 4c-illustrations by Sabine Wilharm twenty years, as well as animated Pub. Date: March 2021 television films and series, Age 6 and up scientific magazines, book series, and feature films. He lives in Funny things keep happening, and Milla is sure that life is wonderful... Berlin. Some people claim that Milla tells tall tales, but Mama says that Milla is simply SABINE WILHARM was born imaginative. And yet nobody ever believes the funny things that keep happening to in 1954 and studied at the her. Hamburg College of Design. She A rhino takes her to school in the morning when she misses her bus. While has been working as a freelance playing in the schoolyard with the Trumpeter bird, Milla makes so much noise illustrator since 1976, and that she disturbs Caretaker Bromski. She spends the night howling at the moon illustrated the German covers of with a coyote. Milla also teaches her neighbor, a bear, to read. When he hibernates, the Harry Potter series. she stretches out on his plump tummy and burrows into his fur. With Kusi, the whirlwind, she flies up to a church spire! Sometimes Milla lands herself in trouble during her adventures, but she always makes new friends along the way. • One 8-year-old’s charming and wondrously fantastical adventures • For reading out loud or to yourself 6 dtv Verlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG Tumblingerstraße 21 80337 München Germany rights@dtv.de www.dtv.de
CHILDREN’S BOOK HIGHLIGHT Markus Grolik Gizmo - Even Dragons Need Friends © Yvonne Bosl H ENGLPILSE dtv junior SAM ATION dtv junior TRAANSL E MARKUS GROLIK born in 144 pages VAILABL 1965, was trained as a fashion with 4c-illustrations by the author designer and worked as a Pub. Date: February 2021 film poster painter before Age 5 and up he studied art at a Munich university. Since then, he has A different take on dragons and knights illustrated quite a number of children’s books and even A dragon that doesn’t want to dine on knights – that’s unheard of! Gizmo’s parents written a few of them. Besides are more than a little disappointed in their kid. Not far from Gizmo, young knight that, he draws very successful Adrian and Princess Priscilla also fail to meet their parents’ expectations. It won’t cartoons for agencies, come as a surprise, then, that their first encounter in the woods doesn’t lead to a newspapers and publishers. fearsome battle, but instead to a close friendship. When Gizmo’s parents suddenly During his free time, he and disappear, this friendship is put to the test: it is Priscilla’s parents who seem to be his two children continue behind the abduction. Now Gizmo, Adrian and Priscilla have to show what they their search for dragons and can really accomplish as a team! unicorns. • A magical universe full of knights, dragons, princesses, and unicorns - modern and humorous • A dragon-filled adventure WITHOUT the usual archetypes dtv Verlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG Tumblingerstraße 21 80337 München Germany 7 rights@dtv.de www.dtv.de
AGE 8 AND UP Ulrike Rylance/ Ulrike Rylance Lisa Hänsch Penny Pepper - Wedding Cakes and ©Mary Grace Long Scoundrels (vol. IX) Penny and her detective friends are excited. dtv junior dtv junior Their beloved teacher, Ms. Weinerlein, is •• ULRIKE RYLANCE was born in finally marrying the school caretaker, Mr. 1968 and studied English and 160 pages Örtel. Penny, Ida, Marie, and Flora aren’t only participating as flower girls, but they German literature in Leipzig With b/w-illustrations by Lisa Hänsch are also helping to bake and decorate the and London. She was an Pub. Date: March 2021 cake under the watchful eye of the famous assistant teacher in Wales and Parisian chef, Pierre Chocolat. The cake turns Manchester, and also taught into a bombastic, multi-tiered artwork: the German to children and adults perfect surprise. Everything seems to be in in London. In 2001 she moved to order for the big day until the wedding cake Seattle, USA, with her husband disappears... and two daughters. - series: Over 185,000 copies sold LISA HÄNSCH was born in 1988. She studied design and illustration in Münster and 9 titles in the series, c. 150 pages / each title now lives in Brühl. As well as illustrating children‘s books, she works as a cartoon illustrator and animator. All Under Control (vol. I) Penny would never have dreamt she’d get involved in her Rights sold: first big case at Flora’s birthday party. Because suddenly Czech Republic, Greece, Flora’s birthday present—Dschastin, the cutest dog ever—disappears without trace. And who does Flora Italy, Hungary, The accuse of kidnapping him? Penny, of course! ENGLISLH Netherlands, Poland, SAMP TEION T NSLA E RA AVAILABL Romania, Spain (cast., cat.), Turkey, Ukraine vol. II vol. III vol. IV vol. V vol. VI vol. VII vol. VIII 8 dtv Verlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG Tumblingerstraße 21 80337 München Germany rights@dtv.de www.dtv.de
J U N I O R H I G H L I G H T / A G E 11 A N D U P AGE 8 AND UP Barbara Rose Blacktooth Ghost Academy - Teachers with an Edge ©privat 176 pages Pub. Date: February 2021 Age 8 and up dtv junior BARBARA ROSE , spent many years working as a Uproar at Blacktooth Ghost Academy journalist, developing stories for television and moderating Freddy can hardly believe his good luck. He has been offered a scholarship for radio programs. Today, she Blacktooth Academy! There’s just one thing that he still doesn’t know: only magical primarily writes books for creatures of all kinds - vampires, poltergeists, werewolves and many more - are admitted children and teens. She lives there. At Blacktooth, they are taught how to seriously frighten humans. As the school with her family in Stuttgart. has been facing a decline in enrolment, the school director, Count Blacktooth, has reluctantly agreed to admit human children. Unfortunately for Freddy, not everyone is happy about this change - someone wants to get rid of Freddy. No matter the cost! Autor Titel Meike Haas Fairy Dust in the Classroom ©Kathrin Schäfer 176 pages Pub. Date: February 2021 Age 8 and up dtv junior dtv junior MEIKE HAAS , born in 1970, studied German, philosophy and book and media sciences. A fairy as a teacher - simply enchanting! She worked for various Miss Fae is a fairy who can grant all the wishes your heart desires – but one day, when newspapers including Die Zeit she refuses to fulfil a really mean wish, she gets banished to the human world. She is and the Süddeutsche Zeitung. now trying her luck as an elementary school teacher. What great fun for Lilly and her She is now a full-time author. friends! After all, who else has a teacher who can make the flowers in her classroom sing? There is just one problem. Having only just joined the human world, Miss Fae doesn’t know how to act like a teacher. Lilly and her friends decide to teach her what she needs to know. But neither the head teacher nor any of the other adults can be allowed to learn that Miss Fae is actually a fairy... dtv Verlagsgesellschaft dtv Verlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG mbH & Co. KG Tumblingerstraße Tumblingerstraße 21 80337 21 80337 München München Germany Germany 119 rights@dtv.de rights@dtv.de www.dtv.de www.dtv.de
XXXXX AGE 10 AND UP Nataša Kaiser and Corinna Wieja The Superhero in You: Discovering © Natasa Kaiser Your Super Powers dtv junior dtv junior NATAŠA KAISER is an illustrator and graphic designer. She completed a 144 pages course of study as a guest with 4c-illustrations by Nataša Kaiser student at the Academy of Art Pub. Date: January 2021 in San Francisco and now lives Age 10 and up with her family in Frankfurt. The ultimate superhero training course CORINNA WIEJA enjoys You’re a superhero! Even if you might not know it yet. This book will help you writing feel-good stories discover your superpowers, secret strengths and hidden talents. A superhero and knows that we all have a training course with lots of tips, tests and inspiration, as well as a wide range strength within us, that can of suggestions how you can change the world, for example supporting your turn us into superheroes. neighbourhood or fighting against climate change, too! We can all become real Even during her spare time, it superheros! is unusual for her to be seen without a book in hand. She lives close to Frankfurt with her family and two cats. • A wonderful companion for a critical transition phase • Includes practical tips, inspiration, psychological tests and space for personal entries • Activity book for girls 10 dtv Verlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG Tumblingerstraße 21 80337 München Germany rights@dtv.de www.dtv.de
AGE 10 AND UP Aniela Ley Lia Stormgold series ANIELA LEY always has been a bookworm, even as a child, driven by the confident hope that a door to a fantastic world 240 pages / each title would open between the Age 10 and up H ENGLPILSE covers of each book she read. SAM ATION TRANSLABLE As an author, she has created AVAIL numerous literary worlds herself, and she now knows that this door exists wherever books are being read. The Power of Crystals (vol. I) Eleven-year-old Lia didn’t know that elves actually existed. But now, as the result of a failed magical spell, she is stuck in the body of the air princess Asalia and is forced to search for the location of Spring Water, the famous elf boarding school. Lia’s initial aversion to this idea is quickly forgotten, because Spring Water isn’t only a magical school. It offers all kinds of adventures, such as a flight through the diamond labyrinth or confronting bullies from the position of a genuine dtv princess. However, more than anything else, Lia has to hide her secret about who she actually is, because it has been ages Pub. Date: July 2020 since humans were allowed to even enter Spring Water! The Secret of the Sea Elf (vol. II) Lia is enjoying her new life as an air princess at Springwater, the magical elven boarding school. She is learning lots about elf magic and is starting to feel comfortable with all her new elf friends. So, when she finds out that her school is threatened by magical floods, she is all the more horrified, especially considering that her new friend Serafina - the only sea elf at Springwater – is being blamed for it. In order to find out who is truly behind the floods, Lia concocts dtv a plan, and along with her best friends, she sets out on a perilous search for the truth... Pub. Date: February 2021 Rights sold: Russia • A new tale from the magical elven school • She suddenly switches into an elf – Lia Stormgold conquers the hearts of her readers • For readers of Tanja Stewner and Jessica Townsend dtv Verlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG Tumblingerstraße 21 80337 München Germany 11 rights@dtv.de www.dtv.de
AGE 14 AND UP AGE 8 AND UP Caroline Brinkmann The Clans of Tokito - Lotus and Tiger © Caroline Brinkmann 384 pages Pub. Date: February 2021 Age 14 and up CAROLINE BRINKMANN , born in 1987, is a young Ger- Tokito – City of Blood and Shadows man fantasy author. When she isn’t immersed in the world of In the metropolis of Tokito, the law of the clans reigns supreme. The only people who fantasy, she is employed as a have a chance to survive are those who work for one of the six clan overlords. Rebellious doctor and is working on her Erin loses her job with the Lotus clan and is now defenseless. When she is kidnapped doctorate in neurophysiology. off the street, she makes a deal with a demon in order to save her life. The demon grants her supernatural strength, but, at the same time, he attempts to gain control over Erin. When a series of murders shakes Tokito and Erin’s best friend Ryanne disappears, Erin does everything in her powers to track down the murderer. Is the person Erin is hunting down just a madman acting alone? Or is she on the trail of a treacherous conspiracy? And what part does the demon play in all this? 71882 Viviana Iparraguirre Silber und Gold Ein Prinz aus de las Casas A Prince of Silver and Gold ©Alexander Plotnikov IPARRAGUIRRE DE LAS CASAS 592 pages Pub. Date: March 2021 Age 14 and up dtv VIVIANA IPARRAGUIRRE DE LAS CASAS , born in 1994, lives in Frankfurt am Main. She She danced into his cold heart, and he robbed her of her freedom... is currently pursuing degrees In honor of its new king, Copper City is hosting an extravagent festival, and Sofija Rea in publishing and theater Linn enchants the king’s young heir with her breath-taking tambourine dancing. He arts at Johannes Gutenberg wants her to dance for him alone. So he abducts her, imprisoning her in his castle. In University in Mainz. For many captivity, Sofija doesn’t fall in love with him as he had planned, but instead, to everyone’s years, she has been writing Art surprise, with his brother! This is high treason! No one can escape the king’s wrath. He Musicals for her figure skating punishes his brother by robbing him of his kindness. Only Sofija can save her sweetheart club. from the king’s clutches, even if that means putting her own life at risk. 12 dtv Verlagsgesellschaft dtv Verlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG Tumblingerstraße mbH & Co. KG 21 Tumblingerstraße 80337 München 21 Germany 80337 München Germany 9 rights@dtv.de www.dtv.de rights@dtv.de www.dtv.de
AGE 14 AND UP Leonie Lastella As Soft as a Summer Rain © Inga Sommer dtv LEONIE LASTELLA was born in Lübeck, and now lives with her family in a small village 368 pages northwest of Hamburg. Since Pub. Date: April 2021 2017, she has dedicated Age 14 and up herself exclusively to writing. Among other awards, she was honored by DELIA (the Not just lies can break hearts. The truth can too. society for German-language romance authors) for her Is one day enough to fall in love? When Hope meets Cooper, she is angry. Angry books. at her mother, who has had an affair. Angry at this world that has taken someone she loved away from her. But, in his own extraordinary way, Cooper succeeds in helping Hope to forget her worries for at least a few hours. Cooper also enjoys their time together, and by the end of the day, he wants to see Hope again. After all he has been through, the hours with her were some of the happiest he has experienced for a long time. But then Cooper finds out that Hope’s mother has chosen his stepfather, of all people, to run off with. He keeps this to himself, knowing full well that this secret could destroy his relationship with Hope... • With her sympathetic characters, fresh voice and a dash of emotional depth, Leonie Lastella conquers the hearts of her readers • For readers of Mona Kasten and Colleen Hoover BY THE SAME AUTHOR The Light of a Thousand Stars If love Had a Colour Rights sold: Russia 384 Pages 336 pages Pub. Date: March 2020 Pub. Date: September 2020 dtv dtv Verlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG Tumblingerstraße 21 80337 München Germany 13 rights@dtv.de www.dtv.de
NON-FICTION Ingeborg Gleichauf In Search of Understanding - A History of © Eberhard Gleichauf Female Thinkers Reihe Hanser 44 Porträts 256 pages von Theano über Hannah Arendt bis Martha Nussbaum Pub. Date: February 2021 _ Age 13 and up INGEBORG GLEICHAUF , born in Freiburg in 1953, If you open any ordinary history of philosophy, you will most definitely be left with the studied philosophy and impression that thinking is a privilege offered only to men. You’d have a really hard time German literature, and now finding any traces of female philosophers. But they did exist, and not just in the past few works as a freelance author. years when women have been recognised academically – in fact, they’ve existed since antiquity. And a few have even been teaching at universities, too. Ingeborg Gleichauf introduces us to 45 female thinkers. Starting with the Pythagorean Theano of Croton (ca. 550 B.C.) and finishing with the ethics specialist Martha Craven Nussbaum (born in 1947), she focuses on their ideas and the school of thought with which they are associated. A compact history of philosophy emerges, showing that wom- en have always philosophised. They just weren’t always allowed to do so publicly. MICHAEL WOLFFSOHN Michael Wolffsohn We Were Lucky - Despite Everything: A German- Hi T in The Me Sc The © Michael Wolffsohn Boy Ges Jewish Family History Eine deutschjüdische 224 pages Familiengeschichte Pub. Date: April2021 dtv Age 11 and up MICHAEL WOLFFSOHN , was born in Tel Aviv to German- Jewish parents who fled to To Tel Aviv and back: the story of an emigration Palestine in 1939. His family Thea Saalheimer was nineteen in 1939 when she fled from the Nazi horrors of Germany returned to Germany in and ended up in Tel Aviv. There, she fell in love with Max Wolffsohn and, fifteen years 1954, and Wolffsohn was later, the two of them returned to Germany together with their seven-year-old son, Professor of Contemporary Michael, who has since grown up to be a historian and expert on the Middle East. What History at the Munich did Thea and her family experience during the Nazi period? And what happened during Bundeswehruniversität from their emigration to a country foreign to them in every way imaginable? Why did they 1981 until 2012. eventually move back to the country of their persecutors? 14 dtv Verlagsgesellschaft dtv Verlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG Tumblingerstraße mbH & Co. KG 21 Tumblingerstraße 80337 München 21 Germany 80337 München Germany 9 rights@dtv.de www.dtv.de rights@dtv.de www.dtv.de
I N T E R N AT I O N A L B E S T S E L L E R Frank Schwieger History & Mythology series c. 250 pages / each title With b/w-illustrations by Ramona Wultschner Age 10 and up I, Zeus, and the Olympic Gang Twenty-four episodes from the lives of the greatest Greek heroes and heroines, gods and goddesses– straight from the Trojan Horse‘s mouth! Each story is complemented by a wittily illustrated profile of the starring character, detailing their family connections, © privat their likes and dislikes and distinguishing features. I, Caesar, and the Roman Gang FRANK SCHWIEGER was In this book, Romulus, Caesar, Nero and their many born in 1968 and grew up in friends and foes are finally able to speak for Holstein, in the northernmost themselves. Live and unvarnished, they provide their region of Germany. He studied own versions of history. Readers will learn why two Latin and history, and has best friends had to battle each other in a gladiatorial been working as a grammar fight, why Cleopatra allowed herself to be wrapped in a school teacher since 1999. rug, and why people should avoid eating geese. I, Odin, and the Wild Vikings RAMONA WULTSCHNER was born in Heilbronn in 1987. She The Nordic myths have been retold with great studied design in Pforzheim frequency, but never before by the gods and heroes and works on animated themselves! Readers will experience first-hand how cartoon productions, Odin lost his left eye and how Thor stole back his children’s books and game hammer from the thieving giant Thrym. Besides that, development. you will receive useful tips on the raising of dragons and how to pursue adventures on the high seas... I, Merlin, and the Fearless Knights History & Mythology What were the Middle Ages really like? Were they as series: 150,000 copies sold adventurous and colorful as we imagine them to be? Wise Merlin provides the answers to the questions we have long been asking: How did young Arthur of all people manage to pull the famous sword Excalibur out of the stone? Why did brave Siegfried bathe in dragon’s Rights sold: blood? What was a knights’ tournament like? Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech I, Cleopatra, and the Ancient Egyptians Republic, Greece, Hungary, Poland, PR China, The ancient Egyptians have fascinated children and adults for ages, but very few people actually know Romania, Serbia, Spain, the whole story! Fortunately for us, Cleopatra is here Turkey to round up the most famous gods and pharaohs, as well as the bravest of human children, to help us out dtv junior ••• dtv junior of the sarcophagus of ignorance. Now we can finally get the answers to the most exciting questions: How were the pyramids built? Were there really booby traps Pub. Date: April 2021 that protected the buried treasure from tomb robbers? What are hieroglyphics? dtv Verlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG Tumblingerstraße 21 80337 München Germany 15 rights@dtv.de www.dtv.de
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KLET T KINDERBUCH • AGE 4 AND UP Monika Port Count me out! © private MONI PORT born in 1968, Klett Kinderbuch, Age 4 and up trained as a bookseller With 4c-illustrations by Philip Waechter and went on to study 32 pages communication design in Pub. Date: February 2021 Mainz. She is now an illustrator and book cover designer and lives with her family in Frankfurt. He has roared his last roar PHILIP WAECHTER born in Helene’s father doesn’t just speak like everyone else: everything he says comes out of him 1968, studied communication as a loud shout. Her father is rowdy just like his parents and his grandfather before him. design with a focus on “You’ll also become rowdy someday!” Helene’s mother says. But Helene doesn’t want this. illustration in Mainz. He “Count me out!” she declares before packing her suitcase and leaving her family. Finally, works as a freelance graphic some peace and quiet. But is she gone for good? designer and author in This powerful picture book is for children like Helene, who go their own way and refuse Frankfurt. to put up with things they don’t like and, even if this sometimes comes as a shock to their parents. A book to help children feel brave and to encourage them to set boundaries. First published in 2010 as “Der Krachmacher” bei Beltz • This book helps children to stand up for themselves • Masterfully written and illustrated by the successful duo, Moni Port and Philip Waechter dtv Verlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG Tumblingerstraße 21 80337 München Germany 17 rights@dtv.de www.dtv.de
KLET T KINDERBUCH • AGE 8 AND UP / NON-FICTION Birte Müller That’s Sick! Nasty Diseases – © Matthias Wittkuhn Past and Present BIRTE MÜLLER born in 1973, lives with her family in Klett Kinderbuch, Age 8 and up Hamburg, where she primarily With 4c-illustrations works as a columnist. She by Yannick de la Pêche studied book illustration (in 128 pages college) – not medicine or Pub. Date: February 2021 biology, surprisingly! Her picture book Planet Willi has already been published by Klett 12-meter-long tape worms Kinderbuch. That’s Sick! is her first non-fiction book and the How do tapeworms even get into our intestines? This book will tell you. It will first publication that she hasn’t introduce you to the nastiest and creepiest diseases of all time which left people illustrated herself. with nothing more than prayers to cure them. Why did sailors suddenly start loving sauerkraut, and why were beer-drinking workers better off during times of cholera than everyone else in the city? Birte Müller‘s writing is so candid and engaging that you’ll find yourself reading her book feverishly. You might even get goosebumps YANNICK DE LA PÊCHE from shivering. Or a stomach ache from laughing. And if you dare to think “that was born in 1992, has worked as a just all in the past!” you’d be mistaken. COVID-19 may even make an appearance... freelance illustrator since 2015 Yannick de la Pêche’s wonderful pictures provide just the right dose of morbid charm and lives in Hamburg. Besides and wit. From the drama of the plague to athlete’s foot – nothing is off limits in this drawing, he loves films and his book! plants, and is crazy about old racing bikes. • You will laugh uncontrollably, learn things and feel disgusted - all at the same time! • A very different health book for kids • Birte Müller’s previous books have been translated into 14 languages 18 dtv Verlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG Tumblingerstraße 21 80337 München Germany rights@dtv.de www.dtv.de
KLET T KINDERBUCH • AGE 8 AND UP / Non-Fiction Katharina von der Gathen AnyBody - © Peter Nierhoff Thick & thin, skin & hair: The big ABC-Book for our Body KATHARINA VON DER GATHEN was born in 1972. Klett Kinderbuch, Age 8 and up H ENGLPILSE She studied special needs With 4c-illustrations by Anke Kuhl SAM ATION education and developed an 112 pages TRANSLABLE AVAIL interest in sex education as a Pub. Date: February 2021 student. Gathen works with children and adolescents from a wide range of educational My body, my friend: backgrounds. She lives in Bonn with her husband and four an encyclopaedia to amaze you, make you laugh, think, and feel good. children. Sometimes you might feel uncomfortable in your own skin, sometimes you might feel invincible. Katharina von der Gathen knows what interests and worries children about ANKE KUHL born in 1970, their own bodies. Her many years of experience are the basis for this new, unbiased studied illustration and has and witty encyclopaedia, which also takes into gentle consideration the feelings of been a freelance illustrator ambivalence that often exist. Anke Kuhl’s charts, hidden pictures and cartoons are funny since 1998. She lives in Frank- – sometimes even sad – in a relatable way. The result is a wonderfully encouraging book furt with her husband and two for both reading and reference, aimed at all children who want to feel at home in their children. own bodies. • From the successful duo behind Tell me and The Love Lifes of Animals • For everyone who has a body, completely gender neutral • Funny, important and honest • Previous books by the author have been translated into 23 languages BY THE SAME AUTHOR Tell me Tell me Some More The Love Lifes Facts of Life of Animals 208 Pages 216 Pages 144 pages Pub. Date: 2014 Pub. Date: 2018 Pub. Date: 2017 dtv Verlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG Tumblingerstraße 21 80337 München Germany 19 rights@dtv.de www.dtv.de
DT V – PREVIEW AUTUMN 2021 Alex Rühle Zippel, the Little Keyhole Ghost Takes a Wrong Turn Ever since Zippel, the real-life keyhole ghost, moved into Paul’s bedroom, every day has been a barrel of laughs. This time, Zippel has decided that he would like to celebrate his birthday for the first time – that’s when you get presents, after all! He chooses the 51st of Kalember as his new birthday, which just happens to be the very next day. The little ghost’s biggest birthday wish is to ride on the ghost train… But soon disaster strikes: Zippel suddenly disappears into the darkness of the ghost 176 pages train, nowhere to be found. It must be the fault of one of those pesky “addaults”! Paul With 4/c-illustrations has to do everything he can to save his beloved Zippel, with this mission leading to a by Axel Scheffler tremendous adventure. Pub. Date: August 2021 Age 6 and up dtv preview + dtv preview + dtv preview + dtv preview + dtv preview + dtv preview Knut Krüger Dwarf Mammoths Aren’t Presents Norbert, the cutest dwarf mammoth there ever was, decides to go off in search of his roots. Together with his friend Henry and Henry’s cool grandma, Norbert flies to Crete – only to find out that his arrival has actually been long-awaited! The retired king of Greece has a soft spot for the rare dwarf mammoths and decides that Norbert would be a perfect gift from his visitors. So Norbert and Henry need to work together carefully in order to make their escape from the palace. And when they discover traces among the Cretan ruins and beautiful lemon trees that suggest that Norbert might not be the last living dwarf 192 pages mammoth, things get even more confusing… Does Norbert get to meet his herd, or With 4/c-illustrations by will he be alone forever? Eva Schöffmann-Davidov Pub. Date: July 2021 The sequel to “Quick! Save the Mammoth” Age 8 and up 20 dtv Verlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG Tumblingerstraße 21 80337 München Germany rights@dtv.de www.dtv.de
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