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Foreign Rights Spring 2012
PICTURE BOOK
Leading
Title
Tanya Stewner makes
wishes come true!
The first picture book of
bestselling author Tanya Stewner
Tanya Stewner
Annas’s Day of Wishes
(Annas Wunschtag)
With colour illustrations by Christiane Piper
Hardcover, 32 pages
4 years & up
With Liliane Susewind Tanya Stewner has won a huge fan base. In her picture book she narrates lovingly
and sensitively about what children really like and what they really wish for. For children don’t care what
is proper or »what should not to be done«! Anna’s ideas about her birthday are quite different from her
mother’s: She wants to play football wearing her new princess nightshirt all day long, sing out loud in
the bus, and eat chocolate cake for breakfast. In the end Anna’s mother fulfils all her wishes and the birthday turns out to be one of the craziest and most wonderful the delighted Anna ever experienced.
Tanya Stewner was born 1974 in the Bergisches Land and started writing stories when she was only
ten years old. Her children book series about Liliane Susewind and the little elf Hummelbi are hugely
successful. The author lives and works in Wuppertal.
Christiane Pieper grew up in the 1960ies on a farm with a piano in the Bergisches Land. She studied
in Giessen, Kassel and Duesseldorf and in 1993 she submitted her first picture book. Since then she
has been drawing, painting and writing for small, big and grown-up children.
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FICTION FOR CHILDREN
Marliese Arold
Ella Vampirella Is Looking for Grandpa Rudi
(Ella Vampirella sucht Opa Rudi)
Third volume of »Ella Vampirella«
With colour illustrations by Isabelle Metzen
Hardcover, 128 pages
6 years & up
If there is one person who can tell stories in a smart and fascinating way this must be Marliese
Arold. With Ella Vampirella she has created a heroine with whom young female readers can
perfectly identify with. Although Ella Vampirella is a vampire girl she does have a lot of human
characteristics. This time Ella Vampirella visits the Lake Lucerne together with her new vampire
friend Konrad and immediately she is set the task to find Konrad’s grandpa. For grandpa Rudi
has disappeared and has thrown the whole family into a total turmoil. Finally Ella Vampirella
finds him at an old people’s home where he creates quite a stir amongst the residents. And to
top it all he has forgotten that he is a vampire and does not at all want to return to the vault …
Marliese Arold was born 1958 in Erlenbach on the Main. She studied librarianship in Stuttgart
and has been working as a writer since 1983. She lives with her family in Erlenbach.
Isabelle Metzen studied graphic-design and in 2008 she received a diploma in designing.
She now works for many magazines and publishing houses and lives in Lüdenscheid.
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FICTION FOR CHILDREN
Tanya Stewner
The Unicorn in the Elf’s Wood
(Das Einhorn im Elfenwald«)
Third volume of »How to Wake An Elf?«
With illustrations by Nadine Jessler
Hardcover, 224 pages
8 years & up
»Tanya Stewner succeeds in bringing the world of magic alive and
telling a completely successful family story without portraying
a mere idyllic children’s world.« Manuela Haselberger, Eselsohr
After fascinating her readers with the comical elf Hummelbi and the beautiful fairy
Marasamsara, Tanya Stewner now brings magical life to the purest and wisest creature
of the fairy forest: the unicorn.
The twins Florentine and Pauline are chosen by the unicorns of the forest. At first the
sisters can hardly believe the great honour to face the most graceful creatures of
the forest. But soon they understand that the unicorns are afflicted by a mysterious
disease: black spots are spreading all over their shining white fur – if the twins can’t
help quickly, their magical friends might die …
Tanya Stewner was born 1974 in the Bergisches Land and started writing stories when
she was only ten years old. Her children book series about Liliane Susewind and
the little elf Hummelbi are hugely successful. The author lives and works in Wuppertal.
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FICTION FOR CHILDREN
Dagmar Chidolue
This Thing With Me And Romeo
(Das mit mir und Romeo)
Hardcover, 208 pages
11 years & up
First love is gentle and indescribably beautiful and simply happens. Dagmar Chidolue
masterfully succeeds in catching this feeling in her novel »This Thing With Me And
Romeo«. Julia, the main character and first person narrator, moves with her mother and
little sister from the country to the city into the house of the tyrannical grandfather. In
her new class everybody makes fun of her first name as there is already a student called
Romeo. At first Julia does not even glance at him, but then she finds out about his sweet
smile and the soft look in his eyes …
The readers get very close to Chidolue’s characters, they feel, tremble and yearn with
them – until the first kiss.
The enchanting story of a first love for pre-teens – magnificently told by Dagmar Chidolue.
Dagmar Chidolue, born 1944 in Sensburg/East Prussia, ranks amongst the most famous
authors of books for children and young adults and has received several prizes amongst
others the German Youth literature prize (Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis). She lives in
Frankfurt am Main.
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FICTION FOR YOUNG ADULTS
Titus Müller
The Enemy’s Kiss
(Der Kuss des Feindes)
Historical novel
Hardcover, 288 pages
12 years & up
Bestselling author Titus Müller has written his first historical novel for young adults. A fascinating
novel which takes us back to the time around the year 800 in Kappadokia: There more than ten
thousand people live in the secret subterranean city of Korma. They are Christians. Here they have
found refuge from the Arabs who conquered the land. Arif, son of an Arab captain, spys the Christian
girl Savina on a ramble and falls in love with her head over heels. Unnoticed he follows her and thus
finds the secret access to the Christian’s cave system. Actually Arif would have to report to his father
that he has found the city of the Christians …
A wonderful historical novel, which makes past times come alive as well as a plea for tolerance
and humanity.
Titus Müller, born 1977 in Leipzig, studied literature, medieval history and journalism in Berlin. In
1998 he launched the literary magazin »Federwelt« (Penworld). In 2002 at the age of 24 he published his first novel »Der Kalligraph des Bischofs« (The Bishop’s Calligrapher). This was followed by
seven more historical novels such as »Das Mysterium« (The Enigma), »Die Jesuitin von Lissabon« (The
Female Jesuit of Lisbon) and the latest »Tanz unter Sternen« (Dancing under the Stars). Titus Müller
has been awarded the C. S. Lewis-Prize and the Sir Walter-Scott-Prize. He is married and lives in
Munich.
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FICTION FOR YOUNG ADULTS
Elisabeth Zöller
Father’s Order or A German Girl
(Vaters Befehl oder Ein deutsches Mädel)
Hardcover, 272 pages
12 years & up
Following the huge success of »Anton oder Die Zeit des unwerten Lebens« (Anton or the Times
of Unworthy Life) Elisabeth Zöller once more revisits an importent topic of National Socialism:
How was it possible for someone to be a loving father of a family and at the same time send
an infinite number of people to their death with one order? And how should his children deal
with this?
Fiveteen years old Paula loves her father dearly. She shares his views, adores Hitler and is
delighted to be with the BDM. But gradually she discovers that her father is substantially
involved in the deportation of Jews. Her world view comes apart.
Very closely the reader experiences Paula’s initial enthusiasm and the painful disassociation
from National Socialist ideas.
Elisabeth Zöller is one oft the best known and successfull authors for children and young
adults in Germany. Her novel »Schwarzer, Wolf, Skin« (Black, Woolf, Skin) caused a great
sensation. For her book »Anna rennt« (Anna Is Running) she was awarded the Katholischer
Jugendbuchpreis (Catholic Youth book prize), for »Anton oder Die Zeit des unwerten Lebens«
the Gustav-Heinemann-Peace Prize. She lives with her family in Münster.
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