New Releases Spring 2017 – Fall 2018 Foreign Rights Catalogue Index AWARD 14 Award winning titles 26 Big Top Magic WINNING Monika Spang / Markus Spang TITLE 16 Best- and Longsellers 27 Princess Roberta New Titles Verena Pavoni 4 Katie the Gull 28 I'm a Wolf, says Rabbit Anita Hansemann / Verena Pavoni Jadwiga Kowalska 6 Come Back Soon 29 Pernix – The Adventures Andreas Greve / Lena Winkel of a Small Dinosaur Dieter Wiesmüller 8 Move, Mr Mountain! Francesca Sanna Spring 2017 10 The Battle of Balderdash 30 A Sage, an Emperor and lots of Rice Heinz Janisch / Aljoscha Blau Paolo Friz 12 Positively Poisonous 31 Money for Sale! Lorenz Pauli / Claudia de Weck Lorenz Pauli / Claudia de Weck 32 The Year of the Squirrel Spring 2018 Eva Sixt 18 Stubby Max Bolliger / Kathrin Schärer Schellen Ursli 19 Do Come In! 33 The big Book of Ursli Max Bolliger / Lihie Jacob Selina Chönz / Alois Carigiet 20 Oh No, a Book! Lorenz Pauli / Miriam Zedelius 21 Back to the Garden! Emma Lidia Squillari 22 Mr Anderson’s Little Bird Jürg Obrist 23 At the Beaver Pond Eva Sixt Fall 2017 24 Fur and Feather Lorenz Pauli / Kathrin Schärer 25 Who has pinched the Gingerbread? Maria Stalder Illustration: Lena Winkel 'Come back soon' © Atlantis Verlag 2018 3 FOREIGN RIGHTS ATLANTIS VERLAG ZÜRICH Anita Hansemann / Verena Pavoni Katie the Gull Katie, Keekee and Karl, the laughing – About being fascinated by those who gulls, are amazed: More and more birds are different; and about being yourself are settling in their area. Katie likes Nils the cormorant so much that she wants to 'Are those cormorants?' be like him. She's imitating him, soon 'Yes. And the second one from the right is feeling like a cormorant herself. Which is especially handsome.' dangerous: When Katie dives deep into cold water, like Nils always does, she al- Anita Hansemann grew up on a farm in most drowns and has to be saved by her eastern Switzerland with six siblings. friends at the last minute. She was a social worker in Zurich before Katie's curiosity, though, is still intact. deciding to become a full-time writer. She hopes – like Keekee and Karl – that Since then, she has written stage and Nils and the other foreign birds will re- radio plays, short-film scripts, a novel turn the following winter. and other prose. 'Katie the Gull' is her first picture book. www.hansemann.ch Verena Pavoni was born in Zurich in 1965. After studying for three years at Zurich's F+F School of Art and Design, she moved to Ireland. She had her first picture book, Nicolo (Atlantis, 1984), published when she was 18. It be-came a bestseller. Verena Pavoni has been working as an illustrator ever since. She lives in Basle with her family. World Rights available 32 pages | bound | 23 x 29 cm | 4+ | 2018 4 FOREIGN RIGHTS ATLANTIS VERLAG ZÜRICH Andreas Greve / Lena Winkel Come Back Soon Hubert and Hush live in the garden of a Andreas Greve was born in 1953 and weekend cottage. grew up in Hamburg. After studying art They're watching some children saying education, he lived in Denmark for 10 hello to their grandparents. years and on the Canary Islands for 'Isn't it nice to be welcomed like that?', some time. He has had several picture asks Hubert. books published as well as some books 'Yes', says Hush, 'especially when you've of poetry for adults and children, among been away for a while.' them Greve's Little Rhyming School, The two of them want to share that expe- consisting of four booklets illustrated by rience. One of them leaves while the Lena Winkel. other one stays at home, waiting. One of → www.andreasgreve.de them has all kinds of interesting things happening to him while the other is going Lena Winkel grew up in a small town in crazy with longing. the Westerwald (Wester Forest). Lots of When Hubert and Hush meet again, they hills. fall into each other's arms, sobbing with In 2014, she moved to Hamburg (very joy. flat) to study illustration. 'Come Back 'We'll never do that again', they decide. Soon' is her bachelor thesis. They can always go exploring together. Lena likes tea and enjoys making friends with other people's pets. - About missing each other and about the joy of being reunited 'When shall I come back?' 'As soon as I start to miss you.' World Rights available 32 pages | bound | 27 x 22 cm | 4+ | 2018 6 FOREIGN RIGHTS ATLANTIS VERLAG ZÜRICH Francesca Sanna Move, Mr Mountain! Mr Mountain has seen a lot of things. The story of an unusual friendship, mak- Time is passing him by and he keeps his ing readers aware of the passage of cool. time. Does he really? Francesca Sanna, born in Sardinia in 'Move, Mr Mountain!', yells Lily. 1991, studied illustration in Cagliari and 'I want to see what's behind you, at last!' did her master’s degree in illustration and design at Hochschule Luzern. In the How can a child ask that of a mountain? summer of 2014 she continued her stud- He explodes, telling her off, but Lily in- ies in illustration and visual storytelling sists. at the School of Visual Arts in New York. Finally, Mr Mountain teaches her to In 2016, Francesca Sanna was awarded climb. From above, the world looks a Gold Medal by the Society of Illustra- practically endless. tors, New York, for her master’s project. In 2017, Francesca Sanna was nomi- But what's beyond the horizon? nated for both the German Young Adult Lily goes exploring and suddenly, while Literature Prize and the Swiss Children he's waiting for his new friend to return, and YA Media Prize. Mr Mountain begins to grasp the mean- Living in Zurich now, she is a freelance ing of 'longing for somebody'. illustrator. Sometimes, she misses her island and the sea. World Rights available 32 pages | bound | 29 x 23,5 cm | 4+ | 2018 8 FOREIGN RIGHTS ATLANTIS VERLAG ZÜRICH Heinz Janisch / Aljoscha Blau The Battle of Balderdash A little bit of blueberry ice cream drips Very soon, the smell of grilled sausages onto a dog's coat. This incident causes and the thought of their loved ones at an argument. The argument spreads. In home lures the men away. Only the gen- no time, there are armies on the march, erals remain on the battlefield, petrified their generals yelling, 'Advance! Re- like monuments. treat! Go!' One side begins to throw their hats at – The absurdity of war is made plain; their opponents. Who throw them right earnestly and with verve back. Followed by jacket buttons, by uni- – About a banal mishap escalating into forms, and suddenly everybody is in full-scale war their underpants. And nobody can tell – Without a uniform, we're all simply hu- who belongs to which army. man beings 'I'm hungry!', shouts somebody. 'So am I, so am I!', comes the answer, Heinz Janisch, born in 1960, studied Ger- from all sides. man 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. Aljoscha Blau, a German-Russian artist and illustrator of picture books, was born in St Petersburg in 1972. He stud- ied illustration and graphic arts at HAW Hamburg and has been working mostly for children's book publishers. He has been awarded numerous inter- national prizes, the German YA Litera- ture Prize, the Bologna Ragazzi Award 2006, the German Design Award, the Austrian State Prize for Children's and YA Literature and the Troisdorf Picture Book Prize among them. Aljoscha Blau lives in Berlin. → www.aljoschablau.com → www.instagram.com/aljoschablau World Rights available — Rights sold to: France, Italy 32 pages | bound | 24,5 × 31 cm | 5+ | 2018 10 FOREIGN RIGHTS ATLANTIS VERLAG ZÜRICH Lorenz Pauli / Claudia de Weck Positively Poisonous Where It's Really Dangerous There's nothing that Aaron and Mona There's been way too much adventure enjoy more than wild adventure. for Aaron and Mona to remember to go But what's wild and what's really dan- to school - gerous? on the other hand, they've learnt where 'Do Not Walk on the Grass' - well, you danger really lurks. can always ride your bike across the lawn. - Children and adults are made aware of And climbing a tree is simply enjoyable. the internationally recognized CLP / But when the children fish a bottle from GHS hazard symbols. the river, they don't know what's in it. A man explains the hazard symbols on the bottle to them. Ooops! Such things can also be found at home, in the cleaning cupboard, in the bathroom... World Rights available — Rights sold to: France, Italy 32 pages | bound | 23,5 × 29 cm | 6+ | 2018 12 FOREIGN RIGHTS ATLANTIS VERLAG ZÜRICH Swiss Children’s Media Award 2013 Award winning titles I Walked in Shoes of Grass Heinz Janisch / Hannes Binder → more information in the backlist catalogue Children’s Book of the Month of May 2016 awarded by the Deutsche Akademie für Kinder- und Jugendliteratur e.V. Swiss Children’s Media Award 2017 Ich ging in Schuhen aus Gras Heinz Janisch | Hannes Binder Rip and Rosie Lorenz Pauli / Kathrin Schärer LesePeter Dezember 2012 → more information in the backlist catalogue Just all of us Lorenz Pauli / Kathrin Schärer → more information in the backlist catalogue LesePeter April 2016 Death in the Apple Tree Kathrin Schärer → more information in the backlist catalogue Golden Pen of Belgrad 2009 The Moon Flower Einar Turkowski → more information in the backlist catalogue The White Ravens 2015 and Picture Book of the Month of September 2015 awarded by the Deutsche Akademie für Kinder- und Jugendliteratur e.V.