New Releases Spring 2019 – Spring 2020 Foreign Rights Catalogue Index AWARD WINNING New Titles Spring 2019 TITLE 4 Eggs in Daycare Lorenz Pauli / Kathrin Schärer 19 The Sunday the Egg Cracked Lorenz Pauli / Kathrin Schärer 6 Haven't We Forgotten Something? Andreas Greve / Lena Winkel 20 Alwina and Nell – A Summer Story from My Sketchbook 8 Hugo and Tawny Heribert Schulmeyer Vera Eggermann 21 The Second Ark 10 My Favourite Toys Heinz Janisch / Hannes Binder Claudia de Weck 22 Pancake, Pancake on the Wall! 12 In the Moorlands – Peewit, Frog Jörg Isermeyer / Daniel Napp and Sundew Eva Sixt 23 The Lake Lorenz Pauli / Sonja Bougaeva 14 Award winning titles 24 Wondrous Sponges Fall 2019 Ninon Ammann 25 The big Book of Ursli 16 Only One More Selina Chönz / Alois Carigiet Kathrin Schärer 17 A Password for the Library – When Libraries Go Online Lorenz Pauli / Kathrin Schärer 18 Annie and the Bear Hunters Lotte Bräuning 3 FOREIGN RIGHTS ATLANTIS VERLAG ZÜRICH Illustration: Claudia de Weck 'My Favourite Toys' © Atlantis Verlag 2020 Lorenz Pauli / Kathrin Schärer Eggs in Daycare Mouse likes to help. Kathrin Schärer, born in Basle in 1969. The blackbird brings Mouse her eggs. She graduated as an art teacher as well So do the bluetits, and then the wood- as in arts and crafts from the Hoch- pecker. Even the baby squirrels are al- schule für Gestaltung in Basle. She lowed to come. Together, they make for teaches children with speech disorders a colourful nursery. and works as an illustrator. While she It's a busy place! Mouse struggles to sometimes illustrates her own stories, keep track: There are worried parents she is best known for her longstanding with special wishes and the young squir- and very successful collaboration with rels want to go home… Lorenz Pauli. And there's this egg. Mouse can't re- Kathrin Schärer has been nominated for member whose it is. Has she made a the prestigious Hans Christian Ander- mistake? What has she let herself in for? sen Award 2012 for her complete works. And 'Joanna in the Train' (2009, Atlantis Publishers) was awarded the Swiss Chil- dren’s Media Award 2011. Lorenz Pauli, born in 1967, became a kindergarten teacher someday. He used to work and laugh with children for many years. Then days grew too short for work, and now he laughs when sit- ting at his keyboard and when telling stories on stage. Lorenz Pauli made the 2012 IBBY Honour List for his text in 'Grandma, Emma, Mom' (2010, Atlantis). 'Look After Me!' (Pauli / Zedelius, 2015, Atlantis) has been nominated for the 2015 Schweizer Kinder- und Jugendme- dienpreis (Swiss Children’s and Young Adults’ Media Prize) and is a White Ra- ven 2015. Lorenz Pauli lives in Berne with his family. → More from this author: pages 17, 19, 23 → More from the illustrator: page 16, 17, 19 World Rights available 32 pages | bound | 23,6 × 28,5 cm | 4+ | 2020 4 FOREIGN RIGHTS ATLANTIS VERLAG ZÜRICH Andreas Greve / Lena Winkel Haven't We Forgotten Something? The beauty spot by the lake makes Hush Andreas Greve was born in 1953 and and Hubert feel like fishing, but the fish grew up in Hamburg. After studying art refuse to bite. Luckily, Hush has packed education, he lived in Denmark for 10 some sandwiches. Has he really? No, years and on the Canary Islands for they haven't brought the sandwich tin. some time. He has had several picture Hush is inconsolable, but Hubert tries to books published as well as some books cheer him up: Anybody can forget some- of poetry for adults and children, among thing – some people do it all the time. them Greve's Little Rhyming School, Their trip isn't going as planned, and consisting of four booklets illustrated by that's exactly why it is a great success. Lena Winkel. In the end, they even find the sandwich → www.andreasgreve.de tin. - Lovable Hush and Hubert's new ad- Lena Winkel grew up in a small town in venture after their successful debut the Westerwald (Wester Forest). Lots of - Amusing details to discover, and a hills. In 2014, she moved to Hamburg search task: Where's the sandwich tin (very flat) to study illustration. Lena got to? likes tea and enjoys making friends with other people's pets. World Rights available 32 pages | bound | 27 × 22 cm | 4+ | 2020 6 FOREIGN RIGHTS ATLANTIS VERLAG ZÜRICH Vera Eggermann Hugo and Tawny A tree has fallen across the road and Dad Vera Eggermann, born in 1967, studied is clearing it away. Meanwhile, Hugo is illustration at the Hochschule in Lu- busy in the forest. Collecting fir cones, cerne. In 1994, she was the first winner of he finds a young tawny owl. the Swiss Picture Book Contest, with Hugo carries the bird home. Finally, he’s Nina Wants to Fly. Since then, she has got someone to keep him company when published various books winning nume- Dad is not around. rous awards. After living in London for an However, the owl won’t stay hidden for extended period of time, she has returned long. But when Dad sees him, he’s to mainly living in Lucerne. She likes to pleased with Hugo’s new friend. Still, the read to schoolchildren, her target audi- wild bird has to be returned to the forest. ence, whose feedback, she feels, greatly Together, father and son release Tawny. enriches her creative work. → things are easier when you’re not alone. → A father-and-son story, sensitively told World Rights available 32 pages | bound | 29 × 22 cm | 4+ | 2020 8 FOREIGN RIGHTS ATLANTIS VERLAG ZÜRICH Claudia de Weck My Favourite Toys Toys are great. But other things are even Children will recognise themselves in more interesting: making the hoover these day-to-day scenes. Together, the hum, clearing out the kitchen cupboard pros and cons can be discussed – and where the pans are kept, hunting for her smiled at. keys in Mum’s handbag, sweeping the bookshelf clean… Claudia de Weck was born in Zurich. Claudia de Weck’s story makes us un- She trained as an artist, locally as well derstand this fascination. First, the as in Paris and Hamburg. Today, she is teddy bear watches the child, failing to an illustrator and a writer. grasp what’s going on, then he begins to join in. And the mouse that keeps pop- ping up starts to add her own ideas for new games. World Rights available 22 pages | board book | 20 × 20 cm | 2+ | 2020 10 FOREIGN RIGHTS ATLANTIS VERLAG ZÜRICH Eva Sixt In the Moorlands – Peewit, Frog and Sundew The moors are a natural paradise for Eva Sixt grew up in rural Bavaria, stu- ground-breeding birds, butterflies and died biology and trained in scientific lightning bugs. illustration. She then worked for several Frogs love the puddles, peewits hatch natural history museums for some and rear their chicks, and in the ponds years, mainly developing special exhibi- there are fish and aquatic plants adapted tions. to quieter waters rather than fast-flow- After a training period in a book publish- ing ones. er’s editorial department, she now works In short: Moorlands are unique habitats in Munich as an editor, translator, writer that were never appreciated and often and illustrator for publishing houses, drained. The book explains these children’s media and scientific institutes. changes as well as why moors should be protected, and shows alternatives to peat-cutting. → Sound zoological and botanical knowl- edge, introducing an ecologically valua- ble habitat. World Rights available 32 pages | bound | 30 × 23,8cm | 5+ | 2020 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 Leipziger Lesekompass / Die besten 7 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 / Die besten 7 Death in the Apple Tree Kathrin Schärer → more information in the backlist catalogue The White Ravens 2018 / Children's Book of the Month of January 2018, awarded by the Deutsche Akademie für Kinder- und Jugend- literatur e.V. Fur and Feather The White Ravens 2015 and Lorenz Pauli / Kathrin Schärer Picture Book of the Month of September 2015 awarded by → more information in the backlist catalogue the Deutsche Akademie für Kinder- und Jugendliteratur e.V. Look after me! BIB (Biennial of Illustrations Bratisilava) Grand Prix Award 2007 Lorenz Pauli / Miriam Zedelius Troisdorfer Bilderbuchpreis 2007 Spanish Visual Award → more information in the backlist catalogue It was dark and eerily quiet Einar Turkowksi → more information in the backlist catalogue The Best Foreign Picture Book Award 2015 JAPAN Swiss Children’s Media Award 2011 German Children’s book Award 2005 Johanna in the Train Buildings Nests, Digging Caves Kathrin Schärer Anne Möller → more information in the backlist catalogue → more information in the backlist catalogue Prix Chronos de Littérature 2014 Toby and the Old Ones Anne-Kathrin Behl Hans Christian Andersen Award in Gold → for more information please contact me A Bell for Ursli Selina Chönz / Alois Carigiet → more information in the backlist catalogue 14 FOREIGN RIGHTS ATLANTIS VERLAG ZÜRICH 15 FOREIGN RIGHTS ATLANTIS VERLAG ZÜRICH Kathrin Schärer Lorenz Pauli / Kathrin Schärer Only One More A Password for the Library There‘s a lot the little bear has yet to Kathrin Schärer, born in Basle in 1969.