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      • NORLA

        Books from Norway is a website providing you with information in English about Norwegian literature in all genres: Fiction, Non-fiction and Children and Young Adults’ literature.NORLA - Norwegian Literature Abroad, promotes the export of Norwegian literature through active profiling work and translation subsidies. The organisation disseminates knowledge about Norwegian books and authors abroad, and operations are financed by the Norwegian Ministry of Culture.

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      • NordSüd Verlag AG

        From North to South – Founded in 1961, NordSüd is a tradition-steeped children’s book publisher based in Zurich, Switzerland. NordSüd publishes around 50 new publications every year, all of which are high-quality illustrated children’s books in German and English, focusing on fictional and non-fictional picture books, fairy tales and classics. It is our aim to work closely with artists and create new books together, which we represent worldwide and sell translation rights. Next to our own creations we buy German rights for well-known illustrators like Jon Klassen, Oliver Jeffers, Kazuo Iwamura, Sophie Blackall, Isabelle Arsenault and many more.

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        Children's & YA

        The Child in Three-Story Attic

        China Story Picture Books

        by Zhang Qiusheng

        China Story Picture Books is the first set of children's picture books launched by the Bingxin Award Committee. This set of books covers the works of seven Bingxin Award-winning writers of different ages including children's literature masters and promising young writers. The illustrations are full of traditional Chinese cultural elements such as dragon lantern dance, paper cutting, oil paper umbrella, and bamboo. Powerful painters at home and abroad are invited to do illustrations, which brings interesting fusion and collision of Chinese and foreign cultures to the books. In addition to the original illustrations, the stories are more touching. Every child can harvest the courage and wisdom for growing up from these stories.   The series consists of 7 picture books: The Dragon Lantern, The Path of Golden Flowers, The Child in Three-Story Attic, The School Day Gifts, The Secret of Crossing, The Slope of Sisters.   The Child in Three-Story Attic tells a story of growing up in the alley of Shanghai of Old China. The protagonist lives in a three-story attic in an old alley from the age of one to twelve. On a typhoon night, the protagonist curled up in the corner of the attic found a copy of The Adventures of Pinocchio and began his writing. Now although the old alley has disappeared, his memory of the attic will never die.

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        September 2012

        Im Herzen der Wildnis

        Roman

        by Sanders, Norah

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        March 2023

        Die Geschichte von Doktor Dolittle

        by Hugh Lofting, Reinhard Michl, Eike Schönfeld

        Der Arzt John Dolittle lebt in dem kleinen Städtchen Puddleby-on-the Marsh, mit den Menschen kommt er nicht gut zurecht. Mit Tieren ist das ganz anders, selbst dem kranken Krokodil kann er helfen. Viele bleiben nach der Behandlung bei dem scheuen Doktor, suchen sich einen Platz im Garten oder im Haus, denn er beherrscht auch noch ihre Sprachen! Seiner griesgrämigen Schwester wird das alles zu viel, sie zieht aus. »Normale« Patienten kämen ohnehin nicht mehr in die Praxis… Als in Afrika eine neue und unheilbare Tierkrankheit ausbricht, beschließen er und seine treuen Freunde, trotz Geldmangels ein Schiff zu chartern und zu dem unbekannten Kontinent aufzubrechen, um den Tieren dort zu helfen! Hugh Loftings Kinderbuchklassiker von 1920 wurde für diese Ausgabe von Eike Schönfeld vollständig neu übersetzt. Und der große Tierzeichner Reinhard Michl hat »Doktor Dolittle« für die Insel-Bücherei kongenial illustriert. Eine prachtvolle Wiederentdeckung!

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        September 2021

        Krautwelten

        by Angelika Overath

        Kraut und Kohl, früher als Notgemüse der Armen verschrien, haben die Keller und Kohlmieten hinter sich gelassen und sind bis in die Hipster-Lofts von London und die Feinschmeckerlokale Berlins aufgestiegen: Federkraut und Pak Choi, Weißkraut, Wirsing und Brokkoli werden heute als »Superfood« gefeiert.Vom Millionen Jahre alten Kerguelenkohl, dem eleganten Filderkraut bis zu den Flower Sprouts der jüngsten Züchtungen führt Angelika Overath durch eine kleine Kulturgeschichte dieser Gemüse-Wohltäter. Sie vergegenwärtigt die legendäre Heilwirkung der Pflanze, die seit der Antike überliefert wird, und erinnert an James Cooks Südsee-Expeditionen, deren Erfolg sich dem Sauerkraut verdankte. Sie verrät erprobte Rezepte gegen Arthrose und zur Gewichtsreduktion, erzählt von persönlichen Krauterlebnissen und widmet sich in liebevollen Porträts der Schönheit und dem besonderen Wesen von Kohlpflanzen.

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        July 2022

        Bücherfresser und Dachbodenspuk

        by Cornelia Funke

        Book Cruncher and Attic Hauntings Loewe WOW – A New Way of Storytelling! • 5 stories narrated by Cornelia Funke (“A magician of words“)• Illustrated in full colour by Daniela Kohl• Innovative 90:10 picture-text ratio• Text in English available In attics there is only old stuff, dust and cobwebs? Far from it: there are Book Crunchers and many more ghosts waiting for the next adventure ... In her popular style of writing, Cornelia Funke leads her readers into a magic land of stories in which little bookworms, attic ghosts and various other heroes live. Imagine the story of Sten, the boy who doesn’t really like to read. On the attic he finds his grandfather’s old books – all dusty, but reminding him of his grandpa – and there is the funny looking little creature that comes out of an old box: a Book Cruncher (a friendly creature that looks like a mixture between a cat and a guinea pig). It is very hungry and starts eating the books right away, and the good thing is: it tells Sten about all the yummy adventure stories and the exiting thrillers it has eaten. Daniela Kohl has illustrated five popular stories by Cornelia Funke in a completely new and modern way - fans and new readers can easily dive in!

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        February 2009

        Unter Freundinnen

        Ein New-York-Roman

        by Laura Shaine Cunningham, Juliane Zaubitzer

        Sechs beste Freundinnen treffen sich in der kältesten Nacht in einem Loft in Downtown, während der "Sturm des Jahrhunderts" über Manhatten hinwegfegt. Die Frauen wollen feiern, denn Claire, sechsunddreißig und Single, ist nun doch noch schwanger geworden. Doch während der australische Rotwein fließt, Handys klingeln und biologische Uhren zurückgestellt werden, kommen Themen auf den Tisch, die keine der Anwesenden unberührt lassen. Die Stimmung kippt. Was fröhlich begann, endet mit Geständnissen und Abrechnungen mit Männern, falschen Freundschaften und verlogenen Lebensentwürfen. Die eine freut sich über einen neuen Liebhaber, die andere verläßt ihren untreuen Ehemann, die dritte beschließt ein Kind zu kriegen. "Six in the City" – beim gemeinsamen Abendessen fliegen Spitzen und Sticheleien über den Tisch. Wer gewinnt – die Romantikerinnen oder die Pragmatikerinnen?

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        May 1999

        Der Briefwechsel. 1964–1983

        by Uwe Johnson, Max Frisch, Eberhard Fahlke, Eberhard Fahlke

        1962lernten sich Max Frisch und Uwe Johnson persönlich in Rom kennen. Der Briefwechsel, der 1964 einsetzt und 1983 mit der Bitte Uwe Johnsons endet, Max Frisch möge ihm für ein halbes Jahr seinen New Yorker Loft vermieten, zeigt auch einen wichtigen Ausschnitt deutscher Literaturgeschichte nach 1945. Max Frisch, der Altere von beiden, war zum Zeitpunkt ihres ersten Treffens bereits ein bekannter und erfolgreicher Autor, Uwe Johnson hatte mit den Mutmassungen über Jakob und dem Dritten Buch über Achim erst zwei, wenngleich hoch gelobte Romane veröffentlicht. Zwischen beiden entstand eine enge Beziehung, die, wie könnte es anders sein, nicht frei war von Auseinandersetzungen, gegenseitiger Fremdheit, aber dann doch immer wieder präziser Vertrautheit. Da sich der Austausch zwischen diesen Autoren nicht nur auf die beidseitig wichtigen Themen bezieht, sondern auch politische Ereignisse, die Werke von Kollegen oder das Wirken des gemeinsamen Verlegers einschließt, werden in diesem höchst aufschlußreichen Briefwechsel Zeitgeschichte und Nuancen des privaten Lebens in hintergründiger Weise gegenwärtig.

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        Children's & YA
        2011

        The Tale of the Old Lion

        by Mariana Savka (Author), Volodymyr Shtanko (Illustrator)

        The old Lion, tired of ruling, settles in glorious Lviv in a beautiful attic with windows overlooking Rynok Square. One day, during the rain, the ceiling of his apartment begins to leak. Someone has to repair it, and the old Lion asks his closest friends, Crocodile, Elephant, and Giraffe, for help. When they arrive in Lviv, amazing things start happening to them. This poetic tale is a true love letter to Lviv, where miracles happen almost every day.    From 3 to 6 years Rightsholders: ivan.fedechko@starlev.com.ua

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        Children's & YA
        2019

        The Book of Horrors: A Collection of Scary Stories

        by Volodymyr Arenev, Mia Marchenko, Larysa Andrievska, Ivanka Kravtsova, Yozha Kotsun, Slava Svitova, Yuriy Nikitinsky, Maria Artemenko. Illustrations by Irena Panarina

        “The Book of Horrors” is a collection of scary stories by modern Ukrainian children’s writers. In the dark dark room, on the black black shelf, there is a scary scary book…. It contains eight thrilling stories about various mystical, sometimes otherworldly and utterly unexpected events and creatures, including children. If you’re not afraid yet, then meet Mia Marchenko’s black tulips (‘The Black Tulips’), Volodymyr Arenev’s inhabitants of the abandoned attic (‘The Wheeled Coffin’), Larysa Andriyevska’s ugly monsters (‘Monsters from under the Child’s Bed’), Ivanka Kravtsova’s bleeding cuckoo bird (‘Cuckoo’), Yozha Kotsun’s beasts (‘The Beasts’), Slava Svitova’s pygmy witch (‘The Pygmy Witch’), Yuriy Nikitinsky’s ghosts (‘Ghost of Olya and the Real boy named Kostyk’) and Maria Artemenko’s philosopher worms (‘This Fairy Tale is not about an Apple’).

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        October 2022

        My Father's Secret

        The BND, my family and I

        by Corinna von Bassewitz

        For a long time, Corinna von Bassewitz believed her father was a soldier, later on that he was a diplomat. Then, at the age of 16, she learnt something unbelievable: he had been a secret agent for the Bundesnachrichtendienst (BND, Germany's Federal Intelligence Service). Once the secret had been at least partly uncovered, she became something of a spy herself and eventually found some confidential documents in her parents' attic. Later, she realised that her father had been living as a double agent for the FRG and the GDR. So what effect does it have on a girl if her father conceals his true identity and eventually disappears without trace? Along with her family history, the author provides multi-layered and exciting insights into the historical context of the Cold War. A very personal book, intriguingly told and emotionally touching.

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        The Path of Golden Flowers

        China Story Picture Books

        by Ge Cuilin

        China Story Picture Books is the first set of children's picture books launched by the Bingxin Award Committee. This set of books covers the works of seven Bingxin Award-winning writers of different ages including children's literature masters and promising young writers. The illustrations are full of traditional Chinese cultural elements such as dragon lantern dance, paper cutting, oil paper umbrella, and bamboo. Powerful painters at home and abroad are invited to do illustrations, which brings interesting fusion and collision of Chinese and foreign cultures to the books. In addition to the original illustrations, the stories are more touching. Every child can harvest the courage and wisdom for growing up from these stories.   The series consists of 7 picture books: The Dragon Lantern, The Path of Golden Flowers, The Child in Three-Story Attic, The School Day Gifts, The Secret of Crossing, The Slope of Sisters.   The Path of Golden Flowers tells a traditional Chinese folk tale about persistence and inheritance. Once upon a time, a skillful carpenter surnamed Tong walked along a dangerous mountain road. He casually scattered some wood shavings, and these shavings took root and then bloomed with golden flowers, formed a path of golden flowers.

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