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“‘Lindbergh. The Tale of a Flying Mouse’ is a splendid debut!” New York Times on Lindbergh

“Perhaps the most visually stunning book of the year ...” Huffington Post on Lindbergh

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“The language of Torben Kuhlmann’s illustrations is ingenious.” – Carsten Matthäus, Süddeutsche Zeitung

Mole Town Only one mole is living there to begin with, deep beneath the green meadow. There is everything in abundance. Very soon more and more moles move to under the meadow. But increasing numbers of moles require an expanding infrastructure. Simple mole-holes become intricate habitations. Underground roads lead hither and thither, railways and elevators whiz up and down. The underworld is teeming with thousands of workers. More and more of the green meadow disappears beneath the rows of molehills until eventually hardly more than a greybrown wilderness remains, overshadowed by the mine head towers, chimneys and electricity pylons of Mole Town. It is the eleventh hour when the moles realise how deserving of protection their meadow really is.

Torben Kuhlmann was born in 1982 in the town of Sulingen in Lower Saxony. He studied illustration and communicationdesign at the Hamburg University of Applied Sciences with a special focus on book illustration. He completed his studies in June 2012 with the submission of his children’s book, “Lindbergh – The Adventurous Tale of a Flying Mouse”. “Mole Town” is Kuhlmann’s second book with NordSud.

3 Torben Kuhlmann Mole Town Hardcover Full-colour illustrations 32 pages, 21,5 × 28 cm Age 5 + Rights sold: UK/ US

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A dystopian tale of a society of moles and the destruction of their underground environment.

Lindbergh Rights sold: AE, BG, CN, CZ, DK, ES, F, FY, I, JP, KR, LT, NL, HU, PL, SE, TW, US/UK

“All Velthuijs’ stories are suffused with a sense of security, and the moral of each story is presented with gentle humour.”

The Monster from Halfway to Nowhere In a small country on the edge of the world everything is peaceful. Until a fire-breathing monster suddenly appears and gobbles up all the fields of crops! Contrary to expectations, however, the creature turns out to be so gentle-natured that even joining the military is out of the question. A clever professor invents a machine that transforms the monster’s fire into electricity – and, suddenly of great use to the citizens of the small country, a deep friendship is forged. When the monster is kidnapped by a band of robbers there is widespread horror. But fortunately the creature knows how to look after itself.

Max Velthuijs’s stories are renowned for their sympathetic characters and their infectious optimism. Each story has a moral which is depicted with gentle humour. In 2004 he won the Hans Christian Andersen Award. Starting with the goodhearted monster, NordSüd Verlag brings his popular picture books back into print.

Forthcoming reissues: The Poor Woodcutter and the Dove The Boy and the Fish The Painter and the Bird Little Man’s Lucky Day Little Man Finds a Home Little Man to the Rescue A Birthday Cake for Little Bear

Max Velthuijs The Monster From Halfway to Nowhere/ The Monster and the Robbers Hardcover Full-colour illustrations 64 pages, 21,5 × 28 cm Age 4 + Rights sold: UK/ US

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“The facial expressions of the badger, whose bad mood is impressively apparent, are beyond compare.”

From Bad(ger) to Worse The day does not get off to good start. Badger experiences one mishap after another. His lamp is knocked over, his favourite cup breaks, and his crayons have vanished. Badger decides to visit his friends. “Silly things” keep happening at home. However things are no rosier for his friends. It really does appear to be a day of accidents. Out of sorts Badger stomps home. And there a great surprise awaits. Each of his friends has contributed to turn the day into a good one after all.

Moritz Petz was born in Hamburg in 1960. After obtaining his school-leaving certificate he did a variety of jobs. Later he returned to complete his education, received his school diploma and went on to study History and German. Moritz Petz is now a freelance writer based by Lake Constance.

Moritz Petz Amélie Jackowski The Day Everything Went Wrong Hardcover Full-colour illustrations 32 pages, 21,5 × 28 cm Age 4 + All rights available

Amélie Jackowski was born in Toulon, France. She studied at the School of Decorative Arts in Strasbourg and at the University of Aix-en-Provence. She works now as a freelance illustrator of numerous children’s books in France and also shows regularly at exhibitions.

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The Bad Mood Rights sold: RM, TW, UK/ US

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Erziehung und Wissenschaft (’Education and Science’) on The Bad Mood

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Celestino Piatti was an artist who liked to be true to the basics. And thus his picture book classic, Animal ABC, beguiles with pure, gleaming colours and concrete forms. From the alligator to the zebra, this is a pleasurable saunter through the animal kingdom for small alphabetarians.

Celstino Piatti was born in 1922 in Wangen, near Zurich. Trained as a graphic artist he gained a high profile as the designer of more than 6,300 book covers for the dtv publishing house (the Deutsche Taschenbuch Verlag in Munich)from 1961 onwards. In addition Piatti designed posters, stamps and ice sculptures and also worked as an author and cartoonist. He received many prizes for his work. In 2007 Piatti died at the age of eightyfive in the region of Basel.

Celestino Piatti The Animal ABC Hardcover Full-colour illustrations 32 pages, 21,5 × 28 cm Age 4 + All rights available

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The Happy Owls Rights sold: CN, F, JP, UK/ US

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“A high concentration of feeling, mastery of craft and imagination were the ingredients of Piatti’s life’s work.” Neue Zürcher Zeitung

“The adorable rabbit will be cherished by small children.”

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Welcome to the World of Pauli Brigitte Weninger Eve Tharlet Will You Mind the Baby, Pauli? Hardcover Full-colour illustrations 32 pages, 21,5 × 25,8 cm Age 4 + Rights sold: CN, F, UK/ US

11 Brigitte Weninger was born in Kufstein, Austria, in 1960. She worked for twenty years as a nursery teacher before devoting herself entirely to writing. She has published more than fifty books, which have been translated into thirty languages and have garnered many prizes. She is also passionately involved with the promotion of reading and writing and the culture of storytelling.

The rabbit family is expecting the patter of tiny feet. Everyone is delighted, but Pauli is a little less enthusiastic. He knows from his friend Edi that babies cry a lot and create a load of work. He would much rather have a pet mouse. But all that changes when the little one is finally there. A humorous story about the joy of having a little brother or sister.

Eve Tharlet was born in France in 1956 and grew up in Germany. She studied at the Academy of Decorative Arts in Strasbourg. A book illustrator since 1981, Eve Tharlet has won many prizes for her work. Thanks to the success of her “Pauli” books she is known to children and adults all over the world.

Also available in this series:

Pauli, Dearest Mommy Rights sold: FI, FR, IT, NL, UK/US

Happy Easter, Pauli! Rights sold: CN, FR, KR, UK/US

Pauli, Soccer Star! Rights sold: US/UK

Merry Christmas, Pauli! Rights sold: CN, FR, US/UK

Get well soon, Pauli Rights sold: CN, FR, VN, UK/US

Anke Wagner Anne-Kathrin Behl Help, It’s a Babysitter! Hardcover Full-colour illustrations 32 pages, 21,5 × 28 cm Age 4 + All rights available

Anke Wagner was born in Mühlheim/Ruhr in 1958 and completed her studies as an educationalist and mediator. In recent years however it has given her great pleasure to concentrate on the writing of children’s books. Her first critics are her two grownup children.

Anne-Kathrin Behl

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born in 1983, studied illustration at the Hamburg University of Applied Sciences. Her first picture book was published when she was still a student. Today Anne Behl draws, writes and lives in Leipzig. Sometimes however she can also be heard singing songs for adults with her cabaret group “teewurst”.

Help, It’s a Babysitter!

12 State of emergency in the nursery: Olli and his teddy Stubb are expecting a babysitter! What will the babysitter be like? Olli and Stubs have never seen one before. The two friends play through a whole variety of scenarios: from a puffed-up peacock to a wicked witch, it could be anyone at all coming through their front door!  But then babysitter Ella arrives and they have a wonderful evening together!

“Wonderfully sensitive and non-patronizing.” Wir Eltern (’We Parents’) on Tim’s Big Move

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Tim’s Big Move Rights sold: CN, DK, SE, FI, UK/ US

A big day for five little ducks. They are extremely excited. What will it be like at school? Fortunately the little ducks soon make new friends, have a lot of fun and time just flies by. A cheering story for those starting school.

Carol Roth was born in New York. After studying educational science she trained nursery teachers for many years. Now her main occupation is the writing of children’s books. Carol Roth has two grown-up children and lives near New York.

Sean Julian

Carol Roth Sean Julian Five Little Ducks Go To School Hardcover Full-colour illustrations 32 pages, 21,5 × 25,8 cm Age 4 + All rights available

was born in Pinxton, Derbyshire. He studied art in Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, and illustration in Bristol. Since graduating Sean Julian has been illustrating children’s books mostly. These allow him to indulge his passion for drawing hairy gorillas, bears and dinosaurs. He also enjoys writing rhyming stories. Sean Julian lives in Bristol.

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Five Litte Ducklings Go to Bed Rights sold: KR

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It’s Off to School We Go!

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Great Animal Stories by Marcus Pfister This beautiful collection of stories will enthuse young animal lovers. Marcus Pfister brings us stories from the animal world and has the major themes of childhood in mind: friendship, courage and being different.

Marcus Pfister The Rainbow Fish – Numbers The Rainbow Fish – Opposites The Rainbow Fish – Colours Hardcover Full-colour illustrations 24 pages, 15,5 × 15,5 cm Age 1 + Rights sold: US/ UK

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was born in Bern in 1960. His 1992 picture book “The Rainbow Fish” introduced one of the most internationally successful of picture book characters. His books have garnered many prizes and have been translated into more than fifty languages. Marcus Pfister and his family live in Bern. In his atelier with its splendid views of the Swiss capital he continues to create new characters and stories.

The Best of Friends

Learn with Rainbow Fish Marcus Pfister The Best of Friends. Great Animal Stories by Marcus Pfister Hardcover Full-colour illustrations 144 pages, 21,5 × 25,8 cm Age 4 + All rights available Content: – Dazzle the Dinosaur – Hoppel Hunts for Spring – How Leo Learned to Be King Again – Holey Moley – The Happy Hedgehog

Little explorers love colours and are curious about numbers and opposites. Marcus Pfister conveys these themes in simple, striking pictures. Learning with the Rainbow Fish is a lot of fun.

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The tortoise challenges the hare to a race. Sure of his victory the hare accepts and leaves the tortoise well behind him after only a few metres. But then he becomes overconfident. Along the way he chats to his friend the fox, stops off for some refreshments and even has forty winks. The tortoise makes his way slowly but steadily towards his target while the hare sleeps away his advantage. That will be a lesson to him.

Bernadette Watts was born in Northampton, England, in 1942. Bernadette Watts studied Illustration and Art at the MaidstoneCollege of Art in Kent. She has worked as a freelance illustrator since 1968 and has translated many fairytales by the Brothers Grimm and Hans-Christian Andersen in her inimitable style for NordSued. Bernadette has one son and lives in Kent.

Bernadette and Aesop The Hare and the Tortoise Hardcover Full-colour illustrations 32 pages, 21,5 × 25,8 cm Age 4 + All rights available

“Sensitive and poetic.” Nina Dübel, Münchner Merkur on Bernadette

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“My what big talent she has!” Kirkus Reviews

“A marvelous offering that begs to be added to everyone’s storytelling repertoire.” School Library Journal on The Three Little Pigs

The Big Book of Bernadette All rights available

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A classic Fable

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Michael Stavari˘c Christine Ebenthal Mathilda Wants to Reach the Stars Hardcover Full-colour illustrations 32 pages, 21,5 × 25,8 cm Age 4 + All rights available

Todd Tarpley Danny Chatzikonstantinou My Grandma’s a Ninja Hardcover Full-colour illustrations 40 pages, 21,5 × 28 cm Age: 4+ All rights available

Todd Tarpley was born in Brünn, Austria, in 1972. His work comprises novels, short stories and children’s books. He lives and writes in Vienna. He has won the Austrian State Prize for Children’s and Young Adults’ Literature several times. In April 2013 he won the Luchs Prize for Gloria nach Adam Riese.

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was born in 1985 and grew up in Lower Austria. She studied at the University of Art and Design in Linz and at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna. She has made a name for herself since as a photographer, has won prizes and her work has been in exhibitions in Austria and abroad.

is a former ninja who still enjoys covering himself in mud and leaves. He is the author of several picture books including “Ten Tiny Toes” with Marc Brown. He lives with his relatively normal family in New York City.

Danny Chatzikonstantinou was born in 1973. He illustrates children’s books and sometimes writes the words, too. He learned his craft by drawing on napkins at first. Later on, he moved to sketch pads and notebooks. Now he has a full set of sharpened pencils and tons of blank drawing paper that he never uses because he moved back to napkins again. Danny is a self-taught artist who lives and works in Athens, Greece.

Mathilda’s Dreams

My Grandma’s a Ninja

Little pig Mathilda would love to know what the stars taste like. And so she decides she will fly to the stars herself. Mathilda will do whatever it takes to achieve her goal. Using a trampoline she jumps high, but not high enough unfortunately. Nor can the helpful eagle really assist her. It is only when Bruno the Boar turns up that Mathilda’s wish almost comes true, though not quite as she had imagined.

Ethan is the hit of the school when the kids meet his grandma. She drops from the ceiling at show and tell, teaches the kids karate moves, and how to do back flips in slow motion. But when his grandma deflates the soccer team’s ball, everyone is upset – including Ethan. Why can’t he just have a regular grandma? But when Ethan tries out his new karate move during the championship game … he’s happy that his grandma isn’t ordinary.

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The sun is shining and the meadows are green. Time for Boris and his friends to have adventures galore! They go flying and sailing and sing, and they even know how to handle the wild Spring storms. The Boris the Cat books contain individual illustrated stories that will bring a smile to the faces of readers, young and old. Moser brings a marvellous blend of artistic talent and delightful linguistic wit. He has created many engaging characters in the course of his extensive work. His Boris the Cat series is appearing for the first time in book form.

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Feline Fun Erwin Moser Boris the Tomcat – The Pumpkin Boris the Tomcat – The Sofa Hardcover Full-colour illustrations 64 pages, 16,5 x 23,2 cm Age 4 + Rights sold: CN

Erwin Moser was born in Vienna in 1954 and grew up in the easternmost province of Austria, Burgenland. He trained as a typesetter. Dissatisfied with the children’s and young people’s books available, he started to write and illustrate his own in the late 1970s. Since 1980 he has published over 100 books, gift-books, calendars and collections of stories for which he has received a variety of prizes.

Series consists of 8 titles Rights sold: CN, HU

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“‘Lindbergh. The Tale of a Flying Mouse’ is a splendid debut!” New York Times on Lindbergh

“Perhaps the most visually stunning book of the year ...” Huffington Post on Lindbergh

“The language of Torben Kuhlmann’s illustrations is ingenious.” – Carsten Matthäus, Süddeutsche Zeitung

Mole Town Only one mole is living there to begin with, deep beneath the green meadow. There is everything in abundance. Very soon more and more moles move to under the meadow. But increasing numbers of moles require an expanding infrastructure. Simple mole-holes become intricate habitations. Underground roads lead hither and thither, railways and elevators whiz up and down. The underworld is teeming with thousands of workers. More and more of the green meadow disappears beneath the rows of molehills until eventually hardly more than a greybrown wilderness remains, overshadowed by the mine head towers, chimneys and electricity pylons of Mole Town. It is the eleventh hour when the moles realise how deserving of protection their meadow really is. A dystopian tale of a society of moles and the destruction of their underground environment.

Torben Kuhlmann was born in 1982 in the town of Sulingen in Lower Saxony. He studied illustration and communicationdesign at the Hamburg University of Applied Sciences with a special focus on book illustration. He completed his studies in June 2012 with the submission of his children’s book, “Lindbergh – The Adventurous Tale of a Flying Mouse”. “Mole Town” is Kuhlmann’s second book with NordSud.

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NordSüd Verlag – The publisher with strong characters

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FOREIGN RIGHTS GUIDE SPRING 2015