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Happy Birthday, schøne agentur!

Three years ago I sat at a kitchen table in a one-room apartment in Leipzig and started the computer, for the first time as schøne agentur. What an adventure that awaited me! I have been met with incredible warmth and enthusiasm and am very grateful for all you avid readers in the North. Thank you…

Published in Denmark and Sweden: WASTE by Gerda Raidt

Gerda Raidt’s non-fiction book for readers from the age of 7 – WASTE. EVERYTHING ABOUT THE MOST BOTHERSOME THING IN THE WORLD (Beltz & Gelberg) was just published in Sweden and Denmark by ABC Forlag. Norwegian, Finnish and Icelandic rights are still available! Waste. Everything about the most bothersome thing in the world Open up…

Sold to Norway and Sweden !

The following is an absolute non-fiction highlight for children. THE LOVE LIFE OF ANIMALS (Klett Kinderbuch) by Katharina von der Gathen and Anke Kuhl was published by Alfabeta in Sweden and just now sold to Norway (Solum Bokvennen)! other rights sold to English language, Spain (cast., cat.), Italy, Poland, Estonia, The Netherlands, PR China, Romania, Korea,…

Sold to Sweden, Denmark, Finland and Norway !

Keep an eye on this author+illustrator dream team: The books of Katharina von der Gathen illustrated by Anke Kuhl have seen an amazing success and have been sold to twelve languages, by now including Norwegian, Danish and Swedish ! rights sold: English language, Spain (cast., cat.), Latvia, Taiwan, Korea, The Netherlands, Slovenia, Serbia, Poland, Sweden,…

nominated: Halina Kirschner for Best New Illustrator 2019

Among the three nominees for the German Children’s Books Award 2019 in the category „Best Young Talent“ You will find Halina Kirschner who is the amazingly talented illustrator of the children’s book „TRACTOR IS COMING, TOO“ (mairisch, 2018) and “ a genius when it comes to screen-print-optic.“ The book was already awarded as one of…

nominated! the nominees for the GERMAN CHILDREN’S LITERATURE AWARD 2019 are out

Don’t miss the following which come highly recommended: Nominated for the GERMAN CHILDREN’S LITERATURE AWARD in the category for new exciting illustrators: Halina Kirschner with the book „Tractor is coming, too“ (mairisch). „Tractor“ was already awarded last year as one of Germany’s Most Beautiful Children’s Books of 2018. Rights sold to UK & Ireland (Little…

Bologna Book Fair 2019

Soon the Bologna Book Fair for Children’s Books will open its doors. Here are the rights catalogues from Germany not to be missed this season: https://www.hanser-literaturverlage.de/files/frs_bologna_19.pdf https://www.dtv.de/_files_media/downloads/foreign-rights-guide-children-spring-2019-1164.pdf https://www.dtv.de/_files_media/downloads/foreign-rights-guide-klett-kinderbuch-spring-2019-1165.pdf https://www.luebbe.com/web/downloads/module/download/2113284/Rights_Guide_Spring-Summer_2019.pdf https://www.beltz.de/fileadmin/beltz/downloads/vorschau/ForeignRights2019-01.pdf

Sold to Iceland and Denmark !

Also the 2nd volume of THE AMAZING AND ASTONISHING ADVENTURES OF MAULINA SCHMITT by Finn-Ole Heinrich, illustraded by Rán Flygenring will be published in Iceland by Angustura! The series has so far been translated into 10 languages! Rights sold to France (Thierry Magnier); Spain (Edebé), Netherlands (Lannoo); Denmark (Turbine); Turkey (Tudem); Korea (LIME); Russia (Samokat); Ukraine…

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