Rights List Spring 2013

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CHILDREN’S CHILDREN S BOO BO BOOKS KS
Marie-Thérèse Schins
I’m Practicing for Heaven
A SStory
of Life, Friendship and Death
Illustrated Illu by Isabel Pin
ISBN: ISB 978-3-8436-0166-5 | Patmos | Hardback | 136 pages with
b/w drawings
Rainer Buttron/Jo Jung/Ulrich Zehfuss
Aiji, the Little Samurai, and His Search for Where the Sun Sleeps ps
Illustrated by Kaan Karca
ISBN: 978-3-8436-0160-3 | Patmos | Hardback | 160 pages with
b/w drawings
Adventures in World Religion for children ages 8 and up
Aiji, the ten-year-old son of a samurai, lives in thirteenth-century Japan. an.
When his father becomes very ill, Aiji asks the emperor’s personal physician an
for help. He promises to help Aiji’s sick father, but first he sends Aiji off into nto
the world. He must find where the sun sleeps, so that it will always shine on on
the emperor’s garden. In the course of this search, Aiji embarks on an advenenture that takes him across continents, through many cultures and to many y of of
the world’s religions. It is a children’s story that captures their imaginations ons
as it informs them about world religions, and demonstrates a way for everyryone to live together peacefully.
Sensitive Se treatment of the subject of children encountering death
Isha’s Ish parents aren’t called Mama and Papa, but rather Mammamoma and Pappapipo
pap – because they are hospitals clowns at a children’s cancer ward. Isha
would wo like to be a hospital clown when she grows up, too. Sometimes she is allowed
low to come along when her parents perform for the children. That’s how she
meets me Tommy, who has a brain tumor. When her parents are called to the hospi-
tal one day because Tommy isn’t doing well, Isha is suddenly about to make her
first firs appearance. In the process, she not only encounters death for the first time,
she she also learns how powerful friendship is and how beautiful it is not only to
share sha happiness, but also to be able to cry together.
Kerstin Ke Schmale
Four Fo Friends on a Hot Trail
A A FFirst
Communion Mystery
Illustrated Illu by Cornelia Kurtz
ISBN: ISB 978-3-8436-0249-5 | Patmos | Hardback | 112 pages with
b/w drawings
An exciting mystery story, lovingly illustrated
Charlie’s Ch greatest desire is to become an important detective and chief police.
So, So of course, he always keeps his eyes open and notices everything that seems
suspicious. sus When a valuable statue of a saint is stolen from the church right before
for their First Communion, Charlie and his friends Niko and Sofia get involved
in an exciting adventure. And who knows how the whole thing would have
turned tur out if Sofia’s little dog Kiki hadn’t proved to have a great nose for clues!