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BORN FROM THE HEART
by Berta Serrano
Illustrations: Alfonso Serrano
age: 4+
Sterling
New York, 2014
40 pages
Sold to Spain!
Every child is born from the heart—whether or not
the mother gave birth to that baby.
This poetic and magical parable celebrates the
richness of family as Rose and Charlie embark on
the search for the child they so desperately
want.
As Rose's dream gets closer to coming true,
her heart grows and grows…
until it
bursts with happiness,
laughter,
and wonder when she finally
kisses the
beautiful face of her new
baby.
First time author
Berta Serrano and her
brother Alfonso Serrano
are the author-illustrator
team behind this warm and
quirky love letter for
Berta's adopted son.

A LITTLE DARKNESS
age: 4+
by Cristina Petit
Il Castoro
Milano, 2014
32 pages
An essential, tiny but powerful story to
make children acquainted with the
darkness.
With simple and neat illustrations Cristina Petit
- in Italy a very famous blogger and teacher -
copes with the children’s biggest fear.
Are those big scary red lights the eyes of a wolf
that maybe wants to eat me? Are those flickering
yellow lights the teeth of a tiger?
It’s just a little darkness for me / And I am
brave, I can see what it is! That’s what Talla
tells to herself, in her little journey across
her home at night.
And she’s right, because there are no scary
creatures in the various rooms - just the lights
of some very common domestic appliances: the TV
screen, the stereo, the washing machine... and in
the end, there is even mummy’s reading light!

OSMAN THE FISHERMAN
Text & illustrations by Anne Hofmann
age: 4+
Rights sold to Italy
Winner | Troisdorf Illustrated Book Prize
Aladin
Hamburg, 2013
32 pages
No matter where Osman is fishing.
In the water, on roof tops, during trips through
town.
He’s catching everything but fish.

SERIES:FANTASTIC FAIRIES age: 5+
By Silvia Roncaglia
Illustrations: Sara Not
Children today are more savvy and ironic, used to
the new narrative rhythms and a more modern
language: even fairies can change and break out of
their old stereotypes.
The series Fantastic Fairies offers a new magical
universe where even the old Council of Fairies has
been modernized.
Their organization looks a bit like a business
management team, with a President, a Big
Government Office and a secretary who uses fairy
sphere-PCs: computers that have replaced the old
magic crystal balls.
In short, the spell of magic, mystery potions and
the charm of a magic wands remains, but these new
fairies are the funnier, more ironic and, above
all, more modern than ever before.
Emme Edizioni
Trieste, 2014
56 pages

From Owl Diaries

OWL DIARIES #1
EVA'S TREETOP FESTIVAL
Text & illustraions by Rebecca Elliott
age: 5+
Scholastic
New York, 2015
80 pages
An adorable early chapter book series
for young girls who love friendship
stories starring animal characters!
Eva Wingddale gets in over her head when she
decides to creare a Bloomtastic Festival at
school.
Even with her best friend Lucy's help, there's no
way she will get everything done in time.
Will Eva have to ask Sue (a.k.a. Meanie Meanerson)
for help?
Or will the festival have to be cancelled?
BRANCHES is Scholastic's early chapter book line,
which is aimed at newly independent readers.
With easy-to-read text, high-interest content,
fast-paced plots, and illustrations on every
page, these books will boost reading confidence
and stamina.
BRANCHES books help readers grow!
DRAGON MASTERS #1
RISE OF THE EARTH DRAGON
by Tracey West
age: 6+
Scholastic
New York, 2014
96 pages
DRAGON MASTERS has it all! Dragons, a
Dragon Stone, a king, a wizard, and
magic!
In the first book in this fully-illustrated series,
8-year old Drake is snatched up by King Roland's
soldiers to be trained as a Dragon Master.
At the castle, he is joined by three other young
Dragon Masters-in-training: Ana, Rori, and Bo.
The Dragon Masters must learn how to connect with
and train their dragons—and they must also uncover
their dragons' special powers.
Does Drake have what it takes to be a Dragon
Master?

THE UNFORTUNATE BUSINESS
OF RICHARD CLUMSY HEART
By Pierodomenico Baccalario
& Alessandra Gatti
Illustrations: Andrea Castallani
age: 7+
A mix of text and cartoon – a highly
successful combination!
5 titles available, more will come.
Slacker by vocation, a knight by mistake, the
brave Richard travels far and wide throughout the
county, riding the giant and unruly horse Titan.
Followed by his faithful squire Rosebush, quick to
run away and sit at the table. Richard goes from
one task to another, between unpardonable blunders
and memorable disasters.
Always managing (who knows how) to come out
unscathed, ready for a glorious new adventure!
Edizion EL
Trieste, 2014
128 pages

SERIES:DINOSAUR MINUS age: 6+
Text & illustrations
By Ute Krause
Amusing story with a couple of absolutely
adorable heroes
For all children wishing for a pet
For reading aloud and for reading on your own
cbj | Random House
München, 2014
80 pages
Dinosaur Minus would so love to have a pet. He'd
even be happy with a prehistoric fish!
However his parents don't believe he is
responsible enough to take care of a pet.
"I'll prove it to you both!" yells Minus and has a
plan of action: He makes a poster advertising pet
care.
Very soon there are customers lining up at the
door.
T. Rex has to be bathed; triceratops "Topsy" has
to be taken for a walk; and stegosaurus needs his
claws trimmed.
After the boisterous pets have all left again and
he has tidied up the havoc left behind, worn out
Minus collapses into bed.
For the time being he's had his fill concerning
pets! But then his parents appear with a surprise
for him…

THE YETI FILES
age: 7+
#1 Meet the Bigfeet
by Kevin Sherry
Scholastic
New York, 2014
128 pages
Kevin Sherry’s series is
’s next
CAPTAIN UNDERPANTS!
Kevin Sherry is a picture-book talent who's making
his chapter-book debut.
Kevin Sherry has got boundless creativity, is a
tireless promoter, and this topic is particularly
dear to him.
Kevin Sherry will have you believing in Yeti and
Bigfoot by the time you're through reading this
book!
2 book series with the possibility for more!
From the artist’s sketch-book

THE SCHOOL
OF MAGICAL ANIMALS
Text: Margit Auer
Illustrations: Nina Dulleck
age: 8+
So far more than 120.000 copies sold
4 titles available, more will come
Sold to Greece and Turkey
A new series for boys and girls about talking
to animals like your best friends!
Every child dreams of having a talking
animal. But who will be lucky enough to get
one today?
They’ll be by your side through the most
daring of adventures – the kind of friend you
could only wish for.
Carlsen
Hamburg, 2013/2014
224 pages

Gianni Rodari one of the 20 th century’s greatest authors for children
TWICE UPON A TIME THERE
WAS BARON LAMBERTO
Illustrations by Bruno Munari
Edizioni EL | Trieste | 112 pages
Rights sold: English (worldwide), Castilian, Catalan, French, Chinese,
Turkish, Japanese
Old Baron Lamberto is very rich and ill. He lives with his butler in
a villa on the island of San Giulio. He has to reckon with his avid
nephew, with terrible bandits and with a crowd of
people that keep repeating his name.
age: 11+
Free
for
Brazil &
Portugal
MR. CAT’S BUSINESS age: 8+
Illustrations by Elena Temporin
Edizioni EL | Trieste | 72 pages
Rights sold: Castilian, Galician, Valencian, French, Chinese, Russian
A collection of stories and rhymes about cats. The main story is
about Mr. Cat who wants to become rich. After many ideas he
decides to set up in business with the tin’s mouse
beef production. No easy job to convince mice to go into
business with the cat!
Free
for
Brazil &
Portugal
THE GHOST GONDOLA
Illustrations by Adriano Gon
Edizioni EL | Trieste | 112 pages
Rights sold: Castilian, Galician, Valencian, French, Chinese, Russian
A collection of stories and rhymes about cats. The main story is
about Mr. Cat who wants to become rich. After many ideas he
decides to set up in business with the tin’s mouse
beef production. No easy job to convince mice to go into
business with the cat!
age: 9+
Free
for
Brazil &
Portugal

Gianni Rodari one of the 20 th century’s greatest authors for children
TYPEWRITTEN STORIES
age: 11+
Illustrations by Valerio Vidali
Edizioni EL | Trieste | 240 pages
Rights sold: Castilian, Catalan, Greek, Japanese, Hungarian, Chinese,
German
A masterpiece by the great Gianni Rodari, who winds his way
through the vices and virtues of our current way of living.
Weird characters and funny unexpected situations.
Free
for
Brazil &
Portugal
TALES ON THE PHONE age: 6+
Illustrations by Bruno Munari
Edizioni EL | Trieste | 176 pages
Rights sold: German, Castilian, Catalan, Basque, Galician, Japanese,
Portuguese (Brazil), Greek, Korean, Bulgarian, French, Chinese, Hebrew,
Bosnian, Polish, Turkish, Czech, Russian, Estonian
Every night, at nine o’clock, wherever he is, Mr. Bianchi, an
accountant in a company, rings his daughter up and tells her a
story. There are seventy short stories, one for each phone call.
A wonderful mix of reality and vivid fantasy.
Free
for
Portugal
A PIE IN THE SKY age: 9+
Illustrations by Bruno Munari
Edizioni EL | Trieste | 128 pages
Rights sold: French, Castilian, Catalan, Albanian, Chinese, Turkish,
Portuguese (Brazil), Vietnamese, Russian, Ukrainian, Hungarian
Castilian, Galician, Valencian, French, Chinese, Russian
A little town is deranged by a mysterious ‘flying saucer’.
Adults think of an alien invasion and are ready to call in the
army, scientists and researchers. But two children don’t believe
it is an alien invasion and the facts prove them right.
Free
for
Portugal
ONE & SEVEN age: 9+
Illustrations by Vittoria Facchini
Edizioni EL | Trieste | 32 pages
Rights sold: Castilian, Portuguese (Brazil), Greek
This is the story of a child who really is 7 children.
Each child lives in a different part of the world with
different fathers... Gianni Rodari was the first writer to
tell children about such an important issue as peace.
His message is as crisp and modern as ever.
Free for Portugal

THE ISLAND
OF NIGHTMARES
by Bob Konrad
Illustrations: Artur Bodenstein
age: 9+
Recommended by
Arena Verlag
Würzburg, 2014
200 pages
A debut that turns any child’s room into an adventure
zone! An incredibly exciting and hilariously funny journey
into the land of nightmares.
A strange city constructed like a maze, neither built by
humans nor built for human residents, a boiling abyss and
a girl with glass marble eyes – what a nightmare!
Unfortunately, it comes true for Rocky when he lands on
the Island of Nightmares one night.
There he runs into weird guys with small horns on their
heads, bears ready to attack and nightmarish creatures
with hundreds of eyes.
To make things worse: He will have to overcome his
greatest fear to get away from there!

BOMBAY BLUES
age: 13+
by Tanuja Desai Hidier
fictious cover
The long-anticipated sequel to Tanuja
Desai Hidier's groundbreaking BORN CONFUSED!
Scholastic
New York, 2014
320 pages
In BORN CONFUSED, Indian-American just-turned-seventeenyear-old
Dimple Rohitbhai Lala found love, friendship,
art--and home--where she least expected it.
But a lot's gone on in the years that have followed. And
what happens if what you thought you wanted wasn't what
you wanted after all?
As she learns during adventures that take her from India
to New York to London and back, with a little luck and a
lot of vision, the journey home might prove just as
magical as what you left behind to make it.
Over
110.000 copies sold
Foreign rights to:
Italy, Germany, Sweden,
Finland, Norway, Japan

THE DARK KISS
OF THE STARS
by Nina Blazon
age: 13+
cbt | Random House
München, 2014
420 pages
Romantic!
Sinister!
Gripping!
Eerie!
Canda, a young woman belonging to the highest
caste in Ghan, wakes up from a terrible nightmare
and can no longer recognize herself in the
mirror.
It is certainly her face that is looking at her,
but something is missing. The sparkle she used to
charm everyone with is missing. And Tian, her
financé, has disappeared without trace…
Her own family casts her out and has her locked
up. But Canda manages to escape – only to meet up
with Mégana, the ruler of the country, who
suggests an amazing deal. But the price Canda has
to pay for this is high and her search leads
along unexpected paths…

ROAD TO NOWHERE
age: 14+
by Marian De Smet
A story about grief, friendship, love and sorrow
Sold to Germany, France and Denmark
Awards
Winner ‘Gouden Lijst 2013’
Honorable mention at ‘Woutertje Pieterse Prijs’
Selected title Young Jury 2014
Nominated for ‘Boekenleeuw 2013’
Nominated for the Flemish Children and Youth Jury 2014
Uitgeverij Moon
Amsterdam, 2012
224 pages
Eppo is taking a trip. Hitchhiking to France he is picked up by
Tabby, who has her own reasons for leaving home.
Tabby talks nineteen to the dozen; Eppo is an introvert. Through
his eyes we join them on their journey, which has more to do with
what lies behind them than with where they are going.
In flashbacks we gradually learn more about Eppo’s motives: he is
fleeing his sorrow at losing his foster brother, who meant more
to him than a brother. Marian De Smet uses a poetic, pared-down
style, with never a word too many. The two damaged souls,
apparent opposites, reveal their stories only very gradually.
De Smet presents a powerfully developed psychological novel with
characters that stay with the reader long afterwards.
The Flemish Literature Fund grants translation aid

THE UNDERGROUND SUN
age: 15+
by Friedrich Ani
Winner of the German Crime Prize
Winner of the Adolf Grimme Prize
Winner of the Bavarian TV Prize
cbt | Random House
München, 2014
336 pages
A book about violence, humanity and the endless
power of remembering
An island. A house. A basement. Five teenagers
who are being kept there by force. No daylight.
And each day, one of them is taken upstairs.
But nobody speaks about what is happening there.
For anyone who does, they are told, will die.
Their position seems hopeless.
Fear, anger, pain, desperation and longing almost
make the young people go insane. Yet nothing can
save them from the terrible things that are going
on.
Until a new boy joins them who is not prepared to
accept the violence.

PAN – THE SECRET
LEGACY OF PAN
by Sandra Regnier
All age
Funny, imaginative, great dialogues
First published in e-book:
30.000 copies sold in only 2 months
10.000 copies sold in print edition
Carlsen
Hamburg, 2014
416 pages
Felicity Morgan is not exactly what the world of the Elves
would have imagined, according to their predicted savior.
She is eighteen, still wears braces, has no fashion sense
for clothes and never seems to get enough sleep.
Leander FitzMor is the new novelty act at Felicity's
school and is possibly by far the best-looking guy in
London. He is always quick to comment in any situation and
Felicity also thinks he is intelligent. Thank God, as she
doesn't fall for arrogant womanizers.
However, Leander is always surrounded by the strange yet
attractive scent of hay and moss and he looks at her
sometimes, as if he could read her mind. But the worst
part of it all is that he just does not want to leave her
side.

THE ISLAND
by Manuela Martini
age: all
1 st volume of a two-book thriller series
2 nd volume follows in Autumn 2014
Arena Verlag
Würzburg, 2014
400 pages
A paradisiacal island that holds a disturbing
secret, a gripping yet confusing game that
centers around an unsuspecting young woman and an
unscrupulous cult leader who turns out to be a
master of manipulation.
Manuela Martini knows better than any other
writer how to combine exotic settings with
gripping thriller plots.
A breathtaking read that doesn’t lose its
suspense even for a second, surprising its
readers with a touch of eerie mystery.
Welcome to The Island!

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