Just a tiny flea with great courage

There must be more to life than working, drinking, and sleeping, thinks Hannibal, the admired star of the flea circus. And before you can blink twice, he jumps to freedom. But in the real world, he's nothing more than a pest who has to be ...

Just imagine … You are a sheep, and life is going well for you. You live among other sheep on a lovely meadow. You have enough to eat, and there's no reason for you to ever feel scared. Everything is good.

Then one day, a strange sheep arrives from across the sea. It is in great need. If ...

How do farm animals really live?

The lives of farm animals no longer look anything like what is depicted in most picture books. Laughing piglets and joyously frolicking cows on green meadows? Not quite. It is high time for children to have an honest fact book about this very ...

Kalter Hund cakes and prefab buildings over here, gum and townhouses over there

Max and Maya are cousins. They like each other. They enjoy playing cowboys and Indians, and eating vanilla ice cream. They could do so many things together, but the border between East and ...

Do animals go through puberty, too?

You might think that Explain It to Me had already covered everything on this subject,but some things were missing: the elementary school children with whom Katharina von der Gathen works keep throwing new question slips into the ...

The popular Wild Little Ones are now big schoolchildren, but they haven't lost an ounce of their humour and inventiveness - they're as funny and full of ideas as ever!

When Frau Schrock announces a sports festival for Class 1c, Richard immediately imagines himself holding the ...

Children are curious by nature. And because they haven't yet grasped many everyday phenomena, they're always asking "What's he doing? " or "What's she up to?" The characters in this book are people you meet everywhere: a pregnant woman, a road ...

How time flies! For some of the Wild Little Ones the time has come to say goodbye to the group after all the wonderful years of kindergarten chaos. But first it's time for one last party - complete with a picnic on the edge of the forest and a sleepover at the kindergarten!

The high art of bad manners -breaking the rules of good conduct

What sense is there in all those dull and dreary rituals of behaviour and manners that kids are supposed to follow these days? None whatsoever!

Behave Yourself - Not! brings a ...

The Wild Little Ones are very excited: their teacher Frau Koslowski is getting married! And because all the children were present when she fell in love, it goes without saying that the wedding wouldn't be complete without them.

To get in the swing of things, they stage a wedding ...

Who's large and blue and always gentle

And does good things, quite accidental?

Well, who is it then? After all, every child already knows what they produce: a huge heap. But unlike many small children, the Poopophant is allowed to put his productions to good use ...

Frau Köhler breaks her ankle at the nursery. While the wild little ones look on critically, she receives first aid from the paramedics and then is taken off to hospital in an ambulance, complete with wailing