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Mr Pocketbeer wants to go for a posh meal with the Sat. But instead of behaving beautifully, the Sat gobbles up the menu and starts arguing with the waiter. In no time at all, the pair are back on the doorstep. But when they get to the nearest hot-dog stand, they hit on a brilliant idea that will let them enjoy fancy society food after all.
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Finn and his friends have only just solved the mystery of the book of strange wishes and already the adventure continues. The friends decide to write their own book of strange wishes over the holidays. But they are only just beginning to solve the problems when their book is stolen! And worse than that: none of them knows caretaker Shripp’s 13th wish. But the friends are determined not to give up and immediately go after the thieves’.
The long-awaited sequel to book 1. An imaginative story of adventure and friendship: heart-warming and full of unexpected twists and turns.
"In The Book of Strange Wishes, Angie Westhoff presents us with a highly complex and exciting reading adventure that is simply bubbling with imagination and has readers on the edge of their seats right to the last page.
Die Rheinpfalz, 18.11.2011
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The second adventure for Rosalie, the headstrong little fairy from Barbara Rose’s "The Fairy School"
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“These summer holidays will be the same as always,” 12-year-old Flint thinks to himself. But he couldn’t be more wrong. Because the very next day, Mr Shripp, the caretaker, asks Flint, crazy Charlotte, her maths-obsessed cousin, Ben, and pretty Jette to track down an old friend of his. When they eventually find the missing friend, he gives them a mysterious book: The Book of Curious Wishes. And that is when an unexpected and exciting adventure begins to unfold…
"In The Book of Strange Wishes, Angie Westhoff presents us with a highly complex and exciting reading adventure that is simply bubbling with imagination and has readers on the edge of their seats right to the last page."
Die Rheinpfalz, 18.11.2011
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When Christmas comes to Elf Wood, the elves have an awful lot of work to do. One after the other they disappear into the hollow beneath the old oak tree, weighed down with baskets and sacks because down there, deep inside the earth, is where the Christmas elves keep their wish machine, the one that makes all the presents for human children. Only this year the machine isn’t working all of a sudden! Will Turin, the young elf, and his friend Pirmin, the squirrel, manage to repair it?
A warm-hearted, affectionately told elfin adventure that makes ideal reading in the run-up to Christmas. With illustrations brimming with details for the children to find.
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"I bet you won’t manage to go for a week without telling anything but the truth!" Cooper says to Philippa. And Cooper normally doesn’t say a word – but now, in the pitch-dark cellar they both happen to be locked up inside, he does. And while everyone in their class suddenly thinks Cooper is silently cool, Philippa makes herself more and more unpopular by telling nothing but the truth. But then Cooper has an idea that will help Philippa out.
A light-hearted everyday story, bright and amusing, but sensitively told. A really enjoyable read that deals with the subject of inclusion “along the way”, too.
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At the start of every school year, the fairy school holds its fairy post party: Rosalie, Nikki and all the others in Year One learn about their future task of emptying the fairy letterbox and at the same time how to find out which of the many children’s wishes they find in the letterbox are truly matters of the heart.
The read-aloud reading starters from Oetinger have been created especially for preschoolers. Great stories by well-known authors serve as a motivation to learn to read. The books, with their many pictures, games and puzzles, are based on the concept of dialogic reading, and therefore primarily promote reading comprehension. | 5 +
The popular bestseller character in a delightful episode that’s new for beginning readers and comes with a host of colour illustrations by the Sat’s creator!
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Sophie is really lucky – she’s got two guinea pigs! But then it turns out that she also has an allergy to the animals and needs to find a new home for them. Jan and Julia are allowed to keep them for a trial four weeks, and the two children have loads of fun looking after Molli and Polli and playing with them. Will their parents also learn to love the guinea pigs and will they be allowed to move in with Jan and Julia for good?
Book 8 in the popular series of Oetinger picture book classics with a fresh, new look and updated texts!
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How come Oscar has two mummies, Tilly wonders. Her big sister, Frieda, explains that Oscar’s mummies badly wanted a baby but couldn’t make their wish come true. Then they met Tilly’s and Frieda’s parents and Frieda’s and Tilly’s daddy donated some sperm to Oscar’s mummies. That’s how Oscar came to be born and a great wish turned into an even greater miracle.
Two Mummies for Oscar deals with the topical subject of “rainbow families”: vivid, descriptive and written in child-appropriate language, the book makes it easy for parents and teachers to talk about diversity to children of three and over.
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Mr Pocketbeer doesn’t believe the Sat can make any wish come true for him and loses a wish dot every time! That’s why he decides to make a wish for something completely impossible: he asks for snow! And before he knows it, he and the Sat are knee-deep in a freezing snowstorm in their flat. And if that weren’t enough – here come a polar bear and their nosy landlady, Mrs Redcabbage. How on earth is Mr Pocketbeer going to explain all this?
The second Sat adventure revised for beginning readers and with lots of new illustrations by the author!
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The latest from Clara, Leo, Mrs Owl and Gustaf, the rhyming tomcat: Clara is worried about Leo, who urgently needs to get good marks in a German test if he isn’t to repeat a school year. But then the project week looks like it could be cancelled. Luckily, Mrs Owl leaps into the breach as teacher. She moves the class into her magical bookshop of wishes and at the same time helps to restore the school library to former splendour. Now that’s what makes school fun!
School, an ever-popular topic, conjures up magical sales figures
Brightly coloured and delicately drawn: fans love Florentine Prechtel’s illustrations
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A dream of a book: magical reading for young book fans! With stories about best friends, talking cats and the most wonderful place in the world, with warm-hearted illustrations by Florentine Prechtel.
"A lovely mixture of friends and family and more than a touch of magic." - Kirkus Review
"...a feel-good reading mix that whets the appetite for more.” - Stiftung Lesen | 8 +
The second novel all about enchanted books and mysterious places: with humorous and heart-warming two-colour illustrations!
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The fourth book about Mrs Owl’s magical bookshop: a magical, warm-hearted adventure for young book lovers!
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Book 3 in the series THE MAGICAL BOOKSHOP OF WISHES is the perfect birthday present for girls of 8 and over who love books!
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Mrs Owl’s magical bookshop of wishes is looking very Christmassy. Gustaf, the talking cat, has a wonderful time at the Christmas market; Clara’s best friend, Lena, comes on a visit; and everyone is really looking forward to Christmas Eve. But then Clara finds out that Mrs Owl is planning to spend the best time of the year all alone. Of course, Clara cannot allow that! Along with all of the city’s book lovers, she gives Mrs Owl a wonderful Christmas surprise!
The magical bookshop of wishes – Christmas with Mrs Owl by Katja Fixe speeds up the time till Christmas.
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"...a feel-good mixture of a read that leaves you wanting more.” – www.stiftunglesen.de, September 2017
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Anton, 9 years old, corrector of fairy tales and narrator of this amusing family story doesn’t have an easy time of it. Luckily for him, Dilip joins his family as his adoptive brother. Dilip comes from India and he’s already a brilliant physicist – well not quite yet. But at least he doesn’t have a chance of a career in football, either. But it takes a big bang for Anton’s family to finally settle into place.
A wonderful family story: warm-hearted, funny and a little bit crazy, too!
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It’s your daddy’s turn to cook so he hasn’t got time to play …
Grandad lands on the roof of your house in a helicopter …
And what do you do now? Children often have the most incredible ideas. This exceptional picture book stimulates their imagination and provides 14 possible and impossible situations with more than 50 illustrated answers to the question: “And what do you do now?” The children can talk about the different possibilities, visualise the situation and elaborate on it, make and reject decisions or simply laugh themselves silly over all the different alternatives.
A picture book for reading aloud, taking part, reflecting on and laughing your head off over. It encourages creative thinking, is great fun, and also nice and big, so everyone can have a good look at the same time.
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- Book 2 in the glittering series about Vega, Stella and cherished wishes
- Colourful, fanciful illustrations by Erica-Jane Waters | 8 +
Ten-year-old Stella lives above an old costume rental shop with her father, her brother, her grandpa and her dog, Jupiter. After witnessing a glorious shower of shooting stars, Stella meets a strange girl in the garden in the middle of the night. Although Vega is a little odd, she and Stella quickly become friends. But Vega claims to be a shooting star. Can that really be true? And can Vega also make wishes come true? For Stella’s family have plenty of wishes!
Author Katja Frixe and illustrator Erica-Jane Waters take their readers on an enchanting journey. A book for children of 8 and over, full of humour, magic and friendship.
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The Sat gives Mr Pocketbeer a very precious present for his birthday: a very last wish dot. But what does Mr Pocketbeer go and do with it? He makes a wish for the wrong thing, of course - namely, a Sat for his pesky neighbour, Mrs Redcabbage. And straight away, there’s a second Sat sitting at their dining table! It is scarily well behaved, but it poses a huge challenge for the Pocketbeer Sat!
At last: a Sat read-aloud book by Paul Maar, written especially for younger children! Perfect preparation for the iconic Sat books and super for reading aloud!
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Always Saturdays! One Saturday, a peculiar creature turns up seemingly out of nowhere at Mr Pocketbeer’s. The creature has red hair, a big round tummy and blue dots on his face: it’s the Sat. He’s loud and cheeky, and he sings and talks in rhymes from morn till night. Now, these are all things Mr Pocketbeer normally doesn’t like, but still the two end up having a whole week filled with fun together.
Delightful, mischievous and with rich scenes newly illustrated by Nina Dulleck: the children’s classic from Paul Maar!
A top seller for generations now: 4.7 million Sat volumes sold
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A brand-new Sat story, illustrated by acclaimed author Paul Maar.
The Sat isn't allowed to do anything! So it spends its days being bored while Mr Taschenbier is at work. Through the window, it spies a couple of children clambering aboard a dragon. The Sat wishes it could do the same. As the dragon shop is shut, though, the Sat decides just this once to use the forbidden Wish Machine. Lo and behold: a little dragon appears before him! An entertaining game of hide and seek ensues, because Mrs Rotkohl must, needless to say, not discover what's going on. However, there's no way to hide the fact that everyone is so happy all of a sudden. For the Sat managed to conjure up a Chinese lucky dragon!
- A new Sat story written and illustrated by Paul Maar.
- Immense multi-generational fan-base - over 5 million copies sold in Germany.
- Translated into 23 languages
- New: rhyming chapter titles | 7 +
- Some 50,000 books from the series sold (July 2019)
- Emmi & Unipig delight readers and the press alike
- For girls and boys who are interested in much more than unicorns and pink glitter
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Sabine Ludwig’s Christmas fun with fresh, colourful pictures by Sabine Wilharm.
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Where would the Pocketbeer Family be without the Sat? Mr Pocketbeer has become as fond of the small creature with the trunk-like snout as if he were his own child. But one day the Sat disappears. To its own horror, he must return to the Sat world at the end of 15 years, 15 days and 5 minutes – because otherwise the human being he is living with would become a Sat himself. Mr Pocketbeer is already showing the first signs… Is he really turning into a Sat? And will the real Sat have to leave his dad? A wondrous tear leads to a surprising solution…
Fast-moving, turbulent and full of imaginative ideas – one of the very best Sat stories! For the first time featuring colour illustrations inside.
Total circulation of all Sat books: 4.6 million copies!
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The Sat gives Mr Pocketbeer a very precious present for his birthday: a very last wish dot. But what does Mr Pocketbeer go and do with it? He makes a wish for the wrong thing, of course - namely, a Sat for his pesky neighbour, Mrs Redcabbage. And straight away, there’s a second Sat sitting at their dining table! It is scarily well behaved, but it poses a huge challenge for the Pocketbeer Sat!
At last: a Sat read-aloud book by Paul Maar, written especially for younger children! Perfect preparation for the iconic Sat books and super for reading aloud! | 7 +
Hooray, the Sat is back! The sixth adventure about blue dots that make wishes come true is here and Martin Pocketbeer is delighted that the Sat is back again at last. Perhaps he can even lend a hand to get rid of Uncle Alvin from Australia, who has taken up residence with the Pocketbeers and is driving everyone bonkers. He could simply wish him away! But sadly the wish dots are still on the face of Mr Daume, the mean old sports teacher, and he seems to have disappeared off the face of the earth. And that is not the only problem Martin and his friends have to contend with – Uncle Alvin is also good for the odd surprise! | 7 +
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Dorota Wünsch wurde 1962 in Lodz in Polen geboren. Sie studierte an
der dortigen Kunstakademie. 1984 kam sie über ein Gaststipendium
nach Deutschland. Bis 1992 studierte sie Kunst an der Mainzer
Universität. Sie hat drei (mittlerweile erwachsene) Kinder und lebt
als freie Illustratorin in Saarbrücken.