Category Archives: YA

DOWNSTREAM TOWARDS AMERICA

Written by Petra Postert

Fourteen-year-old Jacob, has lost the key to the fisherman’s guild chest. Now everyone in the small village will think he was trying to steal something. His stepbrother Georg had already left the region several years ago for the “Promised Land,” America. Jacob also decides to go on the dangerous journey, along the wild and untamed current towards Rotterdam, where the big ships leave.

Hardback / 148 x 210 mm  / 268 pages / Tulipan Verlag

TOO TALL FOR LIFE

Written by Nikola Huppertz

Magali Weill is much too tall for a 13-year-old, so she chooses to be in the background whenever she can. Instead of playing the main role in her own life, she prefers to watch the habits of her neighbours, which Magali records in her “Diary of everyone else”.

Hardback / 148 x 210 mm  / 200 pages / Tulipan Verlag

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ORIGINARY WOMEN

Written by Vários Autores and illustrated by Mauricio Negro

An unforgettable and beautifully illustrated anthology of twelve indigenous stories and retellings by contemporary Brazilian native women. The (re)tellings are based on dreams, community experiences, stories and lifestyles that are passed on through generations.

They are also based on the contemplation of  rivers, animals, plants, stars, the Sun, the encantados. In short, all human and non human beings…

Paperback / 157 x 220 mm / 144 pages / Companhias das Letras