Category Archives: Latest Awards

A Girl with a Gun

written by Marius Marcinkevičius and illustrated by Lina Itagaki

  • IBBY Honour List 2026 
  • BOOK OF THE YEAR FOR CHILDREN
  • BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR FOR CHILDREN AND YOUNG ADULTS award
  • ILLUSTRATION OF THE YEAR award
  • SPECIAL MENTION award in BolognaRagazzi Awards 2024
  • FINALIST of the Bologna Illustrators Exhibition 2024
  • SOPHIE CASTILLE AWARD at Comicon Italy 2025
  • THE WHITE RAVEN 2025

World War II is raging around the world and drags its heavy legs through Lithuania. After the Germans leave, the Russians come and start imposing their order. All those who do not support the new regime are deported to Siberia. Maggie‘s family are dragged into a truck and taken away. Maggie escapes and is rescued by her teacher who is now the leader of a partisan group.

Rights sold: Italian, Latvian, French, Estonian, Bulgarian & Czech

Hardback / 195 x 240 mm / 218 pages / Misteris Pinkmanas

Absolutely Everything

written and illustrated by Damian Alexander

  • Massachusetts Book Award Longlist, Long-listed, 2026
  • Denny O’Neil Graphic Novel Reading List, Long-listed, 2026
  • Notable Award Children’s Book Committee at Bank Street College Best Children’s Book of the Year Selection, Co-winner, 2026
  • VLA Graphic Novel Diversity Award Honor Book, Commended, 2026

Life feels like a lot for Marcella. Her bestie has new friends; her parents want to move—absolutely everything is stressing her out! A thoughtful graphic story about growing up and ADHD.

Paperback / 6 x 9 inch / 216 pages / Graphic Universe

Pappa and the Boy

written by Triinu Laan and illustrated by Anne Pikkov

IBBY Honour List 2026 & 2026 Hans Christian Andersen Jury Recommendation

The boy and granddad are the best pair. A very young man and a very old man can manage together and collect memories full of the joy of life. Full of magical realism with South Estonian flavour, this book shows how to enjoy life and lets the reader join the fun with the active boy and his granddad in the midst of comical mishaps and  incidents.

Hardback / 190 x 255 mm / 64 pages / Paike ja Pilv

Ode to the River

written and illustrated by Emily House

Finalist for the 2026 SCBWI Crystal Kite awards!

High in the mountains where few people go, Water is springing, beginning to flow. It starts as a trickle, builds into a stream. Gently descending, it babbles and gleams. Soon it’s a river, majestic and wide Rushing and gushing it glistens and glides.

Paperback / 215 x 280 mm / 52 pages / Imagnary House

Dust

written by Silke Schlichtmann and illustrated by Maja Bohn

Nominated for the “Science Book of the Year 2026 of “Bild der Wissenschaft.”

Dust has a bad reputation. How unfair! As dust is a true miracle substance that gives us the most beautiful sunsets, that makes it rain or conjures up artistic snowflakes. Dust particles in the ice in Antarctica can tell us about the climate thousands of years ago and fine dust can help to find criminals.

Hardback / 210 x 280 mm / 48 pages / Tulipan Verlag