All the best stories end in disaster, don't they? If, like most kids, you love tales where everything goes wrong, you'll enjoy every moment of Faster, Lola, Faster! Described in a beguiling combination of breezy rhymes and bloodcurdling pictures, here are seven episodes from everyday life - all ...

The hardcover edition of the two Fuzzy Bear books contains all four-colour illustrations by Reinhard Michl as used for the big picture book edition. A little brown teddy bear fears that his owner Benjamin loves his new white teddy bear more than him and decides to leave. Luckily, White Bear and ...

Brown Fuzzy Bear lives with Benjamin in his room. He sleeps in Benjamin's bed and gets up with him in the morning. "I am so fond of you" says Benjamin to Fuzzy Bear. "I like you, too," Fuzzy Bear replies.

One morning, they play near the little brook next to their house. There is a white ...

As crazy as the rest of us

Who says there's anything wrong with Mr. Gnirzdefrrrtz? He's completely normal! You can tell that right away from his ordinary name. And his beard of a thousand funny green millipedes is also nothing special. Neither are his teeth, which are just as ...

Goodbye to the best watchdog in the world

What Biko wants to do more than anything is just sleep. When asleep, he no longer feels the pain in his bones quite so much. But he has to watch out for things. The children. The house. The cat and the birds in the garden. And the ...

What does really go on in the fridge when the door is shut and the light goes out? What do all the various objects in the school's lost property box talk about at night? Is the "moderately soiled" wash cycle a bit like a spa, or is it more akin to a watery inferno?

Young readers will ...

We all know about friendship books and journals-but what about a doggy diary for man's best friend? Here it is-a dog's day-book, lovingly designed with plenty of room for keeping track of your adventures with your beloved four-legged friend. How loud is his bark? Where does he like to be tickled?

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 ...

How did the teddy bear come by his name? How did the common or garden sausage become that barbecue staple - the hot dog? And to what lucky accident do we owe the ice lolly?
Every day we pick up things we know hardly anything about. They may be familiar objects, but we have no idea of the ...

Eating spinach will make you strong! If you don't eat up it'll rain! Your eyes will go square if you watch too much television! Children have to put up with this kind of nonsense from their parents every day. Parents tell their children lies because they don't know any better or to teach them ...

The sky darkens, the ground trembles-the Storm Knight is approaching! Every parent knows that a child's tantrum can produce dramatics on a grandiose scale. In this striking picture book one such tantrum is represented as a wild weather ballad-under the auspices of the Storm Knight! He rages on ...

All the children leave the zoo. Except for Noah, who stays with the boa.
All the children crawl through the hole. Except for Chuck, who gets himself stuck.
All the children jump on the moon. Except for Grace, who is lost in space. These rhymes embody the wonderful vernacular of ...