Weltentdecker

13/03/2025

From the new book catalogue of our marvellous agent Find Out Team!
Cinzia Seccamani
Nina Mašina / Aleksandra Nina Knežević

13/03/2025

"Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in the long run."

Le Avventure di Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi

Illustration:

Nina Mašina / Aleksandra Nina Knežević

11/03/2025

Did you know?

The Little Prince (Le Petit Prince), published in 1943 (!) by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, has sold an estimated 140 million copies worldwide, making it one of the best-selling books in history. It has been translated into over 505 different languages and dialects, being the second most translated work ever published, trailing only the Bible.

The second best selling French book (books) is Funny Little Animals (Drôles de petites bêtes). This series, created by Antoon Krings, has sold more than 19 million copies and has been translated into over twenty languages. Each book centers around a different anthropomorphic insect or small mammal, with some recurring characters appearing in different books.

08/03/2025

It is allfault of P**i. She gave the idea 🙂

“It is not my fault that I never learned to accept responsibility!”
— Pippi Longstocking by Astrid Lindgren

07/03/2025

Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale.

27/02/2025

"If you always adapt, you will eventually lose yourself."
— Cornelia Funke, Tintenherz (Inkheart)

26/02/2025

“But, luckily, he kept his wits and his purple crayon. He made a balloon and he grabbed on to it.”

“He made a big building full of windows. He made lots of buildings full of windows. He made a whole city full of windows. But none of the windows was his window. ”

25/02/2025

If you have a bad day, remember that Alexander had a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day.

“I went to sleep with gum in my mouth and now there's gum in my hair and when I got out of bed this morning I tripped on the skateboard and by mistake I dropped my sweater in the sink while the water was running and I could tell it was going to be a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day.”

“I think I'll move to Australia.”

“Some days are like that. Even in Australia.”

Judith Viorst, Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day

23/02/2025

Alice: "One can't help growing older."

Humpty Dumpty: "One can't, perhaps, but two can. With proper assistance, you might have left off at seven."

19/02/2025

“There are many kinds of magic, but the best magic of all is the magic that happens inside you when you believe in yourself.”
— The Girl Who Drank the Moon by Kelly Barnhill

18/02/2025

YOU DO NOT LIKE GREEN EGGS AND HAM?

I DO NOT LIKE THEM, SAM-I-AM.

COULD YOU, WOULD YOU, WITH A GOAT?

I WOULD NOT, COULD NOT WITH A GOAT!

WOULD YOU, COULD YOU, ON A BOAT?

I COULD NOT, WOULD NOT, ON A BOAT.
I WILL NOT, WILL NOT, WITH A GOAT.
I WILL NOT EAT THEM IN THE RAIN.
NOT IN THE DARK! NOT IN A TREE!
NOT IN A CAR! YOU LET ME BE!
I DO NOT LIKE THEM IN A BOX.
I DO NOT LIKE THEM WITH A FOX.
I WILL NOT EAT THEM IN A HOUSE.
I DO NOT LIKE THEM WITH A MOUSE.
I DO NOT LIKE THEM HERE OR THERE.
I DO NOT LIKE THEM ANYWHERE!
I DO NOT LIKE GREEN EGGS AND HAM!
I DO NOT LIKE THEM, SAM-I-AM.

15/02/2025

Why reading aloud to children so important is!

Why should we keep reading aloud to kids even when they can already "read on their own?" This talk demonstrates the magic of read aloud and reminds us all w...

13/02/2025

WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE
by Maurice Sendak

Author Maurice Sendak offers a tale of suspense, action, and fun, with this story about a young boy named Max who wears a wolf suit to bed. Max has been naughty and is sent to bed without any dinner. The real adventure begins with the forest growing and creatures appearing as wild and free. Being wild with the wild things can be tiring, as Max discovers on his adventure. As things begin to happen in his room, creatures appear that are a cross between scary and funny. Winner of the Caldecott Medal and listed in the ‘Best Illustrated Children’s Books” for many years, this is a winner worth a look. Illustrations that will grab your eye and a written tale that will draw you and your children back again and again are what this story has to offer. Adventure, artwork, and fun are all wrapped up in one small package here.

11/02/2025

"Anything one man can imagine, other men can make real."
— Around the World in Eighty Days

10/02/2025

Did you know? The word ‘library’ comes from the Latin ‘liber,’ meaning book. The oldest known library dates back to the 7th century BC in Nineveh! Nineveh was consumed by fire in around 612 BC. But while paper books are destroyed by fire, the clay tablets were in most cases baked harder, making them among the best preserved documents from thousands of years of Mesopotamian history.

08/02/2025

J.K. Rowling, famous author of Harry Potter, has fond memories of The Little White Horse book and said in an interview: “The tone is perfect; a seamless mix of the fairy-tale and the real. It also has a plain heroine, which delighted me beyond words as a child, because I was a very plain little girl and I hadn’t met many literary heroines who weren’t breathtakingly pretty.” (Source: Words with Jam)

What is your favorite children book?

08/02/2025

As bilingual children toggle between two languages, they use cognitive resources beyond those required for simple language acquisition, Gigi Luk writes in a forthcoming edition of the Cambridge Encyclopedia of Child Development. Recent research has shown that bilingual children outperform monolingual children on tasks that tap into executive function — skills having to do with attention control, reasoning, and flexible problem solving.

Their strength in those tasks likely results from coping with and overcoming the demand of managing two languages. In a bilingual environment, children learn to recognize meaningful speech sounds that belong to two different languages but share similar concepts.

06/02/2025

“A bluebear has twenty-seven lives. I shall recount thirteen-and-a-half of them in this book but keep quiet about the rest. A bear must have his secrets, after all; they make him seem attractive and mysterious.”
― Walter Moers, The 13½ Lives of Captain Bluebear