Kosmos Children's Books Autumn 2015
Rights Catalogue
PR OG R AMME AUT UMN 2015 Dear Colleagues,
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dear Friends,
I am pleased to announce an assortment of new titles from our latest autumn catalogue 2015 for children’s
Sophie and the Witch Next Door (10+)
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Andor – The novel for the game bestseller (14+)
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books and books for young adults. Stories with Lilly (8+) Sophie and the Witch Next Door is a promising adventure for all kids who no longer want to be “good”. A magical situation comedy, lovingly told. Who doesn’t know the award-winning game Legends of Andor which has been successfully sold to 12 countries? We now publish the prequel for this game, a fascinating novel for the huge communitiy of fans and newcomers! With A Dark Secret we continue our series of thrillers for young readers. The combination of love and suspense goes on. And all those who still don’t know our successful series The Three ??? with more than 150 titles published and millions of copies sold, has now the opportunity to get
Trilogy: Love Is a Rhinoceros (10+)
familiar with the series reading the first graphic novel
A dark secret – Thriller (14+)
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published under this brand The Three ??? and the ThreeEyed Skull. In the segment of non-fiction books we are happy to present you our Children’s World Atlas with top quality cartographic maps, many additional information and
The Three ??? and the Three Eyed Skull Graphic Novel (10+)
extras. Last but not least I’d like to draw your attention to four upcoming Nature Field Guides for Children from 5 years
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upwards which we offer for an international co-print. For our backlist, please visit our website www.kosmos.de. For reading copies, please email e.kienzle@kosmos.de. I look forward to hearing from you soon!
Carving Workshop (8+)
Children's World Atlas (8+)
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Nature N a Field Guides ((5+) 5
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Elke Kienzle
At the Frankfurt Book Fair from October 14th – 18th, 2015 you will find us in hall 30, stand D 50. For appointments please contact e.kienzle@kosmos.de
My Dog, My Cat (8+)
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SOPHIE AND THE WITCH NEXT DOOR
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CHILDREN – GIRLS
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A completely bewitched summer → A magical adventure for all girls who no
longer want to be "good" June 2015
→ Magical situation comedy, lovingly told → First novel by an award-winning script author
Sibylle Wenzel Sophie and the Witch Next Door illustrated by Joëlle Tourlonias
€ 9.99 Sophie's prospects for the summer holiday were more than boring just now: Her mother thinks that a daughter from a good family must practice piano, ballet and mathematics on holiday,
→ The author
as well. But then the strangest things happen ... The new piano
Sibylle Wenzel is a script writer in Berlin for wellknown soaps such as Verbotene Liebe (Forbidden Love), among other films. In 2014 she won the audience Bambi with the series In aller Freundschaft (Amicably). Sophie and the Witch Next Door is her first novel for children
teacher definitely has no clue about music and Sophie's dog
256 pages approx 25 b/w-Illustrations hardcover, 15 x 21.5 cm 978-3-440-13288-3
Strichpunkt (Semicolon) suddenly acts more than odd! When ch hpunk pu unk nktt d issap appe pe ear arss an and d th he cr craz azy az y ne neig ig ighb ghb bou ours rs a re ee v n ve Strichpunkt disappears the crazy neighbours are even rde er th tthan an S op phi h e wo woul u d ev ul ever err h ave av e im mag gin ined ed,, th ed he mo ostt weirder Sophie would have imagined, the most gica gi cal, ca l, e xciit xc itin iti ing an ing and d cr craz a y su az summ mmer mm er o a ttimes mess be me begi ginss ffor gi gins orr h er.. er magical, exciting crazy summer off al alll ti begins her.
→ The illustrator Joëlle Tourlonias studied visual communications at the Bauhaus University in Weimar. She lives and works as a freelance illustrator in Düsseldorf.
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T HE LEG EN DS OF AND O R
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THRILLERS FOR YOUNG READERS
The novel for the game bestseller → The prequel for the award-winning game "The
Legends of Andor" → Fascinating novel for the huge community of fans → Exclusive and only in the book: Legend map for
the game Terrible things are happening in the land of Andor. The Gors are attacking the inhabitants of the Watchful Forest relentlessly and cruelly and plunder the archive at the tree of songs. Cavern, the kingdom of the dwarfs, is also beset by a dark power. Archer Chada sets out all by herself to ask King Brandur for help. Who or what is behind all these attacks? Will Chada ever reach Rietburg Castle? And what do the mysterious lines in the long-
October 2015 Octobe
forgotten legend mean? A desperate struggle against the evil powers who Stefanie Schmitt developed the
endanger the peace of Andor begins for Chada and her companions.
story line of The Legends of Andor, Stefanie Schmitt The Legends Lege of Andor – the Song of the King illustrated by Michael illustrate Menzel
which was the connoisseurs game of 2013, together with her husband, game author Michael Menzel.
€ 16.99
more than 250,000 copies sold worldwide
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The he Lege L Legends egends d off A Andor ndor d Art.-Nr. 69174
336 pages approx 47 b/w-Illustrations hardcover, 15 x 21.5 cm 978-3-440-14558-6
→ Entdecken Sie die brisanten Themen des 21. Jahrhunderts – die starken Themen von 21st century thrill! ← ← ← Already available www.21st-century thrill.com
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WHAT R ES T S IN T HE S HAD O WS
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THRILLERS FOR YOUNG READERS
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→ Thrill and romance – a thriller that gets under your skin → A setting that arouses yearning: Summer at the lake, a cool wakeboarding community → Special: Topic schizophrenia September 2015 Septe Finally summer holidays! Wakeboarding and camp fires at the lake – Fi ju just the right thing for Marla after the stress with her jealous exKarenKaren-Susan Fessel What R Rests in the Shadows
b bo boyfriend. And when the good-looking Keno shows up, too, the summer se se seems perfect. But suddenly strange things happen in the holiday setphotographer: Gaby Ahnert
€ 12.9 12.99
tl tl tlement: Tyres are punctured, a voodoo doll hangs in front of Marla's
176 pag pages hardcover, 13.5 x 21.5 cm hardco 978-3-440-14449-7 978-3-4
h ho house and Keno's younger brother behaves ever more strangely. Might Karen Susan Fessel is a freelance
Marla's jealous ex be behind the attacks? Or the people from the lake,
writer, journalist, editor and
who are not at all happy that Marla is now with Keno? By the time
lecturer for writing seminars. She
Marla learns the secret, it's almost too late ...
has won numerous awards for her novels.
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A Different Love € 9.99 / 978-3-440-13346-0
You Don't Die In My Heart € 12.99 / 978-3-440-14480-0
← ← ← Already available
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THE THREE ???
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POPULAR BRANDS
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Premiere: „The three ???“ as a graphic novel! → The authors
→ Dynamic drawing style, cool look → A brand-new case in a brand-new outfit → Even reluctant readers cannot resist Ivar Leon Menger is, among other occupations, a film director and author of radio plays. His films and radio plays have received numerous international awards.
September 2015 Horror film director James Kushing wakes up one morning with a mysterious tattoo on his arm: a three-eyed skull! What does the tattoo have to do with the film Kushing never finished? And what secret is behind the stolen emerald that years ago disappeared without a trace from film set? Justus, Peter and Bob plunge into the case and little by little discover the truth behind the puzzle ...
John Beckmann has written for, among others, the mystery series Darkside Park and Porterville as freelance author.
John Beckmann Ivar Leon Menger The Three ??? and the Three-Eyed Skull illustrated by Christopher Tauber
€ 14.99 128 pages 2c all-through softcover with flaps 17 x 24 cm 978-3-440-14123-6
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Christopher Tauber draws comics and lives in Frankfurt/Main. When he isn't busy staging The Three ???, he works on books, magazines, comics and art projects.
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ATLAS
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Far-away lands – close up October 2015
CHILDREN'S WORLD ATLAS
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→ Interactive: with large world and Europe
map, as well as stickers for marking → For play: Country quartets game with more
than 200 cards
Angelika Sust Heike Herrmann Children's World Atlas
€ 24.99 → The authors Heike Herrmann has a graduate degree in biology and is a nature educator. In addition to working as a non-fiction book editor and author, she offers teacher training about experiencing nature with children.
Open it up and start on a fascinating journey around the globe
Angelika Sust studied chemistry and German studies. Today she is a freelance author and has already designed and revised atlases.
oddities, records and distinctive features.
in many images! Gorgeous maps fire the imagination. In-
96 pages approx 300 colour photos, 400 Illustrations; 1 Poster, flag stickers, country quartets game hardcover, 26 x 32.8 cm 978-3-440-14821-1
teresting comprehensive topics, such as the European parliament, the wonders of the world or volcanic activity, are also shown and explained. Five fold-out overview pages introduce each continent's most important animals and plants, and offer
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WORLD MAP to take out
COUNTRY QUARTETS GAME to punch out and play with & FLAG STICKERS 11
MY FIRST MINI
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preliminary covers
First Field Guides February 2016
→K Kosmos osmos field guides ffor the littlest ones
NATURE FIELD GUIDES
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€ 9.99 each 34 pages, 12 of them a thirdpages 8 colouring pages 4 pages with stickers to take off and place in the book 4c all through hardcover, gloss laminated, 19 x 16.5 cm Concealed wire-o-binding
→ Id dentify first animals and plants Identify yo ourself yourself →B irdss, IInsects, nsects, Anima Birds, Animals and Plants of the W ood d, Pets Wood,
Bärbel Oftring Andrea Köhrsen My First Birds Illustrated by Steffen Walentowitz 978-3-440-14624-8
Even Ev en e n tthe he e llittlest itttl t esst on o ones ess a e are r ffascinated re asci as c na ci at by animals and plants in thei th hei e r su ssurroundings. urr rrou ou und ndin din ngs g . Th T esse fo ese four urr g u their These guides convey pleasure in local anim an im mal a s and an nd pl plan an nts t b y us usin in ng la arg rge e animals plants by using large-format illustrations that form th e ce ccentre ntre nt r o re e ch hp a e. ag e B ased as ed do n the detailed drawings, the the off ea each page. Based on d fffe di erren entt sp pec ecie ie es ca an be e assil i y re rec c different species can easily recognized.
Bärbel Oftring My First Animals and Plants of the Wood Illustrated by Steffen Walentowitz 978-3-440-15035-1
A st sstrong r ng ro gp iccto tori riial llanguage angu an guag gu age is iimportant ag mp p pictorial for this young target gr rou oup. up. p T he ep i tu ic ture re es ar are e ac cco c mp mpan an an group. The pictures accompanied by brief captions and a shor sh ort info in nffo ormat rm mat ativve te extt. To e nccou oura r ra short informative text. encourage active engagement, stickers an nd ex xpllo orrer p a ess ccomplement ag om mpl p em men nt tthe product. and explorer pages Fo ourr ccolouring olou ol olou ouri ouri ring ng gp ag ges es a he en nd o Four pages att th the end of each title invite children to colo co lour lo u tthe he a niima m lss a n p nd la ant ntss acc ac cc colour animals and plants according to their own taste. Co-print schedule: Files out: October 12th, 2015 Files in: November 16th, 2015 Delivery: March 25th, 2016
Bärbel Oftring My First Insects Illustrated by Julie Sodré 978-3-440-15034-4
Bärbel Oftring My First Pets Illustrated by Stefan Lohr 978-3-440-15036-8
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