Rights catalogue 2015 by Zielona Sowa Publishing House

FOREIGN RIGHTS catalogue 2015

AGNIESZKA STELMASZYK Archeo Chronicles Terra Incognita Spies Coalition Tommy Orkiszek & Partners. Detective Agency The Adventurers’ Club Hinkul on a Desert Island Cornelia’s Christmas Cottage Cheese Hotel I am Reading! MARCIN MORTKA Tappi of The Whispering Forest Tappi the Viking Stories Tappi’s Birthday - a board game Lost House Under Cracked Sky BOOKS FOR EARLY READERS 0-3 Rhyme Animal Stories Animal Stories Winter Time Winter Stories First Fairy Tales Educational sets for toddlers I Already Learn! ACTIVITY BOOKS FOR 4-6 Seek and Find I Like to Decorate Doodle Workbooks Christmas Colouring and Doodling Books Mosaic and Activity Sticker Books Games

FICTION BOOKS FOR 4-6 What’s the Gossip Among the Shells Stories About Bears Bedtime Stories Animal Series Series of Classic Fairies Polish poetry by J. Brzechwa and J. Tuwim Collection of Classic Fairy Tales A Treasury of Fairy Tales ACTIVITY AND DYI BOOKS FOR 7-9 Journals for Girls Doodling Big Doodling Pads Christmas Cards Everything You Can Make My Ideas For Fashionable Accessories Games MANUALS FOR 10-12 Essential Reading for Teens

When she was a little girl, she wanted to become a doctor, an archeologist or even a painter. It took her a while to understand she will make her best as a writer. Her first writing success was in 2007, and since then she hasn’t stopped writing great books for teens and for children.

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Agnieszka Stelmaszyk

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Archeo Chronicles Format:14,5 x 20,5 cm, Cover: Hardcover, Age: 9+ Full colour illustrations: Jacek Pasternak, Paweł Zaręba English reading sample available

Adventure books, which combine fascinating stories with even more fascinating history. Main characters are five children from two families of archeologists from Poland and Great Britain. Action of each volume takes place in different country and refers to local legends, history and ancient mysteries. With Archeo Chronicles reader can visit parts of the world and solve riddles. The series for those with nerves of steel, who are not afraid of new challenges.

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Format: 14,5 x 20,5 cm, Cover: Paperback, Pages: 240-264 , Age: 9+ BW illustrations An adventure books trilogy - main characters are siblings - three sisters and a brother, and their parents. They lead quite an ordinary life. Only a mom turns it sometimes upside down - she is a natural scientist and travels all around the world. When she goes on another expedition to Africa, happens a tragedy â&#x20AC;&#x201C; in unknown circumstances she and her crew disappears. Family decides to search her by themselves, after Polish foreign office and local authorities seem to have no idea what happened. And the big adventure begins!

Agnieszka Stelmaszyk

TERRA INCOGNITA

Format: 14,5 x 20,5 cm, Cover: Paperback, Pages: 240-328, Age: 9+ BW illustrations: Daniel Grzeszkiewicz, PaweĹ&#x201A; ZarÄ&#x2122;ba English reading sample available

A trilogy of adventure books for older children. It can be compared to James Bond â&#x20AC;&#x201C; there are pursuits, escapes, parachute jumps, secret codes and lots of mysteries to be solved. Fast-paced and thrilling read.

Robert, is a 13 years old boy, uniquely smart and canny, and quite rebellious. He is brought up by his grandmother. His parents died in an accident 6 months earlier. One day Robert receives an intriguing letter. Someone wants to tell him the truth about the death of his parents. Meanwhile, in a different part of the world two other children receives such letters. Since then their lifes change dramatically.

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Format: 14,7 x 20,5 cm, Cover: Hardcover with a whole, Pages: 128, Age: 6+ BW illustrations: Anna Oparkowska English reading sample available A series of detective stories, great for children who already started to read, with lots of humour and intriguing events. Funny characters encourage young children to read. Tommy is a boy, and his partners are a hamster, a goldfish and a cat. In each volume they are solving a case set in different place, for example: in a jeweler, a theater or a radio.

Adventurers â&#x20AC;&#x2122;Club Format: 14,5 x 20,5 cm, Cover: Paperback, Pages: 200, Age: 10+ Full colour illustrations: Anna Oparkowska, Katarzyna Nowowiejska English reading sample available

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Agnieszka Stelmaszyk

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Series of adventure books, connected with school life of a group of four class mates. They are best buddies, love to spend time together and always get into trouble. Teachers and parents are getting mad with them, but what they can do, if boys have millions of new ideas in a minute. Boys set up an Adventurersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Club and in each volume they solve mysterious cases in their home town.

Format: 21,0 x 29,7 cm, Cover: Hardcover, Pages: 29, Age: 4+ Full colour illustrations: Ewa Nawrocka English translation available Hinkul is an unusual cat, he is a traveler and an inventor! One day he discovers in a basement of an old house a mysterious map, which shows the way to a treasure! The cat doesn’t wait even a moment, builds a raft and starts a journey!

kornelia' s Christmas

Format: 24,5 x 24,5 cm, Cover: Hardcover, Pages: 48, Age: 4+ Full colour illustrations: Katarzyna Nowowiejska English reading sample available

Magical, full of good emotions fairytale about a little girl, learning the importance of friendship and family. Cornelia waits for Christmas. Despite cheerful atmosphere, the girl is sad, because she is all alone at home, waiting for her parents to come back. She looks into the sky full of stars, and doesn’t notice, when only next to her appears a wizard… From that moment unbelievable things start to happen!

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Cottage cheese hotel

Agnieszka Stelmaszyk

Hinkul on a Desert Island

Format: 19,5 x 24,0 cm, Cover: Hardcover, Pages: 64, Age: 4+ Full colour illustrations: Marcin Piwowarski English reading sample available On their way on holidays, mom and her daughter had a flat tyre in the middle of nowhere in the deep forest. Suddenly a mysterious, cat appears and shows them their way through the trees to an unusual “Cottage Cheese Hotel”. It’s run by a cow and a bellboy appears to be an Eddy - the Edam cheese. A girl makes friends with the cat, who shows her around and get to know her with other even more surprising characters.

Format: 14,5 x 21,0 cm, Cover: Paperback, Pages: 48, Age: 6+ Full colour illustrations: Marek Nawrocki English reading sample available

Intriguing short stories with simple and hilarious dialogs and appealing characters for children who just begun to read. With humorous illustrations they are an excellent introduction into becoming a real book worm.

Agnieszka Stelmaszyk

I am Reading

Marcin Mortk a Marcin Mortka

The most of ideas come to his mind inâ&#x20AC;Ś a train. He just simply canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t get away from them. He is very well known in Poland as a fantasy books writer. For years he used to write for adults. He started to love writing for younger readers from the first word he wrote. His magical stories about Tappi, a charming Viking, delighted not only the young, but also their parents.

Tappi of the Whispering Forest Format: 16,5 x 21,5 cm, Cover: Hardcover, Pages: 160, Age: 6+ BW illustrations: Marta Kurczewska English reading sample available

Marcin Mortka created a magical world, full of talking animals, creatures and funny situations. Just like in fairies, there are good and bad characters, and each of them bring to the story an amazing atmosphere, that enchants the readers. Books put great emphasis on friendship, honesty, taking care after whom we love, and helping others.

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Tappi The Viking Stories Marcin Mortka

Format: 19,5 x 24,0 cm, Cover: Hardcover, Pages: 48, Age: 4+ Full colour illustrations: Marta Kurczewska English reading sample available Short, beautifully illustrated stories about a friendly Viking Tappi and his animal friends. Full of good emotions, teach preschool children about friendship and how differentiate right from wrong. Ideal for reading together in bed or in kindergarten. Each volume contains 10 separate stories, books can be read individually.

Make your own story with Tappi Format: 19,5 x 24,0 cm, Cover: Hardcover, Pages: 80, Age: 4+ Full colour illustrations: Marta Kurczewska The reader is given a choice and becomes a co-author â&#x20AC;&#x201C; leads the story however he wants to. The book can be read several times, each time leading the story differently. In the end the mystery is always solved.

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Marcin Mortka

Tappiâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Birthday â&#x20AC;&#x201C; a board game Box 25,5 x 22,5 cm, Board 47 x 44 cm Age: 4-99 Full colour illustrations: Marta Kurczewska Do you know Viking Tappi? He has a long, red beard, likes to drink hot chocolate and lives in a Whispering Forest with other magical characters.

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Tappi is organizing a birthday party for all his magical friends. Throw a dice and do the activities from the cards, while you are on the way to his party. Remember, that in this game only having fun is important! In the box you will find first volume of the series for younger children in soft cover, board game, pawns and 50 playing cards. There is also added a small memo game.

Format: 14,5 x 20,5 cm, Cover: Paperback, Pages: 232, Age: 9+ BW illustrations: Daniel Grzeszkiewicz English reading sample available

Marcin Mortka

LOST

Alien civilizations, spaceships and bloodcurdling plot - all can be found it this science fiction series. It is like Stanislaw Lem, Star Trek and Star Wars in one for young readers. Marcin Mortka takes us on a journey to a far future, full of fantastic and exciting adventures of Dorian and his friends. It is XXIV century, space journeys and communication with other civilizations are possible. One day peace got seriously endangered - the Earth got attacked by a new, unknown race. From that moment life of Dorian turned upside down and the whole adventure begun.

Format:14,5 x 20,5 cm, Cover: Paperback, Pages: 300, Age: 15+ BW illustrations : Paweł Zaręba English reading sample available

Marcin Mortka

house under cr acked sky A summer holiday trip of a group of teenagers becomes a nightmare, and having no reception is just a small prelude to what is about to happen. The teenagers will experience an unforgettable adventure, but these weren’t the attractions they were looking for! Theme of the book refers to a very popular trend of dystopia books. Scenery of the book resembles an America town, just like from classic horror films for teenagers.

Format: : 19,0 x 19,0 cm, Cover: Boardbook, Pages: 10 Full colour illustrations: Monika Filipina Author: Agnieszka Frączek

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Delightful and funny, short rhyming stories by the Polish awarded children’s books author, with beautiful and warm illustrations.

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RHYME ANIMAL STORIES

Format: 14,5 x 14,5 cm, Cover: Boardbook, Pages:10 Full colour illustrations: Monika Suska

A delightful collection of storybooks about baby animals. Children will love turning the colourful pages with sweet illustrations and friendly characters. Irregular and streamlined shape is designed to exercise childâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s sense of touch.

Perfect to read aloud with youngest children!

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ANIMAL STORIES

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Format: 19 x 19, Cover: Boardbook, Pages: 10 Full colour illustrations: Carmen Nogales New board books series with charming illustrations, would delight every little boy and girl. Have a winter adventure with a fox, a deer , a hear or a badger!

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Winter Time

Format: 14,5 x 14,5, Cover: Boardbook, Pages: 10 Full colour illustrations: Katarzyna Nowowiejska

Four lovely and beautifully illustrated board books for the youngest children. In each book different characters spend great time during winter.

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WINTER STORIES

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Activity Books for Early Readers 0-3

Format: 12 x 13 cm, Cover: boardbook, Pages: 18 Format: 16x16 cm, Cover: hardcover with foam, Pages: 10 Full colour illustrations: Marcin PoĹ&#x201A;udniak

Classic fairy tales in two formats â&#x20AC;&#x201C; board book or a book with 4 puzzles. Best-loved classics retold in a simple way, with gorgeous illustrations: Little Red Riding Hood, Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, Ugly Duckling, Puss in Boots, Hansel and Gretel

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Educational sets for toddlers Box: 19,5 x 15,4 x 4,0 cm, Cover: Paperback, Pages: 24 Full colour illustrations: Katarzyna Nowowiejska

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Learn with little owl Susie your first words. Each set is on a different subject, like colours or animals. Contains a colouring book with stickers and a simple memo or domino game.

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Format: Workbook 20,0 x 19,0 cm, Primer book 24,0 x 20,5 cm , Cover: Paperback Pages: Workbook 24 pages + 40 stickers, Primer book 36-48 pages + 50 stickers Educational sets of books with simple and realistic illustrations, for preschool children for two, three, four and five years old. Contains diversified exercises and interesting tasks, which enriches and widens childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; knowledge. For each age there is a set of colourful primer book and two a black and white workbooks. They can be used separately or together.

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I ALREADY LEARN!

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Activity Books for 4-6

SEEK AND FIND! Format: 20 x 28,8 cm, Cover: Boardbook, Pages: 10 Full colour illustrations: Dorota Szoblik

Large, lovely illustrations showing situations from everyday life â&#x20AC;&#x201C; home, city, kindergarten and countryside. Children search for hidden objects. They can also make their own story on the basis of the pictures. With these brightly coloured picture books children will develop observation and memory skills.

Format: 23,8 x 30,5 cm, Cover: Softcover, Pages: 24 + 4 pages with removable stickers Full colour illustrations

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I Like to Decorate Arrange furniture, people, animals, plants and all kinds of other things in various interiors in the house, restaurant, palace, in the city or in the village. A child can develop its imagination and manual skills and get to know new interiors and places.

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Doodle Workbooks

Format: 28,8 x 20,0 cm, Cover: Paperback, Pages: 28 BW illustrations Four Math’s workbooks be published Fall 2014. Format:to28,8 x 20,0 cm,inCover: Paperback, Pages: 28 BW illustrations

Series of 8 workbooks, both entertaining and educational. A wide range of exercises for 5-6 years old children to practice and prepare to learn writing and to practice first mathematical skills. They develop and exercise child’s visual-motor coordination, perceptiveness, concentration, imagination and creativity. Young children will have lots of fun drawing, redrawing and colouring.

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Format: 20,0 x 28,8 cm, Cover: Paperback, Pages: 24 Full colour illustrations: ElĹźbieta Ĺ&#x161;mietanka-Combik

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Christmas colouring and doodling books There is lots to draw, doodle and colour in these creative books for Christmas time.

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Format: 21,5 x 27,5 cm, Cover: Softcover, Pages: 16 + 4 pages with stickers Full colour illustrations Mosaic sticker and activity books full of various exercises and mosaic scenes. Provides hours of creative stickering and colouring fun with colourful and satisfying results.

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MOSAIC AND ACTIVITY STICKER BOOKS

Activity Books for 4-6

GaMEs Box 25,5 x 22,5 cm, Book 23,5 x 22,0 cm, Pages: 32 Full colour illustrations

Educational sets - each box includes an activity book and a game. Ideal to practice preschool education, in following topics: numbers, observation, memory, time, environment, shapes and colours and animals. Books contain exercises with funny, colourful illustrations. By playing the game, kids can consolidate the knowledge from the book. The whole family can play and there is no time for boredom!

Format: : 19,5 x 24 cm, Cover: Hardcover, Pages: 56 Colourful illustrations: Dorota Szoblik Author: Liliana Bardijewska English reading sample available Literary Distinction by Polish Ibby Section

Fiction Books for 4-6

Whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the Gossip among the Shells A unique book for exceptional readers. Breathtaking ingenuity and finest word games can be found in this charming and amusing story, written by a very awarded Polish author. A Princess, a Crab, an Octopus and a Jelly Fish are the main characters of this crazy tale, where paradox is as important as the plot itself.

Format: 19,5 x 24,0 cm, Cover: Hardcover, Pages: 48 Colourful illustrations: Marta Kurczewska

Beautifully illustrated stories about bears from around the world. Each book contains five separate stories, in which readers meet different kinds of bears - brown, polar and teddy bears. Perfect for bedtime reading for preschool children.

Fiction Books for 4-6

Stories about bears New!

Format: 16,5 x 21,0 cm, Cover: Hardcover with foam, Pages: 112 Full colour illustrations: Monika Suska Cheerful stories about animals, princesses, toys and Christmas time to be read in bed. Beautifully illustrated fairies will encourage a child to talk about the plot, and large letters invite to first self-reading. Each book contains 10 separate stories.

Fiction Books for 4-6

Bedtime Stories

Format: 19,5 x 24 cm, Cover: Hardcover, Pages: 48 Full colour illustrations: Ewa ZabaryĹ&#x201A;o-Duma Author: Marzena Kwietniewska-Talarczyk English reading sample available

Fiction Books for 4-6

A NIM A L SERIES

Series for every young reader, who loves cats and dogs. A heart-warming read, with beautiful and sweet illustrations, perfect for reading together with parents and for first self-reading. Each book contains a separate story.

Format: 16,5 x 21 cm, Cover: Hardcover, Pages: 96 Full colour illustrations: Artur Gulewicz

Fiction Books for 4-6

Series of Classic Fairies Series of classic fairies that never grow old! The most beautiful fairy tales by the Grimm Brothers and H. Ch. Andersen and exotic fairies from around the world, with new brilliant, illustrations. All fairies are retold by a Polish author, in a shorter and easier to understand form, excellent for pre-school children. Original and entertaining illustrations would encourage children to read classic fairy tales, and to enter that colourful and magic world.

Format: 16,5 x 21 cm, Cover: Hardcover, Pages: 96 Full colour illustrations: Artur Gulewicz Poems for children by two great poets, whose books gained enormous popularity. They remain since decades a part of the canon of childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s literature in Poland. Witty and smart lines are accompanied with imaginary illustrations.

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Fiction Books for 4-6

Polish poetry by Jan Brzechwa and Julian Tuwim

Format: 16,5 x 23,5 cm, Cover: Hardcover, Pages: 48 Full colour illustrations: MaĹ&#x201A;gorzata GoĹşdziewicz

Selection of the most beautiful and popular with children tales by Andersen and Grimm Brothers. Classical tales with friendly and warm illustrations will take readers on a magic journey to the world full of wonderful adventures and happy endings.

Fiction Books for 4-6

Collection of Classic Fairy Tales

Fiction Books for 4-6

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A Treasury of Fairy Tales Format: 20,4 x 29,0 cm, Cover: Hardcover, Pages: 176 Full colour illustrations: Marcin Piwowarski Wonderful collections of the most beautiful and the best-loved fairy tales by Hans Christian Andersen, the Brothers Grimm, Charles Perrault, exotic fairies from around the world, favorite bedtime stories and Polish legends. These timeless classic makes the perfect gift, bringing happiness to a new generation of story lovers.

Format: 16,5 x 20,5, Cover: Paperback, Pages: 96 Full colour illustrations Read, draw, complete, have fun and get to know each other better. From quizzes and recipes to fashion shows and story starters, these journals are full of ideas and things for girls to do with their moms, dads and best friends.

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