This heart-warming, illustrated story follows a lion who visits a library for the first time. Indeed, “there are rules about shouting. And rules about running. But there aren’t any rules about lions!” After struggling with proper behaviour in the library, the lion soon makes friends and perfectly adapts to the new surroundings – he even uses his […]

This beautifully illustrated collection of simple and also more complex Irish poetry for children and young adults explores multiple topics – from animals, seasons, celebrations and daily incidents to myth and legends. Offering a poetic variety from more than 100 Irish poets, this collection takes its readers to an enchanted world. “The Great Blue Whale” […]

As the title suggests, this illustrated picture book lets children discover their love for reading and its positive side effects. Following a young boy called Henry and his appetite for written words, the readers experience what it means to develop a deep passion for long and short stories, poems and other kinds of literature – […]

This picture book by Jim Arnosky beautifully illustrates Bob Dylan’s song “Man Gave Names To All Animals” (1979) and makes the reader aware of the diversity of animals living on our planet. Its vivid images invite us to learn the names of about 100 animals – from B for ‘baby crane’ to Z for ‘zebra’. […]

This beautifully illustrated picture book of Langston Hughes’s “Dream Variations” (a poem published in 1926) explores the speaker’s vision of a society without racism, discrimination, segregation, and racial prejudice. Dancing through the ‘white day‘, representing dominant white society, and ‘flinging his arms widely‘ the speaker, a young African-American boy dreaming of equality, freedom and ease, […]

This wintery picture-only tale tells the story of a boy and his snowman, who suddenly comes to life. Together they travel to the north pole and meet father Christmas and his raindeers. Home again, the weather has changed and the boy’s friend begins to melt… The beautifully illustrated picture book gave way to an award-winning […]

A rhyming story about an unexpected adventure, family and Christmas time: “Stick Man lives in the family tree with his Stick Lady Love and their stick children three…”

This annotated picture book provides instructions on how to attract a ghost, how to tell if he is real, how to play with him, what costume to pick, and how to trick-or-treat together. It is a colourfully illustrated children’s book showing that ghosts are not that scary and adds wonderfully to the Halloween mood in […]

This series of picture books combines wonderful illustrations with playful tasks that can help language learners practice expressing whereabouts of objects and people as well as describing images. In these picture puzzles, students must find “Wally” and his friends that are cleverly hidden across the image. Each page has a different theme and setting, ranging […]

This illustrated short fiction about hope, love, feeling lost and life itself discovers the remarkable and most unusual friendship of a boy, a mole, a fox and a horse. Following the quartet on their journey, the reader explores with them the power of imagination, as well as universal questions and answers. The picture book is […]

This vivid picture book with heartwarming comics on the world of books, the passion for reading and creative explanations, illustrates the world of a book enthusiast. This literary comics can be used in class to motivate your pupils or to provide a visual access to the story structure, genre or style of writing.

Jim the chimpanzee is having a bad day. He’s in a terrible mood and his friends don’t understand why he can’t just smile and be happy. Jim tries to take their advice, doing everything to look happier for everyone else. Nothing works. Multiple attempts at being “happy” and one minor meltdown later, he storms off […]

Written in verse, this story for beginning readers follows detective Nate – the World’s Greatest Detective – on his case of finding a missing cat on Halloween. It also features background information on the celebration and ideas for fun Halloween activities. Overall, more than two dozens of Nate’s stories are available.

In this picture book, an IT-savvy donkey and a book-loving monkey discover the advantages of a ‘classic’ book, offering wonders which no digital medium seems to provide. This work is suited for interdisciplinary teaching with regard to Computer Sciences.

You may think Australian wombats don’t do much except eat, sleep and dig. Well, this little wombat is different. Not only does he eat, sleep and dig, he also trains humans to do work for him like give him treats. This illustrated (and hilarious) story shows us that we may all share some qualities with […]

A bilingual story about bugs, beetles, and their surrounding nature, plants, and animals. In the first volume of the series, the reader follows the two small beetle friends Rosi & Skeeter on their adventures through an old oak forest. The series is suitable for younger learners of English as it provides its readers with both, […]

A rhyming heart-warming story about the beauty of one’s outer appearance and the beauty of the soul. “The zebra looked graceful; the leopard looked great. Oh, what a picture of beauty – but wait!” Hyena, wildebeest, vulture, warthog, and marabou strive through the Savannah – perfectly imperfect as they are.

A story about the well-known cat with the striped hat and his companions Thing One and Thing Two. On a rainy day, the cat visits Sally and her brother. He wants to show them tricks and play but the siblings’ pet fish strongly objects. This book is wonderful for getting to know adjectives and simple […]