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Children's & YAThe Child in Three-Story Attic
China Story Picture Books
by Zhang Qiusheng
China Story Picture Books is the first set of children's picture books launched by the Bingxin Award Committee. This set of books covers the works of seven Bingxin Award-winning writers of different ages including children's literature masters and promising young writers. The illustrations are full of traditional Chinese cultural elements such as dragon lantern dance, paper cutting, oil paper umbrella, and bamboo. Powerful painters at home and abroad are invited to do illustrations, which brings interesting fusion and collision of Chinese and foreign cultures to the books. In addition to the original illustrations, the stories are more touching. Every child can harvest the courage and wisdom for growing up from these stories. The series consists of 7 picture books: The Dragon Lantern, The Path of Golden Flowers, The Child in Three-Story Attic, The School Day Gifts, The Secret of Crossing, The Slope of Sisters. The Child in Three-Story Attic tells a story of growing up in the alley of Shanghai of Old China. The protagonist lives in a three-story attic in an old alley from the age of one to twelve. On a typhoon night, the protagonist curled up in the corner of the attic found a copy of The Adventures of Pinocchio and began his writing. Now although the old alley has disappeared, his memory of the attic will never die.
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March 2023Die Geschichte von Doktor Dolittle
by Hugh Lofting, Reinhard Michl, Eike Schönfeld
Der Arzt John Dolittle lebt in dem kleinen Städtchen Puddleby-on-the Marsh, mit den Menschen kommt er nicht gut zurecht. Mit Tieren ist das ganz anders, selbst dem kranken Krokodil kann er helfen. Viele bleiben nach der Behandlung bei dem scheuen Doktor, suchen sich einen Platz im Garten oder im Haus, denn er beherrscht auch noch ihre Sprachen! Seiner griesgrämigen Schwester wird das alles zu viel, sie zieht aus. »Normale« Patienten kämen ohnehin nicht mehr in die Praxis… Als in Afrika eine neue und unheilbare Tierkrankheit ausbricht, beschließen er und seine treuen Freunde, trotz Geldmangels ein Schiff zu chartern und zu dem unbekannten Kontinent aufzubrechen, um den Tieren dort zu helfen! Hugh Loftings Kinderbuchklassiker von 1920 wurde für diese Ausgabe von Eike Schönfeld vollständig neu übersetzt. Und der große Tierzeichner Reinhard Michl hat »Doktor Dolittle« für die Insel-Bücherei kongenial illustriert. Eine prachtvolle Wiederentdeckung!
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February 2009Unter Freundinnen
Ein New-York-Roman
by Laura Shaine Cunningham, Juliane Zaubitzer
Sechs beste Freundinnen treffen sich in der kältesten Nacht in einem Loft in Downtown, während der "Sturm des Jahrhunderts" über Manhatten hinwegfegt. Die Frauen wollen feiern, denn Claire, sechsunddreißig und Single, ist nun doch noch schwanger geworden. Doch während der australische Rotwein fließt, Handys klingeln und biologische Uhren zurückgestellt werden, kommen Themen auf den Tisch, die keine der Anwesenden unberührt lassen. Die Stimmung kippt. Was fröhlich begann, endet mit Geständnissen und Abrechnungen mit Männern, falschen Freundschaften und verlogenen Lebensentwürfen. Die eine freut sich über einen neuen Liebhaber, die andere verläßt ihren untreuen Ehemann, die dritte beschließt ein Kind zu kriegen. "Six in the City" – beim gemeinsamen Abendessen fliegen Spitzen und Sticheleien über den Tisch. Wer gewinnt – die Romantikerinnen oder die Pragmatikerinnen?
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May 1999Der Briefwechsel. 1964–1983
by Uwe Johnson, Max Frisch, Eberhard Fahlke, Eberhard Fahlke
1962lernten sich Max Frisch und Uwe Johnson persönlich in Rom kennen. Der Briefwechsel, der 1964 einsetzt und 1983 mit der Bitte Uwe Johnsons endet, Max Frisch möge ihm für ein halbes Jahr seinen New Yorker Loft vermieten, zeigt auch einen wichtigen Ausschnitt deutscher Literaturgeschichte nach 1945. Max Frisch, der Altere von beiden, war zum Zeitpunkt ihres ersten Treffens bereits ein bekannter und erfolgreicher Autor, Uwe Johnson hatte mit den Mutmassungen über Jakob und dem Dritten Buch über Achim erst zwei, wenngleich hoch gelobte Romane veröffentlicht. Zwischen beiden entstand eine enge Beziehung, die, wie könnte es anders sein, nicht frei war von Auseinandersetzungen, gegenseitiger Fremdheit, aber dann doch immer wieder präziser Vertrautheit. Da sich der Austausch zwischen diesen Autoren nicht nur auf die beidseitig wichtigen Themen bezieht, sondern auch politische Ereignisse, die Werke von Kollegen oder das Wirken des gemeinsamen Verlegers einschließt, werden in diesem höchst aufschlußreichen Briefwechsel Zeitgeschichte und Nuancen des privaten Lebens in hintergründiger Weise gegenwärtig.
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September 2009Ilias. Odyssee
Zwei Bände im Schuber
by Homer, Michael Schroeder, Karl Ferdinand Lempp
Wer sich bisher nicht an Homer heranwagte, weil er sich durch die Versform oder die altertümliche Sprache der vorliegenden Übersetzungen abgeschreckt fühlte, kann in der Prosaübertragung von Karl Ferdinand Lempp die Ilias und die Odyssee als das erleben, was diese ältesten Dokumente der europäischen Literatur wirklich sind: fesselnde Romane. Die hier erstmals aus dem Nachlaß edierte Gesamtübersetzung von Karl Ferdinand Lempp befreit diese beiden zusammengehörigen Weltbücher, in denen der Krieg der Kriege und die Reise aller Reisen erzählt werden, von den Schlacken, die sich der antiken Vortragsform verdanken, und greift behutsam erklärend ein, wenn der Inhalt dem heutigen Leser nicht ohne weiteres verständlich ist. Ohne sprachliche Anbiederung präsentiert Lempp einen modernen und temporeichen Text, der den Zorn des Achill und die Irrfahrten des Odysseus so unmittelbar vor Augen führt, als wäre alles erst gestern geschehen.
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Children's & YA2011The Tale of the Old Lion
by Mariana Savka (Author), Volodymyr Shtanko (Illustrator)
The old Lion, tired of ruling, settles in glorious Lviv in a beautiful attic with windows overlooking Rynok Square. One day, during the rain, the ceiling of his apartment begins to leak. Someone has to repair it, and the old Lion asks his closest friends, Crocodile, Elephant, and Giraffe, for help. When they arrive in Lviv, amazing things start happening to them. This poetic tale is a true love letter to Lviv, where miracles happen almost every day. From 3 to 6 years Rightsholders: ivan.fedechko@starlev.com.ua
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October 2022My Father's Secret
The BND, my family and I
by Corinna von Bassewitz
For a long time, Corinna von Bassewitz believed her father was a soldier, later on that he was a diplomat. Then, at the age of 16, she learnt something unbelievable: he had been a secret agent for the Bundesnachrichtendienst (BND, Germany's Federal Intelligence Service). Once the secret had been at least partly uncovered, she became something of a spy herself and eventually found some confidential documents in her parents' attic. Later, she realised that her father had been living as a double agent for the FRG and the GDR. So what effect does it have on a girl if her father conceals his true identity and eventually disappears without trace? Along with her family history, the author provides multi-layered and exciting insights into the historical context of the Cold War. A very personal book, intriguingly told and emotionally touching.
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Botany & plant sciencesDecember 1994Azuki Bean
Botany, Production and Uses
by Thomas A Lumpkin, Dean C McClary
Azuki is one of the twelve most important grain legumes in the world and is grown widely in China, Japan, South Korea and Taiwan. It has also been produced or studied in several other countries, including the USA (Minnesota and Washington States), Argentina and Australia. In Japan, azuki is an essential ingredient of both seki-han, a festive rice dish, and an, a sweetened bean paste. Botanically, it formerly belonged to the genus Phaseolus, but it has recently been transferred to the genus Vigna with relatives such as mungbean, black gram and rice bean. This book is the first comprehensive work on this crop. It draws extensively on the Chinese, Japanese and other East Asian literature and is based on a review of approximately 800 published references. It is a definitive reference work that should greatly enhance interest in the crop. It is aimed at researchers throughout the world working on grain legumes, as well as others in agronomy and plant science.
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June 2002Das große Roald-Dahl-Lesebuch
Das Wundermittel / Die Zwicks stehen kopf / Die Giraffe, der Peli und ich
by Dahl, Roald / Illustriert von Blake, Quentin
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July 2022Bücherfresser und Dachbodenspuk
by Cornelia Funke
Book Cruncher and Attic Hauntings Loewe WOW – A New Way of Storytelling! • 5 stories narrated by Cornelia Funke (“A magician of words“)• Illustrated in full colour by Daniela Kohl• Innovative 90:10 picture-text ratio• Text in English available In attics there is only old stuff, dust and cobwebs? Far from it: there are Book Crunchers and many more ghosts waiting for the next adventure ... In her popular style of writing, Cornelia Funke leads her readers into a magic land of stories in which little bookworms, attic ghosts and various other heroes live. Imagine the story of Sten, the boy who doesn’t really like to read. On the attic he finds his grandfather’s old books – all dusty, but reminding him of his grandpa – and there is the funny looking little creature that comes out of an old box: a Book Cruncher (a friendly creature that looks like a mixture between a cat and a guinea pig). It is very hungry and starts eating the books right away, and the good thing is: it tells Sten about all the yummy adventure stories and the exiting thrillers it has eaten. Daniela Kohl has illustrated five popular stories by Cornelia Funke in a completely new and modern way - fans and new readers can easily dive in!
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Children's & YA2019The Book of Horrors: A Collection of Scary Stories
by Volodymyr Arenev, Mia Marchenko, Larysa Andrievska, Ivanka Kravtsova, Yozha Kotsun, Slava Svitova, Yuriy Nikitinsky, Maria Artemenko. Illustrations by Irena Panarina
“The Book of Horrors” is a collection of scary stories by modern Ukrainian children’s writers. In the dark dark room, on the black black shelf, there is a scary scary book…. It contains eight thrilling stories about various mystical, sometimes otherworldly and utterly unexpected events and creatures, including children. If you’re not afraid yet, then meet Mia Marchenko’s black tulips (‘The Black Tulips’), Volodymyr Arenev’s inhabitants of the abandoned attic (‘The Wheeled Coffin’), Larysa Andriyevska’s ugly monsters (‘Monsters from under the Child’s Bed’), Ivanka Kravtsova’s bleeding cuckoo bird (‘Cuckoo’), Yozha Kotsun’s beasts (‘The Beasts’), Slava Svitova’s pygmy witch (‘The Pygmy Witch’), Yuriy Nikitinsky’s ghosts (‘Ghost of Olya and the Real boy named Kostyk’) and Maria Artemenko’s philosopher worms (‘This Fairy Tale is not about an Apple’).
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Children's & YAThe Dragon Lantern
China Story Picture Books
by Yi Ping
China Story Picture Books is the first set of children's picture books launched by the Bingxin Award Committee. This set of books covers the works of seven Bingxin Award-winning writers of different ages including children's literature masters and promising young writers. The illustrations are full of traditional Chinese cultural elements such as dragon lantern dance, paper cutting, oil paper umbrella, and bamboo. Powerful painters at home and abroad are invited to do illustrations, which brings interesting fusion and collision of Chinese and foreign cultures to the books. In addition to the original illustrations, the stories are more touching. Every child can harvest the courage and wisdom for growing up from these stories. The series consists of 7 picture books: The Dragon Lantern, The Path of Golden Flowers, The Child in Three-Story Attic, The School Day Gifts, The Secret of Crossing, The Slope of Sisters. The Dragon Lantern tells a folk story of the Spring Festival. Yuanyuan and Fangfang are twins, and they have a common wish: to have a big lantern on the day of the Spring Festival. When the new year comes, the dragon in the dragon lantern jumps into the sky and turns into a fire dragon with colorful lights. He takes the God of Fortune, the Door God, the Kitchen God and the Lord Rabbit for a walk in the sky, laughs, and brings everyone the blessings of the festival.
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Children's & YAThe Secret of Crossing
China Story Picture Books
by Zhang Jie
China Story Picture Books is the first set of children's picture books launched by the Bingxin Award Committee. This set of books covers the works of seven Bingxin Award-winning writers of different ages including children's literature masters and promising young writers. The illustrations are full of traditional Chinese cultural elements such as dragon lantern dance, paper cutting, oil paper umbrella, and bamboo. Powerful painters at home and abroad are invited to do illustrations, which brings interesting fusion and collision of Chinese and foreign cultures to the books. In addition to the original illustrations, the stories are more touching. Every child can harvest the courage and wisdom for growing up from these stories. The series consists of 7 picture books: The Dragon Lantern, The Path of Golden Flowers, The Child in Three-Story Attic, The School Day Gifts, The Secret of Crossing, The Slope of Sisters. The Secret of Crossing tells the story of the growth of children in villages and small towns. The mud road to the canteen is narrow, several places collapse from the foot of the wall, and one of them breaks into a big gap. Why not fill in the big gap? It's really a lion in the way, and the girl has to cross it carefully, with all her strength.
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Children's & YAUnder the Azure Sky
by Shi Lei
This picture book tells a meaningful growth story through a boy and his father saving, raising, and releasing a pigeon. The boy rescued a wounded pigeon and looked after it carefully. When the pigeon recovered, the boy and his father began to train it to increase its flying distance from 30 kilometers to 80 kilometers and more. The story comes to an abrupt end after the climax, leaving a great deal of suspense for readers. It did not give a clear answer to where the pigeon finally went. Perhaps it went back to the free sky, since the sky is the real home for a flyer. The same is true of children's growth. Only after experiencing trials and hardships can they fly to their own stages of life.
