W.G. Sebald

Anthea Bell

In the summer of 1939, five-year-old Jacques Austerlitz is sent to England on one of the Kindertransports and placed with foster parents in Wales. For reasons of their own, the childless Calvinist couple erase from the boy all knowledge of his identity. Throughout his life Austerlitz is haunted by feelings of otherness, but it is not until retirement that he embarks on a journey to make sense of his curious early memories and explores what happened to him half a century ago.

Austerlitz

Stefan Zweig

A Novel

Chess

Kerstin Gier

Dream a Little Dream

Charles Perrault

Loek Koopmans

Cinderella

Oliver Pötzsch

The Castle of Kings

Janosch

Little Bear and Little Tiger leave their comfortable home behind to go in search of Panama, the land of their dreams, and end up in the most beautiful place in the world.

The Trip to Panama

Peter Härtling

Though Theo loves his parents, he finds their quarrels too much to bear. So he decides to run away. Befriended by an old man who works at a funfair, Theo finally becomes reconciled to his parents' broken marriage.

Theo Runs Away

Hermann Simon

Irene Stratenwerth

Marie Jalowicz-Simon

One Woman's Extraordinary Account of Survival in the Heart of Nazi Germany

Gone to Ground

Reinhardt Jung

A boy dreams that he is a student during the period of the Nazi Third Reich in Germany, where he is persecuted for being physically handicapped.

Dreaming in Black and White

Jacob Grimm

Wilhelm Grimm

Monika Laimgruber

Enraged at not being invited to the princess' christening, the wicked fairy casts a spell that dooms the princess to sleep for one hundred years.

a fairy tale

The Sleeping Beauty

Jean-Jacques Sempé

René Goscinny

Nicholas is the first of five books that bring to life the day to day adventures of a young school boy - amusing, endearing and always in trouble. An only child, Nicholas, appears older at school than he does as home and his touchingly naive reaction to situations, cut through the preconceptions of adults and result in a formidable sequence of escapades. This first book in the series contains a collection of nineteen individual stories where, in spite of trying to be good, Nicholas and his friends always seem to end up in some kind of mischief. Whether in the school room, at home, or in the playground, their exuberance often takes over and the results are calamitous - at least for their teachers and parents. Whether confusing the photographer hired to take the class picture, dealing with having to wear glasses for the first time, or trying desperately to help the teacher when the school inspector pays a visit, Nicholas always manages to make matters worse

Nicholas. Ediz. Inglese

Bernadette Watts

Although the mother goat warns her young not to let anyone in while she is away from the house, the babies are tricked by a sly fox who enters their home and causes complete chaos, much to the mother's dismay. Reprint.

The Wolf and the Seven Little Goats

Beware of Pity

A. Th Sonnleitner

Isolated in a valley by a rock slide, two seventeenth-century children discover for themselves the ways of prehistoric man in their efforts to survive.

The Cave Children

Cornelia Funke

Igraine is a high-spirited princess living in a fairytale castle with her eccentric magician parents, her older brother who longs to be the new Merlin (but whose tricks are always going wrong) and her talking cat. She dreams of becoming a famous kni ght like her great-grandfather, riding in tournaments and honouring the family name. But instead, life is rather boring. Until the day the unscrupulous nephew of the Baroness next door arrives with his horrible henchman, intent on capturing both the castle and her parents' wonderful singing magic books. Worse still, at the very moment of the attack, her brother's latest spell goes wrong and her parents are turned into pigs! Igraine sets out to save the day, and with the help of a Gentle Giant and a Sorrowful Knight manages to put everything right (and rescue her parents) while learning the true meaning of chivalry.

Igraine the Brave

Lisbeth Zwerger

Hans Christian Andersen

This magical story tells of a mermaid's thwarted love for a land-born prince, and her quest for an immortal soul that brings her face to face with an evil seawitch. Full of love, sacrifice and magic, 'The Little Mermaid' is a charming classic.

Anthea Bell

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