rights catalogue 2015

FOREIGN RIGHTSFOREIGN RIGHTS catalogue

2015

AGNIESZKA STELMASZYKArcheo ChroniclesTerra IncognitaSpies CoalitionTommy Orkiszek & Partners. Detective AgencyThe Adventurers’ ClubHinkul on a Desert IslandCornelia’s ChristmasCottage Cheese HotelI am Reading!

MARCIN MORTKATappi of The Whispering ForestTappi the Viking StoriesTappi’s Birthday - a board gameLostHouse Under Cracked Sky

BOOKS FOR EARLY READERS 0-3Rhyme Animal StoriesAnimal StoriesWinter TimeWinter StoriesFirst Fairy TalesEducational sets for toddlersI Already Learn!

ACTIVITY BOOKS FOR 4-6Seek and FindI Like to DecorateDoodle WorkbooksChristmas Colouring and Doodling BooksMosaic and Activity Sticker BooksGames

FICTION BOOKS FOR 4-6What’s the Gossip Among the ShellsStories About BearsBedtime StoriesAnimal SeriesSeries of Classic FairiesPolish poetry by J. Brzechwa and J. TuwimCollection of Classic Fairy TalesA Treasury of Fairy Tales

ACTIVITY AND DYI BOOKS FOR 7-9Journals for GirlsDoodlingBig Doodling PadsChristmas CardsEverything You Can MakeMy Ideas For Fashionable AccessoriesGames

MANUALS FOR 10-12Essential Reading for Teens

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Adventure books, which combine fascinating stories with even morefascinating history.

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.

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.

Archeo ChroniclesFormat:14,5 x 20,5 cm, Cover: Hardcover, Age: 9+Full colour illustrations: Jacek Pasternak, Paweł ZarębaEnglish reading sample available

200 000copies sold!

Agnieszka Stelmaszyk


Rights sold: Lithuanian

RIGHTS SOLD: Lithuanian2

Format: 14,5 x 20,5 cm, Cover: Paperback, Pages: 240-264 , Age: 9+

BW illustrations

TERRA INCOGNITA

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 – 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!


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Format: 14,5 x 20,5 cm, Cover: Paperback, Pages: 240-328, Age: 9+BW illustrations: Daniel Grzeszkiewicz, Paweł Zaręba English reading sample available

NEW!

Format: 14,7 x 20,5 cm, Cover: Hardcover with a whole, Pages: 128, Age: 6+BW illustrations: Anna OparkowskaEnglish 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.

A trilogy of adventure books for older children. It can be compared to James Bond – 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 in-triguing 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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The Adventurers’Club

Format: 14,5 x 20,5 cm, Cover: Paperback, Pages: 200, Age: 10+Full colour illustrations: Anna Oparkowska, Katarzyna NowowiejskaEnglish reading sample available

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 Adventurers’ Club and in each volume they solve mysterious cases in their home town.

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Cottage cheese hotel

Hinkulon a Desert IslandFormat: 21,0 x 29,7 cm, Cover: Hardcover, Pages: 29, Age: 4+ Full colour illustrations: Ewa NawrockaEnglish translation available

Format: 24,5 x 24,5 cm, Cover: Hardcover, Pages: 48, Age: 4+Full colour illustrations: Katarzyna NowowiejskaEnglish 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: 19,5 x 24,0 cm, Cover: Hardcover, Pages: 64, Age: 4+Full colour illustrations: Marcin PiwowarskiEnglish reading sample available

kornelia's Christmas

New!

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!


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!

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

I am ReadingIntriguing 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.


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The most of ideas come to his mind in… a train. He just simply can’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.

Format: 16,5 x 21,5 cm, Cover: Hardcover, Pages: 160, Age: 6+BW illustrations: Marta KurczewskaEnglish reading sample available

Marcin Mortka created a magical world, full of talk-ing 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.

Tappi of the Whispering Forest

Marcin Mortka M

arcin Mortka

RIGHTS SOLD: Czech8

Format: 19,5 x 24,0 cm, Cover: Hardcover, Pages: 48, Age: 4+Full colour illustrations: Marta KurczewskaEnglish reading sample available

Short, beautifully illustrated stories about a friendly Viking Tappi and his ani-mal friends. Full of good emotions, teach preschool children about friend-ship 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.

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 be-comes a co-author – 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.

Tappi The Viking Stories

Make your own storywith Tappi

Marcin M

ortka

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Box 25,5 x 22,5 cm, Board 47 x 44 cmAge: 4-99Full colour illustrations: Marta Kurczewska

Do you know Viking Tappi? He has a long, red beard, likes to drink hot choc-olate and lives in a Whispering Forest with other magical characters.

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.

Tappi’s Birthday – a board game

NEW!

Marcin M

ortka

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LOSTAlien 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: 232, Age: 9+BW illustrations: Daniel GrzeszkiewiczEnglish reading sample available

Marcin M

ortka

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

Marcin M

ortka

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Act vity Books for Early Readers 0-3

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

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

RHYMEANIMAL STORIES

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

A delightful collection of storybooks about baby animals. Children will love turning the col-ourful pages with sweet illustrations and friendly characters. Irregular and streamlined shape is designed to exercise child’s sense of touch.

ANIMAL STORIES

Perfect to read aloud with youngest children!

Winter TimeFormat: 19 x 19, Cover: Boardbook, Pages: 10Full 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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WINTERSTORIESFormat: 14,5 x 14,5, Cover: Boardbook, Pages: 10Full 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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Format: 12 x 13 cm, Cover: boardbook, Pages: 18 Format: 16x16 cm, Cover: hardcover with foam, Pages: 10Full colour illustrations: Marcin Południak

Classic fairy tales in two formats – 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

Bestseller!


LEW

Przyklej naklejkę z lwem i pokoloruj obrazek.

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

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.


Educational sets

for toddlers

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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 children’ 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.

I ALREADY LEARN!


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

Large, lovely illustrations showing situations from everyday life – 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.

Act vity Books for 4-6

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I Like to DecorateFormat: 23,8 x 30,5 cm, Cover: Softcover, Pages: 24 + 4 pages with removable stickersFull colour illustrations

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.


Format: 28,8 x 20,0 cm, Cover: Paperback, Pages: 28 BW illustrationsFour Math’s workbooks to be published in Fall 2014.

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Doodle WorkbooksSeries 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.

Format: 28,8 x 20,0 cm, Cover: Paperback, Pages: 28BW illustrations


100.000copies sold!

Christmas colouring and doodling books

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

Format: 20,0 x 28,8 cm, Cover: Paperback, Pages: 24Full colour illustrations: Elżbieta Śmietanka-Combik


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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.

MOSAIC AND ACTIVITY STICKER BOOKSFormat: 21,5 x 27,5 cm, Cover: Softcover, Pages: 16 + 4 pages with stickersFull colour illustrations


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

GaMEs Act vity Books for 4-6

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

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What’s the Gossip among the Shells

Format: : 19,5 x 24 cm, Cover: Hardcover, Pages: 56Colourful illustrations: Dorota SzoblikAuthor: Liliana BardijewskaEnglish reading sample availableLiterary Distinction by Polish Ibby Section

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.

Fict on Books for 4-6

Stories about bearsFormat: 19,5 x 24,0 cm, Cover: Hardcover, Pages: 48Colourful 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.

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Bedtime StoriesFormat: 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. Beautiful-ly 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.


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ANIMALFormat: 19,5 x 24 cm, Cover: Hardcover, Pages: 48Full colour illustrations: Ewa Zabaryło-DumaAuthor: Marzena Kwietniewska-TalarczykEnglish reading sample available

SERIESSeries 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.


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Series of Classic FairiesFormat: 16,5 x 21 cm, Cover: Hardcover, Pages: 96Full colour illustrations: Artur Gulewicz

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 enco-urage children to read classic fairy tales, and to enter that colourful and magic world.


Format: 16,5 x 21 cm, Cover: Hardcover, Pages: 96Full 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 children’s literature in Poland. Witty and smart lines are accompanied with imaginary illustrations.

Jan Brzechwa Julian Tuwimand

Polish poetry by

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Collection of Classic Fairy Tales

Format: 16,5 x 23,5 cm, Cover: Hardcover, Pages: 48Full colour illustrations: Małgorzata Goździewicz

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


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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 Per-rault, 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.

NEW! Fict on Books for 4-6

Journals for GirlsFormat: 16,5 x 20,5, Cover: Paperback, Pages: 96Full 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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Act vity and DYI Books for 7-9

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DoodlingFormat: 23,5 x 22,0 cm, Cover: Paperback, Pages: 112Full colour illustrations: Elżbieta Śmietanka-Combik

Series of colourful books, that inspire children to be imaginative and creative. Each book contains 40 stickers. Ideal for creative boys and girls, full of funny and friendly illustrations, which invite to colour, complete, dood-le and draw. It includes a huge selection of activities and lots of suggestions for ways to complete the pictures. Doodlers can complete the scenes however they want to. The quality of craft paper is ideal for drawing.


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Big Doodling PadsFormat: 23,5 x 31,5 cm, Cover: Paperback, Pages: 32Full colour illustrations: Elżbieta Śmietanka-Combik

New doodling titles in bigger and handy format. These colourful books will inspire children to be imaginative and creative.Now the space for drawing is even bigger!


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Christmas CardsFormat:18,0 x 12,5 cm, Cover: Paperback Full colour illustrations: Wojciech Stachyra

Fifteen festive Christmas cards to colour!

Colourful cards with funny illustrations, that come in handy format. They will encourage youngsters to make Christmas cards by themselves and to endow their closest family with them.


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EVERYTHING YOU CAN MAKE

Format: 21,0 x 27,0 cm, Cover: Hardcover, Pages: 96

Series of books with lots of creative ideas for children, how to make things at home - paper planes, kites, handmade presents, lots of things to be made out of paper, pla-sticine or beads. Children can learn and get ideas how to make: cards for all occasions, paper decorations, photo frames, mugs, hanging decorations, mouse pads, Christmas decorations and many more.


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My ideas for fashionable accessories

Make your own jewellery, original accessories and lots more!Step by step projects comes with information about difficulty level, approximate cost and time.

Format: 16,5 x 21,5 cm, Cover: Paperback, Pages: 128


RIGHTS SOLD: Mainland China

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

Educational sets for school children. Each box includes an activity book and a game. Kids can practice their knowledge in: counting, multiplying and dividing, traffic regulations, human body and using a clock. By playing the game, kids can consolidate the knowledge from the book. The whole family can play, which is also a big advantage of it.


GaMEs

ESSeNTIAL ReADING FOR TeENSFormat: 14,5 x 20,5 cm, Cover: Paperback, Pages: 96Full colour illustrations: Wojciech StachyraEnglish reading sample available Best

seller!Series about crucial matters for every young boy and girl to survive in their teen life. Perfect read for those, whom teach-ers drive mad, schoolmates speak different language and who don’t know how to get on with parents and siblings. These books will give you hints how to organize your time, learn effectively and have free time for friends.

Manuals for 10-12

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