New children´s and youth books: Handy-Henri even takes part
(WorldNews Germany)

Scene from: Philip Waechter: `Toni wants to go to the sea` | Illustration: Beltz & Gelberg The colorful illustrations in the picture book `The Kiosk` are magically attractive. With a powerful brushstroke, Anete Melece tells the fantastic story of a kiosk seller. When you open the book cover, you can see right in the middle of Olga´s cramped salesroom, a happy cosmos of magazines, sweets and other useful things. The friendly, fat woman has been working in the pink kiosk with the yellow tower on the roof for many years. Olga passes her customers´ newspapers, lottery tickets, lollipops or drinks through the window every day. Big, small, sporty, old - she knows her names and also her wishes. In...