The German Academy of Children- and Youthliterature has awarded our book as picturebook of the month. 
When he was young Isopo Kamui, the rabbit god, hopped through the fields and the forests without ever tiring. In his older days he wanted to go on another tour, as he used to do. But this time everything was different. Now, Isopo has something to tell the people …
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Learn more about our new titles in 2012. 
Program Baobab Books Spring PDF

A tadpole wonders why we get up, if we go to bed again anyway. A deer looks for an answer to the question about the meaning of life. A tiger cries because he has eaten a fox… and a moon bear wishes the crescent moon were his friend, so that he can escape his loneliness.These seven precious stories from Japan, told with impressive lightness, poetry, and wit, talk about the major questions of life. Who am I? What is friendship? What is happiness? A book that will make you thoughtful, a book that will make you smile.
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The Tanzanian artist and illustrator John Kilaka has been awarded by the Swedish section of the International Board on Books for Young People IBBY. His picture book Der wunderbare Baum won the Peter Pan Prize 2011. The Swedish translation of this book from the Baobab Series was published in 2010. We congratulate John Kilaka!