Obelisk
Founded
1976
Titles per year
16-18
Location
Innsbruck, Vienna
Obelisk’s programme ranges from children’s classics from Käthe Recheis or Christine Nöstlinger through to realistic representations of children’s experiences and the kinds of problems facing young people in today’s world. CLUB, Obelisk’s paperback series, offers affordable reading material for children of different ages and interests. There is something for every child, every level and every reading age: exciting or cheerful, animal stories or detective stories, fantasy books or realistic children’s stories.
Authors
Georg Bydlinski, Vera Ferra-Mikura, Susa Hämmerle, Kai Aline Hula, Saskia Hula, Heinz Janisch, Christoph Mautz, Robert Klement, Lena Raubaum, Susanne Riha, Edith Schreiber-Wicke, Jutta Treiber, Renate Welsh
Illustrators
Matze Döbele, Evi Gasser, Carola Holland, Nadine Kappacher, Monika Maslowska, Verena Braun, Antje Drescher
Titles
A Case for Jaromir: The City of Puzzles
Verena Braun & Heinz Janisch
Excitingly and amusingly written
Author is the winner of the 2024 Hans Christian Andersen Prize
Lots of Graz highlights, especially for kids
Suspicious-looking figures are at large in Graz, the city full of puzzles, and it looks like they’re planning something big. Together with the chief of the Graz police and a special inspector from Scotland Yard, the experts embark on a surprising search for clues.
The Fish with the Umbrella
Monika Maslowska and Kirstin Schwab
A promising debut for the 2020 Dixi Award winner
With well-matched colour illustrations by Monika Maslowska
This is the story of the fish with the umbrella and its magical secret.
The fish lives in a picture at a museum. It has to remain perfectly still and can never, ever laugh. But it wants to have an adventure! It remembers some magic words, and – hocus-pocus! – it’s free, and the picture is empty. Simply impossible! Simply unbelievable! Simply fantastically-sensational!
What adventures await the little fish? What’s the secret of its magic umbrella? And will it find a friend to share it all with?
Mo & Flo’s Monster Hunt
Susa Hämmerle and Carola Holland
Large print, short sentences
Themes: friendship and adventures in nature
Mo & Flo’s detective agency
Florian, who’s actually called Flo, and Moritz, who’s actually called Mo, come to a decision: they’re going to start a detective agency. Sitting in their treehouse, they hear a rustling, panting, and smacking, and they’ve got their first case: a monster hunt. Armed with a video camera, they stake out the treehouse at night – and what a night it turns out to be …
A humorous and exciting story of two detectives who learn what it means to be able to count on each other.
A Case for Jaromir: The City of Puzzles
Verena Braun & Heinz Janisch
Excitingly and amusingly written
Author is the winner of the 2024 Hans Christian Andersen Prize
Lots of Graz highlights, especially for kids
Suspicious-looking figures are at large in Graz, the city full of puzzles, and it looks like they’re planning something big. Together with the chief of the Graz police and a special inspector from Scotland Yard, the experts embark on a surprising search for clues.
The Fish with the Umbrella
Monika Maslowska and Kirstin Schwab
A promising debut for the 2020 Dixi Award winner
With well-matched colour illustrations by Monika Maslowska
This is the story of the fish with the umbrella and its magical secret.
The fish lives in a picture at a museum. It has to remain perfectly still and can never, ever laugh. But it wants to have an adventure! It remembers some magic words, and – hocus-pocus! – it’s free, and the picture is empty. Simply impossible! Simply unbelievable! Simply fantastically-sensational!
What adventures await the little fish? What’s the secret of its magic umbrella? And will it find a friend to share it all with?
Mo & Flo’s Monster Hunt
Susa Hämmerle and Carola Holland
Large print, short sentences
Themes: friendship and adventures in nature
Mo & Flo’s detective agency
Florian, who’s actually called Flo, and Moritz, who’s actually called Mo, come to a decision: they’re going to start a detective agency. Sitting in their treehouse, they hear a rustling, panting, and smacking, and they’ve got their first case: a monster hunt. Armed with a video camera, they stake out the treehouse at night – and what a night it turns out to be …
A humorous and exciting story of two detectives who learn what it means to be able to count on each other.