Kirby hears everything, and it’s usually more than he wants to hear. Just now he can hear the visitor sitting with his parents in the living room, Aunt Ruh. She’s going to be living with them for a while, and Kirby doesn’t like that at all. He puts on his headphones and sits in his room with his turtle Pansy – he’d stay there forever if he could! But sooner or later he has to go to school … and then Pansy disappears! Could Aunt Ruh have kidnapped her?

With empathy and imagination, Andrea Karimé tells the story of a highly sensitive child and his world, of communication and feelings. Birgitta Heiskel’s captivating pictures help bring the story to life.

Why does Lisa Litza love lollipops? What does melancholy look like, and what does it do all day? Where’s the parrot Papuga going? Who wants to carry a magic shoe and a honey sandwich in their pocket? Are these nonsense questions? Not at all! In Andrea Karimé’s poems, false cognates from 17 languages are turned into associative puns with made-up words, tongue twisters, alliterations and rhyme.

One day, Mother Duck finds a strange egg in her nest. When it hatches, she names it Jen. But Jen doesn’t quite fit in with the rest of the ducks, and they mock her. As it turns out, Jen is actually not a duck at all; she’s a hen! Mother Duck decides to take Jen to a farm to find out more about her heritage. While walking through the portrait gallery, Jen earns that her ancestors were dinosaurs! How cool! But Mother Duck’s heart is heavy: will she have to let Jen go and leave her with the other hens?