Nobody knows why that little girl carrying a big bag is yelling at strangers, until someone dares to ask her about. She is sad because Elvis is dead. Not the famous Elvis, but her canary, that now will receive a proper funeral. She can also tell her new friends about what Elvis was like and about how well he sang. A book that can comfort children and a wonderful picture book that is full of poetry.

German Award to the best children’s book 2006 (picture books).

“With an astonishing care and a cutting humour, by means of a laconic text, without a trace of false sentimentality, but with comic or cartoon-like pictures, the distinguished German author and illustrator talks about the mixed feelings caused by the dead of a loved one: sadness, anger, lack of understanding… Finally, covered by their friends, the little girl cries and tells them what Elvis was like, she feels comforted and, eventually, is able to laugh when she imagines the two Elvis meeting. It is simply brilliant.” (CLIJ, Children and Young Adults’ Literature Notebooks).

“… we feel astonished when we realize how it can express so much with so little”. (Educación y Biblioteca Magazine).

“… a story that is brilliantly set up, perfectly combining an accurate text and illustrations, and that opens expectations from the very beginning, that creates, maintains an rations the thriller and that deals with the issue in a careful and gentle way, with a touch of humour and sweetness and lots of wit. It can be useful for making conversation with children about the issue, but, above all, this is a good story to tell, read, observe and share” (Pep Molist in Babar).

What is the point of playing with the baby food over and over? Here you have Peter Shössow instructions to feed the youngest babies, which are full of colours and sense of humour.

For all those that always wanted to know why the food tastes better when you eat it from a small dish accompanied by the pony, the doll and the big teddy bear.

Recommended by Canal Lector

Some of the reviews from international press:

" Schössow’s sense of humour is to everybody’s tastes" (Die Zeit).

“Highly professional and amusing… A teaspoon for… has certainly the value of good picture books” (Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung).

Yum!

Sometimes, a teaspoon is not enough. Sometimes you need something more!

But…  it will be good for little Godzilla…? Or it will too much for him?

“… Once again, Peter Schössow shows his sensitivity and sense of humour by pointing at the demanding pre-readers with a story so simple but original, so close but unexpected, like this one” (Canal Lector).

Everyone has been getting ready for the big event: today, at the theater, “Poor Peter”, by Heinrich Heine, will be played by children and for children.

Actors get ready for the show while a big crowd of spectators is gathering. Then, finally, the story about Peter’s inability to get Margarita begins; that is something quite dramatic, exciting, and sometimes funny, as we can see in the audience’s reactions.

In this picture book, Peter Schössow narrates the old story about love and spitefulness. The observer, at the from row, attends the changing game of feelings between the stage and the audience.

“This book catches the reader up since the very first time” (Canal Lector)

“Poor Peter, by Peter Schössow, is a picture book of big size, an enormous and brilliant book” (Bienvenidos a la fiesta).

"A big format for a high quality work: the illustrator Peter Schössow shares by means of this book the innovative "stage action" of the poem "Poor Peter", by Henrich Heine, a classic of German Literature" (Cuatrogatos Foundation).