Series Description:

Janosch (born 11 March 1931) is one of Germany's best-known and most successful children's book authors. He has won numerous awards for his work, including the German Children's Book Prize and the International Youth Award for Oh, wie schön ist Panama, one of his best-known Tiger and Bear series. In addition to children's books, János has written a number of novels and plays for adults, which deal with themes such as religion, the meaning of life and the true art of living. His own goal for himself is to live a full life in Tenerife, Canary Island, where he has lived since the early 1980s. János' works have been translated into many languages and have sold millions of copies worldwide.

Now celebrating the 45th anniversary of his most popular series, "The Tiger and the Bear", Oetinger Verlag has invited two young authors to join him in his new book project in order to bring new light to the world of Janos's classic fairy tales. This series of eleven books, based on the worldview of Janosch's fairy tale "The Tiger and the Bear", brings the two authors together to bring the story of the tiger and the bear to young readers in a brand new way.

Author Bio:

Florian Fickel is a father of two, and when he's not knocking on garage doors with his kids, he likes to read them his own stories. The author has written many children's radio plays and plays for the theatre. His radio drama series "Die Playmos", with its vivid characters and exciting adventures, has sold millions of copies, and in 2013, when he adapted Janosch's book "Tiger Cub and Bear Cub" into a radio play, he came up with a new story for the two friends...

Johanna Seipelt was born in Hildesheim in 1984 and studied communication design at the University of the Arts in Braunschweig.After graduating in 2009, she worked as a freelance graphic designer and illustrator and taught nude painting at the HBK Academy of Fine Arts in Braunschweig. Johanna grew up reading the characters and stories of János and she still enjoys his humour and seriousness. Like Mr. Janosch, she especially enjoys working with pen and watercolour.