Books with author Dieter Schubert

This favorite picture book, revised for the first time to include text, describes the unusual events that happen when a toy monkey is separated from his young owner. The shimmering watercolors bring to life the enchantingly oddball characters the monkey encounters. These include a mouse colony that uses the monkey's underwear to swing through their house in the bottom of a tree; a hedgehog family that falls asleep with him; and the magpie that steals the monkey away to its nest.

One beautiful morning, Ophelia wakes and stretches, only to hear Kevin moaning from far away. Being a concerned hippopotamus, she leaps out of the water and goes running to help.Along the way, Ophelia passes Meerkat and tells him that Kevin has a stomachache. Meerkat grabs a hot water bottle and sprints to the rescue, telling Frog of Kevin's terrible cramp and sore throat. Frog fixes herbal tea, jogs off, and tells Porcupine that Kevin has pains everywhere. Pains become a broken leg to Rhino, and a body full of broken bones to Toucan. News of Kevin's moaning becomes so exaggerated that, by the time Toucan talks to Turtle, Toucan reports that Kevin is dead.As the friends mourn, Ophelia and Kevin walk to them. Amazed that their dearest crocodile is still alive, the friends find that Kevin only had butterflies in his stomach.In this peppy picture book by award-winning duo Ingrid and Dieter Schubert, animal friends learn that though nervousness is not lethal, a little exaggeration sure makes it contagious!

Lively watercolors of an amusing bear and his hedgehog friend tell the story of this classic children's songThe classic children's folk song that ponders how to fix the hole at the bottom of a bucket comes to life in warm, vibrant colors and lifelike images of endearing forest creatures. Bear, discovering one day that the flowers outside of his den are drooping, must water them quickly. He considers walking to the lake with his spoon, but that's not big enough to hold enough water for the flowers. His colander, he notes with a frown, won't hold any water at all. But then he finds his bucket and is about to head to the lake when he discovers the hole at the bottom of the bucket.Bear's friend Hedgehog happens along, and together, they venture on a comic effort to repair the hole. Hedgehog suggests patching tile hole with straw, but the straw is too long. So they try to use a pair of scissors to cut the straw, but the blades are too dull. They want to use a stone to sharpen the scissors. but the stone is too dry. They need some water for the stone and plan to leave for the lake, but -- Oops! They can't get water because there's a hole in the bucket!Beautiful watercolor images of the laughing hedgehog and confounded bear will entertain and delight new readers. And at the end of Bear and Hedgehog's delight fully comic tale, nature takes its course and showers down rain, saving the day -- and the flowers.""Watercolor Illustrations combine funny touches...with softly colored, nicely detailed animals and landscapes"". -- Booklist

More adventures await Beaver, Hedgehog, Bear, and Badger when industrious Beaver builds a boat for himself. When he learns that all of his friends want to come along for a ride, he must fashion a raft large enough to fit everyone. As each friend climbs aboard, the raft sinks deeper into the water. When the raft reaches a precarious balance, Butterfly lands softly on it, tipping it over. Everyone gets drenched but learns a valuable lesson.

When Beaver gets hurt trying to fix some holes in the roof of his new lodge, his friends Hedgehog and Bear come to the rescue, carrying him off to Bear's cave to recuperate. While Beaver sleeps, Hedgehog and Bear gather stones, sticks, grasses, and mud, not merely repairing the damaged lodge but also decorating their creation with things they find in the forest.

Kate lives in a nice, tidy little house and keeps busy doing chores, but she's not exactly friendly. When Bruce decides to build a home next door, all that banging infuriates her. He offers her dandelion tea, but she says no. How about fishing? No! Soon winter is upon them. While Kate is warm and well fed in her home, Bruce is shivering and hungry in his shack. How the two eventually bond over Bruce's unusual ""hammer soup"" makes for an enchanting, vividly drawn tale of unexpected friendship and the joy of sharing.

From the first moment of seeing the terrier in The Umbrella, it was clear that the Schuberts have a knack for capturing expressive animals. In Opposites, the Schuberts have a blast as they present contrasts far beyond big and small. Best of all, the Schuberts let their imaginations fly as high as a crocodile--or perhaps flying crocodiles only happen in Schubert books? A multitude of details will ensure requests for repeat readings.