Read Peter

The Reading Peter is a literary award that the Arbeitsgemeinschaft Jugendliteratur und Medien (AJuM) of the GEW has been giving monthly since September 2003 for an outstanding, up-to-date book of children's and youth literature , alternating between the different categories

Children's book (January, May, September)
Book for young people (February, June, October)
Nonfiction (March, July, November)
Picture book (April, August, December)

Excellent works

2019

January:
February: Christoph Jehlicka : The song of the end
March:
April:
May:
June:
July:
August:
September: Lara protective bag : sun, moon and stars
October:
November:
December:

2018

January: Diana Hillebrand and Stefanie Duckstein : Hannah reveals cemetery secrets . A story about death and what comes after
February: Lena Gorelik : More black than purple
March: Peter Wohlleben : Do you hear how the trees speak? A little journey of discovery through the forest
April: Max Kaplan and Lev Kaplan : Eisbjörn . The incredible adventure of a brave mouse
May: Annette Herzog and Pe Grigo : Who asks a hangover?
June: Anselm Neft : About the light
July: Stefan Casta and Maj Fagerberg : On the Hummelwiese . The great herbarium
August: Joanne Schwartz and Sydney Smith : City by the Sea
September: Salah Naoura and Maja Bohn : Der Ratz-Fatz-x-weg 23
October: Judith Girdl : The life of my best friend
November: Charlotte Guillain and Yuval Zommer : Under my feet
December: Mieke Scheier : Doesn't fit

2017

January: Lisa-Marie Dickreiter and Winfried Oelsner : Max and the Wild Seven
February: Mehrnousch Zaeri-Esfahani and Mehrdad Zaeri-Esfahani : 33 arches and a tea house
March: Dan Kainen and Carol Kaufmann : Polar
April: Myriam Bendhif-Syllas and Marion Arbona : Die Mondwandlerin . Translated by Patricia Klobusiczky
May: Annie MG Schmidt and Sieb Posthuma : A pond full of ink. Rhyme stories
June: Alex Gino : George
July: Bernadette Gervais : The Ladybug
August: Ulrike Möltgen and Kilian Leypold : Wolfsbrot
September: Anke Stelling : Erna and the three truths
October: Robert Deutsch : Turing
November: Gianumberto Accinelli and Serena Viola : The Domino Effect or The Invisible Strings of Nature
December: Mario Ramos : Be King . Translator Alexander Potyka

2016

January: Anja Janotta : Links reading strength or the thing with the borders and letters
February: Dirk Pope : Idiot proof
March: Ludvik Glazer-Naudé & Ingrid Leser-Matthesius : The Magic Flute
April: Kathrin Schärer : Death on the apple tree
May: Kirsten Boie & Jan Birck : Everything will be fine
June: Jon Walter : Beyond the Sea
July: Owen Davey : The Monkey Gang
August: Stephen Walton & Katie Cotton : Counting Lions
September: Ute Wegmann : Dark green like the sea
October: Katrin Zipse : The sum total of love
November: Fleur Daugey and Sandrine Thommen : Birds on a world tour
December: Torben Kuhlmann : Armstrong. A mouse's adventurous journey to the moon

2015

January: Antje Leser and Sabine Rixen (illustrations): Under the Grass
February: Brigitte van Aken : All love, your Lise
March: Marko Simsa and Silke Brix : Classical hits for children
April: Aaron Becker : The journey
May: Ulrich Hub and Heike Drewelow (illustrations): Foxes don't lie
June: Hannele Huovi : The spring chain
July: Bernd Hill : Bionics - copying butterflies
August: María Julia Díaz Garrido & David Daniel Álvarez Hernández : When the birds forgot to be birds
September: Dorothea Flechsig : Sandor - Necessity makes inventive
October: David Whitehouse : Journey with the Stolen Library
November: Carolin Seck and Gunnar Dickfeld : Ata and Ri in the realm of stones
December: Mar Pavon and Vitali Konstantinov : Six long beards

2014

January: Mira Lobe : Lollo
February: Emmy Abrahamson : Contradiction pointless or How to survive a Polish mother
March: Friedrich Soretz : Colorful is (s) t healthy!
April: Komako Sakai : Hanna's night
May: Georg Büchner , Barbara Kindermann and Almud Kunert (illustrations): Leonce and Lena
June: David Levithan : Ultimately, the Universe doesn't care about us
July: Renate Habinger and Verena Ballhaus (illustrations): Kritzel & Klecks
August: David Wiesner : Mr. Schnuffels
September: Jurij Koch and Thomas Leibe : Grandma Kata - Marka and the fighters
October: Edgar Rai and Cem Gülay : Sunny was yesterday
November: Chantal-Fleur Sandjon and Pe Grigo : Happy Earth
December: Willy Puchner : ABC of the fantastic princes

2013

January: Emily Jenkins , illustration by Joelle Tourlonias : The Invisible Wink
February: Anne C. Voorhoeve : Unterland
March: Anke M. Leitzgen and Lisa Rienermann : Discover what you like
April: Zoran Drvenkar and Ole Könnecke (illustrations): You again
May: Timo Parvela : Ella and the new one in the class
June: Daniel Höra : Brown Earth
July: Dr. Mike Goldsmith and Seb Burnett : How to Become a Math Genius
August: Christina Björk and Eva Eriksson (illustrations): Seven princesses and lots of dragons
September Michael De Cock : Rosie and Moussa
October Jürgen Seidel : The perpetrator's paradise
November Manfred Mai and Dorothea Tust : The history of Germany
December Lyuba silence : Liese sucks

2012

January: Ulrike Rylance . Illustrations by Silke Leffler : Emma in the button country
February: Robin Brande : Fat Cat
March: Bärbel Oftring . Photos by Ingo Arndt : Tatort Natur
April: Brothers Grimm . Illustrations by Sybille Schenker : Hansel and Gretel
May: Nathan Luff : Not for wimps
June: Catherine Bruton : The Nine Eleven Boy
July: Andreas Venzke : The Brothers Grimm and the riddle of the frog king
August: Edward van de Vendel and Alain Verster : The dove that didn't dare
September: Eli Rygg : Goodbye, great-grandma
October: Gill Lewis : The Call of Kulanjango
November: Héléne Rajcak and Damien Laverdunt : Incredible stories of extinct animals
December: Lorenz Pauli and Kathrin Schärer : just all of us

2011

January: Albert Wendt : Peter's Christmas party
February: Güner Yasemin Balcı : ArabQueen or the taste of freedom
March: Wolfgang Hensel : Magical Pictures
April: Wilhelm Busch & Jonas Lauströer : Hans Huckebein
May: Inge Meyer-Dietrich & Anja Kiel : The guardians of the black gold
June: Stefanie Harjes & Franz Kafka : Kafka
July: Alexander Cox , Deborah Lock , Fleur Stat , Anneka Wahlhaus u. a. m .: Who is the boss in the state? This is how politics works!
August Jürg Schubiger & Rotraut Susanne Berner : When death came to us
September Doris Wirth & Marc Robitzky : The King's Cup - Benny Blu and the Secrets of Arcania Vol. 2
October Gabriele Gferer : limitlessly close
November Reeves, Hofer & Kronzucker : 500 young ideas to improve the world every day
December Fabrizio Silei & Maurizio AC Quarello : The Rosa Parks bus

2010

January: Dirk Traeger : Silva Norica - conspiracy in the moor
February: Beate Teresa Hanika : Little Red Riding Hood has to cry
March: Marko Simsa & Doris Eisenburger : The Moldau
April: Nadine Brun-Cosme & Olivier Tallec : Big Wolf & Little Wolf
May: Hilke Rosenboom : Olli becomes a big brother
June: Grit Poppe : locked away
July: Aleksandra Machowiak & Daniel Mizielinski : staircase window loo - the most unusual houses in the world
August: Gabriel Erz & Peter Engel : Harry and the Blackbird - An AH book with a Z at the end
September: Alexa Plass-Schmidt : Just no holidays
October: Nava Semel : love for beginners
November: Gerda Anger-Schmidt & Renate Habinger : The book that no one can beat - herbs and spices from eyebright to cinnamon
December: Agnès de Lestrade & Valeria Docampo : The great word factory

2009

January: Andreas Steinhöfel & Peter Schössow : Rico, Oskar and the Tieferschatten
February: Aygen-Sibel Çelik : silk hair
March: Karin Schmidl : ISLAM - Paul and the world religions
April: Jan Lööf : Matilda's cats
May: Watt Key : Alabama Moon
June: Anne C. Voorhoeve : July twenty-first
July: Ute and Tilman Michalski : One, two, three ... I'm coming!
August: Deborah Noyes & Bagram Ibatoulline : Hannah in the time of the tulips
September: Corinna Gieseler : The secret of the bookkeeper
October: Tami Shem-Tov : The girl with the three names
November: Eric Demay : Dolphins and Whales
December: Ayano Imai : The boot hangover

2008

January: Lucy and Stephen Hawking : The Secret Key to the Universe
February: Hermann Schulz : The silver jaguar
March: Al Gore : An Inconvenient Truth - Climate change concerns us all
April: Bill Grossman , Ebi Naumann and Dorota Wünsch : Mariechen ate a rabbit
May: Edward van de Vendel : Twice or cooler than ice cream
June: Karen Cushman : The loud silence of the Francine Green
July: Hermann Vinke : The GDR
August: Mireille d'Allancé : Robbi gets upset - Robby gets mad
September: Barbara Friedl-Stocks : The magical bookstore
October: Morton Rhue : ghetto KIDZ
November: Sonja Floto-Stammen and Sandra Kretzmann : Where smacking and slurping is allowed
December: Lorenz Pauli and Kathrin Schärer : I with you, you with me

2007

January: Petter Lidbeck , Vinni in winter
February: Karlijn Stoffels , Morocco by the lake
March: Anna Mieszkowska : The mother of the Holocaust children. Irena Sendler and the rescued children from the Warsaw Ghetto
April: Ulf Nilsson and Eva Eriksson , The best funerals in the world
May: Brigitte Minne : Squirrel time
June: Marie-Aude Murail : Simple
July: Tim Flannery : We climate killers. How we can save the earth
August: Emily Gravett : Mail from the meerkat
September: Kate DiCamillo : The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane
October: Karla Schneider : Marcolini or How to Become a Favorite
November: Barbara Stieff : Harvesting dreams - Hundertwasser for children
December: Wolf Erlbruch : Duck, Death and Tulip

2006

January: Gunnel Linde , Joppe
February: Andreas Eschbach , The rare gift
March: Claus Christian Malzahn , Germany, Germany. Brief history of a divided nation
April: René Mettler , Nature very close and far away
May: Dagmar H. Mueller , Half of Heaven belongs to Bo
June: Margaret Wild , One Night
July: Johann Grolle , Evolution
August: Heinz Janisch and Helga Bansch , A House by the Sea
September: Laura S. Matthews , Fish - Escape to Life
October: Jean-Paul Nozière , totally crazy
November: Eirik Newth , The Crow That Couldn't Count to 5
December: Sebastian Meschenmoser , Mr. Eichhorn and the moon

2005

January: Roddy Doyle , Rover saves Christmas
February: Melvin Burgess , Doing it
March: Rudolf Herfurtner , Tim's wondrous star journey
April: Maurice Sendak and Tony Kushner , Brundibar
May: Katherine Scholes , The Night of the Birds , illustrated by Quint Buchholz
June: Ian Lawrence , the lighthouse keeper's daughter
July: Claude Nuridsany , Marie Perennou , Genesis - Where do we come from?
August: Peter Schössow , Is that how it belongs ?! The story of Elvis
September: Beate Dölling , rabbits bring luck
October: Karin Gündisch , Cosmin - From someone who set out to learn life
November: Anne Möller , building nests, nibbling caves. How insects care for their children
December: Einar Turkowski , It was dark and strangely quiet

2004

January: Kate DiCamillo , Winn-Dixie
February: Mirjam Pressler , The time of the sleeping dogs
March: Anne Möller , Little Redstart what are you doing here in the snow?
April: Philippe Goossens and Thierry Robrechte , Eva in the land of the lost sisters
May: God's ways. The Bible retold by Klaus Knoke .
June: Donna Jo Napoli , Donata, daughter of Venice
July: Donna Vektoreris , severe weather
August: Sabine Wiemers and Heinz Janisch , a very ordinary Monday
September: Jutta Richter , Hechtsommer , illustrated by Quint Buchholz
October: Anne C. Voorhoeve , Lilly under the linden trees
November: Hermann Krekeler , experiments for all senses
December: Anthony Browne , Into the Woods

2003

September: Marjaleena Lembcke , He was never in Africa
October: Bjarne Reuter , Operation Mikado
November: Rainer Köthe , Tessloff's super smart answer book. Science in everyday life
December: Margaret Wild and Ron Brooks , Fox

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Individual evidence

↑ Reading Peter of the Month for February 2019 goes to Christoph Jehlicka

[1] Reading Peter of the Month for February 2019 goes to Christoph Jehlicka