★ More than 50.000 copies sold!
★ Rights sold to France, Great Britain, Italy, Japan, South-Korea, Taiwan, USA and Ukraine!
★ A boy and bear book by Axel Hacke and Michael Sowa, wonderfully lyrical and beautifully illustrated. Eagerly awaited by all fans of their earlier "Der kleine König Dezember" (Little King December).

»When I was a little boy I had a small, quiet bear, whose name was Sunday…« And so begins the story of a boy and his Sunday, the two as inseparable as boys and bears often are. But then one day doubts begin to trouble the boy. Does my bear love me as much as I do him? And is he really alive? He tries to coax some sign of life from the bear, chatting away to him, thinking it all through. And then one night he has a dream. In his dream, he lives with lots of other children in Mr. Teddy Bear’s shop, where big bears come to look for toys to give to their little bears. And where small boys, for example, wait on the shelves to be chosen by bear families and go out into the big wide bear world. And so it is that our little boy changes hands one day, becoming a birthday present for a bear named Sunday, who unwraps him excitedly, calls him Axel, plays with him, snuggles up with him in bed, and who loves him very, very much.

A poetic tale from the magical world of children and bears, somewhere between dream and reality, a little play on roles with enchanting illustrations by Michael Sowa.

Axel Hacke
was born in Braunschweig in 1956. He has been a reporter with the Süddeutsche Zeitung since 1981. Joseph Roth Prize (1987), Egon Erwin Kisch Prize (1987 and 1990), Theodor Wolff Prize (1990). His books have been translated into several languages.

Michael Sowa
born 1945, has spent his life in Berlin. He studied art and education, and has been a freelance artist since 1975. Olaf Gulbransson Prize (1995).