"With very few words that open up a whole world", Heinz Wagner, KiJUKU

"Large-scale illustrations in mixed media are impressive and finely colour-coordinated", Ingrid Janke, ekz library service

"Marvellous", Michael Lehner, BuchLAAden, anzeiger

★ Wriiten by Heinz Janisch, who won the Hans Christian Andersen Award 2024!
★ ages 3+, full English translation available.

A mouse sets out on its journey - and gets by with just a few words. Giant fog, storm of flowers ... The adventures it experiences are varied and colourful. It bravely faces all the challenges one encounters on journeys. At the end it is expected, how lucky is is! It is also good to arrive somewhere.

Heinz Janisch was born in Güssing in Burgenland in 1960. He studied German and journalism in Vienna. He has worked as a freelancer for ORF radio since 1982, creating and presenting radio programmes. He writes both children's books and books for adults. Heinz Janisch has received several literary awards, including the Austrian State Prize for Children's Poetry in 2005, the Austrian Art Prize for Children's and Youth Literature in 2018, the Grand Prize of the German Academy for Children's and Youth Literature in 2020 and the Hans Christian Andersen Award 2024.

Helga Bansch was born in Leoben, Styria, in 1957. After graduating from high school, she attended the Pedagogical Academy in Graz, where she trained as a primary school teacher. From 1978, she worked as a primary school teacher in Weixelbaum in southern Styria. As part of her training as a life and social counsellor, she worked with children with behavioural problems and discovered painting as a means of expression. Since then she has painted pictures with acrylic on cardboard or canvas, illustrated children's books, made puppets, marionettes and objects from sandstone, clay and papier-mâché. She lives and works in Vienna.