Books by Antje Damm

The Wolf and the Fly is a delightful guessing, memory, observation and naming game in which one toy after the next disappears into the mouth of a hungry wolf. From New York Times Illustrated Book recipient Antje Damm. One gulp, another gulp and another: one toy after the next dis...appears into the mouth of the hungry wolf. Now he's almost full, just a last little fly for dessert-uh-oh! The Wolf and the Fly is both story and guessing game to play again and again. Each object on the shelf is brought to life then, when everything that's been swallowed re-emerges, the game starts anew.This is an original and delightful guessing, memory, observation and naming game from award-winning author and illustrator Antje Damm, whose The Visitor was a New York Times Illustrated Book of the Year.
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Bear waits patiently for his friend. The robins fly to the south and the first snow falls. When Bear awakes from a long sleep, he hears a noise like a hand sliding slowly across paper. Goliath is coming! But Goliath's identity is a big surprise.

A story about friendship and shyness, full of light and colour, that plays out in a mini theatre Elise was frightened-of spiders, people, even trees. So she never went out, night or day. One day a strange thing flies in through the window and lands at her feet. And then there com...es a knock at the door. Elise has a visitor who will change everything.This is a gentle, sympathetic story about a child who unwittingly brings light and colour-literally-into a lonely person's life.
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