Autorentext

Kerstin Hau lives in Darmstadt, Germany. She earned degrees in media systems design and journalism, and has been a freelance author since 2015. As an alumna of the Akademie für Kindermedien (Academy for Children's Media), she loves writing picture books. Her son, who died before he was four years old, taught her that all new things originate in darkness, and that true love is immortal: these are the sources for her stories.

Selda Marlin Soganci has been a freelance illustrator and graphic designer since 2000. She grew up in the town of Naila in the heart of the Franconian Forest (Germany). She discovered her passion for the medium of wood as a student at the FH Münster. Ever since then, she has been painting and drawing, carving and crafting, preferably on/in/with spruce wood. Wood scraps and raw boards are transformed into distinctive pictures and figures, scenes for children’s theater, and now and again books, which have won multiple awards.

Tammi Reichel earned two degrees in theology and then moved to Germany for a decade, where she became an editor for an international publisher. She has translated a wide range of books, from art and architecture to cookbooks to young adult novels, including My Family for the War, which received the 2013 Batchelder Award. After raising her family in Virginia, she recently relocated to western Montana.

Klappentext

A sweet little angel must find his purpose–could it have something to do with the spirit of Christmas?

The little angel doesn’t yet know what kind of angel he should be. He wants so badly to help people, but nothing he tries is right! Then, when the beautiful sound of bells rings through the air on Christmas Eve, he suddenly senses his purpose: He will light up people’s hearts.

Kerstin Hau tells a tender, touching Christmas story. Selda Marlin Soganci illustrates the tale in her special style: gouache paint and pencils on spruce wood. The wood grain shimmers through her illustrations and gives the pictures in this timeless story a unique warmth.