Awards

Lantern dreams

• Winner of the i Jungle Illustration Merit Award 2025

What do you do when…?

• Number 1 of the ORF KIDS- Bestenliste in December 2025
• Included in the collection of the Austrian Children’s and Young Adult Book Prize

What if humans hadn’t done it…

• Vitali Konstantinov's dinosaur illustration was selected by the Society of Illustrators in New York  for the Illustrators Annual Exhibition 68 (Category: Book).

City Life

• City Life is on the ORF KIDS best list in January 2025
• Included in the collection of the Austrian Children's and Young Adult Book Prize

A Fox Named Schnitzel

• Kolibri reading recommendation 2025/2026
• The original title »El zorro Chuleta« is a White Raven 2021.

Did you hear that?!

• Among the 25 most beautiful German books 2025  (Stiftung Buchkunst)
• White Raven 2025

Puma Drawing Into Dawn

• "Kröte des Monats"(September 2025) recommended by STUBE
• Ranked No. 1 on the ORF's KIDS Bestenliste
• Among the "Besten 7" on Deutschlandfunk radio
• Book of the Month for November 2025, selected by the German Academy for Children's and Young Adult Literature
• Winner of the Austrian Children’s and Young Adult Book Prize

Vegetable friends

• Among the 25 most beautiful German books 2025 (Stiftung Buchkunst)

Emma and the sad dog

•  One of the 100 Outstanding Picturebooks 2025
• Nominated for the German Children´s Literature Award 2025

PETRICHOR

• PETRICHOR is one of the 100 Outstanding Picturebooks 2025

What a Pine Tree is

• “What a Pine Tree is” is the Toad of the Month by STUBE
• On the longlist of Stiftung Buchkunst 2025

Favourite sweater

• Recommended by the German Academy for Children's and Young Adult Literature as a love book tip in March 2024 under the seal "Fit for the Future"
• On the shortlist (2024) of the Stiftung Buchkunst
• "Favourite Sweater" is under the Golden Pinwheel Finalists 2024
• Selected for the Braw Amazing Bookshelf 2025
• 3rd prize at the 25th Troisdorf Picture Book Prize

Cloud Animals and the Square

• among the 100 Outstanding Picturebooks 2024

Wild Poppy Woman

• Nominated for Korbinian Paul Maar-Preis 2023.

Alberta’s Shop of Dreams

• Alberta’s Shop of Dreams is selected from Deutsche Akademie für Kinder- und Jugendliteratur for the Book of the Month March 2023.
• Nominated for Serafina 2023.

In the morning at six

•  On the Longlist of Stiftung Buchkunst for The Best German Book Design 2023.

Bus

• Awarded Picture Book of the Month June 2024 by the German Academy for Children's and Young Adult Literature
• The best 7 in April, Deutschlandfunk
• Among the Winners of The Best German Book Design 2024
• Selected for the Braw Amazing Bookshelf 2025
• Recommended by Roter Elefant

Ar-Ar and Bobo

• on the Longlist 2022 of Stiftung Buchkunst

It’s time to be happy, bone man!

• Selected for the Braw Amazing Bookshelf 2025
• Nominated for Serafina 2025

Alula – The Garden / The Jungle

• nominated for Serafina 2023
• The Best German Book Design 2023 by Stiftung Buchkunst
• White Raven 2023
• nominated for the Schweizer Kinder - und Jugendbuchpreis 2024
• among the 100 Outstanding Picturebooks 2024

Ela

• Among the 100 best of the Munich Book Show 2022
• ver.di Literaturpreis 2025

A House with Many Windows

• On the list of »Der Rote Elefant«
• A House with Many Windows is selected by the BRAW Amazing Bookshelf in Bologna 2023.

Little Green Riding Cap and the Big Bad Elephant

• On the recommendation list for the 2022 Pied Piper Literature Prize of the City of Hameln

Hiking to Flanders

• Represent in Lyric-Extrablatt of German Academy for Children and Youth Literature

Kaiserschmarrn

• White Raven 2022
• Selected from Deutsche Akademie für Kinder- und Jugendliteratur for the Book of the Month June 2022
• Selected as a reading recommendation by the jury of the Austrian Children´s and Youth Book Prize 2023

The Bear Does His Business

• On the list of »Der Rote Elefant«

On the Island

• On the list of »Der Rote Elefant«

A Chunk of Cheese

• Nominated for Serafina 2020
• A White Raven 2020.

The Whale in the Garden

• Selected for the Braw Amazing Bookshelf 2022
• Nominated for Serafina 2021

The Secrets of Pinewood Hill

• On the Shortlist of WIA 2022
• Environmental book of the month 2022

Strange Looks

• Winner of Serafina 2022
• selected by the German Academy of Children's and Youth Literature as Picture Book of the Month for May 2022.

Polka for Igor

• Winner of  the German Children’s Literature Award 2019 (Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis) Category Picture Book and Special Award New Talent.
• Winner of Serafina 2018.
• On the list of »Der Rote Elefant«.
• On the longlist of the Most Beautiful German Books 2018 by Stiftung Buchkunst/Foundation Book Art.

The Little Forest Primer

• On the Shortlist of Science Book of the Year 2021.
• Winner of Austrian Children´s and Youth Book Prize 2021.
• On the list of »Der Rote Elefant«.

Queen for a night

• On the shortlist of HUCKEPACK 2020.

The Climate Pigs

• Selected for the Braw Amazing Bookshelf 2022
• Favorite book of the visitors jury for the exhibition of the Troisdorf Picture Book Prize 2021
• Recommended by German Academy for Children and Youth Literature as Climate-Book Tip May 2020
• KIMI-Seal
• Selected for the Braw Amazing Bookshelf Sustainability 2025

These Curiosities Will Have to Be Printed

• International Creative Media Award 2020 category BOOK DESIGN (GOLD).

It doesn´t fit

• On the list of »Der Rote Elefant« 2019.
• LesePeter December 2018.

Yaotao`s Characters

• On the shortlist of Joseph Binder Award 2018.

Chewing gum gums up your stomach

• On the longlist of the Most Beautiful German Books 2018 by Stiftung Buchkunst/Foundation Book Art.

Zorilla

• White Raven 2019
• On the list of "Der rote Elefant" 2019
• KIMI-Seal

Madame Fafu

• Recommended by German Academy for Children and Youth Literature as Environment-Book Tip June 2019.

Scareman

• Selected by German Academy for Children and Youth Literature as Book of the Month May 2020.

The Moon Woman and the Sun Woman

• Awarded with the Kimi-Seal

When the Magpie King lost his White Color

• When the Magpie King lost his White Color is a White Raven 2018

Wolf Bread

• Reading recommendation from Kolibri.
• On the list of “Der rote Elefant”.

Milli Rabbit on the Run

• German Design Award Winner 2018

Wilma’s Mice Hunt

• German Design Award Winner 2018

Really, Roast Dog Sweet-and-Sour? Chinese Home Cooking

• The book is on the shortlist 2017 of »The Beauty and the Book Award«.

Not Beyond the 7 Hills

• Awarded with Mannheimer BUNTSTIFT 2018.
• Nominated for Serafina 2017.
• Not Beyond the 7 Hills is a White Raven 2017.

Just Like Friends

• Winner of Serafina 2017
• German Design Award Winner 2018

Aim high

• German Design Award 2018 (Special Mention)

Suddenly Silence

• Honorary Appreciation by Stiftung Buchkunst/Foundation Book Art – »Best Book Design from all over the World« 2017
• Winner of the German Design Award 2017 (Gold - category Editorial)
• Winner of Schönste Deutsche Bücher – Most Beautiful German Books 2016 by Stiftung Buchkunst /Foundation Book Art

Finn Flosse Cleans up the Ocean

• nominated for Serafina 2015, an illustrators’ young talent award presented by the German Academy of Literature for Children and Young Readers
• Climate Book Recommendation Oct. 2015, by  The German Academy of Literature for Children and Young Readers, as a valuable book to raise climate awareness
• on the shortlist of the Most Beautiful German Books 2016 by Stiftung Buchkunst/Foundation Book Art

Werther Reloaded

• Winner of the German Design Award 2017 (Category Books and Calendars)
• on the shortlist of the Most Beautiful German Books 2016 by Stiftung Buchkunst/ Foundation Book Art

A Day in Cap d’Agde

• Winner of the German Design Award 2017 (Gold - category Posters, Cards and Photography)

And Then the Head Explodes

• Winner of  the German Children’s Literature Award (Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis) 2015
• Beauty and the Book Award Winner, Frankfurt Book Fair 2014
• Joseph Binder Award - prize-winning entry
• on the longlist of the Most Beautiful German Books 2014 by Stiftung Buchkunst /Foundation Book Art
• nominated for the Serafina 2014, a young talent award for illustrators by the German Academy of Literature for Children and Young Readers in cooperation with the Frankfurt Book Fair/Foundation Book Art

Into a World of Words

• White Ravens 2016, an award presented by the International Youth Library that  recognizes outstanding children’s and youth literature

The Big Alphabet Robbery

• German Design Award 2017 (Special Mention - Category Books and Calendars)
• on the shortlist of the Most Beautiful German Books 2016 by Stiftung Buchkunst/Foundation Book Art

The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether

• German Design Award 2017, Special Mention, Excellent Communications Design & Books
• Merit Award, Graphis Design Annual 2017, New York
• on the longlist of the Most Beautiful German Books 2016 by Stiftung Buchkunst /Foundation Book Art

German Cakes for Coffee Time. With Buttercream and Icing

• 3 x 3 International Illustration Award 2016 (Honorable Mention)

Grandmother’s Fur. No Fairy-Tales

• “The Special Book” - on the list of the best books published by independent publishers 2015

Mascha and the Bear

• Plague at the Biennial of Illustration Bratislava (BIB) 2015
• German Design Award – Nominee 2015
• Honoured by the Joseph-Binder-Award Jury
• Award by the Federal State of Saxonia 2014, 3rd place (Sächsischer Staatspreis für Design)
• White Ravens 2014
• e.o. Plauen-Advancement Award 2013

Ben and the Whales. The extraordinary Journey

• on the shortlist of HUCKEPACK 2017.

Ls or the Right to Laziness

• Winner of the German Design Award 2016, Category Editorial
• longlist of the Most Beautiful German books 2015, Stiftung Buchkunst/Foundation Book Art

Spring Awakening

• German Design Award nominee 2015

An Owl Named Sili

• on the shortlist of the Most Beautiful German Books 2015, Stiftung Buchkunst/Foundation Book Art

An Ape Threw a Banana one Day, and 25 Animals Came up to Play. An Animals´ ABC

• Nominated for the German Design Award 2016.

Paris Toujours

• Winner of the German Design Award 2015
• Winner of the Joseph-Binder-Award 2014 – bronze

Konrad’s Shadow

• Winner of the German-­French Youth Literature Prize 2015

The Time-Saver

• »Winner«, Creative Quarterly 32, 2013
• »Merit Winner«, 3×3 ProShow Nr.10 2013
• AI32 »Chosen«, American Illustration 2013

The Wondrous Story of Peter Schlemihl

• Joseph-Binder-Award 2012 Gold
• on the shortlist of the Most Beautiful German Books 2012, Stiftung Buchkunst/Foundation Book Art
• Merit-Winner 3×3 ProShow 2012 (NYC)
• Highly Commended, YIA Illustrative 10

Waiting

• Advancement Award of Hans-Meid-Stiftung
• Ars Lipsiensis Award

Oh no!

• Nominated for Serafina 2025