The Rotmütz picture books
Eulenwald makes picture books the slow way — thick paper, sewn bindings, and a red-capped gnome who knows the forest better than anyone. Four volumes follow him around one whole year.
The complete series
All four seasons in one slipcase — the complete series
Spring, summer, autumn and the long winter night: the four Rotmütz books gathered as one edition, for reading the whole year aloud.
The series, in reading order
Band I · Frühling
Long, long ago a small gnome came walking into the Eulenwald — and looked, quietly and practically, for the one place that would hold him.
Band II · Sommer
The forest is cool and dark and known. The meadow beyond it is bright, loud and entirely new — and something out there is calling for help.
Band III · Herbst
In autumn the Kiepe grows heavy: nuts, seeds, a lost button, one red leaf too beautiful to leave. But a full basket is only the middle of the story.
Band IV · Winter
The longest night of the year is long even for a gnome. Rotmütz trims his lantern, sets out one more bowl than he needs, and listens to the snow.
A small gnome, a red cap, a woven basket, and a forest that knows his quiet step — the character the whole series stands on.
Read the storyThe books, plainly
Every Rotmütz book is a hardcover picture book of thirty-two pages, written in short, calm sentences and drawn in the same quiet, handmade grammar. They are meant for reading aloud from about four years, and for first solo reading from about seven — though children, like gnomes, vary, and the child outranks the label.
The stories are seasonal, not serial: each stands alone, and together they walk one full year through the Eulenwald. Nothing in them hurries, and nothing is louder than it needs to be.