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The series

Rotmütz

Long, long ago, in the owl-quiet wood, there lived a small gnome with a red cap. Every creature knew his quiet step among moss, roots and fern. Four books follow him through one year — one for each season, each complete in itself, all told in the same plain, warm, handmade voice.

The four volumes

All books
  1. Draft cover artwork: a spring clearing between spruces, blossom drifting, and the small gnome with the red cap arriving on a pale path.

    Band I · Frühling

    Rotmütz findet ein Zuhause

    €18.00

    Long, long ago a small gnome came walking into the Eulenwald — and looked, quietly and practically, for the one place that would hold him.

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  2. Draft cover artwork: a bright summer meadow with tall grasses and small wings in the air, the red-capped gnome waist-deep at its edge.
    €18.00

    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.

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  3. Draft cover artwork: russet autumn trees shedding leaves while the red-capped gnome walks the path with his woven basket full.
    €18.00

    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.

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  4. Draft cover artwork: a deep-green winter night with a full moon over snowy spruces and one lantern-lit window glowing beside the red-capped gnome.
    €18.00

    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.

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Draft cover artwork: four seasonal panels — blossom, meadow, falling leaves, winter moon — with one path running through them and the red-capped gnome walking it.

The complete series

Die Rotmütz-Sammlung

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.

€64.00About this edition

Four hardcover picture books in a slipcase · rehearsal price

From the stories

All stories
A small vignette of the red cap and the woven Kiepe resting against a spruce root.
The series4 min read

Who is Rotmütz?

A small gnome, a red cap, a woven basket, and a forest that knows his quiet step — the character the whole series stands on.

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