Daniela Drescher | BeoVERDE

German author-illustrator Daniela Drescher paints the world just out of the corner of your eye: elves, mermaids, garden gnomes, and a little fairy with troubles of her own. Her watercolours are the reason these books get kept.

Pippa and Pelle's seasonal board books suit the very small; the illustrated Grimm's treasury stretches to school age. Ages one to six, roughly.