Billy Backe (Vol. 3): Billy Backe and the Wild South

Content

Alarm in Walle Wacke Land: the Schronk is feeling homesick! What a pity he can’t remember where he’s from. Billy Backe and his friends immediately embark on a search. They meet the Nightshade Swan in the Dark Forest (shady!), visit Guru Cucumber on the Mountain of the Angel Parrots (whose advice is truly coocoo) and encounter a colony of pink pinkuins (who don’t even want to be pink). Will they find the Schronk’s family amidst all these gloriously wild adventures?

The Author

Markus Orths was born in 1969 in Viersen, studied philosophy, romance languages and English, and today lives with his wife and three children in Karlsruhe, Germany. Orths is well known as a fiction author. His novels have been translated into many languages and have won several awards. Billy Backe from Wally Wacke is his first children’s book.

The Illustrator

Ina Hattenhauer was born and raised in Berlin. She studied at the Bauhaus University Weimar and the Minneapolis College of Art and Design in the USA, graduated in 2009 as a graduate designer and has since worked as a freelance illustrator in Weimar.