The Justasecs

Content

Deep underground, there are little creatures previously unknown to us humans: the Justasecs. Justasecs don’t need to eat or drink to survive; they only need to do one thing: dawdle. Something Smilla, a human girl, can only dream of. She constantly hears: "Put your jacket on NOW!" or: "Go tidy your room – CHOP CHOP!" But then Smilla gets a visit from Tjörge, a genuine Justasec who turns her everyday life upside down.

The Author

Markus Hennig worked as a radio editor for many years and now lives as a freelance author with his family in Cologne, close to a park. Most of the time, his schedule is filled with writing funny scripts for television. He won the Grimme Prize for the "Wetten dass...?" special on "switch reloaded." As head writer for "ZDF Magazin Royale," he also won the German Television Award twice. For decades, there wasn't a single children's book by him to read, then suddenly two at once: "Waschbär Willi Wunderquatsch - Die Erfindung der Trompetenwurst und weitere verrückte Abenteuer" (Willie the Raccoon's Crazy Inventions - The Invention of Trumpet Sausage and Other Crazy Quests) and "Die Sekundenochs" (The Second Oxen). If lightning doesn't strike his Ab-No-Schu, maybe another one will follow.

The Illustrator

Nikolai Renger studied visual communication at the HFG in Pforzheim. He works as a freelance illustrator for various publishers and agencies. Since 2013 he works in the Atelier Remise in Karlsruhe.