Perfect Presents!

A happy comic gift book for all ages – especially those who are hard to buy for!

In this little hardback book about gifts and giving, a satisfied lizard has found the perfect presents for a hard-to-please friend.

With 32 pages of comic strip style fun and hilarious illustrations by award-winning Anke Kuhl, this joyful book makes a perfect stocking filler, Secret Santa gift or for giving all-year round at birthdays, anniversaries or any celebration.

A lizard is delighted with their whole bag of perfect presents for a slightly unusual friend, owl. At first things don’t seem to be going well…The owl wolfs down each one and reaches out greedily for the lizard itself! With comic tension and a funny twist, the reader thinks the lizard may get eaten, but all turns out well in the end. The story finishes with a big kiss and a cup of peppermint tea: âPerfect presents,â says the friend. âJust to my taste!â

Capturing both the apprehension and delight of gift giving, Perfect Presents! is the ideal solution when shopping for the person who has everything.

Anke Kuhl is one of Germany’s leading children’s book illustrators, whose awards include the German Youth Literature Award in 2011. She has illustrated Do Animals Fall in Love?, Tell Me and Anybody.

Translated from the German edition by Melody Shaw.

Praise for Perfect Presents!

âSmall and perfectly formed.â Top Children’s Books of 2022, The Listener

Praise for Do Animals Fall in Love
âWhat a masterpiece!â Axel Scheffler, author of The Gruffalo

âirresistible in tone and content.â starred review, Kirkus Reviews. Best Middle-Grade Nature Books, 2021

About the Author

Anke Kuhl, born in 1970, is one of Germany's leading children's book illustrators, whose awards include the German Youth Literature Award in 2011. She lives in Frankfurt with her husband and two children. Anke Kuhl, born in 1970, is one of Germany's leading children's book illustrators, whose awards include the German Youth Literature Award in 2011. She lives in Frankfurt with her husband and two children.