Jonna isn’t all too happy when her parents tell her she is to keep the grandmother she barely knows company while her parents prepare moving her into a retirement home. She has other things on her mind – like saving her best friend Tilmann, who’s constantly boasting about skateboard tricks he can’t do, from a dangerous bet he has entered, even though they currently aren’t on speaking terms. But Jonna’s grandmother isn’t at all what she expected. She arrives with a strange shoe box, an unusual animal companion, and all sorts of eccentric ideas. Turns out this weekend holds lots of surprises and adventures Jonna never saw coming …
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Nikola Huppertz, born in Mönchengladbach in 1976, studied music and psychology when she started writing. In 2007, she won the writing competition of the Bonner Buchmesse Migration with the manuscript that later became her debut. Since then she has published numerous children’s and YA books, poems and short stories as well as stories for the radio. She lives with her daughter and son in Hannover.
Ellie Bruder, born in 1980 in the Palatinate, already loved to draw picture stories for her siblings when she was a little girl. Since her studies and living several years abroad in Scotland, she has been working as a designer and illustrator for several children’s publishers. She lives with her husband and many animals near the Ratzeburger Lake in northern Germany. When she’s not drawing, she likes to go for walks, watch animals, or read.