The steel and concrete sculptures made by Toni Schmale often evoke associations with machines and apparatuses that have a purpose. However, her enigmatic creations really only function through the viewer’s fertile imagination. The “buggies” she crafted for Rookie Books from steel remnants found in her studio vividly demonstrate the creative and inventive potential of seemingly worthless found materials.

The german painter Michaela Eichwald knows that playing by the book is only half the fun. Blithely ignoring traditional methods and conventions, she typically experiments with unexpected and often very unusual materials. Her Rookie Book masterfully illustrates means of challenging and transcending the constraints imposed on us from an early age.

Nathalie Du Pasquier, a Milan-based artist and designer, was a founding member of the influential Memphis Group for which she created decorated surfaces, patterns, textiles, furniture and objects. She has dedicated herself to painting since 1987. With her counting book, designed exclusively for Rookie Books, readers young and old will learn the numbers from 1 to 10 in no time.

Vaclav Pozarek was born in Czechoslovakia in 1940 and has lived in Bern for almost 50 years. His sculptural vocabulary is influenced by constructivism, minimalism, concrete art, but also shows a great affinity for the ordinary everyday objects that surround us. In “Sweet Wood” Pozarek shows us with the simplest of means how small the leap from the artist’s studio to the children’s room really is. A must-have for friends of simplicity, harmony and order.