The advertised service includes the conception, production and ready-made delivery of a Wimmel cardboard picture book for two- to six-year-old children and / or a picture story in comic style for six- to nine-year-old children with a circulation of 35,000 copies each of the book special editions specified in more detail below.

Two subject lots are awarded as follows:

1. Compartment lot 1:

The first place winner of the tender process for the Wimmel-Papp-Bilderbuch-Sonderedition for two- to six-year-old children will deliver 35,000 copies of books in 2023.

2. Professional lot 2:

The first place winner of the tender process for the picture story in the comic style special edition for six- to nine-year-old children will deliver 35,000 book copies in 2023.

The advertised service includes the conception, production and ready-made delivery of a Wimmel cardboard picture book for two to six-year-old children in an edition of 35,000 copies of the book edition specified in more detail below.

Professional lot 1:

The first place winner of the tender process for the Wimmel-Papp picture book for two- to six-year-old children will deliver 35,000 copies in 2023.

The contractor has to provide the following services:

Manufacturing version:

- Width: 15 to max. 17 cm/height: 19 to max. 21 cm (landscape format is possible)

- Pages: 16 including U1-U4

- Special edition: Start-up branding on U1 and U4 as well as other text modules

- Print: 4/4-color

- Bookbinding processing: cardboard picture book

- Maximum weight per book: 240 grams

Material requirements / Manufacturing quality:

colourfast; also corresponding to sweat and saliva fastness tests

- Product and material safe: all materials are free from azo dyes and PVC, non-toxic, stable, bite-resistant (proof of all requirements on request)

- Cardboard should contain recycled paper, but still have the appearance of white cardboard

- FSC certified paper

Inhaltsvorgaben:

The following guidelines are set by the AG as fixed framework points, and bidders are also allowed to contribute their own ideas when submitting.

Overall concept and structure

- Hidden object story with continuous narration (and recurring characters)

- Each double page consists of a hidden object scene, matching picture words (illustrations with text), which are also a search request, and a short read aloud text

Text design and language:

- block letters

- simple language

- Image words to get to know terms (nouns, verbs, adjectives, prepositions, numbers as individual words or chunks)

- Read aloud text: ideally integration of W-questions to stimulate conversations

- Gender-appropriate and non-discriminatory language

Illustrations:

- Depict diversity in every respect (e.g. ethnic origin and nationality, gender and gender identity, sexual orientation, physical and mental abilities, family structure, etc.) and depictions that are stereotypical and non-discriminatory

- Image words: the search requests should already be clear above the image level

- child-friendly illustration style

Story/content:

- thematically depict a wide range of living environments that children get to know here, e.g. road traffic, playground, nature, shopping/food, city life

- ideally continuous narration: characters can be accompanied through the hidden object story and can be found on every page

- Familiar children's book characters can be part of the books.

Additional material / translations as PDF:

In addition, the book is to be made freely accessible as a PDF for the age group 2-6 years online in addition to German in 13 other languages. The translation does not have to be done by the publisher, but the graphic implementation for the 13 other online versions of the book.

Optional:

- Multimedia extension, e.g. by listening elements, so that the German text is read aloud via QR code per double page

- Concepts as well as titles that have already been or are yet to be published can be submitted that appear or have been released in stores at the same time, provided that they are adapted to the specified requirements and meet the technical and content requirements.

- No concepts/titles may be submitted that have already been or will be used in this or any other program area of the Reading Foundation.

BINDING EFFECT of award

The books to be delivered later must in principle be designed in the same way as they were awarded by the AG on the basis of the submitted concepts and illustrations in the tender procedure. Changes to the content are only permitted after the order has been awarded upon request and in coordination with the Client. After the contract has been awarded, the cardboard picture books (= hidden object books) must be developed in accordance with the service description and submitted to the AG as a sample (prototype) for approval. Subsequently, correction phases for possible improvements and coordination with the AG may have to be planned. The books may only be produced after approval by the Client.

delivery

The contractor is obliged to deliver the awarded quantity of 35,000 books for two- to six-year-old children between 11 and 14 April 2023 at the latest, free domicile and on time. The delivery will be made uniformly to a yet to be named place in Germany (presumably in the postal code area 66822), which will be communicated to the bidder in good time - i.e. at least four weeks before delivery. The rejects for production must be calculated in such a way that underdelivery is 100% excluded. Overprints are permitted to a maximum of 1.5%.

PROJECT CONTACT PERSON

The contractor designates a responsible project contact person.

Please refer to the tender documents and use the prepared offer and the prepared price sheet to submit the tender.

The advertised service includes the conception, production and ready-made delivery of a picture story in comic style for six- to nine-year-old children with a circulation of 35,000 copies of the book special edition specified in more detail below.

Subjectless 2:

The first place winner of the tender process for the picture story in the comic style special edition for six- to nine-year-old children will deliver 35,000 book copies in 2023.

The contractor has to provide the following services:

Manufacturing version:

Width 15 to max. 18 cm / Height: 22 to max. 24 cm

- Pages 48-56 pages plus U1-U4

- Special edition: Start-up branding on U1 and U4 as well as other text modules

- Print: 4/4-color

- Bookbinding processing: hardcover

- Maximum weight per book: 300 grams

Material requirements / Manufacturing quality:

- colourfast; also according to sweat and saliva resistance tests

- Product and material safe: all materials are free from azo dyes and PVC, non-toxic, stable, bite-resistant (proof of all requirements on request)

- Cardboard should contain recycled paper, but still have the appearance of white cardboard

- FSC certified paper

Inhaltsvorgaben

The following guidelines are set by the AG as fixed framework points, and bidders are also allowed to contribute their own ideas when submitting.

Overall concept and structure:

- Comic-style picture story with chapter structure

- Ideally, the difficulty level increases per chapter (from no text to more text)

- History is already visible to non-readers via the image level

Text design and language:

- block letter/first reading

- simple language

- Text content should ideally increase from chapter to chapter (first difficulty level ideally textless, but the highest degree of difficulty should not go beyond simple sentences)

- The focus is not on text, but on the picture story

- Gender-appropriate and non-discriminatory language

Illustrations:

- Depict diversity in every respect (e.g. ethnic origin and nationality, gender and gender identity, sexual orientation, physical and mental abilities, family structure

etc.) and stereotype- and non-discriminatory images

- child-friendly illustration style

History / Content:

- individual chapters can depict a coherent story or different episodes

- Interactive elements for puzzling or pages to complement/design yourself would be desirable

- The world of topics can be designed in many ways, but should have an everyday connection. Possible topics would be friendship, togetherness, adventure, everyday school life

- Style can be fairytale/fantastic/magical, funny/fun, full of excitement and to puzzle along.

- Familiar children's book characters can be part of the books.

Additional material / translations as PDF:

The book for the age group 6-9 years should also be accompanied by (multilingual) digital additional offers.

The exact products are developed jointly by verlag and Stiftung Lesen according to the book. As a basis for an offer, we assume the graphic implementation of an excerpt of the book (8 double pages) in probably 13 other languages.

Optional:

- ideally highlight key words (typographically or with additional picture words) to promote vocabulary building

- Concepts as well as titles that have already been or are yet to be published can be submitted that appear or have been released in stores at the same time, provided that they are adapted to the specified requirements and meet the technical and content requirements.

- No concepts/titles may be submitted that have already been or will be used in this or any other program area of the Reading Foundation.

BINDING EFFECT of award

The books to be delivered later must in principle be designed in the same way as they were awarded by the AG on the basis of the submitted concepts and illustrations in the tender procedure. Changes to the content are only permitted after the order has been awarded upon request and in coordination with the Client.

After the contract has been awarded, the hardcovers (=comic style picture stories) must be developed in accordance with the service description and submitted as samples (prototype) to the client for approval. Correction phases must then be scheduled for possible rework and coordination with the client, if necessary. The books may only be produced after approval by the AG.

The contractor is obliged to deliver the awarded quantity of 35,000 books for six- to nine-year-old children between 11 and 14 April 2023 at the latest, free domicile and on time. The delivery will be made uniformly to a yet to be named place in Germany (presumably in the postal code area 66822), which will be communicated to the bidder in good time - i.e. at least four weeks before delivery.

The scrap for production must be calculated in such a way that underdelivery is 100% excluded. Overprints are permitted up to a maximum of 1.5%.

Projektansprechpartner:

The contractor designates a responsible project contact person.

Please refer to the tender documents and use the prepared offer and the prepared price sheet to submit the tender.