35
Years Author of Childrens books
156`×
Published Titles
#
international Awarded
What was your greatest
award or achievement?
The greatest reward for me has been all the countless, beautiful letters and emails that Felix and I have received from children over 30 years.
Here comes a quiz:
Fun fact
A geographer found out,
copies of all my books in print, layed out next to each other, would reach from here (Cologne) up to Reykjavic, Iceland, or down to Gibraltar or up to Istanbul, Turkey.
My books would form a line of:
2048 kilometers.
By the way: This line will be continued :-). I do feel that there are more books to come. Stay tuned!
Here you can see a selection of my previous books. Unfortunately, many titles are currently only on the market for one or two years – and then no longer available. With a bit of luck you can still find them in antiquarian bookshops.
Take a look, my books are published by the following publishers and associations:
35 years as an author -
what has happened so far:
- In May 2025, the Swiss Gourmet Book Award was presented for ‘The Felix Cooking and Baking Book’.
- February 2023, Felix in the children’s area of the Blütenbad Leichlingen, the first sustainably certified spa in Germany.
- January 2023 – to present – Volunteer Contribution: Felix visits children in the Kidney Dialysis Unit Felix zur Lilalüse, Association for Children with Kidney Disease
- December 2020 – Annette Langen serves as VHS Ambassador of the VHS Bergisch Land
- 2020 – Volunteer Global Project: Felix against Corona is translated into many languages
- 2018 – Annette’s 100th book is published: Oh Schreck, oh Schreck, der Strom ist weg, illustrations by Catharina Westphal, Ravensburger Verlag.
- 2016 – World Book Day: Ich schenk dir eine Geschichte – Im Bann des Tornados is published in a print run of 1.2 million.
- 2015 – Deutsche Post issues two Felix stamps with a print run of 66 million.
- „Book of the Year / Flying Turtle Award in Iran“ für: Letters from Felix, Book City and The Research Quarterly of Children and Youth’s Literature, Februar 2015
- 2014 – “ITB Berlin Book Award 2014” for Felix in the category: Travel Books for Children, presented at ITB Berlin, March 2014. ITB is the world’s largest tourism trade fair.
- February 2014 – Annette Langen joins Soroptimist International, the world’s largest service organization of professional women with socio-political commitment.
- Summer 2013 – Felix is appointed SOS Children’s Ambassador.
- 2012 – Annette Langen becomes patron of Mentoring Coesfeld, which provides individual support for children with reading, speech and writing difficulties.
- 2011 – Annette Langen becomes a reading ambassador for Stiftung Lesen (Reading Foundation)
- Golden Record Award (Goldene Schallplatte) for Letters from Felix, presented at the Leipzig Book Fair, 2010.
- 2008 – “Decade-Project Education for Sustainable Development” by UNESCO for the “Bonn Path of Biodiversity.”
- 2006 – Book Felix bei den Kindern der Welt is awarded Favorite Choice, Association of Austrian Publishers (Buchverband Austria).
- 2005 – North Rhine Westphalia Prize “Art and Culture for Children and Young People” – Artists meet with children and young people– Annette Langen’s Project for Solingen Elementary School, Solingen, Germany
- 2001- Annette Langen Gemeinschaftsgrundschule Solingen, Annette commences her service as school sponsor, serving from 2001 to 2016.
- 1999 – Felix decorates the children’s area in the Leichlingen indoor swimming pool as a mural.
- 1995 – Feather of the Month Award Recipient (Feder des Monats) for Briefe von Felix/Letters from Felix, Netherlands
- 1995 – Letter from Felix is honored by the Society for Youth and Social Research as an “Pedagogically Valuable Picture Book” that can make an important contribution to international understanding and international solidarity.
- 1993, the first picture book by Annette Langen is published, Das Geburtstagsherz, illustrated by Karin Schliehe, Coppenrath Verlag.
