“The child’s soul is the greatest asset,” says Hamburg physician Dr. Carlos Schumacher. To help it develop and at the same time provide children with unforgettable moments, he relies less on the world of medicine than on the magic of imagination. He wants to enchant children with stories and has therefore founded his own publishing house. He presented the Hamburger Kinderbuch publishing house to the public for the first time at the Frankfurt Book Fair (2006).
The new venture, however, reflected an old dream of the 43-year-old. Since his studies, the Hamburg physician had thought about publishing books suitable for promoting child development. Last year, he fulfilled this dream and founded the Hamburger Kinderbuch publishing house.
In it, he focuses primarily on medical, psychological, and developmental topics. But he definitely doesn’t want to publish “boring textbooks with a wagging finger.” He wants to package the content in exciting and funny stories. He wants children to not just have the books read to them, but to discover the joy of browsing for themselves.
One of his first books is “The Story of the Little Kitten.” This classic by Christen Kold, the founder of the Danish adult education centers, is an encouraging book that Schumacher’s wife Katrin translated from Danish into German for the first time. The first publishing program also includes the interactive picture book “Alexandra, where are you going?” (Alexandra, where are you going?). In it, young readers can decide for themselves which path the protagonist should take – thereby influencing the further course of the story.
The doctor is also passionate about a project he developed with five colleagues. “The Drop Gang” – a book scheduled to be published in October 2007 – is a story about five children suffering from long-term illnesses: atopic dermatitis, asthma, epilepsy, cancer, and poor vision.
After completing his medical studies, Schumacher worked, among other things, as a research assistant in a pharmacology laboratory at the University Hospital of Aachen. The Hamburg-based children’s book publisher is not yet breaking even, so he currently works as a real estate entrepreneur.
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