Some teams do not come together because everyone is the same. They come together because everyone is very different. With Team Wundervlies, that is pretty clear: Romeo would often be quite happy if everything stayed calm and cosy. Samurai first checks carefully whether everything is safe. And Camillo is already stirring things up before anyone even knows whether things needed stirring up in the first place.
That is exactly the mix our children’s book world grows from. Romeo is the calm dreamer. Samurai is watchful, careful and quick in his head. Camillo is lively, overexcited and usually has a head full of fluff. Together, the three of them are not always neat and tidy on their way, but something definitely happens. And that is exactly what good stories need.
Our children’s books are not just about alpacas going on adventures. They are about friendship, courage, trust, imagination and the fact that sometimes you need someone who slows things down, someone who keeps watch and someone who simply runs ahead and shouts: “Come on!”
That is why Team Wundervlies is not a perfect group of heroes. Luckily. Perfect would be boring anyway. The three of them stumble, wonder, maybe argue for a moment, still stick together and discover worlds along the way that would not exist at all without imagination.
And maybe that is the nicest part of it: these stories do not come from some polished fantasy world. They grow from our animals, their real little quirks and that farm feeling we have around us every day.
