Red Cheeks has been awarded the Bologna Ragazzi Prize 2006

Selected for the German Children's Book Award 2006 (album).

The exciting stories between grandfather and his grandson, told by Heinz Janisch in tender tones about childhood, joy, love and red cheeks, are illustrated by Aljoscha Blau with wonderfully poetic drawings and colors, turning Red cheeks "...in one of the most beautiful books, where the text, the drawings and the edition form an ideal unit."

The magical conjunction between text, illustrations and editing has resulted in this outstanding album of poetic and surreal overtones, which speaks, among other things, of a beautiful relationship between a grandfather and his grandson, even beyond death.