Hanna and Valentin, for real

Hanna and Valentin aren’t just names made up for a page. They’re real cousins who set off on a family trip every season and come back full of stories about new places: forests, coastlines, mountains, lighthouses, old train stations.

The books grow out of those real trips. Every adventure in the collection starts from a place the two of them actually visited — and imagines the mystery that could be hiding there, waiting for two kids curious enough to go looking.

The result is a series where the real and the imagined walk side by side: the places exist, the trips happened, and the magic is the part Editora Mähler writes in to finish the story.

About Editora Mähler

Editora Mähler was created to give a home to The Adventures of Hanna and Valentin — a collection built for readers discovering the joy of reading on their own, without giving up well-crafted mysteries with heart and a touch of fantasy. Every book is published in both Portuguese and English, so the series can travel as far as its own protagonists do.

Our publishing style favors short, gripping stories, brisk chapters, illustrations that help imagination along, and special care with the themes underneath: behind every mystery there’s always a real feeling — loneliness, longing, memory, belonging — handled gently and always resolved with hope.

About the author

Raquel Frantz Mähler is the author and publisher behind The Adventures of Hanna and Valentin. The idea began with watching the real protagonists — curious kids, not the least bit afraid of the dark — come home from every family trip full of stories to tell. Editora Mähler was born to give those real adventures a touch of mystery and fantasy.

With more than 20 new books in the series already in the works, Editora Mähler’s goal is simple: turn every trip into a new door into a reader’s imagination.