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The Travel Episodes sind eigentlich viel mehr als ein Reiseblog, eher ein multimediales Gesamtkunstwerk zum Thema Reise. Aber nicht irgendwelche Reisen, sondern echte Abenteuer: Davon berichtet sie auf ihrem Reiseblog Bravebird. Das ist ja auch noch so ein Traum von uns. Gerade haben wir Katrin auf Bali getroffen, kurz vorher war sie in Botswana und jetzt ist sie auf dem Sprung nach Kolumbien. Das ist sehr, sehr eigenartig. Seitdem ist sie unterwegs und ein Ende ist nicht in Sicht. Mittlerweile gibt es auch ein Buch von ihr.
Das ist definitiv lesenswert. Ist es aber nicht. Es ist der wunderbare Reiseblog von Heike, die nicht nur einfach so reist, sondern meistens auch noch ihre zwei Kinder dabei hat. Wenn du das auch so siehst, dann solltest du unbedingt mal auf ihrem Blog vorbeischauen. Als Tochter eines Binnenschiffers verbrachte sie ihre ersten drei Lebensjahre auf einem Schiff.
Asche auf unser Haupt. Leider ist der Blog nicht mehr online. Auch diesen Blog haben wir erst durch unsere Umfrage entdeckt. Der Schwerpunkt liegt hier ganz klar auf Afrika.
Besonders spannend ist ihre Serie "Go East! Diese und andere Abenteuer kannst du auf dem Reiseblog von Timo verfolgen. Auch seine zahlreichen E-Books sind sehr empfehlenswert. Daraus wurden zwei Jahre, in denen sie ihren Mann kennengelernt und einen Hund adoptiert hat. Heute wohnen sie in Berlin und reisen meistens zu dritt. Von Hannover bis Sambia, vom Libanon bis Kuba. Der Schwerpunkt ihres Blogs liegt auf Europa und Asien. Wenn es schon immer dein Traum war, mit einem Bulli um die Welt zu fahren, dann findest du hier eine Menge Infos.
Auf dem Blog von Simone geht es aber nicht nur um das Reisen, sondern auch um das Auswandern nach Holland. Planet Backpack ist zwar mittlerweile kein klassischer Reiseblog mehr, aber reisen ist trotzdem noch immer ein Thema auf Connis Blog. Darum geht es auch auf ihrem Blog. Es war Liebe auf den ersten Blick und seitdem sind beide unzertrennlich. Vor allem die Fototipps sind sehr empfehlenswert. Und um guten Kuchen. Vielleicht sind sie mittlerweile dort angekommen. Patiently and with much fantasy he tries to get to know the stone age men's a way of life, though it is very strange to him.
In particular their language is incompatible with his own rich, modern-day vocabulary. Hence he turns to creating words by using somewhat linguistic techniques of onomatopieia to explain the advantages of cooking and the possibilities of modern technology to the cave men. This is a charming story full of wit and subtle connotations told in an easy-going, unconventional narrative style. Germany German - - 86 Brum, Alexa ed. Heuberger, Rachel et al. Ignatz, Bubis preface Ich bin, was ich bin, ein Jude.
But their approach to life is marked above all by the wish to live an absolutely normal life within German society. Books of this type can be the beginning of a necessary opening of the general interest in Jewish matters. In an appendix further information about Jewish culture and history are included.
He counts his friends, but not his enemies for it is an honor to be included in Tiger's count , and everything that creeps and flees. The reader can practice too, in memory of the nice days of counting with little Tiger. This is probably what Dodo thinks, after her birthday wish for such a fish was fulfilled. It can turn red and blue and multi-colors when it wants to. It can run around the table with Dodo and Dodo can swim with it in the aquarium. They want to find out which is better, running or swimming. Naturally they do all this only in private, without any family audience.
The text and illustrations hit the bull's-eye of the secret world of children and fyshes, just as one would expect from this author-illustrator team. Who Has Seen the Bear? So he looks for the forest while his keeper looks for him. In general it is merely known that the bear possesses the ability to stand on his hands and on his head and to wiggle his ears. However, the author admits that he made up this bear. Uwe Kant gives younger children a funny story and quite incidentally a first introduction into the method and purpose of literary story-telling.
ISBN Easter Egg - Nonsense This unusual picture book is an incentive for an entertaining egg hunt and riddle solving at Eastertime and anytime, where ever eggs can be searched for and found: The painter from Lithuania, who did this book especially for the German publisher, lets richly detailed, brilliantly colored pages tell his story.
Each of them has had to deal with death. Seada's brother and her father died in the Yugoslavian civil war. Corinna's twin sister died as a baby. The author succeeds in vividly portraying the considerable differences in experience between the two children. Minor features of everyday life become important due to the different associations each makes.
The reader learns how the two girls together succeed in getting over the catastrophic experiences of their childhoods. Germany German - - 92 Merten, C. But soon they make an unexpected discovery while trying to help an indisposed Mary and find themselves on the trail of a crime. With much humor, the author pokes fun at television reality, where virtual and genuine reality can hardly be distinguished from one another anymore.
ISBN House-sharing - Family - Friendship - Role-switch Jonas has two moms, two dads, five grannys and three grandpas, as well as several half-brothers and half-sisters because his parents are divorced and remarried. His friend Pablo and his mother, who is also separated from her husband, shares a flat with others. Jonas and Pablo decide to switch families on a trial basis, but this doesn't work out. Jonas comes to the realization that to get a divorce one must be an adult.
A delightful reminiscence on the days of the student revolution generation, which only partly succeeded in finding new forms of family-style living. Yet she had given her word of honor to her brother that she would not do so. When the Russian army approaches, the soldiers take revenge for all the injustice suffered at the hands of Germans by randomly shooting down most of the village inhabitants.
The young Russian is not there to save Anna's family. He had already been shot by her fanatic brother. The author succeeds in rendering an extreme situation in a impressive literary form. Floh Dickbauch Flea Fatgut Leipzig: He tries to be a pig: But when he discovers that the usefulness of a pig is calculated in pounds, he prefers to find a more intellectual occupation. He pricks anyone who picks on other people. To everyone's joy, these bad-tempered people become ready and willing to improve themselves. This is a parable about the role of material and spiritual values in life.
Das geht doch nicht! No one can or wants to try to stop her, but they grow more and more amazed. It appears to be something gigantic. The family is already celebrating under the Christmas tree in the kitchen there is not enough room anywhere else when the beloved child finally reveals the secret. The family is given a ship, big enough for them all to fit into, and they immediately go off to the sea, even though the necessary demolition of the apartment house in order to get the ship to water is rather disturbing to some of them. This affectionate-ironical story about the situation of the youngest children, who are both gifted and pampered, and whose wishes are hard to refuse.
The illustrations supplement the events of the plot in a very successful, chaotic manner. The director is trying to track down his family roots. He and his oriental friend become younger and younger the longer the journey lasts. This is a fantastic, but worldly novel written as a series of episodes from the mysterious world of the circus. The progress of his journey is burdened by the unexpected arrival of an at first unwelcome young female accompaniment.
Surprisingly it turns out that the success of the entire undertaking would be questionable without her assistance. The author gives a captivating account of the peoples and landscape of the far North. The Life of Sofia Kowalewskaja Weinheim: With this example of the fate of an unusual woman, the reader is presented with a vivid segment of the history of political upheavals and the beginnings of women's liberation in Central Europe.
Even younger children will be able to understand how literature and life influence one another with this short biography. As a young boy Lorca lived amidst the other children in his surroundings as a dreamy outsider. Up to his early death in the Spanish Civil War, writing poetry was an existential necessity in his life, which the author cautiously tracked down. But his uncle has been murdered to mention only the beginnings of this pleasureably told satire-detective story. Uncle Ludwig's well-preserved corpse is hidden in the horror house where Wilfried works. The story is settled to everyone's satisfaction and the bad guys get their just reward.
With a black but not bitter humor, the author sketches the dark and lighter sides of humanity, much to the pleasure of the reader. At the end of the war the family returns to Germany, but now it is Regina who loses her beloved African home. This literary and extremely captivating text gives an authentic portrait of a child growing up in a foreign culture. When, in the winter of , he makes a remark about listening to enemy radio stations, there seems to be such danger for the family that the father goes underground and Heinrich is sent away to Pomerania. He is still there when the war ends and they must flee from the Red Army across the ice of Frisches Haff on the Gulf of Danzig.
Bombs are dropped on the refugees and terrible things happen. Though Heinrich survives and finds his father again, their family is destroyed; Heinrich grows up in an orphanage. Based on his own biography, the author vividly recalls the war and post-war years of fifty years ago. His bottom side is also in action?
Papa has nothing better to do than stare in amazement. The witty words and illustrations describe this elementary family situation. Das Wunderei The magical egg Hamburg: He succeeds in getting the miniature girl, Ninette, to come out of the egg into his world, but loses her again when the magical egg finally breaks. The beholder of this picture book is swept away into a world of nighttime spaces in which anything seems possible. Das Abenteuer The adventure Weinheim: ISBN Cat - Dog - Fear - Play - Friendship - Adventure A pleasurable, though entirely accidental encounter help to correct the long-standing misunderstanding between two neighbors.
While at play the ball rolls from the cat house to the dog mansion and the attempt to get it back leads for the first time to an understanding between the two parties. And there is a chance for more. Together with her text, Berner's colorful pictures make for thoroughly entertaining reading. ISBN X Flies The joys and sorrows of being a fly are portrayed here for young children in short lyrics along with charming illustrations.
Printed on brown packing paper, the bold colors of the fly family members achieve their fullest expression. Graeff, Max Christian transl. Die Menschenfresserin The lady cannibal Wuppertal: L' Ogresse en Pleurs. Afterwards, she is shattered by her own deed, for she has eaten her own child. The excellent German translation of the impressive, laconic text is both expounded upon and extended by Erlbruch's pictures, which leave wide berth for interpretation. Decorative elements such as the ever recurring, surrealistically strewn philodendra leaves or the child's sailor's suit allow an analysis, or perhaps a persiflage, of middleclass life.
Good luck, Emil Luck! From there he is able to provide his family at home in Gronau-an-der- Leine with the basic minimum needs. This fastpaced narrative revolves around his adventures and his often sly methods of getting by in a foreign land. Inventive, ironic illustrations round out this attractive little book, which will appeal to a wide age-range.
In prosaic pictures, which give an ironic view of cosy, middle-class homelife, we witness how Santa Claus, Lady Luck and Monsieur L'Amour go to great extremes to pass along their surplus stock of dolls to little boys and girls. Then the computer notices that this present has been placed ten years too early in the sack, because of a technical error. Thus Antonia gets her doll Simonetta already now, unexpectedly und unplanned. Three cheers for the picture book computer. Although the author takes this aspect very seriously, she also weaves into the narrative a considerable wealth of information about culture and important thinkers in central Europe.
Yet throughout the novel, the protagonists remain vivid and interesting figures at the core of the narrative. Nearly killed along the way, he later learns that he had been rescued by Knapp, who is known in the village as a robber. Boniface is soon fast friends with Knapp's son Christian, but when the family is forced by the neighborhood gossips to emigrate overseas, they are separated.
In a natural, sympathetic manner the author transports the reader into the world of the young protagonist. But nothing is given an explanation, even when objects are imbued with animation. In a quite matter-of-fact manner the poet and illustrator expand to the maximum the horizons of experience using a minimum of means. Each page contains only those objects described in the line of text. Changes are shown in night-time blue, new situations in clear daylight. The continuity in the course of events shown in the sequence of illus-trations corresponds perfectly to the rhythm of the text.
Das Kinderkarussell The children's merry-go-round Reinbek: Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verlag, So they scatter a little ash and decide to play detective. At last they get to the root of things, but not without taking some dangerous risks. A gang of forgers had been using the horse's body as a hiding place.
With humour and subtle finesse the author shows what fun children have keeping little and big secrets - and how inventive they can be in trying to fool the adults. ISBN Baby - Pacifier - Conflict - Trickery In this book for both young and old, a subversive little baby learns how to keep its family and babysitters in non-stop action by hiding its one and only beloved pacifier and throwing a tantrum until it gets it.
The pictures, with lift-up flaps for all sorts of po- tential hiding places, will delight playful youngsters. ISBN Cloud - Flight - Adventure - Help The little cloud makes its first long journey and finds lots to tell about the joys and dangers it has experienced. Although the pictures clearly reveal the influence of her master teacher, the alternative, more feminine style of this young illustrator give cause to follow her future development.
The festivities of a Russian Easter night are portrayed in this quiet, reflective and optimistic book. But look there - the grandparents, who have almost nothing to do with child-rearing, do not feel obliged to act as role models - and pick their noses, too. This merry and colorful picture book extolls the passionate pleasures of pursuing one's needs and of forming subversive alliances between old and young against dry conventions. One day each gets so angry that he casts off his official dress - joker cap, crown and pistol. Now, without their proper owners, these three objects cause the greatest amount of confusion when they land in the wrong hands and on the wrong heads.
But in the end they all come to the conclusion that things work best when done by professionals. This is a humorously told parable about real life clothed in figures familiar to smaller children. Der Buchstaben-Fresser The letter eater Hamburg: Naturally it is the work of the letter-eater, also known as letter-switcher. All this is fairly upsetting in the everyday life of Claudia and her parents, until they manage to trick him back into his R Ei S and carry it off to a deserted forest. Only the way that objects change into words is not treated in this text.
Lisas Reise Lisa's journey Esslingen: ISBN Reality - Conformity - Constraint - Freedom - Dream In her sleep, Lisa passes through a nightmare of strange and even antagonistic worlds filled with balls, corners, colors and headstands, until she finally reaches the land of feathers her own bed , where she doesn't have to be round, or cornery, colorful or stand on her head. At the abstract level, even smaller beholders of this picture book will find sufficient imagery and text to understand the concept of involuntary conformity in a predefined situation and see ways of extracting themselves from unjustified constraint.
ISBN Rabbit - Hare - Family - Growing-up - Social differences With amazement and a little displeasure, the children of the field rabbit family and the wild hare family discover certain differences between their kinfolk. They begin to have doubts about the customs and attributes of their families. Are big ears perhaps better than small ones? Isn't a cave more comfortable than a burrow in the ground? In the course of time all these questions seem to get answered themselves. And in the end the youngest generation moves on to start their own families.
Accompanied and enhanced by naturalistic, richly detailed but imaginative pictrues, this book gives young readers not only a glimpse into the life of rabbits, but also guidance in finding one's way through different living conditions. But Evi, his little human girlfriend, gives him just the answers he needs. Leisurely, like any Zwiggel, he slowly sets out to experience this new environment - leaving plenty of time for the read-along beholder to sink into the story and see familiar things from a new, but not obviously adult point of view.
ISBN Mental illness - Outsider - Friend - Garden - Violence Uli, a latch-key child, becomes friends with the fascinating young man, Walder, who lives in the garden colony and tells stories that just cannot be true or makes up things with which he can communicate or conspire. He telephones with a cordless telephone, supposedly with his father in Africa. His house and garden are destroyed and he disappears from Uli's life. This books gives an impressive view of the world of an mentally instable outsider, showing the differences in the way in which an unprejudiced adolescent and the stick-in-the-mud, philistine middle-class perceive him.
The misunderstandings and difficulties set in when a gang of handbag-snatchers who look very much like the courier kids appear on the scene. With its first volume, this sprightly detective series is off to a good start. She and her sisters experience all the difficulties of this situation - within the family, at school and in their free time. Her fellow pupils make her life so difficult, that she herself arranges to be enrolled in a different school.
Things are further complicated by the fact that she is a Muslim, and her father very strictly religious. But finally she succeeds in feeling comfortable in her German surroundings, at the price, however, of no longer having a real homeland. This fascinating narrative is based on authentic experiences, written by an Iranian woman who has lived in Germany since her childhood and writes today in German. Downstairs are at odds with each other because the Upstairs children make too much noise. But when the noise stops one day after so many complaints, Mrs. Medical advice is now quite simply to hear noise from upstairs again.
Her ears begin to shrink back to normal and things are peaceful again. Aside from this imaginative story, the book stands out for its lively, skilfully drawn and witty pictures. You're in for it! The soldiers are called up, but since the apple harvest is in full swing, the war games will have to wait. But waiting is boring, picking apples together is more fun.
So a truce is reached and the lion is left all alone. Brilliant tones emphasize the optimistic tenor of the story. One must learn to look very closely, listen very closely before deciding who to get involved with sheep in wolf's clothing or wolf in sheep's clothing , and also to discover the hidden evil and the hidden goodness in other living creatures.
When read in the company of an adult, children can learn important lessons about the ways of the world. Der dreckige Prinz The filthy prince Stuttgart: When the prince becomes king, he only dares to wallow in filth at night in his dreams. But during the day he proclaims that the entire kingdom is to be kept clean, and he enforces it strictly. This is a cautionary tale directed against perfectionism, in which children's dreams collide with the exaggerated demands of adults. The illustrations contain a wide range of techniques of style that manage to overrule one another, just as, analogously, children's desires are constantly being overruled by the forces surrounding them.
Der Streik der Buchstaben The alphabet goes on strike Leipzig: Suddenly there is not an E, G, T or P to be found anywhere. Not even in the minds of the people, who can no longer read or write anything. New auxiliary rules of spelling are established. But more and more letters disappear, and nothing works any longer. This is largely a humorous persiflage of the current wrangling over the introduction of new orthography rules in German-speaking countries. Black-and-white vignettes of letters try to give a proper picture.
Freundschaft auf acht Pfoten Hare Hare! Friendship on eight paws Reinbek: So they secretly participate in a running contest with all the other village animal children, but get caught in a sudden downpour and lose their way completely.
Then when they save Marie Pig from the flood, they become the joint winners of the first prize - a pair of roller skates for two. Now all their problems are solved - how and why to be friends. Simple, stunning colored pencil drawings in which yellow, blue and green dominate, printed on coarse paper, arouse the readers' interest in looking and turning one page after the other.
And then Friedrich, the son of his new girlfriend, also appears on the scene. On top of that they are about to get a half-sister or half-brother, although they think Papa already has enough children. But the positive side of all that chaos finally helps to win the day. This highly enjoyable book works against the neurotic tendencies in the children's coping with their current problems by use of much humor and wit. The graphic design exudes with a high-spirited holiday mood. Only later does Peter discover that the letters he got regularly from his father were written by his grandfather, in order to conceal the death of his father.
This enchanting book gives much space to joyful moments and to sad moments. It shows a child's attempts to look upon world events so as to make them fit into his own life. The author handles very complicated subjects seemingly without effort, often humorously, and tragic moments with a dash of gentle irony. The reader will become increasingly engrossed in Robert's nightly adventures with numbers, especially on account of the elaborate color scheme used to liven up the rows of examples, the illustrations and resourcefulness of both Robert and the Number Devil. The first chapters will even be of interest to second graders; progress can continue then gradually, with the support of an interested adult.
Hat Opa einen Anzug an? Does Grandpa have a suit on? The narrative focuses on the typical verbal responses of adults and the difficulties this causes for a young child. From the point of view of both aesthetics and content an impressive book, it nonetheless leaves some questions open.
It is difficult to know whether the illustrations match the text from a child's point of view, and whether both text and pictures give an adequate representation of the feelings and experiences of a child taking leave of a deceased loved one. Will a child identify with this portrayal? The actual target readership may well be older than the three or four-year old protagonist. Army in he prepared documentary sketches of everyday life at the concentration camp.
Published here for the first time, these drawings give substance to the horrors and the desolateness in which the boy had been living for two endless years of captivity. The accompanying text in German, English and Hebrew should appeal to a wide audience and deserves the attention of anyone interested in human rights issues.
The pert young prince Telemachus seeks out a teacher who can teach him how to find his father, in order to bring Odysseus back to his rightful kingdom, now overrun with upstarts, and to his family. The masked goddess Minerva gods are almighty, teachers are all-powerful, therefore teachers are gods? With expertise and irony, in relative clauses and allusions, the Greek legend of gods and heroes is given a new meaning. With a brilliant, easy flowing style, and an irreverence toward the crusty old humanistic teachers and teaching methods, each sentence and chapter of this text makes for a true reading pleasure.
The island's inhabitants are able to prevent the exploitation of the mine, which would have led to the pollution of the sea with environmental poisons. The children of the island, who fear for the future of their home, play an important role. With trickery and the help of Grandfather's donkey, they succeed in averting the danger.
With humor and a sense of place, the author describes how an unspoiled landscape is saved from being destroyed by profit-seekers. And he wants more. How the two of them start with the parental library and swing wordlessly on a bookmark from adventure to adventure, page after page, is another piece of Heidelbach creativity.
Here he takes a stand on reading for fun, but one thoroughly devoid of pedagogical undertones. The conflicts and skurmishes the young man experiences in this misanthropic institute, but also the positive encounters and experiences of those years make up the atmosphere of this weighty book.
It bears witness to one man's mental resistance against active violence and structural force; a convincing testimony not only in a literary sense but by means of its wisdom and humanity. Penguin, Duck, Teddy and Tin Frog. The fifth patient, a little Pinocchio, is suffering from a broken nose. An artful, well-composed book designed for very close listening and looking. Risking the double dangers of being discovered a Jew and a woman, Esther hopes to gain freedom in the New World as Columbus' page boy.
But the terror and horrifying images of the pogrom continue to haunt her. The author relates the fascinating story of life in the cramped spaces of a sailing ship, the coarse camaraderie of the men, and the absolute hierarchical chain of power and command. But the magic only lasts one day. Unconcerned with logic or realism, the author allows the reader to take subversive pleasure in the improbable father-and-son conspiracy. Eine Fibel mit Reimen und Geschichten Reading magic. A reader with rhymes and stories Berlin: Volk und Wissen, ISBN Alphabet - First reader - Children's poetry - Play In a compendium of pictures, letters and first words, short poems, and longer texts the beginning reader is gradually introduced to the written word and reading matter in this most pleasurable beginning reader.
Breaks for play are worked into the text. Using lots of humor and graphics, the authors also provide a basic stock of knowledge about everyday life in Germany and elsewhere. Visual citations from widely known picture books and children's books including those of the author produce a larger literary context for the young reader. ISBN Hare - Everyday life - Stress - Relaxation - Identity A hare who always feels unnerved, terrified and on the run from dangers takes stock of his life: He stretches out all four legs and simply lies down in the warm sun for a nap. And in his head he hears the echos of the hunters' steps and the buzzing of their machines; and the warnings of his brothers and sisters.
But there is one sound he had never heard before - the beating of his own heart. That is why he sticks to his decision - no more hectic. The search for identity is captured here in opulent, spacious summer colors. They find no clear limitations either through the edge of the page or one another, thus documenting Hare's totally new sense of life. When he sets off for the city to get prettied up, his herd of sheep take offence and follow him.
They create a nuisance in the city and become, so to speak, criminals. And they interfere with the shepherd's newly found happiness. Finally he flees with them back to the country - and finds that fortune has not deserted him. An endearing story in which both man and sheep win, is well told with picturesque illustrations and excellent typography. Bertas Boote Berta's boats Wuppertal: She folds her drawings into paper boats and a big fish gobbles one up. When she catches it, the fish throws up all the junk it has found in the ocean.
Then Berta sits at the computer until she falls in the hammock, dead tired. Finally she makes a painting of all the things she has experienced and sends it off in the bottle. The style of the drawings reflect the situation of a lonely child - filled with chaos and desolation.
The pictures are done in sensitive lines, mostly wiggly, set against and on flat, colored backgrounds. The pages with text in even-sized block letters in one typeface on unicolor pages serve as an order-giving contrast. The tension thus created produces a harmonious whole. ISBN Art history This art book for children is based on the idea of filling up a ficticious museum with exponents from every epoch. The author avoids the use of intimidating insider-jargon and speaks to the reader, without being ingratiating, at an immediate level, which encourages page-turning inspite of the wealth of material being covered.
Historical and aesthetic background information is elucidated with the help of maps and explanatory notes. All art forms are covered here, thus giving this work a good chance of becoming a standard work for children interested in art. Nora ist mal so, mal so Nora is sometimes so, and sometimes so Frankfurt Main: ISBN Sexual abuse - Secret - Friendship The other children in her kindergarten group cannot understand why Nora reacts so very erratically.
Often she sets herself apart from others without any recognizable reason. The problem behind this behavior is only hinted at in the text. With laudable caution the delicate topic of sexual abuse is approached here in text and pictures. Instead of overprotection as a guard against such threats, the book suggests childlike solidarity between the friends. In this manner, new direct dependency upon adults can be prevented. But instead his father has turned witness for the state. The lives of all the family members are now in danger and they must take on a new identity.
The older brother still believes firmly on the laws and honor code of the Mafia and betrays his father; then he is nearly killed himself. The state prosecutor they have trusted becomes incriminated and commits suicide. This is an impressive treatment of a topic which has been largely ignored in children's literature up to now. ISBN Malula - Fairy tales In a traditional Oriental manner, Rafik Schami weaves the traditional tales from his home village in Syria into a carpet of captivating incidents.
He discovered an old edition of tales written in Aramic at the Heidelberg University Library - an unexpected stroke of luck. Many of the figures he found described there were known to him as old people in his village. The text acquires a particular intensity through this personal point of view. In the night of a shooting star that makes dreams come true, the chains fall from its legs and the bar doors open of their own accord. The animals of the zoo follow the elephant into freedom. The next morning all the cages are empty.
Only two children have observed the animals leaving the town, but no one believes them. Everyone is convinced there has been a crime. Nighttime colors enhance this poetic story. Mutter, Vater, ich und sie Mother, Father, me and her Weinheim: ISBN Siblings - Family - Language - Everyday life This is the tale of a boy who tries to come to terms with his life in his family and especially his relationship with his younger sister with the help of words.
For him, language always has a literal, direct meaning. Thus he makes quite surprising discoveries about the world, such as: It is raining from every direction. This makes for a gripping reading experience, given most delightful variation by Berner's pictures and vignettes. Das Fest der Lichter. The festival of lights. Gecko ISBN Russia - Jews - Prayer - Religious holiday - Christ The old men of Yevka, near Odessa, are no longer able to celebrate Minyan, the Jewish worship service with all the sacred rites, because they lack the necessary tenth believer.
Little Sascha, a future detective who is curious about all the secrets surrounding him, leads his father's British business partner into the synagoge. As he is also Jewish, the congregation finds its tenth man. In an impressive narrative, the author, herself Jewish, depicts the old atmosphere of an East European shtetl from the naive perspective of a modern non-Jewish child. But as he is not all too clever, the servant Truffaldino must amend many royal blunders not all girls are princesses!
But soon she is standing, unsummoned, at the door - pitch wet and cranky. And just as in Hans Christian Andersen's original tale, she notices the pea under the mattress, and the wedding follows. Yet there is nothing even slightly proper or royal to this version, as uncouth as a Punch and Judy show, making it all the more enchanting.
ISBN Colors - Argument - Reconciliation The queen of colors is the ruler of red, blue and yellow, but she cannot prevent them from getting into fights with one another. When this happens, the world doesn't become more colorful, but rather all too brown and grey. The queen is so upset and troubled that she begins to cry colored tears, until red, blue and yellow re-emerge from the grey of the world.
The artist's colored pencil technique and sensitive stroke give this small-sized book an air of vivaciousness and optimism.
Ur-Otto is a master at the art of living and brings lots of excitement into the life of the whole family with his sayings and songs. Even the media get involved. And Mother's natural foods store begins to do great business on his account. But when all the enthusiasm begins to wane, Ur-Otto has still another surprise up his sleeve.
ISBN Scarecrow - Deterrence - Friendliness - Compromise - Ecological balance A farmer rises up in arms because the birds have lost all respect for the old scarecrow. So he gives it a steel helmet and skull and bones. The bird deterrence is a complete success - but the caterpillars eat the whole field bare. There is no bird in sight to prevent them. The farmer must call a retreat and grant his feathered companions their share of the harvest grain.
Later her parents, who work in West Berlin, will leave East Germany illegally with their daughter. Although lacking in chocolate bars, chewing gum and similar miracles, this is a healthy childhood embedded in an emotionally and socially sound framework of relationships. The important things are the lesser and greater events of everyday life, the friends, grandparents, while the state authorities play only a marginal role. Our website is secured by bit SSL encryption issued by Verisign Inc , making your shopping at Sapnaonline as secure as possible.
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