3rd Birthday Invitation Wording Twins

Stefanie Harjes and a favorite book.

It is not only an incredibly sympathetic illustrator but also a really good: for her work, she was awarded the Austrian Youth Book Prize, awarded "One of the most beautiful books of the year, and recently a nomination for the German Youth Literature Prize (" If I am the seventh kid would '")

Here Stefanie Harjes thoughts on her - as she says - at the moment dearest picture book.
(All illustrations can be enlarged by the way, by clicking on them!)

"To decide that this is supposed to be, it took me about three months. Finally, I am not alone. But at least 5 And all selves have different preferences. But it should not go around me, but a book. Of those there are also infinite. Infinitely many great as well.
But this is after all quite special:

It is the picture book "snippets scrub" by Julia Friese and Christian Duda, published in Pagliacci Verlag in Zurich.

makes clear to me this book is fun, I'm not even a crafting Lady with paper scraps and found objects, with brush and scissors, with colors and glue.
As Julia Friese.
As the child protagonist.

The

in a rather bleak area - Hartz IV-gloom, the more gray-green rooms equipped with sparse furniture - lives with his parents.
No, more next his parents - as well as the furniture - and live as callous parts of the body work. Some
spend most of the day in front of the TV show, in the absence of other ideas. Still, listless, calmly resigned.

But.
The boy. In his room are
newspapers instead of a carpet. The
can read and watch, and notes that the world is an adventure.
This can take place in his room. The
up new worlds zusammenschnipselt. The
cover the walls and keep him and me in suspense.
comes up the mother and all in one of these large blue garbage bags stuffed that you can buy in packs of 10.

(I am startled and wants to engage in protest, but that does not work, because I'm so not in the book. It has become so felt.)
The boy is apparently makes little, that his fantastic works of art were destroyed.

For.
The mother brings new papers from the paper stack.
And the boy finds a praying mantis.
And then the boy himself to the praying mantis.
And everything around him starts to bloom, is wild jungle, and it can the parents to change anything, which seems to deviate the original fantasy that hold stubbornly to what they can see themselves, and that's damn little.

( me "while maintaining the mouth open to astonishment and I feel the moisture in the air, the intense fragrance of exotic flowers, and I hear the cries of wild animals and the Flapper Flapper Flapp the fleeting nature was the a bird No, it is almost entirely masked woman with wings books.)

then.
Time passes tough as chewing gum, the boy is alone, afraid.
is one point back into the children's father and turns into a frog.
And at some point see a smile on the face of the mother, suggests the roots and drives a small flower.
Anyway.

I think, no, say:
This book is very, very big. A
so quiet and poetic exploding children's fantasy world. The
but is anything but clichéd colorful, which is thoughtful and sad. Asking questions and leaves.
How kids are.
And as just kids doing it.
small and large. "

© Bajazzo-Verlag, Zurich

Dragon Ball Doujinshi Behavior

Christine Paxman and Gutbär.

Christine Paxman wrote, illustrated and designed even itself, but in addition also publishes the trade magazine for children and young people's literature Eselsohr , in the month after month of interesting new releases are presented. So it was natural to me particularly interesting to know their favorite book.

Christine Paxman about The Great Bear.

"This book is not a delicate work of art, it is not a technically sophisticated Litter. It is bursting with color do not. And it's flat Photoshop Gebimsel, BUT ....

... when the bear tried to hug a tree and beaver at the same time ... At this point, the picture book you want to melt with happiness. Meanwhile, the matter is simple, and the proof, once again proving that the reader needs very little luck.

bear is not like other bears. He is a good bear. Happy when he Mittler all love doll can, which is manifested with him in hearty hugs. Even better than the animals, the trees bear and the tender birch to maple century niedergeknutscht is everything that bears leaves.

would become the thin little book with the same old green and brown colors, bold and graphically clean go further. Not enough you could see themselves with this Umarmerei, will broadcast the deepest peace. But one day, just precisely the one with the beaver-tree-hug the stranger comes into Bear's life.

a lumberjack. For the first time bear a deep resentment felt when the man approached one of his favorite trees with an ax. But he would not bear all the kind-hearted when he would now be revealed. The lumberjack is very kind of closed sharply after Bear's arms. Such friendliness is not accustomed to the man fled empty-handed, only a small notch in the bark is reminiscent of the experience that sealed the bear with a heavy tree hug. Enjoy deep adapts to the brief but poignant reading. You want to use this book as Deeskalator professionally and personally, and regrets that the picture-book treatment in this country is still not socially acceptable. This book is the pure message of peace and should work on first-aid kit of every household "

Nicholas Oldland / from English by Nicola Stuart. The Great Bear, Jacoby & Stuart