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Marguerite Abouet: Akissi – Auf die Katzen, fertig, los!
Art and illustration workshop / Meet and Greet with Marguerite Abouet Akissi, a daring and cheerful whirlwind, lives in the Ivorian city of Abidjan. With her head full of ideas, one adventure follows the other. For instance, once, Akissi’s monkey Boubou almost ends up in the cooking pot – another
Jordan Scott: I Talk Like a River & My Baba’s Garden
Discussion, Reading, Picture Book Cinema, Q&A I Talk like a River A nameless boy cannot speak the way he would like. Again and again he stutters and his words seem to get stuck in his mouth. At school he tries to be invisible so he doesn´t have to talk. Then
Gary Lonesborough: The Boy from the Mish
Discussion, Reading, Q&A Jackson spends his summer swimming, partying with friends, and avoiding the racist youths from town as best he can. His life is turned upside down when Tomas, who was recently released from pris-on, visits Jackson´s family. Something other than friendship quickly mixes into the feelings Jackson has
E. B. White: Charlotte’s Web – A Retrospective
The piglet Wilbur was bottle-fed by eight-year-old Fern. He now lives on a farm with Charlotte the spider and other animals. But the bucolic fantasy is put in danger when Wilbur learns that he is to be slaughtered. A work of art that is »just about perfect« [The New York
The Dogs
For years, the highly sensitive Cameron and his anxious mother have been on the run from his abusive father. In their newest home, an old farmhouse in the small town of Wolf Hollow, Cameron hears the voice of Jacky, the boy who disappeared without a trace fifty years ago. The