Lorenz Pauli & Kathrin Schärer
Fox Goes Library
Fox is chasing Mouse, in through the window in the basement, around the corner, along a narrow corridor. And suddenly, they both find themselves in a room with lots of bookshelves and even more books.
‘This is a library’, the mouse explains.
‘A lie-brary?’, Fox asks. But then, he begins to like the books – even if that means he’ll have to learn to read.
With a chicken teaching him, no less!
There’s information on just about anything – chicken bones as well as magic spells – in the library. Everybody finds something that interests them.
And in the middle of such a multitude of books, even a fox and a chicken can get along.
Kathrin Schärer perfectly translates Lorenz Pauli’s wit into wonderful pictures of an impish mouse an her two (very different) companions.
Atlantis
Picture Book
Pippilothek??? Eine Bibliothek wirkt Wunder
Age 5+
32 pp | € 18
hc | 240 x 240 mm
Publication: 2011
Author: Lorenz Pauli
Illustrator: Kathrin Schärer
Rights sold: Arabic, Chinese (simpl. & compl.), Danish, Dutch, English, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Lithuanian, Spanish, Swedish, Persian, Portuguese, Russian, Ukrainian
- The story of an unlikely friendship - made possible by a shared interest in books
- The plot twist: Being able to read can save a chicken's life
- A library guide that is not quite what you expect
Awards
- Leipzig Reading Compass
“This subtly funny, absolutely enchantingly illustrated library guide of a different kind should immediately become required reading (!) for anyone who loves books and reading (or wants to learn to love them).” – Stiftung Lesen
“A wonderful declaration of love for reading and for places where this can be done undisturbed, a wonderful book that, not least thanks to its expressive illustrations, succeeds in conveying the mysterious silence of a library despite its action-packed plot!” – 1000 und 1 Buch
“We’ve always known it: reading is contagious. Lorenz Pauli and Kathrin Schärer, a tried and tested duo, tell us this in words and pictures with that unbeatably clever audacity that naturally awakens the joy of reading.” – Aargauer Zeitung
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