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F.K. Waechter Bernd Eilert

The Crown Snatchers

Published by Diogenes as Die Kronenklauer

Original Title: Die Kronenklauer

Easy to become king, being one the hardest thing.

After numerous adventures and practical tests, this is the insight gained by the children Robert, Moritz and Johanna, king Schwarte the pig, Charlie ›Tasso‹ Trunk the mouse and Caro Spannagel the donkey, Miss Bellmouse the cat, and Dr Johannes Loy the owl.

F. K. Waechter and Bernd Eilert lure the reader into a cheerfully upside-down yet fundamentally good world. This rollicking book for children, parents and other demanding readers which was first published in 1972 crowns it all: apart from reading it, one can join in the fun with fold, rhyme, puzzle, paint, sing, and even maltreat it with a pair of scissors.

Children's Books
192 pages
17 × 24 cm
ab 8 Jahren
2008

978-3-257-01131-9

F.K.

Waechter

Friedrich Karl Waechter (1937 - 2005) was born in Danzig (now Poland). Since 1962 he lived in Frankfurt am Main, working first as a graphic artist and later as a free-lancer for various newspapers and magazines, including a number of satirical publications. In 1966 he published his first volume of drawings and cartoons. His famous Anti-Shockheaded Peter was published in 1970. In addition to drawing, Waechter worked for the stage and for films. In 1999 he received the ›German Youth Literature Prize‹ for The Red Wolf.

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Axel Scheffler

»I later bought a few of Waechter's children's books and posters for my little brother: ›The Crown Snatchers‹, which he wrote together with Bernd Eilert, for example. With their masterful hatching, the drawings came across as somewhat conventional at first, but they were completely new and fresh in their mischievous and anti-authoritarian attitude, their celebration of nonsense and in that they animated children to participate in the creation of the book, i.e. to draw into the book, cut things out of it and to invent their own stories.«

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