Questions upon questions.
What will my life be like? Will I be happy? Are you proud of me? Where are you? Why am I afraid? Why can’t I do this? If I fly, will I fall? How big is the universe? Will you wait for me? Will we stay together?
Smart children ask smart questions. Some entirely surprising, some questions that everybody has asked themselves before. Britta Teckentrup does not give answers to the questions she has collected but uses her illustrations to underline the meaning and the tremendousness of those questions: for instance when she shows a person standing before an endless expanse, just like some figures by painter Caspar David Friedrich. It means that everything is possible.
In each language we know sayings such as: An evening red and a morning grey, two sure signs of one fair day. If it rains before seven, ’twill cease before ...
Leaves are falling from the trees, the evenings are getting chillier and Little Bear shivers with cold. So Mama Bear knows the time has come for the winter sleep. But ...
Little Mouse is tired and on its way home, but is afraid to pass through the dark forest with all its wild creatures. At first, little Mouse can only make ...
Britta Teckentrup, born in 1969 in Hamburg, studied Visual Art in London. After 17 years in England, during which she published numerous successful picture books around the world, she now lives in Berlin with her family.
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