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Timid Rabbit
by Heinz Janisch, Helga Bansch
Description
Geese, donkeys, rabbits ... many animals have to serve to attribute negative characteristics to people. The rabbits have decided that this has to change. In the international rabbits’ headquarter a plenary assembly takes place. The rabbits no longer want to accept that children are called timid rabbits. This is due to a completely wrong assessment of the extraordinary abilities of rabbits: rabbits are clever, sensitive and brave. And they are quick, but not out of fear, but because they are courageous. After this has finally been stated openly, the next step comes almost automatically: Children with characteristics similar to those of rabbits are to be awarded the honorary title "Brave Rabbit" from now on.
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Author Biography
Heinz Janisch was born in 1960 in Güssing in Burgenland. He studied German and Journalism in Vienna. Since 1982, he has been working as a freelancer for ORF radio and designs and presents radio programs. He writes both children's books and books for adults. Heinz Janisch has received several literary awards, including the Austrian State Prize for Children's Poetry 2005, the Austrian Art Prize for Children's and Youth Literature 2018 and the Grand Prize of the German Academy for Children's and Youth Literature 2020. Helga Bansch was born in 1957 in Leoben, Styria. After graduating from high school, she attended the Pedagogical Academy in Graz, where she trained as a primary school teacher. From 1978 she worked as a primary school teacher in Weixelbaum in southern Styria. During her training as a life and social counselor, she worked with children with behavioral problems and discovered painting as a means of expression. Since then she has been painting pictures with acrylic on cardboard or canvas, illustrating children's books, making dolls, puppets and objects out of sandstone, clay and papier-mâché. She lives and works in Vienna.
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Verlag Jungbrunnen
Verlag Jungbrunnen was founded in 1923. Background was the intention to supply children who otherwise didn’t have access to books with high quality literature. Even though almost 100 years have gone by since then, the aim is still the same: Jungbrunnen produces quality picture books and novels for children and young adults from 2 to 14. Literary style and language, fantasy and craftsmanship in illustrations, universal topics which touch the souls of young people – all those elements unite to extraordinary books, which are entertaining and demanding at the same time. Young people can feel at home in them and have a chance to deal with existential questions in a protected space.
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- Publisher Verlag Jungbrunnen
- Publication Date 2020
- Orginal LanguageGerman
- ISBN/Identifier 9783702659394
- Publication Country or regionAustria
- FormatHardback
- Pages32
- ReadershipChildren
- Publish StatusPublished
- Original Language TitleAngsthase
- EditionOriginal edition
- Copyright Year2020
- Dimensions280 x 210 mm
- IllustrationHelga Bansch
