There were a few parts that i got a bit choked up reading, but my daughters said " its okay daddy". she actually hid it under her bed because she thought it would be too sad.Īfter reading it to them the first time that fear was gone. my 6 year old didn't want me to read this at first. while the other titles tried to explain loss, like the Daniel tiger one and Ida Always, this one focuses less on the grief and more on remembering the fun times. this one was recommended to me after that and I'm glad. i found several good, grief focused books on amazon that helped. Since 2016, he and his wife, Christina Laube, as Duo Sourati, have been painting large murals in cities around the world.Īfter my mom passed i struggled with finding ways to explain to my young girls what happened. He also creates drawings as part of multimedia performances, including those by the storytelling group Knopfkino, which he founded. By 2001, he was a full-time freelance artist. While exhibiting his early drawings, he also worked as a taxi driver. After finishing school, he decided to draw pictures for the rest of his life. His family applied for asylum in Germany when he was fourteen, emigrating in 1985. From 1995 to 2012, he was a professor of visual communications at Bauhaus University, Weimar. When not on tour to do readings of his books, he works in Frankfurt. Before finding international success as a children’s author with The Story of the Little Mole Who Went in Search of Whodunit, he worked as a copywriter, as the creative group head of a major advertising agency, and in South America as a freelance journalist. Werner Holzwarth was born in 1947 near Stuttgart, attended school there, and then studied at the Berlin University of the Arts. One of the most beautiful picture books of the year.”- Titel Kulturmagazin 著者について Werner Holzwarth succeeds in telling one without sentimentality, pathos, or religious transfiguration. Too often it gets cheesy, or the pain is glossed over. At his side, illustrator Mehrdad Zaeri translates what is said and unsaid into masterful imagery.”- rbbKultur “ simultaneously wistful and joyful book.”- Süddeutsche Zeitung “Writing a story about death is not easy.
tells us that holding on and letting go, experiencing and remembering, crying and laughing are inseparable. In the end, life goes on.”- Radio Bremen “A wonderful picture book, profound, complex, yet quite simple. tells children an unvarnished story about death. They go very well with Holzwarth’s story. A story of saying goodbye and remembering.”- Zeit “Mehrdad Zaeri bathes his pictures in earthy brown. It is also fascinating how Zaeri lights up the muted colors in which he draws. but Holzwarth never lets the heaviness and sadness gain the upper hand. ”- Publishers Weekly Praise from Germany A Zeit and Radio Bremen LUCHS Prize of the Month winner “Just as joy and happiness are part of life, so are grief and pain. a very satisfying resolution.” - Booklist “A bird coping with the loss of the rhinoceros he lived atop recalls their shared adventures.
Though it’s about grief, this is a largely fun book. Holzwarth uses their symbiosis as a way to describe a close relationship, its inevitable end, and a way forward. “It’s hard to think of a tighter relationship than that enjoyed by Reggie, a rhinoceros, and Hopper, a tiny oxpecker bird.
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