FOREIGN RIGHTS AUTUMN 2013 - Hanser Literaturverlage
FOREIGN RIGHTS AUTUMN 2013 - Hanser Literaturverlage
FOREIGN RIGHTS AUTUMN 2013 - Hanser Literaturverlage
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C H I L D R E N ’ S F I C T I O N<br />
RAFIK SCHAMI<br />
© Foto Stephan<br />
When puppets<br />
dance to<br />
their own tune<br />
Year after year, Mario has been travelling the length and breadth of the country with his<br />
puppet show The Prince and the Poor Farmer’s Daughter. But his puppets are getting<br />
fed up with performing the same play night after night, so they stage a mutiny…<br />
The audience loves it when a lazy, good-for-nothing duke becomes a diligent, hard-working<br />
farmer and the Prince, instead of marrying the princess, weds a clever girl from<br />
down-to-earth country stock. But the puppets are bored stiff with playing the same parts<br />
over and over. They cut through their strings and assign themselves their own roles:<br />
Queen Selfless becomes the Sorceress GimmeGimme, court jester Po-face turns into<br />
Sidesplit the Clown. The only one who wants to hang on to his old identity is King Slugabed.<br />
At first Mario is horrified, but then he realizes that his puppets’ desire for liberty<br />
cannot be restrained, and from that point on they all perform together: the puppets in<br />
their self-chosen roles – and Mario as a giant.<br />
Rafik Schami<br />
Meister Marios Geschichte<br />
– Wie die Marionetten aus<br />
der Reihe tanzten<br />
Master Marios Story – The<br />
day the puppets took over<br />
With coloured illustrations<br />
by Anja Maria Eisen<br />
96 pages. Hardcover<br />
Format: 16 x 24 cm<br />
From age 8<br />
Publication date:<br />
August <strong>2013</strong><br />
Rafik Schami<br />
was born in Damascus<br />
in 1946 and has lived in<br />
Germany since 1971. He<br />
writes novels and children’s<br />
books; his work has been<br />
translated into 25 languages<br />
and won him numerous literary<br />
awards. His most recent<br />
publication at <strong>Hanser</strong> was<br />
the children’s book Das Herz<br />
der Puppe, illustrated by<br />
Kathrin Schärer.<br />
Anja Maria Eisen<br />
was born in 1972. She lives<br />
in Dresden and works as a<br />
freelance artist. She studied<br />
at the University of Art and<br />
Design at Burg Giebichenstein<br />
and at the Dresden<br />
Academy of Fine Arts. She<br />
designs and creates stage<br />
sets and costumes, and<br />
illustrates magazines and<br />
books.<br />
9 C H I L D R E N ’ S B O O K S<br />
C H I L D R E N ’ S B O O K S 10<br />
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