7 Blinde Mäuse
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Young, Ed
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2004
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This book replicates in German Seven Blind Mice, which was first published in English by Philomel Books: Putnam & Grosset. I have the 1993 edition by Scholastic. It seems to have first appeared in German as a 1995 copyright of Altberliner Verlag with a new copyright in 2004 for Altberliner Verlag in der Baumhaus Buchverlag. Let me update some of my remarks from the English version. I enjoy anything that Ed Young does. Here he starts with an all-black background and then adds elements in cut-out paper and other materials. Seven differently-colored mice, marked as blind by their blank white eyes, find etwas Seltsames in der Nähe ihres Teiches. Each day a different mouse goes to the something near the pond and brings back a report, and no one believes the reporter. Their reports are, respectively, that it is a pillar, snake, spear, cliff, fan, and rope. On Sunday, White Mouse goes to the something at the pond. She runs up one side and down the other and then across the top from end to end. She repeats all the specific similarities but adds alles in Allem ist es . . . ein Elefant. The others try her method and concur. Perhaps the best illustration of all, I see now, has various mice standing on or at the various parts of the animal that they first encountered. Die Mäuse-Moral: Wissen in Teilen macht eine schöne Geschichte, aber Weisheit entsteht, wenn wir das Ganze sehen. This book won a 1993 Caldecott Honor Award. This German hardbound edition is very nicely produced.
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Altberliner Verlag in der Baumhaus Buchverlag
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6451 (Access ID)