Kirsten Boie publishes the fourth and final volume of her “Sommerby” series. A farewell with a tiny tear in the eye.
On 320 pages, readers are once again taken into small and large adventures on the Baltic Sea. The fourth volume about life in Sommerby - the German counterpart to Astrid Lindgren's "Bullerbü" - seems light and profound at the same time. Ideal for reading to older primary school children or for reading aloud. Boie touches on topics that children and parents will be familiar with from their everyday lives - whether the impact on parents or stressed gender roles. The German children's and young adult book scene is hard to imagine without Boie. She was born in 1950 in Hanseatic city of Hamburg, where she studied English and German. She is one of the most respected and productive and multifaceted authors in this field in this country. The children's book series ends with “It’s most beautiful in Sommersby’