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Fantastic children's books: There is so much more than Harry Potter

2019-10-13T12:56:28.919Z


When children read, they leave our own world for a while. Our author Agnes Sonntag recommends four fantastic stories for children from four to 14 years, where incredible things come true.



In the beginning was the legend. The tale. Today there are countless variants under the term fantasy, in which almost everything is possible. Not least because of the success of "Harry Potter", the genre has also established itself in the children's and teen book sector. Sometimes these stories play in a completely alien world, sometimes they are individual figures who in reality have special powers.

Children can differentiate between reality and imagination differently. That's why I do not like fierce, brutal stories so much. Often, they are also pretty one-dimensionally told. Crazy spinners and foreign worlds are of course not generally taboo, after all, children are also very imaginative, and it may sometimes something sad happen. I'm looking forward to exciting stories that are characterized by original and really imaginative ideas.

With the following four books, you will get to know Stockholm's secret world, finally find out where things are disappearing, what you have long missed, who goes around unnoticed at the King's Cross train station in London or how scary bookstores can be. Why were three written by British authors? I dont know. Probably they just have it, the British.

In the land of dusk

Astrid Lindgren's literary achievement goes far beyond the crazy Pippi stories or the idyll of Bullerbü. Forgotten are her many fairy-tale stories, which also deal with loneliness, poverty or illness. Fortunately, Oetinger Verlag publishes the complete Œwerk Astrid Lindgrens until today. For example, this picture book about Göran (pronounced Jöran), who can not walk anymore and maybe never gets well anymore. I still remember the sadness that came over me when my grandma read it to me and I studied the pictures of the paralyzed Göran. But what the boy experiences then is so comforting that you do not have to be afraid. After all, there is the land of dusk.

What's going on here? Göran lies sadly in his bed one evening when it knocks on the window: the little Herr Lilienstengel picks him up for a flight over the nocturnal Stockholm to the land of dusk. This country can only visit sick people. Here dreams come true: Göran is allowed to pick sweets from trees, dance and steer the tram, although he is paralyzed. Because, as Mr. Lilienstengel says: "Does not matter at all in the land of dusk."

Best Reading Time: When we need comfort .

Recommended age : from 5 years.

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Astrid Lindgren
In the land of dusk

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Oetinger publishing house

Pages:

44

Price:

EUR 12,90

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The secret of platform 13

A few years ago, this book by Eva Ibbotson fell into my hands and I could hardly believe what I read there: comic figures appear on platform 13 in King's Cross to reach another world. Did the author steal from Harry Potter? No, this story appeared back in 1994. It's JK Rowling who mimicked the idea of ​​the enchanted platform at Ibbotson - which, incidentally, did not bother them at all. The story is fast-paced and full of weird characters. What also distinguishes them is the wisdom of life and warmth for all human beings.

What's going on here? Hardly anyone knows that every country has a bark. In the UK, he slumbers in the King's Cross train station behind the men's room, and only the ghosts who still hang around there remember him. It leads to an island with a kingdom full of strange beings. Everything is peaceful here, until the king's son is kidnapped through this door and some chosen ones are to bring him back from the world behind the door.

Best time to read: If you want somewhere else.

Recommended age : from 9 years.

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Eva Ibbotson
The secret of platform 13

Publishing company:

dtv publishing company

Pages:

224

Price:

EUR 8.95

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The Borger

Where is the second sock? The expensive teaspoon? The practical tweezers? Finally there is an answer to that: The borrowers were! These little people live everywhere, in every house. How they use objects of the great people reads very funny. An old-fashioned story, comfortably narrated, and incidentally also as an audiobook a pleasure, because it was narrated captivating by the cunning Katharina Thalbach. The pictures are a bit too special for my taste and do not necessarily accompany the plot - but they do not bother you either.

What's going on here? The Clock family has made themselves comfortable under the floorboards of an old house. What they need to live on, they borrow from the people up in the house who by no means are allowed to know about them. When the daughter Arrietty befriends a boy in the house, her parents are alarmed.

Best reading time: For a comfortable lecture hour in the evening.

Recommended age : from 10 years.

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Mary Norton
The Borger: With colored pictures by Emilia Dziubak

Publishing company:

FISCHER Sauerlander

Pages:

256

Price:

EUR 14,99

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The scariest story in the world

Finally I have the opportunity to introduce a book by Philip Kerr, he is one of my favorite authors. For me an impressive writer, because he was versatile and wrote for both adults (Berlin trilogy) and for children. How many authors do that? In this 2016 story, Billy Shivers, a off-the-wall boy, gets big and is bolder than the stupid braggart. That makes a good mood.

What's going on here? The bookstore "Haunted House of Books" keeps its name. Here the books live on the shelves and there is even a ghost train. To spur business, the sinister bookseller Mr. Rapscallion holds a contest. Those who can tell the scariest story win.

Best Reading Time: At midnight, of course, under the covers.

Recommended age : from 11 years.

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Philip Kerr
The scariest story in the world

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Rowohlt Paperback

Pages:

352

Price:

EUR 16.99

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Source: spiegel

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