The very hungry caterpillar in seven languages

There was good reason to listen to the "International Mother Language Day": stories for children in seven languages ​​were presented in the city library.

Germering - The caterpillar insatiable has been eating through children's books for over 50 years, and that in the end it turns into a beautiful butterfly sounds equally beautiful in Swedish, Russian, Persian, Arabic, Albanian, Chinese and German. These were the languages ​​in which children's stories were presented in the "LernBox" of the city library.

Only certain languages ​​have been specifically searched for

"I enjoyed listening. I only understood my own language, namely Swedish, ”says Sonja Wrede afterwards, who“ kidnapped ”the children into the Stone Age. But she found it exciting what different melodies the individual languages ​​had developed. The almost a dozen children found it exciting because the stories were funny, interesting and well presented.

Lena Christiansen from the city library let the children take part in the caterpillar caterpillar.

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"It doesn't matter what language is told, they are stories for children. That is the most important thing, ”emphasizes Lena Christiansen, who organized the second edition of the small reading event for the city library. The six readers found each other through contacts, some of them personal through the city library, some of them through the city. However, Christiansen said that specific languages ​​were not specifically searched for.

There was a happy ending in all languages

Loverna Dehnert tells the story in Albanian of the rabbit who comes to people and animals with flowers in order to reconcile them with one another. "The heart on the cover picture says a lot about the content," says Dehnert. But she always translates a few lines into German so that all visitors understand the content. "It was fun to read aloud. It's great that there was this possibility. "

Loverna Dehnert read a story in Albanian about a rabbit that brought flowers to people.

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In the same way, the Russian story arrives about a girl who is much too tall for her age and therefore difficult to find friends. That only changes when she saves a parrot from a tree for a boy. And Persian children are wide-eyed when it comes to the "Rolling Pumpkin" story when a clever grandmother outwits the hungry wolf. An international "happy ending" - like the story of the "caterpillar insatiable".

The employees of the city library always find strange bookmarks in the borrowed books. At the book flea market last fall, almost two tons of books went over the counter.