WHO CARES!

Scented with chocolate and musical notes, this delightful story dares readers to fearlessly forgo the opinions of others and experience the freedom of accepting themselves as they are. Full color.

About the author

Born in 1978 in Freiburg/Germany, Barbara Steinitz studied communication-design and illustration in Saarbrücken/Germany and Barcelona/Spain. After getting her diploma she completed a voluntary service in Granada/Nicaragua. Teaching workshops in arts and crafts for adults and children at the cultural institution Casa de los Tres Mundos, she started to explore and include puppet-theater within her work as an illustrator. She created various paper theatre shows in collaboration with the musician Björn Kollin and the Mexican ensemble Facto Teatro. Together with the dancer and choreographer Ruben Reniers she founded the ensemble rubarb dance & art. She has been touring Germany, Austria, Switzerland, France, Croatia, Hungary, Luxembourg, Indonesia, Mexico, Canada and the USA, leading workshops and presenting her shows and books in schools, libraries and at renowned puppet theatre festivals. Barbara Steinitz received the Austrian Children's Book Award, the Troisdorfer Picture Book Award and a nomination for the German Children's Book Award. As a freelancing illustrator, author and puppeteer, she works for various customers, editorials and theatre projects and lives in Berlin and Mexico City.

Summary

Walking around the streets and parks of most towns, you might notice that many dogs look a lot like their owners. Or perhaps it’s the other way around: do the owners all look like their dogs? But there are some exceptions . . .

Scented with chocolate and musical notes, this delightful story dares you to fearlessly forgo the opinions of others and invites you to experience the freedom of accepting yourself as you are.

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"...below the book’s lighthearted surface is a resonant message about looking beyond appearances and appreciating differences."
-Publishers Weekly

Product details

• Authors: Barbara Steinitz
• Publisher: Ingram Publishers Services
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: ages 5 to 8
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 05.03.2019, delayed
• EAN: 9788416733347
• ISBN: 978-84-16733-34-7
• No. of pages: 26
• Dimensions: 213 mm x 264 mm x 10 mm
• Weight: 408 g
• Illustrations: Color illustrations throughout, farbige Illustrationen
• Subjects: Children's and young people's books; JUVENILE FICTION / Humorous Stories, Kinder/Jugendliche: Persönliche und soziale Themen: Selbstwahrnehmung und Selbstwertgefühl, Kinder/Jugendliche: Romane, Erzählungen, Tatsachenberichte, Kinder/Jugendliche: Persönliche und soziale Themen: Mobbing, Gewalt, Missbrauch und Gruppenzwang, Children's Books / Ages 4-8 Fiction, JUVENILE FICTION / Social Themes / Emotions & Feelings, JUVENILE FICTION / Social Themes / Self-Esteem & Self-Reliance, JUVENILE FICTION / Social Themes / Peer Pressure, JUVENILE FICTION / Animals / Dogs