Pixi books
The Pixi books are a series of reading and reading books for children published by Carlsen Verlag , Hamburg .
concept
All Pixi books are square, have the format of 10 cm × 10 cm and usually 24 pages each, whereby the inner cover pages of some books are also included in the respective story. Some newer Pixi books have four additional pages with removable memo cards. Typically, the images make up about half to three quarters of the book's content.
New titles appear in series of eight books each.
history
Pixi books have been around since 1954. They were named after the English "pixy", which means " Kobold " in German.
The Danish publisher Per Hjald Carlsen ( Carlsen Verlag ) had acquired the rights to the American Pixie Books , which had been sold there since the 1940s. In 1954 he presented his version at the Frankfurt Book Fair. The first book was called "Kitties". From the 1960s to the anniversary in 2014, over 2000 Pixi titles with a total circulation of over 450 million books were published. Some of the books are small editions of picture books that have a larger format in the original (e.g. the wonder books and later the “Lesemaus” series). Others were written and drawn for the small format from the start. Since several generations of the children who grew up with Pixi books have now grown up themselves, Pixi books have become collectibles, especially the early editions from the 1950s to 1970s.
At present, the Pixis are one of the most popular German-language reading books. A number of Pixi books deal with situations from the life of children and are intended to help reduce fears or to make morally correct decisions. The best-known "series heroes" of the Pixi books currently being published include the girl Conni and, last but not least, Pixi herself, a forest goblin with a human figure, a red pointed cap and a bushy tail. Are drawn Conni and Pixi by Eva Wenzel citizens , (except on some Conni books (Conni), the u. A. Of Annette Steinhauer illustrated). The Pixi drawings have been made by Dorothea Tust since 2003 . Pixi appears on the back of every newer Pixi book and gives tips on games and crafts. Since 1993 Pixi has played the lead role in a number of books himself. One of the Pixi books shows that he is a writer himself and that he designs books in his underground tree-root house.
"Classics" among the Pixi books are the stories about the seafaring bear cub Petzi and his friends Pelle, Pingo, fur seal, turtle and parrot (e.g. "Petzi is not afraid", "Petzi and the goblin", "Petzi meets a Chinese cousin ”). Other typical characters from the Pixi books are Susanna and her dragon friend, a red dragon named Alfonso, Captain Sternhagel who lives with the seal Rudi in an old ship on the beach, the glittery cat Pellegrine, who lives in a barn with the stinker Odoretta , and the railroad squirrel children Moni and Toni. A separate series was even dedicated to the elephant Babar .
expenditure
The concept was also carried over to foreign cultures. In 2014 Pixi books appeared in addition to the German language a. a. also in English, Romanian, Finnish, Chinese and Albanian.
There are around 80 special advertising editions of the Pixi books (as of 2005). For example, the music schools in the Association of German Music Schools advertise with the Pixi book "Conni makes music" (special edition now out of print), Deutsche Bahn , the Volksbank or the campaign "Smoke alarms are lifesavers" with Pixi books.
Special Pixi books and series are published on special occasions, for example for the 200th series in April 2011. For this series, prominent mothers and fathers wrote eight Pixi stories. The authors were Heidi Klum , Anke Engelke , Cornelia Funke , Fatih Akın and his wife Monique, Jörg Pilawa and his wife Irina, Sarah Wiener , Dana Schweiger and Giovanni di Lorenzo and his wife Sabrina Staubitz. For the 60th anniversary of the series, Peter Härtling , Andreas Steinhöfel and Cornelia Funke wrote for the first time.
Offshoots of the Pixi series are Maxi Pixi picture books in the 15.7 cm × 15.7 cm square format, Pixi knowledge with non-fiction books for primary school children and baby Pixi made from a waterproof, non - toxic and tear-resistant material in the format 14 cm × 14 cm. Other Pixi series are the activity books Pixi-Kreativ and Ricky, the Raccoon .
Trivia
The little goblin Pumuckl in the TV series Meister Eder und seine Pumuckl owns the Pixi children's picture book Familie Maulwurf (No. 289). In episode 9 he is lying on a doll's house sofa reading.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Carlsen Verlag: We about us
- ↑ a b c The world: 60 years Pixi Ten by ten centimeters book , August 25, 2014
- ↑ The History of Pixi Books Website of Carlsen Verlag (www.pixi.de). Retrieved August 9, 2020
- ↑ Pixi Stie-Dead - Vikingii
- ↑ Everyone loves Pixi. Celebrities write stories for Pixi. Carlsen Publishing House
- ^ Carlsen Publishing House: Pixi