Elle Kari
Elle Kari , also Elle Kari from Lapland (original title: Elle Kari ), is the title of a book by the Swedish writer Elly Jannes with photos by Anna Riwkin-Brick . In 1951, the book was published by Rabén & Sjögren as the first book in the Children of Our Earth series , for which authors such as Astrid Lindgren , Leah Goldberg , Eugénie Söderberg , Vera Forsberg and Cordelia Edvardson later contributed the texts. A year later, the Oetinger Verlag published the book in Germany.
content
Elle Kari is almost four years old and lives in Lapland. There she lives in a house in winter and in a hut made of tree trunks and peat in summer. Elle Kari loves Tjappo, her father's dog. One day Tjappo disappeared. Elle Kari is incredibly sad. But then her mother tells Elle Kari that Tjappo and her father spend the summer in the high mountains. There he makes sure that the wolves don't kill the little reindeer children. When autumn comes, Tjappo comes back with the reindeer. Elle Kari is overjoyed. When Elle Kari falls asleep in the evening, Tjappo watches over her and considers that he wants to go back to the mountains next time, but only if Elle Kari comes with him.
background
Elle Kari is the first of 15 books in the Children of Our Earth series . The story is based on real events. However, some things have changed.
The collaboration between Elly Jannes and Anna Riwkin started even before creation of the book. As part of UNESCO , the two were supposed to make a photo book about the indigenous Sami people . The photo book with the title Nomaden des Nordens (original title: Vandrande ) was addressed to adult readers. During this work Riwkin also photographed a little girl named Elle Kari and showed these pictures to Elly Jannes. Elly Jannes suggested that Rivkin make not only the book for adults but also one for children. This was finally published in 1951 with Elly Jannes text. The book was not only Anna Riwkin-Brick's first photo book for children, it was also the first Swedish photo book that portrays a child's everyday life in an ongoing story. The book was an instant hit. It has been translated into eighteen different languages. The first edition in Germany alone sold over 25,000 copies.
Elle Kari rose to fame suddenly after the book was published. She was featured in newspapers and magazines for a long time, even after she was a young age. When Elle Kari had a daughter of her own in the 1970s, a Swedish documentary was made about the daughter.
Documentary from Israel
In Israel, the Children of our Earth series , which also includes Elle Kari , was a great success. The latter was also based on the translations of the poet Leah Goldberg . In 2014, Israeli director Dvorit Shargal made a 50-minute documentary entitled Where is Elle-Kari and what happened to Noriko-san? . The film was a huge hit and seven stories in the Children of Our Earth series were reprinted in Israel, including Elle Kari . In the documentary, the director Dvorit Shargal visits Elle Kari in her home, where she tells about her life. She also speaks to the daughter of the author Elly Jannes, who was named after Elle Kari.
expenditure
- Elle Kari, Rabén & Sjögren , 1951, Swedish edition
- Elle Kari, 1952, US edition
- Elle Kari, Oetinger Verlag, 1952, German edition
Individual evidence
- ^ Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer: Lost in nostalgia. Images of childhood in photobooks for children. In: Elisabeth Wesseling: Reinventing Childhood Nostalgia: Books, Toys, and Contemporary Media Culture. Studies in Childhood, 1700 to the Present , Routledge, 2017, ISBN 9781317068464 limited preview in Google book search
- ↑ Dvorit Shargal (2014): Where is Elle-Kari and what happened to Noriko-san? DVD
- ↑ Dov Alfon: Opinion. The Boy Who Taught French Jewish Kids to Love Israel. .
- ↑ Arne Lapidus: Barnboksvännerna återförenas efter 60 år .