Eva Scherbarth

Eva Scherbarth (* 1929 ) is a German author and illustrator of children's books .

Scherbarth's first publication, entitled Grandfather Rotbart , was published in 1968 as a picture book by the Oldenburg publishing house Gerhard Stalling and was soon translated into English as Grandfather Ben (translation by Francis Uhlman). After that, all of the picture books were published by Ravensburger Verlag .

She gained fame with her hidden object books . The books “That’s us”, “At the doctor” and “We drive out” and numerous others have been published since the 1970s (see below). Some of these works reached more than 20 editions (examples: Come out and play with us 28 editions, At the doctor's 28 editions, that’s us 29 editions).

Scherbarth was married to the late Berlin art professor Günter Scherbarth .

Works

Chronological representation according to the first edition, source: DNB

• Grandfather Rotbart , 1968 (English Grandfather Ben , 1970)
• Something's going on on the street , 1973 (Text: Almut Pahlke )
• Come out and play with us , 1974
• This is us , 1975
• At the doctor's , 1976
• We're on vacation , 1978
• We're going out , 1979
• We're going to the sea , 1981
• Little Red Riding Hood , 1983 (text based on the fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm : Ernst A. Ekker )
• My big picture book , 1985
• We're going to the country , 1985
• Looking for things , 1987, later: My picture book
• We're going by train , 1988
• Circus , 1990
• My big picture book from the zoo , 1991 (French: Mon plus grand zoo , 1991), later: My zoo
• Happy Holidays , 1992 (French Bonnes vacances!, 1992)
• Seasons , 1994
• My Big Picture ABC , 1996
• Come to the crib , 1997 (Text: Thomas Erne )
• Come to us , 1998
• My big picture book , 2002

Web links

• Literature by and about Eva Scherbarth in the catalog of the German National Library