Frederick (book)
Frederick is a picture book by Leo Lionni from 1967, which was also published in German in a translation by Günter Bruno Fuchs in 1967 by Middelhauve Verlag in Cologne.
content
The field mouse Frederick lives with her family in an old stone wall on an abandoned farm. Everyone is collecting supplies for the approaching winter, only Frederick seems to be sitting around idly. When his family asks why he is not helping, he replies that he collects sunbeams, colors and words for cold, gray and long winter days. When winter comes, the field mice live on the stored supplies. However, the winter is long and supplies are gradually running out. Now Frederick is asked about his supplies - and he shares the sun's rays with his family to warm them, the colors to make the winter less gray and drab, and the words in the form of a poem.
reception
Frederick is listed in the Teacher's Top 100 Books for Children by the National Education Association . The American Library Association awarded the book the Caldecott Honor Prize in 1968 . In terms of content, Frederick is compared with the Aesop fable The Ant and the Grasshopper .
Individual evidence
- ^ Entry in the DNB for Frederick
- ^ NEA - Teacher's Top 100 Books for Children on the website of the National Education Association (accessed March 12, 2013)
- ^ Caldecott Medal & Honor Books, 1938-Present on the American Library Association website (accessed April 20, 2013)
- ^ " Die Neue Bücherei ", Munich 1968