Super worm

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Axel Scheffler (illustrator) and Julia Donaldson (author)
Salah Naoura (translator)

Superwurm is an illustrated book for children aged four and over by the English author Julia Donaldson and the German illustrator Axel Scheffler , who became famous for Der Grüffelo (1999).

Superwurm was published by Beltz & Gelberg in 2012 in a German translation by Salah Naoura . The English-language original edition was published under the title Superworm 2012 by Alison Green Books, an imprint of Scholastic Children's Books in London. The German language edition was in 2012 at No. 3, the children's book - bestseller list of the book Journal of the Association of German Book Trade .

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Superwurm, the greatest worm in the world, has super powers and is a superhero. He saves the toad child crossing the street from being run over. He entertains the bored bees with new games. When a beetle fell into the well, it offered itself as a fishing line. Beetles, bees and snails praise him as a hero who can do anything.

The evil lizard wants to take advantage of Superworm's gifts. She hires the raven to catch the superworm. He catches him and flies with him to the lizard, which prevents him from escaping with a magic flower. She forces him to dig for treasure to increase her wealth. Superwurm's friends want to save him. The snails eat the magic flower and the spiders weave a web in which the evil lizard gets caught. The bees fly with the captured lizard to the garbage dump and drop it there. The earth is shaking - and superworm is back. Toads, beetles, bees and snails cheer: "Superworm, the superhero, is the greatest worm in the world!"

reception

Tilman Spreckelsen wrote in faz.net : “'Superworm' has been in bookstores for a few days now, and anyone looking for the Gruffalo in it will find it in the junkyard […]. The ensemble of cans, bottles and cardboard boxes, painted in the finest detail, gains its own dignity, [...] and because Scheffler is nothing too insignificant to be happily transformed, his pictures are completely free from even when viewed with critical children for a long time Disappointments. "

Andrian Kreye wrote for the Süddeutsche Zeitung that the book is worthwhile because of the swinging rhymes and the loving pictures, but he criticizes the fact that Superwurm's friends resorted to dumb violence to free him.

In the Wiener Zeitung Monika Jonasch praised: “The moral is simple, the drawings wonderful and the rhyming texts crisp, funny and easy to understand. This is how books should be for small readers and listeners! "

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  1. ↑ juliadonaldson.co.uk
  2. ↑ bestseller list
  3. ↑ a b Tilman Spreckelsen: When snails drag. In: faz.net. September 21, 2012, accessed March 14, 2013
  4. ↑ see pearl divers
  5. ↑ There's the worm in there . In Wiener Zeitung, October 5, 2012, supplement Wiener Journal , p. 46 ( online version , accessed on March 16, 2013)