About the elephant who wanted to know what love is

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About the elephant who wanted to know what love is ( Dutch original title: De vraag van Olifant ) is a picture book by the Belgian writer Leen van den Berg, which was illustrated by Kaatje Vermeire . It was published in 2011 by De Eenhoorn and was published in 2014 in the German translation by Rolf Erdorf by Gerstenberg Verlag .

content

In a gathering attended by animals, humans, and even Snow White , an elephant asks the question, how do you know you love someone? All but the ant who keeps the log have an answer to this question and share their feelings, thoughts and memories. Even a stone, apple tree, snow and snowflake present can tell what it's like to love someone. For the ant, the keeper of the minutes, all of this remains "nonsense". The elephant thanks him and goes to his lover. All animals and people leave the congregation in pairs, only the ant is left alone and lonely.

reception

  • In January 2014, ERF Pop stated the following in the radio program Servicezeit: “The book has something fantastic. The illustrations are restrained, beautiful, magical. A beautiful book to fall in love with. "
  • The review in ff - Südtiroler Wochenmagazin 27 of July 3, 2014 rated the “finely veiled veil over the realistic images” as “coherent”.
  • In January 2015, Bücherschau.at said about the book: "An interesting approach to explain to children the feeling of love, which is difficult to explain."
  • The review by Andrea Wanner in the cover culture magazine from May 2015 wishes the lonely ant from the book “that she will have the wonderful experience that one calls love. And which is captured so aptly in this picture book ”.

expenditure

  • De vraag van Olifant . Leen van den Berg (text), Kaatje Vermeire (illustration). De Eenhoorn, Wielsbeke 2011, ISBN 978-90-5838-723-3
  • About the elephant who wanted to know what love is . German by Rolf Erdorf. Gerstenberg, Hildesheim 2014, ISBN 978-3-8369-5772-4

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Book tip: Great feelings of a large animal, ERF Pop, on erf.de, January 14, 2014, no longer available.
  2. ↑ Premiere: What is love , ff - Südtiroler Wochenmagazin 27 of July 3, 2014
  3. ↑ Berg, Leen van den / Vermeire, Kaatje - About the elephant who wanted to know what love is: How do you know that you love someone? , buecherschau.at, January 13, 2015
  4. ↑ Approaches to Love , titel-kulturmagazin.net, May 5, 2015, accessed on June 9, 2015