A Chest Full of Words

2. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-0-7358-4560-2
Verlag: Northsouth Books

Buch, Englisch, 48 Seiten, Format (B × H): 221 mm x 286 mm, Gewicht: 426 g

In this picture book packed with playful vocabulary, a young boy finds new words and discovers how to use them to change the world around him.

Oscar discovers a magnificent treasure chest. When he opens it, he is disappointed at what's inside: nothing but words. What type of treasure is that?! But when he tosses fluorescent into the bushes, a bright yellow hedgehog runs by! Soon Oscar has created a featherlight backhoe, a docile crocodile, and a monstrous oops! adorable beetle. Using new words is fun!

Before long Oscar has emptied the chest and is left wordless. He doesn't know where to find more words, until his neighbor Louise gives him some guidance: you can find words anytime and anywhere. Oscar begins a new hunt for words and learns all sorts of inventive ways to describe the world around him.

An enthralling, phenomenal, adventuresome, imaginative, endearing, ear-catching and joyful book about language that's sure to make kids laugh and learn!

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gugger, Rebecca

Weitere Mitwirkende

Röthlisberger, Simon

Mohr, Tim

Über Autor(innen)

Gugger, Rebecca
Rebecca Gugger & Simon Röthlisberger were both born in Switzerland and live together in Thun near forests, mountains, and fresh air. As a freelance illustrator-graphic designer duo, they occasionally join forces to invent stories, searching for words for pictures and pictures for words. The Chest Full of Words won several awards and has been translated into 15 languages to date.

Mohr, Tim
Tim Mohr is an award-winning translator of German writers such as Sibylle Berg, Alina Bronsky, and Wolfgang Herrndorf, and the author of Burning Down the Haus, a history of East German punk rock and the role dissident musicians played in bringing down the Berlin Wall. Prior to starting his writing career, he earned his living as a club DJ in Berlin.

Röthlisberger, Simon
Rebecca Gugger & Simon Röthlisberger were both born in Switzerland and live together in Thun near forests, mountains, and fresh air. As a freelance illustrator-graphic designer duo, they occasionally join forces to invent stories, searching for words for pictures and pictures for words. The Chest Full of Words won several awards and has been translated into 15 languages to date.