Madame Fafu

Julia Dürr & Astrid Walenta
Madame Fafu

Book design: Franziska Walther

Madam Fafu loves insects! And she loves telling stories about a lady who can turn herself into her favourite creatures using special insect sprays. One day, she finds a ladybird on her desk. On the very same day she had told a story about a metamorphosis into this very insect. Can that be a coincidence?

Using delicate colours and fine pencil drawings Julia Dürr sets the stage for Astrid Walenta’s seemingly surreal story. There are stories within the story within the story … But it is left up to the reader’s fantasy to determine what might be true.

A picture book that can be read over and over again and in which alternative possible interpretations can be discovered time and time again in the pictures and in the text.

• Recommended by German Academy for Children and Youth Literature as Environment-Book Tip June 2019.
  

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