Books by Wolf Erlbruch
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review 1: A charming book about Death and a duck striking up a friendship. While in picture book format and beautifully illustrated, I can see this one having a hard time finding an audience. Us Yanks sometimes have a hard time appreciating the subtleness and oddity of European picturebook...
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review 1: Although I haven’t read the English edition, I still adore this book. The illustrations are charming, simple, and tender, and from what I can tell, so is the text. The storyline is basic: death befriends a duck, accompanies her throughout life, and eventually mourns her passing.A...
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review 1: My first thought upon finishing this was "Wow...I would never read this to a child." My second thought was that I really liked this book. It's very gentle and sort of sweet, which is super strange considering the subject matter. I don't know who on earth the intended reader is--m...
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review 1: Ten Second Synopsis:Duck makes friends with Death. They spend time together until the inevitable happens.While I'm not entirely sure where the tulip comes into it, this was a truly unique concept for a picture book. What a great little nod to the existential angst that plagues s...