Nachts.

by Wolf Erlbruch

In Geerman. Color illustrations.

Genres: Picture Books, Childrens

26 pages, Hardcover

First published October 31, 1999

About the author

Wolf Erlbruch (born in Wuppertal, Germany) was an award-winning illustrator and writer of children's books. He combined various techniques for the artwork in his books, including cutting and pasting, drawing, and painting. His style was sometimes surrealist and was widely copied inside and outside Germany, and some of his story books discuss adult topics such as death and the meaning of life. They have won many awards, including the Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis in 1993 and 2003, and the Hans Christian Andersen Award for illustration in 2006.

Reviews

[BlueberryMoon · Rating 5 out of 5]

Pretty illustrations

[Guilherme Semionato · Rating 4 out of 5]

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[Staf · Rating 2 out of 5]

Van de illustrator van de kleine mol. Klassieke illustraties, helaas niet zo m’n ding.

[Boran · Rating 4 out of 5]

Kitabın kahramanı Fons'un babasına göre gece bize hiçbir şey sunmaz çünkü gece sadece uyunur... Kanıksadığımız dünyaya ezbere ve yarı kapalı gözlerle baktığımız müddetçe birçok şeyi kaçırmaya mahkumuz ve Erlbruch bunu Fons'un gözünden harika bir şekilde anlatmış. Kitap ufak bir formatta ve çok hoş. İçinde çizimlerin yanısıra keyifli kolajlar da var.

[Nicole Bouvrie · Rating 5 out of 5]

Very weird, very wonderful.
Also my 1.5 year old thinks it's a great book. Reading it daily.

[Priya Sebastian · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is storytelling at its finest and illustration at its best. I got the German version and had to use Google translate. The storyline is fairly simple, a child cannot sleep so he wakes his father and they walk around the neighbourhood at night. And you see that in the illustrations, father and son walking together and these other creatures floating seemingly randomly around both of them. It took me a couple of readings to realize that the voice is the father's and not the child's. The father says: The rabbits are asleep, the greengrocer is asleep, the fish are asleep...Initially the illustrations on the page don't seem to reflect the text. And then it falls into place - the father's narrative takes one path and the boy's imagination based on what his father is saying take another path and together the text and illustrations create this amazing dance with unexpected twists and turns within the pages of the book. The pages are landscapes and objects of the child's vivid imagination based on the words of what his father is saying.
This book is Erlbruch's brilliance as a storyteller at its finest. His strong lines and seemingly simple compositions belie the sophistication of the images. An example of the very first image where the boy is waking up his father. The composition is just simply divided into two. There are no windows showing a view of the city at night, no door from which the child has entered, just black on one side with a moon. And on the right, the boy waking his father. It is the conviction and expressiveness of the lines and the starkness of the compostion that says everything that needs to be said. Like with the text, the unecessary is completely eliminated. The common thread carrying through the pages of the book is the pitch black of the night, on which the rest of the elements of the illustrations are assembled.
You have to be very confident in your abilities as a storyteller and illustrator to create a masterpiece like this. Erlbruch’s genius shines through.

[Rayn · Rating 4 out of 5]

good illustrations <3