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Viola - nicht mehr Kind und doch noch nicht erwachsen - stellt sich all die großen und kleinen Fragen des Lebens. In ihren Gedanken und Gefühlen geht es um Freundschaft und die Angst, ausgeschlossen zu sein. Um den Ärger mit der Familie und die Liebe und den Rückhalt, den sie gibt. Um Jungs, Aussehen und Anerkennung, um Erfolge und Rückschläge. Um das Woher und das Wohin, um Leben und Tod. Und immer wieder um die Frage: Wer bin ich eigentlich?In 12 Episoden und einem einzigartigen Zusammenspiel von Texten und Bildern gelingt es Autorin und Illustratorin, den ganzen Kosmos des jungen Mädchens zu entfalten. Das geschieht mit großer stilistischer und gestalterischer Vielfalt. Seiten wie eine Pinnwand mit alten Fotos und abgeschnittener Haarlocke, mit gekritzelten Notizen und romantischen Glanzbildern machen Violas Mädchenwelt greifbar. Comic-Panels beobachten sie in ihrem Alltag, ein Schulaufsatz und Tagebucheinträge lassen ihre Gedanken lesen. Ob kindlich naiv oder philosophisch klug - Violas Gedanken und Gefühle sind so tief empfunden und aufwühlend wie diese Zeit des Coming-of-Age. Ein beglückendes Buch!
95 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2013
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May 29, 2019
Коллажи и про пользу чтения отличные)
June 15, 2020
A pesar de ser un cómic bastante entretenido, hay que reconocer que toca temáticas que son super importantes e intensas en la época de la pubertad como la búsqueda de nuestro lugar en el mundo y lo difícil que puede resultar entender nuestro entorno, todo esto a través de relatos de humor y llenos de ternura.
Me ha gustado mucho 💛
Me ha gustado mucho 💛
September 12, 2018
Viola är 12 år och funderar mycket om de små och stora frågorna i livet. Som t.ex döden, livet, orättvisor, världen och ensamhet. Författaren använder bra illustrationer som passar in i texten som handen i handsken. Viola börjar märka av att hon inte är så unik i världen. Det fanns en tid när hon inte fanns, hon kunde ha varit annorlunda om hon hade fötts i ett annat land eller annan tid. Det visar också hur man kan vara ”inne” ena veckan och ”ute” nästa. De har tagit tonårings problem och tankar och gjort en bra bilderbok.
February 27, 2022
PSSST! I pensieri segreti di Viola è un meraviglioso fumetto per bambini e ragazzi che racconta della fatica, delle insicurezze e della bellezza della trasformazione e della crescita, tipica dell’adolescenza. Viola prima di tutto sta crescendo e si sta trasformando da bambina a ragazza. «Crescendo si cambia. Ma chi potrà prevedere quale sarà l’esito di questa trasformazione?». https://ilmondodichri.com/pssst-i-pen...
September 5, 2020
Wonderful and so on point - About how to be oneself when one doesn’t know who oneself is and being in-between everything and not knowing between what. About not belonging and maybe selling out to belong. About finding where fits and who to fit with.
November 27, 2017
Oerhört charmig serie för mellanåldern, tecknad och berättad i collagestil. Gillar och vill läsa mer!
August 13, 2018
Mit der Form eines Tagebuchs/Comic... die großen Fragen, die man sich als Jugendliche stellt.
Ganz toll und schön geschildert! Für Jugendliche empfohlen!
Ganz toll und schön geschildert! Für Jugendliche empfohlen!
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June 10, 2024
This book is what growing up feels like
August 9, 2024
Girlhood!!
October 10, 2025
Flot bog med et avanceret grafisk udtryk. Jeg tror, at er alt for avanceret til 12-14 årige. Jeg tror også, at den er alt for velordnet. Det, at være teenager, er kaotisk. Ikke sat i noget system ... endnu. Det er ligesom pointen.
June 25, 2015
This is quite frankly a wonderful little graphic novel. It´s very clearly aimed at girls in their Tweenies, but can probably be appreciated by just about everyone as it deals with universal themes of life and death, love and loss. As I, a 40+ male reader, liked it a lot I think it´s safe to say that its got a universal appeal.
Pssst! is a gentle, memoire-like story of a young girl, presumably living in Denmark as both the scriptwriter and the artist are from there, but it could easily be Sweden or any other country from the Western hemisphere I guess. Viola lives in two different homes, being the child of a divorced couple, and has all the ideas and thoughts that you can have at that age, trying to fit in at the same time as you define your own self and test where your own boundaries go.
The story mixes sequences in the comics form with pure text and various combinations of text and images. Normally I'm a bit wary of such experiments, as they are often done more for show than for the benefit of the story. Texts within comics can also feel too long and cumbersome, slowing down the storytelling unnecessarily much. None of that applies here, though. Author Anette Herzog and artist Kartrine Clante move effortlessly between different ways of communicating, making the changes in how things are shown visually feel essential to the story.
There is a very apparent trend in comics in Sweden right now with stories about young girls, what with Sara Hansson´s Vi håller på med en viktig grej, Hilda-Maria Sandgren´s Det som händer i skogen and Hanna Gustavsson`s Nattbarn and Iggy 4-ever. This is gratifying as there has been a lack of such stories, and Pssst! adds to this trend in that it very much has got it´s own voice and take on the theme.
Pssst! is a book I hope finds many young readers, as it raises a lot of important issues, but is at the same time a good read in itself.
Pssst! is a gentle, memoire-like story of a young girl, presumably living in Denmark as both the scriptwriter and the artist are from there, but it could easily be Sweden or any other country from the Western hemisphere I guess. Viola lives in two different homes, being the child of a divorced couple, and has all the ideas and thoughts that you can have at that age, trying to fit in at the same time as you define your own self and test where your own boundaries go.
The story mixes sequences in the comics form with pure text and various combinations of text and images. Normally I'm a bit wary of such experiments, as they are often done more for show than for the benefit of the story. Texts within comics can also feel too long and cumbersome, slowing down the storytelling unnecessarily much. None of that applies here, though. Author Anette Herzog and artist Kartrine Clante move effortlessly between different ways of communicating, making the changes in how things are shown visually feel essential to the story.
There is a very apparent trend in comics in Sweden right now with stories about young girls, what with Sara Hansson´s Vi håller på med en viktig grej, Hilda-Maria Sandgren´s Det som händer i skogen and Hanna Gustavsson`s Nattbarn and Iggy 4-ever. This is gratifying as there has been a lack of such stories, and Pssst! adds to this trend in that it very much has got it´s own voice and take on the theme.
Pssst! is a book I hope finds many young readers, as it raises a lot of important issues, but is at the same time a good read in itself.
March 9, 2022
PSSST! I pensieri segreti di Viola è un meraviglioso fumetto per bambini e ragazzi che racconta della fatica, delle insicurezze e della bellezza della trasformazione e della crescita, tipica dell’adolescenza. Viola prima di tutto sta crescendo e si sta trasformando da bambina a ragazza. «Crescendo si cambia. Ma chi potrà prevedere quale sarà l’esito di questa trasformazione?». https://ilmondodichri.com/pssst-i-pen...
August 15, 2015
I love hybrid comic chapter books. A part of me wants to place this book with the comics, because it is very picture heavy and I imagine it would find its readers there. Psssst! is basically the scrapbook and journal of a 12 year old girl. She ponders on where she came from, who she is and who she is transforming into. It's pretty great!
May 1, 2015
My review in swedish ----> Romeoandjuliet
April 27, 2022
Carino. Poi vedo l’effetto che ha su mia figlia che ha la stessa età di Viola
April 2, 2016
2.5*
Not my kind of book.
Not my kind of book.
April 29, 2017
Om att vara mitt emellan barn- och vuxenvärlden. Skriven på ett ganska brådmoget vis som inte lämnar något utrymme för egna tankar eller reflektioner mellan raderna. Dessutom hysteriskt cisnormativ. Men jag kan inte låta bli att tycka om illustrationerna, och hur uppslagens ytor nyttjas på så olika och kreativa sätt hela boken igenom.
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