Das Museum der sprechenden tiere

by Helen Cooper

Immobilienhaie planen, es notfalls unter Wasser zu setzen, sollte die uralte Besitzerin sich weigern zu verkaufen. Als Ben das Museum aufsucht, begegnen ihm unglaubliche Dinge: sprechende Eulen, tanzende Bienen, magische Flaschen mit Hexen darin und dazu ein ganz besonderes Flusspferd. Vor allem aber entdeckt Ben eine Verbindung zu seinem verstorbenen Vater und zu seiner Familie, von der er bisher gar nichts ahnte. Ben ist entschlossen, für das Überleben des Gee Museums zu kämpfen. Und herauszufinden, wer er wirklich ist.

Mit Illustrationen der Autorin

384 pages, Kindle Edition

Published August 21, 2018

About the author

Helen Sonia Cooper is a British illustrator and an author of children's literature. She grew up in Cumbria, where she practiced literature and piano playing. She currently lives in Oxford.
Cooper has twice been awarded the Kate Greenaway Medal from the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals (CILIP), recognising the year's best children's book illustration by a British subject. She won for The Baby Who Wouldn't Go To Bed in 1996, which she wrote and illustrated. In 1998 she won for Pumpkin Soup, which she also wrote and illustrated. They were consecutive projects for her.
Beside winning the two Greenaway Medals (no one has won three), Cooper made the shortlist for The Bear Under the Stairs (Doubleday, 1993) and Tatty Ratty (Doubleday, 2001).
As well as her solo picture books, Cooper writes picture book texts for other illustrators, and also illustrates her own middle grade fiction - most recently, The Taming of the Cat' published by Faber and Faber in the UK.
WorldCat reports that Pumpkin Soup is her work most widely held in participating libraries.

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