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TEHRAN -- The German Academy for Children’s Literature has picked the Iranian book “The Big Snowman” as the Pictorial Book of the Month for May 2013.
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TEHRAN -- The German Academy for Children’s Literature has picked the Iranian book “The Big Snowman” as the Pictorial Book of the Month for May 2013.
Written by Ali Shojaei, the book is illustrated by Elaheh Taherian.
“The Big Snowman” is in Persian and German. Nazli Hodaii has translated the book into German and the Baobab Books has published it.
The book tells the story of a big snowman built by village children. However, the snowman, rather than being grateful to the villagers for creating him, he instead demands guards and ice cubes since he doesn’t want to melt, and this creates problems for the people.
“The multi-layered picture book addresses the issues of power and impotence, and explains them in a playful way for children,” the publisher of the book Baobab commented on the book on its website.
The book, originally entitled “What if the Snowman Won’t Melt?”, was released in Iran by Neyestan Publications.
The German Academy for Children’s Literature selects three books each month for children and young adults.
The children’s book “My herbarium” by Stefanie Zysk from Germany and the young adults’ book “Our life After the Rampage” by Marie-Louise Brown, Steffen Sailer, Annabell Schober et.al are the other selectees of the academy for May 2013.
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