I Love This but I Hate That!
Picture-Books
There’s turkey on Sundays at Omi’s
But for Sophie that’s a threat, not a promise! In this delightful rhyming picture-book ten children devote themselves to the subject of food. By turns greedy and disgusted, they tell us what they love and what they hate. They either eat themselves sick or whinge, gripe and go hungry. But either way is fine, because to everyone’s delighted amusement Waldi the gluttonous
dachshund can be relied on to devour all the leftovers. Of course the inevitable happens - the little
scrounger gets fatter and fatter - until one day the poor perisher steals an entire trout.
In rampant rhymes, varying between mouth-watering and stomach-churning, Werner Holzwarth
highlights the all-time hot topic (and pet subject!) of food, recklessly stirring up all manner of
tastes.
Werner Holzwarth was born in 1947. He read communication studies in Berlin and worked for major advertising agencies amongst others, then as a journalist in South America before becoming Professor of Visual Communication at Weimar’s Bauhaus University. His first children's book The Little Mole Who Knew it Was None of His Business was released in 1964 and sold over 1 million copies.
Theresa Strozyk, born in 1979, studied animation and went on to create children’s cartoons as well as children's books. Theresa Strozyk lives and works in Berlin.
There’s turkey on Sundays at Omi’s
But for Sophie that’s a threat, not a promise! In this delightful rhyming picture-book ten children devote themselves to the subject of food. By turns greedy and disgusted, they tell us what they love and what they hate. They either eat themselves sick or whinge, gripe and go hungry. But either way is fine, because to everyone’s delighted amusement Waldi the gluttonous
dachshund can be relied on to devour all the leftovers. Of course the inevitable happens - the little
scrounger gets fatter and fatter - until one day the poor perisher steals an entire trout.
In rampant rhymes, varying between mouth-watering and stomach-churning, Werner Holzwarth
highlights the all-time hot topic (and pet subject!) of food, recklessly stirring up all manner of
tastes.