Puss in Boots Title: Puss in Boots Original Author: Ludwig Tieck Retold by: Bruno Blume Artist: Jacky Gleich Extent: 48 pp, 4/c throughout Format: 220 x 300 mm Pub. price: EUR 15,50 Pub. date: Autumn 2003 German ISBN: 978-3-934029-21-7 Ages: 8 and up

Material available: German copy

THE STORY:

Who does not know the famous fairy tale Puss in Boots? The German author Ludwig Tieck (1773-1853) known as „the king of romanticism“, was inspired by this fantastic story. His romantic and ironic masterpiece is now available as a beautiful picture-book, retold by Bruno Blume and illustrated with incrediably living pictures by Jacky Gleich: A wonderful act of balance full of turbulences between imagination and reality. The appropriate book for little and grown-up theater-fans.

THE AUTHOR:

Bruno Blume, born 1972 in Swizerland, where he grew up together with many sisters and brothers. He studied German, History and Arts History in Zurich, Leipzig and Arhus. The author writes books and poems. Today Bruno Blume lives with his family in Thüringen. He has already made four picture books toghether with the illustrator Jacky Gleich

THE ARTIST:

Jacky Gleich, born 1964 in Darmstadt grew up near Berlin. She has studied animations at the Movie Academy in Babelsberg. Jacky Gleich has illustrated over 30 books for children and adults and received numerous awards, such as the „Deutschen Jugendliteraturpreis 1998“. Today, the artist is living with her huge family in Thüringen.