The Merry-Go-Round
by Rainer Maria Rilke
Series: Poetry for children
Title: The Merry-Go-Round
Author: Rainer Maria Rilke
Artist: Isabel Pin
Extent: 24 pp, 4/c throughout
Format: 210 x 280 mm
Pub.price: EUR 14, 50
Pub.date: February 2008
German ISBN: 978-3-934029-28-6
Ages: 7 and up
Material available: German review copy and English text
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THE STORY:
Inspired by the still existing Merry-Go-Round in the "Jardin du Luxembourg" in Paris, Rilke created one of his most beautiful poems. Reflecting the daily-life expressions of his several stays in Paris, he describes colourful and impressively the roundabaout of roting animals and children and invites the reader into a fantasyworld, where time doesn´t seem to exist ...
THE AUTHOR:
Rainer Maria Rilke (1875–1926) is one of most famous poets. With anthologies like "The hour-book", "Sonetts to Orpheus" or the "Duineser Elegies" he created an entire and unique part of German lyrics. Like the popular poem "The Panther" his "Merry-Go-Round" belongs to the "New Poems" of 1907/08.
THE ARTIST:
Isabel Pin, born 1975 in Versailles, studied book illustration at the "Ecole des Arts Décoratifs" in Straßburg and at the Hamburg Academy of Art, furthermore painting in New York, Salzburg and Paris. She wrote and illustrated numerous children´s books for German and French publishing houses and won several awards. Her illustrations were also exhibited at the Book Fair in Bologna and at the "Salon du livre de jeunesse" in Paris. Isabel Pin lives with her Family in Berlin.
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