The Sorcerer`s Apprentice
Series: Poetry for Children
Title: The Sorcerer`s Apprentice
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Artist: Sabine Wilharm
Extent: 24 pp, 4/c throughout
Format: 210 x 280 mm
Pub. price: EUR 14,50
Pub. date: July 2006
German ISBN: 978-3-934029-25-5
Ages: 7 and up
Material available: German review copy and English text
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THE STORY:
One day, the master sorcerer left his house and his apprenctice stayed home alone. Immediately, the nosy guy decided to take advantage of the situation and to try some witching on his own. He orders the broom out of his closet and sends him to get water
for a bath. The broom runs back and forth, carrying water. But when the sorcerer's
apprentice tries to stop him, he cannot remember the magic words. So, the disaster
takes its course - the house fills with water and is almost flooded when, just in time,
the master sorcerer returns and stops the tragedy.
THE AUTHOR:
J.W. von Goethe (1749-1832) is considered Germany's most important poet. In 1797,
the so-called "Year of Ballads", he and his friend, the great Friedrich Schiller, wrote numerous poems, among them "The Sorcerer's Apprentice", one of Goethe's most
famous ballad.
THE ARTIST:
Sabine Wilharm (*1954) studied book illustration at the Hamburg Academy of Art.
She illustrated many children's books, but is also famous for her belletristic book
covers and newspapers caricatures. Between 1982 and 1993 she held several
professorships for Illustration and Drawing. She lives and works as a freelance
illustrator in Hamburg.
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