Opportunities to Talk About Time

Summertime, wintertime, spare time, timeout, best-before-dates – everything has its own time. Antje Damm renders time both visible and tangible – with photos, pictures and thought-provoking impulses. A book that not only children can spend a great deal of time with!

It is rather strange with time: sometimes we have too much, sometimes too little – and then there are moments where we would like to stop it altogether. Like through a kaleidoscope we see valuable, random, funny and sad, important and seemingly inconsequential points of time. And they are all part of our life. This certainly makes this so much more than a three-minute-picture book, but a book with which you can forget about time while looking, contemplating and narrating. and their four daughters. One senses her strong bond to children and their way of thinking in all of her books. time while looking, contemplating and narrating.

by Antje Damm

 

  • 7 Best Children’s Books, June 2007
  • List of Recommendations – Luchs Jury
  • List of Recommendations – Catholic Prize for Children’s and Young Adults’ Books
  • List of Recommendations – Illustration Award

“One cannot look at such a book for long enough.” – Die Welt

 

“There are few books that are so gentle, so artistic, so convincing and at the same time truly and in the best sense suitable for children. Antje Damm’s timeless as well as universal picture book belongs to those books for which you should absolutely take the time!” – kinderbuchcouch.de


Moritz Verlag | hc | 96 pp | 19.8 x 15.2 cm | 2010 | 6+

Rights sold: Spanish (Latin America)

[original title: Alle Zeit der Welt]