Antje Damm
The Nori Says No!
The Nori lives underground and loves red berries and life in nature. But one day a giantess throws something into its cave, destroys the table and chair and snatches it away from its world. She sees the Nori as her toy, which is to live in a doll’s house and eat green berries. Terrible! The Nori is desperate and screams as loud as it can: NO!
The giantess has understood. She takes the Nori back to his world: now everything is good again. Almost as it was before.
Antje Damm tells a story about self-assertion and self-determination. She narrates it in such a way that children learn to defend their own boundaries, but also see how quickly they themselves can overstep those of others.
With silhouettes, a technique that has not been seen for a long time, Antje Damm adds a strong accent to the picture book landscape.
Moritz Verlag
Picture Book
Original title: Das Nori sagt Nein!
Age 4+
48 pp | € 14,00
hc | 198 x 217 mm
Publication: September 2024
Author & Illustrator: Antje Damm
All rights available
- Topics: Mindfulness, Setting boundaries, Fear, Self-determination, Self-assertion
- Beautiful and mesmerizing paper-cuttings
Awards
- Awards
“Damm explores what self-determination is all about and how you can set your own boundaries, especially when someone else ignores them. She chooses a technique that has not been seen for a long time: cut-out silhouette! The handicraft process shows only the silhouettes of the figures and the landscape, filigree grasses and flowers and the reduction to black and white provide plenty of drama. […]
A picture book surprise in every respect!” – Titel Kulturmagazin, Andrea Wanner
“This is not a storybook for one day, but for half, maybe even all of your life.” – Judith von Sternburg, Frankfurter Rundschau
“Cleverly told.” – Kurier, Vienna
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