Holidays at last! Sam Stripe is looking forward to some quiet and relaxing days in Mrs. Beehive’s garden. But just then uncle Benn, officiating church mouse at St. Pistor, needs help: a mysterious gold scraper is scraping the gold off the picture frames and figurines at the church.
And so Sam Stripe, his friends the bat Shakira, bumblebee Fiffi and Fatspider hurl themselves into yet another hair-raising adventure.
by Uwe Becker, with illustrations by Ina Krabbe
“… even better than the first volume.” – Alliterus
“An extremely humorous book—not just for young readers.” – his & her books
“In this fantastic animal story, which is told with many cheerful dialogues and accompanied by clever black and white illustrations, animal peculiarities, such as the fluttering bat or the elegantly sedate snail, and coexistence in the garden are translated into human terms” – Anna Wagner-Meyle from ekz
Südpol Verlag | hc | 256 pp | 160 x 220 mm | with 55 b&w illustrations by Ina Krabbe | 2013 | 8+
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[original title: Zipfelmaus und der geheimnisvolle Goldkratzer]