May   

1995: There are Blümchen everywhere

When I turned 60 I thought I should make a little picture book about our life for the grandchildren. Here are 3 of the 18 pages.

April

1966: Tina’s Liederbuch

Tina’s Songbook

Of our kids Tina loved most to sing. So for her 4th birthday I wrote down lots of German Kinderlieder, added a few pictures and ready was a special birthday present.

March

1965: Der Zauberlehrling

The Sorcerer’s Apprentice

After listening to the music by Paul Dukas and being told the story behind the ballade by Goethe our children were fascinated and did not stop talking about this tale. So another book had to be made.

                                     

                                          

                                            

                                            

                                              

  Febuary

  1963: Der Osterhase

          The Easter Bunny 

        

 "Mein Name is Hase, Osterase" - My name is bunny, Easter Bunny. 

The Easter Bunny had to explain why some kids get some years less easter eggs than others.

January 

1961: Ein Bilderbuch für TOM 

         A picture book for TOM

2020 

Kids Picture Story Books   

will be my theme this year 

Over the years I have made quite a few little books for our children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren. It started off with trying to help our children to learn new words, sing songs and read stories in their mother tongue. There were no children books in German available in Australia in the early 1960s, so I had to make some little books myself.

2019 
   

 Street Art will be my theme this year

December

The City has not so much street art, but some is especially nice.

 A lane near Hay Market has pictures right and left, top and bottom.

 Especially nice is the scaffolding of a building site in Wynyard beautified with some art work. 

 This wall of a building in Elizabeth Street at Central Station changes ads frequently.

My favourite Street Art work in the city is in a little lane off George Street behind Martin Place.  Bird cages are suspended, birdsong are playing constantly and on the pavement are plaques with the names of endangered bird species and their calls can be heard.

November      

The suburbs have lots of street art.

The Aboriginal mural at the railway bridge outside Redfern Station is outstanding.

 I always looked at it on my way to work in the 80’s.

  

The suburbs, especially the older ones like Annandale, Balmain, Glebe, Newtown have lots of street art.