July

2005: Der Kleine Floh

The Little Flea

And then came a real kids story. All grandchildren loved this book the most.

June    

2004: Hello Kangaroo

After a holiday trip together with our twin grandchildren I made a little photo book for them.

                 

 

                                                                                

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.