German / Austria
Superglitzer
(Super sparkler)
Laibl, Melanie
(text)
Brönner, Nele
(illus.)
Wien: Luftschacht Verlag, 2022. – [38] p.
ISBN 978-3-903422-17-9
Forest | Animals | Mobile phone | Picture book
Reading age: 4+
White Ravens issue: 2023
What is that strange thing, lying there in the woods? Flat, rectangular, shiny. And the sounds that it makes! Naturally, it is a magpie that discovers it first. A specialist for things that sparkle. The other forest inhabitants are quick to arrive and help to solve the mystery. Fox, mole, badger, even the toadstools and oak leaves are looking on curiously. Is it a wiretap? A piece of bark? But it sounds like a cuckoo! Then the ants come marching along – they seem not only to have a plan that involves this thing, but even know exactly what they want to do with it. »Superglitzer« is a thrill! The neon illustrations combine graphic design and playfulness – try getting that right! – and the page layout varies between full-page images and panels. Even the endpapers participate in showing what happens when you try to get a handle on things that you do not (yet) know anything about. [IG]