German / Germany
Wie wir einmal Dirk Nowitzki entführten
(How we kidnapped Dirk Nowitzki)
Reh, Sascha
(text)
Wylezol, Adrian
(illus.)
Düsseldorf: Karl Rauch Verlag, 2023. – 75 p.
ISBN 978-3-7920-0376-3
Basketball | City | Friendship | Graphic novel
Reading age: 12+
White Ravens issue: 2023
Billie is crazy about basketball. Her biggest hero is the NBA star Dirk Nowitzki – who is coming soon to her town! That’s why she wants to practice every spare minute she can, but the problem is: where? The improvised basketball hoop in the backyard falls down after just a few throws, and the local basketball court is the hang-out of a bunch of big-mouth morons. Then Billie and her friends remember there is an abandoned airport nearby. With the help of the building custodian, they quickly transform the old hangar into a decent basketball court – at least until the new owner, a nasty real estate shark, shows up. Only Dirk Nowitzki can help them now, so Billie needs to get to him somehow. Whoa! With »Wie wir einmal Dirk Nowitzki entführten« we not only get a crazy story and likeable underdogs as main characters. In this graphic novel the texts and pictures also dribble across the pages fast enough to make the reader downright dizzy. That’s worthy of the NBA! [IG]