Reading is Stupid
“Reading is stupid because books don’t taste good…”
So, reading is stupid because it takes so long? Not if your snail sets the pace. Reading is stupid because it’s all made ...
Silke Schlichtmann
Silke Schlichtmann was born in 1967 and lives in Munich. She has a doctoral degree in Literary Studies and works as a reader. Hanser published her debut, Pernilla oder Wie die Beatles meine viel zu große Familie retteten, in 2015. She was nominated for the German Children`s Literature Award for Bluma und das Gummischlangengeheimnis in 2018. Her series dedicated to reading beginners started in 2018 with Mattis und das klebende Klassenzimmer and Mattis oder die Sache mit dem Schulklo. In 2019 she was chosen as "Literary Artist of the Year" by the German Publishers & Booksellers Association. www.silkeschlichtmann.de
Breaking Out – with Shrimp Rolls
Open the book and breathe in the North Sea air!
Grandpa Peter in an old people’s home? Just because he put 23 bottles of mustard in the cupboard and his mobile phone in the fridge? ...
School is fun with Mattis!
What are you supposed to do if your teacher never laughs, is always in a bad mood and has a phobia of spiders?
The answer is easy for brainy Mattis – just get the teacher in a good ...
Mattis
What can you do when the substitute teacher is super annoying, the math exercise super hard, and you find Mom’s hair-cutting shears between your lunch-box and your school-folder? For Mattis the ...
moreMattis and the Super-Glued Classroom
Mattis actually has really good ideas: To help his classmates to sit still, he super-glues them to their chairs and tables! It’s too bad that his teacher doesn’t understand what Mattis was ...
moreMattis and the School-Toilet-Affair
Mattis also has the perfect solution for the dirty toilets at school: He draws flies on the toilet bowls with his dad’s Sharpie, so you can aim better. Everybody is happy and thinks it’s a ...
moreBluma and the Secret of the Jelly Snake
Bluma has never really done something stupid. Only one time, maybe, when she cut Nele’s hair while she was supposed to watch her. But lying and stealing? That’s something Bluma would never ...
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