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 ...
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
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 ...
morePernilla, or Why We Didn’t Have to Bite the Bullet After All
Dad’s been made redundant, Mum’s being threatened with a libel suit and the family coffers are gaping empty. Clever Pernilla and her brothers have their work cut out, so it’s just as well ...
morePernilla – or How the Beatles Saved my Entire Extended Family
Pernilla is the youngest of the Petersen family and the most imaginative of them all. Not only does she know how many snails will fit into a toilet paper roll, but she’s got a good inkling of ...
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