Das geheime Leben der Bücher

This book requires a proper understanding of the German text – that’s why we introduce it in German only. If you get the message you will enjoy the book!
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Behind the doors of publishing houses, unnoticed by the reader, live the book ideas and the letters long before they see the light of bookstores. Ron Heussen, Anne Mikus, and Farid Rivas take primary-school kids on a journey through the secret world of books, to where ideas become scripts and designed pages. Where publishers have a good nose for ideas and manufactures have their hands full, until all machines are running. Until the book mobile...

brings the new books to where bookworms search for food: to the bookstore. Curious views and a flood of questions from kids at various schools gave us the idea to this project. A project, by the way, that had a long secret life before its publication in May, too. While working on this book, Ron Heussen, Anne Mikus, and Farid Rivas met lots of people, who are united by one thing: the love and passion for what they’re doing. And this passion is infectious. From May on you’ll find it behind a cover that, when a child lays their hand on it, reveals a part of the secret. But just a part...