Region: Austria

Materials from Austria

A Daisy Is a Daisy Is a Daisy (Except When It’s a Girl’s Name)

By Book Importer | Published: August 15, 2011

Many girls are named after flowers (or even forms of the word “flower,” such as Flora). This inspired Linda Wolfsgruber to create this utterly charming book. Girls’ names in different languages accompany her imaginative illustrations of flowers, so that the reader discovers, for example, that Gul means rose in Turkish, but that it is Rosa [...]

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The Little Green Goose

By Book Importer | Published: June 9, 2011

When a male goose longs for a chick of his own, he borrows an egg and ends up with a baby dinosaur.

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Dragon Feathers

By Book Importer | Published: April 5, 2011

This spirited folktale from Austria’s Ziller Valley tells the story of a poor woodcutter’s son who learns that he must pluck three feathers from the wings of a terrible dragon in order to win the hand of his beloved.

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Running with the Horses

By Book Importer | Published: March 17, 2011

Nina and her father live in a beautiful riding school famous for their Lippizaners–precious, rare performing horses. Nina loves the horses that her father looks after, but she also loves Zelda, one of the old carriage horses who she sneaks out to see. It’s a perfect world for a little girl, although she has to [...]

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For the Love of Music

By Book Importer | Published: March 17, 2011

By the time she was 12, she was considered one of the finest pianists in Europe, but today few people know her name. Maria Mozart, like her famous brother Wolfgang, was a musical prodigy. The talented siblings toured Europe, playing before kings and empresses, were showered with gifts and favors, and lived in a whirlwind [...]

Other Descriptors: Biography, Europe, Nonfiction, Picture Book, Primary (ages 6-9) » Themes: , , , , , , » Leave a comment

Emil And Karl

By Book Importer | Published: December 23, 2010

This is a unique work. It is one of the first books written for young readers describing the early days of the event that has since come to be known as the Holocaust. Originally written in Yiddish in 1938, it isone of the most accomplished works of children’s literature in this language. It is also [...]

Other Descriptors: Drama, Europe, Historical Fiction, Intermediate (ages 9-14) » Themes: , , , , » Leave a comment

A Faraway Island

By Book Importer | Published: November 19, 2010

Torn from their homeland, two Jewish sisters find refuge in Sweden. It’s the summer of 1939. Two Jewish sisters from Vienna12-year-old Stephie Steiner and 8-year-old Nellieare sent to Sweden to escape the Nazis. They expect to stay there six months, until their parents can flee to Amsterdam; then all four will go to America. But [...]

Other Descriptors: Europe, Historical Fiction, Intermediate (ages 9-14), Sweden » Themes: , , , , , , , , , , , » 1 Comment

“I Have a Little Problem”, Said the Bear

By Book Importer | Published: October 1, 2009

The bear has a problem and absolutely everyone has the perfect remedy. The only trouble is, they’re all in such a hurry to help, they have no time to find out what the bear’s problem is. Everyone knows how it feels not to be listened to — especially children.

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Play to the Angel

By Book Importer | Published: October 1, 2009

In February 1938, in Vienna, twelve-year-old Greta Radky is devastated to learn that her mother plans to sell the family piano. Greta’s brother, a concert pianist, died the previous April, and her mother thinks of the piano as his. But Greta is an equally committed musician, and when she meets a mysterious piano teacher who [...]

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Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return

By Yoo Kyung Sung | Published: December 1, 2008

In 1984, Marjane flees fundamentalism and the war with Iraq to begin a new life in Vienna. Once there, she faces the trials of adolescence far from her friends and family, and while she soon carves out a place for herself among a group of fellow outsiders, she continues to struggle for a sense of [...]

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