Just as authors create books, books create authors — and these essays by thirty-one writers for young people offer a fascinating glimpse at the books that inspired them the most.What if you could look inside your favorite authors’ heads and see the book that led them to become who they are today? What was the book that made them fall in love, or made them understand something for the first time? What was the book that made them feel challenged in ways they never kn...

Professionelle Hilfestellungen für junge FamilienNeueste Forschungsergebnisse und Erfahrungen aus der PraxisAktualität: Unsere Welt ist geprägt durch verschiedenste KrisenMit einem Geleitwort von Karl Heinz BrischUnsere Zeit ist von globalen Krisen, gesellschaftlichen Veränderungen und Umbrüchen geprägt, die auch den Lebensbeginn beeinflussen. Junge Familien und die sie begleitenden Fachkräfte stehen vor zahlreichen Fragen, Möglichkeiten und He...

FM4 bot NachwuchsautorInnen und allen, die Lust am Geschichtenschreiben haben, die Chance, sich in kurzer Form literarisch über das Thema "haarig" auszulassen. Zehn der cirka 1.000 Beiträge wurden von einer hochkarätigen Jury gekürt und schafften es in die Anthologie Wortlaut 14. Die urteilenden Barbiere und Haarkünstlerinnen: Irene Diwiak (Gewinnerin Wortlaut 13), Jens Friebe (Musiker und Musikjournalist), Gerhard Haderer (Karikaturist und Zeichner), Eva Menasse (Schriftstellerin), David ...

Visions of Glory brings together twenty-two images and twenty-two brisk essays, each essay connecting an image to the events that unfolded during a particular year of the Civil War. The book focuses on a diverse set of images that include a depiction of former slaves whipping their erstwhile overseer distributed by an African American publisher, a census graph published in the New York Times, and a cutout of a child’s hand sent by a southern mother to her husband at the f...

A collection of 32 personal stories.The Book That Made Me is a celebration of the books that influenced some of the most acclaimed authors from Australia and the world. Edited by Judith Ridge, it features non-fiction stories from 32 inspiring and award-winning authors including Markus Zusak, Jaclyn Moriarty, Shaun Tan, Mal Peet, Ambelin Kwaymullina, Simon French, Alison Croggon, Fiona Wood, Bernard Beckett, Ursula Dubosarsky, Rachael Craw, Sue Lawson, Benj...