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Buttons up!
Emma in the Land of Buttons
Ulrike Rylance’s Emma in the Land of Buttons is that rare thing – a
fairy tale that is very funny and slily profound at the same time.
Reminiscent of Alice in Wonderland and The Wizard of Oz, this roller
coaster ride through the Land of Buttons will have kids listening with
bated breaths while those adults who read them the story will time
and again snigger with delight.
EMMA IM KNOPFLAND /
EMMA IN THE LAND OF
BUTTONS
Text by Ulrike Rylance
Illustrations by Silke Leffler
116 pages, hardcover
Colour throughout
6.9 x 9.1 ins. / 17,5 x 23 cm
14.95 Euros
From 4 years onward and the whole
family
English world rights sold, all
other rights available. Please ask
for English sample translation.
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Over the holidays Emma’s staying with her cranky Uncle Hubert and
Aunt Mechthild. In their huge house they keep a marvellous
collection of things you can get for free such as used tickets, snail
shells, fountain ball pens... Then one evening Emma enters the
Button Room, and suddenly a big gold button starts talking to her.
When Emma touches it – lo and behold! – she shrinks to button size
and finds herself in the Land of Buttons.
No sooner has she arrived than the Button Police are after her in hot
pursuit – it is their job, after all, to persecute all Non-Buttons. And it
was big, stuck-up Isolde, the gold button, who set them on. Luckily
Emma meets Louise, a silver button, and Gustav, a mother-of-pearl
button, who help her to find her way back to the world of humans.
That marks the beginning of a thrill-a-minute journey through the
Land of Buttons.
The author
Ulrike Rylance, born in 1968, studied English and German in
Leipzig and London. Since 2001 she has lived in Seattle, USA, with
her husband and her two daughters. She has written books for
children and young readers. Her first novel for young readers Ein
Date für vier was published in 2010.
The illustrator
Straßburger Straße 11
Silke Leffler, born in the Austrian province of Vorarlberg in 1970, trained
as a tailor and then studied textile design. She has been a freelance
textile designer since 1996, working for well-known clients worldwide.
Since 1998 she has also been working as an illustator for children’s
books and stationery. She lives in Southern Germany with her family.
10405 Berlin
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