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Geschichten vom Franz

Büchersterne. 2./3. Klasse

Stories with Franz

Christine Nöstlinger (Written by), Erhard Dietl (Illustrated by)

As you can tell from his name, Franz is a boy, and he’s six years old. But because he has blond ringlets, a red cherry mouth and plump pink cheeks, people take him for a girl at least three times a day. Franz finds this very annoying, and it’s so hard to convince them they’re mistaken, especially the Bergers’ nephew, who refuses to believe that Franz is a boy. Then Franz has an unusual, but effective, idea …

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Product details

  • ISBN: 978-3-7891-2357-3
  • Published: 01.10.2013
  • Length: 64 pages
  • Publisher: Oetinger

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Written by

Christine Nöstlinger
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Christine Nöstlinger

Christine Nöstlinger was born in Vienna on 13 October 1936 and grew up there in a working-class suburb. She studied commercial art before turning to writing. In 1970, she published her first children’s book, which turned out to be an immediate success. Since then, she has brought out over one hundred…

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Illustrated by

Erhard Dietl
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Erhard Dietl

Erhard Dietl was born in Regensburg in 1953 and studied art at the Kunstakademie in Munich. The author and illustrator holds various awards, including the North Rhine-Westphalian Children’s Book Prize and that of the Stiftung Buchkunst.

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