Picture book – Mein Papa

Annemarie van Haeringen tells the story of a very tired father and his all the more lively son. You take both characters to your heart straight away and love trumpeting the incomparable feeling of love out into the world with them!

His dad looks like a grumbling bear in hibernation, yet he is a big, grey, cosy elephant. Every morning the little elephant has to wake him. That's not easy, but he knows a few tricks that work – and are fun too! Sometimes it annoys him that his dad sleeps so much – but one thing he always knows: he is the dearest dad in the world!

Annemarie van Haeringen tells the story of a very tired father and his all the more lively son. You take both characters to your heart straight away and love trumpeting the incomparable feeling of love out into the world with them!

The idea for this book came about when Annemarie van Haeringen and her Chinese publisher Ao De met at the Beijing book fair in 2011. It is dedicated to Ao De's son Ao Teer, who knows only too well what it is like when a tired father, after a long day's work at the publishing house, does nothing but sleep and sleep and sleep …