Children's book – Eine Nachtlegende

He had never been able to say no, the house goblin in the old villa. Not when Rat and Toad wanted to play cards with him, and not when a drenched fairy stands at his front door asking for a bed for the night.
Yet he knows that the fairy folk are cunning, treacherous and masters of magic, and he is terribly afraid. And still the fairy now sits in his parlour telling him where she comes from. She tells it movingly and thrillingly, a long, long story. So she stays from night to night to carry on telling it, with never an end in sight. And every day the goblin battles against his fear and his fascination …

With this book Paul Biegel has created a veritable night piece with a goosebumps factor, yet at the same time warm-hearted, humorous to the point of the grotesque and brimming with the deepest wisdom about life. In 1993 he received the Goldener Griffel for this masterpiece.