Grandpa's Guardian Angel

Description

With gentle visual humour, Jutta Bauer's simple story shows how Grandpa's charmed life may be due to someone special watching over him all along. This little boy's grandpa tells him stories whenever he visits. He tells how nothing ever seemed to hurt him. Every morning as a boy, he would run past the big statue of an angel on his way to school, and bullies, buses, high trees, deep lakes - none could touch him. Even through war, hunger and unemployment, and all the strange things life threw at him, Grandpa's angel - though never specifically mentioned - is always at his shoulder, looking out for him.

Jutta Bauer was born in Volksdorf, Hamburg. After studying at the Technical College of Design in Hamburg, she then worked as a children's book illustrator and as cartoonist. Jutta won the Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis (German Youth Literature Award) in 2001 for the picture book Schreimutter, which she wrote and illustrated. In 2010 Jutta received the Hans Christian Andersen Award for illustration. She currently resides in Hamburg.

Soft watercolours with pen and ink on fine quality paper enhance the message of love and protection by the seen and unseen, the things we know about and those we don't. * Buzz Words *