With your novel, “When Hitler and the pink rabbit steel” has reached millions of students. Now the children died book author Judith Kerr, at the age of 95 years.
The British children’s book author Judith Kerr is dead. She died at the age of 95 years, told her publisher HarperCollins in London.
Kerr was nine years old when her father, the Jewish critic Alfred Kerr, and her mother from Germany via Switzerland to the UK flea. Later, she wrote the most famous young people’s book about the exile. “As Hitler and the pink rabbit steel”, taught millions of students the escape story of a Jewish girl and her family. His own admission, according to you wrote the book in a double Intention: as a scarce, non-overloaded report for the children of their own, and in the intention of “the unfortunate feeling of guilt towards parents to remove”. The way Kerr took to her private children’s destiny to a historical example, was the novel, a standard of youth literature, and a classic in the emigrant literature.
success as an Illustrator
Great success, even outside of your English home had Kerr in addition with your picture books about the cat, Mog, of which since the publication of the first “Mog the Forgetful Cat” (1970; dt. In 1972, “Mog, the forgetful cat”) were sold in the German-speaking countries, hundreds of thousands of copies. To your 80. Birthday made Kerr famous, lovable cat with the 2002 published 17. Band “Goodbye Mog” die, a blow of fate for the many friends of the wayward four-legged friend.
in Total, and designed by Judith Kerr to the advanced age of over 20 children’s books, was not transferred to wrote of which a multitude of yet into German. Kerr term is always a Drawing and not writing as your actual Profession: “Actually, I’m a picture book writer, especially Illustrator. The ‘Pink rabbit’ I’ve written just because to me the story just happened.”