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Grompel in the city library
Last Friday, the children’s and youth book author Bettina Obrecht was a guest at the St. Ingbert City Library as part of her reading tour through the Saarland. Students from Südschule had come to attend these two readings.
In response to the second graders’ question about where Bettina Obrecht gets the ideas for her books, she answered with the poem "Where Do Ideas Come From." Even small things can tell many stories; you just have to observe your surroundings carefully.
She read from her book “Chaos on the Way,” the first volume of her three-part series “Grompel.” The idea came to her when she discovered the plant giant hogweed on her property, which looked as if it came from another world with strange creatures. In the story, Matti and Milla find an unknown animal under this giant plant in the garden of their new home. For their father, a zoologist, this is a real sensation, and he tries to find out what kind of animal it is.
The Grompel eats strange things, starts talking, glows in the dark, and causes lots of chaos. Bettina Obrecht succeeded brilliantly in making the children laugh with her reading. Everyone listened intently to what Matti and Milla experienced with the Grompel. The readings were organized in cooperation with the Friedrich-Bödecker-Kreis Saarland e. V.
Image: Karin Mostashiri
Title: Bettina Obrecht read at the city library
