'The Winter Book' introduces beginning readers to all the inhabitants of the Town - people and animals. These books will tell many interesting stories that happened on the streets of the Town one winter. Picture books by Rotraut Susanna Berner have become bestsellers in many countries around the world, from Japan to the Faroe Islands. And there is no doubt that the kind, sympathetic and inquisitive heroes of these original books will be loved in Russia as well. ATTENTION PARENTS AND TEACHERS! Picture books by Rotraut Susanna Berner are also excellent teaching aids for children to retell, tell stories from pictures, memorize, as well as for speech therapy classes with children and adults.

READERS' AND CRITICS' REVIEWS

Berner's books are a successful version of a special genre of children's publications - picture books. They stimulate children to active creative work, encourage not only to look at the pictures, but also to create numerous stories.

The opinion of psychologists from the Center for Games and Toys of the Moscow City Psychological and Pedagogical University

Rotraut Berner realized the long-standing dream of illustrators: she freed book pictures from the oppressive proximity of words, from subordination to the text. She went even further than the creators of comics - she did not even leave captions under the pictures. Looking at her books is like looking out the window of a passenger on a train slowly passing through a city. And outside the train window are little people, such bright, picturesque 'freaks' ...

Papmambook

'The Town' is filled with a huge number of characters, each of whom has their own business, paths and goals. Follow each one and you'll become an ace at finding details and coming up with stories.

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