Kilaka, John
Frische Fische
A picture book from Tanzania
Translated from Swahili by Christine Hatz, edited by Anna Katharina Ulrich
Atlantis, Verlag pro juventute, Zürich, 2001
30 pages, CHF 24.80 / EUR 13,90
ISBN 978-3-7152-0451-2
ages 4 and up
Original edition
It has been a long time since chimpanzee Sokwe has caught so many fish. He's already excited about the money he will earn selling his catch. But Dog puts paid to all that. He wants to eat Sokwe's fish himself. The animals track down the fish thief and he must atone for his misdeed. A comic but profound story in the tradition of Tanzanian Tingatinga painting.
The english edition «Fresh Fish» was published by Groundwood Books and can be ordered here.
Frische Fische
A picture book from Tanzania
Translated from Swahili by Christine Hatz, edited by Anna Katharina Ulrich
Atlantis, Verlag pro juventute, Zürich, 2001
30 pages, CHF 24.80 / EUR 13,90
ISBN 978-3-7152-0451-2
ages 4 and up
Original edition
It has been a long time since chimpanzee Sokwe has caught so many fish. He's already excited about the money he will earn selling his catch. But Dog puts paid to all that. He wants to eat Sokwe's fish himself. The animals track down the fish thief and he must atone for his misdeed. A comic but profound story in the tradition of Tanzanian Tingatinga painting.
The english edition «Fresh Fish» was published by Groundwood Books and can be ordered here.
The author
John Kilaka was born in the southwest of Tanzania in 1966. Already as a boy he was very interested in painting: as a child he was doing sketches in the sand; when he started school he made funny drawings on the black board, what enjoyed the ohter pupils but disturbed the teacher. At the age of twenty he moved to Dar es Salaam to study the art of tingatinga painting. Today John Kilaka is one of the most important representants of tingatinga art. «Frische Fische» is his first picture book.
Please visit also John Kilaka's Website: www.kilaka.com
More about tingatinga artists: www.tingatinga.ch
John Kilaka's other books in the Baobab Series:
Gute Freunde [True friends]
Der wunderbare Baum [The amazing tree]
Please visit also John Kilaka's Website: www.kilaka.com
More about tingatinga artists: www.tingatinga.ch
John Kilaka's other books in the Baobab Series:
Gute Freunde [True friends]
Der wunderbare Baum [The amazing tree]
