As part of the STADT LAND BUCH children's and youth book festival, a reading for children aged 4 and over will take place on Tuesday, 24 June at 3:30 pm in the Nieder-Roden library. Author and illustrator Nadia Budde will read from her latest book "Die Band, die keiner kennt". Who are they? Four figures with patent leather ankle boots, rings and chains, hard to understand - never seen here. Hair like grass, customised suit, fur on their faces - we don't know them. While the locals are still pondering, the strangers unpack their suitcases, put together some strange stuff and suddenly it's clear: nobody here knows them, they're a band! Off-key tones, a tricky tempo, no one in time, lyrics that make no sense - everyone wants to go! A clear message to every band that nobody knows (yet): just get going and have fun with the people you meet! Admission to the reading is free, registration is requested in person at the library, by telephone on 693-1322 or by email to buecherei@rodgau.de. The bookshop "Gartenstadt Bücher" will be on site with a book table so that young fans can have their own copy signed and take it home as a souvenir. The Rodgau public library is delighted to be part of the first major children's and young adult book festival STADT LAND BUCH for Frankfurt and the Rhine-Main region. The children's and young people's book festival is sponsored by the Kulturfonds Frankfurt RheinMain, the Aventis Foundation, the Deutsche Bank Foundation and the DZ BANK Foundation. The Young House of Literature is supported by the Dr Marschner Foundation and the Cronstett and Hynsperg Protestant Foundation. STADT LAND BUCH is a project of the Young House of Literature Frankfurt. The Young House of Literature has been a permanent fixture in the field of literature education for children and young people for many years. Nowadays in particular, more is needed to get young people interested in reading. The Young House of Literature would like to respond to these developments and open a new chapter with the STADT LAND BUCH festival. The aim is to set new standards with a wide-ranging programme and a special festival atmosphere and to promote reading as a creative and socially relevant practice in the long term. STADT LAND BUCH focusses on the appreciation of young people and their living environments - something that is often neglected in many areas. Especially at a time when books are competing with declining attention or growing digital distraction, STADT LAND BUCH wants to put children's and young people's books in the spotlight. Through direct dialogue with authors and illustrators, the aim is to bring them and their books back into the everyday lives of children and young people - not as a duty, but as a gift.
About the author:
Nadia Budde, born in Berlin in 1967, worked as a commercial artist before studying graphic design at the Berlin Weißensee School of Art and the Royal College of Art in London. Her first picture book Eins zwei drei Tier (1999, Peter Hammer Verlag) was honoured with the German Youth Literature Prize and the Oldenburg Children's and Youth Book Prize. Trauriger Tiger toastet Tomaten (2000) received the Troisdorf Picture Book Prize and the Lynx of the Jury award from ZEIT and Radio Bremen. The comic biography Such dir was aus, aber beeil dich (2009, Fischer Schatzinsel), was honoured with the German Youth Literature Prize and the Max and Moritz Prize for best comic for children. In 2013, Nadia Budde won the Hans Meid Prize for Book Illustration, and in 2017 she was nominated for the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award. Her books have been translated into many languages.
In addition to illustrating her own and other people's picture book texts, Nadia Budde also draws for newspapers, magazines and in the fields of animated film, stage design and advertising. She has held many workshops and readings at home and abroad, including in Norway, France, Iran, Ukraine, Poland, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Bolivia, Peru, Israel, Egypt, Thailand, Algeria, Palestine and Lebanon. In the summer semester of 2008, she took up a guest professorship in illustration at the Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design in Halle an der Saale. She is a member of the jury for the Oldenburg Children's and Youth Book Prize. Nadia Budde lives with her family in Berlin.
