Die Landmaus und die Stadtmaus

Title

en_US Die Landmaus und die Stadtmaus

en_US Die Kleine Bibliothek Elizabeth Shaw Band 6

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US Language note: German

en_US Elizabeth Shaw

Creator

en_US Shaw, Elizabeth See all items with this value

Contributor

en_US Shaw, Elizabeth

Date

2016-01-25T19:54:34Z

en_US 2007-08

en_US 2000

Date Available

2016-01-25T19:54:34Z

Date Issued

en_US 2000

Abstract

en_US The landmouse lives peacefully on the farm, with proportionally sized chickens, ducks, and goats. Grandmother cooks in a wood oven and gets water from the spring; they live the way their parents and grandparents lived. Grandfather smokes his pipe and reflects on life and watches to see if someone comes to visit. One day there is a noise. The citymouse shows up on a motorcycle -- and finds life here so quiet that it is eerie. The citymouse offers to take the landmouse to the city, and she agrees. Grandfather says that she will be back soon; his grandfather once took off for the city and came back fast. The landmouse is suitably impressed with the apartment on the fifteenth floor. (Everything in this town seems to be mouse-sized, and the landmouse wonders at the streets, the cars, and the many mice. Apparently there are no people here.) Here one does not have to haul wood or water. One does not need to plant, harvest, or even cook. There are ready-made meals in the freezer! Why, the landmouse opines, here one could sit all day and reflect, like grandpa. The citymouse responds that he has to work all day in the factory, and tomorrow the landmouse can come along and help. They work hard, come home tired, and eat frozen meals in front of the TV. On the weekend they party. Life in the city is expensive. After a couple of years (!), the landmouse decides that city life is not for her. It is a Hetzjagd. The citymouse does not disagree. He is getting ready to marry, and the apartment would not have room for three. However, to her surprise, the landmouse finds that grandmother has set up a hot dog stand for all the tourists looking for quiet in the country. The poor landmouse likes neither city life nor modern life and wants the good old days. She gets drivers to slow down and enjoy the flowers and convinces grandma to serve not hot dogs but good old country food. The book closes with a first meal in the Gasthaus auf dem Lande with the citymouse and his new bride. Some good old socialist thinking is still alive in Berlin!

Identifier

en_US 9783358021897

en_US 6444 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/81768

Language

en_US ger

Publisher

en_US Der KinderbuchVerlag

en_US Berlin

Subject

en_US PZ34.2.S52 Lan 2000 See all items with this value

en_US One story See all items with this value

en_US Title Page Scanned See all items with this value

Type

en_US Book, Whole