How many people today can distinguish the types of bees or find out how the mole lives underground? Not enough, think of Mona and Heinrich Neumann. So the painter and the agricultural journalist published a book together in which they show the lifestyles of about twenty local animals and also tell a lot of interesting and interesting information about squirrels, long-eared owls and the like.
For example, in Norse mythology there is a squirrel called “Ratatoskr” or “Ratatosk”, which translates as “rat-tooth”; It carries messages between the eagle in the crown and the dragon Nidhöggr at the foot of the tree on the ash world Yggdrasil. Or that magpies, despite their reputation, do not steal sparkling things and are not responsible for the degradation of many songbirds.
From “Spiky Knights” and “Castle Builders”
Al Newman lovingly depicts each type of local animal and family in short chapters. For example, they described the hedgehog as a “knight in the bushes”, the barn swallow as “a summer guest with a desire to live in stables” and the wasp as a “professional palace builder”. Heinrich Neumann wrote the texts, and his wife, Mona, provided beautiful illustrations showing not only the animals involved, but also, for example, an anthill from the inside.
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