Thursday, March 01, 2007
Thursday, February 01, 2007
Pippi Longstocking
Pippi is one of my all-time heroines. She is strong, independent, funny, and she has a horse AND a monkey. Oh, and, of course, a friend named Annika! What else could you want?
My first attempt at animation. Great fun. Help from my lovely borther Andres and music by Fabian Pahl, with a bit of trumpeting by me (Fabian was better at it, though. LIfe is tough.).
Wednesday, January 31, 2007
Nsuma and the war
I wrote a children's book about a girl child soldier in Uganda. It is quite sad, but the ending has some hope. Since 1987, an etsimated 20,000 children have been ubducted by the LRA (Lord's Resistance Army) in Uganda. 10,000 in the past two years alone. They are used as spies, mine detectors, porters of heavy loads of arms and ammunition. The fact that weapons are now produced to be ever more easy to handle and light-weight, enables children to use them, too. Often against their own families.
Some people might ask, whether a book like that is appropriate for children and whether a book about arguing and finding peaceful solutions would be better. And, of course, children do not HAVE to deal with this topic and should not be forced to. However, children do not live in isolation and in one way or the other, they find out about what is going on in the world: be it through the news, by overheraing their parents talk about it, or by getting to know children at school, who have come from parts of the world where they were involved in armed conflict. Engaging children in a book like this will give them the opportunity to voice questions and talk about their thoughts and fears with their parents.
What Annika Made
Hello, hello! This is a blog instead of a website. Because websites are hard and blogs easy. Not that I am not up for a challenge! Oh no! But right now, at this moment, it will be the blog. And that is ok.
The plan is to put in some things that I have made. And maybe some, that I am still working on. So there.
Have fun!
The plan is to put in some things that I have made. And maybe some, that I am still working on. So there.
Have fun!