Description
Do you want to know what life has in store? It's all here in this book. All the little things we learn in the course of our lives. A page a year, from nought to a hundred.
5: You learn that boys and girls fall in love. Incredible!
13: When will your parents learn? Not in front of your friends.
36: A dream came true, but it feels different than you thought.
45: Do you like yourself as you are?
75: You learn to unlearn things. Can you still do a somersault?
86: Everything can be different in every moment.
How does our perception of the world change in the course of a lifetime? When Heike Faller's niece was born she began to wonder what we learn in life, and how we can talk about what we have learnt with those we love. And so she began to ask everyone she met, what did you learn in life? Out of the answers of children's writers and refugees, teenagers and artists, mothers and friends, came 99 lessons: that those who have had a difficult time appreciate the good moments more. That those who have had it easy find it harder getting old. That a lot of getting old is about accepting boundaries. And of course, as one 94 year old said to her, 'sometimes I feel like that little girl I once was, and I wonder if I have learned anything at all.'
A bestseller in Germany, HUNDRED is a book given by children to grandparents and the other way around, for christenings and Mother's days, significant birthdays and times of celebration. With every age beautifully illustrated by Valerio Vidali, Hundred cannot simply be read because, like life itself, it must be experienced.
What did you learn at age 3? What about 45? 80? The simple pleasures and hard lessons of each age are beautifully presented as a journey of 100 years.
About the Author
Heike Faller grew up in Black Forest is now an editor at Zeitmagazin. As a staff writer at the Germany weekly Die Zeit she won the Axel-Springer Prize and the Henri-Nannen Prize. It has been a dream of hers to write a children's book like Hundred.
Valerio Vidali, born in 1983, is an award-winning Italian illustrator based in Berlin.
Reviews
Now this is a truly wonderful book, about life, love, age, about all of us. I gave it to look at to a 7 year old who sat with her 75 year old grandmother, and both were intent, deeply engaged, the one full of questions, the other searching still for answers. A remarkable and important book! * Michael Morpurgo *
Praise for the German edition -- :
Probably the most beautiful and touching book of the year * Die Presse *
A great reading pleasure for the whole family, for all generations. * SRF Literary Club *
A very philosophical, unusually beautiful book * rbb zibb *
Like a poem about life * einfach.sein *
A masterpiece * Berliner Zeitung *
A wonderful book about the little and big moments that astonish us in life * Laviva *
With my current favorite book Hundred, I spend hours on the sofa learning new things about life. * style *
Book Information
ISBN 9780241400807
Author Heike Faller
Format Hardback
Page Count 208
Imprint Particular Books
Publisher Penguin Books Ltd
Weight(grams) 693g
Dimensions(mm) 228mm * 205mm * 20mm
