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Wolfgang Grasse Wolfgang Grasse i(A42963 works by) (birth name: Wolfgang Grässe) (a.k.a. Wolfgang Graesse)
Born: Established: 16 May 1930 Dresden,
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Germany,
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Western Europe, Europe, ; Died: Ceased: 2008 Penguin, Penguin area, Penguin - Ulverstone area, Northwest Tasmania, Tasmania,
Gender: Male
Arrived in Australia: 1966
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1 y separately published work icon Life and Death : The Metaphysical Art of Wolfgang Grasse Wolfgang Grasse , Tasmania : Xerxes & Leonidas Publication , 2000 Z1021305 2000 single work criticism
1 y separately published work icon Tataru Wolfgang Grasse , Sydney : Walrus Books , 1985 Z1021296 1985 single work picture book children's Tataru lives in Brazil. His tribe, the Bororo people, have disappeared since white people built roads through the jungles and rainforests. Tataru is searching for his sister, Tanoa. He asks the animals of the jungle for help in finding her.
1 y separately published work icon Kenji's Magic Kite Wolfgang Grasse , Wolfgang Grasse (illustrator), Sydney : Walrus Books , 1984 Z1021289 1984 single work picture book children's Kenji and his sumo wrestler friend Saburo build a very large kite, which Kenji carefully paints with the face of Hachimantaro, a samurai warrior. The next day, Saburo has to wrestle, but promises Kenji they will go out to fly the kite the next day. But Kenji can't wait, and decides to fly the kite all by himself.
1 y separately published work icon Mai-Tzu and the Moon Princess Wolfgang Grasse , Wolfgang Grasse (illustrator), Sydney : Walrus Books , 1984 Z1021286 1984 single work children's fiction picture book children's fantasy Eight-year-old Mai-Tzu is awakened from a nap by the sound of firecrackers exploding. People are celebrating in the streets. He soon discovers that the celebration marks the start of the festival of the moon princess, which lasts for three days and three nights in China, Japan, and Korea. Mai-Tzu doesn't believe in the moon princess and, unimpressed, decides to hunt fireflies instead. When he happens upon a lovely girl, he soon realises that she is the moon princess. She points out the Milky Way and various stars to Mai-Tzu. Then she takes him flying to Korea and Japan to see the festival celebrations.
1 y separately published work icon The Green Bamboo Flute Wolfgang Grasse , Wolfgang Grasse (illustrator), Sydney : Walrus Books , 1984 Z1021283 1984 single work picture book children's A beautiful Chinese princess named La Ho Ta is always unhappy, even though she has everything she could possibly need. She comes to believe that only the 'sweet sound of a bamboo flute in the night' could cure her. Soon, all the flute players in the country queue to play for her, but their music sounds to her like the sqeaking of mice and rats. A young man named Rightheart, the son of the flute maker Tsu Ling, longs to make the princess happy. He learns that eighteen years earlier, his father was commissioned to craft a flute for the King of Korea, Ma Sul Sa. But Ma Sul Sa had stolen the soul of a newborn girl and wanted Tsu Ling to place it in the flute so that the flute would make the most beautiful sound. This soul, they now realise, must have been La Ho Ta's. Rightheart sets out on a difficult and dangerous journey to retrieve the flute, and the Princess's soul.
1 y separately published work icon The Blacksheep Penguin Wolfgang Grasse , Sydney : Stohr Publishing , 1979 Z1021280 1979 single work picture book children's
1 1 y separately published work icon Snowball Wolfgang Grasse , Wolfgang Grasse (illustrator), Sydney : Collins , 1979 Z836083 1979 single work picture book children's This story tells the tale of orphans, Yukio and his sister Otomo, who live in 'old Japan'. One day a beautiful chicken hatches and is named Snowball by Yukio who looks after the young cockerel with great care and tenderness. However, when food is scarce Snowball leaves the children and flies away so that there will be more food for them. He is captured by the soldiers of a warlord who offers the bird to the emperor as a gift. Snowball is pampered and dressed in finery including precious jewels. Eventually he tires of this life and escapes his cage but loses his magnificent tail in the process. He flies home to the children and tells them of his life at the castle but suggests that "there are things more valuable than riches and precious stones". In an aside he points out that he still has two rings on his feet so they will be able to sell these for food when the winter comes.
1 1 y separately published work icon Mai-tzu and the Kite Emperor Wolfgang Grasse , Wolfgang Grasse (illustrator), Sydney : Angus and Robertson , 1973 Z949849 1973 single work picture book children's 'The sky is filled with beautiful kites being flown by children, but little Mai-tzu is too poor to buy one and must build his own. He takes his home-made kite out into the fields and lies back on the grass to watch it fly. Suddenly, a sailing ship with wings appears between the clouds. Shortly after, an arrow shoots through the air shattering Mai-tzu's kite to the ground. The Kite Emperor then descends and asks Mai-tzu to come with him to his palace where he may choose any one of the beautiful kites for his own.' (Source: Book seller)
1 y separately published work icon I'll Say Good Morning Pino Bosi , Wolfgang Grasse (illustrator), Sydney : Kurunda Publications , 1973 Z811995 1973 single work poetry
5 16 y separately published work icon Bread and Honey Ivan Southall , Sydney : Angus and Robertson , 1970 Z170325 1970 single work novel young adult A boy in his early teens finds out about life, and the strength of his own feelings and emotions - as well as those of his enemies - on one very wet adventurous Anzac Day holiday.
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