Annette Langen und Hase Felix
Annette Langen

My Vita

Annette Langen is a German author of children's literature. She was born 29 April 1967 in LeverkusenGermany, and is known for her picture book series about Felix, a traveling stuffed rabbit.[1][2]

Life
Langen grew up in a family of booksellers in Leichlingen in the region of Rhineland, Germany. After graduating from a college preparatory high school, she became a book retailer and then travelled to the United States in order to attend the Radcliffe Publishing Course, Harvard University. Returning to Germany, she began working as a commissioning editor for a children's book publisher for many years. It was at this time that she began writing her first children's books. She has been a freelance author since 2000. Langen has a daughter and son and lives near Cologne, Germany.

Career
Langen has published more than 100 children's books.[3] Of these, many have been translated, into over 30 languages. Her first children's book was published in 1989.

Her first book in the Felix series is about a rabbit named Felix,[4][5] who gets lost, and writes letters home to his owner, Sophie. This was one of Annette's creative inspirations as she travelled often with her family, even as a small child. This practice of writing letters has a long history with Annette; she had numerous penpals throughout the world, many of whom she continues to correspond with. Often it is Annette's own childhood memories of travels taken with her family that appear in her compilation of Felix books.

Annette Langen is an ardent supporter of children's literacy and is actively engaged as an ambassador in this area. She has been a volunteer patron to the Solingen Elementary School since 2001 and a Reading Ambassador of Germany's Reading Foundation since 2011 and took over the leadership of Patronage for Mentoring Coesfeld in 2012.

Annette Langen

Honors

  • "Book of the Year / Flying Turtle Award in Iran" für: Letters from Felix, Book City and The Research Quarterly of Children and Youth's Literature, Februar 2015
  • Golden Record (Goldene Schalplatte) for Letters from Felix, presented at the Leipzig Book Fair in 2010
  • Decade-Project Education for Sustainable Development (Dekade-Projekt Bildung fűr nachhaltige Entwicklung) through UNESCO for the first Felix Naturetrail in Germany, opened in Bonn, Germany, 2008
  • Favorite Choice for Felix bei den Kindern der Welt (Buchliebling), Association of Austrian Publishers, (Buchverband Austria), 2006
  • North Rhine-Westphalia Prize “Art and Culture for Children and Adolescents” Artists meet with Children and Adolescents—Annette Langen's Project for Solingen Elementary School, Solingen Germany 2005
  • “Feather of the Month” (Pluim van de maand/Feder des Monats) award for the book Letters from FelixNetherlands, 1995
Awards for Annette Langen
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Volunteer projects

Annette Langen is an ardent supporter of children’s literacy and is actively engaged as an ambassador in this area. She has been a volunteer patron to the Solingen Elementary School since 2001 where children from 14 different nations are taught. „I consciously committed myself to support this particular school, which has a tragic history. In 1993, in an arson attack, two Turkish students were killed by former students of the school.“

Annette is a Reading Ambassador of Germany's Reading Foundation since 2011 and she took over the leadership of Patronage for Mentoring Coesfeld in 2012.

Photo of Annette Langen
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Selected works in English

 

See also

Annette Langens books in English
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Reviews

New York Times, 19.12.2012

"Two new holiday picture books rise to the challenge, presenting the Nativity story to young readers, each with a very different approach..."

The Birds of Bethlehem and Our Very Own Christmas

Quelle: New York Times, 19.12.2012:

 

Publishers Weekly: "Our Very Own Christmas", 09.10.2012

Our Very Own Christmas 

Quelle: Publishers Weekley, 09.10.2012

 

English Press Kit about Annette Langen and Felix

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References

  1. ^ Kupfer, Ruta (11 December 2003). "Presents for eight days"Haaretz. Retrieved 13 June 2012.
  2. ^ "Globe-Trotting Rabbit Takes Off for Abbeville"Publishers Weekly244 (46). 16 November 1998. Retrieved 13 June 2012.
  3. ^ "Annette Langen liest für Kinder in Rudolstadt" [Annette Langen reads for children in Rudolstadt]. Deutschland Today (in German). 27 March 2012. Retrieved 13 June 2012.
  4. ^ Osberghaus, Monika (19 November 2002). "Bürger, auf die Barrikaden!" [Citizens to the barricades!]. Der Spiegel (in German). Retrieved 13 June 2012.[failed verification]
  5. ^ Langen, Annette; Droop, Constanza (1994). Letters from Felix: A Little Rabbit on a World Tour. Abbeville Publishing GroupISBN 978-1875633623.
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