Thomas Müller and the Circus Bear

For Ages 6+

When, on the second day of Christmas, father Wortmann announces his amazing extra Christmas surprise to the assembled family, he’s baffled when the cheering he was expecting doesn’t break out. The patriarch has booked tickets to the circus, but Thomas Müller, the family’s teddy bear, would actually rather see the second part of “The Leatherstocking Tales.” But Mr. Wortmann puts his foot down. In the circus there’s a bear called Momps, who can ride a bicycle forwards and backwards and even standing on his hands while singing “Que sera sera.” Thomas Müller is delighted. After the show, he visits Momps in his cage, who tells him not only about how dangerous wild bears like him really are and about everything else he knows how to do besides riding a bike (quite a lot) but also that he’s actually originally from Siberia – and would like to go back there. Not long afterwards, Momps breaks free and turns up on Thomas Müller’s doorstep. Destination: Siberia. On a snow-blown Christmas day, the two of them set out on Momps’s bike…

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Publisher: Galiani-Berlin
Release: 05.10.2023
ISBN: 978-3-86971-162-1
88 Pages
Authors: Karen DuvePetra Darshan Kolitsch
Illustrated by: Petra Darshan Kolitsch
6 +

Karen Duve Petra Darshan Kolitsch Thomas Müller and the Circus Bear

Karen Duve

Karen Duve , born in Hamburg in 1961, lives in the Märkische Schweiz area of Brandenburg. She has won numerous awards. Her novels Regenroman (“Rain”), Dies ist kein Liebeslied (“This Is Not a Love Song”), Die entführte Prinzessin (“The Abducted Princess”) and Taxi were bestsellers and have been translated into 14 languages. In 2011, she published Anständig essen. Ein Selbstversuch (“Eating Well”) and, in 2014, the polemic Warum die Sache schiefgeht (“Why Things Go Wrong”). Her novel Macht (published in GB under the title “The Prepper Room”) received the Kassel Literary Prize for Grotesque Humor 2017 and her last novel Fräulein Nettes kurzer Sommer (“Fräulein Nette's Brief Summer”) received the Düsseldorfer Literature Prize 2019. Karen Duve was recently awarded with the Soluthurner Literatur Prize 2019 and the Carl-Amery Literature Prize 2019 for her multifaceted oeuvre.

Petra Darshan Kolitsch

Petra Darshan Kolitsch lebt in Hamburg und arbeitet freiberuflich in den Feldern bildende Kunst, Gestaltung und kreative Erlebnis-Events. Mit Karen Duve veröffentlichte sie zwei Weihnachtsgeschichten mit ‚dem Bär Thomas Müller‘, die mit ihrer humorvollen Art und den charmanten Illustrationen zu einem Erfolg wurden. Unter dem Namen Excellent Life- Art & Spirit bringt sie ihre vielseitigen Talente und Berufungen zusammen. Sie unterrichtet Yoga und Numerologie und publiziert in ihrer eigenen Druck-Edition mit Motiven zu Yoga & Psychologie.