Since 2004, the nationwide Read Aloud Day has been a joint initiative of DIE ZEIT, Stiftung Lesen and Deutsche Bahn Stiftung, Germany's largest reading aloud festival and a public signal to inspire children and adults about the importance of reading aloud every year on the third Friday in November. We are also taking part this year and reading the story "Elephants don't cry" with the picture book cinema. Age recommendation: Preschool
It's an ordinary morning in the savannah - or so it seems. Matti, the little mongoose, wakes up and wants to stick his nose out into the open. But he can't! A huge gray thing with a wrinkled, bristly bottom is squatting in front of the entrance to his den, blocking Matti's path and view. It's Elias, the old elephant. He is very, very sad - but he has internalized that elephants don't cry. But he would love to ...
You can find out what happens next on November 21 in the Hans Fallada Library.
