Mutter sag, wer macht die Kinder

by Janosch

Uns sagte man ""Genau wie es die Schmetterlinge machen, so machen es die Menschen."" Und den Mäusen sagt ""Genau wie es die Menschen machen, so machen es die Mäuse."" Un schon ist es erklärt. In der Hauptsache aber erleben die Maus Tütü und der Maulwurf Diddi Neumann, der beste Küsser der Mäuseschule, die erste große Liebe ihres Lebens. WOW! Total elektrisch und unheimlich heiße Füße. Alles genau wie bei uns. Und ganz einfach. Na also, geht doch!

Genres: Childrens

48 pages, Hardcover

First published May 1, 1992

About the author

Janosch is the pen name of Horst Eckert, one of Germany's most popular authors and illustrators of children's books. His works have won several awards.

Reviews

[Anne-Lise]

Coup de cœur!

[Tanja Russita]

(Sorry, the review will be in English, since I am Russian, don't have German fluent enough, and read it in Norwegian).
For me it was a bit "too much". Janosch shows an erected penis in this book a couple of times, and it is brave enough for the book of this type. And he is speaking about sex not as of the thing needed only to make kids, which is also honest and brave. And I find it amusing, that parents are having sex on the last page, to proof that it is fun (while the main heroine is babysitting siblings and watches tv).
And the class of teenagers is shown quite close to reality, as I remember it.
But I decided not to show the book to my 5-years-old daughter. I could, no problem, but better we'd look at other books - there are plenty of them (we take them all in a library, and there is a shelf dedicated to this subject).

I can't clearly define the target age group for this book - the explanation and the story about mice is for preschoolers, some remarks and overall atmosphere is more for teenagers, yet I'd tell that in general the quality of the book is far from being classics for everybody. It is nice and sometimes funny, but not absolutely great.