Wolliw Wrink

›Wolliw Wrink‹ is a children's picture book that inspires the imagination, encourages collective reflection, and promotes mental disobedience. ›Wolliw Wrink‹ makes it possible to experience the book in different depths and so it remains a companion over a long period, with ever-new facets. At first glance, ›Wolliw Wrink‹ is a birthday book meant to be read aloud and looked at, which can be personalized with messages. The child receives their ›own‹ picture book. The person giving the gift focuses on the moment of giving to create a ›message for eternity‹ in this book. In the further levels, the book encourages the child to talk about different topics. These include being a child and being an adult, life and death, loneliness and friendship, play and work, as well as ›being different‹ (inclusion/exclusion). The depth and style remain in the hands of the reader. In this context it’s worth mentioning, non-binary pronouns are used throughout the text. Thus, even the dimension of text comprehension stimulates thinking, and here perhaps especially the ones reading out loud. The topic of gender is also a question of ›being allowed to be different‹.