Tata&Squack, The Big Journey will be published on the 1st of November 2011. The Big Journey is the first adventure of Tata&Squack. It tells the story of the Great Migration of the Wildebeest, one of the most impressive events in the natural world. The photographs for the illustrations were taken over a period of 3 years by myself, my husband Willem and Squack Evans in the Serengeti National...
Seit einigen Jahren arbeiten wir an einem Buch über die Große Wanderung der Gnus im Serengeti Nationalpark in Tansania und der angrenzenden Masai Mara in Kenia. Dies ist einer der auffälligsten Tierzüge der Welt. Inzwischen gibt es tausende Fotos, Illustrationen und Textversionen in drei Sprache. Tata&Squack, Die Große Reise wird voraussichtlich im November 2011 beim twikga Verlag erscheinen....
It was time for our morning coffee-stop. We found ourselves a nice shady tree and made our bush latte. Suddenly an elephant appeared out of nowhere. We froze, the elephant came closer. He checked us out and then decided to have a mud-bath just in front of us. The picture of him throwing the mud, I used for one of the Phanhabs illustrations. I think, we were all impressed by this bush latte...
InterRailing during my student days gave me the travel bugs. Together with my boyfriend - by now my husband - we traveled around the world for 6 months as soon as I finished my studies. Patagonia, hiking in the Andes, bungee jumping in New Zealand, diving on the Great Barrier Reef, banana pancakes in Indonesia, ... and we have traveled since. About 15 years ago we went to see "the big zoo", as...
