Helga Bansch

Amelie and the Fish 
Amelie und der Fisch

ISBN: 978-3-7026-5846-5
32 pages
EUR (AT) 15.00 / EUR (DE) 15.00 / CHF (CH) 21.50
21.00 x 25.00cm
Cover: Hardcover
First published in 2013

Categories: Picture Books,

World ex. Denmark, Netherlands, France, Taiwan, Russia, Turkey, China

For the first time in her life Amelie is at the sea. She is afraid of all the water and goes in very cautiously and only some steps. A little fish comes and plays with her. In the evening he always returns back into the open sea. That’s the way it continues for several days. Amelie wants to have the fish around her all the time and to take him home. Therefore she catches him and puts him into a big glass. But the fish is unhappy and Amelie has a bad conscience. She knows that the fish came of his own free will and that she can’t hold him. So she sets him free. Next morning Amelie waits for her friend, but he doesn’t come. She is sad and tells the sea that she is sorry for what she has done. At that moment the fish appears and Amelie is overjoyed. She realized that every creature is free and that you loose love, if you want to force it.