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My home office online reading season has begun! I'm happy to read to you and your classes in English or German or both. Send me an email to info@holly-jane-rahlens.com . Can't wait to hear from you! Wallflower (8th-13th grades and adults) Whispering Leaves (5th-8th grades); English unpublished Silence of Snow (5th-8th grades); English unpublished The Mystery of Ainsley Castle (5th-8th grades); English unpublished
I’m thrilled to be this year’s recipient of the German Children’s Radio Drama Award for “Stella Menzel and the Golden Thread” (rbb/NDR) with many thanks to the award’s sponsors, Film- und Medienstiftung NRW and the ARD Radio network.
The photo shows us in the rbb-studio in July 2019 during a break. We see Theresa Zertani (left), who played Stella, Leslie Malton (right) Stella’s mother, Isabel Zwickel-Menzel, and yours truly (middle) who was cast as Stella’s Oma from America, Josephine. (Me? A grandmother? Yikes!) The photo is a little out of focus. And do you know why? Director Leonhard Koppelmann’s hands were shaky because he just couldn’t wait to get a bite of the cake, a surprise from the folks over at Ohrenbär (rbbKultur). Many thanks to the baker, Birgit Patzelt, and producer, Sonja Kessen. They were all a part of this wonderful production and I am deeply grateful to them!
I am thrilled to report that my novel “The Mystery of Ainsley Castle” has been awarded two more book awards this fall: the LEKTORIX, awarded by the Austrian weekly magazine “Die Furche,” the Institut für Jugendkultur and the STUBE-Vienna. Equally wonderful: “The Mystery of Ainsley Castle” was named Children's Book-of-the-Month October by the German Academy for Children’s and Young Adult Literature in Volkach, Bavaria. Read more here:
Lektorix August 2020 Buch des Monats October 2020
My novel DAS RÄTSEL VON AINSLEY CASTLE (The Mystery of Ainsley Castle) was just named by Deutschlandfunk and Focus Magazin one of the “7 Best Books for Young Readers” for the month July 2020!
A new book is always thrilling. I can't wait to hear what you think. Please let me know. You can contact me here.
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Stella sat back down at her mother’s brown oak desk. From this vantage point she could see the lab where her mother was mixing an ointment in the emulsifier, one of those hi-tech mixers. To her mother’s right were shelves with brown bottles that had names on them like pasta zinci mollis, which sounded like something delicious from your favorite Italian restaurant, but was really a paste made from zinc and used to fight diaper rash. Yuck. |
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