White Ravens’98/Germany/48872
Auer, Martin (text)
Luetke, Joachim (illus.)
Der dreckige Prinz
(The filthy prince)
Stuttgart: Thienemann, 1997. [28pp]
ISBN 3-522-43232-1
Cleanliness - Education - Identity - 
Personality change - Surveillance - Perfection
The Queen always insists that her son stay always immaculately clean.
When the prince becomes king, he only dares to wallow in filth at night in
his dreams. But during the day he proclaims that the entire kingdom is to
be kept clean, and he enforces it strictly. This is a cautionary tale directed
against perfectionism, in which children’s dreams collide with the
exaggerated demands of adults. The illustrations contain a wide range of
techniques of style that manage to overrule one another, just as,
analogously, children’s desires are constantly being overruled by the forces
surrounding them. (8+)	

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