White Ravens’99/Austria/73700
Blazejovsky, Maria (text/illus.)  
 Das Königsspiel
 (The game of kings)
 Wien: Jungbrunnen, 1998. [24pp]
 ISBN 3-7025-5697-9
 Boy/Girl - Friendship - Jealousy - Argument - Reconciliation
 Tim and Tina are the best friends in the world. Until one day while playing the game of »King« each tries
 to seize the king’s crown (and its power). An enormous argument ensues! That night Tim dreams of being
 lonely. The next day Tina is bored playing all alone. And so, at the sandbox, they surreptiously move
 closer and closer - and we know that neither of them will want to be »King« today. In the full-page
 pictures in flat earthy tones there is a sense of wholesomeness, while the chaotic movements of 
 the figures convey an endangerment to the world 
 of play. (5+)

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