A Children's Book
About open ears and new friends.
"And that things can sound a lot bigger than they look"
"The wind rustling through the leaves took us all the way to the sea"
Left page: "Everyone except for me." Right page: "Every morning I saw him on the hill behind the house. And every evening he was still on the exact same spot."
"I really wanted to meet him! But how? If you are ever so awfully loud, everyone will react eventually – I had figured that out ages ago!"
Left page: "HELLOOO?! Who are you? What are you doing? Why do you look so sad? – That worked! He noticed me!" Right page: "I am Bear and I've grown old. It's good that you are so loud. He sighed: Over time I have lost my hearing and I miss it very much. Back then I loved to listen to the sounds of the world! The wind in the trees, the water in the stream. Do you what stories a sound can tell? – Because I didn't know, I stayed quiet."
"By the wild stream we listened to a rampant rock concert."
"But time went by quickly and even from listening you need to take a break from time to time. Bear had already gotten really tired, so I took him back home"