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A white hardcover book, Das Museum für Nichts by Steven Guarnaccia, is displayed at an angle on a white surface. The cover features the title in colorful, 3D block letters above a cartoon illustration of a young Black boy and a blonde girl holding hands as they walk.
The back cover of a book on a white background. At the top, German text reads, Schau hier hinein, wenn du NICHTS sehen möchtest. Below the text is a colorful illustration of two children from behind: a blonde girl in a green dress and a Black boy in a white T-shirt and blue jeans. Both children are holding white paper shopping bags.
An illustrated two-page spread from a German children's book shows a museum exhibit called the zero wing. On the left, a girl looks at 3D representations of the word zero in Sanskrit, Arabic, and Chinese. On the right, a boy pokes his head through a large, circular Mayan glyph for zero. The text explains that this wing displays the world's most beautiful nothings.
An open children's book with a cartoon illustration of a boy named Otto being sucked into a large black oval labeled Schwarzes Loch. The boy has a terrified expression as his body stretches toward the hole, and a speech bubble above him yells OTTO! in red letters. German text is written at the bottom of the page.
An open book with a cartoon illustration on a two-page, light purple spread. A sign at the top reads MUSEUM für NICHTS, which is German for Museum for Nothing. Below, a Black child with curly hair and a white child with blonde hair are shown in profile, looking at a large, empty, circular frame in the center.
The white cover of the book Das Museum für Nichts by Steven Guarnaccia. The title is written in large, colorful 3D block letters. Below the title, a cartoon illustration shows a young boy with dark skin and a young girl with blonde hair holding hands and walking.
A cartoon illustration from a German children's book shows two children, Olga and Otto, in a souvenir shop dedicated to nothingness. A young boy with dark curly hair looks into an empty box labeled Schachtel für Nichts, or box for nothing. A young blonde girl holds up a t-shirt that says in German, My parents were at the museum and all they brought me was NOTHING. Other items for sale include invisible postcards, an invisible action figure, and bottles of air from a room.
A colorful illustration from a children's book shows a blonde girl in a green dress waving goodbye from an open doorway. A boy with dark skin and curly hair, wearing a shirt with the number 0, walks out of the room ahead of her. German speech bubbles read TSCHÜSS! and VIEL SPASS!.
A two-page cartoon spread from a German book showing two children in the "Gallery for Nothing". On the left, a boy looks puzzled at an empty pedestal meant to hold a bust. On the right, a girl looks shocked as a bottle labeled "Air from NY" tips over. A speech bubble above her reads in German, Oh no! All the air is escaping! Other exhibits include a popped air bubble and bottles of air from Paris and Bangkok.
A cartoon illustration of a young boy and girl walking out from a doorway with two round windows. The children are both carrying shopping bags and walking towards the viewer on a white path flanked by two large, donut-shaped topiary trees in orange pots.
Das Museum für Nichts
€ 18.00
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Author: Steven Guarnaccia
Illustrated by: Steven Guarnaccia
German
February 2025, 56 Pages
Hardcover
208mm x 286mm
Age: 6+
ISBN: 978-3-7757-5595-5

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Take a tour of the Museum of Nothing with this quirky picture book! Feast your eyes on button holes, donut holes, and popped bubbles. In the Zero Wing, you'll encounter fascinating mathematical nothings from around the world. Then there's the Nobody Room—where the Invisible Man is the star attraction. Check out the gift shop on your way out, and be sure to buy nothing!
Perfect for anyone looking for a mind-bending adventure, this book by New Yorker illustrator Steven Guarnaccia is sure to leave readers with big laughs and even bigger ideas . . . about nothing.
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