Heike Faller grew up in Black Forest is now an editor at Zeitmagazin. As a staff writer at the Germany weekly Die Zeit she won the Axel-Springer Prize and the Henri-Nannen Prize. It has been a dream of hers to write a children's book like Hundred. Valerio Vidali, born in 1983, is an award-winning Italian illustrator based in Berlin.
Now this is a truly wonderful book, about life, love, age, about all of us. I gave it to look at to a 7 year old who sat with her 75 year old grandmother, and both were intent, deeply engaged, the one full of questions, the other searching still for answers. A remarkable and important book! * Michael Morpurgo * Praise for the German edition -- : Probably the most beautiful and touching book of the year * Die Presse * A great reading pleasure for the whole family, for all generations. * SRF Literary Club * A very philosophical, unusually beautiful book * rbb zibb * Like a poem about life * einfach.sein * A masterpiece * Berliner Zeitung * A wonderful book about the little and big moments that astonish us in life * Laviva * With my current favorite book Hundred, I spend hours on the sofa learning new things about life. * style *