Colorful Learning

After the exam I needed some distraction and roamed the city a bit.

I mean, seriously.
Not only is the exam on paper (!) and not only do you waste more time having to put the results on an extra paper (40 questions in 60 minutes).
No, the sheets are tied together like a book and I really had one question that was a whole DIN-A-4 page, and can you believe it, the possible answers were on the back! So more time wasted by having to put them on the page before the question.

Anyhows... I ran into Graff, that dangerous book-store.
And I got two ... Braunschweig books (you never thought of that, right ;-)...).

The first one is a coloring book. But not only that!
You learn "a lot" and you can upload your work, too. I certainly was curious and had a look. Hmmm. Nothing there yet.
On September 20th it came onto the market!

I have a brand new book here and if you like, let me tell you about some highlights.

The candleholder in Henry´s dome weighs over 400 kg and is 4,80 m in height.
Our Brunonia is not only heavy (25,8 tons) and with 9,50 m not only very tall, it´s also the tallest in Germany - ha, Berlin, you suck! ;-)

This Braunschweig person was a teacher. In 1874 he brought soccer to the city and hence to Germany.
Why soccer, man, football would´ve been a hit!

Help!!! Someone broke into the most important museum for classic art in Germany, the Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum and stole all the art:

The author suggests you do the painting, but only in the book, please, not for real (the book is also for kids, after all).

And I never knew the brewery feldschlößchen is named after Richmond-castle!
Castle in German is Schloss and since it´s only a very tiny castle the people back then called it but a Schlößchen. It sits in the fields more or less (back then) and hence, field is Feld, the people called it "Feldschlößchen".
And when the brewery was build right opposite they decided to call themselves "Brauerei Feldschlößchen".
Makes sense, huh?

Last (not least, there is more) let me introduce you the first German female balloonist, Wilhelmine Reichard::

On August 9th 1818 she started in Braunschweig, all by herself!
The balloon was build by her husband and herself.
Cool lady, huh?

As Roberta Bergmann, the author and illustrator of the book - great idea, I think!