![]() ![]() ![]() In 1967, ‘Halfdans ABC’ rapidly took first place on the reading lists of every elementary school – from the villages of southern Jutland to the inner-city housing estates of Copenhagen. In the 1960s, Rasmussen set about revolutionising learning-to-read textbooks, transforming every Danish letter into a fantasy world of strange and peculiar adventures. Halfdan Rasmussen’s ‘Børnerim’ (children’s rhymes) from 1964 came in 14th – an extremely impressive placing for any children’s book, and even more so for what is basically a collection of nonsensical verses. In 1999, the newspaper Politiken ran a readers’ competition to find the best Danish books of the century. ‘B’ is for Børge wearing Benny’s burning trousers, apparently (photo: Halfdan Rasmussen) ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |