Wassili Grigorewitsch can be content with his sons. Only Vanya, his third son, is enormously lazy. The work tastes to him like the stinging nettle tastes to the dog. One day, Vanya takes seven sacks of sunflower seeds and climbs onto the baking oven. There he spends seven years without speaking a single word. This is his first test before he sets out to go through dangerous adventures…

Otfried Preußler

DIE ABENTEUER DES

STARKEN WANJA

The adventures of strong Vanya

180 pages with illustrations

of Herbert Holzing

Arena Verlag, 1968

Thienemann Verlag, 1981

Translated into 13 languages