The rooster keeps explaining to the hen how to lay eggs

Feminist issues are important and serious, but this colorful and wonderfully illustrated book shows that they can also be incredibly funny. Where else is there so much potential for conflict, contradictions, and misunderstandings? And what form captures such topics more succinctly than the short rhyming poem—especially the time-honored animal poem, a genre in German literature that has so far been shaped almost exclusively by men?

This is precisely where this unique book comes in: It opens up a vast field of previously unexplored topics, ranging from rigid beauty standards to various forms of care work, from mansplaining to the gender pay gap. With wit, sharpness, and a clearly feminist perspective, the animal poem is wrested from the “male gaze” once and for all and redefined.

In this first poetry collection of its kind, sociopolitical injustices are denounced, but the joy of collective empowerment is celebrated just as much. The poems are wild, free, and full of energy: here, people dance, celebrate, drink, love, argue, and—above all—chill out a lot. Female self-empowerment is presented not as a distant utopia, but as a lived, liberating practice.

A powerful, humorous, and cleverly illustrated poetry collection for readers ages 8 and up that makes feminist themes accessible while joyfully pushing the boundaries of comedic poetry.