I have just voted for you!
Greetings from Luxembourg (not so far from Austria)

ich gratuliere und unterstuetze die Nominierung.

Congratulations!!!

Meine herzlichsten Glückwünsche! :D
You’ve got my vote! I love the idea that it’s up for ‘science’ book of the year, because yes, it does represent a rather innovative approach to science – or possibly the oldest of them all… :)
Lena from Germany

I voted, too of course – love the book – and I am happy that they picked the book a good sign for the future of “science”, I think ;-)
Katrin from Germany (next to the border of Austria ;-) )

Wonderful! Congratulations!

Congratulations , what a beautiful nomination

:)
I will send the best wishes too ( not directly from germany, because i am currently in lovely vancouver but…. yeah)

on a side note, i want to point something out as a native german speaket.the german translation is very loose, not word for word. and its not even a common half sentence in the german language. i am not sure how i can describe it more properly, but the sentence is kind of ‘off sounding’. normally you would just say ‘wie man die welt erlebt’ ( how you pay attention/live the world) but the added ‘sich’(‘~yourself’) shifts the sentence to an interesting perspective: it underlines your personal influence much more as a ‘decision’, state of mind, that you take cautiously, to discover the world with your own mind/thinking/actions.
i’m not sure if i can explain it better, but yeah, the german title ‘ wie man SICH die welt erlebt’ fits very well. you read the sentence and bump over the added word and hopefully book too!
;) Long story short, i just wanted to share my sudden ‘look…oh, wait!yeah!’-moment ;)

congrats!
anna

Sweet!
There seem to be many comments of my fellow germans under this post.
Therefore: Herzlichen Glückwunsch!!

Janina aus Deutschland

P.S.: If you have any questions about a website written in german, I think you might just ask your readers for an translation ;-)

Good observation, Anna. There’s a saying among translators that translations are like women – they are either faithful but not beautiful or beautiful but not faithful. I’m not a native German speaker but I noticed the “sich” too. What’s also interesting is that The English title conveys the meaning through a noun (Explorer) while the German conveys the meaning through a verb (erleben). This happens a lot – English prefers vague verbs like “be/do/get” while German prefers a more precise verb.

And the Dutch title of this book, if it will be translated, I am sure will be: How to be an explorer of the world… The title of “Wreck this journal” was also unchanged in the dutch translation. A pity, because “Sloop dit dagboek” (= literal translation) or a bit more daring “help dit boek naar z’n grootje” (not so literal translation/”send this book off to its granny”) sounds quite good in Dutch! But I would not know how to translate How to be an explorer of the world. “Beleef je wereld” (experience your world) is my try… By the way, I will give you my vote!

I love “help dit boek naar z’n grootje”.

Love your illustrations and how your mind works!
Just discovered you —
Congratulations on the nomination!
Brenda

Keri, did you draw the text on the cover of the German language edition of Explorer or was it done by a Keri Smith tribute artist?

:-)

Hi Keri, I am a fan of your work, love reading your blog, own a few of your books and have given them as presents. It is great to hear that this book has been published in German – I live and work in Austria, in teacher education, and will definitely recommend it. Hope you win the prize!