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Waldemar Bonsels

Lifespan: 1880 – 1952
Nationality: German
Active: 1919
Works held: 1

Waldemar Bonsels (1880–1952) wrote Maya the Bee (1912), the enduring children’s fantasy following a young bee’s adventures through the insect world, later a hugely popular animated series. A best-selling German author of nature-fantasy in his day.

The works

1919

Himmelsvolk: Ein Buch von Blumen, Tieren und Gott

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Recurring themes

Fantasy Juvenile

Kindred authors shared themes

A. A. Milne Abbie Farwell Brown Abbie Phillips Walker Adélaïde de Montgolfier Albert Bigelow Paine Alexandre Dumas Alfred Ollivant Alice Corkran

Contemporaries writing in the same era

Edgar Rice Burroughs L. Frank Baum Lord Dunsany Victor Appleton H. G. Wells Algernon Blackwood Arthur Conan Doyle Charles B. Stilson E. Nesbit Jack London

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