Gisela Buck

Background

Gisela Buck was born on December 8, 1941, in Slavonice, South Bohemian, Czech Republic. She is the daughter of Karl Zach, a construction worker, and Gisela (Witzmann) Zach, a dressmaker.

Education

In 1961 Gisela Buck had a High school diploma at the Gymnasium Kunzelsau. She received grade school and high school teaching degrees in 1963 and 1965.

Career

Gisela Buck is a grade school and high school teacher in Bad Friedrichsburg, Ohringen, Tubingen, Ludwigsburg, and Lorrach, Germany. She is also teacher of seminars in school instruction for curriculum committees of primary school, Baden-Wuerttemburg, Germany.

Gisela is an author of Fibel "Lesen lesen lesen" (books for second, third, and fourth graders), "Bausteine Deutsch Lesebuch" (books for second, third, and fourth graders), "Bausteine Sachunterricht" (four books for first, second, third, and fourth graders), "Lesehefte "Quieselbuecher" (sixty volumes), and "Lesehefte fuer Erstleser: Fatma, Ein Buch liest Zeihung, Quiesel und der Fahrraddieb" and "Tier-Sachbuecher fuer Erstleser" (eight volumes).

Achievements

• Gisela Buck is best known for her books "Pete the Puppy", "Mitzi, Molly, and Max the Kittens", "Sadie the Shrew", "Fuzzy the Duckling", "Billy and Bonnie the Goats", "Dora the Donkey", "Gertie and Gus and the Guinea Pigs", and "Goldie the Fox".

Works

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  • Fuzzy the Duckling

    (This book follows the life of a duckling, from the time i...)

    1996
  • Mitzi, Molly, and Max the Kittens

    (This book follows the activities of three kittens as they...)

    1996
  • Sadie the Shrew

    (This book follows a female shrew as she hunts for food, e...)

    1996
  • Gertie and Gus the Guinea Pigs

    (This book describes the activities of two guinea pigs fro...)

    1997
  • Billy and Bonnie the Goats

    (This book describes the activities of baby goats from the...)

    1997
  • Goldie the Fox

    (This book follows the life of a fox pup from her birth un...)

    1997
  • Dora the Donkey

    (This book describes the early life of a donkey mare.)

    1997
  • Pete the Puppy 1996

Views

Gisela Buck considers intensive oral and reading instruction to be very important even in this day of audiovisual media. Therefore, finding early reading books very motivational for those in the first four years in school, she began to write such books herself.

Connections

On April 16, 1966 Gisela Buck married Siegfried Buck, a professor and writer.

Father:

Karl Zach

Mother:

Gisela Zach

Spouse:

Siegfried Buck