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Zaboravljena djevojcica C

The Forgotten Girl

21,00 €

Moriko once lived in a castle. But once when, following her own heart, she broke the rules of her world, a merciless punishment came upon her: she was banished to oblivion. She no longer exists for people. No one can see her or remember her except as a fairy-tale figure. And if someone mentions her, even in passing, she is briefly turned into a fairy. The forest is her home, and a raven is her best friend. She understands trees, hears the feelings of grass and the little sounds in anthills. She sees what is invisible to people: desires and feelings, beings hidden behind the wind, rain, clouds. But the forest is not just a refuge – in its shadows lurk darkness, nightmares and other invisible things, and above them all the powerful and cruel Echo… This is a beautifully imaginative short novel for older children with just the right amount of darkness and a focus on perseverance and following one’s own emotional needs.

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saturn_naslovnica

Saturn at the Winter Swimming Pool

20,00 €

The story begins one January morning when the planet Saturn suddenly materializes in the big swimming pool, at first in a smaller version of itself. The unexpected event shakes up the sleepy routine of the regular visitors of the swimming pool called ‘Future’. Lacking logical explanations, but brimming with their own ideas, they try to adapt to the new circumstances, hoping the planet will go away on its own. Some try to extract profit from the event, others pretend that nothing is happening, but finally it becomes clear to them all that they simply have to kick out the constantly growing Saturn out of their pool while it’s still possible! This picture-book, fully authored by Vendi Vernić, one of the foremost Croatian illustrators of the younger generation, will appeal to readers of all ages. The story can be read and interpreted on multiple levels: as an absurdist game of imagination, as a little study of a specific community, or as an allegory on melancholy and depression.

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Lipa, kokos i pravica C

The Linden, the Hen, and Justice

19,00 €

Loosely based on a famous episode from Croatian history, but completely self-contained, this is a colourful fantasy with a strong moral message. A miraculous linden tree grows on a hill and helps a poor boy, Ambrose. A long time ago, when nobles believed that they were born with the right to do and say whatever they wanted, a group of peasants rebelled against them. Ambrose’s father was killed in the peasant revolt, so the boy now has to help his mother and take care of his younger brother and sister. The linden tree understands his plight and recognizes his kindness, granting him three wishes. Ambrose thus confronts the cruel nobleman and his children. On his search for justice, the boy experiences a series of unusual events…

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Vazno pitanje o pjescanicima C

An Important Question Regarding Sandboxes

18,00 €

This lively and funny picture book aims to answer an important question: why should sandboxes in kindergartens be covered over at night? The story about four coluorful piglets provides an entertaining and unexpected explanation of a completely ordinary phenomenon from children’s everyday life – the covering over of the kindergarten sandbox at the end of the day. Although it relies mostly on humour, the story also unobtrusively raises important questions about order, responsibility, and shared space, which is extremely useful in a pedagogical sense for preschool and early school-age children. Laura Martinović’s collage illustrations skillfully follow the tone and rhythm of the text.

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Zeko i pile C

Bunny and Chick

18,00 €

Lucija Lokin, Vendi Vernić

This gentle, cheerful and entertaining story will be engaging for all children of preschool or early school age. Its main character Dalibor thinks he has to be a “big boy” and throw away his childish stuffed animals. Left to their own devices, they manage as best they can, while Dalibor starts having an uneasy conscience… A series of humorous details, a wise lesson at the end and extraordinary illustrations by Vendi Vernić will make Bunny and Chick one of the favourite inhabitants of any child’s bookshelf.

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Sretan dan u nasem kvartu C-1

A Happy Day in Our Neighbourhood

18,00 €

Sanja Lovrenčić

The new picture book by Sanja Lovrenčić and Dominik Vuković follows the journey of a single rose. Passing from hand to hand, the red flower outlines the life of a city neighbourhood through which it is carried by various characters. The neighbourhood is a rich microworld in which chance encounters, small daily rituals and never-ending human dramas take place. The characters that the rose travels among belong to different social groups: from dog walkers, young parents, a shop assistant, a resident of a nursing home and a young artist, to marginalized people such as an elderly homeless man and a street musician. All of them, however, are connected by a simple gesture of kindness: passing the rose from one hand to another. The rose thus becomes a metaphor for the community that permeates the fabric of the city, despite the ever-present differences. Ultimately, this tender flower symbolizes the fragility of every gentle gesture – but also its beauty.

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Umjetnost umije C

Art is Smart

18,00 €

At the heart of the new picture book by the award-winning illustrator Agata Lučić is art itself, in all its joyful forms. On the pages of this book, intended for children, but which will delight and cheer up adults as well, we will hear numerous and varied answers to the questions of what art can do, where it can be found, how we can most easily encounter it. ‘Art is Smart’ is a praise of art itself, but also a short lesson for the young ones about different kinds of artistic activity and their equal importance. The picture book is abundantly and dynamically illustrated in the author’s recognizable style, and the text flows in an unstilted poetic style, with cheerful rhymes that arouse curiosity in the reader and draw her on to an optimistic close.

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U ritmu meandra s Julijem Kniferom C

Meandering with Julije Knifer

18,00 €

Sanja Lovrenčić

“Whenever I find something that I like, I want to tell a story about it” , says the narrator of this book. But she will by no means tell the story of Julije Knifer and his famous meander motif alone. The painter himself talks about anti-paintings and anti-bulbs, about the rhythms of black and white, vertical and horizontal lines, research and the search for extremes – all of this in his own words taken from original diary entries. And the illustrations inspired by his art also tell the readers about his journey towards and with meanders in their own way. In the fifth picture book of their Croatian fine art series, Sanja Lovrenčić and Dominik Vuković present the work of one of the most original and respected Croatian artists of the twentieth century, well-recognized abroad.

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Odraz u kisi C

A Reflection in the Rain

17,00 €

Jasmina Kosanović

Jasmina Kosanović, the author of a series of interesting and well-received picture books, does not seem to know how to tell a story about rain. Instead of words, images come to her, all airy and gentle – truly rainy. But for those who like to give themselves over to their imagination, every illustration in this picture book can be the beginning of an adventure. What are those people waiting for under their umbrellas? Who does a sad man with a scarf break up with? Who is behind the windows where the drops are pouring down? Where is the sailboat sailing under an almost clear, yet still rain-soaked sky? A series of rainy scenes results in the author seeing her own self clearly, sun kissed. Those who imagine a series of their own rainy stories will perhaps find out something about themselves, once they eventually emerge from Jasmina’s dreamy, watercolour world.

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Kljucic C

The Little Key

17,00 €

Sanja Lovrenčić

Starting from a banal event – a shoe that was untied and a key found on the street – the little heroine of this picture book talks about her loved ones. For each of them, such a key could serve something, unlock something of theirs: mom’s glass showcase, dad’s mysterious drawer, a compartment with love letters in grandma’s cabinet, a friend’s special pencil case, her brother’s box with figurines of dragons and knights. With each contemplation of the key, an image from everyday life is “unlocked”. But in the end, the girl concludes that the key will best serve her and her own imagination.
The author of this story about curiosity is the acclaimed and experienced writer Sanja Lovrenčić, and the book was illustrated by Lucija Mrzljak, an award-winning artist educated in Zagreb, Prague, Krakow and Tallinn.

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Kosjenka i Regoc naslovnica

Kosjenka and Regoč

17,00 €

One of the most popular fairy tales penned by Ivana Brlić Mažuranić, and one of those that Croatian children first encounter, is precisely the one about Regoč. However, even though the original story is entitled simply “Regoč”, the little fairy Kosjenka plays a more important role in it. Curious and lively, she sets the sluggish giant on an adventure. Cheerful when she finds company, compassionate in times of trouble, she sacrifices all her fairy magic for new friends, for children from two feuding villages near the Zlovoda lake. Although the two main characters belong to the realm of the fantastical, the story ends on a perfectly human note, with the construction of a new village. And while Regoč returns to his town of Legen, Kosjenka can no longer go back among the fairies, so she stays with the children from the village – as well as with little readers. For this silent book, visual artist Vendi Vernić told Ivana Brlić Mažuranić’s story in a purely visual language. For those who do not know the original, there is a small glossary at the beginning. Converted into pictures, the story becomes accessible to preschool readers.

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Hrvatske narodne bajke C

Croatian Folktales

17,00 €

Sanja Lovrenčić

After reading old Croatian folktales in a very serious book for adults,author Sanja Lovrenčić decided to set her favourite ones free and make them more accessible to children of today, telling them in her own literary voice, adjusting them slightly so that they would be more understandable. In eleven short tales, we meet a wide range of interesting heroes and antiheroes, from fox brides and tiny fairies to ravenous young women and mean bunnies. Set in magical and mystical forest settings skillfully depicted by Branka Hollingsworth, these tales – sometimes whimsy, sometimes not – now get to live on in the minds and hearts of new generations of young readers and listeners, saved from the terrible destiny of being forgotten.

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Tintin i prijatelji C

Tintin and his Friends

17,00 €

A basket for mushroom picking, a blanket, and a little black dog – that’s how this story begins. Even though he was abandoned in the forest, the little dog was lucky: he was adopted by two nice people. “Tintin and his Friends” is a diary of the first year they spent together, recorded mainly from the dog’s perspective. We see various little events, from their life at home to from their walks in the park, feeling the warmth the three of them share and following Tintin’s adventures with various dog-friends. In a multitude of small scenes Mingsheng Pi – a Chinese painter based in Zagreb and Tintin’s owner – tells, almost without words, a gentle and cheerful story about animals and people, showing an exceptional talent to spot details and, with just a few strokes of his brush, to evoke a space, an atmosphere, characters, and their relations. Readers of all ages will enjoy Tintin’s adventures, and the youngest among them will learn something new about dogs and their humans – like the importance a dog may have for a with hearing-impaired person.

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Tamnograd C

Darkville

17,00 €

Iva Bezinović-Haydon

Addressing the children for the first time, the renowned Darkville, the setting and the main character of this picture book written by a distinguished author Iva Bezinović-Haydon, is a sad town: all plants are being systematically cut there. No one really knows whose idea that was, but two city officials play a significant role in its implementation. One of them stamps the word ‘NO’ on all requests for a change, the other maintains order with his cutting tools – until a little blue flower emerges from a crack in the asphalt and everything starts to change… Using simple words and an appealing plot, the author talks about the need humans feel for the living green world, for colors, diversity and freedom, but also about different ways of standing up to bad rules imposed from somewhere above – it can be done in a hidden manner, in private spaces, or openly, in public, joining forces with other people. The young illustrator Laura Martinović brought the story about Darkville to life with her playful and warm illustrations, full of creative visual ideas and details that enrich the text.

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Zaboravljene stvari C

Forgotten Things

17,00 €

In her second artist’s book, Agata Lučić takes readers of all generations to a flea market – an almost monochromatic blue world filled with various objects. Each thing there carries traces of time spent in someone’s life, traces of somebody’s past. The young visual artist evokes fragments of life that “forgotten things” shared with their humans in her original, very recognizable style, gradually creating a warm atmosphere – with bits of magic. The last double-page holds a surprise: as the objects manage to attract new owners and are being accepted along with their stories, various colors enter the world of the picture book. It is no longer a space of memories; it becomes a living space. “Forgotten Things” are both nostalgic and cheerful, they urge the reader to open up to hidden histories of unknown people and certain values accessible only to a watchful eye; they invite both children and adults to dream, offering a world of peculiar visual pleasure.

We acquire and discard things too easily, warns the author of this gentle and playful picture book; but even when they have already been discarded, left to their fate on the stands of some open-air “mini market”, they can be looked at, singled out from the crowd, appropriated, restored, and brought back to life.

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Hahari na dnu mulja C

Rascals in the Gutter

17,00 €

In the best tradition of young adult novels, but with a fresh voice, Josip Čekolj recounts the story of his rascals — four friends on the brink of adulthood. Although the town through which they roam is imaginary, their love and confusion, their conflicts and blunders, much like their need for warmth and belonging are all very real. As the rascals learn to find their way ‘in the gutter’, various characters show up to guide them along. Some are more trustworthy than others, and they largely come from the fringes of society, with perhaps the most important being an old lady with her cats and flair for poetry. And as usually happens in coming-of-age stories, their wading through murky waters becomes a first step towards maturity. The inspiration for this book was the exhibition ‘Rascals and Frogs’ by the visual artist Dominik Vuković, themed around memories of childhood. He illustrated this edition in close collaboration with the author, resulting in a special relationship between the text and illustrations.

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