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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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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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Mjesec u prosincu C

The Moon in December

Sanja Lovrenčić

At first glance, the Moon seems to be the central character of these “twelve stories for daydreaming”, but various other characters alternate under its shine and go through many unexpected experiences: under its light, snow owls hold their annual ball, it serves the little fairy as the highest jump in the sky, a mouse will use it as a model for a picture of the ideal cheese… When it disappears from the sky, four cats go in search of it, and when it reappears it will serve as a swing for three crazy dogs, winners in howling competition… (illustrated by Pika Vončina)

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Tisina zelenog C

The Silence of Green

33,00 €

Iva Valentić, Sanja Lovrenčić

Direct contact with nature plays an important role in this little poetic and visual trilogy by two authors, Sanja Lovrenčić and Iva Valentić. Each in her own way, they experience the green worlds – even if those worlds are small, squeezed between concrete and asphalt – as spaces for a silence that is a departure from everyday reality and a prerequisite for creative work. The Silence of Green was originally the title of a series of the authors’ eleven handwritten art books. Connecting the domain of words and the domain of images, they spent several months dealing with urban greenery, transferring the imprints of fragility, diversity, and vitality of urban plants into their hybrid medium. Growing out of this greenery and returning to it again, as a reflection of the life cycle of the plant world, are the calm, contemplative, and questioning verses of Sanja Lovrenčić, as well as the organically flowing illustrations in ink and stamps by Iva Valentić. The authors collected sketches and notes that were made during the period of work on the manuscript books, supplemented them and prepared them for this edition. The trilogy The Silence of Green consists of the volumes Clear Images, Excerpts from a Personal Chronicle and The Silence of Green: The City, all together in a wonderful paper box. It was designed and produced as a bibliophile edition.

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Ptica rugalica C

The Sneering Bird

16,00 €

Ljerka Rebrović

Illustrating a fable about a parrot run away from the ZOO who meets various animals and finds all of them for some reason ridiculous until a fox teaches it a lesson, the artist Ivana Pipal finds ingenious ways of representing basically the same situation: the parrot and another animal. Giving each protagonist mood and personality, and creating at the same time deeply pleasant green world of the woods, she turns the tale about understanding and accepting others into rich visual pleasure.

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Prica o liniji C

The Story of a Line

18,00 €

Iva Valentić, Sanja Lovrenčić

In the land of lines, a new one is born — as a dot. And immediately, it begins to move, for without movement, there is no line. As with any beginning, questions arise: Where to? Which way? How? There are many possibilities to explore, many examples to follow — or perhaps not? The young line will move this way and that before discovering its own rhythm, unfolding in space, and finally declaring: THIS IS ME!

Iva Valentić learned about lines in both the West and the East, studying at art academies in Venice and Beijing. The brushstroke on paper — ever-changing, diverse, surprising, and alive — is her primary means of artistic expression. Sanja Lovrenčić has added a few words to Iva’s visual story of the line, acting like signposts along the way. Together, they have created an original picture book—intended for all generations — a highly subtle book about learning, growth, exploration, and freedom.

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Prica o Golemu C

The Story of Golem

13,00 €

Drawing on the Jewish visual and literary tradition, Melita Kraus rewrites the legend of Golem of Prague, highlighting its fantastic and amusing side: funny episodes, caused by the fact that Golem’s creators succeeded in making him alive and strong, but not very bright, make the story lively and full of surprises. Placing the frame story (about a little boy who gets lost in the old Prague) in the present time, and narrating in a simple and contemporary language, Melita Kraus establishes a close relationship with the young reader, and draws her/him into the world of her imagination.

Age: 6-8

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Putovanje tete Hilde C

The Voyage of Aunt Hilda

10,00 €

Hilda is an adventurous chicken (rare thing in a chicken house); she embarks on a long journey, searching for the river Limpopo. Her adventures are told in words and pictures, in a series of postcards that she sends to her friends who have stayed home (as a normal chicken should). Her postcards are never just landscapes; the picture always shows someone she met on the road: two ladybugs who lost their sister, a pig prince, a walking hill, a cat teacher teaching only the letter A, and a number of other characters whose stories she tells in just a few words. They make a pleasant reading, full of little surprises that excite wonder and laughter.

Age: 4-6

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Godina bez zeca C

The Year Without a Rabbit

10,00 €

Sanja Lovrenčić

Leo is sitting in front of the house, lounging in a chair and thinking about the past year. The summer was great and promised a good start to seventh grade: with his brother and some friends he had founded a rock band that played a crazy summer hit, played in an international orchestra in Slovenia, and also, he had bathed in the sea. But when he returned to the city, things started going downhill – their pet, a brown rabbit, disappeared without trace, seventh grade started “badly”, with a pile of books, endless assignments and papers, and disagreement broke out with the new fencing coach … Sanja Lovrenčić enriched Croatian youth prose with a realistic and entertaining novel which, through the eyes of the smart, witty and talkative boy Leo, his family and friends, makes us aware (or reminds us) of the problems of growing up. Through the clarity of a child’s mind, we are faced with the absurdities of the adult world, as well as absurdities in schooling (very well described in the chapter “When you write about spring for the seventh time”). Adolescence has never been easy, but this novel shows that it can and should be fun!

(recommendation of the Vladimir Nazor Library in Zagreb)

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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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Most od sedre C

Travertine Bridge

11,00 €

Jana Prević Finderle

In “Travertine Bridge”, the author Jana Prević Finderle, based on her own experience and memories, introduces us to the life of travelers and the world of travel. The short travel sketches act like original postcards addressed to the reader; a concise description derived from the author’s impression of a place, fellow traveler, or guest turns into a vivid picture before our eyes. From a modest summer vacation on the Adriatic Sea in early childhood, to somewhat later family car trips to Paris and London, to independent wanderings around the world in adulthood, the author’s text, sometimes humorous, sometimes melancholic, and almost always nostalgic, seems somehow familiar to us and encourages us to embark on an adventure ourselves. The text is accompanied by drawings by Mate Rupić, who skillfully and thoughtfully transferred some of the vivid moments of Jana’s stories to paper using the ink technique.

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Mi misevi C

We, the Mice

12,00 €

“We, the Mice”, a new picture book by Pika Vončina, is a sequel to her series of picture books about a fantastic animal world. Four stories about a harmonious family of mice are told by Erik the Unstoppable, the mouse who got his nickname because he constantly asks curious questions. His family does not live in “holes” but in nice and comfy dwellings, eating a variety of fruits and vegetables (sometimes even cheese!), loving music and gardens…

The text is handwritten in large block letters, which allows younger children to read it on their own, and helps them as an additional motivation in the process of learning to read and write. The diversity of characters and settings stimulates the development of children’s imagination and deepens their perception and emotional intelligence.

Ages 4-7

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Zasto je Bach C

Why Bach Said Ah

15,00 €

Vesna Matana Matić

Vesna Matana Matić, an experienced musician with pedagogical experience, in her playful fantasy on the subject of classical music and modern technology, conjures up the great composer surrounded by his numerous children. Children’s cries, laughter and insistent questions are the lively background against which Johann Sebastian’s works are created – until the moment when the composer calls for help from the future, so that he can work in peace. Help does indeed arrive, in the form of a little girl, Selfiene, who gives Bach’s children smartphones. A silence ensues in which no one even notices the house cat any more. But this silence is not in the least stimulating: the melodies in the composer’s head have also fallen silent… This picture book is designed so that the youngest readers can learn something about classical music in a fun way, but also to reflect on the changes that electronic devices have brought to family life. The text is accompanied by imaginative illustrations by the young artist Doria Jantolić.

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Vjetrohod C

Windwalk

16,00 €

At first glance, this unusual picture book seems to be entirely dedicated to the endless diversity of winds. But in fact, it questions the ways in which people experience and describe the world. The main character of the story, Tanja the Windwalker, initially performs her job in accordance with the rules and expectations of the wind observation service. However, over time, this passionate wind lover is no longer satisfied with the ordinary language of official reports; she begins to write differently – more personally and poetically, and it takes her more time to formulate sentences. At the same time, various wind officials find it increasingly difficult to understand her… The author of the text, Igor Rajki, conjures up Tanja’s experiences in the worlds of wind and language with strange new coinages and quirky puns, while the illustrator Klasja Habjan creates an imaginative visual world in harmony with the story.

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Zudnja za proljecem C

Yearning for Spring

18,00 €

Edward Thomas, Goran Čolakhodžić

This prose-poetry reader could prove to be one of the key events of the Anglo-Croatian literary exchange in 2025: in it, translator and poet Goran Čolakhodžić brings a selection of prose and verse by the English early modernist, Edward Thomas, one of the most important voices of British poetry and of the generation of artists who perished in the Great War, and a close friend of the American classic Robert Frost. The rhythms of his verse are quiet and unobtrusive; he was above all a poet of the earth, trees, birds, and the human relationship with nature, but his poetry is also characterized by subtle psychological insights and is overshadowed by the coming world conflict. In addition to tackling Thomas’s rhymed verse and selecting some of the most successful fragments from Thomas’s nature writing, travel journals and articles, Čolakhodžić also wrote a critical preface, notes and his own artistic text juxtaposed with Thomas’s – a diary of the arrival of spring in Zagreb in 2025, which highlights the similarities and differences between England and Croatia, the 19th and 21st centuries, reminding us of the impact that climate change and people’s problematic relationship with nature have on our daily life. The painter Iva Valentić provided stunning artistic responses to the texts collected here, connecting Far Eastern techniques with Western literature.

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