Description
Paula lives in a little village that has a glass factory, a post office, and a shop. The village lies on the shore of a pretty lake; everything there is familiar and feels like home. Paula doesn’t live alone, of course – she has a mother, a father, a little brother named Patrick, a dog named Rex, and a cat named Kitty. She’s turning seven soon, which means she won’t go to kindergarten anymore next autumn. Instead, Paul will go to school – first grade! But before that happens, she has to finish kindergarten. After their graduation party, it turns out that Paula and her friends will be going to different schools. The glass factory has been shut down and Paula’s dad needs to find another job, so their family is moving to the city. Thus, Paula becomes a city girl who starts attending a city school.
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Rights Information
Rights sold: Latvian, Russian
Endorsements
2004 Nukits Young Reader’s Choice Award, 3rd Prize
2001 Annual Children’s Literature Award of the Cultural Endowment of Estonia
2001 5 Best-Designed Children’s Books
Author Biography
Aino Pervik (1932) is one of the most influential authors of modern Estonian children’s literature. She began her schooling at Järvakandi Factories in 1939, continued in 1946–1950 in Tallinn, and graduated from Tartu State University in 1955 with a degree in Finno-Ugric philology. Pervik has lived in Tallinn since 1955. She worked at the Estonian State Publishing House as an editor of children’s and young-adult literature, and at the Estonian Television studio as an editor of programs for the same age group. Since 1967, she has been a freelance writer and translator from Hungarian.
Pervik has written over 60 children’s books, which have been translated into 12 languages and are often adapted for theatre and film. The author has won many major prizes, including the IBBY Honour List in 2004 and Estonia’s national award for children’s literature on several occasions. Her writing sheds light on existential problems: the preservation of ecological balance, the clash of different cultures, the finding of one’s identity, and other complex themes such as war, freedom, fatality, good, and evil. The author frequently addresses acute problems that children face in today’s world.
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© Aino Pervik
© Piret Raud
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- Publisher Tänapäev
- Publication Date October 2001
- Orginal LanguageEstonian
- ISBN/Identifier 9789949857623
- Publication Country or regionEstonia
- FormatHardback
- Pages108
- ReadershipChildren
- Publish StatusPublished
- Original Language TitlePaula lõpetab lasteaia. Paula läheb linna elama.
- Original Language AuthorsAino Pervik, Piret Raud
- EditionSecond
- Copyright Year2020
- Page size207x150 (207x150x14x14) mm
- Illustrationblack and white
- Biblio NotesStorybook, fiction, 5+
- SeriesPaula's Life
- Series Part0
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