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        Just 5 More Minutes

        by Patricija Peršolja

        Time is always precious, especially when you spend it with those people who you miss the most, even if you still have to get to know them. When they knock on your door, the world turns upside down. Even those things that you could not understand until today, eventually start making sense.

      • Children's & YA

        Con un dedo en la luna

        by Juan Kruz Igerabide

        Collection of poems Con un dedo en la luna has a form of the children’s game hopscotch. Through reading, the poetic games move from the body and the physical to the sound, words, sensations and feelings. Poetry is a tool of imagination and it gives us an opportunity to explore different shapes of thoughts, feelings and sensations. Juan Kruz Igerabide invites children to understand and see themselves and the world around them in a new way through poetry.

      • Children's & young adult: general non-fiction

        The Gymnast Nikolaj

        Chases Away the Wicked Thief

        by Klarisa Jovanovič

        Nikolaj the Gymnast is Klarisa Jovanovič's first picture book. It tells the story of a gymnast who detects a thief while doing his exercises in the park. The scene makes him so angry that he decides to catch him. The thief steals a baby's rattle and, on another occasion, a magnifying glass from an old lady who visits the park. The thief’s third criminal attempt in a row consists in trying to steal the tablecloth which a poor man puts on his table to embellish it on Sundays. This time, Nikolaj  will catch him and recuperate all the stolen items. Nikolaj the Gymnast is written in verse, in a humorous and very skilful way. Even if posing the ethical question of whether stealing is acceptable or not, it does it without moralizing.

      • Children's & young adult fiction & true stories

        Two Wise Hippos

        by Peter Svetina

        The protagonists of Two Wise Hippos, Huberto and Marcelo, use to sit under a London pane's shadow and spend a lot of time throwing mud balls into the brook. They talk to other animals, though (Carmela the elephant and Tanami the giraffe are among them) and sometimes try to do important things, like helping grasshoppers and commissioning paintings. They like to pose grave questions: How to make a bouquet of rhymes? How wide is the summer? Who is fundamental in this world? Why should we read a lighter book? How long does a downpour last? How to count penguins? The 21 short stories comprised in Two Wise Hippos are clear and short, poetic and tender, hilarious and wise.

      • Children's & young adult fiction & true stories

        The Girl who Delivered Bread

        by Peter Svetina

        In Donostia there lived a boy who everyone called Jan Littlecross. When he still lived with his grandmother, she went with him to see the waves that approached the city from the open  sea. These weren't little waves, foamy curls. No, they were waves that reached a height of  three, four, five, sometimes even eight meters, and broke against the sand of the shore, in front of the city.

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