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Tina and Tom are peers and neighbours, who play on different sides of the same fence because of their social differences. But then one day, Tina doesn’t come out to play anymore ... Moral: It’s not important the status you possess, all that matters is the greatness you express.
A squirrel and a hedgehog fight over a hazelnut. But where two fight over a thing, it is the third one that gets everything. Moral: Children learn from the story that problems cannot be solved by mutual accusations.
A witch named Ursula lives in the forest where she performs her magic. When her magic tricks go wrong, she is known to become very angry. Moral: Throughout the story the reader realizes that we are responsible for our own mistakes.
A sly fox Lena cleverly tricks her friends to assume a very important position in the forest council. But one day her slyness leaves her in the lurch. Moral: This story tells the reader that it is not worth to look for shortcuts at the expense of others, in order to reach your own success faster.
Once upon a time a little bee named Anna flew in the bee kingdom. Anna had a big secret, which she kept hidden until the day when she was preparing a beverage for the Queen bee. Inside the picture book you can also find a recipe on how to make chocolate. Moral: This picture book encourages a child not to be afraid of being different, because being different can offer many unexpected benefits.
Kate enthusiastically embarks on a delicious pizza that her mother made. While eating, many machines in her body start to work. They carefully process each and every morsel and forward it to different parts of the body. Moral: The story wants to show the children in a friendly and understandable way what happens with food after we eat it.
Little plastic bag encounters many problems at her birth. She quickly forgets about them after she is brought to the shop where she feels great. Her long journey begins when a family uses her to put fruit in her. Moral: The story educates the reader that the excessive use of plastic bags greatly burdens the environment in which we live. It also offers a solution on how each one of us can be a part of solving this problem.
This is a story about a monkey who is left without a tree, because she didn’t want to share it with anybody. Moral: The story educates children that it is perfectly safe to share. If they are overly attached to something, they can lose the thing they love the most.
Abby goes to the city, where she opens her frst sewing salon. She gets visits from Fear, Troubles, and Doubt, which try to make Abby doubt herself and her work. But instead of giving up, Abby remembers the advice of her family, and this helps her to overcome diffcult times. Moral: The story shows how obstacles can always be found on the way to the fulfillment of one’s dreams, but we can overcome them with perseverance, courage and confidence in ourselves.
Goose Betty does not want to accept the fact that she needs glasses, but because her bad vision hinders her in everyday work and games, she reluctantly agrees to wear them. It turns out that the world is completely different with her glasses on. Moral: Admitting you have a problem is the first step in fixing it.
The Church is a typical whodunnit crime novel. The crimes once again take place in native Slovenian surroundings, mostly in the fictitious village of Vodnjaki, where it seems that a special type of evil resides. The tenth, jubilee novel by Demšar is more extensive, the story is more complex and the side stories are even more surprising. The author lures us into a whirlwind of events and holds the reader in suspense even when he delves into the relationships between his mainstay characters known from his previous novels and their characterisation. The rising action that triggers further events is the murder of a high-level church dignitary. Even before the criminal investigators can get down to work, new murders and crimes are reported. In addition to the main storyline, Demšar touches on many different current social issues. This intensely suspenseful read full of intellectual challenges leads the reader on a path to solving an exceptionally complex case.
Series - With zero choice in the matter, four little girls end up living in a mansion, which is literally falling apart, with a guardian, who’s literally gross. Then, a tornado comes and sweeps away misunderstandings, pessimism, and even their guardian. The tragicomic events are told in a light, irreverent style offering a glimpse into the lives of kids forced to grow up faster.
Wrong is the story of a journey: Davide and Elisa, both 15, are on the run, looking for a place to be themselves. It’s also the story of a friendship and the search for a common language to express all those emotions that the two just can’t deal with.Davide is the invisible boy. He doesn’t like or dislike anything specific, girls and boys frighten him equally, he doesn’t fit in with any particular group, and he doesn’t know how to approach his own desires.Elisa’s family has just moved to the city from a small town so that her kid brother can get the therapy he needs. She doesn’t know anyone yet. What she knows is that her half-wit brother, will not help her make new friends.Through text and images, the story snowballs towards the meeting between Davide and Elisa, and between two different ways to go wrong and be wrong - and to do it together.
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LITTLE ALMA ON A GREAT JOURNEY NOMINATED FOR THE BEST PICTURE BOOK IN SLOVENIA IN 2020 (THE KRISTINA BRENKOVA AWARD) Written by Huiqin Wang and Milan DeklevaIllustrations by Huiqin Wang This picture book (in two languages) about Alma Karlin is by painter Huiqin Wang – both of them strong women artists. Slovenian-Chinese painter Huiquin Wang pays tribute to Alma Maksimiljan Karlin, one of the best known and most courageous Slovenian women, on the occasion of the 130th anniversary of Karlin’s birth and the 100th anniversary of the start of her journey around the world. Poet, writer and translator Milan Dekleva authors the text accompanying the pictures, addressing both children and adults as his audience. The picture book takes us on a journey with Alma to distant worlds and far corners of the globe: from London across Italy to South America, then to Japan and all the way to the first homeland of the painter, to China. In a poetic manner the pictures draw us into a mysterious world full of adventure. The picture book is an artistic expression of Alma’s impressions. Alma spent eight years travelling, spoke ten languages, learned about local ways of life, observed and recorded their habits, customs, and traditions. She wrote abouteverything she observed and after returning home to Celje, she gave lectures and devoted herself to writing stories, novels, and poems. Huiqin Wang’s fourth picture book, this story expresses the power and attraction of little Alma on her great journey. Those who think only of themselves go through life alone and abandoned; those who know how to adapt with love and turn things around to a happy ending, who are always willing to come to the aid of others and share with them—for such people, life is a flourishing meadow and the traces of their work live on even after death. (Alma Maksimilijana Karlin, Under the Bushy Eyebrow, 1938) Format: 20.5 x 26 cm | 32 pages | Age: 5+
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I, MARCO POLOWritten and illustrated by Huiqin Wang The book The Travels of Marco Polo introduced westerners to the East. It sparked a yearning for discovery of eastern countries and exploration, which strengthened ties and cultural exchange between East and West. In this picture book the Slovene-Chinese painter Huiqin Wang presents the story of Polo’s travels to the East in two languages. Through it you will learn about China, the Silk Road, and the Chinese language. The picture book will delight children and adults alike; through vivid descriptions of the adventures of Marco Polo the author introduces us to a world of other and at first glance seemingly distant cultures and worlds. Format: 21 x 26.5 cm32 pages | Age: 7+
Classic work of black study refuting scientific racism
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DRAGONS?!Some time ago, some hens found a book about dinosaurs and, on the basis of scientific research, established that they are the successors of the dinosaurs. For millennia, people have been talking about dragons as if they were real animals or even deities. But for the last two centuries, scientists have been labelling all the strange skeletons they find as belonging to dinosaurs or their relatives, no longer recognizing the existence of dragons.Winner of the Kristina Brenkova Award 2018. SPECIFICATIONS OF THE SERIES:Format: 24.5 x 24.5 cm | 32 pages | Age: 3+
