PushkinChildrensCtlg_pass3.indd 1 02/04/2013 16:59 PushkinChildrensCtlg_pass3.indd 2 02/04/2013 16:59 Just as we all are, children are fascinated by stories. From the earliest age, we love to hear about monsters and heroes, romance and death, disaster and rescue, from every place and time. In !"#$, we created Pushkin Children’s Books to share these tales from different languages and cultures with younger readers, and to open the door to the wide, colourful worlds these stories offer. From picture books and adventure stories to fairytales and classics, and from fifty-year-old bestsellers to current huge successes abroad, the books on the Pushkin Children’s list re%ect the very best stories from around the world, for our most discerning readers of all: children. PushkinChildrensCtlg_pass3.indd 3 02/04/2013 16:59 THE STORY OF THE BLUE PLANET ANDRI SNÆR MAGNASON, ILLUSTRATIONS BY ÁSLAUG JÓNSDÓTTIR An eco-fable with heart—and humour “A Seussian mix of wonder, wit and Blue Planet will delight and challenge gravitas” The New York Times read ers of every age. Brimir and Hulda are best friends, living on +4:). 24?) *+=4+2(4 is one of a beautiful blue planet where there are no Ice land’s most celebrated young writers. grown-ups, life is wild and free, and each In !""! LoveStar was named Novel of the day is more exciting than the last. Until, Year by Icelandic booksellers and received one day, a rocket ship piloted by a strange- the DV Literary Award and a nomination look ing adult named Gleesome Goodday for the Icelandic Literary Prize. The Story crashes on the beach. He promises to make of the Blue Planet, now published or life a hundred times more fun—with %ying- performed in !! countries, was the >rst powder, and coated skin so that no one children’s book to receive the Icelandic ever has to bathe again—and even nails the Literary Prize and was also the recipient sun to their sky. But Hulda and Brimir soon of the Janusz Korczak Honorary Award discover that their endless fun has cons e- and the West Nordic Chil dren’s Book quences they could never have imagined. Prize. Andri is the winner of the !"#" Could it be that Gleesome Goodday is not Kairos Award. everything he seems? An extraordinary adventure of magic and '()*+,: Hardback :.*042.(42: !"" x #$6mm generosity, and a beautifully simple tale of -)./0: £#!.11 0;,04,: #&"pp .234: 156#56!71""7# ,0)).,()<: UK & Comm. sel>shness and sacri>ce, The Story of the -839./+,.(4: May !"#$ )0+:.4= +=0: 5-## years & !"#$%&' ($&)*+,'’# -./0 PushkinChildrensCtlg_pass3.indd 4 02/04/2013 16:59 The blue planet was beautiful, but it was also a dangerous place. Each day was so full of danger and excitement that no grown-ups could have lived there without getting gray hair and withering away from stress and worry. That’s why no grown-up had landed on the planet for as long as the youngest child could remember, and astron- omers wouldn’t dare point their telescopes towards the blue planet. !"#$%&' ($&)*+,'’# -./0 @ PushkinChildrensCtlg_pass3.indd 5 02/04/2013 16:59 A HOUSE WITHOUT MIRRORS MÅRTEN SANDÉN, ILLUSTRATIONS BY MOA SCHULMAN A moving ghost story that explores the overcoming of loss, and how to move on Thomasine has spent months living in her *A),04 2+4:B4 is one of Sweden’s great-great-aunt’s dusty, dark house with bestselling children’s writers. First a song- her father, and her aunt, uncle and cousins. writer, he has written more than $" books, While her father’s siblings bicker about ranging from picture books to YA novels, how much the house must be worth, her series and standalone titles. A House distant, elderly aunt is upstairs, dying, and Without Mirrors is his most recent book. her father has disappeared inside himself, still mourning the death of Thomasine’s little brother. But one day, her youngest cousin makes a discovery: a wardrobe, >lled with all the mirrors missing from the big house. And through the mirrors, a different world— one in which you can >nd not what you most wish for, but perhaps what you most need… A beautiful tale of love, grief and growing up, A House Without Mirrors is an unforgettable adventure into families and '()*+,: Hardback :.*042.(42: !"" x #&6mm the power of love. -)./0: £#!.11 0;,04,: #6"pp .234: 156#56!71""56 ,0)).,()<: World English -839./+,.(4: July !"#$ )0+:.4= +=0: #"+ years 7 !"#$%&' ($&)*+,'’# -./0 PushkinChildrensCtlg_pass3.indd 6 02/04/2013 16:59 THE GOOD LITTLE DEVIL AND OTHER TALES PIERRE GRIPARI, ILLUSTRATIONS BY PUIG ROSADO A moving ghost story that explores the overcoming of loss, and how to move on Absurd fairy tales, very sensibly told There once was a good little devil—did you -.0))0 =).-+)., the French-Greek author, read that right? Yes you did: not a wicked dubbed ‘a Martian in exile’, was one of the little devil but a good one, and boy, was he most successful children’s authors in in a >x! twentieth-century France. The stories Instead of doing bad things like forget- in The Good Little Devil and Other Tales are ting his homework and playing tricks on his his most famous. In these tales, the giants, teachers, this little devil kept trying to be witches and mermaids of traditional fairy- good. He did all his homework—and tales leap from the page, animated by a sometimes enjoyed it! He was never rude very modern spirit. Blessed with a healthy and he even encouraged sinners to say disrespect for authority, the author took sorry. His parents were at their wits’ end. great pleasure in upsetting the natural So the little devil struck out on his own… order of the fantastic. Elsewhere in this collection a naughty pig swallows the North Star, a man battles a hairy frog and a potato falls in love with a Sultan. Throughout these thirteen tales, clever young people >nd nifty ways to overcome greedy kings, wicked witches, unlucky spells and even silly names. And '()*+,: Hardback :.*042.(42: !"" x #&6mm there’s a big dash of magic to help them on -)./0: £#&.11 0;,04,: $""pp .234: 156#56!71""6@ ,0)).,()<: World English the way! -839./+,.(4: August !"#$ )0+:.4= +=0: 5+ years !"#$%&' ($&)*+,'’# -./0 5 PushkinChildrensCtlg_pass3.indd 7 02/04/2013 16:59 THE ADVENTURES OF SHOLA BERNARDO ATXAGA, ILLUSTRATIONS BY MIKEL VALVERDE Small dog. Big dreams. Shola is a little dog with attitude. Frus- stories. He >rst achieved national and tratingly for her, she loves both comfort international fame with Obabakoak (#166), (mainly in the form of food) and adventure which won the National Literature Prize (in theory, at least), and spends much of #161 and has been translated into more her time trying to decide between the two. than twenty languages. His novels have Whether she is faced with the possibility won critical acclaim in Spain and abroad; that she may really be a lion or the most recently, Margaret Jull Costa’s prospect of a boar-hunt, with eccentric translation of Seven Houses in France American visitors or insufferable country was shortlisted for the !"#! Oxford bumpkins, Shola is not afraid to pursue her Weidenfeld Translation Prize. dreams... up to a point. Lovingly and revealingly illustrated by Mikel Valverde, these four stories in one volume are a treasure-trove of amusement which cannot fail to cheer the reader. 30)4+):( +,;+=+ (Joseba Irazu Garmendia, b. #1@#) is an award-winning Basque writer, whose work spans both '()*+,: Hardback :.*042.(42: !"" x #&6mm adult and children’s prose, poetry, radio, -)./0: £#!.11 0;,04,: #&"pp .234: 156#56!71""1! ,0)).,()<: World English cinema and theatre, as well as short -839./+,.(4: October !"#$ )0+:.4= +=0: 5-## years 6 !"#$%&' ($&)*+,'’# -./0 PushkinChildrensCtlg_pass3.indd 8 02/04/2013 16:59 “How would you define yourself? What are you?” asked the reporter. With great dignity and elegance, Shola opened her mouth. “I’m free!... I do whatever I feel like doing. I eat what I like when I like. I watch television whenever I like. I say what I like. And I go out when I like.” “That must make for a rather discombobulating life!” exclaimed the reporter. “I like being discombobulated,” declared Shola. !"#$%&' ($&)*+,'’# -./0 1 PushkinChildrensCtlg_pass3.indd 9 02/04/2013 16:59 THE LETTER FOR THE KING TONKE DRAGT ‘This fabulous knightly adventure… deserves a place in anyone’s suitcase.’ De Volkskrant The rule-book says that a young man who ,(4C0 :)+=, was born in Jakarta in #1$" is to be knighted by King Dagonaut must and spent most of her childhood in pass the eve of the grand ceremony in Indonesia. When she was twelve, she was silent vigil. However, Young Tiuri, son of interned in a camp run by the Japanese the famous Tiuri the Valiant, breaks the occupiers, where she wrote her very >rst rules—he opens the door to a stranger, book using begged and borrowed paper. who begs him to deliver a secret letter Her family moved to the Netherlands after to the Black Knight with the White Shield. the war, and after studying at the Royal The letter is destined for the ruler of the Academy of Art in The Hague Dragt neighbouring realm, King Unauwen, and became an art teacher. She published her concerns a matter of paramount import- >rst book in #17#, followed a year later by ance. Tiuri accepts this dangerous mission, The Letter for the King, which won the but when he arrives at the appointed place Children’s Book of the Year award and has deep in the forest, he >nds the Knight been translated into sixteen languages.