Text: Soňa Púček Balážová
Illustrations: Oľga Hoffstädterová and Klára Štefanovičová
Lay-out: Marek Kianička
Hardcover
Size: 170×240 mm
Pages: 144
Retail price: 18 EUR
For age: 6+
A children’s book that was made the other way around
Sometimes there are evenings when one cannot fall asleep. Something is always rustling, the blanket is too warm, the refrigerator is humming or my brother is endlessly reading under the blanket with the light on. You know it, right? At that time, a person’s head is running around, counting sheep to finally fall asleep, trying breathing exercises, plugging their ears, turning from one side to the other, or just staring at the ceiling. And sometimes… Sometimes memories come up. Ideally, they are beautiful and can finally transport our restless mind to places where we have always felt good and to people we loved.
Dorotka and her older brother Eugen also pull out old memories like this before going to sleep. Do you remember? Dorotka always asks, and then they start talking and interrupting each other and again talking about grandpa and his traveling slippers, grandma and her firecrackers, the best steamed buns in the world, the little pig that rides the blue bus, the rooster that doesn’t crow or the biggest blankets in the world.
This book was created a bit the other way around. At first, there were illustrations by Oľga Hoffstädterová for an old book, and they later served as inspiration for Sonia Púček Balážová to write the stories of Dorotka and Eugene. Can you hear them? I guess they fell asleep already. So good night! Miraculous creatures are already flying in the air.