Just as we all are, children are fascinated by stories.
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Just as we all are, children are fascinated by stories.
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 2013, 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 reflect the very best stories from around the world, for our most discerning readers of all: children. THE STORY OF THE BLUE PLANET ANDRI SNÆR MAGNASON, ILLUSTRATIONS BY ÁSLAUG JÓNSDÓTTIR An eco-fable with heart—and humour 4 “A Seussian mix of wonder, wit and gravitas” The New York Times Blue Planet will delight and challenge readers of every age. Brimir and Hulda are best friends, living on a beautiful blue planet where there are no grown-ups, life is wild and free, and each day is more exciting than the last. Until, one day, a rocket ship piloted by a strangelooking adult named Gleesome Goodday crashes on the beach. He promises to make life a hundred times more fun—with flyingpowder, and coated skin so that no one ever has to bathe again—and even nails the sun to their sky. But Hulda and Brimir soon discover that their endless fun has conse- quences they could never have imagined. Could it be that Gleesome Goodday is not everything he seems? An extraordinary adventure of magic and generosity, and a beautifully simple tale of selfishness and sacrifice, The Story of the andri snær magnason is one of Iceland’s most celebrated young writers. In 2002 LoveStar was named Novel of the Year by Icelandic booksellers and received the DV Literary Award and a nomination for the Icelandic Literary Prize. The Story of the Blue Planet, now published or performed in 22 countries, was the first children’s book to receive the Icelandic Literary Prize and was also the recipient of the Janusz Korczak Honorary Award and the West Nordic Children’s Book Prize. Andri is the winner of the 2010 Kairos Award. format: Hardback price: £12.99 isbn: 9781782690061 publication: May 2013 dimensions: 200 x 138mm extent: 140pp territory: UK & Comm. reading age: 7-11 years pushkin children’s 2013 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 astronomers wouldn’t dare point their telescopes towards the blue planet. pushkin children’s 2013 5 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 mårten sandén is one of Sweden’s bestselling children’s writers. First a songwriter, he has written more than 30 books, ranging from picture books to YA novels, series and standalone titles. A House Without Mirrors is his most recent book. Thomasine has spent months living in her great-great-aunt’s dusty, dark house with her father, and her aunt, uncle and cousins. While her father’s siblings bicker about how much the house must be worth, her distant, elderly aunt is upstairs, dying, and 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, filled with all the mirrors missing from the big house. And through the mirrors, a different world— one in which you can find 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 the power of love. 6 format: Hardback price: £12.99 isbn: 9781782690078 publication: July 2013 dimensions: 200 x 148mm extent: 180pp territory: World English reading age: 10+ years pushkin children’s 2013 THE GOOD LITTLE DEVIL AND OTHER TALES PIERRE GRIPARI, ILLUSTRATIONS BY PUIG ROSADO Absurd fairy tales, very sensibly told There once was a good little devil—did you read that right? Yes you did: not a wicked little devil but a good one, and boy, was he in a fix! Instead of doing bad things like forget ting his homework and playing tricks on his teachers, this little devil kept trying to be good. He did all his homework—and sometimes enjoyed it! He was never rude and he even encouraged sinners to say sorry. His parents were at their wits’ end. So the little devil struck out on his own… 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 find nifty ways to overcome greedy kings, wicked witches, unlucky spells and even silly names. And there’s a big dash of magic to help them on the way! pushkin children’s 2013 pierre gripari, the French-Greek author, dubbed ‘a Martian in exile’, was one of the most successful children’s authors in twentieth-century France. The stories in The Good Little Devil and Other Tales are his most famous. In these tales, the giants, witches and mermaids of traditional fairytales leap from the page, animated by a very modern spirit. Blessed with a healthy disrespect for authority, the author took great pleasure in upsetting the natural order of the fantastic. format: Hardback price: £14.99 isbn: 9781782690085 publication: August 2013 dimensions: 200 x 148mm extent: 300pp territory: World English reading age: 7+ years 7 THE ADVENTURES OF SHOLA BERNARDO ATXAGA , ILLUSTRATIONS BY MIKEL VALVERDE Small dog. Big dreams. Shola is a little dog with attitude. Frus tratingly for her, she loves both comfort (mainly in the form of food) and adventure (in theory, at least), and spends much of her time trying to decide between the two. Whether she is faced with the possibility that she may really be a lion or the prospect of a boar-hunt, with eccentric American visitors or insufferable country bumpkins, Shola is not afraid to pursue her 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. stories. He first achieved national and international fame with Obabakoak (1988), which won the National Literature Prize 1989 and has been translated into more than twenty languages. His novels have won critical acclaim in Spain and abroad; most recently, Margaret Jull Costa’s translation of Seven Houses in France was shortlisted for the 2012 Oxford Weidenfeld Translation Prize. bernardo atxaga (Joseba Irazu Garmendia, b. 1951) is an award-winning Basque writer, whose work spans both adult and children’s prose, poetry, radio, cinema and theatre, as well as short 8 format: Hardback price: £12.99 isbn: 9781782690092 publication: October 2013 dimensions: 200 x 148mm extent: 140pp territory: World English reading age: 7-11 years pushkin children’s 2013 “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. pushkin children’s 2013 9 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 is to be knighted by King Dagonaut must pass the eve of the grand ceremony in silent vigil. However, Young Tiuri, son of the famous Tiuri the Valiant, breaks the rules—he opens the door to a stranger, who begs him to deliver a secret letter to the Black Knight with the White Shield. The letter is destined for the ruler of the neighbouring realm, King Unauwen, and concerns a matter of paramount import ance. Tiuri accepts this dangerous mission, but when he arrives at the appointed place deep in the forest, he finds the Knight dying, murdered by the vicious Red Riders. As he races to deliver the letter to King Unauwen in the Knight’s stead, Tiuri is pursued by the Red Riders, who threaten his life—but he is determined to fulfil his promise: the Black Knight must not have died in vain. .. 10 tonke dragt was born in Jakarta in 1930 and spent most of her childhood in Indonesia. When she was twelve, she was interned in a camp run by the Japanese occupiers, where she wrote her very first book using begged and borrowed paper. Her family moved to the Netherlands after the war, and after studying at the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague Dragt became an art teacher. She published her first book in 1961, followed a year later by The Letter for the King, which won the Children’s Book of the Year award and has been translated into sixteen languages. Dragt was awarded the State Prize for Youth Literature in 1976 and was knighted in 2001. format: Hardback price: £16.99 isbn: 9781782690108 publication: November 2013 dimensions: 200 x 148mm extent: 520pp territory: World English reading age: 10+ years pushkin children’s 2013 “One ought to have written a warning on it: ‘Watch out: Whoever reads this book will forget everything that’s happening around them!’ From the first sentence, the pages turn into a cinema screen, and no director could have created more beautiful or gripping images” Die Zeit pushkin children’s 2013 Hands shaking, Tiuri did as he was asked. And when he saw the Black Knight’s calm and noble face, he felt so moved that he grasped his hand and swore to deliver the letter safely. “And,” he said, “I shall find your murderers and take vengeance on them!” “That is not your task...” whispered the knight. “You have only to serve as my messenger.” Then the knight closed his eyes. His fingers twitched in Tiuri’s hand and fell still. … Tiuri stood up and took one last look at the peaceful face of the Black Knight with the White Shield, before turning around and walking to his horse. Now he had to carry out the mission that the knight had given him, to deliver the letter to King Unauwen in the land to the west of the Great Mountains… 11 OKSA POLLOCK: THE LAST HOPE ANNE PLICHOTA & CENDRINE WOLF A New Heroine. An Old Evil. An Unforgettable Adventure. from Edefia, having fled their magical, hidden homeland years ago, in fear of all their lives. And more than that: Oksa is their queen. Between her loving, powerful grand mother, her wicked new Physics teacher, her mysterious uncles and Gus, her best friend in the world, plus a whole host of fantastical Edefian creatures, Oksa will be thrown into a wilder adventure than she could ever have imagined. And Oksa knows she must triumph over her enemies. The whole of Edefia is counting on her. “Pollockmania is born” Le Point Oksa Pollock is just a normal thirteenyear-old girl, moving with her family from her home in Paris to a new life in London. But she’s not alone—her best friend Gus has moved with his family too. The pair are ready to settle into their new lives, with new friends, a new school, and new adventures. But bizarre things start happening around Oksa, and she can’t shake the strange butterflies in her stomach. Suddenly, she finds she can produce fire from her hands, move objects with her mind, and even fly. As Oksa experiments with her wonderful new powers, her family begin to notice—and as the truth emerges, it becomes clear that nothing is as it seems. For her family are not from this world, but 12 format: Royal Hardback price: £12.99 isbn: 9781782690009 publication: June 2013 dimensions: 234 x 153mm extent: 520pp territory: UK & Comm. reading age: 12+ years pushkin children’s 2013 anne pli c h ota was born in Dijon, France, and after studying Chinese language and culture spent several years living and working in Korea and China. She has had a varied career: as a Chinese teacher, a nurse’s aide, a public letter writer, and most recently a librarian. She enjoys American and Gothic literature and hearing people’s stories. She lives in Strasbourg with her teenage daughter. “ ‘Edefia? I’ve never heard of it! Where is it?’ ‘Edefia is our country,’ replied Dragomira. ‘A country located somewhere on Earth.’ ‘Wait, Baba… A parallel world? Is that what you mean?’ exclaimed Oksa, amazed and fascinated. ‘Yes and no,’ replied Dragomira, trying to find the right words. ‘It’s a land protected by a mantle of light which makes it invisible to Outsiders.’ ‘Yes, I can imagine that. You can imagine anything,’ breathed Oksa. ‘But believing it is a little harder…’ ” The adventure continues… Volume 2 of the series, Oksa Pollock: The Forest of Lost Souls, will be out in February 2014 cendrine wolf was born in the Alsace region of France. She studied sports, and went on to work in the socio-cultural sector, particularly in deprived neighbour hoods. She taught herself illustration, discovering it late in life, and loves fantasy literature and speed ‘in all its forms’. She lives in Strasbourg. pushkin children’s 2013 13 VITELLO KIM FUPZ AAKESON ILLUSTRATIONS BY NIELS BO BOJESEN A series of charming, funny adventures with the irrepressible mischief-maker Vitello kim fupz aakeson is known for his quirky, honest, humorous, and wonderful picture books and biting young adult fiction. He has written more than 80 books for children and adults and won numerous awards. He is also known for being a prolific screenwriter. VITELLO CARRIES A KNIFE Vitello wants to be a tough guy, and with his mum’s butter knife tucked in his belt he plans to be rude to everyone and not scared of anything. Particularly not stupid dogs... format: Paperback price: £6.99 isbn: 9781782690054 publication: October 2013 VITELLO BECOMES A BUSINESSMAN Vitello sets out to make a million pounds with the help of his friends Max and Harry, and the little squirt William. But what are the four businessmen going to sell? And does Vitello have a nose for business or just for trouble? dimensions: 235 x 171mm extent: 32pp territory: World English reading age: 5–8 years format: Paperback price: £6.99 isbn: 9781782690016 publication: August 2013 dimensions: 235 x 171mm extent: 32pp territory: World English reading age: 5–8 years pushkin children’s 2013 VITELLO WANTS A DAD Vitello never gets to see his dad and needs a decent one to show off to his friends. But where does one borrow a dad? format: Paperback price: £6.99 isbn: 9781782690047 publication: June 2013 dimensions: 235 x 171mm extent: 32pp territory: World English reading age: 5–8 years pushkin children’s 2013 VITELLO SCRATCHES A CAR Vitello and his Mum have a new car. Well, nearly new, anyway. And mostly Mum’s. But the important thing is that it can’t get scratched, not if Vitello doesn’t want to be grounded, or sent to the children’s home, or worse. format: Paperback price: £6.99 isbn: 9781782690023 publication: April 2013 dimensions: 235 x 171mm extent: 32pp territory: World English reading age: 5–8 years VITELLO GETS A YUCKY GIRLFRIEND A new family moves in near Vitello, only they don’t have a cool boy for him to play with, just a yucky girl. And it won’t be fun to play with a yucky girl and her crazy hamster. Definitely not. format: Paperback price: £6.99 isbn: 9781782690030 publication: April 2013 dimensions: 235 x 171mm extent: 32pp territory: World English reading age: 5–8 years 15 SAVE THE STORY Unforgettable stories retold by today’s greatest writers 16 Save the Story is a library of favourite stories from around the world, retold for today’s children by some of the best contemporary writers, including Alessandro Baricco, Umberto Eco, Dave Eggers, Yiyun Li, Ali Smith and A. B. Yehoshua. The stories they retell span cultures (from Ancient Greece to nineteenth-century Russia), time and genres (from comedy and romance to mythology and the realist novel), and they have inspired all manner of artists for many generations. Save the Story is a mission in book form: saving great stories from oblivion by retelling them for a new, younger generation. Each book is beautifully illustrated and accom panied by an author’s afterword describing its origin. The series was conceived by the acclaimed writer Alessandro Baricco working in close collab oration with the Scuola Holden in Turin, founded specifically to develop new and innovative ways of telling stories. The Scuola Holden (Holden School) was born in Turin in 1994. At the School one studies “storytelling”, namely the secret of telling stories in all possible languages: books, cinema, television, theatre, comic strips—with extravagant results. pushkin children’s 2013 save the story: the series Don Giovanni by Alessandro Baricco, illustrated by Alessandro Maria Nacar (pub. 2013) Gulliver by Jonathan Coe, illustrated by Sara Oddi (pub. 2013) Captain Nemo by Dave Eggers, illustrated by Fabian Negrin (pub. 2013) Antigone by Ali Smith, illustrated by Laura Paoletti (pub. 2013) Cyrano de Bergerac by Stefano Benni, illustrated by Miguel Tanco (pub. 2014) pushkin children’s 2013 The Nose by Andrea Camilleri, illustrated by Maja Celija (pub. 2014) The Betrothed by Umberto Eco, illustrated by Marco Lorenzetti (pub. 2014) Gilgamesh by Yiyun Li, illustrated by Marco Lorenzetti (pub. 2014) King Lear by Melania G. Mazzucco, illustrated by Emanuela Orciari (pub. 2014) Crime and Punishment by A. B. Yehoshua, illustrated by Sonja Bougaeva (pub. 2014) 17 THE STORY OF DON GIOVANNI ALESSANDRO BARICCO with special thanks to Tirso de Molina, Molière, Lorenzo da Ponte and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart ILLUSTRATIONS BY ALESSANDRO MARIA NACAR The decline and fall of the famous libertine alessandro baricco (b. 1958) is an Italian writer, director and performer whose work has become famous throughout Europe. He has been a music critic for La Repubblica and La Stampa, and his novels have been bestsellers in Italy and France. He has won, among other things, the prestigious Prix Médicis étranger and the Premio Viareggio. He is the founder of the creative writing school Scuola Holden (named after Holden Caulfield in The Catcher in the Rye), and editor of the Save the Story series. “The crazy life and courageous death of a man who loved women too much to want only one.” Don Giovanni is a passionate lover of life and nearly 1,000 women. One night, the Commendatore of Calatrava catches him kissing his daughter, and challenges him to a duel. Don Giovanni wins the duel, which of course means that the Commendatore is slain—and so begins the end for the incorrigible seducer … format: Hardback price: £14.99 isbn: 9781782690153 publication: October 2013 18 dimensions: 257 x 200mm extent: 104pp territory: UK & Comm. reading age: 9+ years pushkin children’s 2013 THE STORY OF ANTIGONE ALI SMITH with special thanks to Sophocles ILLUSTRATIONS BY LAURA PAOLETTI A small girl’s fight against male authority “The crow crossed the sky, slow-beating her wings. Beat, beat, beat. It was night, not yet morning, and her feathers were so black that she coasted the air invisible above the city wall.” Thus begins Ali Smith’s retelling of Sophocles’ tragedy, about a young Theban princess who decides to bury her dishonoured brother Polynices, against King Creon’s express orders—with heartbreaking consequences. ali smith (b. 1962) is a prize-winning Scottish writer, best known for her novels The Accidental (2005, winner of the Whitbread Novel of the Year award, shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and Orange Prize), and There But for The (2011). She regularly writes for the Guardian, the Times Literary Supplement and the Scotsman, and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2007. format: Hardback price: £14.99 isbn: 9781782690160 publication: October 2013 pushkin children’s 2013 dimensions: 257 x 200mm extent: 104pp territory: UK & Comm. reading age: 9+ years 19 THE STORY OF GULLIVER JONATHAN COE with special thanks to Jonathan Swift ILLUSTRATIONS BY SARA ODDI The strange adventures of Lemuel Gulliver jonathan coe (b. 1961) is a novelist, author of children’s books and biographer. He was awarded a doctorate for his thesis on Henry Fielding’s Tom Jones at Warwick University, and during that time also completed his first novel, The Accidental Woman (1987). He has won prestigious literary prizes in the UK and France, among others for his Thatcher-era satire What a Carve Up! and The Rotters’ Club. In 2004 he was made Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. “For the first time in his life Gulliver felt ashamed of himself and his fellowhumans.” Gulliver is a travel-hungry and adven turous ship’s doctor, who has the odd misfortune of being ship-wrecked four times in as many voyages. Through Jonathan Coe’s expert retelling of Swift’s famous satire about our human hubris and desires, today’s young readers are swept along as Gulliver finds himself a giant among tiny humans in Lilliput; a tiny human among giants in Brobdignag; on the flying island of Laputa, with its most impractical intellectuals; and finally in the land of the Houyhnhnms, talking horses who think precious little of human “Yahoos”. 20 format: Hardback price: £14.99 isbn: 9781782690191 publication: October 2013 dimensions: 257 x 200mm extent: 140pp territory: UK & Comm. reading age: 9+ years pushkin children’s 2013 THE STORY OF CAPTAIN NEMO DAVE EGGERS with special thanks to Jules Verne ILLUSTRATIONS BY FABIAN NEGRIN A teenage boy and his uncle embark on the adventure of their lives “You can call me Captain Nemo. We are on board the Nautilus, a ship of my invention ...” In this science-fiction classic—reimagined by Dave Eggers in modern times, and from the point of view of the fourteen-year-old Consuelo—the famous oceanographer Pierre Arronax sets sail from New York to hunt down a mysterious sea-monster which has been terrorizing the oceans, wrecking ship after ship and causing countless deaths. But they discover an even stranger truth: the “sea-monster” is in fact a submarine, captained by Nemo, who is living in self-imposed exile in international waters. Consuelo and Arronax join Nemo on the submarine, and so begin their exciting adventures … pushkin children’s 2013 dave eggers (b. 1970) is an American writer, editor and publisher, most famous for his moving memoir A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, recounting his life with his brother after their parents’ death from cancer. His most recent works include The Wild Things, based on Maurice Sendak’s children’s book Where the Wild Things Are, and A Hologram for the King. He has won numerous awards, including the American Book Award and Los Angeles Times Book Prize. A Hologram for the King was named one of the 10 Best Books of 2012 by the New York Times. format: Hardback price: £14.99 isbn: 9781782690184 publication: October 2013 dimensions: 257 x 200mm extent: 104pp territory: UK & Comm. reading age: 9+ years 21 In 2014 make room on your bookshelf for more great stories from around the world… A sad story, in which Pockety the tortoise loses her best friend, but learns to grieve and move on; powerful war stories, from Japan and the Netherlands; and unforgettable classics in the beautiful Save the Story series: Umberto Eco, A. B. Yehoshua, Yiyun Li and others give us their take on some world-famous tales. There are also more adventures for Oksa Pollock in the second and third volumes of the exciting series, and a fabulous tour of Greek mythology with the young god Hermes, who plays tricks on his Olympian brothers, and more fun with… well, you’ll have to wait for 2014 to find out! 22 pushkin children’s 2013 SALES AND DISTRIBUTION Pushkin Press 71–75 Shelton Street, London wc2h 9jq t: +44 (0)20 7470 8830 [email protected] www.pushkinpress.com Distributor Macmillan Distribution Brunel Road, Houndmills Basingstoke rg21 6xs UK Customer Services: t: +44 (0)1256 302699 [email protected] Trade Orders: t: +44 (0)1256 302692 [email protected] Sales Representatives: UK and Ireland Bounce Sales and Marketing Ltd Quality Court Off Chancery Lane London wc2a 1hr [email protected] t: 020 71383650 f: 020 71383658 France, Belgium, Netherlands, Germany, Austria, Switzerland Michael Geoghegan t: +44 (0)20 7435 1662 f: +44 (0)20 7435 0180 [email protected] Italy and Greece Penny Padovani N.A. la Chiesa No. 9 52044 Pergo—Cortona (AR), Italy t/f: +39 0575 614338 [email protected] pushkin children’s 2013 Spain, Portugal and Gibraltar Jenny Padovani Frias Passage Saladrigas 15, 2–2 Barcelona 08005, Spain t/f: +34 93 2218561 [email protected] USA & Canada Consortium Book Sales and Distribution The Keg House 34 Thirteenth Avenue NE, Suite 101 Minneapolis, Minnesota 55413–1007, USA t: +1 612 746 2600 f: +1 612 746 2606 [email protected] For Orders: t: 800-283-3572 f: 800-351-5073 [email protected] Eastern Europe Adriana Juncu Str. 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