Carnival and Potato Salad

2015

Illustrator
Genre
storybook
 
fiction
Original
Language
Estonian
Publisher
Varrak
ISBN
9789985333396
Year
2015
Pages
128
Age
6+

Synopsis

Rights sold: Finnish, Latvian

In Carnival and Potato Salad, Kivirähk continues the style of storytelling he left off with his extremely popular collection of children’s tales titled Poo and Spring. As usual for Kivirähk’s stories, familiar everyday objects often get fresh starts in life – an eraser can become a football, or a pillow can be a teacher. Readers are given a close look at the tribulations of a white dress shirt and the worries of a button that falls off of a boy’s pants while he is playing. Even a vacuum who happened to read a book has no problem heading to the banks of the Limpopo River to save an elephant calf from a crocodile. Each and every thing in Kivirähk’s stories has a task to fulfil, undoubtedly pointing children’s fantasies in a new direction.

 

Translations

Karnevāls un kartupeļu salāti

Latvian

Kivirähk, Jansons, Godiņš, 2016 , 95 lk

Карнавал и картофельный салат

Russian

Kivirähk, Ernits, Verhoustinskaja, 2016 , 128 lk

Kun Musti muni mummon

Finnish

Kivirähk, Nuutinen, Laaksonen, 2018 , 61 lk

Reading Sample

Carnival and Potato Salad (ENG)

Awards

2016 Nukits Competition, 1st place for illustrations, 2nd place for text