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A Bag Full of Lies
Godina izdanja: 2011.
A Bag Full of Lies, a book of plays based on six stories from the Croatian folklore heritage, is a kind of counterpart of Noah's Cat, Sanja Lovrenčić’s award-winning book of plays based on motifs from world folklore. Both take place in a recognizable fairy-tale milieu, building fragile stage houses for resourceful individuals capable of establishing contact among detached worlds. Even our memories of old stories that we once heard become an active device for creating an amazing decor and producing a theatre of the past. (Lidija Dujić, ed)
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Noah’s Cat
Godina izdanja: 2010.
Grigor Vitez Award 2010 These six texts based on stories from the world folklore heritage, prepared by Sanja Lovrenčić, are short, communicative and witty outlines for children's onstage play. Adults may also be interested in why cats sit on the doorstep and what that has to do with Noah's Ark, whether all birds were really white in the beginning, and what the expression "put salt on somebody's tail" means. (…) The didascaliae that accompany the plays in this collection are also interesting. In addition to the usual and expected information about the characters' behaviour, manner of address or mise-en-scène, they also bring very specific stage proposals, and these were in turn an incentive for additional editorial instructions on the possibilities and management of stage performances. (Lidija Dujić) (illustrated by Ivana Guljašević)
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Croatian Fairy Tales
Godina izdanja: 2009., 2024.
Kiklop Award for the best book for children 2009. The collection of stories Croatian Fairy Tales includes five stories that the author adapted for the series Ethno Stories, and five more adaptations of stories from the collection of M. Bošković-Stulli. The book also includes a makeover of the fairy tale "Little Fairy", which does not belong to collections of stories recorded by ethnologists in direct contact with narrators, and in style and plot differs somewhat from oral folk tales. Illustrated by Ivana Guljašević You can read the author's comment on the book here.
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Rabbit, Bear, Man and Fox
Godina izdanja: 2006.
A humorous story about a cheeky rabbit who mocked small bears, a gullible father bear who got stuck in the fork of a tree, a man who saved the bear and got some good honey in return, but could not keep a promise, and a fox that was cunning, but not cunning enough to obtain the man's nose. A picture book published in the series Ethno Stories, in which the author reworked old Croatian folk tales from the collection of the ethnographer M. Bošković-Stulli. (illustrated by Tomislav Zlatić)
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The Birdcatcher and the Black Crow
Godina izdanja: 2006.
There was once a man who did not know how to do anything except catch birds, so they called him the birdcatcher. He hunted various kinds of birds, but one day he failed to catch any, until a crow got caught in his trap. He thought that he could not use the crow for anything (it does not look good, it cannot be sold or eaten), so - at its request - he released it in exchange for a little help. But the crow's help - as well as its cunning - was by no means little ... A picture book published in the series Ethno Stories, in which the author reworked old Croatian folk tales from the collection of the ethnographer M. Bošković-Stulli. (illustrated by Sven Nemet)
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The Cat and the Fox
Godina izdanja: 2006.
A story about a lazy but clever cat who left his master and went to live in the woods. There the fox invited him to be her bridegroom, but this strange groom made her friends very curious, so the bear, the wolf and the wild boar decided to take a closer look ... In a story narrated in a modern way, the picture book acquaints the youngest readers with part of the traditional heritage; it was published in the series Ethno Stories, in which the author reworked old Croatian folk tales from the collection of the ethnographer M. Bošković-Stulli. (illustrated by Ivana Guljašević)
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The Gluttonette
Godina izdanja: 2006.
The Gluttonette was a girl who liked to eat but did not want to do any spinning. Her mother scolded her for her gluttony, but when a prince came to the neighbourhood, a good neighbour told him that the scolding was actually a praise for her spinning – and such a great praise that the prince married the girl. Soon the day came when she had to show her skill at the spindle, which she would not have been able to do without the help of three very imperfect fairies ... The picture book was published in the series Ethno Stories, in which the author reworked old Croatian folk tales from the collection of the ethnographer M. Bošković-Stulli. (illustrated by Pika Vončina)
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The Rooster’s Band
Godina izdanja: 2006.
A little rooster got tired of life in the village barnyard, so he decided to go out into the world. On the way he was joined by some other animals: a turkey, a duck, a goose, a rabbit and a hedgehog. After a long walk, the cheerful companions got tired, so when they reached the forest, they found a hollow tree trunk in which they could spend the night. But two hungry "hunters" - a wolf and a fox - decided to get at the "food" in the tree trunk, and this led to indescribable confusion and noise ... A humorous story about the power of togetherness, one in the series Ethno Stories, in which the author reworked old Croatian folk tales from the collection of the ethnographer M. Bošković-Stulli. (illustrated by Ana Kadoić)
