A BLACK BIRD

Twelve-year old Želja is in mourning over her beloved father, who died in an accident. She believes that she’s misunderstood and withdraws into herself and spends more time at the cemetery. There she thinks she can sense her father’s violin music and soon encounters a strange young man, Vuk. He turns out to be a ghostly creature who is able to guide Želja into the world beyond.

In her debut children’s book Aleksandra Jovanović (b 1996) succeeds in tracing the grief of a young girl and the rejection she experiences from family and friends. By letting the realistic plot slide into a suspenseful fantastic setting, she marks out the moment of healing for the main character.

Rights sold in: Northern Macedonia, italy

Rights sold in: hungary

Dynamic and thrilling trilogy follows the adventures of a ten-year-old boy Mika, who endeavours into the world of fantasy and unusual challenges. These books have a successful combination of fantastic elements, characters form Slavic mythology and folklore as well as humour and suspense. The Gifts of the Green Old Witch trilogy will take the readers on a reading adventure and they will not be able to put the books down until the very end. The first of the three books is a part of the recommended reading material for the 5th grade of elementary school. The first two books received prestigious national

Dragana Mladenović (b. 1977)has published several collections of poems, which have been translated into numerous languages (Italian, English, French, Slovenian, Greek and Hungarian). She has received 3 awards for poetry and one for the short story. Her book Dar-mar, published by Kreativni centar, received numerous awards at the book fairs in Belgrade, Novi Sad and Niš as well as the award for the best artwork in 2019.

This humorous and intriguing trilogy in a diary form is about the new favourite teenage couple, Nina and Max. In the first book Max and Nina find themselves separated from the rest of their families due to the state of emergency. As new computer virus spreads among humans, the two teenagers have to get by and survive on their own for a couple of weeks which brings them closer together. In the second book, the central plot is Max’s birthday that happens that very summer after the pandemics. Nina and her best friend Vera go to the party with great expectations but something entirely different awaits them there. The final sequel of the story about Max and Nina is about the first steps of the teenage band they are members of – their first concerts but also the awareness of the ecological issues and environmental activism.

dvorištu škole. – Dobro nisi obila školu i sakrila se unutra.

– Razmišljala sam o tome, ali pomislila sam da me niko neće tražiti – odgovara uz osmeh.

– Hoćeš li da mi se pridružiš? Nisam baš sigurna da li sam dovoljno spretna da se uspužem uz visoku ogradu i pređem na drugu stranu...

– Molim te.

... ali nema mi druge.

* Ležimo na travi ispod žalosne vrbe, u praznom školskom dvorištu.

– A ne, Vera! Idemo na klupu. Neka samo neko od njih proba nešto da ti kaže... – držim je za lakat dok se ona lagano otima i polazi ka gradu.

– Nisam spremna... izvini – kaže mi i potrči.

* Naravno da je nisam ostavila na miru.

– Ne mogu da verujem da si preskočila toliku ogradu! – kažem joj kada je ugledam u

16x20cm,

Three chapter books about the friendship between the eight-year-old girl Laura and a dwarf, Mr. Oliver, who lives inside her room wall. This warm story about friendship and growing up underlines the fact that children not only need to cherish good relations with other people, but also with animals, plants, and the invisible world of imagination.

20x26cm, 24pp, full colour, paperback

A trilogy of picture books about beautiful days spent in the kindergarten “Little garden”. Children love their kindergarten and their teachers. They are free to express themselves, to be creative, use their imagination and work in unison. The trilogy is intended for kids aged 3+ with the idea to prepare the ground for their easy and soft start in the kindergarten.

Vesna Aleksić (b. 1958) writes for children and youth. So far she has written over 20 books which received the most prestigious national awards such as: Neven Award in 1997, Politikin Zabavnik Award in 1998, Rade Obrenović Award in 1999, as well as the Zmajeve dečije igre Award for the outstanding contribution to children’s literature in 2004. She writes theatre plays, literary critique, travel fiction, radio dramas as well as screenplays for TV. She says that through writing she seeks to find out the greatest secret – how to grow up but not lose the child within. Kreativni centar has published more than ten of her works thus far.

Rights sold in: Northern Macedonia

Illustrator: Maja Veselinović

This is a powerful story about a turbulent year of a young Serbian family. The protagonist, Danica, is a 7 year old girl and many important things happen in her life that year – she starts school and her baby brother is born. However, apart from the joy and happiness these events usually bring, unexpected and sudden problems will complicate this family’s life.

This novel also addresses serious questions and shows how a seven year old girl courageously and maturely goes through a difficult life period.

15,5x21 cm,144 pp,paperback, two colours

Illustrator: Maja Veselinović

15,5x21 cm,176 pp,paperback, two colours

The latest novel by an award winning author is a tender and exciting coming of age novel from the time of grunge, first video games and dial-up internet. It is a story from the ‘90s when the times were turbulent in the Balkans, when generation X was in their teens, growing up with good music, films and comic books but was also searching for the lights of the stars in the darkness they found themselves in. The novel is composed as the reminiscence of the protagonist from the times when epic confrontations of the good and the evil were seeping down from the comic books into the real world. This tender and at the same time bitter story is intended for the new generations who are also in the search of their own dreams and need the answers which can also be found in the past.

Illustrator: Aleksandar Zolotić

11x18 cm,122 pp,paperback, black & white

Rights sold in: Northern Macedonia, ROMANIA

This is a tender book about friendship and it is highly recommended to every parent who wants to improve and become a better parent. Masha, the protagonist, is not afraid of anything – not afraid of the dark, of the stormy nights, of mice nor snakes. She only has one great fear of which she dares not speak about, not even to her mom. She is afraid she will forget her dad who taught her to chase dandelions.

16x20 cm, 44pp, paperback, full colour

Princess Sophia is a new fiction series for early reads about a girl who is also a princess. The series contains five titles and in each of them, Princess Sophia is dealing with some very ordinary problems of a 6-year-old. In fact, everything about Sophia is ordinary except for the fact that she is a princess who lives in a castle and her parents are a king and a queen.

This is a funny, didactic and sweet new series to encourage independent reading. The books are accompanied by beautiful illustrations and the first two titles won The Most Beautiful Book Award of The Belgrade Book Fair in 2018.

Jasminka Petrović (b. 1960) has written over 30 books for children and youth. Some of her books were translated into 25 languages and some of them were adapted into plays both in Serbia and abroad. She worked as an editor of a radio show for teenagers, wrote articles for diverse magazines for children and youth, and worked as an editor of the National Geographic Junior in Serbian. She has participated in various programs and projects which stimulate children’s imagination and creativity. She is one of the key organizers of the children’s literary festival Krokodokodil. She is also one of the founders of the Movement for improvement of the children’s culture Ura kultura. Jasminka finds the inspiration for her books in conversations with children. She also gets a lot of support from her family and friends. She is the most award winning author of children’s books in Serbia.