Let playful verses and dreamlike illustrations transport you to an old-fashioned village fair!

Children’s and Young Adult, Poetry

A concertina board-book that encourages interactive creativity: the front side presents poems and colourful motifs of fairground attractions, while the inside, reverse page hides black-andwhite ink drawings to be coloured in. Andrea Tachezy’s elaborately creative illustrations narratively expand Robin Král’s rhyming quatrains—the fragile, interwoven collages and drawings in pastel colours immediately transport us to the picturesque world of the country fair. Here quirky, surreal characters ride on the merry-go-round and run into the haunted castle or the circus ring of clowns, acrobats and exotic animals. Sweet treats, such as ice-cream from a trolley, giant candyfloss or gingerbread hearts, are also available at the fairground. Detailed, whole-page illustrations depict this whirl as an autonomous world. The book resembles one long day full of experiences, starting in the morning and going on until the evening. The day of celebration passes more quickly than people would like and both adults and children may ask: did it really happen? Was it a dream?

Age 5+