Children’s and Young Adult, Poetry

Poems about things which can be lost by anyone who has ever owned anything – in a pop-up book for young readers.

A book for forgetful people containing stories about things which we lose every day, but also about those curiosities which we can discover at the lost and found. Have you ever wondered what happens to these things and how we can actually ever find them again? The respected Czech poet Petr Borkovec has written an enjoyable pop-up book for children about the things we leave behind on the train, at school, on a fence, in a shop – anywhere. A book for young readers but which the adult reader will naturally enjoy too.

Age 3+

You can read an excerpt here.

About the authors:

Petr Borkovec (1970) is a poet, novelist and translator. He won the Jiří Orten Award for his early collection Ochoz (Gallery, 1994). His first book for infant readers was the poetry pop-up book Všechno je to na zahradě (Everything is in the Garden, 2012), and since then he has written four books for children. In addition, he writes poems, short stories and novellas.

Petra Josefína Stibitzová (1988) graduated from the studio of illustration and graphic design at Prague’s Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design. She illustrated the three-part comics Mor (The Plague, 2016–2017) by Milada Mašínová and Pajasan (Ailanthus, 2016) by Vratislav Brabenec. She inventively illustrated Emma Pecháčková’s short-story bird books Holub Kolumb (Columbus Pigeon, 2013) and Holub Pírko (Feather Pigeon, 2019). She also illustrates workbooks for the publishing house Cesta domů, and designs posters and prints.

Petr Borkovec (1970) is a translator and poet, recipient of many awards for his poetry including South Tyrol’s Norbert C Kaser Award and Germany’s Hubert Burda Award. His poems have been published in most European languages including English and German. At the start of the 1990s he began working for the literary review Souvislosti, he has also worked as a newspaper proofreader, the editor of newspaper literary and cultural sections and later as a publishing editor and translator from Russian. He has also translated several ancient and Korean texts into verse. From 2005 to 2023 he organised well-known author reading nights at Prague’s Café Fra.