Author Description

Jana Stržinar's fairy tale is written with the clear goal: she would like to tell the children that the word's future is in their hands. The author does not hide the educational value of her story but rather try to explain it in a way it is understandable to children: the question of ecology are not just a question of material pollution but rather the ethical relationship toward each and every being and thing. This relationship includes - lets we forget - imagination and daydreaming, those human notions without which we would lose our depth. The foundation of the book poetics is a deep-rooted belief in the holy nature of the world, where every living thing has its own place and meaning. Since it is more and more obvious that the human will not be redeem from his or her nihilistic handling of the world with development of the technology, the ecological motivation of the author's fairytale heroes are even more important. Therefore I recommend the picture book to all, who would return some of rainbow hope to our havens and earth. /Milan Dekleva/