FOREIGN RIGHTS HIGHLIGHTS 2022

FOREIGN RIGHTS HIGHLIGHTS

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THERAPY COMICS

Author and illustrator: Ana Petrović

Therapy comics started first on social media, as posts on the author’s Instagram and Facebook profiles. These evolved to become a book with additional content. These witty and at times dark, but nevertheless funny single panels depict the author's personal experience with psychotherapy. The young author and illustrator, Ana Petrović, courageously addresses an important issue for modern society - the need to take care of one’s mental health.

14x20 cm, paperback, black& white, 108 pp.

THE QUIRKY WOLF

Author: Jelena Milutinović

Illustrator: Boris Kuzmanović

This debut fiction work combines dramatic elements, prose text and comics-style dialogues in a dynamic way, making it perfect for beginners in reading. It is a laugh out loud book with several heart-warming stories about the adventures of forest dwellers: the fox, the squirrel, the beaver, the wolf and many other animals. A seemingly ordinary story with seemingly ordinary forest characters, it involves the reader right from the start and it becomes a favourite quickly, showing it is not at all ordinary.

19x24cm, paperback, full colour, 136 pp.

THE JOURNEY TO THE CENTRE OF THE STORY

Author: Anđelka Ružić llustrator: Mladen Anđelković

The idea behind creating this handbook was to allow young book lovers and potential writers to take a peek into the world of stories and discover the secrets behind storytelling and writing.The readers will have the opportunity to get to know basic concepts and laws of writing a story. The book offers various practical tasks as well as interesting information from the world of literature. Apart from enjoying in the adventure of reading and writing, this book gives readers a visual pleasure as well.

THE PET

Author: Sanja Kovandžić Agatonović Illustrator: Boris Kuzmanović

19x23cm, paperback, full colour, 44 pp.

This beautifully illustrated comic for children age 4-6 tells a story about an unusual pet, a small spider who lives with his family in a dark corner of a children’s room. He is pretty lonely so one night, despite his parents’ warnings, he decides to sneak out in search of friends. This seemingly harmless adventure will bring the little spider numerous difficulties. Although the focus of the story is a harmless childish adventure, this picture book opens many important and big questions.

SUPER CREATIVE THINKING ACTIVITIES 1, 2, 3

21x28 cm, paperback, full colour,

pp.

Author: Zorica Nobl

This is a new activity series for school children. Each title consists of numerous tasks grouped by the theme which allows practicing the school curriculum in a fun way. Many creative activities are included in each theme: reading a story, solving many different tasks, calculating, exploring, giving an opinion, creating something, etc. The tasks are designed to be done individually, but a child can always ask for help (especially a 1st grader). Spontaneously, these tasks help kids obtain the soft skills they need for everyday life.

THE MATHS CAROUSEL

colour,

THE MATHS PLAYGROUND

Authors: Mirko Dejić, Branka Dejić Illustrators: Maša Avramović, Evelina Daneva Rajninger

These maths activity workbooks are aimed at children age 5-7. Both books help in developing abstract thinking and maths skills at an early stage. They also help children adopt basic mathematical concepts through step-by-step tasks following the well-known methodology. As in all our maths books problem solving and tasks are made to be fun, to engage different thinking abilities such as abstract thinking, logical thinking, induction and deduction, mathematical intuition, creative problem solving and many more.

colour,

Ilustrators : Lea Embeli, Ana Petrović, Manja Radić

non-Fiction

My Preschool PAD – MAKE YOUR MIND JUMP

age 5-7

Authors: Simeon Marinković and Slavica Marković

Illustrators: Nikola Vitković, Marko Šerer

This is a new activity pad, which focuses on basic mathematical concepts but at the same time addresses the child’s need for play and movement. The novel approach in this book is that mathematical concepts are not given in an abstract form but rather connected with a broader range of activities – body workout, relaxation techniques, traditional and modern games, etc. The book is divided into 32 themes and each theme contains motivational texts and tasks and a number of questions for discussion and thinking.

28x38cm,

28x38cm,

colour,

My Preschool PAD – Easy English age 5-7

Authors: Neda Nedić

Illustrator: Dušan Pavlić

The first of the two activity pads introduces English language for children age 5-7 which they can practice together with their parents, guardians or teachers. The first pad contains 15 lexical and 7 phonetic units. Lovely illustrations, charming characters and many activities for practicing writing and drawing will encourage children to listen and repeat words and phrases in English.

My Preschool PAD – I IMAGINE

age 5-7

Authors: Simeon Marinković and Slavica Marković

Illustrators: Biljana Mihajlović, Mladen Anđelković

This brand new activity pad for preschool children encompasses multiple activities and a wide range of themes. It contains stories, tasks, questions that stimulate the exploration potential in every child. Graphomotor skills, language and communication as well as logic skills are practiced throughout this activity title. It is also accommodated with guidelines for preschool teachers and/or parents when it comes to texts for reading out loud and games they can play together.

28x38cm, full colour, paperback, stickers, 40 pp.

Fiction

19x25, full colour hardback, 168 pp.

Rights sold in: Germany

Upper Sorbian language), Northern Macedonia, italy, Bulgaria

Everything i wanted (or Not)

THE SUMMER I LEARNT TO FLY

Author: Jasminka Petrović

The Summer I learnt to Fly is Kreativni centar’s most award winning title. With a true understanding of the young mind and soul, Jasminka uses humour to depict troubles, growing pains and happy moments of teenagers and thus creates wonderful works of fiction, which won all major domestic awards and found its place in the White Ravens Catalogue in 2016. The most awarded novel both nationally and internationally was adapted into a film and had its premiere in February 2022. The film was directed by a proclaimed and awarded Serbian director Raša Andrić.

The film is a co-production of Serbia, Croatia, Bulgaria and Slovakia with the support of Creative Europe funds and Eurimages.

The special edition includes photos from the shooting with the additional material on how the film was made.

Everything I expected (or not)

Everything I changed (or not)

146 pp.

Author: Dragana Mladenović

Illustrator: Dušan Pavlić

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.

Fiction

The Gifts of the Green Old Witch

Author: Ivana Nešić

Cover design: Dobrosav Bob Živković

A BLACK BIRD

Author: Aleksandra Jovanović

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,

The Secret of the Parseltongue

The Coin of Destiny

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 literary awards and the third book, The Coin of Destiny, has just been released.