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Mark Twain: Tom Sawyer kalandjai (The Adventures of Tom Sawyer)
Illustrated by János Kass
Holnap Publishing House, Budapest, 2004
233 p. with 11 illustrations
Mark Twain was born in Missouri in 1835 as Samuel Langhorne Clemens. He was a printer, steersman on the Mississippi and newspaper correspondent. He wrote many books, his children?s stories are the most valuable, such as: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn, The Beggar and a Prince, A Yankee in King Arthur?s Court.
Antal Szerb regards Twain as the Shakespeare of children?s literature; the novel written in 1876 entitled The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is still fresh and enjoyable. Time does not harm real classics. Novels become masterpieces by that childish, comical world which is a grotesque and charming copy of our adult emotions, desires and self-regret. Children who have not yet read it will surely enjoy the adventures and tricks composed by an original sense of humour. Parents, however, may also have a glance at it, recalling the days of their youth.
Magda Szabó: Tündér Lala (Lala the Elf)
Illustrated by Ferenc Sajdik
Holnap Publishing House, Budapest, 2005
224 p. with 40 illustrations
As everyone in Elf-Country can see, Lala is different from other elves. Queen Iris, his mother, knows it, too, although she is reluctant to admit it. No matter, there is something worrying if an elf-boy differs from his company. Not even the oldest elf can remember such a strange elf-child. It would be an exaggeration to claim that Lala had been the motivation for those incredible events which completely stirred up life in Elf-Country since everything leads us to Aterpater, the scientific magician. It would also be unjust to mistake Lala for the intrigues of the red-eyed magician. But judge for yourselves. If you trace back those exciting complicacies related to Queen Iris, Captain Amalfi, small Gigi and Csill, the pharmacist, perhaps you will understand Lala who is not a bad elf-child ? just a bit different from the others.
Iván Mándy: Arnold, a bálnavadász (Arnold, the Whale-Hunter)
Illustrated by László Réber
Holnap Publishing House, Budapest, 2003
176 p. with 39 illustrations
After the popular Csutak series, this is a new Mándy novel for the young. Moreover, it is a fairy tale novel, whose protagonists are not teenagers, but living dolls and the children playing with them. However, it is not merely a tale which Mándy has written, not merely a tale for children. It is no use telling things about dolls or fantastic figures; it is no use keeping it full of miracles, surprising turns which surpass the borders of reality. Mándy has actually written this doll-story for those young readers who have adult experience already. The humorous, sour, lyrical and surrealist novel is embellished with the magnificent, deeply original, colourful images of László Réber.
Iván Mándy: Csutak színre lép (Csutak appears)
Csutak is a strange teenager to whom something is always happening and not exactly to the liking of the adults around him.
Iván Mándy: Csutak és a szürke ló (Csutak and the White Horse)
Illustrated by László Réber
Holnap Publishing House, Budapest, 1999, 192 p. with 11 illustrations
The old lady is seeking her old white horse in vain. She may rightly think that it has been stolen. Has the teenager protagonist of Iván Mándy?s novel decided to rob? Or it is not a robbery but rather a lifesaving activity? Our young heroes strongly believe that they have saved the old steed from the slaughterhouse. Where should they hide it? How will the fate of the old be formed in the hands of the kids? It will be revealed in one of the prettiest and most poetic Csutak-stories.
Iván Mándy: Csutak és a mikrofon (Csutak Behind the Microphone)
Cover design by László Réber
Holnap Publishing House, Budapest, 2001, 232 p.
This splendid piece of the Csutak series briefly relates how the protagonist becomes a ?star?- not a film or TV star, nor a popular ? so to speak ? media celebrity. In the beginnings of the 60s it was an even greater issue to enter the magical studios of the radio. A partially extinct world is revived in the novel, and at the same time, the eternal child psyche is unforgettably drawn in the book, promising an enjoyable read for both children and young-hearted adults.
Iván Mándy: Csutak és Gyáva Dezső (Csutak and Coward Dezső)
Cover design by László Réber
Holnap Publishing House, Budapest, 2002 , 195 p.
This story is lyrical and humane; this time the author brilliantly writes about the brave and the cowardly, leading his protagonist through a varied plot.
Magda Donászy: Állatos ABC (Animal ABC )
Illustrated by Károly Reich
Holnap Publishing House, Budapest, 2004, 36 p. with 30 illustrations
Magda Donászy: Arany ABC (Golden ABC)
Illustrated by Károly Reich
Holnap Publishing House, Budapest, 2004, 36 p. with 33 illustrations
Magda Donászy: ?Csóka, róka, móka?
Illustrated by Károly Reich
Holnap Publishing House, Budapest, 2004, 32 p. with 30 illustrations
The three volumes make up a poetry collection for small children. Both the tales and the illustrations of Károly Reich make an appearance from the childhood of the middle-aged generation.
Jenő Józsi Tersánszky: Misi mókus kalandjai (Adventures of Misi Mókus)
Illustrated by János Kass
Holnap Publishing House, Budapest, 2004, 14 p. with 72 illustrations
The overly active Chippy isn?t willing to get used to school discipline. He survives many adversities and interesting adventures, but finally his heart calls him home. The writer?s excellent humour overflows in this wonderfully charming and funny story. The wonderful illustrations of János Kass make the fairy-tale novel even more memorable. A popular puppet film series has also been based on this favourite of Hungarian children.
Ágnes Bálint: Mazsola (Small Raisin)
Illustrated by Vera Bródy
Holnap Publishing House, Budapest, 2005, 80 p. with 52 illustrations
Dwarflander Dwarf, a friend of scarecrows, has been left homeless on a nice day. Luckily, he has found a well-built pumpkin on the fields whose insides had already been carved out by tomtits. He furnished it smartly, made himself a plump straw mattress, a pretty little armchair, and was reading a newspaper after lighting-up. Suddenly, he heard some munching from outside. A piglet was gnawing on the house. Now you know who this piglet was, don?t you? It was Small Raisin! Who, of course, stayed in the little pumpkin-home, and if you listen to this story, you may learn what else happened to Small Raisin, about whom a television series has also been made. This is one of the most famous books of the popular tale-teller, in which the adventures of the loveable, gluttonous, and slightly lazy, but very kind piglet are revived.
Ágnes Bálint: Labdarózsa (Snowball)
Illustrated by Károly Reich
Holnap Publishing House, Budapest, 2002, 92 p. with 25 illustrations
In this case, Snowball is not the name of a flower but that of a wise, old, child-loving retriever who watches over younger and older children and their animals. The story takes place in a fairy garden which - along with the charming characters of the book - is depicted by the drawings of Károly Reich.
Ágnes Bálint: Labdarózsa lámpája (Snowball?s Lamp)
Illustrated by Károly Reich
Holnap Publishing House, 2002, 116 p. with 25 illustrations
This book is the continuation of the Snowball volume. The main protagonist of the story, which takes place in the fairy garden, is the same wise old retriever. The book is illustrated by Károly Reich?s drawings.
Sándor Kányádi: Világlátott Egérke (The Little Globe-Trotting Mouse: English, German, Hungarian versions)
Illustrated by Emma Heinzelmann
Holnap Publishing House, 2000, 116 p. with 24 illustrations
?A little orphan field mouse, tired of the endless autumn rain and going hungry all the time, suddenly got an idea. Why not try his luck in town?? And the hero of this lively little tale is off on a journey under the guidance of a prominent Hungarian-Transylvanian poet, Sándor Kányádi. Be prepared for adventure and plenty of excitement if you decide to tag along!
Sándor Kányádi: Talpas történetek (Ambrus the Bear and the Curious Moon)
Illustrated by Emma Heinzelmann
Holnap Publishing House, Budapest, 2003, 128 p. with 23 illustrations
?I can tell you now that the shirt on my back was shivering and the soles of my feet were itching to run away when I first ran into Ambrus on the Hargita Mountain. But when I am in a tight situation and my courage leaves me, poetry makes me feel better. Then, too, I muttered to myself, that
?My coat is world-renowned, because
I sewed it with my own ten claws
from possums, rabbits, squirrels, hogs,
and muskrats, beavers, wolfs and dogs.
Bruin, bruin, broomma-bruin?
Sándor Kányádi: Virágon vett vitéz (A Knight for a Flower)
Illustrated by Emma Heinzelmann
Holnap Publishing House, Budapest, 2001, 227 p. with 31 illustrations
The hero of the tales is a seven year-old boy who lives in a village in the snow-covered mountains. He is fond of flowers and is glad to find the first snowdrop, glad to find some raspberries in the forest, sings along with the nesting birds, but he is happiest to find a home for a sad-looking stray dog. And the young boy looks after the puppies together with his classmates?
László Arany: A kiskakas gyémánt félkrajcárja (Cockerel?s Diamond Half-Penny)
Illustrated by László Réber
Holnap Publishing House, Budapest, 2004, 24 p. with 14 illustrations
Several generations in Hungary have grown up with the present volume and its similarly entitled story. In this folk-tale collection by László Arany, the Sad Princess and The Thistle and the Birdie are also presented. The book dedicated to younger and older children alike is illustrated with László Réber?s colourful graphics
Kóc, kóc... (Tow, Tow)
Illustrated by Vera Bródy, András Győrfi, Erika Urai
Holnap Publishing House, Budapest, 2004, 168 p. with 80 illustrations
In issuing this volume, the Holnap Publishing House addresses poetry fans, especially children. Works of Hungarian poets have been selected for this book, among others: István Csukás, Ágnes Nagy Nemes, Ferenc Móra, Zsigmond Móricz, the title poem by Zoltán Zelk, Ernő Szép, and the almost classical poems of Sándor Kányádi and Sándor Weöres. It has been illustrated by the drawings of Vera Bródy, András Győrfi and Erika Urai. With this book we hope to instil in children a love for the Hungarian language and literature.
Sándor Kányádi: Zümmögő (Hummer)
Illustrated by András Győrfi
Holnap Publishing House, Budapest, 2004, 124 p. with 90 illustrations
The present volume features 101 poems from the ?Sunbeam Verses? of Sándor Kányádi, who celebrated his 75th birthday in May 2004 The poet had been working on Sunbeam Editorial for a long time. Six out of the eight cycles deal with the seasons (the autumn and winter stanzas comprise two cycles each). The first and last chapters tell the readers in the language of verse how experiences evoked by time, nature, plants, and animals can be part of daily life.
The book?s first poem Sigh opens the way to the other verses, giving an answer as to why Sándor Kányádi regards his children?s verse as such an organic part of his work.
Kicsi vagyok én (Small I Am )
Illustrated by András Győrfi
Holnap Publishing House, Budapest, 2004, 96 p. with 69 illustrations
It is a collection of verse and sayings by prominent Hungarian poets. The charming book has been illustrated by András Győrfi.
Sándor Török: A felsült óriás és a kilenc csoda (The Blundered Giant and the Nine Miracles)
Illustrated by Alexandra Faltisz
Holnap Publishing House, Budapest, 2005, 144 p. with 49 illustrations
The author has left his mark in these tales with a peculiar atmosphere. The real successes were achieved by the heroes, loveable children?s characters, moving between reality and fantasy (The Wonders of Csilicsala, Kököjszi and Bobojsza). This fairy tale collection was published in 1934 and was immediately forgotten. In publishing this book, we seek to compensate for this and hope that both children and adult readers will rediscover the writer.
Anthologies about famous illustrators
Reich Károly album (Life and Work of Károly Reich)
Illustrated by Károly Reich
Holnap Publishing House, Budapest, 2003
156 p. with illustrations: 117, 17 photos, 25 small sculptures, medals and plaquettes
The art work of one of the most influential figure in Hungarian graphics began in the early Fifties. He produced enduring masterpieces with his pen and pencil drawings, aquarelles and pastels, copper and lino engravings, wall paintings and coloured wood and bronze small sculptures. His posters are also widely known. He illustrated hundreds of republished books for children, youth and adults. He became the equal partner of poets and writers with his rich imagination, extending their messages into colours or tiny black-and-white masterpiece dreams. He knows the nature of secrets? the more they are examined, the more inconceivable they are. This hidden magic is the key to the world of Károly Reich.
Réber album
Illustrated by László Réber
Holnap Publishing House, Budapest, 2003
112 p. with illustrations: approximately 125, 9 photos
Although illustration is only a fraction of László Réber?s oeuvre, his name has been connected with youth literature for generations. He was a draughtsman expressing with very simple lines what normally needs colour spots, shades, and forms. Through his drawings some kind of light humour could be felt. The title of a once popular Chinese writer?s book suits them: Wise Smile. In the heroic age of Hungarian cartoon production, Réber became one of the pioneers of the genre. He was one of the first to publish a caricature album when this book type was flourishing in Europe. These and his illustrated books have been published in many languages. He was a silent member of the high culture, rarely awarded with official ? not professional ? medals and prizes. The anthology includes the thoughts of Gábor Görgey, Marcell Jankovics, Ottó Mezei, András Székely and Tibor Wehner.
András Székely: Piroska Szántó
Illustrated by Piroska Szántó
Holnap Publishing House, Budapest, 2004
104 p. with a number of illustrations: 55, 8 photos
?In the pictures of Piroska Szántó there appears a sovereign world built by its own rules, an emotionally, morally and ideally organic reality, which bears the characteristics of the here and now, obviously Hungarian and contemporary, and meanwhile of universal demands, reflecting the ingredients of the human essence which always turn to us with its new crystal plates. We should not be deluded by the variety and versions of the themes, neither by the fact that most of them belong to the flora. (?) None of the drawings of the artist lack drama. Finally, there is a kind of vital question in these works: why are we here, in this world? The excitement of a personal stake vibrates in us, the momentary and the eternal, the dialectical play of the temporary and the unconquerable, the provocative dialogue of the ego and the universe.?
