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László Tóth: A boszorkány porszívója (The Witch?s Vacuum Cleaner)
Illustrated by Béla Tettamanti
Kalligram, Bratislava, 2004
160 p. with 40 illustrations
Once upon a time Hanga, the evil fairy, stole the vacuum cleaner of Durhzhee-Murhzhee, the good witch. Two girls, Little Cathie and Juliajulie, undertake the task of getting the supersonic vehicle back.
László Tóth?s exciting novel for children is written in witty language and tasteful humour. His little heroes meet a variety of miraculous creatures ? devilets, a music-playing chair, a three toothed dragon, an amok mirror, an ice-skating snowman, a fire-belching stove, a vengeful hi-fi tower in addition to trolleyceroses, motosauroses and locomotivuses ? during their dangerous adventures.
Endre Kukorelly: Samunadrág. Versek hat és háromnegyed éveseknek
(Sam?s Trousers. Poems for six and three-quarter years old)
Illustrated by Béla Tettamanti
Kalligram, Bratislava, 2005
56 p. with 50 illustrations
We should be grateful to Endre Kukorelly for considering children adult readers, and for the fact that he didn?t write poems with babbling, puerile words just because of rhymes. Neither is he telling them what they should do or how to behave. The attic is full of advice, though a dusty coffer or skeleton hidden in there would be much more interesting. The author certainly knows this, so the forms and subjects of his poems as well as their language and grammar, are perfectly suitable for children. There is nothing left for an adult but to regret having grown up.
Gergely Péterfy: Misikönyv (Mike?s Book)
Illustrated by Csaba Szenteczki
Kalligram, Bratislava, 2005
96 p. with 32 illustrations
Mike?s Book, the scene of which is set in both the real and imaginary worlds of a ten-year-old boy called Mihály Bordombi, nicknamed Misi (Mike), is a book of adventures. Mike disappears from Maria Street in Budapest. On Gutenberg Square he meets the Great Rascal, later the Elf, his grand grandpa, the Troops of Spoilt Beings, and finally the Captain of the Marauder. How he could fight these virtual beings and what is the endpoint of his adventures? We are told an exciting and magical story in this novelette, which won first prize in the Mother Tongue Grant contest of Hungary?s Ministry of National Cultural Heritage.
