Literature for children • Literature for children
Otključani globus - Putopisne crtice sa svih kontinenata
Pero Zlatar
This work by Pera Zlatar is divided into seven parts, each of which describes approximately one continent.
These units are: "Asia in the palm of your hand", "Europe with mustard", "How big is Africa, mother!", "Boomerang to Australia", "Oh, Oceania!", "Hundreds of North America" and "Thumbnails and pictures from of Latin America".
The author of about twenty stories published in this collection is a well-known journalist and travel writer. For more than twenty years, during his travels around the world, he recorded true events in which the main characters are animals.
The novel represents Tolstoy's adaptation of Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi; he got the idea for the novel as a child, when he was read only the first part of the book, so he invented the rest himself.