Literature for children • Literature for children
Pigulica
Anto Gardaš
The book talks about love for one's neighbors, the importance of friendship and togetherness, the preservation of nature, and the importance of living every moment in life.
In eight stories — including "The Bronze Cauldron", "The Miracle on the Stone Hill", "Ledendvor", "Lahorka", "Queen Felicita", "Zelenko's Njiska" and, of course, "Damjan's Lake" — Gardaš takes us through a world where everyday life merges with magic.
There aren't too many smileys lately. In fact, there are very few of them. People, and even children, laugh too little. There has been a great lack of genuine laughter on Earth.
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.