Description
This Czech-language autobiographical story follows a curious, stubborn and inventive seven-year-old Roma girl nicknamed Big Head. In the 1930s, she enjoys a happy childhood in her native settlement in Slovakia, where her lively personality makes her impossible to overlook. But how can she succeed at school when her poor parents cannot even afford a pencil and Roma children are strictly assigned to the back row? And how can she find the money for an expensive circus ticket? Will Saint Little John help her, or will her own ingenuity prevail? Tera Fabiánová (1930–2007) presents life in the Slovak countryside before the Second World War through the eyes of an irrepressible and endlessly positive heroine, sensitively showing young readers what it means to be treated as less than equal while longing to be the same, because above all, we are all human.
Information
Author: Fabiánová Tera
Language: Czech
Publication date: August 25, 2022
Manufacturer: KHER, z. s.
Genres: Fiction for children and young adults, Books, Children's literature, Adventure books for children
Type: Hardcover book
Pages: 40
ISBN/EAN: 9788087780329