A Serious Thought

2016

Writer
Illustrator
Genre
fiction
 
picturebook
Original
Language
Estonian
Publisher
Draakon & Kuu
ISBN
9789949574018
Year
2016
Pages
64
Age
6+

Synopsis

Rights sold: English (North America), French, Korean, Serbian, Ukrainian

One night, a little boy can’t fall asleep. All kinds of thoughts start swirling around his head. They are wonderful and dangerous, dubious and tantalizing, frightful and funny. The thoughts come and go, but then, a particular one dawns upon him and just won’t let him be – a very serious thought. The boy wonders why someone as small as him matters at all in the vast endlessness of the whole gigantic universe. He doesn’t manage to shake off the serious thought by morning and wakes up still feeling tiny and pointless. But then, the boy meets someone even smaller than himself.

 

Translations

생각하는 아이

Korean

Taul, Taul, Sook, 2017 , 63 lk

PensĂŠes nocturnes

French

Taul, Taul, Koff, 2017 , 65 lk

A Serious Thought

English

Taul, Taul, Taul, 2020 , 63 lk

Reading Sample



Translated by Jonas Taul

Awards

2017 The White Ravens catalogue
2016 5 Best-Designed Estonian Children’s Books
2016 25 Best-Designed Estonian Books