Comrade Kid and the Grown-Ups

2008

Writer
Illustrator
Genre
fiction
 
storybook
 
memoires
Original
Language
Estonian
Publisher
Tänapäev
ISBN
9789985626245
Year
2008
Pages
216
Age
Family book

Synopsis

Rights sold: Finnish, German, Latvian, Lithuanian, Polish, Hungarian

More than anything else, little Leelo wants to be an upstanding kid: the kind whose stockings never sag and whose hair ribbons never come undone; the kind who doesn’t draw princesses on kitchen doors or break a single one of her mother’s precious teacups. And she is trying especially hard to do so now, after men in black uniforms took her mother away and she’s left living alone with her father. “Be a good little girl, then Mommy will come back soon,” Leelo’s mother tells her as she climbs into the back of the truck covered with green tarpaulin. Leelo does her very best to be good, because upstanding kids’ mothers will never leave their children! But as hard as she tries, the little girl’s mom just doesn’t seem to be coming back…

Film: The Little Comrade, 2018

Translations

Draugė mergaitė ir suaugė žmonės

Lithuanian

Tungal, Viik, Sirijos Giraitė, 2013 , 215 lk

Товарищ ребенoк и взрослые люди

Russian

Tungal, Muravin, 2010 , 208 lk

Biedrs bērns un lielie cilvēki

Latvian

Tungal, Godiņš, 2018 , 239 lk

Toveri lapsi : Vielä yksi kertomus onnellisesta lapsuudesta

Finnish

Tungal, Salokannel, Laaksonen, 2019 , 255 lk

Genossin Kind

German

Tungal, Hasselblatt, 2021 , 655 lk

Mała towarzyszka i dorośli

Polish

Tungal, Perlikiewicz, 2022 , 244 lk

A gyermek elvtárs és a nagy emberek

Hungarian

Tungal, Javorszky, 2021 , 240 lk

Reading Sample

Comrade Kid and the Grown-Ups (ENG)

Awards

2010 IBBY Honour List
2008 25 Best-Designed Estonian Books