Synopsis

Have you ever felt awkward because you don’t know how to sit or how to stand? Maybe you’d like to find out the best way to tell a joke or tie your shoes? Do you long to discover how to survive without a phone or successfully raise your parents? Do you want to know how to be happy? Anti Saar’s strictly scientific short stories, which are based on real-life experiences and yet extremely funny, provide instructions for every imaginable situation that can come up in life, and perhaps even some that may never happen.
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"The values are passed with such sincerity and warmth, they shine through in simple sentences like „The way home must be one of the worst things to lose in life“ and „No-one cries out of indifference“. There are a few ironical stings, mostly pointed towards the carelessness, lack of compassion and self-centeredness."
 

• Book of the month, children’s literature blog

"There’s so much more than just friendly advice, funny tips or instructions in this book.  Saar understands children, he cares about their feelings and thoughts and wishes them all the best.
There are deeper meanings and firm values in these stories."
 

• Statement of the Children’s Literature Award of the Cultural Endowment of Estonia Jury