Paweł Pawlak
The End of the World and Strawberries
Koniec świata i poziomki
RIGHTS:WORLD
Anna Onichimowska created a powerful, imaginative story confirming that home is the most important and the safest place in the world. A boy named Karolek, together with his family, set for a very strange journey to the end of the world. On their way, they have a lot of unusual adventures, visit very odd places and meet strange persons. It is very interesting if they reach their destination
place and where it is.
The book is beautifully illustrated by one of the best Polish artists, Paweł Pawlak, whose works are widely published in Poland and abroad. (Age 6+)
About the author:
Anna Onichimowska writes both for children, young adults and adults. A graduate of the Warsaw University in Polish Philology, she devoted her master’s thesis to the work of Janusz Korczak, Poland’s most influential 20th-century children’s author, pedagogist and dedicated children’s rights advocate. She is the author of over thirty books, numerous theatre plays, tv and radio dramas, as well as scripts for television. Her work has been awarded a number of prestigious prizes both in Poland and abroad (for details see author’s website) and translated into English, German, French, Italian, Slovenian, Chinese and Korean. President of the Polish Section of IBBY in the years 1995–2003, she is now a freelance writer based in Warsaw and travelling widely.
PAWEL PAWLAK has illustrated more than 30 books for several publishers across the world including the US, France, South Korea. He has won awards from the "Art for Children Biennial in Poznan, Poland, and the "Prix International Biennal pour Illustrateurs de Livres d'Infants, Hasselt, Belgium. He lives and works in Wroclaw, Poland.
Also by this author:
Ten Parts of the World
