Foreign Rights

We Just Wanted The Best For You

Ildikó Lipták / Juli Jásdi
Softcover: 130 pages
Dimensions: 140×185 mm
ISBN: 978-615-5649-55-4
Year of Publication: 2020
From the age of 10

Awards & Prizes

• IBBY Honour List 2022
• HUBBY Childrens’ Book of The Year 2021: Youth Book of the Year Award (12+ category)

An ugly, heavy, adult size leather coat – that’s the armour of Lilla she got from home, but she doesn’t want to carry it, because it’s not something she ever chose for herself. One day it unexpectedly disappears, but its weight remains with Lilla. Miss Timi notices he is without a coat, and gets her a colourful blue and yellow one, just in her size. She not only started wearing the new coat, but also the childhood she longed for. Which is something the rest of his classmates who go on holidays in the summer seem to have.

While housing difficulties, financial problems and the problems of a family rearranged after a divorce dominate the world of adults who actually fit their adult size coats, Lilla just wants to be part of the chat group called Girls123456. But what happens when the lost coat gets found? Can we even take off a coat we didn’t ask for? A coat we got from those who wanted the best for us, a coat which was then stolen from us by those who just wanted the best for us, and a coat which was finally given back to us by those who just wanted to best for us. And anyway: who knows what is the best for us?

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