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A Tale About the Everything and the Nothing and Other Weird Stories

Gyula Gábor Tóth / Norbert Nagy
Hardcover: 40 pages
Dimensions: 205 × 220 mm
ISBN: 978-615-5649-86-8
Year of publication: 2021
From age 4

Awards & Prizes

• White Ravens 2022
• Illustrator of the Year (Hungarian IBBY Student’s Jury Award, 2022)

Would tales be predictable? Good overcomes evil, and in the end, everyone lives happily ever after?

Not in Gyula Gábor Tóth’s stories – or at least we can never know. In this storybook anything can happen, a story can end at any time, even in the middle or at the beginning. It can be about nothing, about everything, and about anything as far as a child’s imagination can take it.

These incomplete stories end in the reader’s mind, and the book also opens up space for interactivity, as each one ends with a question that encourages further reflection, imagination and independent story-telling.

These encore stories are short, funny, the kind you wouldn’t expect, yet magical moments after a busy day of being together to talk, dream together and fall asleep laughing. The illustrations by Norbert Nagy perfectly capture the absurdity, humour and unpredictability of the stories, even though in this book even what cannot be drawn is possible.

Rights sold is USA (Transit Books)

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