Little Sleepy Star

Podrobnosti

Frane Milčinski - Ježek (1914-88), actor, director, author of screen and radio plays (co-screenwriter of Kekec, which received the Golden Lion in the Children’s Film category at the Venice Film Festival in 1952), singer, poet and writer, was one of the most prominent media personalities in Slovenia and without a doubt Slovenia’s greatest humorist and satirist. He received numerous awards for his work, including the Prešeren award (the most prestigious Slovenian award for the arts) for lifetime achievements in 1975. In spite of Ježek’s great popularity, his work has become widely available only in the last ten years, with the release of CDs, audiobooks and books of his short stories, poems and children’s stories by Sanje.

Gorazd Vahen graduated in design from Ljubljana Academy of Arts. His illustrations appear in picture books, textbooks and on book covers. His credentials include a series of works by Terry Pratchett and several picture books based on texts by the distinguished Slovenian author of works for children, Svetlana Makarovič. He also designs puppets for the theatre.

Odlomek

Moj literarni otrok Zvezdica Zaspanka je naredil to, kar naredi toliko in toliko otrok, ko malo dorastejo: ušla mi je z doma. Igrali so jo po vseh jugoslovanskih lutkovnih gledališčih, pa še v Rusiji, kjer je bila objavljena tudi v almanahu najboljših lutkovnih iger, potem na Poljskem, v Nemčiji, na Češkem, v Švici, v Trstu, pa v Čilu in Kanadi. Upam, da ta moja Zaspanka na poti po širnem svetu daje otrokom, kamor že pride, dovolj veselja, saj imam vse otroke tega sveta rad, kot bi bili moji.