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Kocina. Zapiski z Doliny

Miaoumiaou. Notes from the Valley

Awards: Book of the Year 2025 Comics Award (Polish Section of IBBY)

Year
2025
Pages
64
ISBN
9788328169722

Published by: Egmont

Rights Holder: Karolina Jaszecka

e-mail: karolina@ka-books.com

A comic book for young readers, part of a series dedicated to the world of Tiny Fox and Great Boar (one loves apples, the other is strong and caring).

Fox Valley is also inhabited by earthworms, beavers, a hare, a rabbit, a weasel with three curious kids, and a self-sufficient badger who doesn’t like to leave his burrow underneath a rotten tree. On behalf of the author, the resolute Miaoumiaou sets off into this world to reveal some secrets. She observes and conducts interviews, learning in the process about responsibility, kindness, and the relationships between the inhabitants of Fox Valley. The sequences of drawings show the world sometimes from a bird’s eye view, other times from an ant’s perspective. Readers migrate from the general to the specific and back again. At the end, there is a set of questions about emotions, along with the answers provided by Fox and Boar. There is also a section for readers’ responses – a space for reflection on one’s own relationships with others.

Anita Wincencjusz-Patyna, translated by Kate Webster

About the Author

Author

Berenika Kołomycka

Comic Books

(b. 1983) – a comics author, drawer, sculptor and graphic artist. She graduated from the Sculpture Faculty of the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. Her works have been published in periodicals in Poland (Chimera, Bluszcz, Wprost, Zeszyty Komiksowe) and abroad (Groom), included in anthologies at exhibitions in Poland and abroad, and reprinted in school textbooks. […]

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