Elijah and August

Author: Sotir Gelev

Year of publication: 2014

Publisher: Enthusiast

Number of pages: 40

Format: 210 х 295, paperback

Age: 7+

ISBN: 978-619-164-120-8

Elijah is still very young, but he’s not afraid of anyone or anything — except chickens. Anyone who’s ever looked a chicken in the eye will understand. Elijah loves his mom, candy, Christmas, and a whole bunch of other things, and for the past year, he’s been waiting to get a bike for his birthday.
Elijah’s best friend is named Orondoramdardagnek. As you can see, it’s not easy to read, let alone pronounce. That’s why Elijah calls him August. He lives under Elijah’s bed (not exactly under the bed, but that’s hard to explain briefly). Whenever the two of them are together, something extraordinary always happens.
We almost forgot to mention Gergin, but he’s asleep the whole time anyway.

Sotir Gelev

Sotir Gelev lives in Sofia and works as an artist and writer. He graduated from the National Academy of Art, Sofia. When still a student, he joined the team of the legendary Bulgarian comics magazine Rainbow, and together with his brother Penko Gelev and their studio Gekon, he creates television series for children, full-length animated films, documentaries, and feature films. He has won numerous illustration awards, including two Quillawards – for the graphic novel Ilycho, August, and the Seven Dwarfs, in 2016, and How Lora Learned to Count to Ten, in 2018. The Adventures of Mr. Blueberry received the Hristo G. Danov award in 2021, and that same year, Gelev was awarded the Konstantin Konstantinov prize for children’s literature for his book Lullabies for Fairies and Monsters, published by Enthusiast.

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