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NUKAS
Author: Audra Baranauskaitė
Illustrator: Lina Itagaki
Format: hardcover
Pages: 40
Awards:
The Most Beautiful Book of the Year 2021 (IBBY)
My name is NUKAS. Not Jonukas and not Antanukas. A lot of people say I‘m an extraordinary boy. One day
I can‘t hear anything, and the next I can‘t see anything, but most importantly: when I HEAR 
I DON‘T see
anything, and when I SEE 
I DON‘T hear anything, and no one (even the doctors!) know why. Sometimes
children aren‘t able to hear what we‘re telling them and they don‘t seem to want to hear it. Sometimes they
don‘t see what they don‘t want to see. And there are children who can‘t see and those who can‘t hear. But
NUKAS doesn‘t resemble anyone that you know whilst the strangest things seem to happen to him.
Foreign sales:
Slovenia,
Croatia
PULP AND HIS GREEN LEG
Author: Jurga Vilė
Illustrator: Akvilė Magicdust
Format: hardcover
Pages: 48
How good it is for Theophilus to live by the sea! To have a grandmother, a grandfather, a dad, and a mother, who knows embroidery. Theophilus ‘dad, like all the men in the village, goes fishing every day. He does not catch octopuses because he believes they are very intelligent animals that need to be protected. Once, Theophilus was lucky enough to meet an octopus that could speak and count to infinity. A beautiful friendship had begun… But one day the Delegate comes to the village. And things in the village start changing very quickly.
A PEBBLE
Author: Marius Marcinkevičius
Illustrator: Inga Dagilė
ISBN 9786098142587
Format: 17×24 cm, hardcover
Pages: 48
Awards:
2022 IBBY Honour List
2021 Bologna Children’s Book Fair Illustrators’ Exhibition – Selected illustrator
2021 Best children’s book of the year by IBBY LITHUANIA
2020 The Most Beautiful book of the year diploma, Vilnius Book Art competition
A picture book for kids about the Holocaust. It’s a story centered around two kids living in the Vilnius Ghetto.
It follows two kids around the ghetto during the summer months: the reader observes them whilst they share a
bagel, fly a kite, listen to a concert and take care of a puppy. They do not understand why do the people that exit
through the gate never come and why they’re confined to the ghetto walls in the first place. One autumn day all
of the people from the ghetto leave… The story is universal – a similar one could have happened in the majority
of European cities during the Second World War. The illustrator did an absolutely spectacular job.
Foreign sales:
Latvia,
Italy,
Slovenia,
UK,
Germany,
France
SMALL POEMS FOR LITTLE ONES
Author: Marius Marcinkevičius
Illustrator: Rasa Jančiauskaitė
Format: hardcover
Pages: 40
Awards:
2019 Winner, Vilnius 2018 Book Art Competition
2019 Bologna Children’s Book Fair Illustrators’ Exhibition – Selected illustrator
The book of poetry for the smallest of readers is original and fun. Each poem has an unexpected situation,
a narrative blow. In some poems, the poet plays with paradoxes, nonsensical situations. The lyrics capture
things that can be very important to a young child but overlooked by the adults.
Foreign sales:
Japan,
China,
HAPPINES IS A FOX
Author: Evelina Daciūtė
Illustrator: Aušra Kiudulaitė
ISBN 9786098142310
Format: 26 x 25 cm, hardcover
Pages: 48
Awards:
2019 The winner of The Batchelder Award at the American
Library Association Midwinter conference Youth Media Awards in Seattle
IBBY Honour List 2018
The Best Book of the Year‘2017 in Lithuania
2017 International book review catalog „White Ravens“
Nami Concours 2017, Diploma
2017 Bologna Children’s Book Fair Illustrators’ Exhibition – Selected illustrator
Once upon a time, there was a boy who lived in a big city. He had a father, a mother and a tree house. One day
a fox appeared in the boy’s life. And when the fox enters your life anything can happen. A sensitive story about
friendship, dreams, and happiness was written by Evelina Daciūtė and illustrated by Aušra Kiudulaitė.
This is a story for every reader since it is centered on something that everyone cares about – happiness.
Foreign sales:
UK (World English Rights)
Korea,
Slovakia,
China,
Romania,
Ukraine,
Latvia,
Taiwan,
Turkey,
China,
Estonia,
Russia,
Lebanon,
North Macedonia,
Poland,
Azerbaijan,
Finland,
Armenia
KIRKUS REVIEW
https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/evelina-daciute/the-fox-on-the-swing/
https://readitdaddy.blogspot.lt/2018/04/readitdaddys-second-picture-book-of.html
THE DREAMS OF A CHAMELEON
Author: Jurga Vilė
Illustrator: Lina Sasnauskaitė
Format: cm, hardcover
Pages: 48
Chameleon Leon was walking by the seashore. The sun was shining, there was a light breeze. Suddenly, his
path was obstructed by the Four Big Ones. Leon is forced to stop, his defense mechanism kicks in, he starts
ruffling up. The Big Ones do not seem to be scared away. They take Leon to the city where he is put in an
aquarium. Chameleon Leon becomes extremely upset. Who will help him with his sadness?
The Dreams of a Chameleon has tonnes of colors and a quiet monochrome sea. The green leaf dries out and
crumbles away but a strong friendship is formed. A whole life happens here in one week.
Foreign sales:
Turkey
POSTMAN AND BLACKCURRANTS
Author: Dovilė Zavesdskaitė
Illustrator: Patricija Bliuj-Stodulska
ISBN 9786098142617
Format: 17×24 cm, hardcover
Pages: 48
Awards:
The Most Beautiful Book of the Year, Vilnius 2021 Book Art Competition (Diploma)
It’s a book but also a joke. When the pipes burst, there’s no more water. Once there’s no more water, there’s
no more life. Whilst a father is mourning the life that’s been lost, his son is writing letters to the Plumbing
Service located on the I Don’t Know Anything street. The Plumbing Service keeps on sending postcards,
however no water in sight.
The burst pipe catastrophe, or our ability to make a mountain out of a molehill, describes the ‘nonsense’ aesthetic
in this book and becomes the grounding point for a visually bright irony. However, the most important theme is
centered around a child who is trying to make sense of the world.
Good day
The morning dawned sadly
Last night the pipe burst
Leaving water all around
The Postman
SLEEP
Author: Marius Marcinkevičius
Illustrator: Laura Tulaitė
ISBN 9786098142600
Format: 32,5×22,5cm, hardcover
Pages: 32
This book is for the youngest readers – a so-called sleep book. In this picture book, the young reader is immersed
in an environment where once the evening comes the rabbits prepare to go to sleep, then the foxes, the bears, the
sun and the moon, the tractors, and the factories. Only one little girl is having trouble going to sleep. It’s a sensitive
bedtime story, truly a gem to the eyes.
THE LAST WHITE RHINO IN THE WORLD
Author: Giedrė Rakauskienė
Illustrator: Dovilė Kubrakovaitė-Bakutė
ISBN 9786098142594
Format: 22x23cm, hardcover
Pages: 32
A picture book for kids about an extinct rhino. On an otherwise normal day, a cage with a white rhino appears
at the aerodrome. A cat crawling around the cage becomes interested in the guest and tries to figure out what
he is doing here. Since the rhino does not know anything himself, the two of them attempt to find the answers together.
Foreign sales:
Turkey
THE FRIENDSHIP ON THE ELEPHANT’S TRUNK
Author: Marius Marcinkevičius
Illustrator: Aušra Kiudulaitė:
ISBN 9786098142372
Format: 22 x 26 cm, hardcover
Pages: 48
Awards:
The Most Beautiful Book of the Year, Vilnius 2017 Book Art Competition
2017 Diploma The 5th Tallinn Illustrations Triennial
Once upon a time, there lived a big elephant. He had a huge house because it was a very big elephant.
A mouse lived in a small house on the back of an elephant. The small house was enough for her because
it was a very small mouse. The mouse and the elephant were best friends. One day the mouse decided to
find out why the elephant is her best friend. Read this beautiful story of friendship that reveals the magic
of storytelling. With amazing illustrations and charming text, it will be the perfect bedtime story!
Foreign sales:
France,
Romania,
Taiwan,
Finland
THE LAKE OF MYSTERIES
Author: Marius Marcinkevičius
Illustrator: Lina Dūdaitė
Format: 24 x 29, hardcover
Pages: 40
Awards:
IBBY Honour List 2021
2019 m. Book of the Year for the Youngest Readers, Lithuanian Section of IBBY
2018 m. The Most Beautiful Book in ”Center of the World design festival” (Ukraine)
One sunny winter day the Piglet and the Cow were skiing on the lake. They saw two eyes which were looking
at them through the ice. The friends decided to figure out to whom those eyes belonged and what exactly they
wanted. So they started to correspond. But it was quite difficult to understand each other, as the words had
to be read backward. Sweet and funny bed story about friendship.
Foreign sales:
Kazakhstan,
Korea,
Greece/Cyprus,
Ukraine,
Turkey,
Latvia,
Slovenia,
Romania,
Slovakia,
Estonia,
Russia,
Italy,
Germany
MY HEART IS SINGING
Author: Modesta Jurgaitytė
Illustrator: Rasa Jančiauskaitė
Format: hardcover
Pages: 40
Awards:
2020 Winner, Vilnius 2019 Book Art Competition
My name is John and I am an ordinary boy. But my heart is extraordinary – it is hanging
on my chest as a medal. You are special – my parents keep on repeating that all the time.
But I don‘t want to be special. I don‘t have friends, but I hope that when I start to go to
school, I will find them. You‘ll get to know what will happen with John once he starts going
to school if you read this quite simple yet extraordinary story about loneliness and what it
means to be special.
Through Puddles to the Dawn: a Story about
Jonas Basanavicius Works and Travels
Author: Monika Vaicenavičienė
Illustrator: Monika Vaicenavičienė
Format: hardcover
Pages: 40
Awards:
2019 Most Beautiful Book of the Year – Domicelė Tarabildienė Award, IBBY Lithuania
2019 Most Beautiful Book of the Year – Vilnius Art Academy Prize, Vilnius International Book Fair
2018 The Lithuanian Book Art Triennale Prize
A picture book about one of the most prominent men in Lithuania‘s history – Jonas Basanavicius;
strenuous and caring human, traveler, explorer, scientist and storyteller who dreamt about Lithuanian‘s
independence and achieved it. Basanavicius lived in Bulgaria for more than 20 years, where he practiced
medicine, was a prominent public figure, founded hospitals and had Bulgarian citizenship.
THE STRANGERS
Author: Marius Marcinkevičius
Illustrator: Rasa Joni
Format: hardcover
Pages: 40
Once upon a time, a storm brought a small house into a large city’s square. It hung there, roof down
in the main square of the city. The house hanging upside down looked really strange to everyone but
not to the family that lived in this house. In fact, they did everything the other way around: the mother
was happy with empty pictures on the walls and a bouquet of flowers in a rabbit’s stomach. Do you think
that living like this was dreary or maybe even difficult? Perhaps, but not to this family: the mother, the father,
and their little daughter. For the Strangers.
THE PRINCESS
Author: Marius Marcinkevičius
Illustrator: Vaiva Braškutė
Format: hardcover
Pages: 36
A sweet and funny story about a girl, who found a box of words and decided to create a story. But when
the story was finished the wind started blowing and all the words got mixed up and the story became
completely different. Later on, birds came around and took out parts of the words. And the story began
again, in a different way. But after that, the rain started. Do you know how the story looks like now?
Foreign sales:
Armenia
THE ELEPHANTS WENT VISITING
Author Evelina Daciūtė
Illustrator: Inga Dagilė
ISBN 9786098142143
Format: 26 x 22 cm, hardcover
Pages: 40
Awards:
Book of the Year for the Youngest Readers, Lithuanian Section of IBBY 2015
Diploma, Vilnius 2015 Book Art Competition
Once upon a time in a jungle far away ten elephants lived happily together. There was Grandma
Elephant, Grandpa Elephant, Mama Elephant, Papa Elephant, and six little elephants, who were
their parents’ and grandparents’ pride and joy. One day they all went visiting. However, when a
family is that big, anything can happen along the way. Ten elephants set out to go visiting. How
many elephants arrived? In this book children will not only enjoy a funny story and creative
illustrations, but will also learn how to count to ten and back.
Foreign sales:
Taiwan,
China,
Russia,
Slovakia,
Greece,
Korea,
Sweden
(NOT)ALONE
Silent book
Illustrator: Ieva Babilaitė
Format: hardcover
Pages: 40
Artist Ieva Babilaite has created an original illustrated story about loneliness and friendship.
The reader is there to observe the illustrations whilst the words are created by everyone – parents
and children included. The book exercises imagination and creativity.
FOUR SECRETS HOW TO LEARN LETTERS AND MUSIC NOTES
Author: Linas Kontrimas
Illustrator: Inga Dagilė
ISBN 9786098142242
Format: 26 x 22 cm, hardcover
Pages: 40
There are a lot of different sounds in the world. They have their own houses and cities. Together
they will become words and sentences. Also, the sounds can be music notes. If you know four
secrets, it will be much easier to learn languages and read musical notes.
Foreign sales:
Poland,
Turkey
ADVENTURES FROM HAPPY FARM / A HEN THAT DISAPPEARED IN THE FOG
Author & Illustrator Dainius Šukys
ISBN 9786099557700
Format: 23 x 23 cm, hardcover
Pages: 44
The colorful company of barnyard friends take on an unexpected task – they must find the missing
hen, Chicky Picky. A thick fog and a deep forest make their task more difficult. Finally, the missing
hen is found and the colorful company of barnyard friends learns an important lesson.
Foreign sales:
Latvia,
Kazakhstan
ADVENTURES FROM HAPPY FARM/ A HEDGEHOG THAT LOVED SECRETLY
Author & Illustrator Dainius Šukys
ISBN 9786098142020
Format: 23 x 23 cm, hardcover
Pages: 44
Hedgehog Dradas is restless, not because he was beaten. He is secretly in love. What kind of
extraordinary feats hedgehog Dradas will take to fulfill the dreams of cow Pelenonija, his secret
crush? A vegetarian cat and a food-loving piglet will join the journey to support the hedgehog.
Foreign sales:
Latvia,
Kazakhstan
More info about authors and illustrators HERE