Slovenia
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Kokelj, Nina (text)
Junaković, Svjetlan (illus.)
Deček na belem oblaku (The boy on the white cloud)
Ljubljana [et al.] : Mladinska Knjiga,
2006. – [28] p.
(Velike slikanice)
ISBN 86-11-17392-9
Child – Illness – Death – Life after death
Little Domen is ill, and his mother is extremely worried about him. One day, he insists on climbing up the church tower. Up there, he steps onto a cloud and flies away visiting children who are ill or in need. He meets other boys and girls sitting on clouds and doing good deeds; all of them are children who died before they had a chance to grow up. With a lot of empathy, the author talks about the various religious concepts of life after death and about the comforting thought that angels take care of human beings. The Croatian illustrator’s gouache paintings, sometimes amusing, sometimes melancholic, and often drawn from a perspective high above the earth, complement the text in a very sensitive way. (5+)