The Monstrous Festival of Literature and Illustration for Children KROKODOKODIL in the episode: JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF THE BOOK

14 Nov The Monstrous Festival of Literature and Illustration for Children KROKODOKODIL in the episode: JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF THE BOOK

The Monstrous Festival of Literature and Illustration for Children KROKODOKODIL is held for the fifth time on Friday, November 17, at 1 PM in the Youth Theater Dadov, ul. Desanka Maksimović street # 6, Belgrade, Serbia.

The title of the upcoming KROKODOKODIL – Journey to the Centre of the Book – also indicates this year’s topic, which is the treatment of the theme of travelling and gaining experience through a journey both in classical and contemporary literary creativity for children.

With the help of actors from the Dadov Theater, the following books will be presented:

1. AUTOBIOGRAPHY, Branislav Nušić

Illustrations: Bob Živković

2. DOCTOR PROCTOR’S TIME TRAVEL BATH BOMB, Jo Nesbø

Illustrations: Ana Petrović

3. BROTHER WOLF, Carla Maia de Almeida

Illustrations: António Jorge Gonçalves

4. JONATHAN LIVINGSTON SEAGULL, Richard Bach

Illustrations: Boban Savić Geto

The intention of the festival is to demonstrate the power and beauty of literary creativity via multimedia and at the same time to reveal new aspects of communication with the youngest generation of readers.

Just like the previous editions of the festival, KROKODIL 2017 consists of the main program and the accompanying workshops with the youngest readers. For the second year in a row, it also includes lectures for adults, such as students, teachers, professors, librarians, literary critics, parents etc.

1. Literary Café with Armin Pongs – Lecture for adults entitledMy Books, My Travels (how I write books for children, how I read them to my audience, how I perform my reading concertos …)

Friday, November 24 at 8 pm,

Goethe-Institut Belgrade, Kneza Mihaila street # 50

Lecture by writer Armin Pongs.

2. Workshop for pupils from the 5th and 6th grade entitledTogether on the Road (on the crossroads of different life journeys in one city and travelling children refugees and migrants)

Wednesday, November 29 at 1 pm,

Club of the Kreativni Centar bookstore Center in Belgrade, TC Eurocentar,

entrance from Makedonska street # 30 or Dečanska street # 5.

Participants: Maša Avramović and Nina Stamenković (Association C 31 – Center for the development of the culture of children’s rights)

3. Lecture for adults entitledTravel in Literature for Children

Thursday, November 30 at 7 pm,

Club of the Kreativni Centar bookstore in Belgrade, TC Eurocentar

entrance from Makedonska street # 30 or Dečanska street # 5.

Lecture by doc. Dr. Jelena Panić Maraš.

4. Workshop for students of the 7th and 8th grade calledTravel for Girls and also for Boys, Why Not(based on the book I’m Into Feminism)

Thursday, December 7 at 1 pm,

Club of the bookstore Creative Center in Belgrade, TC Eurocentar

entrance from Makedonska street # 30 or Dečanska street # 5.

Lecture by Lamija Begagić, writer.

The mission of the KROKODOKODIL festival, jointly organized by the Belgrade associations KROKODIL and OK-Education and Culture with the help of the youth theater Dadov, is to stress the importance of literature for children as well as of reading culture in general. Furthermore, it actively engages in the audience development. The topic of the very first KROKODOKODIL festival was the relationship between the writer and the illustrator of children’s books. The central theme of the second KROKODOKODIL festival was the horror and fantasy genre and it bore the title “How to Escape from the Horror Story”. The third KROKODOKODIL festival was called “Biblioskop” and presented a choice of books for youngsters that were turned into feature films. The topic of the fourth edition of the KROKODOKODIL festival was fairy tale. It was named “How Lola and Ivica Saved Fairy Tales”. Since the very beginning, the trademark of the KROKODOKODIL festival was multitalented and etternaly young Raša Popov. He will, however, not be with us for the first time this year and we are already missing him a lot.

This upcoming, fifth edition of the KROKODOKODIL festival was supported by TRADUKI, the European Network for the Promotion of Literature and Books from Berlin, Germany.