キリンの心は信じられないほど大きい（フィンランド・読みもの・フィンランド語）

出版社	Kustantamo S&S
初版年	2022年
ISBN	978-951-52-5559-4
ページ数	208頁
サイズ	25x18
対象年齢	6歳から
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Kirahvin sydän on tavattoman suuri

Vega is ten years old and lives with her father on Giraffe Island. Life goes along in its usual way, which in Vega’s case means anything but usual. She sees things no one else sees, like imaginary animals that keep her company. The bathroom is home to a grey bear whose fur is lathered with shampoo, and on the way to school she encounters Atle the asphalt beaver, and the crosswalk zebra Zacharias. Vega has never met her mother, and when she asks her father and her grandfather Hektor about her mother, they speak in riddles. When Vega’s father gets a not-sonice girlfriend and Vega gets an unexpected pen pal, she decides to set out on an adventure to find out more about her mother. This adventure, filled with magical realism, talks about the need to be part of a family, to find one’s place in the world, and to be loved. The book won the most important literary award in Finland, the Finlandia Junior Prize in 2022, and was nominated for the Runeberg Junior Prize.

• Trans. Menna, Outi｜Orig. Swedish: Giraffens hjärta är ovanligt stort by Sofia Chanfreau
• Kustantamo S&S
• 2022
• 208 pages
• 25x18
• ISBN 978-951-52-5559-4
• Ages 6 +

Fantasy, mother, loss, island, longing