children's book presentation at Fougaro
FOUGARO and Kaleidoscope Press in collaboration with the 3rd Nursery School of Nafplio invite you to meet the illustrator and writer Persa Zacharia and her book I, the little monster.
We’ll be expecting you!
about the book
What can happen if you meet a monster?
Where does it come from, and what is it trying to say to you?
Little Titos chats, plays and grapples with his little monster now and then… until he understands where it comes from and what it is trying to tell him.
A picture story about what we carry inside us, about what suddenly appears before us, about what we see and occasionally overlook…
The book tenderly touches on the moments of doubt in a child who gets to know and talk to himself. We witness uncomfortable scenes where Titos and the little monster clash, until Titos finally looks the monster in the eye, speaks to it and answers its questions. He comes to realise the monster’s existence within him, to acknowledge and love it.
for 4- to 7-year old children
Persa Zacharia
Born and raised in Athens, Persa Zacharia studied stage and costume design at the Dept of Theatre Studies of the University of Peloponnese and painting at Central Saint Martins of University of the Arts London. Her works have been presented in solo and group exhibitions in London, Vienna and Athens, where she lives and works as painter and illustrator. She also teaches painting for children, and in recent years she has illustrated a series of children’s books. Kaleidoscope Press has published her book The whale, the boy and the sea between them (shortlisted for the State Awards 2019, Readers’ Awards 2019 and the IBBY 2018 Awards; ELNIPLEX Gold List 2019). She has also illustrated the books Sun with a moustache (State Award for Teen-Youth Literature 2020; Circle of the Greek Children’s Book Award - IBBY 2020 to an emerging author; Readers’ Award 2020 for Teenager Literature; ELNIPLEX Gold List 2020), Solitary Affair (State Award to picture book author and illustrator 2022; Shortlisted for the Circle of the Greek Children’s Book Award - IBBY 2022) and Pineapple Braid.
