Dr. Zalka Csenge Virág - A buccaneer királylány

International folk tales for today's children
In 2020, Dr. Virág Zalka Csenge received the Children's Book Writer of the Year award for the story collection Currant at the End of the World. The Pirate Princess is the counterpart of the award-winning book. The first volume - according to its subtitle - Old Hungarian folk tales for today's children, and the current one collects and retells stories from all over the world about daring girls, understanding boys and other exciting characters that go beyond the clichés.
The author is a practicing storyteller, so he selects traditional stories according to the interests of today's audience and rephrases them in understandable and lovable modern language. At the same time, it preserves and passes on the original plot, important questions and diverse treasures of the fairy tales that have been preserved for centuries and are still thought-provoking today.