When Scary Fairy causes a ruckus in Wicked Wood, will she change it forever? Scary Fairy blows into Wicked Wood on a fierce Southern Wind and immediately begins disturbing the peace. She discards Squirrel's acorns to make her new bedroom. She uses Hedgehog as a hair brush without even asking! And this is just the beginning. When diaries go missing and magical black sand appears, the animals of Wicked Wood fear their home will never be the same. But as they get to know Scary Fairy, they realize she is more than just trouble. Will all of her disruptions ruin Wicked Wood, or is this just the change the animals need? Follow their adventures through new experiences and perspectives in this charming chapter book. Originally published in Slovenia by Sodobnost, and now translated in nearly 20 languages, the English translation of the international award-winning Scary Fairy in Wicked Wood is finally landing in North America. This enchanting, funny, whimsical, witty collection of stories feels both as timeless as Wind in the Willows and as fresh as the springtime season in which Scary Fairy arrives in the Wood. Filled with perfectly imperfect characters, mistakes, forgiveness, and genuine friendship, this book is sure to delight readers of all ages.

The golden 1980s in the Socialist Yugoslavia were a curious time, a time when the country undoubtedly already began its descent into disintegration, but when the bloody years that would follow still seemed inconceivable. A time of unprecedented freedom of thought and travel; a time of dissident movements and heady music and literary scenes. And yet it was also a time when the state still had a tight grip on the lives of its citizens, not least through its security services and its web of informants. We enter the story in 1985, and meet Adam, a professor of literature at the Faculty of Arts in Ljubljana who is trying his hand at writing again. Ana is the editor who receives his manuscript, 'The Masterpiece'. The protagonists soon cross the lines of their professional relationship and become entangled in an intense, adulterous affair. But Adam moves in dissident circles and Ana owes her position as the youngest editor in the history of the biggest state publishing house to her cooperation with the dark side of the government.

A small family moves to the Slovenian countryside to restore a large, dilapidated farmhouse. Then the relatives arrive--Cousin Vladimir, a former partisan writing his memoirs, Uncle Vinko, an accountant who would like to raise the largest head of cabbage on record, Aunt Mara, and her illegitimate daughter Elisabeth, bent on losing her virginity. And finally Uncle Schweik, the accidental hero who everyone assumed was dead. Flisar handles the absurd events that follow like no other writer, making the smallest incidents rich in meaning.