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Croatian Tales of Long Ago, Volume 1 (English, Croatian and German Edition)

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"Based on Croatian Fairy Tales of Long Ago, this series of storybooks brought to life is beautiful, simple to navigate, and captivating. A must see both to read, and be inspired!"
Kids @n the Net, UK

Hyperliterature is literature which cannot be fully reproduced in print, because in one way or another it takes advantage of the computerised medium - via sound-effects, animation, nonlinear structure etc. One of the most obvious commercial applications for this is in children's literature. Imagine a pop-up book where the pop-ups worked over and over again without ever getting creased or tearing! Up until now, however, the possibilities of children's hyperliterature have hardly been explored.

Croatian Tales of Long Ago (Part One) changes all that, although it can be expected to appeal to adults just as much as children. It is a really exciting piece of hyperliterature: unpretentious, with genuine popular appeal, but not in the least shallow, sentimental or patronising to its audience. It has rightly won a hatful of international awards. If this CD and its companion volume meet with the commercial success they deserve, we can expect to see a lot more work of this type appearing in the next few years. Let's hope it's all up to the same high standard.