12 Short Stories

12 Short Stories, one for each month of the year. 12 well-known fairy tale heroes in new roles, different from the ones we are used to.

Pinocchio will visit in August and has a very good reason to do so. Snow White finds them in the dark in February and Kontorevithoulis pays a visit in September, as he prepares to start his first day in…

With them Alice, the Enchanted Frog, the Wizard of Oz, The Little Girl with the matches, Little Red Riding Hood who celebrates a special holiday in October, Jack, Peter, Peter and finally something from the story with the King's Clothes .

The award-winning visual artist Vassilis Papatsarouchas writes and paints 12 short stories, one for each month, inspired by classic fairy tales in a crossover picturebook of high aesthetics for young and old, full of occasions for fantastic travels and reorganization of the scale of our emotions . Twelve separate stories, woven on the web of twelve well-known and favorite fairy tales. But different. Another end, another plot, other emotions, other thoughts. As a mental exercise that makes you bewildered and feel like a meteor in a vacuum. Everything seems familiar, everything goes as we know it and όλα suddenly everything changes.
for discussion, for play, for contemplation.

A book that is read slowly, since every image and every text awakens memories, raises questions, becomes an occasion for discussion, for play, for contemplation.