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Pärt Can’t Do a Backflip

Anti Saar

nimi
  • Illustrator: Anna Ring
  • Language: Estonian
  • 2017, 25 pp
  • ISBN: 9789949986231
  • Age: 7+
  • fiction, picturebook

Rights sold: Danish, Hungarian, Latvian, Polish, Russian

One day when Pärt goes outside, the neighbor-girl Kaisa is already jumping on the trampoline. She starts teasing the boy because he can’t do a backflip. At first, he tries to ignore Kaisa, but she won’t quit taunting him. Pärt becomes furious, but he can’t hit her because only one person is allowed on the trampoline at a time. Yet when Kaisa leaves to buy ice cream, Pärt climbs onto the trampoline, wipes away his tears, and gathers up his courage…