Biography
The Story of the Little House Who Wanted to Be a Home
Illustrator: Piret Raud
2018, 28 pp
ISBN: 9789949853229
fiction, picturebook
Trööömmmpffff, or Eli’s Voice
Illustrator: Piret Raud
2016, 36 pp
ISBN: 9789949850532
fiction, picturebook
The Story of Sander, Muri, the Eensy Mum, and the Invisible Aksel
Illustrator: Piret Raud
2015, 99 pp
ISBN: 9789949278176
fiction, storybook
Emily and a Whole Bunch of Things
Illustrator: Piret Raud
2015, 37 pp
ISBN: 9789949277346
fiction, picturebook
Me, Mum, and Our Friends of All Sorts
Illustrator: Piret Raud
2014, 99 pp
ISBN: 9789949276233
fiction, storybook
Nighty-Nighty! : Bedtime Stories by Mothers
Illustrator: Piret Mildeberg
2006, 84 pp
ISBN: 9985968441
fiction, storybook
Au secours! Maman rétrécit
Language: French
Illustrator: Piret Raud
Translator: Martin Carayol
Rouergue
2017, 119 pp
ISBN: 9782812611971
fiction, storybook
Berts un otrā B
Original title: Tobias, Second Grade
Language: Latvian
Illustrator: Mārtinš Zutis
Translator: Maima Grīnberga
Liels un mazs
2013, 144 pp
ISBN: 9789984820583
fiction, storybook
Die Geschichte von Herrn Vogel
Original title: Mister Bird’s Story
Language: German
Illustrator: Piret Raud
Translator: Anu Lehmann
LeiV
2010, 35 pp
ISBN: 9783896033352
fiction, picturebook
Ellie’s Voice, or Trööömmmpffff
Original title: Trööömmmpffff, or Eli’s Voice
Language: English
Illustrator: Piret Raud
Translator: Adam Cullen
Restless Books
2020, 37 pp
ISBN: 9781632061904
fiction, picturebook
Emily e un mare di cose
Original title: Emily and a Whole Bunch of Things
Language: Italian
Illustrator: Piret Raud
Translator: Roberto Alessandrini
EDB Edizioni Dehoniane Bologna
2019, 48 pp
ISBN: 9788810752098
fiction, picturebook
Emily et tout un tas de choses
Original title: Emily and a Whole Bunch of Things
Language: French
Illustrator: Piret Raud
Translator: Olek Sekki
Rouergue
2015, 36 pp
ISBN: 9782812607547
fiction, picturebook
Emma kocha różowy!
Original title: Emma Loves Pink
Language: Polish
Illustrator: Piret Raud
Translator: Anna Michalczuk-Podlecki
Finebooks
2021, 35 pp
ISBN: 9788373504905
picturebook
Historie trochę szalone
Original title: Slightly Silly Stories
Language: Polish
Illustrator: Piret Raud
Translator: Anna Michalczuk-Podlecki
Finebooks
2015, 92 pp
ISBN: 9788373503298
fiction, storybook
Istorija apie namelį, kuris norėjo būti namais
Original title: The Story of the Little House Who Wanted to Be a Home
Language: Lithuanian
Illustrator: Piret Raud
Translator: Viltarė Mickevičienė (Urbaitė)
700 eilučių
2020, 32 pp
ISBN: 9786099578682
fiction, picturebook
Ja, mama i nasi zwariowani przyjaciele
Original title: Me, Mum, and Our Friends of All Sorts
Language: Polish
Illustrator: Piret Raud
Translator: Anna Michalczuk-Podlecki
Finebooks
2019, 99 pp
ISBN: 9788373504547
fiction, storybook
Kitokios princesių istorijos
Original title: Princesses with a Twist
Language: Lithuanian
Illustrator: Piret Raud
Translator: Viltarė Mickevičienė (Urbaitė)
700 eilučių
2021, 105 pp
ISBN: 9786098288049
picturebook
Księżniczki nieco zakręcone
Original title: Princesses with a Twist
Language: Polish
Illustrator: Piret Raud
Translator: Anna Michalczuk-Podlecki
Finebooks
2015, 107 pp
ISBN: 9788373503281
fiction, storybook
Kā izglābt mazītiņo mammu
Language: Latvian
Illustrator: Piret Raud
Translator: Maima Grīnberga
Liels un mazs
2020, 115 pp
ISBN: 9789934574474
fiction, storybook
La curiosa historia del señor Pájaro
Original title: Mister Bird’s Story
Language: Spanish
Illustrator: Piret Raud
Translator: Elena del Amo
Libros del Zorro Rojo
2011, 34 pp
ISBN: 8492412921
fiction, picturebook
La lettre du lac
Original title: The Lake's Letter
Language: French
Illustrator: Piret Raud
Rouergue
2022, 48 pp
ISBN: 9782812623929
fiction, fantasy, picturebook
La principessa e lo scheletro
Original title: Princess Lulu and Mr Bones
Language: Italian
Illustrator: Piret Raud
Translator: Daniele Monticelli
Sinnos
2015, 189 pp
ISBN: 9788876092978
fiction, storybook
Le thé des poissons et autres histoires
Original title: Slightly Silly Stories
Language: French
Illustrator: Piret Raud
Translator: Jean-Pascal Ollivry
Rouergue
2013, 95 pp
ISBN: 9782812604669
fiction, storybook
L’histoire de la petite maison qui recherchait des habitants
Original title: The Story of the Little House Who Wanted to Be a Home
Language: French
Illustrator: Piret Raud
Translator: Olek Sekki
Rouergue
2017, 32 pp
ISBN: 9782812614422
fiction, picturebook
Micromamma
Language: Italian
Illustrator: Francesca Carabelli
Translator: Daniele Monticelli
Sinnos
2018, 124 pp
ISBN: 9788876093753
fiction, storybook
Mister Bird’s Story
Original title: Mister Bird’s Story
Language: English
Illustrator: Piret Raud
Tammerraamat
2009, 39 pp
ISBN: 9789949449415
fiction, picturebook
Monsieur Oiseau veut changer de peau
Original title: Mister Bird’s Story
Language: French
Illustrator: Piret Raud
Translator: Marie-Agathe Le Guerut
Le Pommier
2012, 38 pp
ISBN: 9782746506343
fiction, picturebook
Pono Paukščio istorija
Original title: Mister Bird’s Story
Language: Lithuanian
Illustrator: Piret Raud
Translator: Viltarė Mickevičienė (Urbaitė)
Sofoklis
2013, 39 pp
ISBN: 9786094441127
fiction, picturebook
Princese Skella un Leta kungs
Original title: Princess Lulu and Mr Bones
Language: Latvian
Illustrator: Piret Raud
Translator: Maima Grīnberga
Liels un mazs
2011, 206 pp
ISBN: 9789984820316
fiction, storybook
Princese pa pastu
Original title: Princesses with a Twist
Language: Latvian
Illustrator: Piret Raud
Translator: Maima Grīnberga
Liels un mazs
2016, 108 pp
ISBN: 9789934533525
fiction, storybook
Princeshat e Estonisë
Original title: Princesses with a Twist
Illustrator: Piret Raud
Translator: Ilir Haxhi
Shkupi
2015, 116 pp
ISBN: 9786082240756
fiction, storybook
Princesse Lulu et monsieur Nonosse
Original title: Princess Lulu and Mr Bones
Language: French
Illustrator: Piret Raud
Translator: Jean-Pascal Ollivry
Rouergue
2014, 208 pp
ISBN: 9782812606908
fiction, storybook
Princesė Lulu ir ponas Skeletonas
Original title: Princess Lulu and Mr Bones
Language: Lithuanian
Illustrator: Jonas Landsbergis
Translator: Kristina Bykovienė
Dominicus Lituanus
2015, 134 pp
ISBN: 9789955811817
fiction, storybook
Prismuknjene zgodbe
Original title: Slightly Silly Stories
Language: Slovenian
Illustrator: Piret Raud
Translator: Julija Potrč Šavli
KUD Sodobnost International
2019, 92 pp
ISBN: 9789617047257
fiction, storybook
Sa majesté Ver-de-Terre et autres folles princesses
Original title: Princesses with a Twist
Language: French
Illustrator: Piret Raud
Translator: Jean-Pascal Ollivry
Rouergue
2013, 151 pp
ISBN: 9782812605642
fiction, storybook
Trööömmmpffff o la voce di Eli
Original title: Trööömmmpffff, or Eli’s Voice
Language: Italian
Illustrator: Piret Raud
Translator: Roberto Alessandrini
EDB Edizioni Dehoniane Bologna
2018, 47 pp
ISBN: 9788810752050
fiction, picturebook
Trööömmmpffff ou la voix d’Elie
Original title: Trööömmmpffff, or Eli’s Voice
Language: French
Illustrator: Piret Raud
Translator: Olek Sekki
Rouergue
2016, 36 pp
ISBN: 9782812610547
fiction, picturebook
Tóbiás és a 2/b
Original title: Tobias, Second Grade
Language: Hungarian
Illustrator: Hillar Mets
Translator: Bence Patat
Pongrác Kiadó
2014, 112 pp
ISBN: 9786155131653
fiction, storybook
Un jardin merveilleux
Original title: The Rooted Garden
Language: French
Illustrator: Piret Raud
Translator: Olek Sekki
Rouergue
2020, 44 pp
ISBN: 9782812619953
fiction, picturebook
Une drôle de famille
Original title: All My Relatives
Language: French
Illustrator: Piret Raud
Translator: Martin Carayol
Rouergue
2018, 152 pp
ISBN: 9782812615139
fiction, storybook
Urechea ascultatoare
Original title: The Ear
Illustrator: Piret Raud
Editura Didactica Publishing House
2022, 32 pp
ISBN: 9786060485681
picturebook, fiction
Voglio tutto rosa
Original title: Emma Loves Pink
Language: Italian
Illustrator: Piret Raud
Translator: Daniele Monticelli
Sinnos
2014, 38 pp
ISBN: 9788876092862
fiction, picturebook
Voisins zinzins et autres histoires de mon immeuble
Original title: Me, Mum, and Our Friends of All Sorts
Language: French
Illustrator: Piret Raud
Translator: Jean-Pascal Ollivry
Rouergue
2015, 143 pp
ISBN: 9782812609800
fiction, storybook
Šiek tiek paikos istorijos
Original title: Slightly Silly Stories
Language: Lithuanian
Illustrator: Piret Raud
Translator: Viltarė Mickevičienė (Urbaitė)
700 eilučių
2018, 96 pp
ISBN: 9786099578651
fiction, storybook
История о Домике, который искал себе жильцов
Original title: The Story of the Little House Who Wanted to Be a Home
Language: Russian
Illustrator: Piret Raud
Translator: Jekaterina Matijevskaja
Popurri
2020, 32 pp
ISBN: 9789851547445
fiction, picturebook
Тобиас и второй «Б»
Original title: Tobias, Second Grade
Language: Russian
Illustrator: Hillar Mets
Translator: Jelena Baljasnaja
Koolibri
2018, 104 pp
ISBN: 9789985040614
fiction, storybook
Трохи дивакуваті історії
Original title: Slightly Silly Stories
Language: Ukrainian
Illustrator: Piret Raud
Translator: Katja Novak
Vydavnytstvo
2022, 96 pp
ISBN: 9786177818365
storybook, fiction
Чудесный сад
Original title: The Rooted Garden
Language: Russian
Illustrator: Piret Raud
Popurri
2022, 44 pp
ISBN: 9789851551305
picturebook, fiction
Чудные истории
Original title: Slightly Silly Stories
Language: Russian
Illustrator: Piret Raud
Translator: Maia Melts (Майя Мельц)
Aleksandra
2014, 92 pp
ISBN: 9789949952816
fiction, storybook
Эрнесто и его кролики
Original title: Ernesto’s Rabbits
Language: Russian
Illustrator: Piret Raud
Translator: Maia Melts
Aleksandra
2012, 176 pp
ISBN: 9789949913091
fiction, storybook
みっつのねがい
Original title: Three Wishes
Illustrator: Piret Raud
Translator: Akie Maezawa
Fukuinkan Shoten Publishers
2012, 56 pp
ISBN: 9784834027020
fiction, picturebook
ピンクだいすき!
Original title: Emma Loves Pink
Illustrator: Piret Raud
Translator: Akie Maezawa
Fukuinkan Shoten Publishers
2014, 36 pp
ISBN: 9784834081077
fiction, picturebook
뿌리 깊은 나무들의 정원
Original title: The Rooted Garden
Language: Korean
Illustrator: Piret Raud
Translator: Jinseok Seo
Spring Sunshine Publishing
2021, 52 pp
ISBN: 9791190704458
picturebook, fiction
엄마가 작아졌어요
Language: Korean
Illustrator: Piret Raud
Better Books
2019, 131 pp
ISBN: 9788984889521
fiction, storybook
Piret Raud's Booklet 2022
2019
Piret Raud at the International EU and China Literary Festival
Piret Raud at the Leipzig Book Fair on the 22nd of March, 2019
Piret Raud at the The South Ken Kids Festival
Emily e un mare di cose (Dehoniane, Italian)
Estonian Children Book “The Ear” by Piret Raud Released in English
The Ear (Thames & Hudson)
The Ear (Kirkus Review)
‘The Ear’ by Piret Raud. A Book About the Importance of Listening (Babbyccino)
Piret Raud. All My Relatives (ELM)
2018
Piret Raud Participates in Festivaletteratura in Italy
2017
Piret Raud at the London Book Fair on Wednesday, 15th March 2017
Premiere of the Theatre Play The Fishes’ Tea-Parties in Genf
2016
Piret Raud at the Cultural Festival Les Boréales in France
President Awards Estonian State Decoration to Piret Raud
The Nominated Estonian Authors and Illustrators by IBBY Estonia
Piret Raud –Don't Fear More Serious and Mature Children's Books (ELM)
Home Page
Wikipedia
2019
Piret Raud at the International EU and China Literary Festival
Piret Raud at the Leipzig Book Fair on the 22nd of March, 2019
Piret Raud at the The South Ken Kids Festival
Emily e un mare di cose (Dehoniane, Italian)
Estonian Children Book “The Ear” by Piret Raud Released in English
The Ear (Thames & Hudson)
The Ear (Kirkus Review)
‘The Ear’ by Piret Raud. A Book About the Importance of Listening (Babbyccino)
Piret Raud. All My Relatives (ELM)
2018
Piret Raud Participates in Festivaletteratura in Italy
2017
Piret Raud at the London Book Fair on Wednesday, 15th March 2017
Premiere of the Theatre Play The Fishes’ Tea-Parties in Genf
2016
Piret Raud at the Cultural Festival Les Boréales in France
President Awards Estonian State Decoration to Piret Raud
The Nominated Estonian Authors and Illustrators by IBBY Estonia
Piret Raud –Don't Fear More Serious and Mature Children's Books (ELM)
Home Page
Wikipedia
Piret Raud (1971) is one of the most outstanding authors of modern-day Estonian children’s literature, both in terms of diversity and recognition. The author originates from a highly cultural background, which explains a thing or two: her mother Aino Pervik and father Eno Raud are some of the most renowned and loved fairy-tale authors in Estonian children’s literature. Taking account of Piret’s success foremost in book illustration, one is also reminded of her aunt on her father’s side – Anu Raud, who is a highly esteemed textile artist.
As such, several great talents hovered above Piret’s crib when she was born into this world in 1971. Studies at the Estonian Academy of Art gave her a master’s degree in graphic design. Piret appeared on the Estonian children’s literature scene in 1994 with illustrations for her mother’s Aino’s book Keeruline lugu (A Complicated Story), and her father Eno’s 1997 work Kala kõnnib jala (A Fish Takes a Walk).
By now, we can speak of Piret as a graphic designer for books, a writer, a journalist (she was an editor for children’s magazine Täheke for some time), as well as an art teacher.
As an illustrator, Piret has received an enormous amount of praise both in Estonia and abroad. She has received awards such as certificates for the 25 Best Designed Estonian Books and 5 Best Designed Estonian Children’s Books; has participated in international exhibitions and competitions such as the Baltic States’ Book Art Competition, the Tallinn Illustration Triennial, and the Bologna Book Fair; has been awarded the Estonian National Library’s Golden Book Award, as well as the Estonian Children’s Literature Center’s title of “Raisin of the Year” for Most Interesting Children’s Publication (Härra Linnu lugu, Mr. Bird’s Story, 2009). As Piret has been both a writer and an artist for several of her books, both of those aspects are also blended in a number of the honors she has received.
As a writer, Piret Raud has received the Annual Children’s Literature Award of the Cultural Endowment of Estonia on three occasions: for her books Sanna ja salakütid (Sanna and the Poachers, 2005), Printsess Luluu ja härra Kere (Princess Lulu and Mr. Bones, 2008) and Lugu Sandrist, Murist, tillukesest emmest ja nähtamatust Akslist (The Story of Sander, Muri, Eensy Mum, and the Invisible Aksel, 2015). Piret Raud has been put onto the IBBY Honour List as the writer of Princess Lulu and Mr. Boney”.
In illustration work, Piret Raud’s style can be characterized via three types: while her earlier works were full-design picture surfaces, a picturesque and occasionally surreal background (A Complicated Story) supporting on carefully-drawn details, the artist has moved forward in a laconic direction. A large number of children’s books have been published with only black-and-white illustrations, such as Ellen Niit’s poetry collection and her mother Aino Pervik’s series “Paula’s Life”. At the same time, those sometimes extremely small black-and-white pictures are drawn with an extremely sharp mind, masterfully, so that every detail is rich in meaning. The synergy of picture and text in the “Paula’s Life” series is characterized as a graphic mini-short-story, so significantly does the picture support and amplify the message of the text. In her current creative phase, Piret prefers to leave color pictures on a white background, allowing the drawing’s playfulness, humor, and fine grotesques to be brought out.
We see a dominance of fairy-tale-type stories in Piret’s writing, yet the true story Tobias ja teine B (Tobias, Second Grade) is also very important alongside that tendency. The miniature multimedia work Emma roosad asjad (Emma Loves Pink) is an utterly unique achievement. Piret Raud’s fantasy deals very clearly with contemporary real-life issues in fairy-tale form: with unemployment, homelessness, uncertainty, the power of money and corruption, etc. Why? The writer has replied: “I suppose that I think about those things myself, and they’re reflected in my books. But I do believe that one can talk to children about such things already at an early age. All of the news and life in the whole world reaches them in the same way as it does adults. So, it’s good if the side of goodness and justice is supported in a book somewhere.”
Even the miniscule fairy tale about Emma’s love for pink things is quite true to life: no matter that Emma only enjoys pink things – a green cabbage brought by her green frog friend changes her outlook!
Mare Müürsepp
28.11.2012
As such, several great talents hovered above Piret’s crib when she was born into this world in 1971. Studies at the Estonian Academy of Art gave her a master’s degree in graphic design. Piret appeared on the Estonian children’s literature scene in 1994 with illustrations for her mother’s Aino’s book Keeruline lugu (A Complicated Story), and her father Eno’s 1997 work Kala kõnnib jala (A Fish Takes a Walk).
By now, we can speak of Piret as a graphic designer for books, a writer, a journalist (she was an editor for children’s magazine Täheke for some time), as well as an art teacher.
As an illustrator, Piret has received an enormous amount of praise both in Estonia and abroad. She has received awards such as certificates for the 25 Best Designed Estonian Books and 5 Best Designed Estonian Children’s Books; has participated in international exhibitions and competitions such as the Baltic States’ Book Art Competition, the Tallinn Illustration Triennial, and the Bologna Book Fair; has been awarded the Estonian National Library’s Golden Book Award, as well as the Estonian Children’s Literature Center’s title of “Raisin of the Year” for Most Interesting Children’s Publication (Härra Linnu lugu, Mr. Bird’s Story, 2009). As Piret has been both a writer and an artist for several of her books, both of those aspects are also blended in a number of the honors she has received.
As a writer, Piret Raud has received the Annual Children’s Literature Award of the Cultural Endowment of Estonia on three occasions: for her books Sanna ja salakütid (Sanna and the Poachers, 2005), Printsess Luluu ja härra Kere (Princess Lulu and Mr. Bones, 2008) and Lugu Sandrist, Murist, tillukesest emmest ja nähtamatust Akslist (The Story of Sander, Muri, Eensy Mum, and the Invisible Aksel, 2015). Piret Raud has been put onto the IBBY Honour List as the writer of Princess Lulu and Mr. Boney”.
In illustration work, Piret Raud’s style can be characterized via three types: while her earlier works were full-design picture surfaces, a picturesque and occasionally surreal background (A Complicated Story) supporting on carefully-drawn details, the artist has moved forward in a laconic direction. A large number of children’s books have been published with only black-and-white illustrations, such as Ellen Niit’s poetry collection and her mother Aino Pervik’s series “Paula’s Life”. At the same time, those sometimes extremely small black-and-white pictures are drawn with an extremely sharp mind, masterfully, so that every detail is rich in meaning. The synergy of picture and text in the “Paula’s Life” series is characterized as a graphic mini-short-story, so significantly does the picture support and amplify the message of the text. In her current creative phase, Piret prefers to leave color pictures on a white background, allowing the drawing’s playfulness, humor, and fine grotesques to be brought out.
We see a dominance of fairy-tale-type stories in Piret’s writing, yet the true story Tobias ja teine B (Tobias, Second Grade) is also very important alongside that tendency. The miniature multimedia work Emma roosad asjad (Emma Loves Pink) is an utterly unique achievement. Piret Raud’s fantasy deals very clearly with contemporary real-life issues in fairy-tale form: with unemployment, homelessness, uncertainty, the power of money and corruption, etc. Why? The writer has replied: “I suppose that I think about those things myself, and they’re reflected in my books. But I do believe that one can talk to children about such things already at an early age. All of the news and life in the whole world reaches them in the same way as it does adults. So, it’s good if the side of goodness and justice is supported in a book somewhere.”
Even the miniscule fairy tale about Emma’s love for pink things is quite true to life: no matter that Emma only enjoys pink things – a green cabbage brought by her green frog friend changes her outlook!
Mare Müürsepp
28.11.2012
2023 Good Children’s Book
2023 Nominee of the Annual Children's Literature Award of the Cultural Endowment of Estonia
2023 Nominee of the Annual Children's Literature Award of the Cultural Endowment of Estonia