There are books that everyone likes: children, parents, boys, girls, kids, and big kids. “The Incredible Story of the Giant Pear” is one of them, which is not surprising: the author is Jacob Strid - a Dane, heir to the great and mighty Scandinavian children's literature.
The main characters - a cat and an elephant - make a dangerous sea voyage to save their friend from a mysterious island. And they sail on a pear tree, which serves them both as a ship and as a home. In this incredible fairy tale, text and illustrations play equally important roles and cannot exist without each other, but together they make this book a bomb! By the way, this phenomenon is called synergy: this is when components work poorly individually, but when combined they perform much better. But that’s just us, we suddenly decided to show off our knowledge... And “The Incredible Story of a Giant Pear” is a little reminiscent of Gerald Durrell’s “Talking Bundle”: there is also a secret message, and exciting adventures, and little animals, and magic, and a dragon.
This year a very nice full-length cartoon based on this fairy tale was released; it is quite close to the text, although there were some differences. Some scenes on the screen are breathtakingly beautiful, for example, a journey through the inky sea: lights flash in the darkness, fireworks sparkle, ghosts flash (not scary). I think every child would want to be there at least for a minute.
This tale has a very hopeful ending, it leaves room for imagination and does not reveal all the secrets, so fingers crossed that there will be a continuation!
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