Triinu Laan, Ieva Babilaitė. Mažasis lapiukas yra turtingas (Little Fox is Rich), Vilnius: 700 eilučių, 2025. – 32 p.

A little fox lives with his family in the Green Forest, near his grandparents. One day, he moves with his parents to the Blue Forest. He slowly settles in his new home, attends school, makes friends, and learns the language of the new forest, but he does not want to forget his old one. After all, it’s the language his grandparents speak. If you can keep your native language in your mind, and you also know other languages, you are very rich indeed! 

This book is the result of a collaboration between a talented Estonian author and a Lithuanian artist with a distinctive style. Through this story, the author explores themes that are highly relevant today: family, migration, and the relationship between grandparents and grandchildren. 

The book Little Fox Is Rich grew out of the booklet Mažasis Rudis yra turtingas (Little Foxy Is Rich), created as a part of the project TINY BOOKS FROM BALTIC AUTHORS. 

Triinu Laan (b. 1975) is an Estonian writer who mainly writes in the Võru dialect, as well as a translator and editor. She has written seven books for children, which have received numerous awards in Estonia; three of them have been translated into Lithuanian. The main themes of her works are connections between different generations, the understanding of death, and the ability to feel the joy of life at any age and under any circumstances. 

Ieva Babilaitė (b. 1973) studied graphic art at the Vilnius Academy of Arts. Since 1999, she has been a member of the Lithuanian Artists’ Association. She has held 13 solo exhibitions and has participated in many group exhibitions in Lithuania and abroad. She leads creative workshops, educational activities and curates exhibitions. She has illustrated 20 books for children and adults, and for several of them she is both the author and illustrator. In her drawings and children’s book illustrations she seeks to apply new forms of artistic expression. The artistic solutions and originality of her work have been recognised with numerous awards and prizes, including prizes from the Lithuanian Ministry of Culture (2002, 2009, 2014, 2018). Her picture book Skrisiu (I Will Fly, 2014) was included in the IBBY Honour List. 

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