On A High Mountain
“On a mountain very high / there’s a tree big to the sky / and it’s called Aplee – Paplee – Blitee – Blau – and who cannot say it / has to leave right now” – these are the words of an old, popular children’s counting-out rhyme but in the book by Krystyna Miłobędzka and Iwona Chmielewska they become the beginning of a story about the world, language, transformations, life, and time passing.
On a mountain very high is an incredible encounter of two renowned and unique authors – one of the most notable contemporary poets and creators of picture books respectively. It is a book about the origins of our perception of the world. Full of mystery and understatements, it escapes an unambiguous interpretation.
Included in the Children’s Books Museum’s Treasure List 2014
lst prize in Dobre Strony 2014 competition in the category: book for young readers.