The Green Wanderer

It’s a poetic fairy tale about friendship and acceptance. The Creature, who lives in grey Creatureland, eventually discovers that he is green. However, the grey river gives him a grey reflection. So he resolves to find a green river so that he might see his greenness. His journey will take him through various colourful lands and the inhabitants of each one will greet the Creature differently: in the land of blue they will want to make him blue by force; in the land of red, they will greet him as someone unique, worthy of a royal crown; in the land of yellow, the Creature will see that all colours are equal, and in the land of green he will finally cease to be different – he will be green like everyone else. The Creature will return to his homeland over the rainbow bridge to tell the grey creatures about others’ colours and change the grey Creatureland forever.

The Best Book of the Year 2001 by IBBY Polish section.

Included on the Golden List of books recommended by the ”ABCXXI – All of Poland Reads to Children” Foundation.