Author and illustrator Andreja Peklar:
Andreja Peklar has devoted herself to illustrating for children and her work can be seen in several picture books, text books and magazines for children. She has received several Slovenian and foreign awards. Some of her books have been included in The White Ravens selection. Recently she has been focusing on writing and illustrating her own books.
This is a wordless picture book about a giant, somehow clumsy but very nice bird, who loved to play with children, who helped people and lived with them in coexistence … but one day after hard work he drank all the water from the lake. He made a terrible mistake and people banished him from their town and he has wandering around alone and desparate. Yet at the end with help of a little friend everything turned out well.