Starfell – Willow Moss arrived at Hungary
Dominique Valente: Csillagpaff – Mocsári Füzi és az elveszett kedd (Hungarian edition of Starfell – Willow Moss and the Lost Day) (Maxim Könyvkiadó 2021) Many thanks to Maxim Könyvkiadó for sending me the book! Dominique Valente’s books is my favorite middle grade series! I’ve written about it before, which you can read here. I couldn’t wait for its Hungarian translation to become available and it was wonderful! The beautiful illustrations are the works of Sarah Warburton, and the ingenious translation is from Tibor Ipacs. Here I would note how interesting it is that the name of Willow Moss has been translated in all editions: Mocsári Füzi in Hungarian, Violette Dupin in French, Anemona Moss in German, Mimosa Moss in Italian and Dalia Musgo in Spanish. (Somewhat exception to this is that in the Dutch edition, Willow Mos is the little girl’s name, although Willow is similar to the Dutch word…