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On the left side, a narrow strip with the names of the author and illustrator, the title of the book. The cover is filled with four individual title words, each in a new line below: Once – upon – a – love. The effect is in the game of letters – pictures on the theme of love: for example, O represents the love face of a girl with braids, A is a boy in love with headphones on his ears, or N a man and a woman holding hands.
Language: 
Slovak
Title in English: 
Once Upon a Time There Was a Love
Author: 
Valentín Šefčík
Illustrator: 
Ľuboslav Paľo
Illustrations: 
Colour
Place of publication: 
Prešov
Country: 
Slovakia
Publisher: 
OZ Slniečkovo
Year of publication: 
2020
Pages: 
p. 64
Size: 
17 x 24 cm
ISBN: 
978-80-89314-30-0
Category: 
Poetry

The second edition of a poetry collection for younger and older children about Love. Love as an omnipresent and necessary element for everyday life. The author of literature for children and young adults Valentín Šefčík is known for his linguistic playfulness, which he uses judiciously and very functionally. Šefčík's poetry has a latent dimension of responsibility towards life encoded in it, it is imaginative, delicate and at the same time playful and witty, but it also has its serious and melancholic positions. It looks at the world from a point of view that is close to that of children of just pre-teenage and early teenage age.
The book won an award in the Most Beautiful Books of Slovakia 2015 competition.