Anna Starobinets
| Zverski detektiv | Beastly Crime Chronicles. Children's series. Clever. Moscow since 2016. approx. 100 pages each. Age 6-13 |
| Foreign rights: | Arabic/ Thaqafa, China/ 21st Century, Czech/ Albatros, Estonia/ Tänapäev, Germany/ Fischer, Georgia/ Academic Press, Hungary/ Europa, Latvia/ Zvaigzne, Mongolia/ Nepko, Netherlands/ Querido, Poland/ Dwie Syostry, Romania/ Frontiera, Serbia/ Kozikas, Slovakia/ Ikar, Spain/ Dolmen, Turkey/ Kalina, US/ Dover |
| Awards: | 2021 longlist Astrid Lindgren Award 2021 shortlist Kornei Chukovski Award 2020 winner Russian Detective Award |
Vol 1 In the Wolf’s Lair
Vol 2 A Predator’s Rights
Vol 3 Claws of Rage
Vol 4 The Plucker
Vol 5 Gods of Mango – Award Russian Detective 2020
Vol 6 Taileaters
(Vol 7 planned)
AND: Beasty Ferry Tales
Life in the Far Woods tends to be tranquil because the animal denizens are strictly forbidden to kill (or eat!) one another. An elderly detective, Chief Badger, oversees the community and solves its petty crimes, from stolen pine cones to plucked tail feathers. His restless assistant, Badgercat, longs for some excitement — a desperate crime, a beastly crime!
All the heroes of this book series are animals, but they know how to love and hate, lie and tell the truth to their face, trust and despair, betray and save – no worse and no better than us humanoid readers. Who is friend and who is foe, who is an innocent, fluffy victim, who is a deadly female predator, who is a hostage and who is an intruder, you only find out at the end, because according to the rules of the genre, the perpet- rator always remains unknown until the very end.
| Zverskie skazki | Beastly Ferry Tales. Children's book. Clever. Moscow 2020. 176 pages each. Age 3-13 |
Beastly Tales by Anna Starobinets is a spin-off of the popular “Beastly Crime Chronicles” series – for all fans and their younger sisters and brothers.
This book contains sagas and fairy tales, poems and songs, ancient legends and modern adventure stories, which animals from different forests of the world tell and sing to their young, mostly at bedtime. The collection also includes stories from the village of Okhotka. In this way, wild bookworms learn about the beliefs and myths, life and customs of little-studied rural animals.
The Big Badger from the Far Forest Police tells the Little Badger Kittens about the Sky Bears. The dog Polkan entertains the Muchtarchik pup with stories about the Great Dane and his sworn enemy Pusi-Don. The Persian cat remembers how the black magician Cat Noir lured her to the Forest of Shadows. The owl brothers Ug and Chuck learn that the location of the nearby forest used to be a field of honey carrots grown by the flying rabbit Wryluh. Badger Melesandra convinces her daughter that her father was the first badger on the moon. The Tail listens to the story of the laughing witch Koya, ancestor of the coyotes. The giraffe Rafik listens to the legend of the mango gods who created the first animals of the desert. The penguin boy listens to the shark penguin‘s hunting stories. And the Misfit listens to the scary fox story about the frozen demon.
