Publisher Description

"Little Fears" is a book series about the various concerns that children can have. Sometimes, minor harms may grow into big worries if they are ignored. Fortunately, there are fun ways and gentle tools to handle such situations, often through play.
It's Grandpa's birthday, and the whole family is invited to a garden party. Everyone is looking forward to the celebration, except for Elliot, who's worried. He doesn't like being in a crowd, and during the party, he escapes to his grandparents' attic.Fortunately, Uncle Stephen comes up with a fun way to get Elliot back to the garden with others. While walking on high wooden stilts, the whole world looks different - the adults down below, too!---Einon ukilla on syntymäpäivät. Suureen puutarhajuhlaan on kutsuttu koko suku. Perhe valmistautuu innolla vierailulle, mutta Eino on huolissaan. Hän ei viihdy väkijoukossa ja päättää karata isovanhempien ullakolle juhlan ajaksi.Onneksi Hannes-setä keksii hauskan keinon, jolla Eino saadaan muiden luo pihalle. Hassujen puujalkojen päältä maailma näyttää erilaiselta. Aikuisiakin voi katsella ylempää.

Author Biography

Tuula Pere (b. 1958) is a Ph.D. in Law and an author from Helsinki, Finland. Her doctoral dissertation published in 2015 examines the limits of the freedom of speech in the Finnish mass media amidst the social and cultural shift of the 1960s and 1970s. Before her doctoral research, Tuula Pere has had a career of over two decades as a lawyer and in various expert and executive positions in the industry. Since 2010, Tuula Pere has published over thirty children's storybooks which have been translated into Swedish, English, Russian, Estonian, French, Italian and Spanish, for example. She has also published poetry and aphorisms for children and short stories for adults. Tuula Pere is an avid music and sports enthusiast and a keen baker. She is married and a mother of three.

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