- Collective Edition
- Edition: 2020
- Pages: 160
- Dimensions: 24x20cm
- ISBN 978-9925-7673-2-8
Quarantine Adventures (hard cover) Children's book with 21 short stories
This publication includes 21 short stories created by children during the quarantine period in Cyprus as part of the QUARANTINE ADVENTURES competition organized by the Prometheus Research Institute. After evaluating all the stories submitted, the 21 most noteworthy ones constitute this publication and we invite you to read them and enjoy the incredible imagination, sensitivity and humor of the children.
From the introductory note: "Everything has changed lately. They say a coronavirus has arrived, I don't even know it, I haven't even seen it! And it's not enough that it closed our school and playgrounds, it also locked us all at home. I don't understand... At first, everything was incredibly nice. Every day I thanked the coronavirus, secretly, so that the adults wouldn't hear me and get angry... We could sleep more, eat our breakfast without running to school. We could play and draw for hours. Just think, my brother and I would hold the tablet indefinitely and mom wouldn't say anything to us. We looked at each other and couldn't believe it!
But little by little things became difficult. Our days became long and boring. We missed our friends and school. We missed our grandparents, who we didn't see. Even those games on the tablet, which we used to look forward to, became colorless and boring... and suddenly..."