Damyan Damyanov Yulia Spiridonova
The Fox's Glove
The writer Yulia Spiridonova and the artist Damyan Damyanov bring the whole world together in a new series of fairy tales – "A Wonderful World". Each fairy tale takes young readers to the most fascinating corners of the earth. There, through the medium of art, it reveals not only the beauty and diversity of nature, but also the wisdom contained in ancient myths and legends.
The Fox’s Glove is the first book in the "Wonderful World" series.
Many, many years ago, a ferocious dragon crawled out of the sea onto the coast of Cornwall. Knights and wizards, fairies and mermaids, piskits and giants tried in vain to stop it. Will Merin the fox manage to protect her cubs and save the world from this disaster?
Look out for The Living Stone and The Prickly Scarecrow, the next tales in the series.
Damyan Damyanov
Damyan Damyanov is an artist and lecturer at New Bulgarian University. He works in the fields of book design, illustration, poster art, postage stamps, comics and animation. He has created numerous book covers and illustrations for leading Bulgarian publishing houses. He is the author of the typographic experiment "Pod ezika" (Under the Tongue), which has been exhibited in Bulgaria, Belgium, Luxembourg and Switzerland and published as a two-part book, as well as the activity and colouring book Draw Me a Sheep. He is the recipient of the national "Konstantin Konstantinov", "Hristo G. Danov" and "Golden Brush" awards. In 2024 and 2025, he was nominated for the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award, the major international prize for children’s literature.
Yulia Spiridonova
Yulia Spiridonova is the author of over thirty books for children and teenagers, including the novels The Shadow of the Grasshopper, Kronos, That Wretch, Tina and a Half, the comic fantasy trilogy Krastyo – Private Detective, Tales of the Little Owl, and the book on family memory The Scissors (co-authored with the artist Damyan Damyanov). Her books have been honoured with the national literary awards "Peroto", "Hristo G. Danov", "Petko R. Slaveykov" and others. She is the first Bulgarian writer to be nominated for the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award, the major international prize for children’s literature.
Her works have been translated into French, Hungarian, Czech, Ukrainian, Romanian, Macedonian, Russian and Farsi.
