REVIEW BY ZOI FRAGOU

FOR EIRINI'S TSACHOURIDI BOOK

'STORIES FROM A MAGICAL KINGDOM'

'ΙΣΤΟΡΙΕΣ ΑΠΟ  ΕΝΑ ΜΑΓΙΚΟ  ΒΑΣΙΛΕΙΟ'

"STORIES FROM A MAGICAL KINGDOM"

This the book I was gifted to review for the event

READ YOUR WORLD!

«Ιστορίες από ένα Μαγικό Βασίλειο»

Συγγραφέας: Ειρήνη Τσαχουρίδη

Εικονογράφος: Εμμανουέλα Κακαβιά

ΕκδόσειςΟσελότος

Έτοςέκδοσης: 2018

«Stories from a Magical Kingdom»

Author: Eirini Tsachouridi

Illustrator: Emmanouela Kakavia

Ocelotos Publishing

Year of publication: 2018

"Stories from a Magical Kingdom" is a book that combines fairytales and a journey into our self-knowledge!

The book includes five stories, the stories of five people who live in a magical kingdom. A princess, a young boy, a girl with many wishes, Iliana and Vaiola are the heroes of this book! All of them face a unique challenge and enter an adventure through which they discover things that could not imagine!

This book is full of magic and stories that can capture the attention of the children and spark their imagination. However, the book, in addition to its interesting stories, provides one more opportunity both to children and to adults. It can act as a tool of self-knowledge and self-improvement. Behind every adventure and magical item or situation, there is a hidden advice and the reflection of a hidden inner obstacle.

I really enjoyed reading this book, as I realized its two levels, the realistic and the symbolical. Through this symbolical level, the author transmits psychological messages to children and helps them understand that the real magic is inside us! Every kind of magic can be activated only by our inner powers.

This book can help children, parents and teachers build a new perspective and find the heroes of the book inside them.

How the book is presented...

According to the author of the book, this book is in reality a book of self-knowledge and self-improvement both for children and for adults. However, the author opts for not presenting psychological messages directly, but indirectly through magical stories!

As such, five stories compose the book! Five stories that can be read separately, as well as in combination.

This book has the potential to be incorporated to classroom and can help teachers transmit messages to their students through an entertaining and inspiring way.

Eirini Tsachouridi (author of the book), PhD, author

Eirini Tsachouridi is a doctor of Organizational Behavior. She has studied Political Science and Public Administration to the University of Athens, while she also holds a Master in Business Administration (MBA) and a Ph.D. in Organizational Behavior (Athens University of Economics and Business). She is working as an academic teacher and researcher. Many of her researches have been published to academic journals and collective volumes and have been presented to international academic conferences. In addition to academic research and teaching, Eirini is an author of books for children and adults. Until now, she has published two books for children, the "Stories from a Magical Kingdom" (Ocelotos Publishing), as well as "The magic of Christmas (and not only) is...in your hands" (Ocelotos Publishing). Moreover, she has published a book for adults, "Symbolic Stories from my journey to "I am" (Ocelotos Publishing).

Fb: Eirini Tsachouridi

email: etsachouridi@hotmail.com

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