Oscar and I. Our Places

The new story by Maria Parr — «the Norwegian Astrid Lindgren», whose books our readers have come to know and love in excellent translations by Olga Drobot, is finally available in Russian at the publishing house «SamTamBooks» (Switzerland).

«Oscar and I. Our Places» — it is... stories from the life of eight-year-old Ida and her five-year-old brother Oscar: about a monster hiding in the closet, and about a safari in a concrete pipe, about lost vampires, about how, as we grow up, the world around shrinks, and growing up brings not only joyful changes but also losses.  And family remains the place where you will always be understood and accepted.

«Oscar and I» was awarded the main literary prize of Norway — the Brage Prize (2023), the prize in the field of children's literature Nynorsk barnelitteraturpris (2023), and the Italian Premio Letteratura Ragazzi di Cento (2025). In 2025, it was included in the international catalog of the best children's and youth books «White Ravens».