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A new concept for Maltese reading books, il-Harba taz-Zringijiet / The Frogs’ Great Escape is a bilingual picture book in both Maltese and English for children aged 5 to 8 years.

In the book, a frog family is trapped in a jam jar by two cruel children and fights desperately to regain its freedom. This is ultimately achieved when all the frogs work together and stop despairing at their circum-stance.

The book has a strong envir-onmental theme focusing on the need to ensure that wild animals can live undisturbed in their own natural envir-onment. It also brings out the importance of thinking problems through and shows that everyone is capable to perform what initially seems to be an impossible task.

The book is specially sized to allow young children to handle the pages easily and its brilliantly coloured illustrations by Victor Pulis add to the interest that it generates amongst its young readers. The book is also ideal for parents to read aloud to their youngsters.

Il-Harba taz-Zringijiet / The Frogs’ Great Escape was adjudged as the best book amongst the 33 submissions in the Children’s Literature category of the Malta Literary Awards of 2003.