- Illustrator: Edgar Valter
- 2009, 144 pp
- ISBN: 9789985935491
- Age: 6+
- fiction, storybook
Rights sold: Latvian, Lithuanian, Russian, Udmurt, Polish
At first glance, the creatures named the Pokus look like tufted sedges. They live their lives discreetly, are friendly and inquisitive, but are terrified of human beings. The artist and children’s author Edgar Valter was one of the few lucky people to have ever gained their trust. His Poku Book tells about the Poku people, and details the life and times of the good-natured old Uncle Puuko at his cabin deep in the woods. There’s no denying that Uncle Puuko bears an uncanny resemblance, both in appearance and mind-set, to the author himself!
Edgar Valter’s Poku books – The Poku Book, The Poku ABCs, and Poku Stories – explore how to live in harmony with nature.
