★Stuttering, dyslexia, Down syndrome, autism are the subjects of this new series of picture books.
★The full English translation is available.
★Including 4 titles:
Beauty of differences - autism
Dance of letters - dyslexia
Joy of sunflowers - Down syndrome
Song of words - stuttering

I am Marko and I am six and a half years old. I go to kindergarten and I’ve been having trouble speaking for about three years now. When I starting composing more complex sentences, something broke in my throat. Like my speech went bad. Other kids looked at me funny, everyone started looking at me funny. Oh my, I was so uncomfortable.
Little boy Marko will soon start school and he seems to be just like all of his kindergarten friends, except for one thing. Marko has a stutter. His problems started when he was still a very young boy and just started learning how to compose sentences. In his story “Song of Words”, Marko will tell us what his childhood looks like, what he hopes for and everything he needs to learn and practice each day in order to master the skill other may not even think about and which he needs to better relate to the world around him.
The goal of this story is to understand this condition, accept differences and develop compassion for everyone, everywhere and at all times, and especially for children who have a stutter or any other speech difficulty they may struggle with.

Nataša Šunić Vargec
During my high school days, I realised I had potential and directed it towards desires that have been burning inside of me since my childhood, so in 1995 I decided to enrol in Faculty of Defectology as it was called then, now Faculty of Education and Rehabilitation Sciences in Zagreb. In 1996 during my studies, I received the Dean’s award for my paper“Cytogenetic and Phenotypical Characteristics of Down Syndrome in Regards to Assessing Risk, Health Conditions and Multidisciplinary Monitoring of Those Affected”. After finishing my studies, majoring in speech therapy, I started my postgraduate course at the same college where I gained my graduate degree, and completed it in 2002.
For over 22 years I have been working with children who come to me due to dyslalia, dyslexia, dysgraphia, dyscalculia, specific learning difficulties, pervasive developmental disorders (Autistic spectrum, Asperger, Rett syndrome), speech with MR, Down syndrome, CP, nonfluency in speech, speech rhythm and tempo disorders (stuttering and rashness), delays in language and speech (expressive and receptive segment), cognitive language delays, apraxia/dyspraxia, difficulties in auditive and visual processing, dysphonia, bilingualism and aphasia due to CVI and brain tumours (in adults).
During my work, I nave noticed a lack of material so I became an author and co-author of workbooks for children who suffer with difficulties in articulation and language, workbooks for school preparation that implement speech therapy segments in children’s emotional development. I have translated a manual for working with children with dyslexia and dysgraphia, as well as a manual for parents of children with dyspraxia.

Jelena Brezovec
Jelena Brezovec (1980) was born in Varaždin, Croatia. She studied sociology and croatology at the University of Zagreb, and worked in these disciplines for a few years.
For a long time, drawing was just a hobby of hers. But this changed in 2008, when she co-founded Evenio, a company specialized in online, print and digital publishing for children. Today, she works in this firm as an illustrator and a creative editor on projects such as activity books, picture books, mobile applications, digital books and handbooks.
Jelena’s work has been featured in various international exhibitions, and her personalized picture book Dance Recital won a National Indie Excellence Book Award in the category Specialty Books.