The Story of Lost Toys

This book was created by 4-5-year-old children with their teachers at the University of Melbourne’s Early Learning Centre, during a cross-cultural exchange project with Pcelica Kindergarten in Zagreb, Croatia.

The project encouraged understanding of other cultures through exchange of letters, drawings, personal stories, photographs as well as ecological and cultural features and symbols of the other country. The eight month project involved 41 children and resulted in a children’s art exhibition in Zagreb and the publication of “Traps of the Sqaure-Looking Forest” in Croatia and “The Story of Lost Toys” in Australia. Both stories have been published in dual languages and exchanges with the children of each country.