Our favourite Slovene book

Choose the favourite book was a very difficult task. We opted for a fairytale Muca Copatarica, because we believe everyone in Slovenia knows it.

The story has been translated into many other languages:
Die Pantoffelmieze (German)
Pantoflokatino (Esperanto)
La Chatte Cordonnière (French)
Maca Karakaca (Macedonian)
Elvitte a Cica (Hungarian)
Maca papučarka (Croatian)
Papučica – maca (Serbian)
Il gatto ciabattino (Italian)

There are few who do not remember the legendary Muca Copatarica / Cat the Slipper Cobbler and her mysterious mission – taking away slippers from messy children. It has become a customary saying - a kind of warning said by parents: “If you don’t put them away, they will be taken by Cat the Slipper Cobbler!”, a kind of a warning that still to this very day uneasily lingers amongst us since these magical words were written by Ela Peroci scores of years ago.