Exi enantion enos
SIX AGAINST ONE

edition: 1st-10th
Year of Publication: 1984
Illustrator: Petros Zampelis
Publisher: Spondi

Year of Publication: 1992
Illustrator: Sonia Mitralia
Photography: Greek Numismatic Museum
Publisher: Patakis
ISBN: 960-293-802-1

A novel in the guise of a detective story with brisk dialogue. Its central theme is the discovery of a rare ancient coin by six sisters and the attempt by their very peculiar neighbour to steal it from them.
By means of the action described in the text, the history of ancient Greek coins slowly emerges. A history known only to a few, but of great interest...

Filenada, Foundoukia mou
MY FRIEND, THE FILBERT TREE

Novel
edition: 7th-11th
Year of Publication: 1982
Illustrator: Eleni Moraiti
Publisher: ASE


Novel
Year of Publication: 1993
Illustrator: Vagelis Pavlidis
Publisher: Patakis
ISBN: 960-293-838-2

Circle of the Greek Children's Book/IBBY Greece, Diploma of Merit
The book «MY FRIEND, THE FILBERT TREE» by Angeliki Varella was chosen to represent Greece (with other two books of the years (1982-1984) at the international competition of books for children, organized every second year by the Polish section of IBBY in memory of the humanist and pedagogue.
JANUSZ KORCZAK
October 1984
The commitee: C. Demertzis, R. Kartheou, L. Petrovits, F. Stathatou, V. Angelopoulou, A. Mendrinou, E. Psarafti

Drake, drake eise edo?
DRAGON, DRAGON ARE YOU HERE?

Short stories
Year of Publication: 1986
Illustrator: Nikos Maroulakis
Publisher: ASE

Short stories and fairy-tales
edition: 1st-9th
Year of Publication: 1993
Illustrator: Teti Solou
Publisher: Patakis
ISBN: 960-293-944-3

"An author searches to find inspiration for her new book. She wants it to be a book with contemporary fables which will feature heroes, creators, and objects of our time. A dragon has come to find the author and complain to her on behalf of all the dragons of the old tales. Complain to her about what? About those writers who forget to place a dragon in their stories, one of those dragons that exhales flames and does all that other dragon jazz."

Arxizei to mats
THE MATCH BEGINS

Novel
edition: 1st-7th
Year of Publication: 1984
Illustrator: Artemis Nikolaidou
Publisher: ASE


Novel
edition: 1st-15th
Year of Publication: 1993
Illustrator: Giannis Lekkos
Publisher: Patakis
ISBN: 960-293-842-0

"Using the stories of Fotis and his friend as a vehicle, the author covers the last seven Olympic games. Fotis fosters a great love for football and athletics in general. Bitter humor describes today’s sporting ideals. The author touches upon the subject of hooliganism and violence at football match while a vivid family story is set up.
It is one of the most beautiful books of 1984, for children from 12 to 15 years old an unconventional illustration."

Ena proi me ton Esopo
A MORNING WITH AESOP

Adapted myths with colorful illustration
edition: 1st-3rd
Year of Publication: 1995
Illustrator: Nikolas Andrikopoulos
Publisher: Patakis
ISBN: 960-360-492-5

"Angeliki Varella finds Aesop one morning in the National Gallery, takes him by the hand and strolls around Athens with him. The authors grabs the chance to make a comment on Aesop’s myths, to mock our own time, and to re-tell these stories in her own, humorous way, and then to…restore the image of Aesop himself as far as his ugliness is concerned. In the end of the book, she admits that his nose was the most beautiful nose that she had ever seen in her life, since “it is better to pay attention not to the appearance but to the mind”. It is a book with unique style. The illustration is also very fitting to the book’s sense of humor."

Se dio trela imichrona
IN TWO MAD HALF-TIMES

edition: 1st-3rd
Year of Publication: 1988
Illustrator: Aris Micropoulos
Publisher: ASE


Year of Publication: 1996
Illustrator: Antonis Kalamaras
Publisher: Minoas
ISBN: 960-240-432-9

By means of short stories with a common core, the writer is giving to children and young people gripping moments of family life but also snapshots of our social life that revolve around football and its effects, not just on the lives of individuals but of a nation.
In these stories the writer, whether intentionally or not, follows and participates in the events on the football field and finds the opportunity to make pertinent observations.

Ena chrono mazi
ONE YEAR TOGETHER

Year of Publication: 1997
Illustrator: Different illustrators
Publisher: Patakis
ISBN: 960-600-181-4

Journal with small humourous biographies of the authors of Patakis Publications beautifully illustrated by different illustrators.

Kriti
CRETE

Series: Heroes-Places-Civilizations, Mythology
Year of Publication: 1990
Illustrator: George Seitanis
Publisher: ASE & Delfini



Series: Mythology
edition: 1st-3rd
Year of Publication: 1998-2003
Illustrator: George Seitanis
Publisher: Patakis
ISBN: 960-600-786-3

"Angeliki Varella is an author who knows how to write with humor. Her work which has made her one of the most important authors in modern children’s literature, meanly deal with burning issues of everyday reality (ecology, violence etc.). At the same time she is also an author who loves the history of our country.
Angeliki Varella seems to tread on the ground of Crete, ignoring the chronological barriers. Whatever she encounters there, has to do with mythology, with history, with the legends and the local myths of the island. And it is with those she “talks”, since they are people who have left their mark on the Greek civilization in the past. Dedalus and Icaros, Theseas, the Minotaur, Ariadne and Zeus and Europe…"

Ta papoutsakia pou lene paramythia
THE SMALL SHOES THAT TELL STORIES

Fairy-tale
edition: 1st-4th
Year of Publication: 1998
Illustrator: Spyros Gousis
Publisher: Agyra
ISBN: 960-234-552-7

Circle of Greek Children’s Book/IBBY Greece Prize, 1998


This book has been included in 2001 IBBY catalogue of selected books for children with disabilities.

"In this story, a family adopts a child, Helias, who as he grows up, they discover that he cannot walk. Helias in his effort to overcome the problem, visits the river often and he talks to the shoes that come down from it, every time. So…he makes up stories that travel in the shoes! This a very original story, where fantasy is exquisitely intertwined with reality. The author deals with important issues (of adoption and of the people with special needs), without making the mistake of being melodramatic, but with realism and simplicity, wherever necessary; with a language that is above all poetical and full of knowledge for the children, with tenderness and a subtle sense of humor and liveliness, she offers a magnificent story to the children that is full of love for people and their problems."

Yelastos kai Ayelastos
THE SMILEY AND THE SMILELESS ONE

edition: 1st-4th
Year of Publication: 1998
Illustrator: Tatiana-Raissi-Volonaki
Publisher: Modern Time
ISBN: 960-224-275-2

A story about two friends who live in the same neighborhood. The one is smiley and optimistic, the other not. The book is about the meaning of laughter and the salvation which laughter offers to young and old.

To Feggari pezi skaki
THE MOON PLAYS CHESS

Year of Publication: 1992
Illustrator: Tatiana Raissi-Volanaki
Photography: Romilos Parisis
Publisher: Delfini
ISBN: 960-309-009-3



Year of Publication: 1998
Illustrator: Tatiana Raissi-Volanaki
Photography: Romilos Parisis
Publisher: Patakis
ISBN: 960-309-009-3

The moon is engaged in a game of chess... with the sun, playing with its hidden side... until the author decides to play chess the moon... So begins a series of riddles through which characters, such as a romantic and disappointed Queen, a weird and aloof Black King, pass and, each of the "heroes" of the classboard, unfold their magical character. A fascinating game, entertaining but also moving, a story which unfolds through games and chess moves.

Dionisios Solomos
DIONYSIOS SOLOMOS


edition: 1st-3rd
Year of Publication: 1998
Ill. Editors: Liana Denezaki, Manos Krokos, Stavros Palantsas
Photography: N. Arvanitaki, M. Manolakou, Eleni Moraitou
Publisher: Patakis
ISBN: 960-600-567-4

"…This is one of the very good moments of the local production in children’s and adolescents’ literature. And this is because it helps the children to comprehend the work of a truly great poet, our national poet Dionysios Solomos, while at the same time, it introduces them not only to his life, but also to the social and economical context of his time."

Corinth
KORINTHOS

Series: Heroes-Places-Civilizations, Mythology
edition: 1st
Year of Publication: 1997
Illustrator: Irini Karaleka
Publisher: Delfini



National Award of Children's Non-Fiction, 1998

Series: Mythology
edition: 3rd
Year of Publication: 1998
Illustrator: Irini Karaleka
Publisher: Patakis
ISBN: 960-600-787-1

"What is most impressive is that Angeliki Varella not only narrates the facts in a lively and pleasing way, nor does she stay in fascinating description but she also faces mythology with a critical eye, she comments, she analyses it psychologically, she takes it even further to the modern era, revealing the everlasting value of the ancient Greek myths. Thus, the persons in the narration, that seem lost in the haze and vagueness of the myth, become figures full of life, incredibly modern and familiar to us."

In English:
WITH XENIOS IN GREECE

Year of Publication: 1999
Illustrator: Nicholas Andrikopoulos
Publisher: Ministry of Press and Mass Media
ISBN: 960-86184-2-3

The text of this book, in English, French, German and Spanish, in digital form CD, is included in the nomination material.

Xenios Dias (Zeus) is the ancient god of hospitality who takes the figure of a contemporary old man and shows the children of the world round Greece, its beautiful places, its ancient monuments and its modern civilization.
Xenios Dias has been translated into English, German, French and Spanish (until today) is the best possible ambassador of Greece for the children who live abroad. It is an “instrument” with which the Greek Ministry of Press and Mass Media satisfied many demands risen in various Greek services in foreign countries by children, parents, schools etc regarding the supply of information about Greece.

Me eyches, flouria kai agapi
WITH WISHES, GOLD COINS AND LOVE

Year of Publication: 2000
Illustrator: Eleni Tsakmaki
Publisher: Periplous
ISBN: 960-8151-40-6

Eight beautiful and tender stories about Christmas and New Year’s Eve, sensitive, humourous and nostalgic.

9 tilefonimata ki enas lagos
9 PHONE-CALLS AND A RABBIT


Year of Publication: 1999
Illustrator: Spyros Gousis
Publisher: Minoas
ISBN: 960-542-103-8

"This is a story written by one of the most well-known authors of children’s books in Greece.
Have you ever heard of a hare as a pet? In reading this book, you will meet one: one that lives in an apartment with a university lectures and reads…literature, watches television, drinks coffee and, of course, gives great pleasure to his masters, who adore it. In other words, it has everything. So why did it once leave? Was it by chance, or in answer to nature’s call?"