Rhinoroces Pilu (ana from the life of an ordinary mammal) – Milanka Stankić

That afternoon, laughter did not sound as it used to.
There was some warm wind in it.

A book which is read at a slow pace. In these times, it would be good if we all made a little pause. And read slowly. We will certainly better and to a larger extent understand the essence of what we have read. And the essence is that in life everything depends on perception. Rhinoroces Pilu is a little guy who sees nothing wrong in rearranging a few syllables. What are syllables compared to life? Just a mere appearance of letters on the whiteness of a piece of paper. He is a happy rhinoceros because he has got all the love in the world. He has got his mum, his dad and Masha. As the pages slowly turn, we will discover the whole world of this smiling rhino who can sing, draw and who has understood the algorithm of living: you need to love and to feel loved. Everything else is less important. Even that dyslexia is not more important than the smile he gets when he looks Masha in the eye. And when he looks at his teacher who grows with him, directly into that love.
You should grow too, till you reach a smile, a love. In this way, the magical world of this book turns into your need to read slowly and to enjoy. The beauty is not somewhere else. It is inside of us.

Milanka Stankić is a Serbian author born in 1964. She is a Doctor of Literary Sciences and collaborates with the Slavic faculties in Vienna, Trieste and Ljubljana. She boasts various publications for children, many of which have been awarded with prizes and literary awards. She is president of the association ‘Youth and Play’ which in 2001 received the accreditation from the Ministry of Education of the Republic of Serbia for the program ‘A step towards culture’. For the activities of the textbook evaluator, she was awarded with a recognition for her contribution to nurturing the Serbian language and culture of speech. She publishes papers in scientific journals in her country and abroad.
She has the title of the Best Teacher of EX-JU. He also won the award for heroic work during the pandemic. She participated in the digitalization of tests of the Society for Serbian Language and Literature of the Republic of Serbia and participated in the realization of classes on RTS Planet within the project of the Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development. She is married and has a son.