Éva Janikovszky?s ?Great!? is a delicious variation of the tale of the
well-meaning but frustrated king who after trying, unsuccessfully, to create
laws to make everyone happy, comes up with ?Everybody must be good!? This time
our mischievous hero wrestles with the mental problem of how to make everything
great for everybody ? his parents, grandparents, little sister and visiting
neighbours. Even when he thinks he has discovered what makes all these people
feel great, he is surprised to find that their motives are quite different from
what he had imagined. Translated by Andrew C. Rouse Illustrations of László
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