Ping Pong Pants

Viktor is a five-year-old Hungarian boy living near the EU's headquarters in Brussels, Belgium. Ping Pong Pants is his diary, in which he wonders whether it's the bunny or the flying bells that bring the fire engine at Easter, why he needs to sleep with his shoes on in the nursery and why the government had to cut the poor people just because it overslept. Green goblins that bite, paragrannies on stand-by and coloured bin bags growing on trees. But will Viktor's little sister get...
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Viktor is a five-year-old Hungarian boy living near the EU's headquarters in Brussels, Belgium. Ping Pong Pants is his diary, in which he wonders whether it's the bunny or the flying bells that bring the fire engine at Easter, why he needs to sleep with his shoes on in the nursery and why the government had to cut the poor people just because it overslept. Green goblins that bite, paragrannies on stand-by and coloured bin bags growing on trees. But will Viktor's little sister get sucked into an aeroplane toilet? And what is the mysterious game of Ping Pong Pants?Viktor's diary entries bring to life the everyday differences between the Hungarian and Belgian ways of doing things, while giving access to the typical mindset and self-expression of a five-year-old struggling to navigate a foreign culture.