Book, Hardcover E. va Janikovszky Published in: 2013 Publisher: Móra Könyvkiadó Zrt. Language: English Thirty years have passed since Éva Janikovszky wrote Az úgy volt... The coin-operated phone-box in the street is no longer an excuse for a thirteen-year-old boy to slip out of his apartment. The international scouting movement has superseded Hungary's old "pioneer" movement, and today children find their foreign "pen friends" through the internet, not by writing and posting letters. Our teenage hero tries his hand at writing to a person with a strange name from Estonia. He also tries skating, lying to his girl-friend, planting trees and shrubs in the park, all with varying degrees of success. Most of all, he tries to understand the world around him, dominated by adults who are his own and his friends' parents, relatives and teachers. Essentially he is no different from today's teenagers with their mobile phones, MP4s and computers. That is why Eva Janikovszky is timeless: she could se