Vrechei kareklopodara

ISBN 978-960-03-1050-4
Illustrations: Yvette Papadopoulou  

A tale about a hat that leaves his family to travel all over the world and find out who he really is. Jacob by name, rainmaker by profession and with a passport full of stamps, he is a very curious hat and he has some strange adventures. Born into a family of conjurors, he decides he won’t follow in his ancestors’ footsteps. And so, in spite of his family’s many objections he becomes a rainmaker and travels round the world.
However, the generations of miracle workers in his blood do not allow him to make rain that is pure and simple. In his first farewell attempt over his native Greece it rains chair legs (or cats and dogs as they would say in England) and his subsequent attempts are equally unfortunate. In Italy it comes down in basins, in Mexico it rains hundredweights, in France it rains in ropes, boulders in Arabia, milkchurns in Russia and so on and so forth. Jacob travels right around the world, but nowhere does he succeed in making simple rain fall. As a failed rainmaker he can do no other than follow in the family tradition and become a conjuror. However, his first performance gives the audience a shock. He brings down such a deluge on them that his family will remember it forever.