SHORT STORY COLLECTIONS
01. Qed Nistenniek Niezla max-Xita
02. Dak li l-Lejl Ihallik Tghid
03. Having Said Goodnight

NOVELS
01. Rih Isfel

BOOKS FOR CHILDREN
01. Trab Abjad
02. Meta Nstabu l-Angli

ADAPTATIONS
01. Stejjer mill-Bibbja
02. Enciklopedija ghat-Tfal
03. L-Istorja ta' Gesu'
04. Il-Leggenda ta' San Gorg u d-Dragun

ANTHOLOGIES
01. Gojjin 7
02. Gojjin 8
03. Senduq Kuluri Orangjo
04. Senduq Buffuri Orangjo
05. Senduq Buffuri Vjola
06. Senduq Kuluri Ahmar
07. Senduq Buffuri Ahmar
08. Kalejdoskopju 5
09. Kalejdoskopju 6
10. Storie
11. Kalejdoskopju 3
12. Kieku l-Ikel Jitkellem
13. Kalejdoskopju 4
14. 45
15. 1.mt
16. Spaces | spazji
17. Intangible Cultural Heritage & Memory
18. Little White Lies
19. Storie (2)
20. A Sea of Words
21. Bejn Haltejn
22. 3.mt
23. Koraci
24. A Printed Thing
25. Hbieb tal-Qalb
26. Literature in Translation
27. 4.mt
28. Trag 33
29. Avangrad
30. Arja Friska
31. EU Prize for Literature
32. Il-Malti
33. Flash Fiction International

SCREENPLAYS
01. Rih Isfel

Published by Merlin Library, Stejjer mill-Bibbja includes 64 stories meandering across 478 pages interwoven with hundreds of intricately detailed pictures. The book was published to wide acclaim by both critics and readers. In the Maltese-language book market, Stejjer mill-Bibbja has since publication been constantly in the bestselling titles list, proving that quality Maltese writing, even in translation, is enduringly popular.

Review by Tanja Cilia for The Times of Malta:

Huddled together are the heads of two children - one who cannot yet read, and one who would not read for toffee (or any other bribe).

Open on the table between them is Stejjer Mill-Bibbja, well deserving of the title The Greatest Story Ever Told. This, alone, would have been enough to make parents of reluctant readers hare off to purchase this book but there's much more to it.

The book is Pierre J. Mejlak's brilliant adaptation of the English one by Pat Alexander - and, I must say, infinitely more useful to all of us in its Maltese version.

The full-colour illustrations are by Leon Baxter, and, being in a cartoon-y style, marry well with the text. This is in vivid, cursive Maltese, peppered with idioms and alive with the spoken word wherever possible... perhaps to make sure that parents, teachers, and religious doctrine instructors can go to town with the recitations...

Children will delight in mimicking the crabs, freshly out of Noah's Ark, wetting their claws in the "big water".

They will halt at the edge of the Jordan with the Israelites carrying the Ark of the Covenant.

Their imagination will run amok at being told of the spontaneous street party which just happened when the Chosen People were going to flee Egypt, and the chances are that they will run about the room, shouting with glee, imitating the Jews... just as later. They will pester their parents for a Coat of Many Colours.

They will plead to Yahweh with Anna for her to conceive... and try to copy the faces of David's sheep, while marvelling at the size of the grapes Joshua and Caleb brought back from The Land of Giants.

They will boo the believers of Baal when he (it?) fails to provide solace or food.

This, of course, will prepare them for what happens in the New Testament - where the Apostles, inevitably, wear different versions of Jesus's sandals, Judas pespes, pespes, pespes with the Sanhedrin to plot against Jesus, and Paul is helped ashore where il-gzira kien jisimha Malta!

The cover of this hardback book, beautifully bound with 64 stories meandering across 478 pages interwoven with hundreds of intricately detailed pictures, features Jesus walking along a meadow surrounded by happy children.

The text is just the right size for children - and so is the size of the book, being slightly larger than pocket size but not unwieldy for little hands to hold (this makes it also easy for adults to hold with one hand while inevitably gesturing with the other as they stand up and walk around the room), grimacing, smiling, and play-acting.

Some of the pages contain footnotes to explain terms, with which young readers may not be familiar, or to give references to other pages, or to explain who certain characters are.

Another good idea is the list of characters appearing in the book, and the first time they are mentioned, and yet another list giving quotations from the Bible and where they appear.

If you only buy one book this year... make sure this is it.