Original title: Чудесная жемчужина Collection of Vietnamese fairy tales
Wonderful Pearl
An Edward Lear Alphabet
An Edward Lear Alphabet is Vladimir Radunsky’s take on the classic nonsense verse of Edward Lear. In this book Radunsky pairs Lear’s playful, often absurd rhymes with his own bold, witty illustrations. Each letter of the alphabet is accompanied by a short Lear poem, full of odd characters, strange animals, […]
Fables
Fables is a 1980 picture book written and illustrated by Arnold Lobel. The book contains twenty original fables featuring all kinds of animal characters, from crocodiles and ostriches to pigs, camels, and owls. In 1981 it received the Caldecott Medal for illustration. Each fable takes up a single page and […]
Arnold Lobel
Arnold Lobel (1933–1987) was an American author and illustrator of children’s books. Arnold Stark Lobel was born in Los Angeles and grew up in Schenectady, New York. As a child he spent countless hours in the local public library, studying picture books and illustrations. In second grade he became seriously […]
Red Army Parade
Red Army Parade is a wordless picture book. It is colorful and festive, filled with light, mostly line-based illustrations that feel highly dynamic and rhythmic. Deyneka drew with colored strokes — red and gray, black and yellow — freely moving away from naturalistic color and often abandoning conventional perspective. Cavalry […]
Electrician
Aleksandr Deyneka’s festive colors could also give way, even in children’s books, to the severity of everyday labor. What gives these books their energy is Deyneka’s admiration for difficult physical work. It is no coincidence that the hero of two of his books from 1930 became the electrician: a figure […]
In the Clouds
Alexander Deyneka’s In the Clouds was first published in 1930 and later reissued several times. Dedicated entirely to aviation, the book presents readers with a kind of visual catalogue of flying machines and aeronautical equipment, from parachutes to military aircraft. There is almost no text apart from short captions such […]
Aleksandr Deyneka
Aleksandr Deyneka (1899–1969) was a Russian painter, muralist, graphic artist, and teacher. He was born in Kursk into the family of a railway worker. In 1917 he graduated from the Kharkiv Art School; afterwards he designed theatrical productions, propaganda trains, and worked as a photographer. From 1919 to 1920 he […]
The Tale of the Golden Cockerel
The Tale of the Golden Cockerel illustrated by Vladimir Konashevich was published in 1949 and became one of the artist’s most celebrated interpretations of Alexander Pushkin’s fairy tales. Pushkin’s poem constantly shifts between satire, fantasy, and theatrical spectacle, and Konashevich follows this rhythm with remarkable ease. His illustrations balance elegance […]
Vladimir Konashevich
Vladimir Mikhailovich Konashevich (1888–1963) was a Russian artist and illustrator. Vladimir Konashevich was born in Novocherkassk; soon after his birth, the family moved to Moscow, and later, in 1897, when his father, a bank employee, quarreled with his superiors, they moved again, this time to Chernihiv. There Vladimir graduated from […]
Anton Pieck
Anton Franciscus Pieck (1895–1987) was a Dutch painter, graphic artist, and illustrator, best known for his nostalgic, highly detailed depictions of old-world life. He was born in Den Helder, the Netherlands, and showed artistic talent from an early age; at 11 years old, he won his first prize for a […]
Mr Chicken Lands on London
The book follows Mr Chicken, an oversized, curious traveler, as he visits London. Moving through well-known landmarks such as Buckingham Palace, the Tower of London, and the London Underground, he explores the city with a mix of enthusiasm and confusion, often misunderstanding what he sees. Hobbs’s illustrations, rendered in his […]
Leigh Hobbs
Leigh Hobbs (1953) is an Australian children’s author and illustrator, widely known for his distinctive, loose drawing style and offbeat, humorous characters. He has written and illustrated more than twenty books, including the popular series Old Tom, Horrible Harriet, and Mr Chicken Goes to Paris. The Old Tom books were […]
Good Griselle
“Good Griselle” is a children’s picture book illustrated by David Christiana, based on the traditional folktale also known as Patient Griselda, which appears in various European literary traditions, including versions by Giovanni Boccaccio and Geoffrey Chaucer. The book retells the story of Griselle, a young woman whose patience and loyalty […]
David Christiana
David Christiana (b. 1960) is an American illustrator, writer, and educator known primarily for his work in children’s book illustration. He has illustrated more than twenty children’s books, and has also written four books of his own. His illustration work spans picture books and literary adaptations, often characterized by detailed […]
Animals of the Bible
“Animals of the Bible” is a children’s book written by Helen Dean Fish and illustrated by Dorothy Pulis Lathrop. It was first published in 1937 in the United States. The book presents a selection of passages from the Bible in which animals appear, accompanied by Lathrop’s black-and-white illustrations. Rather than […]
Dorothy Lathrop
Dorothy Pulis Lathrop (1891–1980) was an American author and illustrator of children’s books, known for her delicate, detailed drawings and her deep interest in nature and animals. She was born in Albany, New York. Lathrop began her professional career as an illustrator in 1919 with The Three Mulla-Mulgars by Walter […]
Antoni Boratyński
Antoni Boratyński (1930–2015) was a Polish graphic artist and book illustrator, known for his expressive, often dramatic style in children’s and young adult literature. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw and later continued his education in Budapest. Over the course of his career, Boratyński collaborated with […]
De geschiedenis van een muis
“De geschiedenis van een muis” (The Story of a Mouse) is a work by Wilhelm Busch, originally created in German under the title Die Geschichte einer Maus. It belongs to Busch’s characteristic genre of illustrated stories in verse, where short rhymed texts are closely paired with sequential drawings. The story […]
Wilhelm Busch
Heinrich Christian Wilhelm Busch (1832–1908) was a German humorist, poet, draftsman, and caricaturist, widely regarded as one of the pioneers of the comic strip thanks to his satirical picture stories that combine text and sequential images. He was born in the village of Wiedensahl and initially studied mechanical engineering before […]