“Um Dio, um Rio”, illustrated by Brazilian artist André Neves, is a story with a strong ecological message, but the author deliberately drifts away from realism into a haunting, surreal world to show the tragedy from the inside. The main character and narrator here is the river itself, suffocating in […]
2015
Alice Through the Looking-Glass
The nineteenth book in the Robert Ingpen Illustrated Classics series is Alice Through the Looking-Glass, with illustrations that the artist created on the eve of the 150th anniversary of the first edition of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. Robert Ingpen is the only Australian illustrator to receive the highest award in […]
A River
In Marc Martin’s book, the power of children’s imagination transforms an ordinary river into an endless journey: cities, jungles, sunlit fields, forests with deer, and the ocean. The girl floats along the river in a small boat, and on each spread a new landscape unfolds before her. Martin uses collage, […]
Thumbelina
Original title: Дюймовочка The book includes the most beautiful and romantic fairy tales of H. C. Andersen: “Thumbelina” and “Wild Swans”. Illustrations for the fairy tales were created by the modern artist Nadezhda Illarionova. She is a versatile and passionate creative person: an artist, graphic artist, illustrator and designer. A […]
I was a deer
“I Was a Deer” by Ahmad Akbarpur is about a deer that has been severely injured. The deer knows that it must flee from the royal hunters. Narges Mohammadi studied graphic design in Tehran and now lives there. Her works have been repeatedly selected for important international exhibitions: in Bologna, […]