Ludwig Folbeda is a young Dutch artist, and “De Vogels” (“The Birds”), made in collaboration with the Hague Municipal Museum, is his first children’s book. Ludwig lives in Amsterdam, draws strips, makes illustrations for books, magazines and music albums and loves working in sketchbooks, where he creates entire micro-universes from […]
2016
Mermaid Tales
Original title: Rusaloch’i skazki The collection of fairy tales written by the young Alexey Tolstoy in the 1910s based on Slavic folklore is not particularly well known: it is perhaps a bit scary for children, and adults have not long ago made it a rule to read all sorts of […]
Der Fluss
The river can symbolize the flow of life: at first clear and untouched, gradually filling with new colors, events, and encounters. In Michael Roher’s book, the reader follows the river, drifting alongside the red-haired girl who is the main character. As she journeys, the girl grows up, falls in love, […]
History of the old apartment
Original title: Istoriya staroy kvartiry A large-scale, bright work by artist Anya Desnitskaya and writer Alexandra Litvina, “The History of an Old Apartment,” reveals the history of everyday life in the Soviet and, to some extent, pre-revolutionary periods. The reader is presented with a panorama of events in a large […]