Best illustrated books all over the world
In the life of the little girl Alma, there is no strict line drawn between reality and imagination, as is the case with many children. Therefore, when she spends her summer in the countryside, next to a small village cemetery, where funerals are held every now and then, it is […]
Some books don’t give answers – instead, they offer endless questions, like a corridor of doors leading to the unknown. The Book of Questions, the last great work of Chilean poet and Nobel laureate Pablo Neruda, was written just a few months before his death in 1973. It is full […]
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 […]
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 Moscow apartment from 1902 to […]
“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, […]