Best illustrated books all over the world
The most precious things can fall and break, but they can be fixed. Just like people. Kintsugi is the Japanese art of restoring broken ceramics by joining the pieces together with a mixture of resin and precious metals. This creates a new, unique and unrepeatable object, whose cracks tell a […]
This beautifully illustrated book poetically depicts how forest trees share their food, band together to protect each other, and care for their weakest members; they learned a precious life lesson long ago. This book recounts this ancient wisdom in verse, inviting us to immerse ourselves in the generosity of the […]
1911: The Triangle Waist Company occupies the top three floors of the Asch Building in New York City. The company makes blouses and employs about 500 workers, mostly young immigrant women. On March 25, a fire breaks out. The factory owners flee, leaving the trapped men and women to die. […]
Art is like plasticine — in human hands, it takes whatever form they choose. It is a powerful tool, that is capable of changing people’s opinions, becoming both a means of protest and a call to action. In “Art is a Voice”, Kripa shows that art can not only tell […]
Cocorico, kokokeko, cock-a-doodle-do? What does a rooster crow in your language? Cockerels sound the same everywhere in the world. Yet its onomatopoeia varies from one country to the next. Join us on a cultural trip around the world! Each cockerel is surrounded by emblematic cultural symbols of its country. From […]
House of Wisdom is an illustrated narrative about the history of the House of Wisdom, or Grand Library of Baghdad, which was established during the Islamic Golden Age. It covers the institution’s lasting impact on the world of knowledge before its destruction by the Mongol leader Hulagu Khan in 1258 […]