tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36658484752295546382024-02-07T20:31:52.273+11:00The Tea BoxLike any nice tea box, books too have their own aroma, taste and atmosphere. My selection of children's books from all over the world: up to you to pick your favourite colour!Cristiana C.http://www.blogger.com/profile/10255658549268241803noreply@blogger.comBlogger78125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3665848475229554638.post-12274553748736932682011-06-19T00:08:00.002+11:002011-09-15T08:16:44.813+11:00Ana Juan<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 25px;"><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-GB">I’ve been admiring </span></span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 25px;"><a href="http://www.anajuan.net/"><span style="color: #2d8930;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-GB">Ana Juan</span></span></span></span></span></a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 25px;"><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-GB">’s work for a while now, most of all when she gets rid of colour and gives way to black and white shades, when the colour is just marginal and, because of that, vibrant. I love her light strokes, the fineness of her lines, the dark and explosive power of her images revealing hidden anxieties</span></span></span></span></span>.<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 25px;"><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-GB">Above the video of </span></span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 25px;"><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>Circus</i></span></span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 25px;"><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-GB">, published in Italy by </span></span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 25px;"><a href="http://www.logosedizioni.it/"><span style="color: #2d8930;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-GB">Logos</span></span></span></span></span></a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 25px;"><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-GB">, below the video for </span></span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 25px;"><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-GB"><i>Snowhite Secret Box</i></span></span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 25px;"><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-GB">, published by No Time Limited Editions</span></span></span></span></span>.<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 25px;">I hope you’ll enjoy them</span>.Cristiana C.http://www.blogger.com/profile/10255658549268241803noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3665848475229554638.post-45351981308585705782011-06-04T18:17:00.001+11:002011-06-04T18:30:49.791+11:00Dans la Forêt du Paresseux - VideoHello everybody!<br />
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I'm sorry for this long silence, although unintentional, I shall soon be back with many news.<br />
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Meanwhile, for those who haven't seen it yet, let me signal this beautiful book-video by Hélium Publisher, from the book titled <i>Dans la Forêt du Paresseux</i> (the book was introduced by the publisher in <a href="http://nouvelles-des-livres-helium.blogspot.com/2011/03/dans-la-foret-du-paresseux.html">this</a> nice post):<br />
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The book has recently been published by the Brazilian <a href="http://editora.cosacnaify.com.br/Default/1/Cosac-Naify.aspx">Cosac Naify</a>.<br />
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HAVE A NICE WEEKEND!Cristiana C.http://www.blogger.com/profile/10255658549268241803noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3665848475229554638.post-3742756634312665762011-05-19T21:02:00.040+11:002011-05-21T06:59:01.885+11:00The Versatile Blogger Award<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAsqJeF9Ti025zUQH-3SWpgaupyEfQ34LtpT4IcRojMX_tJAOJF1ZxRAb6H1tCiECPMpoP5oY8D8EgPx5bA73T8O-oXTCL2JSucn91tG132dqJw7wEYmIoX94Ui1k6jkBBNTDB41JsL7E/s1600/versatile_blog_award.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAsqJeF9Ti025zUQH-3SWpgaupyEfQ34LtpT4IcRojMX_tJAOJF1ZxRAb6H1tCiECPMpoP5oY8D8EgPx5bA73T8O-oXTCL2JSucn91tG132dqJw7wEYmIoX94Ui1k6jkBBNTDB41JsL7E/s1600/versatile_blog_award.jpg" /></a><span style="font-size: small;"></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;">I was really flattered when I received an e-mail from Zoe, at </span><a href="http://www.playingbythebook.net/"><span style="font-size: large;">Playing by the Book Blog</span></a><span style="font-size: small;">, informing me that she had selected my blog for The Versatile Blogger Award.</span><span style="font-size: large;"> THANK YOU ZOE!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The <u>Rules of the Award</u> are:</div><ul><li>Thank the person who gave you the award.</li>
<li>Tell us seven things about yourself.</li>
<li>Award fifteen recently discovered bloggers.</li>
<li>Contact the blogs to let them know they received the award.</li>
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Here are seven things about me:<br />
<ol><li>I'm sure you would never guess this one: my house is crowded with tea boxes, mugs, cups and tea pots! Aha! Though I do have quite a number of pebbles of all sorts: brown ones, reddish ones, and pink, green, grey, black, with patterns... but I have as well eggs of any kind, pieces of bark, funny little puppets I have found during my traveling, lots of greens, and two cats: Pukka and Minnie;</li>
<li>I love photography and I have established very strict rules for my own photographs: no digital, no reflex, only mechanical cameras and only BW pictures! Snobbish? Maybe but it makes me feel great to be able to choose all details while I take my pictures;</li>
<li>I used to play the flute... good thing I've stopped, but I still cannot live without music;</li>
<li>when I was a kid I was convinced I would die of consumption like Mimì, in Puccini's opera! Quite dramatic, yes! Though my favourite opera character is Tosca, still Puccini's.</li>
<li>I'm specialized in History of Theatre, together with English and French literature;</li>
<li>when I have time I making my own little books out of pictures and/or materials I collect when I walk around, be it in the countryside or at the sea;</li>
<li>after I started blogging, and getting some recognition here and there, my dad decided he wanted to have a T-shirt bearing the following sentence: "I'm the father of the genius!" with my picture at the bottom of it... Just in case I thought of taking myself too seriously!</li>
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And now, my personal selection of blogs, I have chosen them picking amid children's books authors, art and design experts and children's book experts. They are sorted in alphabetical order.<br />
<ol><li><a href="http://50watts.com/">50 Watts</a>;</li>
<li><a href="http://blog.schoollibraryjournal.com/afuse8production">A Fuse#8 production</a>;</li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><a href="http://theanimalarium.blogspot.com/">Animalarium</a>;</span></span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><a href="http://bisforbooks.ca/">B is for Books</a>;</span></span></li>
<li><a href="http://bibliodyssey.blogspot.com/">Bibliodissey</a>;</li>
<li><a href="http://www.book-by-its-cover.com/">Book by its cover</a>;</li>
<li><a href="http://camillaengman.blogspot.com/">Camilla Engman's Blog</a>;</li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><a href="http://dibuixamunconte.blogspot.com/">Ilustroskop</a>;</span></span></li>
<li><a href="http://joannaconcejo.blogspot.com/">Joanna Concejo's Blog</a>;</li>
<li><a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_1817864352">M</a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><a href="http://www.apple-egg.co.uk/journal/">ain Section</a>;</span></span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><a href="http://missedconnectionsny.blogspot.com/">Missed Connections</a>;</span></span></li>
<li><a href="http://blaine.org/sevenimpossiblethings/">Seven impossible things before breakfast</a>;</li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><a href="http://missrumphiuseffect.blogspot.com/">The Miss Rumphius Effect</a>; </span></span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><a href="http://www.vintagechildrensbooksmykidloves.com/">Vintage Books my kids loves</a>;</span></span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><a href="http://wetoowerechildren.blogspot.com/">We too were children Mr Barrie</a></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;">.</span></span></li>
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I hope you'll enjoy them as much as I do!Cristiana C.http://www.blogger.com/profile/10255658549268241803noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3665848475229554638.post-61699212801697445212011-05-19T07:10:00.001+11:002011-05-19T18:03:11.484+11:00Interview with Maurizio Quarello - (not exactly) Walking in Macerata<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZF7kaHuRUkkIqLHpoXIv1oVBWU2ga4fPIkC_UOncB67qnQ_SkkqbwDtYQhefxWIgDqrrFa4f27cp0IvBBNpCuViCkkjjJc3Vc7Oa8Ep1UR91zXyIClCL2nBuWYjPpmM3n2Mkm7VRldWBa/s1600/foto-Quarello-b_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="241" s5="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZF7kaHuRUkkIqLHpoXIv1oVBWU2ga4fPIkC_UOncB67qnQ_SkkqbwDtYQhefxWIgDqrrFa4f27cp0IvBBNpCuViCkkjjJc3Vc7Oa8Ep1UR91zXyIClCL2nBuWYjPpmM3n2Mkm7VRldWBa/s320/foto-Quarello-b_n.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div>I've already told you about <a href="http://quarello.com/home.html">Maurizio Quarello</a>'s books <a href="http://teaboxscent.blogspot.com/2010/02/l-di-anna-orecchio-acerbo.html">here</a> and <a href="http://teaboxscent.blogspot.com/2011/01/barbe-bleue-di-maurizio-quarello.html">here</a>, therefore you know I'm keen on his art.... though this was a special occasion for me: I got to interview him!<br />
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You can read the full lenghth interview at 7Imp, exactly <a href="http://blaine.org/sevenimpossiblethings/?p=2137">here</a>.<br />
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Here below a little sneak peak into his art...<br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><em><span style="font-size: x-small;">Sketches for Barbe Bleue</span></em></div><br />
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<em><span style="font-size: x-small;">Les Arbres Pleurent Aussi, Ed. Rouergue</span></em></div><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><em><span style="font-size: x-small;">Barbe Bleue, Copyright Milan Presse</span></em></div><br />
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</div>A big thank you goes to the publishers: <a href="http://www.milanpresse.com/">Milan Presse</a>, <a href="http://www.lerouergue.com/">Editions du Rouergue</a> e <a href="http://www.orecchioacerbo.com/">Orecchio Acerbo</a>. To <a href="http://www.quarello.com/">Maurizio Quarello</a> a thank you for his kindness and availability.<br />
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<div style="text-align: left;">Image Copyright© as per indication on the same. Images have been reproduced with the permission of publishers, all reproduction being strictly forbidden.</div>Cristiana C.http://www.blogger.com/profile/10255658549268241803noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3665848475229554638.post-8550003527943142832011-05-15T22:56:00.077+11:002011-09-19T19:55:46.481+11:00L'Isola di Fuoco di Emilio Salgari<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTjpnxIgXvti6qkk_xHKMa4JYj6_7Vk0OjHt0X9gQBUycO4KkQsSgReryBkbkaFnlt2fZLcDqUTyoZu5KJCsDO9vQJpzNqUANvI9i7tdy4j-yPXhWLsiWsLGWYRnPC85clivn02-nfT3i9/s1600/Cover+Isola.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTjpnxIgXvti6qkk_xHKMa4JYj6_7Vk0OjHt0X9gQBUycO4KkQsSgReryBkbkaFnlt2fZLcDqUTyoZu5KJCsDO9vQJpzNqUANvI9i7tdy4j-yPXhWLsiWsLGWYRnPC85clivn02-nfT3i9/s320/Cover+Isola.jpg" width="233" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="color: #333333; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><b>L'Isola di Fuoco</b></i></span></span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-size: small;"> by Emilio Salgari, illustrated by Luca Caimmi, Orecchio Acerbo Editore, April 2011</span></span></span></div><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 25px;"><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">Last April 25th was the 100th anniversary of Emilio Salgari’s death. Salgari claims fatherhood for many heroes that, during the decades, have populated the dreams of adults and children. Often downgraded to minor writer, because he was considered </span></span></span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><i>popular</i></span></span></span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"> when not </span></span></span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><i>children’s book writer</i></span></span></span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">, with all the negative meaning those terms had, his work is for sure at the level of many other acclaimed adventure book writers. His books were, and still are, amid the more translated in the world, his most famous characters: from Sandokan to the Black Corsair, from Yanez to the charming Pearl of Labuan, just to mention some amid the ones from his most famous novels</span></span></span></span>.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 25px;"><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">His production was wide and varied, in fact he wrote over 85 novels and an impressive number of tales, about 160, published both under his name or under different pen names heralding exotic adventures, such as Captain Guido Altieri, or Romero S.. For more in-depth on his production, if reading Italian, please visit </span></span></span></span><span style="color: #2d8930;"><span lang="zxx"><a class="western" href="http://www.cartesio-episteme.net/salgari.pdf"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">this</span></span></a></span></span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"> page</span></span></span></span></span>.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 6px;"><span style="color: #232020;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">As Mario Tropea explains, in </span></span></span><span style="color: #2d8930;"><span lang="zxx"><a class="western" href="http://www.editorialeagora.it/rw/articoli/71.pdf"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">this</span></span></a></span></span><span style="color: #232020;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> beautiful article I warmly recommend you to read (sorry but again </span></span></span></span><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 6px;"><span style="color: #232020;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">only </span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 6px;"><span style="color: #232020;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">for Italian readers): ".</span></span></span><span style="color: #232020;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>.. si può dire che le ragioni dell’interesse all’opera di Salgari derivano da </i></span></span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 6px;"><span style="color: #232020;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>quella </i></span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 6px;"><span style="color: #232020;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>sua capacità di interpretare, a livello diretto e aideologico, da scrittore di razza e </i></span></span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 6px;"><span style="color: #232020;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>istintivo,</i></span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 6px;"><span style="color: #232020;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>elementare”, appunto, e tanto più convincentemente per questo, tendenze e miti della realtà </i></span></span></span></span></div><div style="color: #232020; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 9.6px/normal Times; margin: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 6px;"><span style="color: #232020;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><br />
</i></span></span></span></span></div><div style="color: #232020; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 9.6px/normal Times; margin: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 6px;"><span style="color: #232020;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>dell’Ottocento, come l’esotismo, il sogno di conquista e di movimento, la diffusione mondiale, </i></span></span></span></span></div><div style="color: #232020; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 9.6px/normal Times; margin: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 6px;"><span style="color: #232020;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><br />
</i></span></span></span></span></div><div style="color: #232020; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 9.6px/normal Times; margin: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 6px;"><span style="color: #232020;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>l'appropriazione planetaria, la espansione del progresso (la rapina anche, e la prevaricazione) ad </i></span></span></span></span></div><div style="color: #232020; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 9.6px/normal Times; margin: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 6px;"><span style="color: #232020;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>opera </i></span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 6px;"><span style="color: #232020;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>dell’uomo occidentale nei confronti dell’intero globo. ..."</i></span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><i>*</i></span></div><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 25px;"><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">And nonetheless, as Tropea reminds in the above mentioned article, Salgari is often inspired by news items, as it was the case with the island off the coast of Sicily, in the waters between Sciacca and Pantelleria, to whom <span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><i>L'Isola di Fuoco</i></span></span></span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"> is inspired: it seems </span></span></span>that, since the night of times, said island used to appear to then sink in a din of lapillus and ashes, and that it definitely disappeared in 1832</span></span></span></span>.<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 25px;"><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><i>L'Isola di Fuoco</i></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"> isn’t amid Salgari’s best known tales, and nonetheless publisher </span></span></span></span><span style="color: #2d8930;"><span lang="zxx"><a class="western" href="http://www.orecchioacerbo.com/"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Orecchio Acerbo</span></span></a></span></span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"> selected it to celebrate the most productive, and more berated, writer of the 19</span></span></span></span><span style="color: #333333;"><sup><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">th</span></span></span></sup></span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"> century. This is no obvious choice, on the contrary, and to be honest it’s exactly what I expected from them, if ever, it’s an emblematic choice, assuming a highly symbolic meaning thanks to the interpretation illustrator and publisher together decided to give this story</span></span></span></span></span>. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 25px;">The tale written by Salgari is set in the waters of the Pacific Ocean and it tells, as I was saying above, of a boat that, almost at destination, bumps into a strange phenomenon: an island that sinks in a fire thunder. When the story starts the journey is almost over, it’s a dazzling story, extremely short, narrated in first person by a seaman who embarked to join New Zeland</span>.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 25px;"><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-GB">He’ll be the first person to spot the fire at a distance and to alert Mr Watt, the ship’s captain. Up to that moment, writing and image narration proceed at the same rate. Though, starting with the 5</span></span></span><span style="color: #333333;"><sup><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-GB">th</span></span></sup></span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-GB"> table, we start to understand that something is wrong. In the map Captain Watt is examining, we realize we're not looking at the Pacific Ocean, at its place we see the Gulf of Mexico: a sombre spot, marked with a red cross, stains the map. From this moment on, the mystery is slowly revealed</span></span></span></span>.<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 25px;">We’re not looking at an island anymore but a burning oil platform</span>.<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 25px;">Waters are dangerously warming up, the boat suffers a mechanical damage and is forced to unfurl its sails hoping that the wind would finally blow. Salgari has the gift of transporting us into the stories he tells and thus, the connection between the facts he tells and the more recent ones from the Gulf of Mexico, that inspired the images, result into an even more excruciating impact</span>.<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 25px;"><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">This juxtaposition between the story written by Salgari and the recent Gulf of Mexico facts, more than being a very clever and innovative idea, results deeply respectful of the philosophy that is the grounds of Salgari’s narrative in matters of getting inspiration from current affairs, and in matters of representing technological expansionism carried out regardlessly, a trend that, as it seems, hasn’t stopped with the end of the 19</span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 25px;"><span style="color: #333333;"><sup><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">th</span></span></sup></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 25px;"><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"> century</span></span></span></span>.<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 25px;">It also has credit for actualizing the story, to bring it nearer in all its unlikeliness to a reality we know far too well, leaving intact Salgari’s taste for danger and adventure</span>.<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 25px;"><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US">I believe it was a consciously risky choice, dictated by a strong civic and environmental feeling , it’s by the way an effective way to let young people approach the consequences of what Tropea calls: "...</span></span></span><span style="color: #232020;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-US"><i>la espansione del progresso (la rapina anche, e la prevaricazione) ad opera dell’uomo occidentale...</i></span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #232020;"><i>"*</i></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 25px;">Caimmi’s wonderful watercolours fill the pages with vigour and awareness. The wave that slowly takes shape and then almost entirely floods the page, premonition of imminent disasters, seems to obscure every surface: sky, sea, ship, men reduced to mere shadows melting in the light of the fire. But the morning comes, the island has disappeared in the depths of the ocean, and the fire is all over</span>...<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 25px;">Everything seems to gain back its original shape, its consistency, the night in its sinisterly sparked mantle leaves place to reality with all its tragic truth</span>.<br />
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</span></span>“...</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #241e20; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px;"><i>Una fortuna da raccogliere, e gli isolani non si lasceranno certo scappare una così bella occasione!” ***</i></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 25px;">even bitter when the fortune they can get is a staining and suffocating oil spot. In the text Salgari refers to the fish that died because of the heat of the waters as a consequence of the island burning, while in the images Caimmi has painted make us think of a sad, though concrete, paradox: the black gold, source of wars, of political and economical strategies, gets out of control and invades nature, dragging away precious balances, while common men are left with a desperate and meticulous <em>fishing</em> in the effort to reduce damages as much as possible</span>.<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 25px;">The picture book ends with this wonderful image, no words are needed to describe such a scene</span>:<br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="http://www.lucacaimmi.net/">Luca Caimmi</a>, <span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 25px;"><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span lang="en-US">is al illustrator from Marche, he has received several recognitions amid which the Prize titled to</span></span></span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i> Andrea Pazienza</i></span></span></span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span lang="en-US">, he was selected as well at the Bologna Book Fair in 1998 and 1999. He has published several titles amid which, </span></span></span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i><b>La Nave </b></i></span></span></span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span lang="en-US">by</span></span></span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span lang="en-US"> Antonio Koch, in 2009 with Topipittori and, in 2010, he took part to the collective exhibit titled </span></span></span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i><b>Banchi di Nebbia</b></i></span></span></span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span lang="en-US">, Orecchio Acerbo has published the catalogue. Here is his blog</span></span></span></span>: http://lucacaimmi.blogspot.com/ </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">* Mario Tropea, <i>Emilio Salgari, un "classico" della letteratura italiana</i>, Agorà VII (a. II, Ottobre-Dicembre 2001)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="color: #232020;"><span lang="en-US"><i>"... we can as well affirm that the reasons of the interest in Salgari’s works derives from that ability of his to interpret, at a direct and aideological level - as the pedigreed and instinctive author he was, “elementary”, exactly, and far more convincing for this - the tendencies and myths of reality in the 1800, as exoticism, or the dream of conquest and motion, worldwide diffusion, planetary appropriation, the expansion of progress (its robbery as well, and prevarication) that western men imposed on the rest of the world. ..."</i></span></span></span></div><div style="line-height: 0.68cm; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #232020; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><i><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="color: #232020;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><div lang="en-US" style="line-height: 0.68cm; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="color: #333333;">*** </span><span style="color: #241e20;">“... </span><span style="color: #241e20;"><span lang="en-US"><i>A fortune to harvest, the people from the islands won't certainly miss such a good occasion</i></span></span><span style="color: #241e20;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="en-US"><i>!"</i></span></span></span></span></div></i></span></span></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">Hello everybody ! </span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">Today I shall tell you about a beautiful picture book for younger children even if, if I think of it better, it’s a book for all ages. It’s one of <a href="http://www.editionsnotari.ch/">Notari</a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">'s</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px;">last publications, </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px;">I discovered it during the Bologna Book fair and that I am now happy to share with you</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px;">. Notari is</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"> a small and eclectic publishing house from Switzerland that is run by the nice couple Luca and Paola Notari (of course)</span>.<br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">For a start I would like to talk a bit about the author of this book: Madalena Matoso. Illustrator and author, Matoso is one of the founders of <a href="http://www.planetatangerina.com/publico/index.html">Planeta Tangerina</a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">, an interesting publishing atelier that has produced several picture books of great interest, suffice it to take a look at their catalogue to realize it. Madalena Matoso’s books are not new in Italy, in fact with Topipittori publishing she has two titles: <a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_1514564119">Quanti Siamo in Casa</a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"> and <a href="http://www.topipittori.it/it/catalogo/quando-sono-nato">Quando Sono Nato</a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">, that have been published as well in French by Notari under the titles <a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_1514564136">Chez Moi Nous Sommes</a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"> and <a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_1514564145">Quand je suis né</a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">, together with <a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_1514564153">Se Balader</a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">. Only one title has been translated and published, this year, in English: <a href="http://www.tate.org.uk/shop/do/Books/When-I-Was-Born/product/45553">When I was Born</a>, published by <a href="http://www.tate.org.uk/publishing/books.shtm">Tate Publishing</a>. Matoso has received several recognitions amid which the <a href="http://www.cjbook.org/">CJ Picture Book Award</a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">, furthermore in 2008 she was selected for the <a href="http://www.sarmedemostra.it/ita/28ed/illustratori.html">28th Edition of the Exhibit "Le Immagini della Fantasia" in Sarmede</a></span>.<br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">But let’s talk about <b><i>Et Pourquoi Pas Toi?</i></b> </span>!<br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">The book is wordless, its structure very simple and clever</span>:<br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">as you can see, despite the imperfection of my picture, the book has a cut at the middle of the pages, separating the tables in two mobile straps, images are consequently modular. Translation in images of the surrealist idea of the</span> <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cadavre_exquis">cadavre exquis</a> </i>(or exquisite corpse), <span lang="EN-US" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">of which another beautiful example is the </span><a href="http://www.ricochet-jeunes.org/critiques/livre/37575-bestiaire-universel-du-professeur-revillo">Bestiaire Universel du Professeur Revillod</a>, <span lang="EN-US" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">this book plays with image narration, though it maintains shapes and colours apt for a younger audience: clear cut images, on a white background, geometrical shapes, basic colours, image composition isn’t very complex though detailed; characters, outlined in a simple way, correspond to reassuring logics and are easily read</span>.<br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">In order to obtain a functional mechanism, on the left hand side all characters are dressed in red, while on the right they are dressed in blue, here below are a couple of examples</span>:<br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">Not only: image composition has been studied so as to give continuity to the upper and lower parts of the pages therefore, thanks to the use of simple geometric shapes, any combination you choose, page-cuts always correspond to a finished and following image, that sometimes leads to magic implications</span>...<br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">The declared topic of this book is beautiful and important: it <i>tells</i> of equality between men and women. In theory it’s a very complex topic to deal with though, thanks to the mechanism of mobile straps, all difficulties seem to disappear, there’s no need for words to explain, you just need to turn the page, the meaning is intuitive and immediate. This is how we end up meeting men and women doing the most varied jobs: women scientists, farmers, magicians or rock stars (see above), and men doing baby-sitting or just taking care of their sick kids, or primary school teachers</span>...<br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">Exactly because of the wide range of possible combinations, there are no age, nor sex limits. More: to a closer analysis the message goes far beyond equality between men and women, as in this gorgeous book there are no ethnical limitations: be you white, black, yellow or blue, you can do all you want. It’s the representation of an ideal world where I would want to live as well</span>.<br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">Created in collaboration with the <i>Department for Social Cohesion, Youth and Sports</i> of the town of Geneva, this book is an important tool for modern children from any nation: the idea of equality amid sexes and races is never learned soon enough, especially when society is subject to quick and important changes, like nowadays, especially when integration is a daily, urgent, issue. Maybe, with a book like this, children (or future adults) will learn not to look their neighbour with suspicion, and they will be able to give course to new perspectives for everyone</span>.<br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">Shortly: an international book for modern children! What else could you wish for</span>?<br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">I can already hear them: "is this a job for girls</span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">how about this one</span>?<br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">P.S. I received the book from the Publishers upon selection at the Book Fair in Bologna, I thank them for their kindness and precious collaboration</span>.<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #272727; font-family: Arial, Helvetica; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 12px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; border-collapse: separate; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">Copyright© text and images, Ed. Notari 2011. Images have been reproduced with the publisher’s permission, all unauthorized reproduction is strictly forbidden.</span></span></span></span>Cristiana C.http://www.blogger.com/profile/10255658549268241803noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3665848475229554638.post-15425822577845490582011-04-18T22:40:00.010+11:002011-09-13T21:28:17.269+11:00Favole di Esopo - Topipittori<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikmzLaoPj7RhxB-181zo-cwk0KYqVn7KswMDjvH5kvdX_WoSmy_h0DtpAcgd3IfLzV1D_FWrMof_A0bWbUHwrOsdnzV66etx5qPB1kxI7hDlgipiidHvxo7U-lQ78x009scfdXHHedPIH6/s1600/Esopo.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikmzLaoPj7RhxB-181zo-cwk0KYqVn7KswMDjvH5kvdX_WoSmy_h0DtpAcgd3IfLzV1D_FWrMof_A0bWbUHwrOsdnzV66etx5qPB1kxI7hDlgipiidHvxo7U-lQ78x009scfdXHHedPIH6/s320/Esopo.png" width="232" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><strong><em>Fables </em></strong>by Aesop, illustrations by Simone Rea, translation by Bianca Mariano*, <a href="http://www.topipittori.it/"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Georgia Serif","serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="color: #2d8930;">Topipittori Editore</span></span></a><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Georgia Serif","serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">, March 2011<o:p></o:p></span></div><br />
<span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Georgia Serif","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: AR-SA;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: AR-SA;">I had been waiting for the publication of this book for about a year, I had fallen in love with<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Simone Rea's artwork at first glance and since then, at regular intervals, I asked Giovanna and Paolo for some news about the book. I must have been a real pain in the neck</span></span>!<br />
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: AR-SA;">The book was finally published in March, right before the Bologna Children's Book Fair, and to confirm how strange life can be, a few weeks before I had personally met Simone in Rome, during a wonderful laboratory at Orecchio Acerbo Publishing house</span>.<br />
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: AR-SA;">But let's start with order, because today we're talking about what is considered the forerunner of modern fables, and this deserves at least a short introduction</span>.<br />
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: AR-SA;">During the centuries, Aesop's <em>Fables</em> have been translated several times - from Greek to Latin, to medieval versions in vulgar (<i>Isopet or Ysopet</i>) – and revisions; in some cases we could as well say they were re-written, as it was the case with </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: IT; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: AR-SA;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_de_La_Fontaine"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="color: #2d8930;">Jean de La Fontaine</span></span></a></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: AR-SA;"> who rewrote them according to the needs of his times. Also from the iconographic point of view, the <em>Fables</em> have been the source of several interpretations: from the famous New York Public Library's </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: IT; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: AR-SA;"><a href="http://exhibitions.nypl.org/treasures/items/show/148"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="color: #2d8930;">Esopo Mediceo</span></span></a></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: AR-SA;"> to the one from </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: IT; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: AR-SA;"><a href="http://www.wdl.org/en/item/28/pages.html#volume/1/page/1"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="color: #2d8930;">Augusta</span></span></a></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: AR-SA;">, dating the end of 1400, up to the very famous children's version, titled <i>Baby's Own Aesop,</i> by </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: IT; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: AR-SA;"><a href="http://mythfolklore.net/aesopica/crane/"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="color: #2d8930;">Walter Crane</span></span></a></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: AR-SA;"> dating 1887, not to forget </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: IT; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: AR-SA;"><a href="http://www.mainlesson.com/display.php?author=winter&book=aesop&story=_front&PHPSESSID=c158032df0d95a0d5edfa9fa1bc738cd"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="color: #2d8930;">Milo Winter</span></span></a></span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: AR-SA;"><span style="color: #2d8930;">'s</span></span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: AR-SA;"> and </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: IT; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: AR-SA;"><a href="http://mythfolklore.net/aesopica/vernonjones/index.htm"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="color: #2d8930;">Arthur Rackham</span></span></a></span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: AR-SA;"><span style="color: #2d8930;">'s</span></span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: AR-SA;"> dating the beginning of 1900. To end this quick excursus let me mention one last masterpiece: the interpretation </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: IT; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: AR-SA;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonio_Frasconi"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="color: #2d8930;">Antonio Frasconi</span></span></a></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: AR-SA;"> gave of the <i>Fables</i>, for those who can read Italian, Publisher Topipittori wrote </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: IT; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: AR-SA;"><a href="http://topipittori.blogspot.com/2011/04/antonio-i-perseguitati-e-le-bestie.html"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="color: #2d8930;">this</span></span></a></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: AR-SA;"> beautiful post on its blog. Several diatribes regarding <em>Fables' paternity took place</em><em><span style="font-style: normal;"> in time and space:</span></em> in fact, to its primeval nucleus several additions were made in later epochs, imitating their style, in some cases metrics as well, to the point that the identification of the original Fables became quite difficult to evince. To this purpose I suggest you to take a look at the <i>Fables </i>Pedigree you can find </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: IT; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: AR-SA;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Pedigree_of_fables_in_The_Fables_of_Æsop_(Jacobs).png"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="color: #2d8930;">here</span></span></a></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: AR-SA;"> and to read </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: IT; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: AR-SA;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aesop's_Fables"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="color: #2d8930;">this</span></span></a></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: AR-SA;"> article where their classification is thoroughly explained **</span>.<br />
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: AR-SA;">We could talk about Aesop's <i>Fables</i> for days, but let's get to our times because, as it seems, the attention towards this literature's classic hasn't decreased: as an evidence to what I'm saying, let me mention the recent version published by </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: IT; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: AR-SA;"><a href="http://www.editionsmilan-leblog.com/2011/02/23/le-bologna-ragazzi-award-decerne-aux-fables-d’esope/"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="color: #2d8930;">Milan Presse</span></span></a></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: AR-SA;"> with artwork by Jean-Francois Martin, that was awarded with the Fiction Bologna Ragazzi Award, and the beautiful version object for this post</span>.<br />
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: AR-SA;">For a start, please allow me to make a short evaluation on the <i>Fable's</i> selection the publisher made: we're talking 20 fables, for each one we have a double page spread; amid the selected <em>Fables</em> we find some famous texts, such as <i>The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse, The Cat and the Mice, The Fox and the Grapes</i>, together with less usual ones such as <i>The Donkey and the Mule</i> and <i>The Crab and its Mother</i>. A refined selection that has been clearly meditated at length</span>.<br />
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The first thing that strikes me while looking at those illustrations <span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: AR-SA;">is the use of colour: even though there is not much space left for white, Rea's tables are sober and elegant. His colours, peculiar and wisely measured, fill the glance and give us a sense of time suspension: the seraphic azures, at times clear others more material, copious or transparent reds, or the more neutral nuances to whom the illustrator gives the task to soothe the turmoil resulting from other colours. If you notice, white appears in the details: in the dolphin's dress light lace above, or in the chair in the illustration that follows, in the dresses' collars or in the t-shirt and in the frog's face from the last illustration. Another aspect that meets my taste in particular is Simone's sensibility for material, for the scratched, <em>scraped off stroke</em>, that often gives images with a modern tone an air of something more consumed, as if we were observing a film worn by the many projections, as if to underline the infinite repetition of these stories, indirect recall to the <i>Fable's</i> ancient life</span>.</div><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdjMqYgjRv5bGKrhgQfvgtCmvB0_8HKYk6G-quBGjprqmOQ0Vtj5pGKP3nPVaFHVNABbVohFLMF8U78ByXyBYWoPBUdcsTuik_SJlkSO1JfVMc7BgOZ6SFPw8AXqCxmlYrL5klhJV7IlMS/s1600/figli+scimmia.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="280" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdjMqYgjRv5bGKrhgQfvgtCmvB0_8HKYk6G-quBGjprqmOQ0Vtj5pGKP3nPVaFHVNABbVohFLMF8U78ByXyBYWoPBUdcsTuik_SJlkSO1JfVMc7BgOZ6SFPw8AXqCxmlYrL5klhJV7IlMS/s400/figli+scimmia.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: AR-SA;">The Monkeys and their Mother</span></i></div><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: IT; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: IT;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: AR-SA;">Another important aspect that needs be taken into consideration about Simone’s images is their composition. In fact, in order to maintain a sense of space and lightness, and of course to allow text inclusion, where narrating elements are composite, the heart of image narration plays all around structures that tend to agglomerate, giving to the tables background the task to soothe the scene and to create enough space to insert the text. Framings, always accurately distinct, give reading its rhythm and liveliness. I would also like to emphasize Rea’s incredible synthesis capability when narrating: even if it’s true that the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Fables</i> don’t have large texts, on the contrary most of them do have a very succinct one, it is also true that some of these stories entered popular tradition in many countries and, consequently, were enriched with a particularly important cultural and iconic inheritance. Our illustrator’s ability, to my opinion, consists in having inserted with discretion and intelligence some archaic elements re-elaborated</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: AR-SA;"> in a more topic key</span></span>.<br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhzhhd_kB8VpcLfz6x4hFhEhSViWb9IT_UEuWt20QgU8Qlink38bvsEt275fNzyCPOvgBzYNSObH2ujotCceYwPoN7RNzxxKwm6ncjq5OU7X2gdJb15V82dYb52l6KBWNSF9Lo_f4TX5ru/s1600/toro.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="280" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhzhhd_kB8VpcLfz6x4hFhEhSViWb9IT_UEuWt20QgU8Qlink38bvsEt275fNzyCPOvgBzYNSObH2ujotCceYwPoN7RNzxxKwm6ncjq5OU7X2gdJb15V82dYb52l6KBWNSF9Lo_f4TX5ru/s400/toro.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: AR-SA;">The Gnat and the Bull</span></i></div><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: IT; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: IT;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: IT; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: IT;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: AR-SA;">Let me clear this point: <em>Fables</em>, where they formed part of popular cultural patrimony, at first had a purely moral task and, only in a second moment, a pedagogical one, especially from the moment they were designated as an essential element in children’s educational equipment; in both cases the parallel between animal’s and human behaviours is perfectly clear, as much as it’s clear these behaviours were used as an example to communicate a common sense lesson. </span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: AR-SA;">While observing Rea’s tables it </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: AR-SA;">appears quite evident how his playing with some elements, as for instance clothes used to dress animals as if they were men (not a new expedient but still used with remarkable skill), or the insertion of modernity cross-references (I’m thinking for instance at the puzzles magazine you find in <i>The Monkeys and Their Mother</i> ‘s image above, but also at the digital camera in <i>The Frogs' Complaint against the Sun</i> just to name a couple), do contribute in a decisive way to the reader’s identification process and, as a result of this, to an easier assimilation of the message contained in the text. It’s curious to observe how a similar process, in specific animal’s clothing, applied by two contemporary artists, almost the same age, may generate such distinct results: if we take Martin’s <i>Fables</i> illustrated for Milan Presse, and we compare them to Rea’s, we can recognize the similarity of intents that differs in the way these are filtered by the artists both in the chromatic choice, minimal in Martin’s tables, more complex in Rea’s ones, and in the settings: decidedly more retro for the French and more contemporary for the Italian. We’re talking here two excellent interpretations, no doubt. Were I forced to find a small flaw, I would instinctively think that the amazing artworks produced by Martin might be less immediate to a younger reader, that the refinement of his tables, and their reference to artworks from the first decades of the 20th century, might risk to lose that feeling of empathy I fully find in Rea’s artworks. It’s though appropriate to remind that children aren’t a single entity and that, any single one of them perceives and filters images according to his/her own sensibility, therefore my digression right above might be completely useless: what stands out, in the end, is the amazing work they both produced</span></span></span>.<br />
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: AR-SA;">One last note goes to the book’s flyleaves: perfect anteroom for what we will find in the internal pages, inhabited by animals-children simply outlined with pastels, gently laid on the page, ready to lead us into this archetypal travel and to bring us back to where they found us, maybe slightly different</span>.<br />
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: AR-SA;">If you’re curious to know more about Simone Rea, you can take a look at his </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: IT; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: AR-SA;"><a href="http://simonerea.blogspot.com/"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="color: #2d8930;">blog</span></span></a></span>.<br />
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** <span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: AR-SA;">just for complete information, and if you can read Italian, let me signal as well </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: IT; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: AR-SA;"><a href="http://www.classicitaliani.it/carducci/prosa/san_miniato_tedesco.htm"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="color: #2d8930;">this</span></span></a></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: AR-SA;"> extract from </span><span class="apple-style-span"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #003366; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: AR-SA;">Confessioni e battaglie</span></i><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #003366; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: AR-SA;"> by</span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: AR-SA;"> Carducci where, at point III, he tells about "<span class="apple-style-span"><i>l'Esopo senese curato dal Targioni e dal Gargani"</i> [Aesop from Siena edited by <span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Targioni and Gargani</span>] that was published by Le Monnier in 1864</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype"; font-size: 16px;">.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "Palatino Linotype"; font-size: 16px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: AR-SA;">Copyright© text and images, Ed. Topipittori 2011. Images have been published with the Publisher’s permission, any unauthorised reproduction being severely forbidden</span></span>.</span> </span>Cristiana C.http://www.blogger.com/profile/10255658549268241803noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3665848475229554638.post-46687116521242262302011-04-04T23:40:00.002+11:002011-04-05T17:49:36.456+11:00Premio Bologna Children's Book Fair - Fundaciòn SM International Prize for Illustration<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 20px;">Once again the Book Fair is over, the last official act was the assignment of the Fundaciòn SM Award, an important moment not just for illustrators, followed by the diploma ceremony for all the selected illustrators who submitted their artwork this year.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 20px;">The recipient of the 2011</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 20px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 20px;"><strong><em>Bologna Children's Book Fair - Fundaciòn SM International Prize for Illustration </em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">is</span></strong></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;"><br />
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</span></div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;">Page is from Taiwan but he lives in London, he has an MA in Communication and Art Design obtained at the London Royal College of Art. Though he's at the beginnings of his artistic career, Page has already obtained many amid mentions and recognitions, he had already been selected at the Bologna Book Fair in 2008 and 2010, and he now finally obtained the prize in this last edition.</div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;">If you're interested in getting to know him better, here is his website:</div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
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Here is the video of the award reception:<br />
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Here the other illustrators receiving their diplomas:<br />
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Part Two<br />
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Here some images from the illustrator's exhibit:<br />
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Enjoy!</div>Cristiana C.http://www.blogger.com/profile/10255658549268241803noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3665848475229554638.post-21534418801510693962011-04-03T13:29:00.001+11:002011-04-04T07:55:27.101+11:00ALMA Award 2011I was right there, at the <a href="http://www.bolognachildrensbookfair.com/">Bologna Children's Book Fair</a>, waiting for the announcements of the 2011 <a href="http://www.alma.se/en/">Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award</a>, people started to gather, await was filled with soothed chattering. I asked myself if it would be as touching as it were last year: <a href="http://laboiteathe.blogspot.com/2010/03/alma-award-2010_6239.html">Kitty Crowther</a>'s work has, for me, a special meaning and this was one of the reasons why I felt so much touched when the announcement was made in 2010. And like last year Kitty was there, once again, she sat right in front of me, which made me all emotional again, when I see her I always feel like a kid facing her hero! Ok, enough with emotions, let's regain composure!<br />
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Who will be the winner? I was wondering, fervent with expectation.<br />
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The jury members arrived, the moment was getting closer... time to start shooting!<br />
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And, directly from Sweden, the name is finally announced: "The winner is....<br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.shauntan.net/">SHAUN TAN</a></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: left;">A wonderful year for the australian illustrator: after the more glamourous recognitions directly form Hollywood here it comes, the most important prize for an illustrator, the ALMA Award!!!</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">Amid his books:</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Once again the ALMA jury has selected an illustrator whose unique, courageous, work stands out of traditional values, whose way of looking at the world can be mercyless, whose ability to find poetry in smaller details, that slowly become predominant, is unequalled. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Here is my video (once again I do apologise for all its imperfection) of the announcement, enjoy!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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</div>Cristiana C.http://www.blogger.com/profile/10255658549268241803noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3665848475229554638.post-59142055413671008162011-03-11T21:00:00.024+11:002011-03-28T09:07:00.181+11:00Desperate illustrator?<div style="line-height: 0.71cm; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #262626;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Dear illustrators, or aspiring illustrators, if you're ready to worn out the soles of your shoes along the corridors of the </span></span><span style="color: navy;"><span lang="zxx"><u><a href="http://www.bolognachildrensbookfair.com/"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Bologna Book Fair</span></a></u></span></span><span style="color: #262626;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">, looking agonizingly for a publisher/art director/professional illustrator whom to show your works to, today, for you, there are good, better</span></span></div><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: left;"><div lang="en-GB" style="line-height: 0.71cm; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #262626;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">A real task force composed by professional illustrators, upon whose identity remains a deep mystery, have decided to be at your disposal, how?!? Well, read here and rejoice</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;">:</span></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
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</span> </div><div align="LEFT" style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 0.64cm; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><div lang="en-GB" style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 0.85cm; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #561c37;"><span style="font-family: TrebuchetMS, sans-serif;">Dear friends, colleagues and editors,</span></span></div><div style="line-height: 0.85cm; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #561c37;"><span style="font-family: TrebuchetMS, sans-serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><span style="font-weight: normal;">it's several years now I started having the feeling that, for those who are moving their first steps in the world of children's books illustration, there are less and less chances</span></span></span></span><span style="color: #561c37;"><span style="font-family: TrebuchetMS, sans-serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><span style="font-weight: normal;"> during the Bologna Book Fair to show their work, to receive advices and, why not, solemn harsh criticism</span></span></span></span><span style="color: #561c37;"><span style="font-family: TrebuchetMS, sans-serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><span style="font-weight: normal;"> (that are always useful).</span></span></span></span></div><div lang="en-GB" style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 0.85cm; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #561c37;"><span style="font-family: TrebuchetMS, sans-serif;">This is not the moment to discuss the reasons for it: there is much to do, everybody is tired, there's no time to concentrate.</span></span></div><div lang="en-GB" style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 0.85cm; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #561c37;"><span style="font-family: TrebuchetMS, sans-serif;">It still remains true that those guys need a first contact with professionalism and some advice. </span></span> </div><div lang="en-GB" style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 0.85cm; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #561c37;"><span style="font-family: TrebuchetMS, sans-serif;">Even if natural selection – bringing ahead not simply those illustrators that are the more talented from the technical point of view but also those who are able to get by in the complex world of publishing – has some sense, I believe that a minimum availability for young illustrators is a duty, for those who made it, more than being something that can reveal to be useful, not just for them</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47; font-family: TrebuchetMS, sans-serif; line-height: 25px;">.</span><br />
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<b><div style="display: inline !important; line-height: 0.85cm; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><div style="display: inline !important;"><span style="color: #561c37;"><span style="font-family: TrebuchetMS, sans-serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><b>The CMYK Project </b></span></span></span><span style="color: #561c37;"><span style="font-family: TrebuchetMS, sans-serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><span style="font-weight: normal;">is a group of </span></span></span></span><span style="color: #561c37;"><span style="font-family: TrebuchetMS, sans-serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><span style="font-weight: normal;">superheroes</span></i></span></span></span><span style="color: #561c37;"><span style="font-family: TrebuchetMS, sans-serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">, or professional illustrators and authors whom, during the fair, have accepted to be available for younger illustrators to take a look at their books.</span></span></span></span></span></div></div></b></div></div><div align="LEFT" style="line-height: 0.64cm; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #741b47; font-family: TrebuchetMS, sans-serif;"><b><div lang="en-GB" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 0.85cm; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #561c37;"><span style="font-family: TrebuchetMS, sans-serif;">There is no established meeting, no place where they can show and queue up.</span></span></div><div lang="en-GB" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 0.85cm; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #561c37;"><span style="font-family: TrebuchetMS, sans-serif;">Our four can be recognized by a pin and a badge. If you see them, you can simply stop them and open up your book.</span></span></div><div lang="en-GB" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 0.85cm; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #561c37;"><span style="font-family: TrebuchetMS, sans-serif;">The four superheroes in this group are:</span></span></div><div lang="en-GB" style="font-style: normal; line-height: 0.85cm; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #561c37;"><span style="font-family: TrebuchetMS, sans-serif;"><b>Mr. BLUE – MAGENTA - Mr. BLONDE - Mr. BLACK</b></span></span></div></b></span></div><div align="LEFT" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 0.64cm; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #535353; font-family: TrebuchetMS, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><br />
</span></span></div><div align="LEFT" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 0.64cm; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-decoration: none;"><div style="line-height: 0.85cm; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times-Roman, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">One only request</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times-Roman, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">: </span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times-Roman, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">if</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times-Roman, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"> Blue, Magenta, Blonde and Black </span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times-Roman, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">aren't showing their badges</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times-Roman, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"> exposed here below it means that <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">they are </span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times-Roman, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">NOT available</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times-Roman, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">, in that moment because otherwise busy</span></span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;">.</span></div></div><div align="LEFT" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 0.64cm; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #535353; font-family: TrebuchetMS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 17px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: small; line-height: normal;"><br />
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</span></span></span></div><div align="LEFT" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 0.64cm; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-decoration: none;"><div style="line-height: 0.85cm; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times-Roman, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">A sincere </span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times-Roman, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">THANK YOU</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times-Roman, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">, for this generous and brilliant idea is the least thing I can say</span></span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;">! </span></div></div><div align="LEFT" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 0.64cm; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;"><br />
</span></div><div align="LEFT" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 0.64cm; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-decoration: none;"><div lang="en-GB" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 0.85cm; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #262626;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">This whole thing makes we wish to give chase to them, my camcorder at hand, ready to capture any sign, in alert looking for suspicious jams in the corridors, of wary cliques scattered in the less obvious corners. To be in theme I shall wear a mask too... well, if I think of it I'd better not: the only one I have is a cat's mask, remains form carnival, which makes me certain that I would unavoidably be mistaken for Garfield!!! Mumble, mumble, mumble... what shall I do? Well, I'll think of it</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;">!</span></div></div><div align="LEFT" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 0.64cm; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;"><br />
</span></div><div align="LEFT" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 0.64cm; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-decoration: none;"><div lang="en-GB" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 0.85cm; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #262626;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Anyway</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;">:</span></div></div><div align="LEFT" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 0.64cm; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 0.64cm; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center; text-decoration: none;"><div align="CENTER" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 0.85cm; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #262626;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">THANK YOU GUYS, YOU'RE OUR HEROES</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large; line-height: normal;">!</span></div></div><div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 0.64cm; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center; text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><br />
</span></span></div>Cristiana C.http://www.blogger.com/profile/10255658549268241803noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3665848475229554638.post-57003142197754217262011-03-08T20:34:00.018+11:002011-03-28T08:53:58.649+11:00FESTIVAL MINIMONDI - XI Edition 12th-27th March<div style="line-height: 0.71cm; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #262626;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">It's about time:</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;"><a href="http://www.minimondi.com/">Festival Minimondi</a> is back</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;">!!!</span></div><br />
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<div style="line-height: 0.71cm; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #262626;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Once again Parma turns cultural thanks to the eleventh edition of the famous festival, devoted to literature and illustration, that will run </span></span><span style="color: #262626;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">from March 12</span></span></span><span style="color: #262626;"><sup><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">th</span></span></sup></span><span style="color: #262626;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"> to 27</span></span></span><span style="color: #262626;"><sup><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">th</span></span></sup></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;">.</span></div><br />
<div style="line-height: 0.71cm; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #262626;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Like in past editions, the festival's program is extremely varied, in fact amid other events there will be: the fantastic </span></span><span style="color: navy;"><span lang="zxx"><u><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remy_Charlip"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Remy Charlip</span></a></u></span></span><span style="color: #262626;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"> exhibit, several workshops and events with authors and illustrators, and with </span></span><span style="color: navy;"><span lang="zxx"><u><a href="http://www.editorialescienza.it/"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Editoriale Scienza</span></a></u></span></span><span style="color: #262626;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">, meetings at schools, workshops with </span></span><span style="color: navy;"><span lang="zxx"><u><a href="http://www.focusjunior.it/focuspico/"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Focus Pico</span></a></u></span></span><span style="color: #262626;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"> about graffitis and artwork with plasticine, a season of films at Cinema D'Azeglio and the always actual initiative </span></span><span style="color: #262626;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><i>Adopt a Publisher</i></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;">.</span></div><br />
<div style="line-height: 0.71cm; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #262626;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-style: normal;">Amid the guests: </span></span></span><span style="color: navy;"><span lang="zxx"><u><a href="http://www.brunellabaldi.it/"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-style: normal;">Brunella Baldi</span></span></a></u></span></span><span style="color: #262626;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-style: normal;">, Viorel Boldis, Francesca Capelli, </span></span></span><span style="color: navy;"><span lang="zxx"><u><a href="http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ennio_Cavalli"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-style: normal;">Ennio Cavalli</span></span></a></u></span></span><span style="color: #262626;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-style: normal;">, Anna Cerasoli, </span></span></span><span style="color: navy;"><span lang="zxx"><u><a href="http://www.lalibreriadeiragazzi.it/"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-style: normal;">Roberto Denti</span></span></a></u></span></span><span style="color: #262626;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-style: normal;">, Ermanno Detti, Miriam Dubini, </span></span></span><span style="color: navy;"><span lang="zxx"><u><a href="http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silvana_Gandolfi"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-style: normal;">Silvana Gandolfi</span></span></a></u></span></span><span style="color: #262626;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-style: normal;">, </span></span></span><span style="color: navy;"><span lang="zxx"><u><a href="http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonio_Nicaso"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-style: normal;">Antonio Nicaso</span></span></a></u></span></span><span style="color: #262626;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-style: normal;">, </span></span></span><span style="color: navy;"><span lang="zxx"><u><a href="http://www.giuliaorecchia.it/"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-style: normal;">Giulia Orecchia</span></span></a></u></span></span><span style="color: #262626;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-style: normal;">, </span></span></span><span style="color: navy;"><span lang="zxx"><u><a href="http://www.chiararapaccini.com/"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-style: normal;">Chiara Rapaccini</span></span></a></u></span></span><span style="color: #262626;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-style: normal;">, </span></span></span><span style="color: navy;"><span lang="zxx"><u><a href="http://gustavoroldan.blogspot.com/"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-style: normal;">Gustavo Roldan</span></span></a></u></span></span><span style="color: #262626;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-style: normal;">, Silvia Roncaglia, Andrea Salvatici, </span></span></span><span style="color: navy;"><span lang="zxx"><u><a href="http://www.guidosgardoli.it/"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-style: normal;">Guido Sgardoli</span></span></a></u></span></span><span style="color: #262626;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-style: normal;">, </span></span></span><span style="color: navy;"><span lang="zxx"><u><a href="http://www.severisilvestrini.com/"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-style: normal;">Iole Severi Silvestrini</span></span></a></u></span></span><span style="color: #262626;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-style: normal;">, </span></span></span><span style="color: navy;"><span lang="zxx"><u><a href="http://www.tabithasuzuma.com/"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-style: normal;">Tabitha Suzuma</span></span></a></u></span></span><span style="color: #262626;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-style: normal;">, </span></span></span><span style="color: navy;"><span lang="zxx"><u><a href="http://www.sienidanza.it/"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-style: normal;">Virgilio Sieni</span></span></a></u></span></span><span style="color: #262626;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-style: normal;">, Vanna Vannuccini, </span></span></span><span style="color: navy;"><span lang="zxx"><u><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><a href="http://www.guiarisari.com/">Guia Risari</a></span></span></u></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;">.</span></div><br />
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<div style="font-style: normal; line-height: 0.71cm; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #262626;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">I would like to focus your attention on one event, to my opinion, unique: the exhibition<span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></span> </div><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><em>REMY CHARLIP DANZARE IL MIO LIBRO</em></span>*</div><br />
<div style="line-height: 0.71cm; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #262626;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-style: normal;">that will run </span></span></span><span style="color: #262626;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-style: normal;">from March 12</span></span></span><span style="color: #262626;"><sup><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">th</span></span></span></sup></span><span style="color: #262626;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-style: normal;"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">to April 25</span></span></span></span><span style="color: #262626;"><sup><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">th</span></span></span></sup></span><span style="color: #262626;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-style: normal;"> </span></span></span><span style="color: #262626;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-style: normal;">at Galleria San Ludovico**. The show has been organised by Festival Minimondi and edited by: </span></span></span><span style="color: navy;"><span lang="zxx"><u><a href="http://troisourses.online.fr/"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-style: normal;">Les Trois Ourses</span></span></a></u></span></span><span style="color: #262626;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-style: normal;">, Associazione Minimondi and by the architect Marco Ferreri, who is responsible as well for the setting up</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;">.</span></div><br />
<div style="font-style: normal; line-height: 0.71cm; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #262626;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">First of all this is the first italian show devoted to the American artist in its whole, that is to say a one-man exhibition including his activities as illustrator, author, choreographer and dancer as well, it's therefore a unique occasion that you shouldn't miss</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;">.</span></div><br />
<div style="line-height: 0.71cm; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #262626;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-style: normal;">Charlip is a really extraordinary character, who has lived a very interesting life: choreographer and dancer as I said he collaborated, for about 12 years, with the company of the legendary avant-garde choreographer </span></span></span><span style="color: navy;"><span lang="zxx"><u><a href="http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merce_Cunningham"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-style: normal;">Merce Cunningham</span></span></a></u></span></span><span style="color: #262626;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-style: normal;">. Though, during his career in the world of dance, he never stopped writing children's books, because: "I have always wanted to do picture books for children"***. From the beginning of the fifties, Charlip has published more than 30 titles of which the last, </span></span></span><span style="color: #262626;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><i>A Perfect Day,</i></span></span><span style="color: #262626;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-style: normal;"> dates 2007. As he declared during a celebration dedicated to him in '97, from </span></span></span><span style="color: #262626;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><i>Library's Children's Literature Center Convention</i></span></span><span style="color: #262626;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-style: normal;">, he loves changing style and experiencing new languages and perspectives, in order to better represent a variety of situations: "How I look at subjects, people and things are different, so I like to bring that to the books"***</span></span></span></div><br />
<div style="line-height: 0.71cm; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #262626;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-style: normal;">To give voice to the </span></span></span><span style="color: #262626;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><i>multi- artistic</i></span></span><span style="color: #262626;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-style: normal;"> soul of the American author, the exhibit has been set up by dividing the main central room, where the first editions of his books will be showcased together with original artwork from his books, from lateral niches where didactical activities will take place and where videos with Charlip's performances as dancer and choreographer will be shown</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;">.</span></div><br />
<div style="line-height: 0.71cm; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #262626;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-style: normal;">In the context of Charlip's activity in the world of dance, on </span></span></span><span style="color: #262626;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><b>March 14</b></span></span></span><span style="color: #262626;"><sup><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">th</span></b></span></span></sup></span><span style="color: #262626;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><b> at 06.00 p.m.</b></span></span></span><span style="color: #262626;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">, </span></span></span></span><span style="color: navy;"><span lang="zxx"><u><a href="http://www.sienidanza.it/"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Virgilio Sieni</span></span></span></a></u></span></span><span style="color: #262626;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"> will execute the performance titled </span></span></span></span><span style="color: #262626;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><i><span style="font-weight: normal;">"Stanze, accenni e sguardi sul corpo come luogo”****</span></i></span></span><span style="color: #262626;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"> dedicated to Merce Cunningham, who was one of his teachers</span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;">.</span></div><br />
<div style="line-height: 0.71cm; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #262626;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Amid the many interesting documents of the show there is as well a letter from </span></span></span></span><span style="color: navy;"><span lang="zxx"><u><a href="http://www.brunomunari.it/"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Bruno Munari</span></span></span></a></u></span></span><span style="color: #262626;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">, dated 1958, where he congratulates Charlip for his book </span></span></span></span><span style="color: #262626;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><i><span style="font-weight: normal;">It looks like snow</span></i></span></span><span style="color: #262626;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"> and, meanwhile, sends him a mock-up of his book </span></span></span></span><span style="color: navy;"><span lang="zxx"><u><a href="http://www.corraini.com/scheda_libro.php?id=16"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><i><span style="font-weight: normal;">Nella nebbia di Milano</span></i></span></a></u></span></span><span style="color: #262626;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">. It's nice to realize how culture grows always richer when it opens up, letting experience flow through communicating vessels that make it wider. In this case our communicating vessels are human relationships and the ability to open up to exchanges: in 1981, Munari dedicated Charlip (and </span></span></span></span><span style="color: navy;"><span lang="zxx"><u><a href="http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Cage"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">John Cage</span></span></span></a></u></span></span><span style="color: #262626;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">) his </span></span></span></span><span style="color: navy;"><span lang="zxx"><u><a href="http://www.corraini.com/scheda_libro.php?id=22"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><i><span style="font-weight: normal;">Cappuccetto Bianco</span></i></span></a></u></span></span><span style="color: #262626;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">**** for those who know both texts the reason is quite evident</span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;">.</span></div><br />
<div style="line-height: 0.71cm; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #262626;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Of Charlip's many books, il Italy only two have been translated: </span></span></span></span><span style="color: navy;"><span lang="zxx"><u><a href="http://www.orecchioacerbo.com/editore/index.php?option=com_oa&vista=catalogo&id=63"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><i><span style="font-weight: normal;">Niente</span></i></span></a></u></span></span><span style="color: #262626;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">, published on 2007, and </span></span></span></span><span style="color: navy;"><span lang="zxx"><u><a href="http://www.orecchioacerbo.com/editore/index.php?option=com_oa&vista=catalogo&id=184"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><i><span style="font-weight: normal;">Fortunatamente</span></i></span></a></u></span></span><span style="color: #262626;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">, that has just been published, both texts were published by </span></span></span></span><span style="color: navy;"><span lang="zxx"><u><a href="http://www.orecchioacerbo.com/editore/"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Orecchio Acerbo</span></span></span></a></u></span></span><span style="color: #262626;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">. </span></span></span></span><span style="color: #262626;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><i><span style="font-weight: normal;">Fortunately </span></i></span></span><span style="color: #262626;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">is as well the 100</span></span></span></span><span style="color: #262626;"><sup><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">th</span></span></span></span></sup></span><span style="color: #262626;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"> title of the roman publisher that celebrates its 10</span></span></span></span><span style="color: #262626;"><sup><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">th</span></span></span></span></sup></span><span style="color: #262626;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"> anniversary this year</span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;">.</span></div><br />
<div style="line-height: 0.71cm; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #262626;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">One last curiosity: writer </span></span></span></span><span style="color: navy;"><span lang="zxx"><u><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Selznick"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Brian Selznick</span></span></span></a></u></span></span><span style="color: #262626;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"> has the merit to have made Charlip famous in the world, in some case way before his books were translated and published, because he got inspired by Charlip's features for the character of Georges Méliès, in his book </span></span></span></span><span style="color: navy;"><span lang="zxx"><u><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><i><span style="font-weight: normal;"><a href="http://www.ragazzi.mondadori.it/nonperdere/dossier/idD037001000057.art">La straordinaria invenzione di Hugo Cabret</a> (The Extraordinary Adventure of Hugo Cabret)</span></i></span></u></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;">.</span></div><br />
<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 0.71cm; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #262626;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">In short: don't loose this occasion!</span></span></div><br />
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<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 0.71cm; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #262626;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">**Galleria San Ludovico is in Borgo del Parmigianino 2/b, Parma. It's opened from 09.30 a.m. To 06.30 p.m., it's closed on Tuesdays</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;">.</span></div><br />
<div style="line-height: 0.71cm; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #262626;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">*** Both mentions were taken from the article: "</span></span></span></span><span style="color: #262626;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><i><span style="font-weight: normal;">Young at Heart: A Celebration of Remy Charlip", </span></i></span></span><span style="color: #262626;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">published in the </span></span></span></span><span style="color: navy;"><span lang="zxx"><u><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><a href="http://www.loc.gov/loc/lcib/970623/charlip.html">Library of Congress LC Information Bulletin, June 23, 1997</a></span></span></span></u></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;">.</span></div><br />
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<div style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #262626;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Image Copyright© Orecchio Acerbo Editore 2011, all reproduction is severely forbidden.</span></span></div>Cristiana C.http://www.blogger.com/profile/10255658549268241803noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3665848475229554638.post-46307305419737232712011-02-22T06:00:00.002+11:002011-02-23T21:01:35.266+11:00The winners of the 2011 BOLOGNA CHILDREN'S BOOK FAIRHere are th book selected b the jury for the 2011 <span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.bookfair.bolognafiere.it/home">Bologna Children's Book Fair</a></span>:<br />
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FABLES texts by Esope, adaptation by Jean-Philippe Mogenet, illustrations by Jean-François Martin<br />
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<strong><em>HYACINTHE ET ROSE</em></strong>, texts by François Morel, illustrations by Martin Jarrie, ÉDITIONS THIERRY MAGNIER - Paris, France<br />
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<strong><em>THE IRON MAN</em></strong>, texts by Ted Hughes, drawings by Laura Carlin, WALKER BOOKS - London, United Kingdom <br />
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A HOUSE OF THE MIND: MAUM texts by Kim Hee-Kyung, illustrations by Iwona Chmielewska <br />
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<strong><em>CO Z CIEBIE WYROSNIE?</em></strong> texts and illustrations by Aleksandra Mizielinska, Daniel Mizielinski, DWIE SIOSTRY - Warsaw, Poland<br />
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<strong><em>THE STORIES SHOULDN’T BE TRUE</em></strong>, texts and illustrations by Gang GyeongSu, SIGONGJUNIOR - Seoul, Republic of Korea <br />
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MIL-FOLHAS – HISTÓRIA ILUSTRADA DO DOCE texts by Lucrecia Zappi, graphic design by Maria Carolina Sampaio <br />
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<em><strong>A JANELA DE ESQUINA DO MEU PRIMO</strong></em>, texts by E.T.A Hoffman, illustraztions by Daniel Bueno, COSAC NAIFY – São Paulo, Brazil<br />
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<strong><em>UN DÍA</em></strong>, texts and illustrations by Chiara Carrer, PETRA EDICIONES – Zapopan, México <br />
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<a href="http://teaboxscent.blogspot.com/2011/01/monsieur-100-tetes-memo.html">MONSIEUR CENT TÊTES</a> texts and illustrations by Ghislaine Herbéra<br />
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<strong><em>DIAPASON</em></strong>, illustrations by Laëtitia Devernay, LA JOIE DE LIRE - Geneva, Switzerland I had already told you briefly about this book <a href="http://teaboxscent.blogspot.com/2010/12/salon-di-montreuil.html">here</a>.<br />
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<em><strong>SŁONIĄTKO/FANTJE</strong></em>, texts by Adam Jaromir, illustrations by Gabriela Cichowska, MUCHOMOR - Warsaw, Poland/GIMPEL VERLAG - Hannover,Germany<br />
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You can find the jury's motivations and plenty of other information <a href="http://www.bookfair.bolognafiere.it/en/boragazziaward/">here</a>.Cristiana C.http://www.blogger.com/profile/10255658549268241803noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3665848475229554638.post-82256404393389900212011-02-21T19:43:00.051+11:002011-03-25T08:15:41.962+11:00The Wild Swans - Topipittori<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzD4SrZKm5yqGghTLS3QIPe_u53GVNIGBFoOFL7PPkJxvlxoZTjZBUqrd2sBVbFttDJyiepAaAyNOliYRDVdga9g0U1xC72_LDtgm1yi5nBvppnEJU9QTt6ZMd1-pysCwqOZcHVG2SxqRi/s1600/Cover.bmp" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" j6="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzD4SrZKm5yqGghTLS3QIPe_u53GVNIGBFoOFL7PPkJxvlxoZTjZBUqrd2sBVbFttDJyiepAaAyNOliYRDVdga9g0U1xC72_LDtgm1yi5nBvppnEJU9QTt6ZMd1-pysCwqOZcHVG2SxqRi/s320/Cover.bmp" width="276" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><i></i></b></div><b><i><div align="CENTER" style="display: inline !important; line-height: 0.71cm; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><div style="display: inline !important; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="color: #262626;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><b>The Wild Swans</b></i></span></span></span><span style="color: #262626;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"> by Has Christian Andersen, illustrations by Joanna Concejo, translation by Maria Giacobbe, Ed. Topipittori, February 2011</span></span></span></span></span></div></div></i></b><br />
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<div lang="en-GB" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 0.71cm; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #262626;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Every time I open up a book <span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">illustrated</span> by Joanna Concejo my wrists start shaking with emotion, for how deeply her images arrive to my heart with no filters nor inhibitions. It's beyond my control, an emotional wave overwhelms me entirely, leaving me breathless, as if the most beautiful and sad memories came out of their tidy drawers all at once and started dancing all over my body</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;">.</span></div><br />
<div style="line-height: 0.71cm; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #262626;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">When I learned that Giovanna and Paolo, our </span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: navy;"><span lang="zxx"><u><a href="http://www.topipittori.it/"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><i><span style="font-weight: normal;">Topi</span></i></span></a></u></span></span><span style="color: #262626;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">, had assigned her one of the most beautiful and difficult texts by Andersen I deeply rejoiced, and not because I'm sadistic: this was one of the stories my granny used to tell me more frequently and I couldn't wait to plunge into the interpretation Joanna would have given of it</span></span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;">.</span></div><br />
<div style="line-height: 0.71cm; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #262626;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">It's not easy to confront with a classic, least of all if the </span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #262626;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><span style="font-weight: normal;">classic </span></i></span></span></span><span style="color: #262626;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">is signed Hans Christian Andersen, because the psychological complexity of his tales is heavy, because rendering his melancholic and poetical atmospheres is extremely difficult, because the harshness of his stories seems at times hopeless (I have vivid memories of the anguish I felt when, child, I read The Little Mermaid). Giving essence to such a refined and restless soul is not simple</span></span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;">.</span></div><br />
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<div lang="en-GB" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 0.71cm; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #262626;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">This tale, in particular, is extremely complex because it represents the fall from childhood's paradise towards the abyss that goes along with adolescence, between disenchantment and inability to communicate, between the loss of one's nearest and dearest and the desperate effort of bringing them back</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;">.</span></div><br />
<div lang="en-GB" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 0.71cm; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #262626;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">The main character, Elisa, is alone. Left to her own devices, every minute of her life is spent in the memory of her beloved brothers, that she will find again only almost adult, and of the nice moments spent with them. As in almost all traditional tales, advocate of the fall is the cruel stepmother who alienates the children from their father condemning them to an imposed silence, deriving from the mutation into swans for the sons and from the forceful separation for Elisa</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;">.</span></div><br />
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<div lang="en-GB" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 0.71cm; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #262626;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">As suitable to an appropriate tale's hero, Elisa is at first a child and then a young woman of great virtues: beautiful, polite, with a firm faith, she places her and her swan-brothers' destiny in the hands of Divine mercy, scrupulously following the precepts she's being given without a doubt, with no sinking. Despite physical suffering, caused by the nettles she's obliged to spin to make the shirts that will break the witch-stepmother's spell, despite all the risks she runs, the young woman will bring her task to the conclusion assuring her brothers and herself the longed happy ending</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;">.</span></div><br />
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<div lang="en-GB" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 0.71cm; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #262626;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Joanna has given an amazing interpretation of this tale, full of symbolic cross-references and noble moments. Her illustrations reaffirm Elisa's loneliness in several ways, as it happens in the image here below, where the nettles form a sort of frame/prison that isolates the beautiful princess from the rest of the world</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;">:</span></div><br />
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<div lang="en-GB" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 0.71cm; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #262626;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Depicted from behind, bent on her own piece of work, the young woman looks like a twig bending over to life's moodiness: she doesn't address us while we observe her, she can't say a word, otherwise her brothers would die</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;">.</span></div><br />
<div lang="en-GB" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 0.71cm; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #262626;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">I would like to recall your attention on the first image of this post, on the mirror-image portraying the shape of a swan to be precise, because this illustration recalls with great strength the idea of presence/absence of the brothers: on the left side of the image the swan looks like a ghost, only vaguely sketched, and the little character in the distance, as big as a little speck, represents young Elisa wondering with no precise intent, looking for those she can feel without really seeing; on the right side nothing is left of the swan if not its negative, the silhouette, almost as if to remark the ideas of distance, unattainability, absence</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;">.</span></div><br />
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<div lang="en-GB" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 0.71cm; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #262626;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Absence, together with desperation for the impossibility of carrying on the task of weaving the eleven shirts, is recaptured in this image as well</span></span></div><br />
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<div style="line-height: 0.71cm; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #262626;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">where, to a more descriptive part where we can see tiny knights galloping towards the castle whose king has decided to take Elisa with him and to soon marry her, is powerfully opposing the image on the right, a portrait of the young woman, visibly hopeless, whose image is at times eclipsed by those embroidered disks, transparent, appearing as well in the flyleaves of the book. The presence of those objects seems almost to be emphasizing the sensation of emptiness that overwhelms the girl when she is parted from her brothers, her body is almost </span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #262626;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><span style="font-weight: normal;">maimed</span></i></span></span></span><span style="color: #262626;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">, erased, at the same time the shape and the positioning in flock the illustrator gave those disks seems to be recalling the idea of travel and the temporary nature of the situation</span></span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;">.</span></div><br />
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<div lang="en-GB" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 0.71cm; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #262626;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">In the last illustration I propose, once again Elisa turns her back to us, once more she appears as the solitary hero, framed by the crowd that between fury and incredulity besieges her</span></span></div><br />
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<div lang="en-GB" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 0.71cm; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #262626;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Only favourable wardens the birds, observing the scene at a distance, as if to symbolize the benevolent glance of heavens</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;">.</span></div><br />
<div lang="en-GB" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 0.71cm; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #262626;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">To end with, please observe the wonderful harmony of Joanna's tables, drawn using pastels, their balance in the use of colour, the gentleness of her stroke</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;">.</span></div><br />
<div lang="en-GB" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 0.71cm; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #262626;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Beautiful the translation by Maria Giacobbe</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;">.</span></div><br />
<div style="line-height: 0.71cm; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #262626;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">This book doesn't cost "</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #262626;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><i><span style="font-weight: normal;">half of the kingdom</span></i></span></span></span><span style="color: #262626;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">", it doesn't even cost as much as Elisa's precious book therefore, if I was able to arouse your curiosity, I suggest that you to pay a visit to the bookshop (or to the publisher's website)</span></span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;">.</span></div><br />
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<div style="line-height: 0.71cm; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #262626;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span lang="en-GB"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">The book has been published simultaneously in french, for </span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: navy;"><span lang="zxx"><u><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><a href="http://www.editionsnotari.ch/">Editions Notari</a></span></span></span></u></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;">.</span></div><br />
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"<em>Maman et moi avons décidé d’adopter un Géant! C’est mieux d’être trois pour regarder les étoiles.</em>"*<br />
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This is how the new book by Nicolas Thers - <strong><em><a href="http://www.poissonsoluble.com/Avis-de-parutions/Geant/geant.swf">Le Géant</a></em></strong>, the giant, for the French <em>soluble</em> <em>fishes -</em> starts. <br />
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Title and cover already reveal a lot: the one that is portrayed is a giant that scarcely resembles the scary Polyphemus or Roald Dahl's bad giants, no trace of <span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: IT;">Rabelaisian’s</span> memories are left with this tall titan, <span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: IT;">otherwise it's the businessman's</span>, or the doctor's or the banker's aspect that dominates if ever. A real urban mastodon, in jacket and white shirt.<br />
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When I first saw this book, I was completely blown away by the images, the use of colour and the quality of the images, quite unusual though totally convincing, really struck me. Visual impact was such that, at the very beginning, the message contained in the book became less evident.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">Though I want to start talking of the message contained in the book, before analysing the images, because it deals with a subject touching many families, be them the result of a separation or of widowhood, which break up to then reset otherwise. <br />
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The narrator of the story is a girl telling how she and her mom decided to adopt a giant, exactly! It seems there are very good reasons to adopt a giant, and the explanation is abundantly detailed.<br />
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Of course, in the presence of such a tall being, feeling frightened and a bit suspicious as well is totally understandable, at least in the start but then, if the colossus is kind, if he offers us a few presents and showers us with attentions, if he allows us to explore him a bit and takes good care of us, <span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: IT;">then becoming friends is unavoidable</span>.<br />
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I was really amused by how the author decided to expose this role game, giant/girl, where the third character - the mother - is nothing but secondary to the purposes of narration, as she only appears in the sentence I quoted at the beginning of the post and she is never represented in the images. <br />
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The whole book plays around the slow and constant approach between the two: of course images and text go completely along with the kid's vision emphasising her fears at first, that materialize in the representation of the giant's physical power while the girl is almost invisible (see the image above), to then illustrate the gradual acceptance of the man, that corresponds with the slow resizing of both characters until they reach a reasonable physical dimension (see images below).<br />
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The character's real dimensions recuperating process, with the consequent balance change in the original role game, develops through the slow and constant physical approach between the two: the girl, that at the beginning of the book was just a small coloured dot in the distance, gains more and more substance when she starts moving towards the giant, as if to affirm that the growth of a human being can take place only when he gets connected to the people around him. <br />
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As for the images, Thers had great fun playing with photomontage reworked with graphic palette, the colours are clear, simple, immediate. As I was saying before the tables are all centred on a skilful and audacious perspective game, their urban setting, almost futuristic, gives the images a touch of surreal that goes very well with the unlikeliness of the situation at the start. In a not too far future, giants will get out of their hiding places and will become mates and daddies.<br />
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A beautiful picture book, perfect identification with child's imaginary and positive résumé of the mechanisms hiding behind modern families.<br />
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* "<em>Mummy and me have decided to adopt a Giant! It's better to be three to look at the stars</em>."<br />
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Copyright© text and images <em>L'Atelier du Poisson Soluble</em>, 2010. Images have been reproduced with the permission of the publisher, all reproduction is strictly forbidden.Cristiana C.http://www.blogger.com/profile/10255658549268241803noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3665848475229554638.post-16262433230285745602011-02-08T22:16:00.052+11:002011-02-14T19:06:36.408+11:00El Tren - OQO Editora<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh04xsbtVglckvnARyFl7_JFC7xbnr6c-_9Gq_Yvm23DObronYzI4iS_RHQs0xg-kMNiedhG5kBrOzcuI-OdSC-9RL_WdzKJrXDHq_5x9rOo4W3Ne5Y7CvhPZxG6bJJZC1kG02rUg0BWupH/s1600/El+Tren+Cover.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" h5="true" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh04xsbtVglckvnARyFl7_JFC7xbnr6c-_9Gq_Yvm23DObronYzI4iS_RHQs0xg-kMNiedhG5kBrOzcuI-OdSC-9RL_WdzKJrXDHq_5x9rOo4W3Ne5Y7CvhPZxG6bJJZC1kG02rUg0BWupH/s320/El+Tren+Cover.jpg" width="259" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><strong><em>El Tren</em></strong>, by <a href="http://santirosi.blogspot.com/">Silvia Santirosi</a>, illustrations by Chiara Carrer, OQO Editora, February 2011</div><div align="center"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: AR-SA;">When Silvia told me her first book was about to be printed, together with the joy I felt as she was crowning such a nice dream, I immediately thought I would have had a nice surprise, and I was right. After all, I expected nothing less from someone as intense as she is</span>.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: AR-SA;">In this poetic story, made even more profound by Chiara Carrer's marvellous illustrations, Silvia tells us about a difficult topic and she does so without choosing easy loopholes, on the contrary she undertakes the bristliest path, putting salt over wounds, showing in all its excruciating power the strength of sorrow: <strong><i>El Tren</i></strong> is the story of a child and her dad, the story of a trio left maimed for the loss of a vital part, the mother, the story telling of the attempt to fill an emptiness that becomes ruinous precipice</span>. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
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The father listens, patient, curious and defenceless at the same time, he feels all the difficulty enclosed in that repeated dream to which none of them can give an answer. <br />
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<em>" Come posso dirti che le persone che amiamo muoiono, ci lasciano e vanno via?" *</em> wonders the father. Maybe there's no way, maybe we should all find our own way, or maybe we could just tell another story, like the one of the blind man asking his neighbour to describe the colour white...<br />
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: AR-SA;">I particularly like the way the text renders the simplicity of a conversation between father and child, the way in which more simple gestures leave place to higher moments: without ever leaving behind the central subject of the book, the author allows us to share life passing by, imperturbably following its own rhythms and logics</span>. <br />
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To my opinion Chiara Carrer's narration adds, weights up, moves, interprets this beautiful text sublimely. As I was saying above, the story is built on a double reading level, alternating dream and real, emotion and gesture, reason and feelings. To realize this difficult dichotomy, if we just take a look back at her other works we realize that Chiara has chosen an unusual interpretation (even if many germs of this last work can be found elsewhere as well): while real has a more graphic quality, dreamlike has a pictorial quality, here is an example<br />
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Copyright© text and images OQO Editora, 2011</div>Cristiana C.http://www.blogger.com/profile/10255658549268241803noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3665848475229554638.post-4355113096149097592011-01-28T19:07:00.002+11:002011-01-31T22:00:42.345+11:00Monsieur 100 têtes - MeMo<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBBPheeYIx3jH1lto4yUiZT885d0KUuKYsw1-zGc-P26QnmEaLQ3lrBLlKWjy6KX8j2X2p7T8eiZ_GRGjsvMV-9ZjWfmU281xOkJYPlYfnH0DDOBdvJTLBY_xU3NJ7qG9Zyv0bdWTW-g0B/s1600/M+100+tetes+couv.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" s5="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBBPheeYIx3jH1lto4yUiZT885d0KUuKYsw1-zGc-P26QnmEaLQ3lrBLlKWjy6KX8j2X2p7T8eiZ_GRGjsvMV-9ZjWfmU281xOkJYPlYfnH0DDOBdvJTLBY_xU3NJ7qG9Zyv0bdWTW-g0B/s320/M+100+tetes+couv.jpg" width="319" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><em><strong>Monsieur 100 Têtes</strong></em> by Ghislaine Herbéra, <a href="http://www.editions-memo.fr/">Editions MeMo</a>, 2010</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: AR-SA;">I already partly told you about this book <a href="http://teaboxscent.blogspot.com/2010/12/salon-di-montreuil.html">here</a>, it's the winner of the <em>Prix Premier Album</em><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>obtained during the last <a href="http://www.salon-livre-presse-jeunesse.net/accueil.html">Salon de Montreuil</a>, debut book of the skillful <a href="http://ghislaineherbera.ultra-book.com/">Ghislaine Herbéra</a></span>.<span style="color: black;"> </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: AR-SA;">The real brilliance and originality of this book, resides in the manner the author chose to represent those moods: in fact, the heads are masks coming from the whole world. (I do suspect that the masks might as well have been the starting point of the story but, for the moment, I have no evidence to demonstrate this). Amid others, there are masks pertaining to the theatrical and iconological inheritance of some countries: there's the Italian <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commedia_dell%27arte">Comedy of Art</a>, as well as the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ky%C5%8Dgen">Kyōgen Theatre</a> or the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noh">Nō Theatre</a> (see cover image) from Japan, Ihamo Theatre from Tibet or the traditional mask used for the <em>Dance of the Dead</em>, during the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C3%ADa_de_Muertos">Día de Muertos</a>, in Mexico</span>. <br />
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: AR-SA;">The book therefore becomes a cultural pretext, a tool through which we can discover the more secluded sides of the countries represented, gaining substance and evidence in their masks : ancestral expression – passing from idols to carnival masks, from popular tradition to the more cultivated one of theatres – masks have always been a sort of mean for telling of aspects forbidden by prevailing cultures as well as emblem of fears and sacred, passage from human to sacred, object of rituals and representations. From more clearly tribal allegories to the more refined ones, the reader is allowed travel through the book and to appropriate a precious heritage of information</span>. <br />
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We all know about Blue Beard, right? So why bother getting a new version of the book? Well, this particular one has been illustrated by <a href="http://www.quarello.com/">Maurizio Quarello</a>!<br />
<div style="text-align: left;">To find our more about this book, please go <a href="http://blaine.org/sevenimpossiblethings/?p=2070">here</a>.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
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Barbe Bleue by Charles Perrault, illustrations by Maurizio Quarello, Collection Albums Classiques, <br />
<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">© 2010 Éditions Milan.</div>Cristiana C.http://www.blogger.com/profile/10255658549268241803noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3665848475229554638.post-67843864282875880982011-01-24T07:01:00.002+11:002011-02-24T21:37:06.755+11:00Walking in Macerata: interview with Javier ZabalaDo you love Javier Zabala?<br />
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If you do then you shouldn't miss the interview I made with him<br />
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<div style="text-align: left;">Images Copyright© Javier Zabala 2010. Images have been reproduced with the permission of the authoir, all reproduction is strictly forbidden.</div>Cristiana C.http://www.blogger.com/profile/10255658549268241803noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3665848475229554638.post-84690987535329965082011-01-10T19:33:00.003+11:002011-01-11T08:03:57.680+11:00Caldecott & Newbery Awards - 2011 WinnersFirst of all HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYBODY!!! <br />
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To start with something exciting after the blog pause, I have waited until today because: about a couple of hours ago, on <a href="http://www.ala.org/index.cfm">ALA</a> (American Library Association) website, the winners of the prestigious <a href="http://www.ala.org/template.cfm?template=/CFApps/awards_info/award_detail_home.cfm&FilePublishTitle=Awards,%20Grants%20and%20Scholarships&uid=E5C72B4A36B54164">Caldecott Medal</a> and <a href="http://www.ala.org/template.cfm?template=/CFApps/awards_info/award_detail_home.cfm&FilePublishTitle=Awards,%20Grants%20and%20Scholarships&uid=9975B44A8D61AEE9">Newbery Medal</a> for 2011 regarding the books published in the States in 2010, have been published. Here they are!<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><strong>Randolph Caldecott Medal</strong></span> for the most distinguished American picture book<br />
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The two books that have received the <strong><em>Caldecott Honor Books</em></strong> are: <br />
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Should you wish to read the complete list of the winners, you can find complete information <a href="http://ala.org/ala/newspresscenter/news/pr.cfm?id=6048">here</a>.Cristiana C.http://www.blogger.com/profile/10255658549268241803noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3665848475229554638.post-51715746772579243502010-12-24T23:07:00.002+11:002010-12-24T23:43:25.207+11:00Happy Holidays and blog pauseDear readers,<br />
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I take the chance of this post to beg your pardon for my almost total absence this December. <br />
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The truth is I've been working like crazy this last year and a half and I am now a bit tired. I need to take a few days off to reorganize my engagements and to properly plan upcoming news. I therefore take advantage of these Xmas Holidays to make a small pause, <span style="font-size: large;">I shall be back on the <strong>January 10th</strong> week.</span><br />
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I've got plenty of surprises in the works and I can't wait to share them with you!!<br />
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I'm back after a pause I hadn't announced, due to my participation to the famous <a href="http://www.salon-livre-presse-jeunesse.net/accueil.html">Salon de Montreuil</a>*. I do apologize for not having given an official notice. The truth is that maybe I have been a bit reticent in announcing a blog pause because I didn't really feel "paused", in fact all my actions were aiming these pages. <br />
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In the upcoming weeks I shall start analyzing in-depth some of the books I have found at the Salon, for the moment though I shall just make a short resumé of what I was able to see, hear and feel during the show, together with a short selection of masterpieces I found (of course the selection is limited for reasons of time and personal taste, many other books would have been eligible to make it to the list).<br />
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As usual the French scene is always rich in discoveries and stimulus even if, here as well, the wind is starting to blow a bit harder because of the new financial measures taken by the French Government. The debate upon the future of Children's Literature, and on culture in general, is therefore still actual and kicking: after the "end of activity" announcement given by Etre Publishing, as I had already explained <a href="http://teaboxscent.blogspot.com/2010/11/un-giorno-tristissimo.html">here</a>, and after the substantial fund-cut that is determining the end of the association <a href="http://www.livresautresor.net/v1/">Livres au Trésor</a> with all its wonderful activities, France has to face an increasing dread that often resolves into a worrying incoherence when it's up to publisher's choices. Let me explain this better: I had the precise feeling that an increasing number of publishers have started to try to expand their horizons, which is not bad at all by itself, their action though is quite confused and confusing. To be short it's as if they were trying to avoid drowning by grasping the first life raft that comes at hand, no matter if it's not in line with their original plan. Now, I can't avoid to asking myself (and you of course): is it wise and fair that a publishing house moves away from its own original line of action? Is it correct if said publisher gathers under its roof a number of texts, projects and/or collections that have little to do with that starting point they themselves had traced? Of course I don't pretend I have an answer but, if you have any, I would be glad to host a little debate.<br />
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As regards children's literature perspectives, <a href="http://www.ibby.org/index.php?id=421">IBBY France</a> together with BNF (Bibliothèque Nationale de France - <a href="http://lajoieparleslivres.bnf.fr/masc/Default.asp?INSTANCE=JOIE&SYNCMENU=Accueil">Centre National de la littérature pour la Jeunesse La joie par les Livres</a>) have organized a very interesting meeting titled: "<em>2e Rencontres européennes de la littérature pour la jeunesse</em>", during the meeting the discussion lead to analyze European creative paths (thanks to the participation of very important illustrators such as Dusan Kàllay, <a href="http://www.arnalballester.com/home.html">Arnal Ballester</a> and Bernd Mölck-Tassel) and publishing, literary mediation and promotional practices related to kidslit, of course. The acts will soon be available, if you're interested in reading them you could get them <a href="http://lajoieparleslivres.bnf.fr/clientBookline/recherche/noticesDetaillees.asp?iNotice=0&INSTANCE=JOIE&PORTAL_ID=bookline_view.xml&BACKURL=%2FclientBookline%2Frecherche%2Frepartition%2Easp%3FINSTANCE%3DJOIE%26PORTAL%5FID%3D">here</a>.<br />
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As I was saying above, despite all possible worries and doubts, the Salon remains an important moment of meditation and sharing that is really worthy if you're interested in this sector. Le latest piece of new from our French cousins is the future opening, in Montreuil, of a new school called: "<span style="font-size: x-large;">L'Ecole du livre de jeunesse</span>". The school aims to give resources and informations to the various parties involved in the diffusion and deepening of children's books at various levels, all this though without forgetting families: for them there will be special educational laboratories aimed to give parents new mwthods of approach to books and many other initiatives. Amid the fifteen amazing contributors of the school, that will open officially in 2011, there will be the dearest Christian Bruel too! I wish his genius and the experience he made as publisher along the years will contribute to the blossoming of many <em>biting smiles</em>**!<br />
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Time for some books signaling now!!! Some books are older but they are such wonderful books I couldn't avoid putting them in my list:<br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><em>Monsieur Cent Têtes</em>, by Ghislaine Herbéra, <a href="http://www.editions-memo.fr/">Edizioni MeMo</a>, January 10th 2010. Prix Premier Album (First Picture Book Award) at the Salon.</div><br />
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<em>Le Petit Homme et Dieu</em>, by Kitty Crowther, <a href="http://www.ecoledesloisirs.fr/index1.htm">L'Ecole des Loisirs - Pastel</a> Publishing, September 2010<br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><em>Diapason</em>, by Laëtitia Devernay, <a href="http://www.lajoiedelire.ch/catalog/nouveautes">La Joie de Lire</a> Publishing, October 2010</div><br />
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<em>Ici Londres</em>, by Vincent Cuvellier, illustrations by Anne Herbauts, <a href="http://www.lerouergue.com/">Rouergue</a> Publishing, January 2009.<br />
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and, least but not last, some lovely poetry books:<br />
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published by <a href="http://www.bayard-jeunesse.com/">Bayard Jeunesse</a> from 2003 up to nowadays in the section "Hors Collection".<br />
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The books are not in a particular order, no favorites, no chronological order, let's say it's much more a random act of disorder! I shall tell you more about some of these books soon, therefore: stay tuned!<br />
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* Important Kidslit fair, held in Paris every Fall/Winter, gathering almost all French Publishers of the sector. A reference show as for new trends in the sector and cultural debate.<br />
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** For those who don't know it yet, C. Bruel's first publishing house was called <em>La Sourire qui Mord</em>, meaning "the biting smile".Cristiana C.http://www.blogger.com/profile/10255658549268241803noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3665848475229554638.post-52444669971367902042010-12-03T06:20:00.000+11:002010-12-03T06:20:57.524+11:00Il Grande Alfredo - Spider<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiPPZzdIBNciTI3CkymRumWU1k0S4g6aFLlx9RcM4RjEaRQ6jmcVlV9REfKTbnSX4HYMwpuhfTF93nABya3Fzn4LKH_nipuwhvC8D0bRPxBNsThnyBEegXt4PNL5ImmZp4ZltRhuUPaxSU/s1600/Il+Grande+Alfredo+COVER.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" px="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiPPZzdIBNciTI3CkymRumWU1k0S4g6aFLlx9RcM4RjEaRQ6jmcVlV9REfKTbnSX4HYMwpuhfTF93nABya3Fzn4LKH_nipuwhvC8D0bRPxBNsThnyBEegXt4PNL5ImmZp4ZltRhuUPaxSU/s320/Il+Grande+Alfredo+COVER.jpg" width="233" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><i>Il Grande Alfredo</i></b>, by Spider, Orecchio Acerbo Editore, 2010</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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I just received a message by Christian Bruel, owner and soul of <a href="http://christianbruel.chez-alice.fr/">Editions Etre</a>, I had tried to give an alert a few months ago but, to my utter regret, Editions Etre couldn't make it: they will be closing at the end of the year.<br />
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I'm very sad because I was unable to do more than what I actually did. Amid their artists are some of the most important on the international scene, their books are precious gems, gems that will find a home on a few lucky shelves but will be precluded to the most.<br />
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A brilliant and inspired light, a free voice that has gifted us with its beautiful books will soon be no more. Once again titans are winning and little ones are loosing, but I will not surrender and, once again, let me cry out loud that<br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;">CULTURE IS FREEDOM, LET'S FIGHT FOR IT!</span><br />
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<strong><u><span style="font-size: large;">Baobab de l'Album</span></u></strong><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><strong><em>La Règle d'or du cache-cache</em></strong></div><div style="text-align: center;">by Christophe Honoré, illustrations by Gwen Le Gac, <a href="http://www.actes-sud-junior.fr/">Actes Sud junior</a>, 2010. </div><br />
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<strong><u><span style="font-size: large;">Prix du 1er album</span></u></strong><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><strong><em>Monsieur cent têtes</em></strong></div><div style="text-align: center;">by Ghislaine Herbéra, <a href="http://www.editionsmemo.fr/">Éditions MeMo</a>, 2010. </div><br />
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<strong><u><span style="font-size: large;">Prix de la presse des jeunes </span></u></strong><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><strong><em>Des hommes dans la guerre d'Algérie</em></strong></div><div style="text-align: center;">texts by Isabelle Bournier, illustrations by Jacques Ferrandez, <a href="http://jeunesse.casterman.com/">Casterman</a>, 2010. </div><br />
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<strong><u><span style="font-size: large;">Prix Terre en vue</span></u></strong><br />
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<strong><em>Petites et grandes histoires des animaux disparus</em></strong></div><div style="text-align: center;">by Hélène Rajcak and Damien Laverdunt, with the collaboration of Cécile Colin and Luc Vives from the National Museum of Natural History, <a href="http://www.actes-sud-junior.fr/">Actes Sud Junior</a>, 2010. </div><br />
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<u><strong><span style="font-size: large;">Prix À l'abord'art</span></strong></u><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><strong><em>La Petite Galerie de Andy Warhol</em></strong></div><div style="text-align: center;">by Patricia Geis, coll. La petite galerie, <a href="http://www.editionspalette.com/palette/">Editions Palette</a>, 2010 </div><br />
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<strong><u><span style="font-size: large;">Prix Coup de cœur de l'équipe du Salon</span></u></strong><br />
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<strong><em>Le Petit Gibert illustré</em></strong></div><div style="text-align: center;">by Bruno Gibert, <a href="http://www.albin-michel.fr/categorie-Jeunesse-11">Albin Michel Jeunesse</a>, 2010 </div><br />
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This is it for now, talk soon for more news!Cristiana C.http://www.blogger.com/profile/10255658549268241803noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3665848475229554638.post-78992544973407033132010-11-15T23:49:00.000+11:002010-11-15T23:49:38.485+11:00Autumn RainIn these days of pouring rain, let me sweep you away with these drops of colour and wisdom. It’s all “must have” books: some more recent, others a bit older. <br />
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To start our parade it could be none else than her: <a href="http://www.suzyleebooks.com/">Suzy Lee</a>, with her last masterpiece that has been published (more or less) contemporarily in three countries: United States, Italy and France!<br />
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</div><div style="text-align: left;">The story is simple and brilliant, as this wonderful artist has accustomed us to: leave a child alone in an attic with a few common objects, old and dusty; the first instinct, it’s clear, is to explore the place and the best way to give way to exploration is playing, better if all alone. The most simple objects as well, when filtered by a fervent imagination, take up the most unimaginable appearances (<em><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_petit_Nicolas">Le Petit Nicolas</a></em> by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sempé">Sempé</a> is a good example) even truer for their shade’s reflex that will inspire unexpected sceneries. Just like in <strong><em><a href="http://www.chroniclebooks.com/index/main,book-info/store,kids/products_id,7145/title,Wave/">Wave</a></em></strong>, and in <strong><em><a href="http://www.sevenfooterpress.com/products/mirror">Mirror</a></em></strong>, Lee enjoys marking the boundary between real and imagined amid the two adjoining pages. Just like in the books I’ve mentioned before, in <strong><em>Shadow</em></strong> as well imagination assumes, at one point, a more concrete aspect, at times a menacing one, bursting physically into the space of real, as if to make it visible how much, in the end, real and imagined nourish one another. Briefly: another masterpiece by the chorean illustrator, accurate and sensible interpretation of a childhood lived on the thread of fantastic.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">In an interesting article, the <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/07/books/review/Yang-t.html?_r=1">New York Times</a> uses <em><strong>Shadow</strong></em> by Suzy Lee as an example to proof that printed page, in a digital era such as ours (in constant acceleration also thanks to tools such as Ipad), is all the same vital and to some extent irreplaceable.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: left;">Here is a beautiful <strong>interview</strong> with Suzy Lee, it’s a bit old but it’s all the same very good:</div>Seven Impossible Things Before Breakfast - <a href="http://blaine.org/sevenimpossiblethings/?p=1410"><span style="font-size: x-small;">http://blaine.org/sevenimpossiblethings/?p=1410</span></a> <br />
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and also:<br />
The DPI Magazine - don’t get scared by the writings in chorean, at the bottom there’s an English version of the interview<br />
<a href="http://suzyleebooks.com/zeroboard/zboard.php?id=misc&page=5&sn1=&divpage=1&sn=off&ss=on&sc=on&select_arrange=headnum&desc=asc&no=70"><span style="font-size: x-small;">http://suzyleebooks.com/zeroboard/zboard.php?id=misc&page=5&sn1=&divpage=1&sn=off&ss=on&sc=on&select_arrange=headnum&desc=asc&no=70</span></a><br />
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<strong>Reviews</strong> <strong>in English</strong>:<br />
Seven Impossible Things Before Breakfast - <a href="http://blaine.org/sevenimpossiblethings/?p=2023"><span style="font-size: x-small;">http://blaine.org/sevenimpossiblethings/?p=2023</span></a><br />
You Know, For Kids - <a href="http://youknowforkidsblog.blogspot.com/2010/10/new-books-shadow.html"><span style="font-size: x-small;">http://youknowforkidsblog.blogspot.com/2010/10/new-books-shadow.html</span></a><br />
Publishers Weekly - <a href="http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/new-titles/childrens-announcements/article/43866-wordless-wonders.html"><span style="font-size: x-small;">http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/new-titles/childrens-announcements/article/43866-wordless-wonders.html</span></a><br />
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<strong>Reviews</strong> <strong>in French</strong>:<br />
La Citrouille - <a href="http://lsj.hautetfort.com/archive/2010/11/08/ombres.html"><span style="font-size: x-small;">http://lsj.hautetfort.com/archive/2010/11/08/ombres.html</span></a><br />
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<strong>Reviews</strong> <strong>in Italian</strong>:<br />
Letto fra Noi - <a href="http://www.lettofranoi.it/tag/suzy-lee/"><span style="font-size: x-small;">http://www.lettofranoi.it/tag/suzy-lee/</span></a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span><br />
Forkids - <a href="http://www.forkids.it/2010/07/09/ombra/"><span style="font-size: x-small;">http://www.forkids.it/2010/07/09/ombra/</span></a><br />
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<em><strong>Lulu and the Brontosaurus</strong></em>, by Judith Viorst, illustrated by Lane Smith, <a href="http://imprints.simonandschuster.biz/atheneum">Atheneum Books</a>, September 2010 <br />
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After <a href="http://us.macmillan.com/itsabook">It's a Book</a>, an a solo project, the great Lane Smith delights us with this <span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Georgia Serif, Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US">, </span>an a solo project, the great Lane Smith delights us with this picture book with <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judith_Viorst">Judith Viorst</a>. To be true, this picture book would have righteously had its place in the post I had titled <a href="http://teaboxscent.blogspot.com/2010/08/ugly-dirty-and-bad.html">Ugly, Dirty and Bad</a>... guess why? Well, that's because Lulu, the main character of the book, ia a spoiled, a very spoiled kid who clearly recalls (at least to me) the character of Veruca Salt in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_and_the_Chocolate_Factory">Charlie and the Chocolate Factory</a> by Roald Dahl: Lulu always obtains what she wants. One nice morning she wakes up and decides she wants a Brontosaurus for a pet. No matter if her parents deny her the permission to get one, she stays on the piece and decides for action: you know, she can’t accept a no! This scene somehow reminds me of Veruca, when she decides she’ll get her own squirrel, for the fear of children and adults present on the scene. To end with my comparison, there is as well a sort of tribal/rhythmic song that somewhat recalls the Umpa Lumpa’s songs:</span></span><br />
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"<em>I’m gonna, I’m gonna, I’m gonna, gonna get</em><br />
<em>A bronto-bronto-bronto</em><br />
<em>Brontosaurus for a pet.</em><br />
<em>I’m gonna, I’m gonna, I’m gonna, gonna get</em><br />
<em>A bronto-bronto-bronto</em><br />
<em>Brontosaurus for a pet.</em>"<br />
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As in Dahl’s best books, things won’t turn out so positively for Lulu either, in a cruel capsizing of events it’s <br />
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<strong>Links to Lane Smith</strong>: <br />
site <a href="http://www.lanesmithbooks.com/Home.html">http://www.lanesmithbooks.com/Home.html</a> <br />
blog <a href="http://lanesart.blogspot.com/">http://lanesart.blogspot.com/</a> <br />
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<strong>Interviews with</strong><strong> Lane Smith</strong>: <br />
Seven Impossible Things Before Breakfast - <a href="http://blaine.org/sevenimpossiblethings/?p=1422"><span style="font-size: x-small;">http://blaine.org/sevenimpossiblethings/?p=1422</span></a> <br />
Adventures Underground - <a href="http://www.advunderground.com/interviews/smith1106.php"><span style="font-size: x-small;">http://www.advunderground.com/interviews/smith1106.php</span></a><br />
Estrella's Revenge - <a href="http://estellabooks.blogspot.com/2009/02/authorillustrator-interview-lane-smith.html"><span style="font-size: x-small;">http://estellabooks.blogspot.com/2009/02/authorillustrator-interview-lane-smith.html</span></a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span><br />
The Wall Street Journal Speakeasy -<span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span><a href="http://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2010/08/31/its-a-book-author-lane-smith-on-kids-and-technology/"><span style="font-size: x-small;">http://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2010/08/31/its-a-book-author-lane-smith-on-kids-and-technology/</span></a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span> (about It's a Book)<br />
Housatonic Times - <a href="http://www.housatonictimes.com/articles/2010/10/15/entertainment/doc4cb70c1946b1b665670407.txt"><span style="font-size: x-small;">http://www.housatonictimes.com/articles/2010/10/15/entertainment/doc4cb70c1946b1b665670407.txt</span></a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span><br />
Reading Rockets - <a href="http://www.readingrockets.org/books/interviews/smith"><span style="font-size: x-small;">http://www.readingrockets.org/books/interviews/smith</span></a> (video)<br />
Carnegie Corporation of NY (Teachers for a new era) - <a href="http://www.tne.uconn.edu/interviews/lane%20smith.mp3"><span style="font-size: x-small;">http://www.tne.uconn.edu/interviews/lane%20smith.mp3</span></a> (audio)<br />
Just One More Book - <a href="http://www.justonemorebook.com/2008/08/25/interview-with-lane-smith/"><span style="font-size: x-small;">http://www.justonemorebook.com/2008/08/25/interview-with-lane-smith/</span></a> (audio)<br />
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<strong>Interviews with Judith Viorst</strong>:<br />
The Kennedy Center - <a href="http://www.kennedy-center.org/programs/family/alexander/author.html"><span style="font-size: x-small;">http://www.kennedy-center.org/programs/family/alexander/author.html</span></a><br />
Book Page - <a href="http://www.bookpage.com/0711bp/judith_viorst.html"><span style="font-size: x-small;">http://www.bookpage.com/0711bp/judith_viorst.html</span></a><br />
Dream Jam World - <a href="http://www.dreamjamworld.com/interview.html"><span style="font-size: x-small;">http://www.dreamjamworld.com/interview.html</span></a> (audio)<br />
ed un estratto da World Literature Today - <a href="http://goliath.ecnext.com/coms2/gi_0199-541123/An-interview-with-Judith-Viorst.html"><span style="font-size: x-small;">http://goliath.ecnext.com/coms2/gi_0199-541123/An-interview-with-Judith-Viorst.html</span></a><br />
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<strong>Reviews</strong>: <br />
Dog Ear - <a href="http://nicolepoliti.wordpress.com/2010/11/01/lulu-and-the-brontosaurus-by-judith-viorst-illustrated-by-lane-smith-2010/"><span style="font-size: x-small;">http://nicolepoliti.wordpress.com/2010/11/01/lulu-and-the-brontosaurus-by-judith-viorst-illustrated-by-lane-smith-2010/</span></a> <br />
Proseandkahn - <a href="http://proseandkahn.livejournal.com/131068.html?thread=28156"><span style="font-size: x-small;">http://proseandkahn.livejournal.com/131068.html?thread=28156</span></a> <br />
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<a href="http://www.petersis.com/content/madlenkas_dog.html">Madlenka's Dog</a> was the first book by Sis I ever bought, during one of my trips to NY, since then I usually never miss one. Peter Sis has a refined sensibility he transposes in his works through rarefied and dreamy atmospheres: his <a href="http://www.petersis.com/content/TheWallPR.pdf">The Wall</a> (<span lang="en-US"></span>that won the <a href="http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/alsc/awardsgrants/bookmedia/caldecottmedal/caldecotthonors/caldecottmedal.cfm">Caldecott Honour Book</a> mention, and to whom is devoted <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/11/books/review/Marcus-t.html">this</a> beautiful article from the New York Times), <a href="http://www.petersis.com/content/tibet.html">Tibet Through the Red Box</a> (a wonderful autobiographical work where he discovers the contents of the mysterious red box, the one his father carried from a stay in Tibet), <a href="http://www.petersis.com/content/tree.html">The Tree of Life</a> (forerunner of the many books on Charles Darwin published more recently). <br />
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But let’s go back to our book: Madlenka is a girl who lives in the big town and, like all kids living in the big town, she’s looking for a place of her own, she looks for it among cars, in the street, under the shade of trees growing in the suffocating asphalt. Like all kids living in the big town, her playmates could be other kids or, eventually trees, or objects, or animals. Today Madlenka leaves her flat with her brand new soccer ball, and she is uncontrollable, wild, irrepressible! She plays, she plays everywhere. Her team mates are a letterbox, a few cats, a parking meter, a dog, all unfailingly involved in a neighbourhood cup, reflexion of the recent African World Cup. But, to be truth, Madlenka is secretly training for the Women’s World Cup of 2011, in Germany!<br />
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<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Georgia Serif, Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"></span></span></span>Here is Peter Sis <strong>website</strong>: <a href="http://www.petersis.com/index2.html">http://www.petersis.com/index2.html</a></div><br />
<strong>Interviews</strong>:<br />
On the Job, Mystery Man - <a href="http://www.zuzu.org/sisinterview.html"><span style="font-size: x-small;">http://www.zuzu.org/sisinterview.html</span></a><br />
School Library Journal - <a href="http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/article/CA6351977.html?q=under+cover+video"><span style="font-size: x-small;">http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/article/CA6351977.html?q=under+cover+video</span></a> (video)<br />
Reading Rockets - <a href="http://www.readingrockets.org/books/interviews/sis/transcript"><span style="font-size: x-small;">http://www.readingrockets.org/books/interviews/sis/transcript</span></a> and <a href="http://www.readingrockets.org/books/interviews/sis"><span style="font-size: x-small;">http://www.readingrockets.org/books/interviews/sis</span></a> (video)<br />
NPR - <a href="http://www.readingrockets.org/books/interviews/sis"><span style="font-size: x-small;">http://www.readingrockets.org/books/interviews/sis</span></a> (audio)<br />
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<strong>Reviews</strong>: <br />
Books For Kids - <a href="http://booksforkidsblog.blogspot.com/2010/11/kick-off-madlenka-soccer-star-by-peter.html"><span style="font-size: x-small;">http://booksforkidsblog.blogspot.com/2010/11/kick-off-madlenka-soccer-star-by-peter.html</span></a><br />
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<div style="margin-bottom: 0.42cm;">This book, published in 2009, is based on the Fibonacci Sequence. Gulp! Well not really: Emily Gravett, as usual, is able to make fun and adventurous every story she tells. Who doesn’t remember <em><a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Little-Mouses-Big-Book-Fears/dp/1405089482">Little Mouse's Big Book of Fears</a></em>? Well, in this book as well, the British author sets all her imagination free, producing a real masterpiece for inventiveness: the text substantially reproduces the calendar’s format where, at each month, there is the count of the number of rabbits joining Lonely, the solitary protagonist of the first table. As in <em>Shadow</em> by Suzy Lee, in <strong><em>The Rabbit Problem </em></strong>as well you’ll have to flip the book to read it, as you would do with a real calendar. To each table, executed with a rigorously mixed-media technique mixing watercolors and collage, Gravett adds little details: envelopes, instructions on how to make a warm jumper, a little recipe booklet, many notes scattered here and there (as you would do on your own home calendar). A book for all those kids who suffer an irresistible attraction for discovery and who love reading books over and over again, always searching for new details. (Watch out for the surprise at the end!)</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0.42cm;">And for an on-line experience, here is Emily Gravett’s <strong>website:</strong> <span property="f:durl"><a href="http://www.emilygravett.com/">www.emilygravett.com/</a> </span></div><span property="f:durl"><strong>Interviews</strong>: </span><br />
<span property="f:durl">Seven Impossible Things Before Breakfast - <a href="http://blaine.org/sevenimpossiblethings/?p=1606"><span style="font-size: x-small;">http://blaine.org/sevenimpossiblethings/?p=1606</span></a> </span> <br />
<span property="f:durl">Booktrust Childrens Books <a href="http://www.booktrustchildrensbooks.org.uk/show/feature/Features%20Interviews/Interview-with-Emily-Gravett"><span style="font-size: x-small;">http://www.booktrustchildrensbooks.org.uk/show/feature/Features%20Interviews/Interview-with-Emily-Gravett</span></a> and <a href="http://www.booktrustchildrensbooks.org.uk/show/feature/Emily-Gravett-interview-2"><span style="font-size: x-small;">http://www.booktrustchildrensbooks.org.uk/show/feature/Emily-Gravett-interview-2</span></a></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: small;">The Telegraph UK -</span> <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/3664140/The-road-less-travelled.html">http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/3664140/The-road-less-travelled.html</a></span><br />
<span property="f:durl"></span>Reading Rockets - <a href="http://www.readingrockets.org/books/interviews/gravett"><span style="font-size: x-small;">http://www.readingrockets.org/books/interviews/gravett</span></a> and <a href="http://www.readingrockets.org/books/interviews/gravett/transcript"><span style="font-size: x-small;">http://www.readingrockets.org/books/interviews/gravett/transcript</span></a><br />
Kids Book Review - <a href="http://www.kids-bookreview.com/2010/09/interview-emily-gravett.html"><span style="font-size: x-small;">http://www.kids-bookreview.com/2010/09/interview-emily-gravett.html</span></a><br />
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<span property="f:durl"><strong>Reviews</strong>:</span> <br />
<span property="f:durl">B is For Books - <a href="http://www.thaolam.com/blog/?p=476"><span style="font-size: x-small;">http://www.thaolam.com/blog/?p=476</span></a></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span><br />
<span property="f:durl">Henrietta - <a href="http://henriettamouse.blogspot.com/2010/02/rabbit-problem-by-emily-gravett.html"><span style="font-size: x-small;">http://henriettamouse.blogspot.com/2010/02/rabbit-problem-by-emily-gravett.html</span></a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span></span><br />
<span property="f:durl">The Guardian - <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/sep/19/rabbit-problem-emily-gravett-review"><span style="font-size: x-small;">http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/sep/19/rabbit-problem-emily-gravett-review</span></a></span><br />
<span property="f:durl">The Bookbag - <a href="http://www.thebookbag.co.uk/reviews/index.php?title=The_Rabbit_Problem_by_Emily_Gravett"><span style="font-size: x-small;">http://www.thebookbag.co.uk/reviews/index.php?title=The_Rabbit_Problem_by_Emily_Gravett</span></a></span><span property="f:durl"></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span><br />
<span property="f:durl">Kirkus Reviews - <a href="http://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/childrens-books/emily-gravett/rabbit-problem/"><span style="font-size: x-small;">http://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/childrens-books/emily-gravett/rabbit-problem/</span></a></span> <br />
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This is a really fun book! <em>Little</em> Rose finds a kid in the woods and decides to make him her pet. As he doesn’t speak but just squeaks, Rose will call it Squeaker. But, when she sees it, mother bear doesn’t agree with Rose as she explains very clearly because: "Children make terrible pets". As in <em>Lulu and the Brontosaurus</em>, in <em><strong>Children Make Terrible Pets </strong></em>as well there is a capsizing: the human becomes, despite his will, a pet while animals are portrayed as humans. With backgrounds reproducing wood’s grain and the images centered in warm colors screen-shaped, rounded at the corners, it seems as if the only things missing were knobs and here we would be in front of an old TV screen, ready to assist to the new adventures of those that (maybe because I’m just romantic, or maybe cos’ TV with knobs reminds me of when, kid, I used to look at them) recall so much <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yogi_Bear">Yogi Bear and Bubu</a>, in their nice Yellowstone Park! Only intruders, as usual, men!<br />
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For more information about Peter Brown, here is his <strong>website</strong>: <a href="http://www.peterbrownstudio.com/">http://www.peterbrownstudio.com/</a> <br />
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And some <strong>Interviews</strong><span property="f:durl">:</span> <br />
<span property="f:durl">Seven Impossible Things Before Breakfast - <a href="http://blaine.org/sevenimpossiblethings/?p=1920"><span style="font-size: x-small;">http://blaine.org/sevenimpossiblethings/?p=1920</span></a></span> <br />
Into the Wardrobe - <a href="http://peteredmundlucy7.blogspot.com/2009/07/authorillustrator-interview-peter-brown.html"><span style="font-size: x-small;">http://peteredmundlucy7.blogspot.com/2009/07/authorillustrator-interview-peter-brown.html</span></a><br />
Giggle - <a href="http://ali.blogs.giggle.com/2010/07/15/an-a-list-interview-peter-brown/"><span style="font-size: x-small;">http://ali.blogs.giggle.com/2010/07/15/an-a-list-interview-peter-brown/</span></a><br />
Sory Sleuths - <a href="http://www.storysleuths.com/2010/04/interview-with-peter-brown-curious.html"><span style="font-size: x-small;">http://www.storysleuths.com/2010/04/interview-with-peter-brown-curious.html</span></a><br />
Embracing the Child - <a href="http://www.embracingthechild.org/abrown.html"><span style="font-size: x-small;">http://www.embracingthechild.org/abrown.html</span></a><br />
And a Video-interview: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5w2vC-9An0k"><span style="font-size: x-small;">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5w2vC-9An0k</span></a><br />
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<span property="f:durl"><strong>Reviews</strong>:</span> <br />
<span property="f:durl">100 Scope Notes - <a href="http://100scopenotes.com/2010/11/04/review-children-make-terrible-pets-by-peter-brown/"><span style="font-size: x-small;">http://100scopenotes.com/2010/11/04/review-children-make-terrible-pets-by-peter-brown/</span></a></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span><br />
Seven Impossible Things Before Breakfast - <a href="http://blaine.org/sevenimpossiblethings/?p=2025"><span style="font-size: x-small;">http://blaine.org/sevenimpossiblethings/?p=2025</span></a> (with many illustrations and sketches)<br />
<span property="f:durl">Children's Book Reviews - <a href="http://wordsbymom.com/authors/peter-brown/children-make-terrible-pets/"><span style="font-size: x-small;">http://wordsbymom.com/authors/peter-brown/children-make-terrible-pets/</span></a></span> <br />
<span property="f:durl">Twenty by Jenny - <a href="http://www.twentybyjenny.com/47Books/review/children-make-terrible-pets/"><span style="font-size: x-small;">http://www.twentybyjenny.com/47Books/review/children-make-terrible-pets/</span></a></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span><br />
<span property="f:durl">Kid's Book Buzz - <a href="http://kidsbookbuzz.blogspot.com/2010/10/children-make-terrible-pets-by-peter.html"><span style="font-size: x-small;">http://kidsbookbuzz.blogspot.com/2010/10/children-make-terrible-pets-by-peter.html</span></a></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span><br />
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Let's stay in America, to then move to Holland, with<br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi90tDHIgU13Podcnjm0owtMre8MsvY2-KHKKNkvLeo9X_nOeJLv1o5A2rAM8psNuCsNo6upycH7r5iqjS00b94SlLXCV37sswfsPJZbEoJtuB3-Zw_LDa3f5xq4kmAV-qc5JCTA7vav5j0/s1600/knuffle-bunny-free.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" px="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi90tDHIgU13Podcnjm0owtMre8MsvY2-KHKKNkvLeo9X_nOeJLv1o5A2rAM8psNuCsNo6upycH7r5iqjS00b94SlLXCV37sswfsPJZbEoJtuB3-Zw_LDa3f5xq4kmAV-qc5JCTA7vav5j0/s320/knuffle-bunny-free.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span property="f:durl"><em><strong>Knuffle Bunny Free</strong></em>, by Mo Willems, <a href="http://www.harpercollinschildrens.com/Home/ImprintBooks.aspx?TCId=100&SIId=1703929&ST=7">Balzer & Bray</a>, </span>28th September 2010<br />
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<strong><em>Knuffle Bunny Free</em></strong> is a sequel as well, to be precise it's the picture book closing the trilogy started with <em><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knuffle_Bunny:_A_Cautionary_Tale">Knuffle Bunny, a Cautionary Tale</a></em><em>, </em>and followed by <em><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knuffle_Bunny_Too:_A_Case_of_Mistaken_Identity">Knuffle Bunny, a Case of Mistaken Identity</a>. </em>Another book I had bought during a trip to NY, other case of love at first sight! <br />
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Trixie and Knuffle Bunny are inseparable, since Trixie was as big as this and Knuffle Bunny had just gotten out of his brand new box. For Trixie being at distance from Knuffle Bunny is unbearable (yesterday, the younger kid of my neighbour was desperately crying because he had temporarily lost his favourite game, how to blame him?). Though, if we think of it, from time to time it seems that Knuffle gets lost on purpose. And, to be completely honest, in his profound longing for exploration, he does have a weird taste when he chooses where to go: once he gets lost in the washing machine, then he lands in the arms of Trixie's worse enemy (leaving his double with Trixie)… and, least but not last, while he's on a trip to Holland with the whole family, he decides to make a detour in his own peculiar style (this is the starting point for <em><strong>Knuffle Bunny Free</strong></em>). <br />
For all three books, Willems uses a mixed technique, with pictures (more or less urban) for the backgrounds, and linear drawings for the characters, mainly in pastel tones. All is played on a deliberate ambiguity: real/unreal in the backgrounds wisely in black and white, that make the setting almost universal and in any case knowingly suspended in time, modern interpretation of the old “once upon a time in a faraway land...”; real/unreal for the characters as well and their actions, always suspended amid concrete acts and imagined ones.<br />
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As you might read in some of the interviews here below, Mo Willems has a background in television, theatre and animation, during his career he has obtained: 3 <a href="http://www.ala.org/.../caldecottmedal/caldecotthonors/caldecottmedal.cfm">Caldecott Honors</a>, 2 <a href="http://www.ala.org/.../geiselaward/geiselawardpastwinners/index.cfm">Geisel Medals</a>, 2 <a href="http://www.carnegiegreenaway.org.uk/carnegie/carn.html">Carnegie Medals</a>, 6 <a href="http://www.emmys.tv/">Emmys</a>! Amid his many books: very famous is <em><a href="http://www.pigeonpresents.com/book-info.aspx?bid=14">Don't Let the Pidgeon Drive the Bus</a>, and the beautiful series of the books for younger kids <a href="http://mowillemsstuff.blogspot.com/2010/08/we-are-in-book.html">Elephant and Piggie</a>, <a href="http://mowillemsstuff.blogspot.com/2009/10/cat-cat-who-is-that.html">Cat the Cat</a> and <a href="http://mowillemsstuff.blogspot.com/2009/06/big-frog-cant-fit-in.html">Big Frog</a>, just to mention a few. What strikes me about his art is the extremely linear and simple characters, on which he inserts themes that are deeply rooted in childhood.</em><br />
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<strong>To get to know Mo Willems a bit more<span property="f:durl">:</span></strong> <br />
<span property="f:durl">Site <a href="http://www.mowillems.com/">http://www.mowillems.com/</a></span> <br />
<span property="f:durl">Blog <a href="http://mowillemsdoodles.blogspot.com/">http://mowillemsdoodles.blogspot.com/</a></span> <br />
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<span property="f:durl"><strong>Intervews</strong>:</span> <br />
<span property="f:durl">Seven Impossible Things Before Breakfast - <a href="http://blaine.org/sevenimpossiblethings/?p=863"><span style="font-size: x-small;">http://blaine.org/sevenimpossiblethings/?p=863</span></a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> - </span><a href="http://blaine.org/sevenimpossiblethings/?p=841"><span style="font-size: x-small;">http://blaine.org/sevenimpossiblethings/?p=841</span></a></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: small;">Book Trust Children's Books - <a href="http://www.booktrustchildrensbooks.org.uk/show/feature/Features%20Interviews/Interview-with-Mo-Willems"><span style="font-size: x-small;">http://www.booktrustchildrensbooks.org.uk/show/feature/Features%20Interviews/Interview-with-Mo-Willems</span></a></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: small;">Trap Door Sun - </span><a href="http://www.trapdoorsun.com/literature/mo-willems.aspx">http://www.trapdoorsun.com/literature/mo-willems.aspx</a></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: small;">Scholastic -</span> <a href="http://www2.scholastic.com/browse/article.jsp?id=7518">http://www2.scholastic.com/browse/article.jsp?id=7518</a></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: small;">At Home Dad - </span><a href="http://www.athomedad.org/node/605">http://www.athomedad.org/node/605</a></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: small;">Babble - </span><a href="http://www.babble.com/content/articles/columns/5minutetimeout/mo-willems-a-chat-with-the-creator-of-knuffle-bunny-too/">http://www.babble.com/content/articles/columns/5minutetimeout/mo-willems-a-chat-with-the-creator-of-knuffle-bunny-too/</a></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: small;">Reading Rockets - </span><a href="http://www.readingrockets.org/books/interviews/willems/transcript">http://www.readingrockets.org/books/interviews/willems/transcript</a> <span style="font-size: small;">and</span> <a href="http://www.readingrockets.org/books/interviews/willems/transcript">http://www.readingrockets.org/books/interviews/willems/transcript</a></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: small;">Just One More Book - </span><a href="http://www.justonemorebook.com/2007/05/14/interview-with-mo-willems/">http://www.justonemorebook.com/2007/05/14/interview-with-mo-willems/</a> </span>(audio)<br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: small;">School Library Journal - </span><a href="http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/article/CA6304810.html">http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/article/CA6304810.html</a> </span><span style="font-size: small;">(video)</span><br />
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<span property="f:durl"><strong>Reviews</strong>:</span> <br />
<span property="f:durl"></span><span property="f:durl">Publishers' Weekly - <a href="http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/childrens/childrens-authors/article/44415-mo-willems-on-knuffle-bunny-free-.html"><span style="font-size: x-small;">http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/childrens/childrens-authors/article/44415-mo-willems-on-knuffle-bunny-free-.html</span></a> </span> <br />
<span property="f:durl">100 Scopenotes - <a href="http://100scopenotes.com/2010/09/07/review-knuffle-bunny-free/"><span style="font-size: x-small;">http://100scopenotes.com/2010/09/07/review-knuffle-bunny-free/</span></a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span></span> <br />
<span property="f:durl">The Seattle Times - <a href="http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/books/2013051230_kidsbooksmowilliems02.html?syndication=rss"><span style="font-size: x-small;">http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/books/2013051230_kidsbooksmowilliems02.html?syndication=rss</span></a></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span><br />
<span property="f:durl">Flying Giggles and Lollipops - <a href="http://www.flyinggigglesandlollipops.com/2010/10/knuffle-bunny-free-giveaway.html"><span style="font-size: x-small;">http://www.flyinggigglesandlollipops.com/2010/10/knuffle-bunny-free-giveaway.html</span></a></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span><br />
<span property="f:durl">Brimful Curiosities - <a href="http://www.brimfulcuriosities.com/2010/09/knuffle-bunny-free-by-mo-willems-book.html"><span style="font-size: x-small;">http://www.brimfulcuriosities.com/2010/09/knuffle-bunny-free-by-mo-willems-book.html</span></a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span><br />
<span property="f:durl">Two Writing Teachers - <a href="http://twowritingteachers.wordpress.com/2010/10/03/knuffle3/"><span style="font-size: x-small;">http://twowritingteachers.wordpress.com/2010/10/03/knuffle3/</span></a></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span><br />
<span property="f:durl">Script PS News - <a href="http://www.scrippsnews.com/content/corner-mo-willems-knuffle-bunny-free-city-dog-country-frog"><span style="font-size: x-small;">http://www.scrippsnews.com/content/corner-mo-willems-knuffle-bunny-free-city-dog-country-frog</span></a></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span><br />
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Let's stay in America with: <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEga9l5rMizhbQGbSCPvmiVlLrEs5_9iqfuzC_ic1HI5SXtSC9KP1D8x-0PhyGQDU9vJX891_sJIHAZFF5C2edyewnrv2ii_7MxGc-462O3nxkDZcYivyGN7rUDAnZpHDJimo05jVeCufNUv/s1600/13-words.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" px="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEga9l5rMizhbQGbSCPvmiVlLrEs5_9iqfuzC_ic1HI5SXtSC9KP1D8x-0PhyGQDU9vJX891_sJIHAZFF5C2edyewnrv2ii_7MxGc-462O3nxkDZcYivyGN7rUDAnZpHDJimo05jVeCufNUv/s320/13-words.jpg" width="253" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span property="f:durl"><strong><em>13 Words</em></strong>, by Lemony Snicket, illustrations by Maira Kalman, <a href="http://www.harpercollins.com/">HarperCollins</a>, </span><span lang="en-US"></span>5th October 2010 </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;"><strong><em>13 Words </em></strong>is the newborn by Lemony Snicket, a.k.a Daniel Handler (author, scriptwriter and accordionist) and Maira Kalman (eminent illustrator and designer and cover-maker for the <a href="http://www.mairakalman.com/newyorkercover.html">New Yorker</a>)! Well, I guess it's already enough, isn't it? Are you wondering about the story? Which story? There's no story, there are just those thirteen words:</div><br />
1. Bird<br />
2. Despondent<br />
3. Cake<br />
4. Dog<br />
5. Busy<br />
6. Convertible<br />
7. Goat<br />
8. Hat<br />
9. Haberdashery<br />
10. Scarlet<br />
11. Baby<br />
12. Panache<br />
13. Mezzo-Soprano <br />
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What do these words mean all together? I can't tell you, I'd otherwise reveal unmentionable secrets, and I would ruin the surprise!<br />
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The only treat I can grant is the book's trailer: <br />
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Georgia Serif, Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><strong></strong></span></span></span><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Georgia Serif, Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"></span></span></span><div style="margin-bottom: 0.42cm;"><strong>Wanna know more about author and illustrator?</strong></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0.42cm;"><span property="f:durl">Lemony Snicket - Site <a href="http://www.lemonysnicket.com/">http://www.lemonysnicket.com/</a></span> </div><div style="margin-bottom: 0.42cm;"><span property="f:durl">Maira Kalman - Site <a href="http://www.mairakalman.com/">http://www.mairakalman.com/</a></span> </div><span property="f:durl"></span> <br />
<span property="f:durl"><strong>Interviews with Lemony Snicket</strong>:</span> <br />
<span property="f:durl">Parent Dish - <a href="http://www.parentdish.com/2010/10/05/lemony-snicket-gets-persnickety-with-pdish/"><span style="font-size: x-small;">http://www.parentdish.com/2010/10/05/lemony-snicket-gets-persnickety-with-pdish/</span></a></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span><br />
<span property="f:durl">Browse Inside: <a href="http://browseinside.harpercollinschildrens.com/index.aspx?isbn13=9780061664656"><span style="font-size: x-small;">http://browseinside.harpercollinschildrens.com/index.aspx?isbn13=9780061664656</span></a> </span> <br />
<span property="f:durl"></span>About Creativity - <a href="http://about-creativity.com/2007/06/an-interview-with-daniel-handler-aka-lemony-snicket-part-1.php"><span style="font-size: x-small;">http://about-creativity.com/2007/06/an-interview-with-daniel-handler-aka-lemony-snicket-part-1.php</span></a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span><br />
About.com -<span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span><a href="http://fictionwriting.about.com/od/interviews/a/lemony.htm"><span style="font-size: x-small;">http://fictionwriting.about.com/od/interviews/a/lemony.htm</span></a><br />
The Telegraph UK -<span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span><a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/7157019/Lemony-Snicket-Interview.html"><span style="font-size: x-small;">http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/7157019/Lemony-Snicket-Interview.html</span></a><br />
The Washington Post, Kids' Stuff -<span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/29/AR2006092901307.html"><span style="font-size: x-small;">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/29/AR2006092901307.html</span></a><br />
Book Browse - <a href="http://www.bookbrowse.com/author_interviews/full/index.cfm?author_number=500"><span style="font-size: x-small;">http://www.bookbrowse.com/author_interviews/full/index.cfm?author_number=500</span></a><br />
Combustible Celluliod -<span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span><a href="http://www.combustiblecelluloid.com/interviews/danielhandler.shtml"><span style="font-size: x-small;">http://www.combustiblecelluloid.com/interviews/danielhandler.shtml</span></a><br />
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<strong>Interviews with Maira Kalman:</strong><br />
Inspiration Boards - <a href="http://inspirationboards.blogspot.com/2008/03/maira-kalman.html"><span style="font-size: x-small;">http://inspirationboards.blogspot.com/2008/03/maira-kalman.html</span></a><br />
Design Sponge - <a href="http://www.designspongeonline.com/2010/10/whats-in-your-toolbox-maira-kalman.html"><span style="font-size: x-small;">http://www.designspongeonline.com/2010/10/whats-in-your-toolbox-maira-kalman.html</span></a><br />
The Design Files - <a href="http://thedesignfiles.net/2008/03/maira-kalman/"><span style="font-size: x-small;">http://thedesignfiles.net/2008/03/maira-kalman/</span></a><br />
Bygone Bureau - <a href="http://bygonebureau.com/2009/09/07/the-life-pursuit-an-interview-with-maira-kalman/"><span style="font-size: x-small;">http://bygonebureau.com/2009/09/07/the-life-pursuit-an-interview-with-maira-kalman/</span></a><br />
Nasheville Review - <a href="http://www.vanderbilt.edu/english/nashvillereview/archives/1305"><span style="font-size: x-small;">http://www.vanderbilt.edu/english/nashvillereview/archives/1305</span></a><br />
10 Answers -<span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span><a href="http://10answers.net/2010/10/06/maira-kalman/"><span style="font-size: x-small;">http://10answers.net/2010/10/06/maira-kalman/</span></a><br />
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<span property="f:durl"><strong>Reviews</strong>:</span> <br />
<span property="f:durl">Flavorpill - <a href="http://flavorpill.com/sanfrancisco/events/2010/9/29/maira-kalman-and-lemony-snicket-13-words"><span style="font-size: x-small;">http://flavorpill.com/sanfrancisco/events/2010/9/29/maira-kalman-and-lemony-snicket-13-words</span></a> </span> <br />
<span property="f:durl">SFGate.com - <a href="http://articles.sfgate.com/2010-09-26/books/24097018_1_trade-books-lemony-snicket-schwartz-wade"><span style="font-size: x-small;">http://articles.sfgate.com/2010-09-26/books/24097018_1_trade-books-lemony-snicket-schwartz-wade</span></a></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span><br />
<span property="f:durl">TimeOut Kids - <a href="http://newyorkkids.timeout.com/articles/books/89124/13-words-by-lemony-snicket-and-maira-kalman-book-review"><span style="font-size: x-small;">http://newyorkkids.timeout.com/articles/books/89124/13-words-by-lemony-snicket-and-maira-kalman-book-review</span></a></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span><br />
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Since we're here, let's end our imaginary trip in the States with:<br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6UTjy6GkvXso-5UsahSw0gT38lE9mbthnKZ4oX6CGVOxtaqKeTTKaRwSBraZJu9gPqpMedIyZKo5-w6y2iktQqjg19k9BtRuuSAMYVUfAduJcVROCgdsxfBRdqs6EH913XV3OUaVtXS8z/s1600/ASickDay.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="294" px="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6UTjy6GkvXso-5UsahSw0gT38lE9mbthnKZ4oX6CGVOxtaqKeTTKaRwSBraZJu9gPqpMedIyZKo5-w6y2iktQqjg19k9BtRuuSAMYVUfAduJcVROCgdsxfBRdqs6EH913XV3OUaVtXS8z/s320/ASickDay.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><strong><em>A Sick Day for Amos McGee</em></strong>, by Philip C. Stead, illustrations by Erin E. Stead, <a href="http://us.macmillan.com/RoaringBrook.aspx">A Neal Porter Book/Roaring Brook Press</a>, May 2010 </div><br />
Comedy of surreal the story of Amos McGee, guardian of the City Zoo, friend of the shy penguin, the elephant, the turtle, the rhino and the owl. Amos is a scrupulous guardian, every animal gets his attentions and care: he plays chess with the Elephant, makes races with the Turtle, sits close to the Penguin, blows the Rhino's nose and tells stories to the Owl when it's dark. Everything proceeds as established since, one morning, Amos gets up sick. And now? Well, the City Zoo animals decide to get the bus and go and see him, to take care of their friend. Comedy of surreal, true, but I shall say comedy on friendship as well, of that kind of friendship where you take care of one another without need to say much more. This reminds me of one personal episode: two years ago I fell and badly hurt my ankle, I couldn't walk for a while, and my friend Francesca came at my place, she set the table with care, she prepared a delicious meal (and who knows her well can see how exceptional this act was) and she kept me company happily twittering in the house. What else is friendship other than that? <br />
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The curious thing about this book is that author and illustrator are husband and wife, and they clearly share much more than a roof: fruit of two creativities and one clear empathy, this story is told with great harmony and sensibility, with a careful balancing between what is narrated and what is left unsaid. As Betsy Bird, in her <a href="http://blog.schoollibraryjournal.com/afuse8production/">A Fuse#8 Production Blog</a>, righteously observes there is a wise balance in the script between the first and the second part of the book. Corollary of the main event, Erin Stead adds many little details in the background, almost invisible, that enrich the story on tiptoes. Erin E. Stead's illustrations are beautiful both for the persona's characterization and for the gentleness they communicate, sensible eye of a whole range of feelings that can't be told with words. A book you shouldn't loose!!!<br />
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<strong>Here the sites of Philip and Erin Stead</strong>: <br />
Philip Setad - Sito <a href="http://www.philipstead.com/">http://www.philipstead.com/</a><br />
Erin Stead - Blog <a href="http://blog.erinstead.com/">http://blog.erinstead.com/</a><br />
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<strong>Interviews</strong>:<br />
<span property="f:durl">Seven Impossible Things Before Breakfast - <a href="http://blaine.org/sevenimpossiblethings/?p=1723"><span style="font-size: x-small;">http://blaine.org/sevenimpossiblethings/?p=1723</span></a></span> <br />
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<span property="f:durl"><strong>Reviews</strong>:</span> <br />
<span property="f:durl">The New York Times - <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/07/books/review/VonDrasek-t.html"><span style="font-size: x-small;">http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/07/books/review/VonDrasek-t.html</span></a></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span><br />
<span property="f:durl">A Fuse#8 Production - <a href="http://blog.schoollibraryjournal.com/afuse8production/2010/04/07/review-of-the-day-a-sick-day-for-amos-mcgee-by-philip-c-stead/"><span style="font-size: x-small;">http://blog.schoollibraryjournal.com/afuse8production/2010/04/07/review-of-the-day-a-sick-day-for-amos-mcgee-by-philip-c-stead/</span></a></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span><br />
Seven Impossible Things Before Breakfast - <a href="http://blaine.org/sevenimpossiblethings/?p=1950"><span style="font-size: x-small;">http://blaine.org/sevenimpossiblethings/?p=1950</span></a><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span><br />
<span property="f:durl">Kids Lit - <a href="http://kidslit.menashalibrary.org/2010/05/07/sick-day-for-amos-mcgee/"><span style="font-size: x-small;">http://kidslit.menashalibrary.org/2010/05/07/sick-day-for-amos-mcgee/</span></a></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span><br />
<span property="f:durl">SC Whiddon Art - <a href="http://scwhiddonart.blogspot.com/2010/06/illustrator-erin-e-stead.html"><span style="font-size: x-small;">http://scwhiddonart.blogspot.com/2010/06/illustrator-erin-e-stead.html</span></a></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span><br />
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<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Georgia Serif, Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="en-US"></span></span></span>In an interesting article titled <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/07/books/review/VonDrasek-t.html">Reading Dogs and Untrained Boys</a>, from the columns of <strong>The New York Times</strong>, Lisa Von Drasek analyzes two of the picture books I just told you about: <strong><em>A Sick Day for Amos McGee</em></strong> and <strong><em>Children Make Terrible Pets</em></strong>, emphasising the ironic side, comedy of the absurd, with that touch of inconsistency that never gets old, not even after the nth reading.</div><br />
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Some of the books I have mentioned appear in the <em>New York Times Best Illustrated Children's Books of 2010 selection</em>: <a href="http://events.nytimes.com/gift-guide/holiday-2010/best-illustrated-childrens-books-2010/list.html">http://events.nytimes.com/gift-guide/holiday-2010/best-illustrated-childrens-books-2010/list.html</a>. <br />
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