Consciousness-expanding

April 7, 2011

 This year’s glorious winner of Bologna Ragazzi Award in the category Non Fiction: Iwona Chmielewska’s A House of The Mind: MAUM (text by Kim Hee-Kyung), Changbi Publishers, Republic of Korea

 

 

Waiting queue

April 7, 2011

during the prize giving ceremony in Palazzo Comunale. Right at the head, radiant with happi- ness – our "Opera Prima": Gabriela Cichowska.

 

On top of the shelf

April 3, 2011

FANTJE at Giannino Stoppani’s wonderful Libreria per Ragazzi

An Accident

March 9, 2011

A table cloth, a moment of inadvertence and …

a stain, burnt into it.

An everyday situation.

But what if …

the table cloth is a keep-sake,

and mom’s keep-sakes, at least this one, is invaluable (it is from grandma!),

and mom herself is going to be back any moment?

Neither the wisest advice of an owl (or internet) nor a prayer can help here.

But an idea …

An idea that – this is pretty sure – will you make you go into rhapsodies.

This beautiful, truely poetic picture book by Iwona Chmielewska, the winner of the Bologna Ragazzi Award 2011, is published by the South Korean publishing house Nonjang.

Publishers on your marks!

Bologna Ragazzi Award 2011

February 21, 2011

This week could not have begun better: Gabriela Cichowska, the illustrator of Fantje, received an Honorable Mention in the category Opera Prima. So proud of her!

But Gabriela is not the only one from Poland: Iwona Chmielewska’s House of the Mind: MAUM (text: Kim Hee-Kyung) is the winner of the category “Non Fiction”, and Aleksandra & Daniel Mizieliński got an Honorable Mention in this category for their What Will Become of You? (Co z ciebie wyrośnie?). Congrats!

Just in time

February 8, 2011

3 minutes before Bohdan Butenko’s 80th birthday is over

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
STO LAT!

Little Green Goose

January 23, 2011

While working on a new book, we – Zarafa and my humble self – have been nominated by the K. I. Gałczyński Foundation for the Little Green Goose, a highly coveted award for children’s books. Keep your fingers crossed!

The best gift

December 25, 2010

of course;-), I made myself, buying this wonderful book, containing 45 haiku animals.

I read a book -
Somewhere within the book
an insect chirps

Tomiyasu Fusei

No two snowflakes are alike

December 24, 2010

What a relief to know!

Un’arancia che viene da lontano

December 23, 2010

Long long ago – in the days of Edward Gierek to be precise – , Polish children used to receive one orange a year. One REAL orange. Ripe, sweet and juicy, and glowing like the setting sun. A sacred fruit, coming directly from the Vatican. Un’arancia che viene da lontano … Not to be compared with the oranges sent by Fidel Castro, which at the time of their arrival – usually before Christmas – were hopelessly green and sour. We had to store them above our cupboard for a month at least, before trying. But even waiting for such a long time did not pay off. All that changed was their colour (from green to a pale yellow). The worst part about all this: They were sapless, containing not a drop of juice. Naranjas de la revolución.