Captains of Illustration. 100 Years of Children's Books from Poland

Captains of Illustration. 100 Years of Children's Books from Poland
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 498
Release: 2019
Genre:
ISBN: 9788360263570

Captains of Illustration' is an A-Z anthology dedicated to the legacies of illustrators whose works cover the century between Polish independence in 1918 up through 2018 (...) A team of eleven experts in the field of illustration ? historians, researchers and artists ? came together to highlight and share the most interesting themes and anecdotes of the period through the works of Polish illustrators. They arranged 100 keywords alphabetically, covering subjects and stories that artists brought to life, yet also the methods and techniques they used, along with the trends and stylistic inspirations that motivated them. - Anita Wincencjusz-Patyna, 'Captains of Illustration' editor.

Photography in Children's Literature

Photography in Children's Literature
Author: Elina Druker
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Total Pages: 324
Release: 2023-10-15
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9027249261

Photography in Children’s Literature is the first study that examines the wide array of artistic techniques, topics, and genres used within photographic books for children. Covering a time period from the 1870s to the 1980s, the collection offers multifaceted insights into changing perceptions of children and childhood during an era when the world changed in unprecedented ways. More than sixty full-color illustrations demonstrate an impressive variety of genres, from ABC books, concept books, and country portraits to photo reportage and poetry. By discussing photographic books from ten countries and three continents, the collection offers an international scope, providing a glimpse into the production and reception of photography in children’s literature in a range of contexts and cultures. Photographic books for children thus open up new vistas for scholars interested in an interdisciplinary and transnational investigation of children’s literature, text and images, across the centuries.

When I Wore My Sailor Suit

When I Wore My Sailor Suit
Author: Uri Shulevitz
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 45
Release: 2009-09
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0374347492

A young child spends the day imagining himself to be a sailor on a grand adventure.

Forest Beekeeper and the Treasure of Pushcha

Forest Beekeeper and the Treasure of Pushcha
Author: Tomasz Samojlik
Publisher: Centrala
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2015-12
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN: 9780992908201

In the depths of pushcha, an ancient woodland, Ignat the beekeeper tends bees in beehives up in the trees, just as his father, grandfather, and their forefathers did. People say that Ignat gets everything he needs from the forest, that he knows every backwood and passage in the pushcha, that he talks with animals and trees... Even though Ignat lives in a world outside time, history does not slow down. The peaceful life according to old lore is abruptly interrupted. Pushcha falls into the hands of new owners. But Ignat will not rest in his quest to save the forest. It is his pushcha.

100 Great Children's Picturebooks

100 Great Children's Picturebooks
Author: Martin Salisbury
Publisher: Laurence King Publishing
Total Pages: 216
Release: 2015-05-05
Genre: Design
ISBN: 9781780674087

This unashamed visual feast celebrates the best designed and illustrated picturebooks from around the world over the past one hundred years. Each book is a creation of genius and inventiveness, and their design and illustration represent such diverse trends as the Russian Constructivists, Italian Futurists, and Postwar Neo-romantics. They are also mirrors of their times reflecting social concerns from a child's and family's perspectives throughout the twentieth and into the twenty-first century. Fearlessly confronting the frontiers between a child's picturebook and art, this is a collection of books that anyone with an interest in design, illustration, or simply children's literature should know about.

Emile

Emile
Author: Tomi Ungerer
Publisher: Phaidon Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2019-02-11
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9780714849737

Tells the story of Emile, a brave and helpful octopus.

The Endless Steppe

The Endless Steppe
Author: Esther Hautzig
Publisher: Harper Collins
Total Pages: 260
Release: 1995-05-12
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 006440577X

Exiled to Siberia In June 1942, the Rudomin family is arrested by the Russians. They are "capitalists -- enemies of the people." Forced from their home and friends in Vilna, Poland, they are herded into crowded cattle cars. Their destination: the endless steppe of Siberia. For five years, Ester and her family live in exile, weeding potato fields and working in the mines, struggling for enough food and clothing to stay alive. Only the strength of family sustains them and gives them hope for the future.

The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins

The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins
Author: Dr. Seuss
Publisher: RH Childrens Books
Total Pages: 29
Release: 2013-09-24
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 038537349X

As topical today as when it was first published in 1938, this book tells of Bartholomew Cubbins (from Caldecott Honor winner Bartholomew and the Oobleck) and his unjust treatment at the hands of King Derwin. Each time Bartholomew attempts to obey the king’s order to take off his hat, he finds there is another hat on his head. Soon it is Bartholomew’s head that is in danger . . . of being chopped off! While The 500 Hats is one of Dr. Seuss’s earliest works, it is nevertheless totally Seussian, addressing subjects that we know the good doctor was passionate about: abuse of power (as in Yertle the Turtle), rivalry (as in The Sneetches), and of course, zany good humor!

Prisoner B-3087

Prisoner B-3087
Author: Alan Gratz
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Total Pages: 190
Release: 2013-03-01
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0545520711

From Alan Gratz, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Refugee, comes this wrenching novel about one boy's struggle to survive ten concentration camps during the Holocaust. Based on the inspiring true life story of Jack Gruener. 10 concentration camps. 10 different places where you are starved, tortured, and worked mercilessly. It's something no one could imagine surviving. But it is what Yanek Gruener has to face. As a Jewish boy in 1930s Poland, Yanek is at the mercy of the Nazis who have taken over. Everything he has, and everyone he loves, have been snatched brutally from him. And then Yanek himself is taken prisoner -- his arm tattooed with the words PRISONER B-3087. He is forced from one nightmarish concentration camp to another, as World War II rages all around him. He encounters evil he could have never imagined, but also sees surprising glimpses of hope amid the horror. He just barely escapes death, only to confront it again seconds later. Can Yanek make it through the terror without losing his hope, his will -- and, most of all, his sense of who he really is inside? Based on an astonishing true story.

Between the Lines

Between the Lines
Author: Jodi Picoult
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 384
Release: 2013-06-25
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1451635818

Told in their separate voices, sixteen-year-old Prince Oliver, who wants to break free of his fairy-tale existence, and fifteen-year-old Delilah, a loner obsessed with Prince Oliver and the book in which he exists, work together to seek his freedom.