A WALK THROUGH HISTORY PH Childrens nonfiction books
A WALK THROUGH HISTORY PH Children’s nonfiction books since 2011. We have created and designed more than 50 unique titles dedicated to various periods of history (ancient civilizations, the Middle Ages, contemporary world, and Russian history) and other themes: subway and railroads, football, theatre, alpinism, mathematics, animals and plants.
5 of our books were selected for the exhibition “ 1001 Outstanding International Picturebooks” in Moscow in September 2019 curated by Grazia Gotti, one of the world's experts on children's books, creator of numerous programs and exhibitions at the Bologna Children's Book Fair
FANTASTIC ANIMALS ALL OVER THE WORLD
The titles that were meant to meet you in Bologna 2020 AMAZING PARASITES: plants, fungi, animals By Alyona Vasnetsova Drawings by Fyodor Vladimirov We often use the word parasite meaning a lazy sponger. In biology however, organisms living at the expense of others are called parasites. We are surrounded by these creatures, they are everywhere, sometimes inside us, too! What a huge community! Plants, fungi, insects, even fish, birds and animals! Learn about how parasites live, why they are needed in nature and what use they can be to us.
The titles that were meant to meet you in Bologna 2020 ALL THE WORLD’S A STAGE Story of theatre By Pyotr Vorotyntsev Drawings by Alisa Yufa Humanity has been acting and playing roles from time immemorial. The book explores theatre as an elusive, floating art. The author outlines the evolving dynamics between the actors, director, costume designer, composer and the public. Author investigates the time evolution of relations between actors, screenwriter, costumer, music maker and spectator. The illustrated history of theatre from Ancient Greece till the present. Opera and ballet, puppet shows and street theatre, Noh and kabuki theatre, Shakespeare, Stanislavsky and Meyerhold. Rights sold: China
The titles that were meant to meet you in Bologna 2020 The history of mountaineering By Lada Bakal Drawings by Tatyana Ukleiko This is a unique story of how people changed their view of mountains and mountain climbing. First they saw mountains as an enemy to subjugate but with time the very process of ascent acquired a special meaning for the climbers. The subdued illustrations remind us of vintage postcards from the Alps. Rights sold: China
THE METRO UNDER AND ABOVE THE GROUND: HISTORY OF THE RAILWAY IN PICTURES An amazing picture book about the wheel transport history, the steam engine invention, first locomotives and first railways in Europe and Russia, the history of bicycle design, the first car engine, the world’s first underground in London and metropolitan railways worldwide.
ANIMALS’ WORLD: 3 -5 years and up By Evgenia Gunter Drawings by Natalia Karpova A goodnight book about funny sleeping habits of birds and animals. Do you struggle with putting your child to sleep every night? Mommy Dormouse tells her baby bedtime stories about other animals –where and how they sleep. Flamingoes and hummingbirds, snakes and hedgehogs, elephants and hippos, fish and ants – they all go to sleep! Some sleep in the trees and some underground, some in the water, or in the air, with their eyes open or closed, alone or together with the whole family, or even hanging upside-down. Rights sold: China, Taiwan, Italy
A HAPPY ANIMAL FAMILY
MATHEMATICS: history of ideas
New project: a creative collaboration with an author and a PH: Davide Morosinotto (Italy) and the Russian Edition of his “Red Stars”, a novel about WWII that has been published in German, French, English, Dutch… and now Russian
New project: looking forward to the 60 th anniversary of the first human journey into outer space (12 th of April 1961) INTO SPACE: HOW WE REACHED THE STARS By Andrei Zhvaleuski Drawings by Fyodor Vladimirov Man has always felt a bit crowded on lowed, people immediately rushed into space. Each step was difficult and required sacrifices, sometimes even human ones. We plan to send an astronaut to Mars and colonize the moon, and then. . . Perhaps the readers of this book will be the first pilots of the first interstellar ship of planet Earth.
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