This father and son tale is about the apathy and low mood caused by overwork and isolation. A father is miserable at work while his son, still young, is optimistic about going to school. The son’s cheerful moods get more and more repressed as his … [Read more...]
Punainen Lanka [Red Thread]
This Finnish wordless picturebook is self-published by the artist Filippa Hella. It uses a simple concept: a girl plays with a ball of red wool in negative space. The red thread rises above her and becomes all sorts of different things — a heart rate … [Read more...]
Isän Poika [Papa’s Boy]
This CGI short film, co-produced in Ireland and Finland, is about masculinity and femininity. The film was originally prepared as part of a project celebrating the music of Chopin. Although knowledge of Chopin is by no mean requisite to the success … [Read more...]
Guarda Fuori [Look Outside]
Although summertime on the beach is a common theme across the corpus, representations of winter are harder to come by. The magical experience of witnessing a new snowfall for the first time is encapsulated in this charming tale. Two children look out … [Read more...]
Ice Dream
A penguin at an oceanarium dreams of becoming an ice cream seller. He uses the snow in his pen to imitate the actions of the vendor who sells ice creams on the other side of the glass. He escapes the pen and makes his way into the ice cream stall to … [Read more...]
Dans sa bulle [In a Bubble]
This picturebook is, along with Bokstavsbarn [Falling Letters], the only text in the corpus to consider the topic of disability. It is the only work to represent deafness. The story represents a happy, regular day in the life of a young girl. Some … [Read more...]
Ferdo, veliki ptič [Ferdo the Giant Bird]
This work is the only Slovenian text in the corpus. Ferdo is a giant bird who lives peaceably with the villagers. He is hard at work assisting in the construction of new buildings, but when he goes to the well to take a drink of water, he drinks the … [Read more...]
Ciao Ciao Giocattoli [Goodbye Toys]
This intriguing wordless picturebook is about saying goodbye to possessions after moving house, which thematically connects the book to another title in the corpus, Balbúrdia [Shambles]. The experience of moving to a new town and a new house is … [Read more...]
Bokstavsbarn [Falling Letters]
This tender film comes from Sweden and Denmark. It is one of the only Cultural Texts in the corpus to address disability (the other is In A Bubble [Dans sa bulle]). The film spotlights learning difficulties in the classroom in this beautiful and … [Read more...]
