This book is a simple depiction of a mother and daughter taking a trip to their local market. The reader is privy to a range of experiences, including a diverse set of foods and goods, sold by a multi-cultural and multi-ethnic array of tradespeople. … [Read more...]
Triangle at the Circus [Triangolo al circo]
This early concept book provides a selection of vivid representations of the circus for young people to explore. Clowns juggle, trumpeters trumpet, a snake-charmer charms a snake. Children will be able to interact with the joyous depiction of circus … [Read more...]
Tripes and Onions [Szalontüdö]
Live action films appear infrequently in the corpus, as do Hungarian films. This live action short is similar to French Roast in its use of an upside-down protagonist: a scruffy man, perhaps homeless, appears to eat the lunch of a Hungarian … [Read more...]
Two Friends [Deux Amis]
The animation in this French film is comparable to that of November [Novembre]. An unlikely friendship between a tadpole and caterpillar progresses as each grows up into two very different beings: a frog and a butterfly. The film centres the classic … [Read more...]
View from Above [Vu d’en haut]
This short early concept book is stylistically bold and uses a simple premise: what do things look like from above? A hot summer day is the scene of the story: readers will be able to spot the bird’s eye view of a small town with hot yellow lawns … [Read more...]
Walls Walls [Murs murs]
This highly ambiguous picturebook presents a sophisticated and atmospheric narrative about relocation and identity within time and space. A girl views a new home with her parents. While the parents are led by the estate agent, the girl wanders on her … [Read more...]
The Illustrated City [Kuvitettu kaupunki]
This challenging film is themed around the social unrest that underpins so many periods of change in European history. The film chronicles the frenetic and politically dramatic passage of time in an unnamed city via the story of an individual wall in … [Read more...]
The Mediterranean [Mediterraneo]
This example of a picturebook dealing with the theme of the migrant crisis is less hopeful than the others. Indeed, the picturebook can be read as a memorial for the lives lost in the passage across the Mediterranean. The story opens with the stark … [Read more...]
The Prince Charming / The Purple Princess [Il principi azurro / La principessa fuxia]
This is the second reversible picturebook in the corpus: the other is the Migrating [Migrando] which is themed around the migrant crisis. The wordless form is to put to use to provide two different ways of consider the same story. One side of the … [Read more...]
