Although any day is a good day to buy a book, today, International Book Day, is a good day to give a book to each member of your family, for this I have prepared a selection with five classics of children's literature to give your baby The International Book Day.
A selection with a bit of everything from classics 50 years ago essential in a children's library, even interactive digital books for your child to have fun with all the animals in the zoo.
"Avec Quelques Briques" by Vincent Godeau
The creative pop up book "Avec Quelques Briques" by Vincent Godeau that translated into Spanish, would be 'With some bricks', is a pop up book that explores the feelings that appear during childhood, with a beautiful graphic image very powerful.
The book illustrates a child who devours bricks, to build a fort around the heart and thus become strong. In this great castle jealously guard your heart, where you live quietly and oblivious to the world. But one night of great sadness, the feelings overflow, and the fort can't stand ...
At the moment 'Avec Quelques Briques' by Vincent Godeau is only edited by Editions L'Agrume in French, but with the small amount of text there is easy to translate, in addition to this way you open your mind to new languages.
It only has 20 pages, 10 deployable with some pop up's impresionates with a format of 21x15 cm, published in French, with a price of 16 euros, you can buy it in the store on-line from the publisher.
"Books!" by John Alcorn and Murray McCain
"Books!" by John Alcorn and Murray McCain, a great little book. How to tell a child what a book is? This is what Murray McCain and John Alcorn were plated in 1962 to create this book, resulting in "Books!" one of the most valued works in the history of children's illustrated book. An essential classic for readers and design lovers. Now after 50 years of its publication, it has been edited in Spain by Gustavo Gili.
Through a rhythmic textual and visual game of questions, answers, assertions and exclamations, the small reader of this volume will discover that the book is object, industry, text, language, knowledge, emotion, learning, fun, typography, reading, image, design, edition and, ultimately, an open window to all.
A great tribute to the books, to how important they are for our intellectual and artistic development, a small jewel of great beauty that will not resist you, both for its design, as for the color of its illustrations or the eloquence of its text.
"Books!" It is one of those artistic pieces that should not be missing in the library of every lover of reading, books, design and children's illustration. A unique object that will captivate and interest any reader, even if it was created fifty years ago, it's absolutely current. Alcorn seduces us with his work, we will enjoy his illustrations, his words, and his graphic and editorial design, since it is printed in fluorescent inks.
"Henri travels to Paris" by Saul Bass
An editorial marvel comes to us, Saul Bass's children's book "Henri travels to Paris", typical Saul Bass illustrations, colorful and contrasting, with a vintage look and touches of psychedelia. Written by Leonore Klein and published in Spanish by GG Publishing, it was his first and only children's book, where he tells us as dreams can be realized with only will.
Saul Bass (1920-1996) was a renowned American graphic designer, known for his work in the film industry and for creating some of the most important corporate identities in the United States.
The story tells Henri's trip to Paris, he lives in Reboul, a small town that has only five trees, a bus, a church and a squirrel and had always dreamed of going to Paris. So, one day, Henri decides to prepare a bag with lunch and get on the way to see all the things you have read about.
A beautiful story with beautiful illustrations, simple drawings, of contrasted colors and planes, is a very graphic and psychedelic aesthetic. The book has 48 pages, with a format of 20 x 28 cm and a price of € 18, you can buy it in the store on-line from the website of the Gustavo Gil publishing house.
"Alphabet Book" by Anna Kövecses
Rebeca's illustrated holiday diary by Anna Kövecses, is a brilliant way to learn the alphabet through summer experiences. With a very colorful and visual aesthetic, inspired by the graphics of the 50s.
This book is the result of Anna's personal project of teaching a four-year-old girl, Rebekah, the Hungarian alphabet, the illustrations have been carefully designed and designed for a child to quickly recognize the drawing and it is easy to associate it with its corresponding word.
Anna Kövecses says that It is not a school tool, but a diary of your summer on an island in the Mediterranean Sea, illustrated through 44 summer images associated with the 44 letters of the Hungarian alphabet.
A good way to introduce your children to the alphabet through their own summer experiences, will recognize what they have done in the images and will relate it to the letter, brilliant idea. Go ahead and create your holiday diary / alphabet.
The author comments that despite being written in Hungarian, It can serve as a source of knowledge and inspiration for all those interested in languages or in graphic design and illustration.
In my opinion it is a book that thanks to the simplicity and clarity of its illustrations has a universal language, and that anyone is able to read it despite not knowing how to read or understand Hungarian, both for adults and children. You can buy this beautiful book in the store on-line Blurb for € 33.
"Petting Zoo" by Christoph Niemann
The first interactive illustrated book for iPad, slide and press the 21 animals of Petting Zoo by Christoph Niemann, you will be surprised how they react. What would an elephant do in your bathroom? Can a dog break break?
A story where the animals react when you touch them, and they will move just as you move your fingers to the point of getting the animals to do magical and impossible and very funny things. With a very simple and graphic aesthetic, flat and very colorful colors, it is very pleasant and cheerful.
The users they can slide or touch the creatures and see how they react: If you push the rabbit, it extends towards the edges of the screen or if you touch the crocodile's teeth a melody sounds. It will please young and old.
Niemann describes the application as an "interactive picture book" and nor there are words, because "animals don't speak English" or any other language. It includes thousands of drawings illustrated by hand, in order to then be able to make the animations, in addition to a sound designed by South African electronic musician Markus Wormstorm. Petting Zoo by Christoph Niemann is available in the iTunes store and is compatible with iPhone, iPad and iPod, and is priced at $ 1.99.
"Five senses" by Hervé Tullet
In a list of classics could not miss the great Hervé Tullet, who understands and understands children's language perfectly. In this book published in Spanish by Kókinos, he talks about the senses.
“Who looks at me?”, “Stop screaming!”, “Here it stinks,” “Forbidden to touch!”, “What about eating?”… Words that accompanied by images, colors, games and riddles, invite you to explore the five senses in an original and crazy way. Will there be a sixth sense too ...?
Throughout the book he plays with the different possibilities offered by sight, hearing, smell, touch and taste. Even in the end he makes a wink of humor about a possible sixth sense.
Children are invited to participate in the book with challenges such as "What goes with what ?," Find the couple "," None of these things are eaten except which "," Tell what you see. " The set turns out to be a creativity mini-workshop for children, a waste of imagination that will keep them hypnotized and fun. An essential book, in every way. With a format of 22.5x16.5 cm and a price of 15 euros, you can buy it in the store on-line from Kokinos Editorial itself.
With Master Hervé Tullet I finish this small but large selection of essential classics in a children's library, whether they are in English, French or Hungarian, they are books that cross language barriers, and that with their images, your children will learn, listen and imagine.
Where to buy | "Books!", "Henri travels to Paris", "Alphabet book", "Petting Zoo" and "Five Senses". In Babies and more | Books for restless minds and little fingers by Hervé Tullet
