Tag archive: children’s books

10 artists, writers and musicians who made great art for kids

14 January 2013

Maybe not all artists are children, but many artists have been inspired by childhood to make beautiful art. We had a look at architects, but many writers, visual artists and musicians were inspired to create work for kids too: here are some of our favorites.

1 – Bruno Munari

How not to open with Bruno Munari, an artist who contributed greatly to education and didactic, and whose work, for kids and otherwise, will always be a source of inspiration for us! Remember the series of activities for kids inspired by him we sent out with our newsletter last summer? The list of his work for children is long, but this poster of speaking forks (and the images in the gallery) can give you an idea of his intelligent and playful approach to design.

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10 things from Grimms’ Fairy Tales you got wrong.

20 December 2012

You may have seen the awesome Google Doodle today: one of the best thus far, we think, dedicated to the 200th anniversary of a book that changed children’s lives – the Grimms’ Fairy Tales.

A screenshot of today’s Google Doodle

The Grimm Brothers’ stories have become the classics of children literature, and the stories have been told so many times that, as it happens, sometimes a few details have been changed in the telling, or parts of the stories have been forgotten. Here are a few of them.

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Abstract City – a book for parents, children, and everyone else.

1 June 2012

Here is some good news: Christoph Niemann, one of our heroes, published a new book!


All images via Christoph Niemann

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Write and illustrate your own book. Online.

31 May 2012

It’s called The Adventures of You and I, and it’s an online app by UnderConsideration through which you can create your own customized book.

You can make the main character look like you or whoever you want, choose an adventure with dinosaurs, space travel, a distracted ogre (our favorite) or other fabulous things, then order a book and receive it at home, individually printed and hand bound.

And it’s not just a simple book. It’s a great one! Look:

 

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The coolest Hindu deities around.

30 May 2012

We love Hindu mythology. Of course! What’s not to love about thousands of gods with incredible powers who have a head of elephant, or many arms, or blue skin?

And, even better, sometimes they look like this:


All images by Sanjay Patel

These brilliant illustrations are part of Sanjay Patel‘s new book, Hindu Deities, which we discovered thanks to brainpickings.

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Amazing online collection of rare children’s books

24 May 2012

Just because we are all digital it doesn’t mean we don’t like books. Quite the opposite, we love love love books. And what we love even more is stumbling upon treasures like this: the Library of Congress’ collection of rare classic children’s books… online! Those wonders are just a click away, every single page of them, in high-resolution.

Needless to say, the catalogue is pretty awesome. For instance, there is an 1899 copy of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz which looks like this:

The wonderful wizard of Oz

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Happy Birthday, Dr. Seuss!

2 March 2012

One hundred and eight years ago today, the world welcomed Theodor Seuss Geisel, better-known as Dr. Seuss — legendary children’s book author, radical ideologist, lover of reading. We are celebrating him with one of the first screen adaptations of our favorite title: The Cat in the Hat. Enjoy!

 


Henri’s walk to Paris

13 January 2012

Universe has just reissued one of the rarest children’s book of all time, the only one ever made by designer Saul Bass. It’s the story of a young boy who, after reading a book about Paris, decides to pack a lunch and head for the city.