world_pictures

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Joxantonio Ormazabal • Iraia Okina
Ilargia esnatu da [The Moon is up]
Elkar, 2012 • ISBN 9788490270448
This album in the Basque language speaks about
death in a nostalgic and optimistic tone. One night
Unai asks his mother about his grandmother.
Unai’s mother tells him about the moments that
he spent with grandmother when he was a child.
She speaks to him about how she lived the death
and the mourning of her mother. She knows
that the love she felt for her is still alive. The
illustrations hold on the story of this album and
intensify the nostalgic atmosphere. The steamed
up colours that are used by the illustrator, the
protagonist’s faces alike sculptures and the
illustrations based in nature cycles intensify
this atmosphere. This album is recommended
for children that are more than 8 years old.
Ipuin ilustratu honetan heriotzaz hitz egiten zaigu, tonu
nostalgiko eta baikorrean.
Bertan kontatzen zaigu nola gau batean Unaik amari
amonari buruz galdetzen dion eta amak kontatzen
dizkio umetan berarekin bizitako hainbat pasadizo, bere
heriotza eta dolua nola bizitu zituen,.. amonarekiko
maitasuna oraindik irauten duela nabarmenduz.
Ilustrazioak narrazioaren bideari eusten dio eta giro
nostalgikoari eta oroimenezkoari indar handiagoa
ematen dio. Kolore lausoak erabiliaz, pertsonaien
karakterizazioan eskultura diruditen aurpegiak erantsiz
eta naturaren zikloetan oinarrituaz.
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Leire Bilbao • Maite Mutuberria, ill.
Gerrak ez du izenik [War does not have a name]
Pamiela, 2013 • ISBN 978-84-7681-802-2
War is the main topic of this album in the Basque
language and the of the album is sad The story
takes place in March 1937, in the initial stages
of the Durango’s (Bizkaia, Spain) bombing. The
narrator notices about the sadness, the bitterness
and the silence that this fact created. A little girl
tells us about the feelings and the memories
of this bombing. The album has both old
photographs about the bombing and illustrations,
so, we can see the contrast between the reality
and the little girl’s perspective. This album is
recommended for children that are more than 10
years old. However, it is preferable to be read with
the mediation of an adult.
Kontakizuna 1937ko martxoan dago kokatuta,
Durangoko bonbardaketaren atarian. Gertaera horrek
eragindako tristura, samina eta isiltasuna azaleratu
ditu narratzaileak neskatila baten begiak, oroimena
eta sentimenduak agerian jarrita. Amaren berotasunak
babestu du neskatila. Ilustrazioak indartsuak dira,
argazkiak eta marrazkiak tartekatuta.
Album hau 10 urtetik gorako neska-mutilentzat
da gomendagarria baina heldu baten bitartekaritza
lagungarri izango da beti.
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Marta Altès
Sóc un artista [I am an artist]
Blackie Books, 2014 • ISBN 9788494167607
Once again, Marta Altès seduces readers from
all ages with her stories and illustrations. In this
book in the Catalan language, the main character
is a very young artist whom, to his mother’s
despair, is always able to find inspiration and
spaces to create his art. To him, his home and the
whole world are a clean canvas that is constantly
available. However, mothers don’t always
understand what children do…
An exciting book that captivates the reader
from the very first page.
Marta Altés sedueix, un cop més, amb les seves històries
i il·lustracions a lectors de totes les edats. En aquest
cas el protagonista és un joveníssim artista que, per
a desesperació de la seva mare, sempre troba motius
d’inspiració i espais on crear. Per a ell, la seva casa,
i el món sencer, són un llenç en blanc sempre a la seva
disposició; però de vegades les mares no entenen allò
que fan els petits ... Un divertidíssim àlbum que captiva
el lector des de la primera pàgina.
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