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Autumn and winter are the best times to visit art galleries, museums and exhibitions. You can also introduce children, big and small, to this hobby through books. What are exhibition halls and storage facilities for, who works there, what happens in them when there are no visitors? Which museums in the world are the most famous and most children’s, how to create your own museum – these questions will be answered in several new books at once.
From one year
“Christmas. Incident in the Museum Gabriel Vincent
In a wonderful series of books by the Belgian artist and storyteller Gabrielle Vincent about the bear Ernest and his “adopted daughter” little mouse Celestine, two stories came out at once under one cover. Ernest will not be able to get a job as a caretaker at the museum, but he will give a big tour of it for the indefatigable Celestine. Monique Martin (this is the real name of Gabriel Vincent) talks about the paintings masterfully: she is a graduate of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Brussels and a talented artist, the author of more than ten thousand works that critics compared with the works of Degas, Matisse and Toulouse-Lautrec. Books about Ernest and Celestine, which brought her worldwide fame, are drawn by her rather than written – and these are masterpieces of children’s illustration.
Translation from French by Daria Sokolova. Melik-Pashaev, 64 p.
From 3 years
“Duck Porridge” Steve Smallman
If your child, having visited some unusual museum – say, marshmallows, mice or packaging – is inspired to create his own museum, then the experience of Mr. Rabbit from Steve Smallman’s Duck Porridge will definitely come in handy. Mr. Rabbit collects beautiful objects he finds himself, and keeps them in perfect order in his perfectly tidied mink. One day he finds an amazing little thing – oval, smooth, white, very pleasant to the touch. “What could it be?” he thinks, wiping it down day after day with a soft cloth. Here we will find out.
Translation from English by Maria Lyudkovskaya. Melik-Pashaev, 32 p.
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From 6 years
“A Day at the Museum” Florence Ducato, Chantal Pétain
Polesh Opens the Museum by Ochil Kanstad Junsen
Two books appeared at once in the museum series of the publishing house “Walking into History” – a book-game by French authors Florence Ducateau and Chantal Pétain, a drawing book by the Norwegian writer and artist Oxil Kanstad Junsen. Both are short, but Let’s Go to the Museum promises to be a long one. “A Day at the Museum” will please readers with a story about a failed robbery and a quiz for a fun evening in the family circle, and the idea of uXNUMXbuXNUMXbthe cute little forest man Polesh to collect his own collection of everything will surely be appreciated by little lovers of “secrets”, secret treasures and other unearthly treasures.
Translation from French by Irina Mikhailova. Walking into history, 32 p.
Translated from Norwegian by Olga Drobot, 32 p.
From 12 years
“Self-Beasts” Sergei Tretyakov, Alexander Rodchenko
The absolutely amazing book “Self-Beasts” is the history of the Russian avant-garde in pictures or – it’s hard to define the genre exactly – in frames of an unfilmed cartoon. A children’s project with poems by Sergei Tretyakov and illustrations (photo works and photo cartoon illustrations for the “New LEF” in 1927) by Alexander Rodchenko and his wife Varvara Stepanova was published in different countries of the world, but never before this moment in Russia. In this version, finally 90 years after the creation of the published version, the French edition is taken as the basis, therefore Tretyakov’s original poems are presented immediately and in a French translation by Valerie Rouzo and Odile Belkeddar. Don’t be alarmed, constructivism is not as incomprehensible to a child’s eye as it is to an adult, Rodchenko is an unforgettable world name, and futurist rhymes like “do not hesitate – under the arm” will prepare the child for school Mayakovsky.
Career Press, 40 p.