On March 21, 2022, after two years, the offline physical book fair of bologna international children's book fair in Italy was successfully held.
▲The announcement site of the International Hans Christian Andersen Awards
At this high-profile global event for publishers in the children's field, the International Children's Book Alliance (IBBY) announced the main list of this year's Hans Christian Andersen Award, with Suzy Lee, a painter from South Korea, winning the Illustrator Award, and Marie-Aude Murail from France winning the Writer's Award.
Known as the "Nobel Prize in Children's Literature", the International Andersen Prize was established by the International Children's Book Alliance in 1956, named after the fairy tale master Hans Christian Andersen, and is selected every two years to reward outstanding children's book writers and painters around the world, divided into the Writer's Award and the Painter Award. The winner is not awarded for "a certain work", it recognizes the person's literary achievements and achievements in a lifetime, which can only be obtained once in a lifetime, and once obtained, it has a lifetime honor.
When we saw Susie Lee's name in the winner list, it was not a surprise at all, after all, her picture books are too powerful! Not long ago, the winners of the 2022 Bologna Best Children's Book Awards were announced, and Susie Lee's new book "Summer" was nominated for the 2022 Bologna Best Children's Book Awards in the Fiction category.
Relay Press is about to publish Chinese Simplified edition of Summer.
summer
Combining music and painting, this book is inspired by Vivaldi's summer, using scenes of children playing with water to express the summer in music and the real summer that children feel. The book is divided into different movements, distinguished by rich painting techniques, the first movement is made of collage and crayons, the second movement is made of dots and lines, the third movement is made of pastel and acrylic materials, and the back of the book is equipped with a two-dimensional code, which can be enjoyed in conjunction with summer music. Susie Lee not only breaks the boundary between reality and imagination in the form of binding, but also integrates painting and music, bringing children a rich picture book reading experience.
In 2021, Susie Lee won the Special Nomination Award in the Fiction Category of the Bologna Best Children's Book Award for her collaboration with Chinese writer Cao Wenxuan, which won the award for two consecutive years, brushing the screen of major media platforms!
"Rain and Dew" is a picture book dedicated to all the children who insist on their dreams and work hard for it, telling the story of a little girl who plays animation cloth with her own sincerity.
A talented young girl who loves to draw, Yulu, meets a fine canvas, and at first, the canvas thinks that she should belong to a famous painter, and is unmoved by the creation of the little girl, and even destroys. In the end, not only the canvas was touched by the girl's persistence, but even her parents who were distressed. On the one hand, the conflict and reconciliation with the external environment, on the other hand, the identification and acceptance of the self, the girl overcame multiple difficulties, completed a beautiful self-portrait, and achieved self-growth.
Susie Lee has not only emerged in the past two years, and looking back at Susie Lee's award-winning experience, we can see that her success has long been traced:
In 2016, he was shortlisted for the International Hans Christian Andersen Award for Illustrator
In 2019, he won the 60th Korea Publishing Awards "Korea Publishing Culture Award"
In 2020, it was selected into the Annual Honor Roll of the International Children's Book Federation
Her work has been rated as:
Switzerland's "Most Beautiful Book"
"Picture Book of the Year" by the American Association of English Teachers
The New York Times Children's Picture Book of the Year
Cox Review of Books Children's Book of the Year
Illustrators Guild of America Original Art Gold Medal
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Susie Lee's works have been introduced and published by countries and regions around the world, and are loved by children all over the world. Among them, there are the familiar "Zoo", "Xiaojiang", "Hula, Painting!" "Open the Door", "Love You, Love You, My Baby", "Alice in Wonderland", etc., as well as the "Boundary Trilogy" "Shadow", "Waves", "Mirror" that successfully went out of the circle. Among them, the Chinese Simplified edition of "Mirror" will also be published by Relay Press.
mirror
"Mirror" uses the middle seam of the book to divide the world in the book into left and right sides, and two identical little girls do symmetrical movements on the left and right sides across the middle seam, and gradually merge, and then gradually separate, resulting in disagreements. Finally, the little girl on the left pushed the little girl on the right page, and then the right page was broken, and then we found that the right page turned out to be a mirror.
This book takes the middle seam of the book as the core of creativity, which is extremely innovative and imaginative. As a prop that reflects the self and reflects the symmetrical world, the mirror has extremely profound psychological significance. People know themselves and shape themselves through mirrors, but also know others through mirrors and learn to get along with others. The famous French psychoanalyst Lacan called the stage of the child's cognition of himself through the mirror the mirror stage, and this book is also a very good metaphor for this stage.
Let's feel the level of the world's top children's book creators!
Cao Wenxuan
Winner of the 2016 International Hans Christian Andersen Prize for Writers
Cao Wenxuan is a Chinese children's literature writer, professor and doctoral supervisor of the Department of Chinese of Peking University. He is the author of novels such as "Goats Don't Eat Paradise Grass", "Grass House", "Red Tile House, Black Tile House", "Bronze Sunflower", "Fire Seal", "Dragonfly Eyes" and so on. More than 70 works have been translated into English, French, German, Greek, Japanese, Korean, Swedish, Danish, Portuguese, Russian, Italian and other languages. His works have won important awards such as the National Outstanding Children's Literature Award, the China Publishing Government Award, and the National Book Award. In 2016, he won the International Hans Christian Andersen Award for Writers, becoming the first writer in China to receive this honor. He collaborated with Korean illustrator Susie Lee to create the picture book "Rain Dew", with Russian illustrator Igor Onikov to create the picture book "Never Stop Running", and with Brazilian illustrator Roger Miro to create the picture book "Feathers" and "Lemon Butterfly".
Igor Onikov
Winner of the 2018 International Hans Christian Andersen Prize for Illustrator
Igor Onikov, Russian illustrator, winner of the 2018 International Hans Christian Andersen Prize. Born in Moscow in 1953. In his early years, he worked in animation design, creating illustrations for children's periodicals and children's books, and creating and designing a large number of exquisite books. His works have won the "Annual Book Selection" of the Moscow International Book Fair and have been selected for the "Bologna International Children's Book Illustration Exhibition" many times. The international Hans Christian Andersen Awards speech praised "his talent without boundaries".
Cao Wenxuan and Igor Onikov, two international Andersen Award winners jointly created the picture book "Never Stop Running", which won the "Children's Book Illustration Award" of the 2021 Russian Book Impression Award, and the Swedish version also won the "Swedish Peter Pan Award 2022".
Never stop running
Age of study: 6 years old and above
"Never Stop Running" tells the story of a dog named Mao Mao who runs between two owners.
Young Mao Mao was adopted by a newlywed couple and had a wonderful time. Later, the couple separated and lived in two distant cities. Both are deeply in love with Mao Mao, and Mao Mao cannot be separated from either of them. So Mao Mao began its endless run. All year round, spring, summer, autumn and winter, rain and snow on cloudy days... Mao Mao kept running between the two cities, running, running...
Cao Wenxuan's writings and Igor Onikov's illustrations visualize the thoughts and capture an elusive nostalgia in an excellent way.
Sueyoshi Akabane
Winner of the 1980 International Hans Christian Andersen Prize for Illustrator
Sueyoshi Akabane is a Japanese picture book writer whose works are mostly based on folk tales, nursery rhymes, and illustrations of children's books, and has won awards such as the Sankei Children's Publishing Culture Award, the Kodansha Publishing Culture Award, and the Nippon Kokukan Painting Award. In 1980, he won the International Hans Christian Andersen Illustrator Award, the first painter in Asia to receive the award.
Big big big sweet potatoes
Suitable age: 3-6 years old
It's raining, can't go on an outing to dig sweet potatoes, it's really boring!
Then draw a big sweet potato, so big that you can't even pull the truck away!
But what can such a big sweet potato do? Make a sweet potato boat! Make sweet potato dinosaurs! Make a sweet potato dinner! It can also turn into a "sweet potato fart rocket", poof-bang-fly into space!
His illustrations fully absorb the unique aesthetic characteristics of oriental traditional art, simple and gorgeous, restrained and open, full of unforgettable vitality.
Mitsumasa Anno
Winner of the 1984 International Hans Christian Andersen Prize for Illustrator
Mitsuya Anno, one of Japan's preeminent contemporary picture book authors, has published more than 70 picture books, including "Book of ABC", "Into the Wonderful Mathematical World", "Tendo Theory", "Travel Picture Book" and so on. These works have won the Kodansha Publishing Culture Award, the Japan Elementary School Hall Painting Award, the Kate Greenaway Special Award in the United Kingdom, the Golden Apple Award of the Bratislava International Illustration Biennale (BIB), the Children's Science Book Excellence Award of the New York Academy of Sciences, the Bologna International Children's Book Fair Illustration Award in Italy, etc., and are known as "intellectual artists with amazing talents".
Count and see
Suitable age: 3-6 years old
Counting is a wordless book for children who are new to counting.
It begins with a snowy, empty landscape, and in the changing picture, it gradually leads to the appearance of characters, trees, animals, and vehicles over time. Mr. Mitsuya Ono does not adopt a lesson-based approach to the mathematical laws in between, but uses a natural way to express them. In the process of appreciating the pictures, open up children's understanding of the world of counting. Not only counting, but also cultivating children's ability to classify and compare things.
In addition to the concept of numbers and collections, it is also a picture book that uses delicate watercolors to represent the change of seasons and the change of villages. The soothing coloring depicts the four seasons of the countryside, the activities of people and animals at different times of the day, and the colorful scenes of rural life on a monthly basis, which can make people feel a simple charm at first glance, and the infinite imagination behind this simplicity.
Transferred from Relay Press