Melania Longo

Hideaway (eBook, ePUB)

Illustrator: Sanna, Alessandro / Übersetzer: Porster, Brenda

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

• An ode to imagination and creative play
• Poetic text from Melania Longo
• Exquisite illustrations by Italian Children's Laureate, Alessandro Sanna
• Has a classic but also modern feel, bursting with enchantment
• For parents who are looking to inspire their children to unplug from the modern world and let the Imaginations take over
• Will sit alongside books by Julie Fogliano, Philip and Erin Stead, Julie Morstadt,
• A good book for bedtime reading too

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Abrams
• Seitenzahl: 48
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Juni 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781636550855
• Artikelnr.: 67382991

Autorenporträt

Alessandro Sanna is considered one of Italy's leading contemporary illustrators. He has earned wide recognition across Europe as an illustrator and author, and his work has appeared in The New York Times Book Review and The New Yorker. He is a prolific and popular creator of illustrated books for children and readers of all ages and has received many awards and had many exhibitions. He lives and works in Mantua, Italy. Alessandro Sanna is currently the Italian Children's Laureate.

Melania Longo is an art historian with a specialization in Museum Education Services, with a focus on Children's Literature. She uses art as a tool in training courses, for children and adults, cultivating it as a deposit of knowledge, narratives and experiences, to learn to see and know. She develops study activities around illustrated books, with particular reference to the reading of images and their role in the formation of the imagination of each of us. Hideaway is her first book to be translated into English.

Rezensionen

"Masterful use of line work and touches of color bring their fantasy world to life, making us believe in its "no limits" reality. A beautiful tribute to imaginative play." -Kirkus Reviews

"Hideaway" is a charming picture book excursion to the world of imaginative play features the poetic text of Melania Longo accompanied by the exquisite illustrations by Alessandro Sanna. . . "Hideaway" is a timeless ode to creative play and provides a welcome reminder to unplug from the distractions of the modern world, to be present in the moment, and ready to travel wherever our imaginations might take us. . . Beautifully designed, elegantly illustrated, and deftly translated, "Hideaway" is an original, thoughtful, and entertaining picture book about feelings, emotion, and two loving siblings." -Midwest Book Review