Book By Its Cover

2.23.10

Adam Jaromir, Pawet Pawlak

This German children’s book tells the tale of the first giraffe that came to France. I love how the book is tall and narrow letting the giraffe neck stretch up the pages. The book has a nice old fashioned look to it with sketchy pen and watercolor illustrations and Roman numerals for the page numbers. The author, Adam Jaromir, sent this overseas to me but unfortunately I can’t read any of the story besides this sample on the publishers site. So happy to be sharing a book from this part of the world! Get more info on how to get one right here (or the matching wine set!)

8 Comments

02/24/10 9:55am

Sara wrote

One of the beautiful things about art and picture stories – you don’t necessarily need to know the language to enjoy!

02/24/10 11:45am

Janet wrote

What gorgeous illustrations!

02/28/10 10:10am

beyond wrote

just discovered your website -and added it to my feedreader. what treasures i find here!

02/28/10 5:43pm

Gosia wrote

Hi! Since I’m a Pole I’d like to say it’s rather ?yrafa, not Zarafa, meaning The Giraffe. I love this blog! Great choices!!

03/1/10 5:21am

Zarafa wrote

Excuse me, Gosiu,

but it’s not about zyrafa, it’s about me:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giraffe_given_to_Charles_X_of_France_by_Muhammad_Ali_of_Egypt

Sincerely, Zarafa

03/1/10 5:24am

Gosia wrote

it was a joke since the authors have Polish names!!! Well, I hope you don’t feel offended! The book’s great, BTW!

04/15/10 2:59am

Canada Flowers wrote

These covers remind me of the book cover of the ubiquitous The Little Prince. And also that bisaya short film about flowers. This one, too, is like a flower. ANd Trust me, I know about flowers.

06/9/10 6:43pm

polskailustracjadladzieci wrote

Love it!

Try this one – Madame Zarafa’s blog http://www.les-amis-de-zarafa.com/pl/

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