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Come in!

Text: Sébastien Joanniez Illustrations:  Joanna Concejo   5+ 40 pages Hardcover 30,5 cm x 19,5 cm (Format)     So here we are: my father and my mother and I. In the rain. We have forgotten something… Page after page a child goes through the essentials of their life and organizes their world: these are love, a smile, a path, the others ... everyone is there, and YOUtoo, of course! A very simple book, like a refrain, which helps us…...
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In the Pocket

Text & Illustrations:  Iwona Chmielewska   2+ 64 pages Hardcover 20,4 × 26,4 cm (Media Rodzina)  Rights sold: French, Korean   Watch the VIDEO Blue embroidery on the cover and applications like from old grandmother's tapestries announces a charming and warm book to be watched and read many times. Like a magician from a cylinder, Iwona Chmielewska takes out more and more amazing things from children's pockets. It is an excellent starting point to develop children's imagination, play with the artist's…...
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Where are you hiding, Little Rooster?

Text: Dominika Stadnicka-Strzembosz Illustrations: Marcin Strzembosz All-ages 30 pages Hardcover 27 x 20 cm (Wytwórnia)   Nomination for The Best Book of 2023 by IBBY Polish section – picture book category.   Where is the rooster? I have been looking for it for years all over the country, full of colours and unusual customs. It takes many forms: sometimes it is a wooden toy, sometimes it is a baked cake or a metal weather vane. It decorates dresses, helps in…...
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The Shadow Catcher

Text:  Erna Rosenstein Illustrations: Katarzyna Walentynowicz   7+ 196 pages Hardcover 17 x 22,5 cm (Wolno)     THE BOOK OF THE YEAR 2022 by IBBY Polish section - the best illustrations and graphic design The Illustrator Katarzyna Walentynowicz - finalist of The 57th Bologna Illustrators Exhibition 2023    Erna Rosenstein was a surrealist painter, graphic artist, and poet. She was born in 1913 in Lviv, and died on 10th November 2004, in Warsaw. Erna Rosenstein was one of the key…...
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On A high Mountain

Text: Krystyna Miłobędzka Illustrations:  Iwona Chmielewska   All ages 56 pages Hardcover 20,4 × 26,4 cm (Wolno)       Included in the Children's Books Museum's Treasure List 2014 lst prize in Dobre Strony 2014 competition in the category: book for young readers.   “On a mountain very high / there’s a tree big to the sky / and it’s called Aplee – Paplee – Blitee – Blau – and who cannot say it / has to leave right now”…...
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How hard to be a King?

Text: Janusz Korczak Illustrations:  Iwona Chmielewska   All ages 48 pages Hardcover 18,5 x 26,5 cm (Wolno)  Rights sold: French, Korean, Croatian   How hard it is to be a King? Is it easy to govern? Years ago, when writing the novel “King Matt the First”, Janusz Korczak, together with children, reflected on the hardships and responsibilities related to the exercise of power. These are the questions the protagonist of the book is trying to answer. This book is based…...
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Lullaby on Four

Text & Illustrations: Iwona Chmielewska   5+ 40 pages Hardcover  15,8 x 20 cm (Wolno) Rights sold: Korean   “How many corners does a pillow have? As many as a blanket. How many corners does a book have? As many as a pillow”. “Lullaby on Four” is an original picture book by Iwona Chmielewska, created not only for the youngest but also for people who like to read in bed or sing lullabies to their kids. In this book, the…...
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Enjoy!

Text & Illustrations:  Sylwia Krachulec   All ages 80 pages Hardcover 18 x 20 cm (Widnokrąg)  Rights sold: Korean, Chinese simplified, Chinese complex   Selected as one of the 25 best books of 2022 by The Chen Bochui Children’s Literature Awards - a major award issued in China, with the aim of promoting excellence in children’s publishing and cultural diversity.    This book is a universal graphic story about discovering joy in everyday life and… in ourselves. And also about…...
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Nikifor

Text & Illustrations:  Maria Strzelecka     8+ 56 pages Hardcover 23 x 30  cm (Libra)                                          Selected for The BRAW Amazing Bookshelf 2023 SOON:   Nikifor Krynicki  is considered to be one of the world's finest naïve (primitive) painters. Born in 1895, he died in 1968 in Krynica. He was was Lemko on his mother's side, and his father was Polish.    …...
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Both

Text: Justyna Bargielska Illustrations: Iwona Chmielewska 16+ 44 pages Hardcover 18,4 × 25,8 cm (Wolno) Rights sold: Korean     "Both" is a multidimensional portrait of motherhood, the extraordinary stories about its different facets, often silenced and overlooked. A story about the happiness and fears of being a mother, the kaleidoscope of emotions, the mystery of 'giving life', parting with a child, and smiling through tears. The authors perfectly reflected through word and image that Mother and daughter is a…...
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