Ibis grafika Chidren books
2015
Ibis grafika, established in 1994, has always tended to introduce high quality, innovative work of international and domestic authors, for children, but also for adults.
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Target group for our picture books are preschoolers aged from 2 up to early teenagers. Ibis grafika is recognized as a publisher that doesn’t always belong to the main streem. The picture books we publish are fictional, and mainly being classified as therapeutic stories.
Last in Line is a picture book intended for younger children. It allows them to gain their first insight on the positions of the stars in the sky. Ranka Trako graduated from the Pedagogical Academy, University of Zagreb, and now works in an elementary school. She is engaged in education of children through play, stories, puppetry and classroom theatre and storytelling in small groups. Marija Koruga was born in Zagreb in 1988. She graduated in 2012 from the Academy of Fine Arts, Department of Painting. She has exhibited in numerous exhibitions and received several awards for her works. Last in Line is her first picture book.
Format: 200x250mm, 18pp Bord book Publishing date: May 2015 Rights: World
Format: 250x280mm, 44pp Pub date: April 2015 Rights: World
Martha Bear is a story based on the principles of therapeutic storytelling. It uses metaphors and imagery. The main characters are two bears – mother and daughter. The little bear behaves like a little child. She is easily distracted, and instead of doing what is important for little bears to do, she only wants to play and wander around. Children between two and five can easily identify with her. At the end of the day, tired from all her activities in the woods and meadow, the little bear goes with her mother into their den, the safest place in the world. Both illustrations and text are gentle and soothing, creating a calm atmosphere, with scenes and images repeating throughout, but from different angles and at different times of the day. This is a picture book that will be loved by children as well as their parents. At the end of the picture book there is a pictorial dictionary of local species of butterflies and animals mentioned in the picture book. Valentina Supanz was born in Zagreb in 1986. She graduated in 2012 from the Academy of Fine Arts, Department of Painting. She has exhibited in numerous exhibitions in Croatia, and in New York. This is her first picture book. Erika Katačić Kožić has been writing poetry and short stories since a young age. She received numerous awards during her school years in the USA. Today Erika is a chemist, and in her free time she is a storyteller, translates literature to English and enjoys writing stories for children. Her story about a fussy little elephant has been published in Susan Perrow’s book Therapeutic Storytelling – 101 Therapeutic Stories for Children by Hawthorn Press in 2012 in the UK.
Bears were sleeping in the den, and from the ceiling hung bats. It was not the kind of winter forest animals are accustomed to. There was no snow and it wasn’t cold. Animals began to squirm and wake up. The badgers went out, and yet the wild ducks didn’t fly away. This is a humorous story. It talks of a mild winter that has disrupted the hibernation of forest animals. Verses that interrupt the text paraphrase famous nursery rhymes. The North-Wind Boy and the Travelling Duck is another story that brings the atmosphere in the woods, and can also be considered a therapeutic story. Format: 260x270mm, 32pp Pub date: September 2015 Rights: World
Branka Žodan graduated in English and French from the University of Zagreb. She is a member of the Croatian Association of Literary Translators. She has translated numerous prose texts and verses. She adapts texts for radio plays for Croatian national radio. This is her first published story for children. Tajana Ivić is an architect by profession. She has designed a number of private and public buildings. As of recently, she illustrates books and picture books, and paints on silk. Her works have been exhibited at several exhibitions.
Ana KOLEGA was born in 1975 in Zadar where she finished high school. In 1997 she graduated in Textile Design from the Faculty of Textile Technology. In 2002 she graduated from the Academy of Fine Art (ALU) in Zagreb. Until now she has had approximately fifteen solo exhibitions in the region. She has participated in numerous prestigious group exhibitions and colonies in Croatia and abroad. She is a member of HDLU (Croatian Association of Artists). She lives and creates in Zadar and Zagreb. Maja Jelusic was born in 1976 in Split. She graduated in textile design. During the summer she works in her gallery in Hvar, and in the winter she writes poetry. Together with Ana Kolega she has participated in several exhibitions. This is her second collection of poems with illustrations by Ana Kolega. Format: 130x180mm, 26pp Bord book Pub date: September 2014 Rights: World
This is the first in a series of picture books about famous buildings in Croatia. Ten sights of the old town of Hvar are shown through the painted photographs that are accompanied by the versified text. Both children and adults will enjoy this book. At the end of the picture book the original photographs are presented, made by Filip Bubalo.
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Sofie the Owl, it seems, is the guardian of our dreams
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Sophie the Owl Format: 240x265mm, 28pp Rights: world
Milun raljka
DRAGON TICKL
ETAIL Illustrated by Maja Pušić - Čerić Ranko Čerić
These are two books of Koraljka Milun, illustrated by academic painter Maja Pušić Čerić. Both of them can be told as therapeutic stories: one tells about friendship, and another about overcoming the fright of darkness. At the end of the books both stories are accompained by the song telling in short the plot of the story. Dragon Tickletail Format: 240x265mm, 20pp Rights: world
The poem Shoemaker and the Devil was written 150 years ago, but it is still very popular. It is based on a folk tale, and focuses on the popular subject of the signing of a contract between a man and the devil. Many readers do not know that this is not a folk poem, but the work of the great Croatian writer of the 19th century – August Šenoa who lived from 1838 to 1881, and wrote numerous works: historical novels, short stories, poems, articles for newspapers and magazines. Illustrated by Tajana Ivić, this picture book charms equaly with its text and excellent illustrations.
Format: 150x270mm, 16pp Pub date: November 2013 Rights: World
It does not matter is it our original edition or translation from foreign language – quality is our primary concern....
Original title The Gruffalo
Original title The Gruffalo’s Child
Translations from English
Original title The Smartest Giant in Town
Original title Monkey Puzzle
Original title The Snail and the Whale
Original title Room on the Broom Original title A Squash and a Squeeze
Original title Charlie Cook’s Favorite Book
Croatian edition of Gruffalo an blisher of d other u p d u o r P A x e d l n S a c n h o e s f d l fl er titles Julia Dona
Translation from Polish Julian Tuwim is one of the greatest Polish poets of the twentieth century. His verses are still extremely popular in Poland, and his children’s cycle had numerous editions with illustrations of various illustrators. Margareta Peršić was born in Zagreb in 1976. She graduated from the Pedagogical University in 2000. Since her elementary school years, she has been fond of creative work with colors, painting, making toys and dolls. She has participated in many projects in Croatia and abroad, and led a variety of puppetry and art workshops. She had several solo and group exhibitions. She illustrated a couple of picture books, and also wrote the story for one of them.
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Translations from Lithuanian : KÄ™stutis KasparaviÄ?ius
Translations from German These two titles are interesting for children as well as for their parents.
Translations from Czech
Our original picture books published in Croatian
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