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WELCOME TO MAMOKO There is trouble in Mamoko! A thief is on the prowl. Vincent Brisk must get his skates on. And Miss Chubb has lost her most prized possession. Will everything be put right in time for the town carnival? You become the storyteller with this wonderful wordless book – spot each character from page to page and discover a kaleidoscope of tales waiting to be told. Aleksandra and Daniel Mizielinski graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw in 2007 and in 2010 they were nominated for the Bologna Ragazzi Award. • 16pp • 335 x 235mm • hardback • matt lamination and spot UV on cover 978 1 84877 555 8 £12.99
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ARTCARDS: ACCESSORIZE Introducing Artcards: unique pull-out postcards that are made for you and made by you. With 16 artcard designs to colour in and decorate with over 600 stickers, you are the designer – make it, stick it, hang it, send it – whatever you do, make it your own. Hennie Haworth lives and works in London. She graduated from Brighton University in 2004 and has been working for various clients since, including Topshop, Habitat, the Guardian and Marc Jacobs. • 72pp inc. 20 sheets of stickers • 285 x 190mm • postcard binding • matt lamination and spot UV with sticker on cover • 16 removable artcards 978 1 84877 902 0 £12.99
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NINA’S BOOK OF LITTLE THINGS Keith Haring presented Nina’s Book to his friend’s daughter on her seventh birthday. Now everybody can enjoy this classic book reborn in a stylish new edition, which features a back-page pocket to stow little things in. Find your inner-Nina and make a little mess, collect some little snowflakes, and draw the things a little bird said with one of the world’s best-loved artists. Keith Haring grew up in Pennsylvania, moving to New York in 1978 and enrolling in the School of Visual Arts. Over the following decade, he made some of the most widely recognised artwork of the twentieth century. • 80pp • 270 x 210mm • flexibound • soft touch lamination & spot UV on cover; • French folds, pocket at rear & elastic closure
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Lotta Nieminen is a designer and
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illustrator from Helsinki, Finland. She studied
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and the Rhode Island School of Design before
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winning the Art Directors Club Young Guns 8
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THE RIDDLE: A man is found dead in a room with 53 bicycles around him. What happened? THE OLD ANSWER: The man was cheating at cards. He was using a Bicyclebrand deck of cards—there should have been only 52 cards, but he had an extra ace. Someone got angry and killed him.
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THE NEW ANSWER: This story is pretty famous and I’m surprised you haven’t heard it before. The dead man was Pierre LeFete, a Parisian who held many world records for eating strange objects. (Here are some things Monsieur LeFete ate: a set of steak knives, a jumbo jet, and a Peugeot 505 [a type of small but delicious car]). LeFete had an archrival, Jacques Dupont, a slightly less impressive extreme eater whose records had all been smashed by LeFete (Dupont’s feats of eating: a spoon collection, a biplane, and a Peugeot 107 [an even smaller but also quite delicious car]). On the day this story occurs, LeFete was prepared to once again outshine Dupont, this time by eating fifty-three bicycles (breaking the lesser man’s record of 52 bicycles and one unicycle). But the scoundrel Dupont, driven mad by a string of public defeats, snuck into the exhibition hall early that morning and coated the bikes with a deadly, untraceable poison. LeFete had not even made it past the handlebar of his first Schwinn before he perished. It was a great tragedy in the extreme eating scene. Luckily, Pierre LeFete’s brother was Michel LeFete, the famous investigator, and through several impressive deeds of detection, Inspector LeFete was able to solve the crime and put the villainous Dupont in jail, where he remained for forty-five years, until one day he ate the iron bars to his cell and escaped, requiring Inspector LeFete to come out of retirement and apprehend the prisoner, which the great detective did with an amazing exploit involving a giant magnet. X
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MAPS 52 highly illustrated maps, full of details and curiosities. A celebration of the world, from its immense mountains to its tiny insects – and everything in between. Aleksandra and Daniel Mizielinski graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw in 2007 and in 2010 they were nominated for the Bologna Ragazzi Award. • 112pp • 370 x 270mm • hardback • matt lamination on cover 978 1 84877 301 1 £20.00
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