nojaus arka
kuosos kro gyvenimas ir atvirkščiai
Illustrator: Evaldas Mikalauskis Author: Aldona Vasiliūnienė Target reader: 7–10 years old Year of publication: 2011 Publisher: Bokartas, Vilnius, www.bokartas.lt Number of pages: 16 ISBN 978-609-95203-0-8
Illustrator: Sigutė Chlebinskaitė Author: Vladas Braziūnas Target reader: 8–12 years old Year of publication: 2011 Publisher: Versus aureus, Vilnius, www.versus.lt Number of pages: 72 ISBN 978-9955-34-289-2
The book tells kids the biblical story of the Noah’s Ark – the vessel Noah used to rescue people from the flood. The Bible tells us of the time when the number of angry and corrupt people on earth increased too much, and God resolved to destroy it by flooding, destroying also the people and animals and everything alive. Yet willing to save the righteous man Noah and his kin, God commanded him to build a vessel and gave him orders how he should rescue himself. The flooding lasted 40 days and 40 nights, and everything on the earth perished, except those in the ark were rescued. Noah built an altar as a sign of his gratitude to God, and God set a rainbow in the clouds as the sign of peace and blessing.
The poet Vladas Braziūnas likes birds, and is especially fond of jackdaws. He has written a cycle of poems about the life of Kro the jackdaw. Together with the artist Sigutė Chlebinskaitė, they have produced a book intended to help the reader learn about shapes, birds and poems. The poet evokes a unique world of the jackdaw, and tells us about the bird’s thoughts and feelings. Sometimes the jackdaw is a “Home-bird”, sometimes Kro travels “To the Baltic Sea”, visits the “Writers’ Home” in Sweden, or goes on “A Journey across Vast Oceans”. Sometimes the bird “Sees the Movement of the Universe” and reflects “On Love and Death”. Some days Kro is an “Optimist”, but can also be a “Pessimist”. These cheerful poems, brimming of philosophical wisdom, will be equally appreciated by children, parents and grandparents.
evaldas mikalauskis (b. 1959)
sigutė chlebinskaitė (b. 1977)
emikas@gmail.com www.artistsbook.lt/mikalauskis
sigute@gmail.com www.bookland.lt
Graphic artist, book illustrator, teacher of drawing and graphic art. Since 1990, he has taken part in around 50 exhibitions in Lithuania and abroad. He has illustrated three children’s book and around 10 textbooks, teaching aids for pupils and parents. The book Noah’s Ark was recognized by a diploma of Lithuania’s Most Beautiful Book Competition, at the Book Art Exhibition in 2012, it was awarded a Prize of Algirdas Steponavičius, the Lithuanian classic of book illustration.
Graphic artist and book designer, illustrator, at the helm of her-own founded creative project The Book Land and the education programme You Can Create a Book, inspirer and conductor of plentiful other projects dedicated to the promotion of the art of the book in Lithuania and abroad. Sigutė mainly works as a book artist and designer and is frequently awarded for the artistry of her book designs. Her debut children’s book, the illustrations for Kazys Jakubėnas’ What’s Inside, What’s Outside (Gimtasis žodis, 2003), was selected as the most artistic book of the year by the Lithuanian Section of IBBY, and the artist was put on IBBY Honour List of 2006. These illustrations won the Prix Octogone in France. The Life of Kro the Jackdaw and Vice Versa (Versus aureus, 2011) won a diploma at Lithuania’s Most Beautiful Book Competition of 2011.
the noah’s ark
the life of kro the jackdaw and vice versa