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| Interview with a first rate photographer: Pere Formiguera | | I’ve never understood why there is so little photography in children’s books! Photography is a technique very suitable to children’s minds, for the understanding of the possible as much as of the impossible. |  The first photograph that the young readers had of him was the spitting image of an ogre. This terrifying self-portrait appeared in El Petit Polzet. Although that child devouring ogre cannot have swallowed so many, as some were left to be portrayed happy and competent in Es diu cos, a book that won some important international awards and became a milestone in the history of European documentary children’s literature. So it seems strange that after such success, there is no further news of the author within the bibliography of children’s or teenage literature.
Where is he?
Download extract in PDF  |  | | 24 strokes per second: The cinematographic origins of Jésus Betz | | I used to visit museums a lot. Nowadays I have less time for this. I go to the cinema more. |  In this article the close relationship between the picture book Jésus Betz and the film Freaks will be analysed. They are very distant in time, but very similar in form and even in content. Here are two ways of telling a story, two narrative languages that crossover continually, two ways of transmitting ideas and feelings. It is not the only example, there are lots, but the quality of this album deserves our delving into its origins and its essence.
Download extract in PDF | | | When an editor becomes passionate about photography. Interview with Thierry Magnier | | Let’s say that the image has always been related to the lie. And to play with this seems to me, in a way, very childish, and in another way, very interesting. |  Thierry Magnier is one of those rare publishers who has made a substantial change to children’s publications. He was born in 1956 and began his work as an educator in an agricultural college, before establishing himself as a bookseller in Normandy, introducing himself into the world of books and eventually becoming the director of communications for a bookshop chain, for which he created and managed the specialist magazine Petite Page. Gallimard publishing contracted him as promoter and animator of their catalogue of children’s and teenage literature and they named him head of publications for the prestigious publication Lire et Savoir. These professional experiences in direct contact with childhood, amongst which should not be forgotten his time as a storyteller, allowed him to become independent and to create in 1998, his own publishing company, which, in less than ten years of existence has won great professional prestige.
Download extract in PDF | | | Creation: Eliacer Cansino and Carmen Segovia | | A Mexican said to me one day: «Would you bestow the time?» and I thought he was a tramp who came to beg my overcoat or watch. |  Eliacer Cansino: When I meet with my readers -mostly students- I’m always keen to stress the double facet of literature: what the writer wanted to say and what the reader reads. Reading, as we now know is always an active interpretation.
Carmen Segovia: When we enter a museum or visit an art exhibition, it sometimes occurs that a certain work of art provokes sensations which transcend the image of that work or its message, or we are brought to see further than the artist has intended.
Download extract in PDF | | | Dialogue between Antonio Ventura and Federico Delicado | | Federico Delicado, illustrator, and Antonio Ventura, editor, converse on some of the elements that come into play during the creative process: the imagination, the view, seduction, interpretation, concepts of truth, of reality or faithfulness in the works. |  Without doubt the field of illustrated albums is one with great graphic experimentation that allows the creators of images, to illuminate and reinterpret in a visual code what the texts suggest to them. But for the users of these albums, it remains a mystery how this work is achieved. For this reason we believe it is important to familiarise ourselves with some reflections upon the creative process, as this might help us to understand some of the codes in this process. And what could be better than the reflections of two creators through a dialogue in which they exchange their sensations, intuitions, and opinions on aesthetic reception and the process of creation.
Download extract in PDF | | | Picture books' reviews | | This issue presents the impressions taken by our collaborators on some recent picture books. The intention is to encourage reflection on this genre. |  In this number, we review the next titles: Was ist das? (Antje Damm), Everything in a Museum (Katy Couprie/Antonin Louchard), Ask Me (Antje Damm), Book of Questions (Pablo Neruda/Isidro Ferrer), The ABC (Lily Franey/Alain Serres/Olivier Tallec), Goulu le meurt-de-faim (Kurt Baumann/Stasys Eidrigevicius), Ciccí, Coccó (Enzo Arnone/Bruno Munari), Little Red Riding Hood (Charles Perrault/Sarah Moon), Alice in Wonderland (Suzy Lee), Album (Gabril Bauret/Grégorie Solotareff).
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