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Silvia Borando graduated from the Politecnico di Milano with a degree in Communication Design and works as a visual designer for Studio TIWI, where she loves to explore her great passion for colour. She also heads up (and creates young, innovative and graphic books for) minibombo, an Italian children's publishing house. Other minibombo books include The White Book, Black Cat, White Cat, Open Up, Please!, Shapes, Reshape! and Shapes at Play. She lives between Trecate and Reggio Emilia in Italy, and her favourite animal is a hedgehog.
Walker Books’ new Minibombo range already has a reputation for stylish, contemporary picture books: in the cleverly conceived The Cat Book they could have created the nearest thing on a paper to owning a pet. First readers are invited to name their cat; next turn the page and there he is, curled up and asleep. Call out the name you’ve just given him, turn the page again and he’s awake. Readers are next instructed to stroke him, tickle his tummy, then squash his fleas. There’s lots involved in looking after a pet and by the end of the book cat and reader will be ready for a rest. The story plays with ideas of reader and author, and wittily celebrates the infinite possibilities of picture books. There’s a companion volume for dog lovers too!
Walker Books’ new Minibombo range already has a reputation for stylish, contemporary picture books: in the cleverly conceived The Cat Book they could have created the nearest thing on a paper to owning a pet. First readers are invited to name their cat; next turn the page and there he is, curled up and asleep. Call out the name you’ve just given him, turn the page again and he’s awake. Readers are next instructed to stroke him, tickle his tummy, then squash his fleas. There’s lots involved in looking after a pet and by the end of the book cat and reader will be ready for a rest. The story plays with ideas of reader and author, and wittily celebrates the infinite possibilities of picture books. There’s a companion volume for dog lovers. ~ Andrea Reece
A minibombo book: a little book buzzing with a big idea. This delightful tri colour book provides young children with a playful introduction to shapes. Meet triangle, square and circle. Mix them together and discover what other shapes can be made. From houses to trees and even a supersonic rocket! Your little ones will soon be finding shapes everywhere. The companion title to Shapes, Reshape!
A minibombo book: a little book buzzing with a big idea. in Shapes, Reshape! the neat and tidy shapes suddenly get mixed up and become...Buzzy things, Jumpy things, Stripy things and more. Turn the pages to discover the animals and they get bigger and more ferocious. A companion title to Shapes at Play.
This monochrome picture book tells a funny story in a super-stylish way and brims with child-appeal. Black Cat is entirely black and only goes out in the day, while White Cat is entirely white and only goes out at night. Curious about the worlds they never see, the two cats venture out at different times, meet, and become inseparable. The story is told on alternate pages – black on white, then white out of black and there are patterns and shapes galore for children to spot. There’s a lovely twist at the end, too – you’ll never guess what colour the cats’ kittens are! ~ Andrea Reece
I am a minibombo book: a little book buzzing with a big idea. If you have always wanted a pet, but your parents have never let you ... this is the book for you. Because, inside the pages of this book, your new cat awaits. Isn't he sweet? Just look at him twitch his tiny nose! As a pet-owner, it's your job to wake him up (call out his name), softly stroke his back (with your finger) and shelter him from the rain (your hand makes a great umbrella!). It's quite hard work - phew! - but it's so much fun. From minibombo, the creators of The White Book and Black Cat, White Cat comes a playful picture book that cleverly encourages you to interact with the physicality of the page itself, and a book that will, with the help of your imagination, bring a purr-y, fluffy cat to life. Miaow! Check out minibombo.com to find plenty of fun ideas for playing and creating inspired by this book!
I am a minibombo book: a little book buzzing with a big idea. It all begins with one tasty nut, hanging on the highest branch of a tree. A little Mouse looks at it longingly - he wants to eat it, so very much. But how can he get it down? By shaking the tree, of course! Can you, the reader, help him? Shake the tree - a little to the right (shake)... and a little to the left (shake shake). But - UH-OH - something else is falling from the tree, and it's looking rather hungry... From minibombo, the innovative creators of The White Book and Black Cat, White Cat comes an interactive, hilarious story for the very youngest of readers - a story that only unfolds when you, the reader, shake shake shake that tree! Check out minibombo.com to find plenty of fun ideas for playing and creating inspired by this book!
I am a minibombo book: a little book buzzing with a big idea. If you have always wanted a pet, but your parents have never let you ... this is the book for you. Because, inside the pages of this book, your new cat awaits. Isn't he sweet? Just look at him twitch his tiny nose! As a pet-owner, it's your job to wake him up (call out his name), softly stroke his back (with your finger) and shelter him from the rain (your hand makes a great umbrella!). It's quite hard work - phew! - but it's so much fun. From minibombo, the creators of The White Book and Black Cat, White Cat comes a playful picture book that cleverly encourages you to interact with the physicality of the page itself, and a book that will, with the help of your imagination, bring a purr-y, fluffy cat to life. Miaow! Check out www.minibombo.com to find plenty of fun ideas for playing and creating inspired by this book!
I am a minibombo book: a little book buzzing with a big idea. If you have always wanted a pet, but your parents have never let you ... this is the book for you. Because, inside the pages of this book, your new hamster awaits. Isn't she cute? Just look at her ruffly fur! As a pet-owner, it's your job to tickle her tummy (with your finger), watch her tricks (give her a cheer!) and clean up after her, too (but don't forget to use a tissue!). It's hard work - phew! - but it's so much fun. From minibombo, the creators of The White Book and Black Cat, White Cat comes a playful picture book that cleverly encourages you to interact with the physicality of the page itself, and a book that will, with your imagination, bring a sunflower seed-eating, fuzzy furball of a hamster to life. Squeak! Check out www.minibombo.com to find plenty of fun ideas for playing and creating inspired by this book!
A minibombo book: a little book buzzing with a big idea. Count down from 10 to 1 in this playful interactive exploration of the shapes that make up our favourite animals. The shapes, at first, are lined up neatly in rows. But, at the turn of the page, they're mixed up, moved around and reshaped into all kinds of animals! Buzzy and clucky and scaly and sluuuurpy! Look - these green shapes reshape into scaly things. What they could be? Turn the page to reveal ... of course! 3 alligators, snip, snap and snappy! As we visit ten groups of shapes, can you try and guess what animal the shapes will become before the shapes reshape? (But, with the animals getting bigger and more ferocious each time, watch out for a rather fiery finale!)
A minibombo book: a little book buzzing with a big idea. From minibombo, the creators of The White Book and Black Cat, White Cat comes a playful first book of shapes. Meet the red triangles, the yellow squares and the blue circles, who have a great idea for a game: together, they want to see if they can make a brand new shape! Hopping and bouncing and - bump! - sometimes colliding, they soon realize that they can be anything they want to be! A little house or a speedy car, an apple tree or a runaway train, the possibilities are endless ... they might even be out of this world! Exploring how triangles, squares and circles can be found all around us, minibombo introduce young readers to their very first shapes with playfulness, humour and in their trademark graphic style.
I am a minibombo book: a little book buzzing with a big idea. In this fun, interactive picture book from minibombo, there are loads of animals to find on each and every spread - but sometimes they can be quite tricky to spot! Have you ever tried to find a crocodile in green grass? Or a blue hippo underwater? How about four fluffy baby chicks in soft yellow sand? As we visit a different colour landscape at every turn of the page - a flowery purple meadow, a brown woodland forest - try to find the camouflaged critter. Then, with your eyes extra peeled, see if you can spot the sneaky chameleon, who can hide just about anywhere he likes...
I am a minibombo book: a little book buzzing with a big idea. In this playful, interactive introduction to ideas of perspective, you're invited to guess the seven animals that hide in the book's pages. It may sound easy but, at first, you can only see the animals right up close ... and things look so different from up close and faraway! What looks like an elephant's trunk might actually be a little birdie's tail ... and those two googly eyes? Well, when we zoom out, they don't really look like eyes at all! Another funny, wordless picture book from the innovative creators of The White Book and Black Cat, White Cat, this stylish picture book challenges the reader to look at things from a different angle, and forces them to see things anew.
Day and night, black and white - this playful, stylish exploration of opposites is the story of two cats as different as different can be. From innovative picture book creator, Silvia Borando, comes a playful and stylish exploration of opposites. Black Cat, black from the tip of his ears to the tip of his tail, only ever goes out in the day. But White Cat, white from her whiskers to her four furry paws, only ever goes out at night. He picks daisies, whilst she gazes at the stars. But when they both feel the urge to explore a world beyond their own, Black Cat and White Cat go on a journey of discovery, and meet for the very first time... Visually striking, this is a celebration of adventurous spirit, new experiences, and the purr-fectly different, special someone you can share those experiences with.
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