The Turnip is a classic Ukrainian folktale by Ivan Franko which has now found a creative and illustrative embodiment in the project of the art studio Agrafka (Romana Romanyshyn and Andriy Lesiv, Lviv). The text of the book is now adapted to modern Ukrainian language while preserving all the linguistic features of the original. The publication also provides a dictionary of archaisms, which facilitates reading for young children.
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The book has been already translated in the following languages: South Korean.
The Turnip has won the Children's Book Award Lion-2012 for best art project.
In 2013, The Turnip was included in the prestigious annual catalogue of the best children's publications in the world White Ravens, which includes 250 best children's books from over 40 countries.
The Turnip was included in the list of "10 Ukrainian children's books that the whole world knows about."
Ivan Franko was a Ukrainian poet, writer, social and literary critic, journalist, interpreter, economist, political activist, doctor of philosophy, ethnographer, and the author of the first detective novels and modern poetry in Ukrainian language. The Mitten, another classic by Franko, is featured on our catalogue as well.
Romana Romanyshyn and Andriy Lesiv (Art Studio Agrafka) are book authors, designers and illustrators. Both were born in Ukraine in 1984, live and work in Lviv. After graduating from the Lviv National Academy of Arts the couple co-founded the creative agency Studio Agrafka, where they collaborate and create illustrated books for children and adults. Agrafka duo received a number of awards for their work, among them are Bologna Ragazzi Award (Italy, 2014, 2015, 2018), Premio Andersen (Italy, 2019), Plaque and Honorary Mention of the Biennial of Illustration in Bratislava (Slovakia, 2017, 2012), NAMI Concours Award (Korea, 2019), Bronze medal of the Stiftung Buchkunst concours The best book design from all over the world (Germany, 2019), Appreciations of Sharjah Children’s Reading Festival (UAE, 2015, 2016), Global illustration Award (Germany, 2016, 2017), White Ravens list (Germany, 2013, 2014, 2016), European Design Award (Greece, 2020) and many other. The Turnip, The Mitten, On the Move, and The War that Changed Rondo are all works by the Studio Agrafka featured on our catalogue.
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