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Jill Marshall Books
Jill Marshall is the author of the popular middle-grade series about Sensational Spylet, Jane Blonde, and many other titles and series for tweens, teens, YA and adult. Jill’s books have been published by Macmillan Children’s Books, Penguin and Hachette, in 22 countries, 11 languages and paperback, ebook and audio formats. Jane Blonde has been optioned for film and TV, with significant film interest in other Jill Marshall titles. Jill has also been an editor and manuscript assessor for trade publishers and societies, a creative writing teacher for over 1000 clients, and works in corporate communications. During lockdown in 2020, and with all rights for all titles successfully re-acquired, Marshall fulfilled two long-term ambitions. The first – to create an independent publishing house of her own titles, rebranded and re-imagined for a digital world. The second – to pull together Jane Blonde and three other ‘superhero’ characters, all with their own origin series, into an ensemble series, S*W*A*G*G (swaggbooks.com). The third ambition was one that she couldn’t have foreseen: the wish to provide quality fiction for tween readers and upwards, in readily accessible digital formats and for free, in a world ravaged by a global pandemic. In May 2020, Jill Marshall Books was born, and all three ambitions met. JMB has gathered momentum and fandom during those months, and it’s now time to partner with like-minded book people – innovative, passionate, caring – to extend the reach of JMB titles across formats, locations and media. Welcome to Jill Marshall Books. We look forward to connecting at Frankfurt 2020.
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Picture books, activity books & early learning material2013Who Will Make the Snow
by Taras Prokhasko and Mariana Prokhasko
Who Will Make the Snow', the book written by Taras Prokhasko and illustated by Mariana Prokhasko will delight readers with its fast-paced simplicity and timelessness. Following the adventures of a family of Moles from the Beech Tree Forest, readers will learn about their rich day-to-day life, the birth of their two newborns, and their adoption of a young rabbit, who brings new experiences for them all. This book will provide questions to discuss and answers to seek, and will likely become an essential book both at home and in classroom libraries.
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Picture books2015How to Understand a Goat
by Taras Prokhasko, Mariana Prokhasko
The third book in the mole series, How to Understand a Goat by Taras and Mariana Prokhasko, will please both children and adults who still remember what it is like to be a child. Only children can write letters to St. Nicholas, sincerely believing that they can ask for anything and get everything they want — from some tangerines to a flying ship. This ship, poetically named Metaphor, will take you together with Purry, Crawly and their friends on a sea journey. You can settle on an island and learn how to understand even... a goat.
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Children's & YA2009Strange book
by Alexander Asatiani
All books have either writing, pictures or both in it, but the book that Ellen got as a gift has neither. It does, however, have extraordinary recording powers. Like in so many of Sandro’s stories, in The Strange Book it is completely natural for dreams to merge with reality. Through the matter-of-fact occurrence of unlikely events, The Strange Book tells a story of growing up without abandoning the inner child.
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FictionMay 2020The Guys of Rangoon 1930
by Khet Zaw
The Guys of Rangoon , 1930 is a record breaking bestseller book from Myanmar . It sold 16000 copies within one day during the pre order period. More than one hundred thousand copies have been sold so far. Film rights, several merchandise rights, comic rights already sold.It was based in Yangon , Myanmar during the colonial period. The main character is Pho Thoke who was a gangster and managed a lot of business by himself and his gang. He is very close with politicians as well and he is involved in several dirty political movements in Myanmar . This story is based on real characters and events.
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Children's & YA2021Does the Baboon Have a Granny?
by Mariana Savka (Author), Oleh Petrenko-Zanevsky (Illustrator)
Mariana Savka's rhymes from the collection Does a Baboon Have a Granny? have amused more than a generation, and her heroes became favorites of little ones and their parents. In this book you will meet a family of donkeys and hippos, a stubborn billy goat, a little mouse that did not want to sleep, cheerful frogs and mischievous owls, a master beaver and, of course, a little baboon! Funny, cute, childish poetry, which was humorously illustrated by Oleh Petrenko-Zanevskiy, will give magical moments of family reading. From 3 to 6 years, 990 words. Rightsholders: Ivan Fedechko, ivan.fedechko@starlev.com.ua
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FictionNovember 2020The Guys from Mandalay , 1950
by Khet Zaw
The Guys of Manday ,1950s is based in the years just after independence . After Myanmar became independent from English , there were several armed conflicts in Ethnic Areas all over the world. Sein Da Myone ( Golden Dagger) was a leader of a robber gang base in Mandalay ,upper Myanmar . Nobody knows the real life of Mr Golden Dagger and he lived under the face of a gentleman . This book is related to The Guys of Rangoon 1930 as well and they have some links in stories.
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Children's & YAYangon and Englithed Puppets
by Jeff Perce
Base in Yangon. A girl met with a puppet and sharing the experience each other. A heart warm charming stories with beautiful collage illustrations.
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Children's & YALos Chimichimitos (The Chimichimitos)
by Mariana Massarani
The tiny shimyshinees is a manifestation of children’s cultural heritage that fuse legend, games, and dance. Its origins are on the Island of Margarita –Venezuela– and thanks to school this piece of oral tradition spread throughout the country. According to the legend, The tiny shimyshinees is form by a group of elves that appear during full moon nights and gather on the beach to sing and play. Their song is so sweet that they can attract fish to the seashore. Over time, The tiny shimyshinees became a kind of theatrical troupe that roamed the streets of towns in popular festivals. Mariana Massarani’s illustrations capture the colors and culture of the Caribbean and give such a local piece an absolutely universal tone. With a naive style and with PVA paint, Massarani makes some colorful and very funny images and gives us perfect settings for the story that takes place: a group of children prepares their presentation on the shore of a crystalline sea and this is how image after image we see the coastal town, the costumes of the characters and part of their Caribbean culture. It is impossible to read this book without wanting to go to the beach!
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Humanities & Social Sciences2014History of Ukraine from KGB Secret Files
by Volodymyr Viatrovych
The unknown and classified KGB history of the largest country in Europe - Ukraine is the history of people, events, documents and files. The files have answers to many questions. The most important of which - why did a war begin again in Europe? Why is it so important for Russia to conquer Ukraine? Why are Ukrainians putting up such a powerful resistance? Historian Volodymyr Viatrovych, who declassified the secret archives of the Soviet special services from the Cheka to the KGB, talks about the history of Ukraine, the USSR and Eastern Europe from 1918 to 1991. The reader, is offered, along with various heroes and traitors, those who thought they were in control of events, and those who thought they had no power over them, to recreate the nearly century-old chess game between the Ukrainian liberation movement and the creators of the "prison of nations." Described in reports and recreated by a historian, this work looks at the cunning “special operations”, deadly moves, information wars and complex games among several players that are all an attempt to find an answer to the question: what creates our destiny - human will or circumstances?
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Children's & YALa sopa más rica y otros cuentos (The most delicious soup and other stories)
by Mariana Ruiz Johnson
The most delicious soup and other stories brings together five stories that take place in the village of Villa Verde, the place where all the characters live and interact. The stories are apparently very simple, yet they offer readers a delicate literary experience woven from references, ways of naming the world, images, and experiences typical of young children. This book, moreover, shares many elements with comics. In fact, we could see it as a comic for very young children, where the author, Mariana Ruiz Johnson, has used nib and Indian ink and digital color to provide readers with images in warm colors and a very rich illustration work with thousands of details for the delight of readers.
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2017Children's Art Manual Game Book
by Green Book
Basics of Interesting Paper-cut: Basics of Interesting Paper-cut is a book for guiding children to have fun origami. The strength of DIY ability directly reflects the flexibility of the brain, so improving children's DIY ability is an important way to promote intellectual development, while hand craft is a good way to fully develop children's intelligence.
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October 2002Mariana Pineda. Sobald fünf Jahre vergehen
Zwei Theaterstücke
by Federico García Lorca, Susanne Lange, Thomas Brovot
Mariana Pineda Lorcas großes Frühwerk von 1925 ist seit je eine Herausforderung für Regisseure, die neben dem Kammerton die große Bühne, das »theatralische« Sujet suchen.Granada 1831: Die spanische Freiheitskämpferin und Volksheldin Mariana Pineda verschwört sich mit den Liberalen gegen die Gewaltherrschaft von Fernando VII. und verhilft ihrem Geliebten, einem Revolutionär, zur Flucht aus dem Gefängnis. Bald wird sie vom Strafrichter Pedrosa bedrängt: gerichtlich wie sexuell. Mariana stirbt als Märtyrerin.Lorca sucht nicht die historische Heldin, sondern eine dramatische Frauengestalt, in der der zeitlose Konflikt zwischen Leidenschaft und Pflicht, Macht und Ohnmacht zum Ausbruch kommt. Und er gibt ihr eine Sprache starker, eindringlicher neuer Bildhaftigkeit. Mariana ist die erste und stärkste von Lorcas eindrucksvollen Frauenfiguren: eine Julia ohne Romeo, eine der großen Bühnenrollen des modernen Theaters. Sobald fünf Jahre vergehen Lorcas »unmögliche Komödie« aus dem Herzen des Traums ist ein Spiel um Zeit, Liebe und Tod, eine erotisch-philosophische Betrachtung des Daseins – totales Theater, so wie Lorca es sich immer zum Ziel gesetzt hat.Fünf Jahre will der junge Held warten, ehe er seine Verlobte heiratet. Die geht auf eine Reise, flieht mit einem anderen, und er flüchtet in die Liebe zu einer anderen Frau. Das Spiel kehrt sich um, das Ende ist der Tod.So bekannt die Konstellation, so außergewöhnlich und überraschend die poetische Umsetzung. Mit der Freiheit des Dichters, der unsere Vorstellung von Zeit und Kausalität aufhebt, findet Lorca auf den Grund der Gefühle. Die Liebe und ihr Scheitern, das Leben im Traum und der Traum vom Leben: in keinem anderen Stück ist die Person Lorcas so präsent. 1931, auf den Tag genau fünf Jahre vor seiner Ermordung, hat er es vollendet; eine bittere Ahnung vielleicht. Ein Glücksfall für das Theater ist sein Stück ganz bestimmt.
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Children's & YAJanuary 2015Hatless
by Lateefa Buti / Illustrated by Doha Al Khteeb
Kuwaiti children’s book author Lateefa Buti’s well-crafted and beautifully illustrated children’s book, Hatless, encourages children (ages 6-9) to think independently and challenge rigid traditions and fixed rituals with innovation and creativity. The main character is a young girl named Hatless who lives in the City of Hats. Here, all of the people are born with hats that cover their heads and faces. The world inside of their hats is dark, silent, and odorless. Hatless feels trapped underneath her own hat. She wants to take off her hat, but she is afraid, until she realizes that whatever frightening things exist in the world around her are there whether or not she takes off her hat to see them. So Hatless removes her hat. As Hatless takes in the beauty of her surroundings, she cannot help but talk about what she sees, hears, and smells. The other inhabitants of the city ostracize her because she has become different from them. It is not long before they ask her to leave the City of Hats. Rather than giving up or getting angry, Hatless feels sad for her friends and neighbors who are afraid to experience the world outside of their hats. She comes up with an ingenious solution: if given another chance, she will wear a hat as long it is one she makes herself. The people of the City of Hats agree, so Hatless weaves a hat that covers her head and face but does not prevent her from seeing the outside world. She offers to loan the hat to the other inhabitants of the city. One by one, they try it on and are enchanted by the beautiful world around them. Since then, no child has been born wearing a hat. The people celebrate by tossing their old hats in the air. By bravely embracing these values, Hatless improves her own life and the lives of her fellow citizens. Buti’s language is eloquent and clear. She strikes a skilled narrative balance between revealing Hatless’s inner thoughts and letting the story unfold through her interactions with other characters. Careful descriptions are accompanied by beautiful illustrations that reward multiple readings of the book.
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Children of the World Illustrate the Bible
by Amos Rolnik
Children of the World Illustrate the Bible It all began when we were looking forward to the fiftieth year Jubilee of the State of Israel. We were looking for a way, something unconventional, to bring Israel to the attention of hundreds of millions of people throughout the world. And so we came up with the idea, rather self-evident: The Bible. The Book of Books, which speaks to each and every one in dozens of countries and countless cultures. We asked ourselves: Who will bring this message? And then the idea came up: A worldwide competition among children to draw the stories of the Bible. We did not limit the subjects. Anything would be accepted as long as it was in line with the stories of the Bible. And wonder of wonders: Just like a fire in a field of thorns, the message went from country to country, from city to city, from school to school, from family to family: The children of the world are drawing the Bible. And the project reached 91 countries. Hundreds of thousands of drawings reached us. Only a handful of the thousands are brought in this album, which is the first in the series of titles flowing from the illustrations that were sent to Israel and were chosen by our staff of curators. And indeed from this handful we can already see their uniqueness. We all know the stories of the Bible, but here they materialize before our very eyes. As the children from five continents described them in their imagination, it seems that even the authors of the Bible themselves would not believe how alive and full were their heroes, as depicted with the brushes of these little children. Not only did we find a drawing of a story, but also a wide rainbow of emotions, notions, beliefs and outlooks of the world. And above all: Personal expression and riveting exposition without filters, analysis or criticism. We conducted the project throughout the world for three years, and at the end, when the thousands of drawings began streaming to the country, we were astounded by this enormous and absorbing crop. We could not avoid falling captives to the charm, strength of expression and intensity of experience that flowed from these drawings. It seems that thanks to the remarkable coming to the rescue by the children of the world, the stories of the Bible won an inspiring, artistic revival. Amos Rolnik This book was previously published by Mallmedia Publishing House& Rolnik Publishing, Something Different In 2002. 273 Pages, 25X32 cm, Color Illustrations,
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Children's & YAJune 2016The Story of Birth
by CAI Gao
The Story of Birth is quite unique among Cai Gao’s works. This is the latest picture book of Ms. Cai, both its words and illustrations were created by herself. In this book, she describes the process of a baby' s birth by wax crayon, depicting the joy of life’s birth and expressing a high tribute to all mothers.
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Children's & young adult: general non-fiction2021A Cool History of UkraineFrom Dinosaurs Till Now
by Inna Kovalyshena
Do you really think that history is boring and hard to under- stand? The heroes of this book thought so, too, at first. But just one interesting discovery pushed them to get to know history better — and to see that it can be fascinating, vibrant and so close to each of them. Four friends decide to explore the Ukrainian history and learn the truth: what kind of dino- saurs lived on our lands, who fought for Ukraine’s independ- ence, and why Ukrainians are the way they are. It turns out that history can be exciting and very important, even if it was back in the days of the dinosaurs. The subject of the book is the history of Ukraine from dinosaurs to today, which is interestingly and directly revealed. The main characters are children, in whom readers can recognize themselves. The text is written with humor and simple words, which makes the perception of information interactive. The book touches on important points of Ukraine's struggle for independence over many years.
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Children's & young adult: general non-fiction2021A Delicious History of Ukraine
by Masha Serdiuk
What is Ukrainian cuisine? Who invented borscht? Where did the holubtsi (cabbage rolls) come from? And why are Ukrainian varenyky (dumplings) called relatives of Chinese dim sums? Answers to these questions can be found in this book. In an interesting accessible form, we tell children the history of the Ukrainian gastronomy. They will find out what famous Ukrainians loved to eat. We will explain in a plain way how the cuisine of Halychyna differs from that of Volyn and Polissya regions. We will also map all the “delicious” places in the country. Furthermore, of course, young readers will learn how to cook cult Ukrainian dishes.
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Fiction2017Summer Rains
Winner of the 2018 Sheikh Zayed Book Award for Young Author
by Ahmad Al Qarmalawi
Using music as a thread that connects the past to the present, this novel explores what happens when traditional and cultural heritage clash with modernity. The characters face the impact of modernization on heritage and arts versus the need to protect and preserve their traditional culture and must choose between the pursuit of materialism versus spiritual balance. Al Qarmalawi writes about a wide range of music from Sufism to the present era of electronic musical arts, and Summer Rains addresses the current Arab youth crisis, in which young people find themselves torn between fundamentalism and modernity. (An extended English-language report on this book will be available soon.)
