MAMINO is located in Kyiv and specialized on children’s literature. The publishing house has been founded in 2016. MAMINO creates books for preschoolers and schoolchildren: fiction and nonfiction. MAMINO is the first Ukrainian publishers who started publishing cardboard mix & match books. MAMINO produces original books as well as translations by world bestsellers. We open new names among Ukrainian authors and shows them to the world.
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Many wonders happen in the world. For instance, your tub may wish to play hide-and-seek with you, a dragon couple can have a baby princess born as their daughter and a little mouse may imagine itself a cat and then really become one. In the times of incredible change and inventions there can be a device that makes anything tiny, or a newly renovated highway can become a teleport, or the door can only serve as an entrance… This is a very short list of different miraculous situations and weird characters that you’ll meet in the book by Olesia Mamchych. The fun, ironic, sometimes absurd and paradox stories will make you laugh, feel confused or even… But, check it out yoursef.
Children love poems. So before Christmas, the Old Lion and a group of modern Ukrainian poets and illustrators created this elegant book to read in the family circle. Snow Poems for Kids are full of fun snow games, magical gifts from St. Nicholas and magical moments of Christmas and New Year. Also, the Old Lion reminds young readers to take care of birds and animals in winter. The collection includes poems by Mariana Savka, Halyna Malyk, Halyna Kirpa, Kateryna Mikhalitsyna, Oleksandr Dermanskyi, Ihor Kalynets, Oksana Lushchevska, Oksana Krotiuk, Hryhorii Falkovich, Tetiana Vynnyk, Yulia Smal, Natalia Poklad, Olesia Mamchych, Ivan Andrusiak , Oleksandr Orlov. Compiler - Natalka Maletych. Illustrated by: Dasha Rakova, Oksana-Olexandra Drachkovska, Yuliia Pylypchatina, Nataliia Oliynyk, Bohdana Bondar, Oksana Bula, Marta Koshulynska, Kateryna Sad.
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The book contains over fifty interviews with artists, curators, and art critics, who talk about their reactions to contemporary events in Ukraine as citizens and as artists. Together with the author, they reflect on creative response of the modern art community to the events in Ukraine during the Revolution of Dignity and the war with Russia (before the full-scale invasion) and the role of art and artists in conflict. The book includes over 100 reproductions of visual works that have been provided by the courtesy of artists, Ukrainian museums, and private galleries.“Artists who record the overstrain of the present leave behind the artifacts for future cultural archaeologists. Socially engaged artists practice art because they understand the urgency of the situation, but even those artists who claim that they do not address the theme of war demonstrate the opposite in their works. It is this zone of conscious and subconscious artistic influence that creates the environment of this book.” — Olesya Gerashchenko (Shambur)
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The Molfar Kotsenek is a good magician who protects the peace of the Carpathians is friends with a brown bear. One day, Kotsenek receives a letter from the past, and his whole life turns upside down. What secret does the old Molfar hold? Will he discover why did the winter became "spoilt"? Will he manage to have a student, and most importantly: what are dragons doing in the Carpathians? This is a unique exciting adventure for elementary school age readers from the author of the popular Ukrainian book series Oleksa Dovbush. From 5 to 8 years, 9851 words RightsHolders: ladiscursus@gmail.com
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This is a funny and touching story about running, love, friendship, and support. It is about getting to know oneself and the world that surrounds us.The main character Theo cannot sit still and loves to run, just like his mother, for whom running is an essential part of her life. Theo knows a lot about runners, and yet, as he is getting ready to participate in a race, countless questions emerge in his head. What does it take to become a champion? How does one learn to always be first? And most importantly — how and when to reveal to his mom the secret that explains why he is always so hyper energetic. In addition to the fictional story, the book contains useful information and tips: what young runners should eat, how to choose comfortable sneakers, what pulse is and why it is important to measure it, what marathons, halfmarathons and children’s races are, and how to join them... Lastly, the book comes with a tangible prize that every young reader is going to love: upon finishing it, they are all guaranteed to get a medal! From 6 to 9 years, 5980 words Rightsholders: publishing@yakaboo.com
This publication is the catalogue to the Revolutionize exhibition that was held from November 21, 2018 to January 27, 2019 at the Mystetskyi Arsenal.
This book is published on the occasion of the exhibition Reality of Illusion. Oleksander Hnylytskyj (February 23 — March 26, 2017). The exhibition was constructed not as a simple final retrospection. It had a specific conceptual core, reflected in the title – the reality and illusiveness of the world in their intermutation and convergence. It is this core that combines incredible variety into a cohesive artistic world of Oleksandr Hnylytskyj. The artistic path was depicted not in the linear form, but in the conceptual form instead – the exhibition was disintegrated like a puzzle where separate fragments, cycles, blocks and meanings joined and intertwined with unexpected logic, generating a complicated “exhibitional performance.”
The publication is dedicated to the work of artist Andriy Sahaidakovsky. The book represents the artist’s creative work, his life path and artistic method, which are clearly displayed in the exhibition ‘Andriy Sahaidakovsky. The Scenery. Welcome!’
The publication is devoted to the figure of Paraska Plytka-Horytsvit — a Hutsul painter, folklorist, ethnographer, philosopher and photographer. The book examines Paraska Plytka-Horytsvit's life and artist legacy: books, vytynankas, icons, graphic works, photographs. The publication contains the catalogue which is a result of museumification of the exhibited materials that have been provided by the Kryvorivnia community.
The publication contains materials collected during working on the Kurbas: New Worlds exhibition, which took place at the Mystetskyi Arsenal on October 17–December 2, 2018 and manifested the curatorial view of the creative work of Les Kurbas, a Ukrainian avant-garde theater director of the early twentieth century. Most museum objects in the exhibition are courtesy of the Museum of Theater, Music and Cinema of Ukraine.
The publication is devoted to the figure of the artist Oleg Holosiy (1965-1993) — one of the most prominent artists in the history of Ukrainian art, a member of the Paris Commune art squat. The book examines Oleg Holosiy’s life and painting method as well as the first reproductions of graphic drawings, poems and sketches of the artist. The book you hold in your hands is an attempt to archive the fruitful creativity of the artist over the last five years of his life.
The publication is devoted to the representation of contemporary practices in Belarusian art that resonate with the history and modernity of protest movements and networks of solidarity. The book presents the practices of artists that show pulsating forms of interaction, resistance, collectiveness, and a future that we are already living today — every day. All these practices were clearly manifested in the exhibition “Every Day. Art. Solidarity. Resistance.”
This flash fiction collection titled ‘My Women’ is, in fact, a collection of women’s voices. The voices of those who have been brutally silenced, those who have had their dearest taken away, those who have persevered and fought for themselves, and those who have broken down and given up. These succinct, emotionally charged, brutal and sometimes excruciatingly difficult stories portray experiences of life during wartime, each so very different but equally poignant. This book is illustrated by artworks created after Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. They complement the flash fiction written by the author with their visual narratives, transforming ‘My Women’ into our very own women. Each of the women who contributed to this book — the translator, illustrators, editors, the layout designer and the publisher — felt a personal connection with the nameless protagonists, finding something within the stories that resonated deeply with them. We hope that readers will also feel similar emotions. Working on this book, we wanted to support and embrace every Ukrainian woman, telling her, ‘We stand with you, sister.’ ‘My Women’ is a book about each of us — and for every one of us.
