Baobá Livraria

This textile book tells the story of the origins of Mata-Ni-Pachedi, the ritual ‘Cloth of the Mother Goddess’. Traditionally created by artisans from the nomadic Vaghari community in Gujarat, these votive cloths offer a painted image of the goddess to herself. Gifting a piece of creation to the ...

Se cacher, disparaître aux yeux du monde… Grâce à des illustrations tunnels, le lecteur découvre cinq animaux qui vivent dans des galeries. Des illustrations tunnel faites de sept plans successifs assemblés présente le terrier du mulot des champs, de l’hirondelle de rivage, du grillon ...

At a particular period in Indian history, cheaply available Soviet picture books, in English and vernacular translations, changed the way Indian children read. Meanwhile, a different and more problematic kind of cultural ‘globalization’ was underway in the regions governed by the Soviet State, a...

From a fish waiting to be born, to the beginning of art and the necessity of death, lore from the Gond tribal community in central india abounds in stories of origins, transformations and endings. Celebrated Gond artist Bhajju Shyam gathers together these tales for the first time. By linking the cos...

Two young artists from the indigenous Warli community in western India travel from the familiarity of home to the faraway land of Japan. Their fabulously rendered journey resonates with another journey, of discovering how water connects all life – from the humans on the surface to the creatures at...

The Night Life of Trees is an exquisite silkscreen-printed art book of tree lore from the Gond tribe in central India. Trees are central to the Gond tribal imagination: in addition to the stories that surround them, trees are important in a lived, everyday sense. There is a Gond belief that trees ar...

Nicole Claveloux, Etienne Delessert, Patrick Couratin, France de Ranchin, Bernard Bonhomme… Qu’ont donc ces illustrateurs en commun ? Tous ont pris part, dès le milieu des années 1960, au grand renouveau du livre pour enfants. Une génération de créateurs d’images et d’histoires, voya...

Au 19e siècle naît la photographie moderne, qui n’a, dès lors, cessé d’investir le livre. Genre longtemps méconnu, parfois mésestimé, la photolittérature est pourtant prisée des enfants, et de nombreux artistes s’essaieront à l’exercice. De 1886 à 2021, ces livres sont les tém...