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The Book of Clouds

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By (author): Juris Kronbergs

Translated by: Mara Rozite, Richard O'Brien

Illustrated by: Anete Melece

Its time to let your imagination fly

If you look up on a cloudy day, you'll see a whole new surprising world above you - the world of clouds! The Book of Clouds is an introduction to this world - and the guide you'll want by your side to help you understand it.

A mix of dreamy fantasy and scientific fact, this is the perfect gift for any child with their head stuck in the clouds - and for anyone who has ever wondered what's up there in the skies above. This book is ideal for children to use as a starting point for their own imaginative creative play. It is full of playful poems, inspiring, anarchic illustrations, and guides to all of the different aspects of clouds that you could want to know about.

With 25 poems and many full-page illustrations that use watercolour and collage, you wont be able to pick The Book of Clouds up without wanting to immediately start making your own cloud diary. So The Book of Clouds comes with 9 pages for your own notes and sketches at the end - let it truly become YOUR book of clouds!

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Product Details
  • Dimensions: 150 x 210mm
  • Publication Date: 03 May 2018
  • Publisher: The Emma Press
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781910139141

About Juris Kronbergs

Juris Kronbergs is a poet and translator. He was born in Sweden in 1946 to a family of Latvian artists. He studied Literature Science Nordic and Baltic languages at the University of Stockholm and the Theory of Translation and 20th-century Poetry at the University of Cambridge England. At the end of the 1980s and the beginning of 1990s he worked as a radio journalist for Radio Sweden and as an interpreter for the Swedish parliament government and the Nordic Council of Ministers. Juris served as a diplomat for ten years Cultural Attaché at the Latvian Embassy in Sweden (1992-2002). He has been a guest lecturer at the University of Stockholm University of Uppsala several Swedish University Colleges as well as Stanford University (USA) University of Toronto and the Foreign Service Institute (Washington DC). He has been the President of the Latvian P.E.N. centre he is an honorary member of the Latvian Academy of Sciences a recipient of the Latvian Three Star order the Swedish North Star order and several scholarships and prizes for poetry and translation including the prize for best poetry collection of the year in Latvia for his collections Wolf One-Eye (1997) and On the Balcony (2017). Sixteen collections of his poetry have been published as well as poetry on CD (in Latvia and in Sweden). His output includes sixty books of translations mostly Latvian poetry (but also prose) into Swedish and Swedish literature into Latvian. His poetry have been translated into many languages: English Swedish German French Italian Norwegian Danish Icelandic Finnish Estonian Lithuanian Chec Polish Russian Ukrainian Armenian Greek Slovenian Catalan Irish Welsh Chinese Korean. In 2006 the British publisher ARC published a volume of the complete Wolf One-Eye collection in English (translated by Mara Rozitis). Anete Melece was born in Latvia in 1983. She studied visual communication at the Art Academy of Latvia (BA) and animation at Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Art (MA). She is an illustrator animator and graphic designer currently based in Zürich Switzerland. Richard OBrien is a poet translator and academic based in Birmingham UK.

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