Shyam, Bhajju / Bai, Durga / Urveti, Ram Singh
Das Geheimnis der Bäume
A picture book from India
Translated from English by Eveline Masilamani-Meyer
NordSüd Verlag, Zürich, 2009
(German First Edition: Reihe Baobab, 2008, out of print)
40 pages, silk-screen print
CHF 49.80 / EUR 29,95
ISBN 978-3-314-01722-7
ages 6 and up
Only few copies available!
Trees work all day for human beings and at night they bring the good spirits to life. For the Gond, one of India‘s indigenous tribes, the tree stands at the center of life, for they have traditionally lived in the forest.Through pictures by Bhajju Shyam, Durga Bai and Ram Singh Urveti, all members of the Gond, a marvelous and ornate, but also threatened world unfolds before our eyes, a world filled with stories and secrets.
Original: »The Night Life of Trees« © 2006 by Tara Publishing, Chennai
Bologna Ragazzi Award 2008 »New Horizons» for the original edition
Das Geheimnis der Bäume
A picture book from India
Translated from English by Eveline Masilamani-Meyer
NordSüd Verlag, Zürich, 2009
(German First Edition: Reihe Baobab, 2008, out of print)
40 pages, silk-screen print
CHF 49.80 / EUR 29,95
ISBN 978-3-314-01722-7
ages 6 and up
Only few copies available!
Trees work all day for human beings and at night they bring the good spirits to life. For the Gond, one of India‘s indigenous tribes, the tree stands at the center of life, for they have traditionally lived in the forest.Through pictures by Bhajju Shyam, Durga Bai and Ram Singh Urveti, all members of the Gond, a marvelous and ornate, but also threatened world unfolds before our eyes, a world filled with stories and secrets.
Original: »The Night Life of Trees« © 2006 by Tara Publishing, Chennai
Bologna Ragazzi Award 2008 »New Horizons» for the original edition
The artists
In 2001, Bhajju Shyam, born in 1971, was selected as India's best artist of the year. His works have been exhibited in India and Europe.Durga Bai was born in 1974 in the village of Mandla in Madhya Pradesh. She is an innovative Gond artist, whose work is distinguished by its highly personal style and for which she has already received several prizes.Ram Singh Urveti, born in 1970, is greatly admired by other Gond artists. It is his work in particular that has brought the life and the myths of the Gond to the world's attention. He too has been awarded many prizes.
Teaching materials (in German only) and a documentary film about the book production are available for this title.