The Post Cards: Avant-garde Illustrated Mini-Book

· Iesypenko Andrii
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A little boy named William once had a castle made out of cutout paper. The castle took up an entire table. Inside the castle where postcards. William looked through the draw bridge at them. There were kings and queens and knights there...


The text of the fairy tale is adapted for easier perception by young children and is intended to become an early acquaintance with classics of world literature. Based on H. C. Andersen’s “Herrebladene”.


The Post Cards illustrated minibook is one of the first experimental works by Oksana Ignaschenko. It stayed unpublished until 2018 and was created in late 1970’s during the study at National Academy of Visual Arts and Architecture.

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Hans Christian Andersen was a Danish author. Although a prolific writer of plays, travelogues, novels, and poems, he is best remembered for his fairy tales. Andersen's popularity is not limited to children; his stories express themes that transcend age and nationality.

Illustrator and author of numerous of kids’ books, Oksana Ignaschenko, was born on Septemper 5, 1960 in Kiev. In 1984 she graduated from National Academy of Visual Arts and Architecture. The member of the National Union of Artists and the participant of international exhibitions.

Mrs. Henry Hugh Beams Paull was a translator of children's books. She published Andersen’s and Grimm’s Fairy Tales in English in 1872.

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