The book of June

WHAT ELSE HAPPENED ON YOUR BIRTHDAY? AND THE DAY YOU MET YOUR GREAT LOVE?

Calendar/Almanac book: each double spread, a day. Whether you are celebrating an anniversary, a birth, or simply remembering a special moment, this book is for you. Because a date is never just a date, and a number and a day can mean many things in the intangible interconnection between humanity, time and space.

Featured main events The Book of June:
1st, 1494, GB-SCT, Whisky’s birth
2nd, 1897, US, Mark Twain’s famous denial “The report of my death…”
3rd, 2016, US, Muhammad Alì’s death
4th, 1782 FR, first flight of a hot-air balloon
5th, 1662, FR, King Louis XIV chooses the sun as his symbol
6th, 1984, RU, birth of the videogame Tetris
7th, 1926 ES, Antoni Gaudì gets run over by a tram
8th, 1783, IS, Laki’s eruption, etc

Key selling points:

– all the 365 (+1) days of the year featured, month by month

– events of all the centuries and from allover the world

– best known team of writers and illustrators
– no page numbers: just a date display
– multidisciplinary topics
– each day: one main event told and illustrated + other mentioned

Author & Illustator:

Chiara Lorenzoni writes books for children and young people, some of which also translated in China, Greece, Korea, Brazil, Romania, Portugal, France, Germany, Poland, Turkey, Russia, Laos and Japan. Her written word is aligned with her look at small things, poetry and the wonder they can generate. She writes for children and young people because it is a necessity, because her creativity contains the very vivid memory of the fears, nostalgia and sudden happiness of childhood and that amazing threshold that is adolescence. Her latest published books include titles with the most known Italian publishers. (The book of June – The book of July – The book of August)

Luogo Comune is an Italian illustrator and urban artist. His artistic practice embraces both outdoor and indoor work using a wide variety of mediums. As an illustrator he has collected many editorial requests such as illustrations for magazines, newspapers and illustrated books. As urban artist he has painted in several Italian cities and abroad in countries including Belgium, Austria, Spain, Greece, Estonia,Holland and Morocco. His work is based on a visual language rich in symbolism combining elements of flora, fauna, objects of local or contemporary traditions, mainly using flat colour palettes and a graphic approach as key point to discuss the human condition and reflect on today’s social context. He currently lives and works between Bologna and Ravenna. He’s published by the most known Italian publishers and his books are translated and published in Russia, Croatia, Estonia, Slovenia, Poland, China, England, France, Spain and Switzerland. (The book of June)