The work Wave will take readers to the vast beach with the humorous jokes of a girl and cool green waves.
In Shadow, we witnessed an interesting story taking place in a dark room, where the real world and the hypothetical world intertwined, creating an attractive hunting game.
These two works are in the The Three Bounds by author Suzy Lee. The author has taken advantage of the book series physical border between adjacent pages of books to tell stories about how different worlds meet, dissolve into each other, about the borders of imagination and reality, between limits and freedom, between what we see and what makes us vibrate.
On the occasion of the launch of two non-fiction books by famous artist Suzy Lee, Kim Dong Publishing House in collaboration with The Initiative of Children's Book Creative content (ICBC) and VYMI Ensemble organized the talk show "The stories on the other side of the stillness" taking place at 4:00 p.m. on November 16 in Hanoi.
In the talk show, children's book curator Pham Thi Hoai Anh will guide the audience to open each page of the book of the work "The Wave" to feel the vivid changes of emotions in each perspective, each breath and the gaps in the illustrative painting of the book.
By using storytelling skills as the physical structure of the book, author Suzy Lee has created surprising lines on each page of the book, boundaries between reality and imagination, between limits and freedom, between what we see and what makes us move.
The story of music will be led by curator Phan Do Phuc to continue the dialogue on the pages of books. The variations performed by artists from the Vietnam Youth Symphony Orchestra (VYMI) to explore how a simple musical idea can expand into imagination, dialogue and game.
Author Suzy Lee is a master of wordless picture book creations by using simple but extremely vivid carbon lead paintings, rich in energy and strong contrasting colors.
Suzy Lee's book does not have an introduction, instead, she leaves prediction, thinking and storytelling for young readers - "authors" rich in imagination to freely create. Thanks to its non-linguistic features, Suzy Lee's picture books are not limited by story content, or face cultural and language barriers, thanks to which they have conquered readers in many countries around the world.
Ms. Nguyen Thi Kim Dung - Head of the Board of Directors of Tranh Books, Kim Dong Publishing House shared: In the context of publishing interspersed with art, the non-fiction picture book genre, which was once considered picky about readers, is gradually conquering the public. We believe that, with the maturity of taste and the spirit of exploring new and profound styles of readers, especially of domestic painters and authors of picture books, this book series will help receive more and more attention.
Kim Dong Publishing House hopes to continue its mission of introducing new and quality works and authors to domestic readers, contributing to expanding the range of enjoyment of picture book art".
Painter Suzy Lee was born in Seoul, South Korea. She graduated with a major in Fine Arts from Seoul National University and received a master's degree in art books from Camberwell College of Fine Arts, UK. Her works have been published and exhibited widely around the world. She currently lives in Singapore.
Author Suzy Lee was awarded the prestigious Hans Christian Andersen Medal in 2022 along with many other prestigious awards around the world.
In 2008, her work "The Wave" won a Gold Medal from the Illustration Painter Association at the American Art Exhibition.
The Wave and The Ball were also selected as New York Times best illustrative childrens books in 2008 and 2010.
