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New Books for Children from Israel Israel from Children for Books New New Books for Children from Israel Summer 2021 THE InstitUTE FOR THE TRANSLatiON OF HEBREW LITERatURE Keter, 2021 All rights reserved © Aviel Basil © Aviel reserved 2021 All rights Keter, Iris Argaman, From: Basil by Aviel illustration Cover Emilia and the Hat THE INSTITUTE FOR THE TRANSLATION OF HEBREW LITERATURE Division of Cultural & Scientic Aairs Ministry of Foreign Aairs CONTENTS Spotlight on Nurit Zarchi 4 New Arrivals Color Crown Ketchup Love 6 Tamar Hochstadter, Peekaboo . 28 Memories from the Sleeve 7 Tamar Hochstadter, Cauliflora . 30 See You at the South Pole 8 Iris Argaman, Emilia and the Hat . 32 The Mermaid in the Bathtub 10 Eshkol Nevo, Hold That Thought 34 Tinkertank 12 Tsipor Frumkin, The End of the World. 36 Freaky 14 Yehuda Vizan, At Hillel and Lilleet of Galilee City 38 Nurit Zarchi’s Fantastic Book 16 Tanina 18 Classics Tanina Sticks Her Nose into Other People’s Plates 19 Sagit Emet, Gaya’s Dawn . 40 Alma or the Sixth Day 20 The Cooking Penguins 22 Recent Sales – Backlist Malki Monro Morduch 23 Iris Argaman, Bear and Fred . 42 Nina Runs Away 24 Tamar Meir, Francesco Tirelli’s Ice Cream Shop . 43 A Feel for Business 26 Eshkol Nevo, Amalia’s Father Goes to Australia . 44 Tami Shem-Tov, Saba Sabich . 45 Ori Elon, At Jackrobat’s Market . 46 Youth/Adult books Middle Grade books Picture books Ori Elon, A Basket Full of Figs . 47 Click here for a complete list of publications for each author on our website: P.O.B 5005, Tel Aviv 6105001, Israel. Tel: 972 3 579 6830 Fax: 972 3 579 6832 E-mail: [email protected] Offices: 45 Kibbutz Galuyot Road, Tel Aviv. 3rd Floor, Studio 118. www.ithl.org.il/authors All contracts and negotiations through the ITHL THE INSTITUTE FOR THE TRANSLATION OF HEBREW LITERATURE • 2021 BOOKS FOR CHILDREN SPOTLIGHT ON NURIT ZARCHI Spotlight on Nurit Zarchi A living legend, Nurit Zarchi, winner of the Nurit Zarchi was born in Jerusalem in 1941 and 2021 Israel Prize for literature, is a luminary grew up in Kibbutz Geva. She studied literature and philosophy at Tel Aviv University. She of Hebrew literature. The over 100 books has worked as a journalist and holds creative she has written for children and teenagers writing workshops for children and adults. have inspired the Israeli literary scene. Zarchi has published more than 150 books in almost every genre: novels, short stories, poetry, Throughout her oeuvre, ranging from S E books for children who are just starting G collections of essays and children’s literature. POR She has received every major Israeli literary to read and up to teenagers on the brink an © D © award from poetry to children’s literature, O of adulthood, Zarchi celebrates the innate T including the Prime Minister’s Prize twice HO freedom of the world of childhood. Her P (1980; 1991), the Ze’ev Prize (five times), four work reflects children’s vivid imagination IBBY Honor Citations (1980; 1984; 1998; 2004), and unspoilt curiosity, and explores their ear: nice kids and some who are not so nice; the Bialik Prize (1999), the Education Minister’s Prize for Lifetime Achievement (2005), the infinite universe of emotions. With subtle practical kids and dreamy, starry-eyed ones; Yehuda Amichai Prize (2007), the Ramat Gan empathy, she liberates the subconscious of the beloved and the rejected. There are Prize (2010), the Lea Goldberg Prize (2011), the her readers, both children and their parents. anthropomorphic creatures from beetles Landau Prize for Poetry (2013), the Devorah Zarchi eschews conventional boundaries to elephants, and imagined characters like Omer Prize for Lifetime Achievement (2014), the Arik Einstein Prize (2015), the Israel Center for relating to genre, characters, plot develop- witches and kings and queens. And there Educational Innovation Award for Lifetime are both loving parents and nasty ones, ments and language. The fundamental logic Achievement (2016) and most recently the Israel of her writing is a disorderly order, through grown-ups who listen and care, and those Prize for Literature (2021). who are unfeeling. which the impossible is revealed within the Zarchi’s work has been translated into a dozen possible, the fictional within reality. Many of the best Israeli illustrators of languages, including English, French, German, Spanish, Arabic, Portuguese, Hindi, Urdu and A daring sense of humor, magical word recent generations have provided the art for Punjabi. games, surprising interpretive parallels Zarchi’s books, among them Hila Havkin, with the classics of children’s literature, Rutu Modan, David Polonsky, Batia Kolton, CLICK HERE FOR A COmpLETE Listing OF ZARCHI’S stylistic virtuosity, and a mixture of Danny Kerman, Ora Eyal, Ora Eitan, Ruth BOOks ON THE ITHL WEBSITE. sober reality with fantastic and dreamy Zarfati, Anat Warshavsky and Avner Katz. voyages—these are some characteristics of We are delighted to present here, as an Zarchi’s writing. A humanistic sensitivity is enjoyable taster, a selection from Nurit revealed in the rich gallery of characters she Zarchi’s vintage and recent books for introduces, all of whom receive an attentive children and teenagers. 4 Click to the Contents page 5 THE INSTITUTE FOR THE TRANSLATION OF HEBREW LITERATURE • 2021 BOOKS FOR CHILDREN SPOTLIGHT ON NURIT ZARCHI Nurit Zarchi Nurit Zarchi Color Crown Yedioth Ahronoth, 1998 Memories from Am Oved, 1979 31 pp. 108 pp. Ketchup Love Ages 4+ the Sleeve Ages 11+ A mischievous classic, loved by A brilliant, rediscovered gem about children and adults the essence of history and its narrative course There is a crown, but it isn’t really a crown. So, what is it really? A cookie? A cactus? A flower? Is it Josefina Hermina von Justina shares a historical a queen’s crown? No, no, and no. Everyone thinks document with us: her diary. Josefina is a wise the crown is theirs, and everyone wants to wear and learned little mouse, charming but also a bit it? So, what is this crown really? What is this thing arrogant, who lives on an estate in Russia. After that everyone is going in circles around? Is it only a taking leave of her beloved mother, she travels as a crown, or is it everything or anything? Is it a riddle stowaway with Baron Platon, who is outstanding at and its answer? Or perhaps it is something else? Is it keeping a secret. Platon is going to the Land of Israel love? What’s love? to settle in a community of the Templars, a Christian A children’s book that contains German sect. While hiding in the Baron’s sleeve, In the spirit of the classics of nonsense, the works additional layers of meaning and Josefina tells us a little about herself and a lot about of Lewis Carroll and Edward Lear, Nurit Zarchi could easily be purchased as a gift Platon and his adventures. She describes her voyage unfolds a poem of minimalist foolishness, in which book for children and grown-ups alike one may see a succinct, mischievous key to her to the Holy Land, and tells us what life is like in the Haaretz work: a mystery of great peculiarity, as ancient as new country. From her diminuative point of view, history, pondering an enormous unknown that she gives an account of massive historical processes looks different to all human beings and from all the Simply put: Wonderful A fountain of such as migration, acclimatization and politics, as angles from which it is observed. imaginative associations, boundless well as both significant and petty events affecting illustrations and a spirit of elation the fates of individuals who play a role in history— loves, partings, treacheries, gossip, and more. Illustrations: Hila Havkin that pervades the entire book Blog for children’s literature A wise, amusing tale, filled with sharp insights into cultural differences and trenchant psychological and historiographical observations, all recounted clearly in everyday language. A book that was ahead of its time and that retains its vitality and freshness decades later. Illustrations: Avner Katz 6 Click to the Contents page 7 THE INSTITUTE FOR THE TRANSLATION OF HEBREW LITERATURE • 2021 BOOKS FOR CHILDREN SPOTLIGHT ON NURIT ZARCHI Nurit Zarchi See You at the Kinneret Zmora-Bitan Dvir, 2005 37 pp. South Pole Ages 4+ An adventure story that begins with a surprise FOREIGN RIGHTS SOLD French (Actes Sud), German (Gerstenberg), package and ends at the end of the world Spanish (Adriana Hidalgo) Everyone needs to care for someone other than him self, says the mail carrier who hands Mr. Zoom a package. Mr. Zoom isn’t interested in the package because he’s in a hurry to get to the office, but the package shakes in his hands and makes vague noises. Mr. Zoom doesn’t understand what the package is saying, and doesn’t care that much. When he arrives at the office he unwraps it impatiently. An egg appears, and the voice which emerges from it says: “South Pole. Open on Sunday.” Today is Friday, thinks Mr. Zoom in panic, I opened the package three days too early. He hangs a sign on the door of his room so that he won’t be disturbed and sits down to incubate the egg. After three days, a baby penguin hatches from the egg and calls Mr. Zoom “Daddy.” The penguin wants to go to the South Pole, and Mr. Zoom, who no longer cares only for himself, buys tickets and flies with the penguin to the southern continent that very same day. Multitudes of penguins suddenly appear, and who runs towards them and greets them? A mother penguin, of course! The baby penguin immediately knows that she is his mother and runs to her.
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