Lena Schall
When the Waves Took Root
Look at pictures, strike up a conversation, discover exciting details and spin tales together: twelve imaginative illustrations invite children and parents to immerse themselves in different worlds and invent new stories again and again.
Looking at images, beginning conversations, picking out a thought and spinning it further together: this is the concept behind our series of narrative pictures, which was launched in 2012 by Eva Muggenthaler with When the Fish Went for a Walk and continued with When the Houses Floated Home by Einar Turkowski.
In When the Waves Took Root, artist Lena Schall adds to the series with a volume featuring three-dimensional collages. Renowned children’s philosopher Kristina Calvert has written an afterword for the book.
Mixtvision
Picture Book
Original title: Als die Wellen Wurzeln schlugen …
Age 3+
32 pp
hc | 222 x 247 mm
Publication: August 2014
Author & Illustrator: Lena Schall
All rights available
- Continuation of the award-winning series of narrative images
- Extraordinary, three-dimensional collages by newcomer Lena Schall
- High-quality binding with half-cloth binding and an afterword by children's philosopher Dr Kristina Calvert.
Awards
- Awards
“Lena Schall’s When the Waves Took Root … is an unusual debut, published by Mixtvision, for all ages.” – 3sat Kulturzeit
“What wonderfully dangerous, colourful and fantastical imagery!” – Donaukurier
“When the Waves Took Root … by Lena Schall is crazy, colourful, wild, but also gentle and loving.” – Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger
“Lena Schall has created images that viewers can easily lose themselves in. Tiny worlds characterised by contrasts. Here, wetness sits alongside dryness, beauty alongside ugliness, tiredness alongside wakefulness…
[…] This book does not need text; after all, the images are intended to spark conversation and inspire stories. Since children can give their imaginations free rein, this will be very easy to achieve.” – Kilifü, 2014/15
In the same series of Narrative Pictures
