• Best Creativity Prize, 1st Oriental Kids Picture Book Award, China, 2020

About Manica

Born in Ptuj, Slovenia, at first Manica Klenovšek Musil wanted to study piano. But she soon turned her attention to other areas, including architecture. After she graduated, her first building – the Municipal Building in Gorisnica (Slovenia) – won the international Grand Prix at the ‘Leonardo’ competition for young architects in Minsk, 2005. Meanwhile, she also won some awards for her graphic art. Between 2002 and and 2006 her work was featured on 11 Slovenian stamps. After the birth of first child (of three), she expanded her creativity and began to write stories and poems. Between 2011 and 2017 she published 9 children’s books for various distinguished Slovenian publishers. Her books are becoming increasingly known around the world. The animals from her books have inspired her to re-create them as installations for galleries or other public spaces. Why not even for parks…? It is most probably her background in architecture that makes her perceive her books rather more as entire projects than simply as books. As she has recently remarked, ‘When I get old (which I’ll probably never be), I want to have my own picture book museum. Eric Carle has one, there’s one in Japan, why not third one.’

The Pigs are completely fresh and are still looking for a Publisher.

Jack and Joe think of them selves as the smartest pigs in the whole world. One day they find an egg and are trying to understand what it is. Could it be a ball, a target or even a Sun? Once they have tried more or less everything with it, the egg cracks. At first they see skinny legs and then.... yet another pig.