★The illustrator Damijan Stepančič was nominated for Hans Christian Andersen Award 2020 and 2024(the long list)!
★English sample available.

The series includes 15 titles:
Picture Book: The Ripening of Porcupines, Ear of the World, Black and White, The Lighthouse, Lučka Light and Shady Shadow, Can I Give You a Big Hug?
Non-Fiction: How They Saw the World, About the Meaning of Words
Poem: The Lumber Room
Grafic Novel: Animal Farm, Antopia
YA: Just Like a Movie, The Scorpion’s Sting, The Puddle, Three Stallions

★White Raven List!

Slovenia’s best-known illustrator Damijan Stepančič opts for harsh and bloody imagery in this new comic-book interpretation of George Orwell’s “Animal Farm” of 1945, directly conveying the cruelty and perversion of the well-known parable on political rulership and the communist social system. The particular transformation of the pigs from “normal” animals to a power-hungry, ruling class with gluttonous, scheming apparatchiks is foregrounded especially well. One of the best-known and highly prized children’s book authors, as well as (children’s) poets of Slovenia, Andrej Rozman Roza, has masterfully transcribed Orwell’s text into dialogue and put it in the mouths of the animal protagonists. He thereby gives the story a new incisiveness and contouring in redux.

【Illustrator】Damijan Stepančič born in Ljubljana. He graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Ljubljana in 1996 and his work focuses on illustration of children's books and periodicals. To date, he has illustrated almost 100 books, co-created many comic books and held several independent exhibitions in the illustration world. Since 2017, he has been teaching at the School of Art and Design.
　　Awards:
　　-Creativity Award at the Biennale of Illustration in Ljubljana 1999
　　-Nominated for the Lindgren Memorial Award 2013, 2014, 2015
　　-2016 Hinka Smrekarja Award (the highest Slovenian illustration award) for Illustration
　　-Finalist for the International Hans Christian Andersen Award in 2020, 2024

　　-Winner of Levstik Award winner (2003, 2011)
　　-Recommended in the IBBY Honors List in 2010
　　-Kristina Brenkova Original Slovene Picture Book Award (2012, 2013) twice
　　-The Embrace of Stones won the 2011 Golden Pear Award for Best Original Young Adult Book
　　-How They See the World won the 2011 Golden Pear Award for Best Educational Book
　　-Can I Give You a Big Hug? nominated for the 2012 Večernica Award
　　-The Lumber Room won the 2013 Večernica Award, was recommended in the 2016 IBBY Honor List, and was a nominated for the 2013 Golden Pear Award
　　-Just Like a Movie won the 2014 Večernica Award, the Green Bird Award and the Desetnica Award, nominated for the Golden Pear Award
　　-Lučka Light and Shady Shadow was nominated for the 2022 Golden Pear Award