★Rights sold in Portuguese and simplified Chinese.
★The series continues Pablo's surrealistic style and starts an unexpected adventure. The animals in these stories meet by coincidence, just as the encounter of the book and you!
★English sample available.

The series includes 12 titles:
6+:
Burundi of mirrors, heights and giraffes
Burundi of false dogs and real lions
Burundi of bears, owls and hot icebergs
Burundi of long mysteries and lost lines
Burundi of strange dragons, and false meteorites
Burundi of sleeping bears and lost homes
Burundi of the king lion and the barber
3-6:
Burundi. Higher
Burundi. A very long journey
Burundi. Where are you going?
0-3:
Mini Burundi
Special edition: Animal Tower

The polar bear fell fast asleep, not realizing that when he woke up, he was in a completely unknown place...

Pablo Bernasconi was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina on August 6, 1973. He is a graphic designer graduated from the University of Buenos Aires, where he was professor of Design and Head of Practical Assignments for five years. He began his career as an illustrator in Clarín newspaper in 1998, creating the cover page artwork for more than three hundred and fifty supplement editions. He also used to publish a critical review in La Nación newspaper every Sunday. Some of his illustrations have been published in newspapers and magazines all around the world, including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Saturday Evening Post, Telegraph and The Times of England. He is currently working for various publications in different countries. Besides his work with publishers and media, Pablo is a continuous collaborator with the Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo for their design and graphic projects. He is the author and illustrator of sixteen books and he has illustrated another twenty books by different authors. Bernasconi has participated in several individual and group exhibitions in Argentina, Chile, Brazil, Bolivia, Italy, Slovenia, Colombia, United States and England. They were:
2007 - Society of Illustrators – New York
2007 - Centro Simón Patiño – Bolivia
2007/2008/2011 - Utem – Chile
2007 - The Coningsby Gallery – London
2008 - Bologna Book Fair – Italy
2008 - Gallery Holz, Retratos (Portraits) – Argentina
2008 - Art BA, Retratos (Portraits) – Argentina
2009 - Bratislava – Slovak Republic
2010 - Bogotá – Colombia
2012 - Denver, Boulder – United States
2010/2016 - More than 25 cities across Argentina with ‘Finales’ (Endings)
He created a travelling exhibition called ‘Finales’ that ran for more than six years and was seen by 150,000 people in various cities of Argentina.
2018 - Argentine house in Rome - Italy

AWARDS：
• Shortlisted for the Hans Christian Andersen Award, illustration category. The prize is awarded by the International Board on Books for Young People (IBBY).
- El infinito, ALIJA Award, best book, 2018
• Mentiras y moretones was selected for ALIJA’s 2018 Readers’ Choice Awards (PFL).
• Selected along with other Argentine authors to represent his country at the Colombia Book Fair (FILBO), 2018.
• Silver Medal - Society of News Design, 2017, for his visual opinion column in La Nación newspaper.
• Silver Medal - Society of News Design, 2016, for his visual opinion column in La Nación newspaper.
• Selected for ‘Illustration Now’ TASCHEN, 2014, for his visual opinion column in La Nación newspaper.
• Gold Medal - Society of News Design, 2015, for his visual opinion column in La Nación newspaper.
• Gold Medal - Society of News Design, 2012, for his visual opinion column in La Nación newspaper.
• El diario del Capitán Arsenio nominated for the 2010 best books for children and youth by Venezuela’s Banco del Libro.
• El diario del Capitán Arsenio selected by the SEP (Secretariat of Public Education of Mexico), 2009.
• Selected to represent Argentina at the Biennial of Illustration Bratislava, 2009.
• Selected to represent Argentina at the Bologna International Book Fair, 2008.
• ALIJA Award, best book overall (text, illustration and edition) for El diario del Capitán Arsenio, 2008.
• ALIJA Award, illustration category, El brujo, el Horrible y el libro rojo de los hechizos, 2007.
• 32nd ‘April of Journalism’ Award, illustration category, Brazil, 2007
• El zoo de Joaquín selected for Daniel Gil’s Awards, 2006.
• El diario del Capitán Arsenio, Best Children’s Book of the Year, Zena Sutherland Award, University of Chicago, 2006.
• Five Awards of Excellence by the SND (Society of Newspaper Design) for illustrations in Clarín and La
Voz de Galicia.
• In 2005, 2008 and 2011, included in Luerzer’s Archive magazine’s ‘200 Best Illustrators Worldwide’ (Germany).
• Best Cover for Children’s School Books at Chicago Book and Media Show, 2006.
• Children’s Book of the Week: The wizard, the ugly and the Book of shame, UK, 2006. The Sunday Times.
• First Prize to the poster made for the Children’s Book Fair, Buenos Aires, 2005.
• Award by the UK Association of Illustrators 29th Annual Awards, UK, 2005.
• Award by World Book Day, UK, 2004.

Pablo Bernasconi is a vibrant voice in the Americas. His work is powerful and full of fantastic realism—a new kind of visual, urban fantastic realism. He combines the best of the Argentine poster art and comics—from Francisco Solano Lopez’s The Eternaut to Quino’s visual thinking—into a dialogue with global contemporary illustration. In his vigorous production of narrative images for children’s books, the chaos of his collages reveals his experiences with artistic particles, giving readers a chance to participate, with affection and vivid art.--Roger Mello(2014 Hans Christian Andersen Award winner)

Pablo is a child of scientists, and—he told me once—one of his grandparents was a carpenter. From those two rivers he rises. Easily recognisable, Bernasconi’s style largely resides in concept, a place where the artist gets to by means of a combination of volume and collage, using materials of all kinds, myriads of disposable elements and valuable objects, from a piano to threads, wires, or wood shavings.
Trained to analyse, and concerned with narration and the multiple meanings of what he is searching for, Pablo Bernasconi pursues an idea rather than a technique. Intellectual art that prevails among debris, living matter supporting concept with spirituality and intelligence. The result is both strange and familiar, a work by a man who takes over fragments of the world, characters and literary texts, and using scissors, fire, a hammer…—like a great alchemist—transforms them into the unexpected.
Like a wizard.
Adding layers and layers of meaning, an artist burns, squeezes, hammers down objects in an effort to communicate. ‘I go from the inside to the outside, and sometimes the most important thing in the illustration doesn’t make it to the picture. I trust the souls of things. That’s why I never use brand-new objects. They’re soulless. Things are ephemeral; sometimes they last the brief moments gravity gives me to photograph them before they drop on the floor. When in a creative frenzy, it seems as if something had burst in my studio,’ he says, and that is how his pieces of work turn out: outbursts where an idea explodes like a grenade and makes way among such disparate elements as a sewing machine and an umbrella on a dissecting table, so as not to forget the Surrealists.
--María Teresa Andruetto(2012 Hans Christian Andersen Award winner)