the little red balloon

Kalandraka recovers a classic that in 1967, when the author published it for the first time, contributed to revolutionizing the panorama of universal children's literature due to its attractive and innovative graphic proposal: it is a book without text that stands out for its minimalist and refined design . With the passage of each page, the reader appreciates the process of metamorphosis of a balloon into various objects with which it bears a resemblance: apple, butterfly, flower... With titles such as "A little red balloon" he inaugurated an almost abstract style that stood out for the absence of realism and a high degree of chromatic simplification, which made this work a very atypical album for children. Hence its merit for becoming a benchmark in this genre in which words are replaced by images full of dynamism that - far from apparent silence - evoke multiple figures. Author: Mari, Iela | Illustrator: Mari, Iela