Jojo le roi des joujoux

Auteur : Benjamin Chaud

Illustrateur : Benjamin Chaud

Editeur : Actes Sud junior

Août 2011 - 14 Euros

Album à partir de 1 an

ISBN : 9782742799121

06.06.11 - ...in the window!

 ...on the way home I passed a bookstore (Két Egér Könyvesbolt)
and saw my book in the window :)

05.31.11 - F I N I S H E D !

My book is finally here!

You can read an interview about the book on the Csimota blog.

You can order it here: Csimota shop.

I will be dedicating at the Hungarian Book Fair (Vörösmarty tér) on the 5th of June (sunday) at 10h00.

See you there!

04.27.11 - The making and publishing of my book (Part 2) - Counting the pages

It's not that easy figuring out how many pages my book should have. I need to follow some golden rules:
- 1 blank page (first and last pages)
- 4 end pages
- Title page
- © page

- The total number of pages should be an amount that can be divided by 8!

With this in mind, I started measuring and counting the pages of my favourite children's books to see how they were made. After careful consideration I have come to the conclusion that mine should be as following:
- size: 170mm x 180mm or 170mm x 170mm (to be decided later)
- number of pages: 40

04.26.11 - The making and publishing of my book (Part 1) - creating the final prototype

My project is on a roll and hopefully in a few weeks my book will be out! Yesterday I discussed layout plans and publishing details with Csimota (my publishing house). Since then, I spent hours on my PC finalizing the prototype but at the end of the day I had to print and lay it all out because I couldn't see any more if the compositions were working and if the transitions between double pages are coherent.

I will try to document the whole process, new post coming soon!

02.24.11 - Aranyvackor 2011 Hungarian Childrens Illustration Contest (Vol.1)

Today took place the award ceremony of the Hungarian Children's Illustration Contest (Aranyvackor) and I was lucky enough to win the second prize and the Csimota special award. I met some great people, and hopefully some of my books will be edited before the end of this year.

This post is dedicated to my work Dot Curve Line, the project with which I won the two awards but was not presented at the event.

The winners of the 2011 Aranyvackor:
1st. place
Mandl Péter, Kismarty-Lechner Zita: Sári és Nemszemétke

2nd. place
Molnár Olga: Pont Görbe Egyenes (me :D)

3rd. place
G. Szász Ilona, Gyöngyösi Adrienn: Cókmók

Special awards given by Publishing houses:
Aula.info Kiadó - Maros Krisztina: A Zöldsün (illusztráció)
Cerkabella Kiadó - Mandl Péter, Kismarty-Lechner Zita: Sári és Nemszemétke
Cerkabella Kiadó - Várszegi Adél, Máray Mariann: Raptormese
Ceruza Kiadó - Kiss Ottó, Kárpáti Tibor: Liliputi trónkövetelők
Csimota Kiadó - Molnár Olga: Pont Görbe Egyenes
General Press - G. Szász Ilona, Gyöngyösi Adrienn: Cókmók
General Press - Bátky András, Takács Mari: Morci
Naphegy Kiadó - Molnár Krisztina Rita: Maléna kertje (szöveg)
Pagony Kiadó - Varga Zsófi és Varga Máté: A Ludovik
Scolar Kiadó - Kertész Edina, Horváth Mónika: A csodás átváltoztató süti
Scolar Kiadó - Simon Réka Zsuzsanna, Kovács Katalin: A hajóláda
Vivandra - Bodonyi Panni, Vajda Éva: Anup és a csodálatos tűzhely

01.05.11 - The Little Red Riding Hood

The Little Red Riding Hood experiment.

01.05.11 - Japan kitchen

Here are some of my illustrations for a Japanese cookbook and my favorite ice cream recipe. Enjoy!


Green Tea Ice Cream Recipe

Ingredients:

• 2 egg yolks
• 3/4 cup milk
• 5 tbsp sugar
• 3/4 cup heavy cream
• 1 tbsp green tea powder
• 3 tbsp hot water

Preparation:

Mix hot water and green tea powder together in a bowl and set aside. Lightly whisk egg yolks in a pan. Add sugar in the pan and mix well. Gradually add milk in the pan. Put the pan on low heat and heat the mixture, stirring constantly. When the mixture is thickened, remove the pan from the heat. Soak the bottom of the pan in ice water and cool the mixture. Add green tea in the egg mixture and mix well, cooling in ice water. Add whipped heavy cream in the mixture and stir gently. Pour the mixture in an ice cream maker and freeze, following instructions of the ice cream maker. Or, pour the mixture in a container and freeze, stirring the ice cream a few times. Makes 4-6 servings.

01.05.11 - DOTS

I created a series of books for children in which I experimented with the meaning of different colors and forms. Each book is square-shaped and 24 pages long (Books: Red Dot, Red Triangle, Yellow Dot, Yellow Triangle, Pink Dot, Pink Square, Green Dot, Green Square, White Dot, White Rectangle).

01.03.11 - Dot Curve Line

This is an extract of a childrens book created for Aranyvackor 2011.

Translation:
Pages 1-2. umbrella, bucket, snail
Pages 3-4. wink, pirate