In Katya Antonova’s series Mousy’s Week, the tiny protagonist opens his eyes each morning and decides what to do during the day – to cook, play sports, get dressed up, or repair broken things at home. Sunday is a fun day, and Mousy invites his friends for “playing together.” Kremena Yagodina has a large contribution in the set of seven books becoming a favorite go-to reading for the little ones. In these full-color compositions, the characters appear with a dance step, roll around, bounce, or fly off the pages. The mouse’s point of view allows all objects to be observed in extreme close-up. In this way, distance is overcome and the child can jump fully into the world of small animals and experience all the activities from the weekly program with them. Enormous cups of tea with lemon and cookies, a fountain that turns into a bathtub on dress-up day, big books about distant journey – the artist unleashes herself in a flying universe of characters and objects in free scale and proportions. At first we miss the mouse, separated by a clear outline and different colors, but then we see that this is a sought-after effect: the mice are completely immersed in the environment and become part of it, and in places they even have to be searched for, as in a puzzle, and this is part of the game. “What awaits me in the new day? Something wonderful – it all depends on me!”
Kremena Yagodina
Mousy's Week
Illustrator: Kremena Yagodina
Ribka
18 pages
150 х 150, твърда корица
ISBN 978-619-713-149-9
Mousy's Week
Kremena Yagodina
Kremena Yagodina graduated from the High School of Fine Arts and the Art Academy with a major in scenography. Immediately after graduating, she decided that the theater was not her calling. She wanted to paint and create, but the gallery space was not enough for her. So she turned to illustration. She chose children’s books as her field of expression because she believes that it is important for children to have access to beautiful paintings, and not just when they are studying or visiting galleries. For each new book she illustrates, she seeks a specific approach, because each text is different and requires its own unique vision. For this reason, all of her books are very different from one another. She has worked on various projects over the years, mainly children’s books and short animations, as a background artist for Bulgarian and foreign productions.