Spring 2015

KompasGuide
KIDS
Foreign rights
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Spring 2015
AWARD-WINNING BOOKS
FROM RUSSIA
N EW!
POETRY
Alexander Timofeevsky
Illustrated by Marina Pavlikovskaya
The Zoo
3+ POETRY – ANIMALS – ZOO
A child who has been to the zoo at least once in her life will tell you that she dreams of
all these animals moving into her house. Or at least one of them! ‘The Zoo’, Alexander
Timofeevsky’s new collection of poems, makes this dream come true. The animals will not
only come to live with you — they will talk to you, too. Each poem here is a portrait, a story of an animal who in many respects is like a human being, with its own worries, hobbies,
fears and joys. And, of course, every animal has a character! This book is a great gift. Yes,
24 p., 170х200 mm
to those who have known and loved Alexander Timofeevsky’s seemingly simple, witty and
ISBN 978-5-00083-140-3
humane verses for many years — perhaps since they first heard the iconic ‘Gena’s Song’
from Cheburashka animated series (this lyric opens ‘The Zoo’). But also to those parents
who simply want to introduce their children to the wonderful world of birds and animals. Thanks to Marina Pavlikovskaya’s sublime drawings it feels like you are not simply reading a book. The zoo around you is very, very real…
KompasGuide has published two collections of Alexander Timofeevsky’s verses in 2013: ‘Later-Alligator’ and ‘Funny Geometry for the Little Ones’. soon
Alexander Timofeevsky
Illustrated by Liza Kassian
The Clowniadа
6+ POETRY – CLOWNS
Do you know there’s a country where everyone walks on their heads? Where parachute
jumpers jump up, not down? Where clowns and wild beasts live, where you can meet
Abracadabra, The Master of Soap Bubbles and even the Palindrome Dog.
Well, there is, and it has now been thoroughly documented in poems
by none other than Alexander Timofeevsky, the legendary author
40 p., 200х200 mm
of ‘Gena’s Song’ from Cheburashka animated series. He called this
ISBN 978-5-00083-147-2
land Clowniada. He thought he was going there just for a holiday
— ‘you know, they say swimming is good there’. Once he started jotting down his holiday impressions, however, the poet was left almost speechless — that’s how extraordinary they were. If you are ready to believe in the most unthinkable and uncompromisingly funny
wonders of that world, then this is a book for you. KompasGuide has published two collections of Alexander Timofeevsky’s
verses in 2013: ‘Later-Alligator’ and ‘Funny Geometry for the Little Ones’. Victor Shenderovich
Illustrated by Alissa Serbinenko
It’s Hard to Live
Without a Crocodile
32 p., 170x200 mm
ISBN 978-5-00083-091-8
5+ POETRY — HUMOUR — NAUGHTINESS —
SCHOOL — IMAGINATION
Victor Shenderovich, a writer and journalist, wrote these poems almost thirty years ago. He was look-
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ing on as his daughter was growing up and remembered his own childhood. Today Victor’s grandson is
growing up, with, in Victor’s own words, «Harry Potter in place of the brave Indians of my Soviet childhood». Shenderovich’s poems are about everything at the same time but mostly about this: however
times change, children remain the same mischievous, curious dreamers.
5-8 YEARS
Nina Dashevskaya
Illustrated by Elena Remizova
soon
Willy
128 p., 140х210 mm
ISBN 978-5-00083-139-7
’Willy’ received the
prestigious Krapivin
prize in 2014. 6+ BIKE – MAGIC – FRIENDSHIP
N EW!
A talking bike, forgotten giant-inhabited village, dreams of true friendship —
did anybody not have this in their childhood? How about getting disappointed in the beloved dad (or mom, or a friend, sister, brother)? All of this happened to Sevka, the main protagonist of Nina Dashevskaya’s novella ‘Willy’.
There was happiness, too, when everything seemed to fit together: the favorite bicycle started talking again, the tall girl was baking cookies and his
father was a wizard once more. It looks like ‘Willy’ is made of many impossible things, and yet it’s all
very much like a real life: if you truly believe in them, incredible things will happen.
Nina Dashevskaya is a musician and writer. She plays violin in the Natalya Sats Musical Theatre for
Children in Moscow, while her books are published by the major book publishers and receive various
professional awards.
Natalia Nussinova
Illustrated by Anna Smirnova
Fedya the Giraffe
160 p., 165x235 mm
ISBN 978-5-00083-097-0
5+ NEW YEAR’S DAY — PETS —
FRIENDSHIP — FAMILY
What would you do if your Christmas turkey – about to be
roasted in the oven – turned out to be a giraffe after all?
Sure, you would make it feel warm, feed it and let it live in the
nursery. This is exactly what Grisha and Glasha the twins did,
sheltering the new spotty tenant in their city flat. It’s going
to be an interesting festive period!
Natalia Nussinova
is a well-known film critic with a PhD in Art History; she is also
an expert in early cinema, the author of numerous works on
the subject, a visiting professor at the world’s best universities,
and the winner of several film studies awards. She has made
her debut in children’s literature with “The adventures of
Jerrik” in 2006.
6-8 YEARS
Maria Bershadskaya
Illustrated by Alexandra Ivoilova
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40 000 COPIES
The Best Book of
the Year Award
from Papmambook
Magazine (2013)
Russian Children’s
Choices (2015)
Big Little Girl
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Series of 12 titles
(32-48 pages each, 170x200 mm)
To be published in 2013-14
CHINA,
VIETNAM
5+ CHILDHOOD —
ADVENTURES — FRIENDSHIP
Book 1. How to Tame a City
Moving to another city
Making new friends
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3
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6
7
8
9
10
Book 2. A Recipe of Wonderful Day
Children cooking apple pie
as a birthday
present for Jane’s father
Book 3. Rabbit’s Walk
Making fancy dress for a dog
Losing the dog in the streets
Book 4. Seven and a Half Crocodile Smiles
First day at school
Losing milk teeth
Book 5. 101 Ways to Get Lost in a Forest
Mushroom picking
Getting lost in a forest
Book 6. Pumpking
Celebrating Halloween
Book 7. Merry Blue Christmas
Christmas and New Year
Love
Making presents
Grandpa’s death
Book 8. On the Case of a Chequered Bag
Detective story
Lost dog
Book 9. That’s All About Love
St. Valentine’s Day at school
How is it - to fall in love?
Helping the elder sister to
reconcile with her boyfriend
Book 10. Pushkin & Co
helping parents at home: cooking,
cleaning the house, washing, etc
Jane (Zhenya) is a BIG LITTLE GIRL. On the one
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Maria Bershadskaya’s books are about the big little
hand, she is the youngest in the family — even girl Jane, who grew taller than the tallest baskether beloved dachshund Twig is older. On the other ball player in the world, and about how great and
hand, her mother has to stand on a stool to braid how difficult it is to be different. Throughout the
her hair every morning. Other than that Jane is twelve stories Jane is still growing — she changes,
exactly like all the other seven-year-old girls. She matures. Dad tells her that every person, even if he
can’t stand anyone staring at her or considering or she has grown up, has still some internal growth
her to be special. She knows how to peel a potato to do. For Jane it is not very clear what to do to
so that the skin comes off in one long narrow rib- speed up growth. Walk in the rain? Sing songs? Eat
bon. She knows how to sew the buttons almost as some healthy tasteless food? We also haven’t unbeautifully as her father does. And she also loves derstood this yet, but maybe while reading these
to tell stories — because there is always some- twelve stories we’ll also grow up a little?
thing interesting happening to her...
Story about Stories:
About Me
My name is Zhenya.
I am seven years old.
I am the youngest in the family. Even Twig the dachshund is a good year older than me.
I should ask my parents to buy me a hamster or a goldfish. Then at least for someone I will be a grown-up!
Good. Hello! It’s me!
Anya
says that I am as tall as the world’s
Here is our family.
tallest basketball player. Or maybe just
This is Anya, my big sister. She is sitting in her chair, try- a little bit taller.
ing to decide if it’s best to paint her nails blue or green.
I was born an ordinary girl. But I was
growing
up very fast. I was growing up SO
This is my father. He is simultaneously roasting potatoes, scribbling obscure medical terms in his notebook fast, they told me once, that a long-sleeved
and listening to an English lesson through his head- sweater I wore when I went to bed looked
phones. Seems like he can do a hundred different things like a T-shirt in the morning.
Luckily, I am no longer growing.
all at the same time!
And yet sometimes I can’t decide whether
This is my mother. She has taken our computer apart – I am little or big after all.
again. And then she will put it back together and it When I ask Anya to let me listen to the
music she has in her player, she says
will be working EVEN BETTTER.
I won’t get it because I am little. When I
don’t
want to play with my building blocks
This is Twig, our dachshund. She has taken the computer mouse under the armchair and now she is chew- before bedtime, mother tells me I shouldn’t
make fuss because I am a big girl now.
ing on its less than delicious rubber tail.
So it seems like I am a BIG LITTLE GIRL.
And this is me. I’ve already done my morning exercises and been to the bathroom. Now mum has
climbed up the stool to comb my braids.
You must think this is some kind of a mistake.
Surely, a mother does not need to climb the stool
to brush a seven-year-old girl’s hair? But it’s true.
I am the little one in this family but I’m big.
You probably don’t really understand. I’m very,
VERY big. To greet me properly you need to look
very high. No, higher...
And a little bit higher...
Can you see me now?
Maria Bershadskaya
(born 1970)
In 1995 she graduated from the screen
script faculty of VGIK. She worked as
a script writer at «Sesame Street»,
«Victory Railway station», «HА.
Small comedies» and other projects.
She also worked at the Belorussian
documentary projects «Fate of a man»
and «Countdown». She collaborates with the Polish
channel «Belsat». Maria is an author of children books
and screen scripts for cartoons.
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6-8 YEARS
Andrey and Natalia Snegiriov
Keshka
series
Keshka in the center of attention
ISBN 978-5-905876-02-8, 978-5-00083-074-1 Keshka in pursuit of a Christmas tree
ISBN 978-5-905876-16-5 Keshka on summer holidays
ISBN 978-5-905876-17-2 Awards
• Festival of modern graphic art at “Comicaze”
in Odessa, nomination “Best comics for children” (2005)
• Kiev International Comic Festival «9 World»,
nomination “Best comics for children” (2005)
14 000
COPIES!
Keshka with no brakes
ISBN 978-5-905876-18-9 5+ CAT — CURIOSITY — SMART — LAUGH
• 2 place at 16th International Comic Festival in Łódź,
Poland (2005)
• Insignia at 13th International Professional Exhibition
“PRESS” together with “I’ll get you!” Magazine (2006)
• Exhibition “From Russia with love” at the Comic
Festival in Lucca (Italy). The text on the plate next to
the exhibited works said - “Bestseller cat Keshka”
• Children’s choices 2013 from Russia
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Full English
translation
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In January 1991 a new column appeared in the “Family” weekly: funny drawn stories about an amus-
ing cat, Keshka. At first Keshka was homeless, but then he found a master who was a newspaper editor. From issue to issue, Keshka got into difficult situations and somehow managed to get out of them
with his own four paws. Finally, this charming cat practically became a national superhero. People cut
out Keshka’s stories and kept them for home libraries, pets were named after Keshka, people wrote their
own stories about him, and the editorials were full of letters and handmade toys, “Keshkas”. Years went
by, young readers grew up, and the newspaper filings became shabby…
Now our children have a chance to meet Keshka and his master. Young readers and their parents will
learn how Keshka started to speak, to cook, and to help his master in different ways.
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ISBN 978-5-904561-78-9
Современные люди — жертвы мегаполиса, разучившиеся
слушать мир вокруг себя. И только дети воспринимают
миллион звуков, а не просто шум. Их маленькие ножки бегут
не просто по асфальту, они аккуратно протаптывают свою
дорожку, стараясь не задеть следы от лап прилетевшего
голубя. Для малыша трамвай — это не просто способ
передвижения, это настоящее приключение (главное —
суметь занять место у окна). Наш серый и суетный город
для ребёнка — новая жизнь, где каждый звук — загадка,
а каждый шаг — следующий ход в увлекательнейшей игре.
«Город» Сони Касьян — это не просто книга, это
хитросплетение звуков, текста и удивительных иллюстраций.
Стоит только её раскрыть, подобно чемоданчику, и включить
диск, как перед глазами появится современный гожрод и вы
услышите и поймёте язык домов, остановок, парков, машин
и соседской кошки.
Гуляя по городу, ты можешь услышать то,
чего не видно, и увидеть то, чего не слышно.
Закрой глаза и вслушайся! Что ты видишь?
А теперь открой глаза!
Смотри внимательнее. И слушай.
Sonya Kassian (text and ill.)
The City
Book with CD
24 p., 200x200 mm
ISBN 978-5-904561-78-9
3+ CITY — SOUNDS OF THE CITY —
CONTEMPLATION — FANTASY
“The City” by Sonya Kassian is not just a book. It is a mixture of sounds,
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text and amazing illustrations. You just open it like a case, turn on the
CD, and a whole modern city appears right in front of your eyes. You will
hear and understand the language of houses, bus stops, parks, cars and
the neighbourly cat.
PICTURE-BOOKS
Katya Tolstaya (text and ill.)
Little Rabbit Stories
48 p., 170x170 mm
ISBN 978-5-904561-70-3
Also
available
without
text
3+ WISDOM — PLAY
Shortlisted for the Book Image Award (2012)
Nominated for the Astrid Lindgren Memorial
Award (2014)
Massya is a very curious, thoughtful and kind little
rabbit. He plays the pipe and hides from the rain.
He believes that our world is huge, interesting and
full of surprises. If you think about it, all surprises of the world can turn out to be very pleasant.
This touching, funny and wise book was written and
illustrated by Katya Tolstaya. Children and their parents will love «Little Rabbit Stories». Even those
who are too young to read will understand the stories thanks to the pictures.
Katya Tolstaya
(born 1979)
Member of the Russian Artists Union.
Nominated for the Astrid Lindgren Memorial
Award 2014
Graduated from the St.Petersburg State Academy of
Arts, Faculty of graphic arts, in 2005. Her diploma work
was a series of illustrations for “Bibigon” by Korney
Chukovsky. During 2005-2007 she was an intern at the
I. Bogdesko Artistic Workshop of Graphics.
She had two personal exhibitions in 2008-2009. In 2012 she took part in
the Moscow International Comics Festival KomMissia.
During 2009-2012 Katya designed 9 books. She took part in international
art projects (Painting the walls of Public Library in St.Petersburg, open air
paintings in Ochakov, Ukraine). During 1998-2008 Katya taught drawing
at schools.
Franck Pavloff
Illustrated by Leonid Shmelkov
Brown Morning
(Matin brun)
32 p., 205x205 mm
ISBN 978-5-904561-64-2
Charlie and his friend are living a fine life. They
read newspapers, watch football and play cards.
Gradually things start to change. They are told by
the government that brown is the only acceptable
color: if you have a black dog, put it to sleep, and
buy a brown one. Add “brown” at the end of each
sentence. Books are being burned, except for the
brown ones. But Charlie and his friend don’t want
to notice. Life goes on more or less as normal; they
English
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available
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7+ DISCRIMINATION — FREEDOM
feel secure. Charlie gets a new friendly brown dog!
Only later they start to realize that they are the
victims of a government that demands conformity in all things. People are persecuted even for being different. By the time they realize this, it’s too
late. Charlie’s friend disappears with the police.
In the end Charlie hears someone knocking on HIS
door…
Also illustrated by Berlinale
Prize-winner Leonid Shmelkov:
• A. Timofeevsky “Funny
Geometry for the Little Ones”
• B. Friot “Histoires pressées”
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Marina Aromshtam
Illustrated by Valery Slauk
5-7 YEARS
BESTSELLING AUTHOR!
“The Art of Book.
Traditions and
Search” Award,
2013
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English
translation
sample
available
Once Upon a Time
in the New World
64 p., 205x290 mm
ISBN 978-5-905876-47-9
5+ ANIMALS — LEGENDS —
CREATION OF THE WORLD
A tale referring to the Old Testament, written by
Using fairy tale
narrative, the writer
introduces children to the
most important cultural
symbols.
a bestselling author, journalist and expert on children’s reading Marina Aromshtam, tells a story of
a world recently created. Its inhabitants — animals, birds, lizards and small worms — could not
really understand which is right and which is left,
where is the bottom and the top, and the Sky threatened to fall and crush the Earth. But then there
was a seed which grew to become a tree, and the
order seemed to be established in the New World.
However, animals began to argue over who is the
most important. Their quarrel could end in disaster if it wasn’t for a Man. His reasoning calmed
everybody down — before a snake with thirteen
paws appeared...
Children are often concerned with the question of
“where does that come from?”. “Once upon a Time
in the New World “ brings the young readers to the
very beginning, making them witness the first
events and the first conflicts of the newly
born world.
The tales from “Once upon a Time in the
New World” are variations on the idea of
Trinity: “a house — a tree — a person”.
This book benefits from illustrations
by the famous Belorussian book artist Valery Slauk.
Marina Aromshtam
Illustrated by Maria Ovchinnikova
Spring Tales
20 p., 200x215 mm
ISBN 978-5-00083-088-8
PICTURE-BO
PICTURE-BOOKS
3+ NATURE — FLOWERS — WHITE
WILLOW
Spring is such a joy that everybody is waiting for it. The flowers and the trees are more alert
than everybody else – they are the ones who anoounce the arrival of spring. The willow from
the first tale coudln’t wait for spring to come – it was freezing and shivering until it decided to put on mittens. When Father Frost saw this, he decided to give up – he himself was fed
up with freezing everyone around him. The flowers from the second story were waiting for
spring, too. They were worrying and smartening up but once the spring was in sight they
felt helpless: their dresses were not ready yet. What should they do?
Little Christmas Tree
16 p., 200x215 mm
ISBN 978-5-00083-082-6
3+ TREES — FAIRNESS
BESTSELLING AUTHOR!
It turns out trees are just like people. They are very proud of themselves, they boast about
their dresses and sometimes they bully the smalest and most modest trees among themselves. This is what happened to the Little Christmas Tree – Rowan Tree, Oak, Nut Tree and
Birch didn’t want to be her friends. The story of the Little Christmas Tree, which was rewarded for bringing joy to others, is more than a century old. No two storytellers have ever told
it the same way.
How Autumn Got Married
Illustrated by Nadezhda Stolpovskaya
16 p., 200x215 mm
ISBN 978-5-00083-092-5
3+ AUTUMN — CLOUDS — RAIN —
FALLING LEAVES
Once upon a time there was a prince called Silver Rain who had a magic coat. Clouds
liked
this coat very much: when the rays of sun reached this coat, the rainbow appeared, and clouds
could slide down its slope. One day the prince decided it was time for him to marry. And so
the Magpie flew away, carrying the news on its tail, so that the prince could find the most
beautiful bride as soon as possible…
Little Acorn
16 p., 200х215 mm
ISBN 978-5-905876-45-5
2+ NATURE — TREES —GROWING-UP
Little acorn was growing on the huge oak during the summer. He liked his
hat very much. But in autumn he fell down and lost it. A bit upset, he fell
asleep during winter to wake up in spring being a little green oak sprout!
English
translation
available
Once Upon a Time There Lived a Rustle...
20 p., 200х215 mm
ISBN 978-5-905876-46-2 2+ NATURE — FRIENDSHIP
Once upon a time a Rustle lived in a forest… He was very small and almost inaudible. Looking for a friend he met a honey mushroom, a fox and a cat – but all of them left him feeling unwanted. Then one day he came across a hedgehog. After passing winter with it Rustle
grew a bit and found there was a lot to be done in the forest!
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PICTURE-BOOKS
Konstantin Potapov (text and ill.)
Clucky at the Hen Show
26 p., 220x270 mm
ISBN 978-5-904561-77-2
English
translation
available
4+ MULTICULTURALISM — DIFFERENT
LANGUAGES — TALENTS
“My hen says cluck-cluck, have you seen her anywhere?” — Fiodor asks. But
he hears the answers in all possible languages: “ko-ke kokkoh! kookookookoo!” — and not his Clucky.
Finally Fiodor finds her! Clucky wins the competition and finds a friend —
a very beautiful Spanish rooster!
This funny picture-book lets kids discuss how people in different
countries imitate birds and animals! An exciting discovery awaits!
Katya Shumkova (text and ill.)
Master of All Paws
English
translation
available
26 p., 240x205 mm
ISBN 978-5-904561-76-5
3+ HANDY-MAN — PROFESSIONS — FRIENDSHIP
Dogsville during rush hour is like any other mod-
ern city. The only difference is that dogs, not people, are rushing to work and reading the morning newspapers on public transport. Black and
white, spotty and plain, big and very small —
they are all busy. All except for a dachshund
named Mona. She is desperately trying to find
something to do…
However, it is necessary not only to think, but to
act. So Mona musters up her strength and decides
to find a job.
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She tried everything and even — in despair — became a thief, but that was not what she wanted.
What was she to do? Don’t lose hope! If you really believe in yourself, there will be a day when you
get lucky!.
Mona found her happiness.
She understood that she was
born to sweep chimneys, and
she also found a friend!
Backlist
21 000 copies!
Mikhail Raskatov
Illustrated by Eugene Medvedev
The Lost Letter
120 p., 166х236 mm
ISBN 978-5-905876-24-0, 978-5-905876-33-2, 978-5-905876-39-4, 978-5-00083-083-3
6+ Adventures — Education — Letters — Laziness — Friendship
Inga Ballod — Irina Rumyantseva
29 000 copies!
Illustrated by Eugene Medvedev
About Little Pig Splosh
128 p., 205x275 mm, ISBN 978-5-905876-25-7
5+ Family — Friendship — Adventures — Forest animals — Education
Alexander Timofeevsky
Illustrated by Leonid Shmelkov
Funny Geometry for the Little Ones
32 p., ISBN 978-5-905876-63-9, 978-5-00083-073-4
3+ Poetry — Studying geometric shapes and names
Book Image Award diploma (2014)
9 000 copies!
Alexander Timofeevsky
Illustrated by Leonid Shmelkov
Later-Alligator
48 p., ISBN 978-5-905876-76-9
3+ Poetry — Childhood — Wordplay — Curiosity
Winner of the readers' voting of the
Mikhail Yasnov
Arkady Gaidar children's library (2013)
Illustrated by Yana Khoreva
23 000 copies!
Booby-miawby
Cat’s poems
32 p., 160x215 mm, ISBN 978-5-905876-21-9, 978-5-905876-38-7,
978-5-905876-53-0, 978-5-905876-61-5, 978-5-00083-072-7
3+ Poetry — Cats
Andrei Smetanin
Illustrated by Alexander Yakovlev
How Does a Quarrel Start?
48 p., 200x200 mm, ISBN 978-5-904561-25-3,
978-5-905876-36-3
3+ Poetry — Kindergarten
Andrei Smetanin
Illustrated by Olga Demidova 11 000 copies!
ABC of Dangers
40 p., 165x215 mm, ISBN 978-5-904561-51-2,
978-5-00083-079-6
3+ Poetry — Dangers for kids
Igor Shevtchuk
Illustrated by Georgy Svetozarov
The Law of Joking Average
128 p., 165x240 mm, ISBN 978-5-904561-61-1
8+ Poetry — School life — Wordplay — Humour
Andrei Smetanin’s Achievements
and Awards:
• Winner of the International competition
“The Golden Pen of Russia National Literary
Award “ in the nomination “The best work
for children» (2010)
• Winner of the International literary
competition «Silver Streamlet» in the
nomination «Verses for children» (2011)
• Shortlisted for “Children’s Time” Award of the
Writers Union of Russia (2011, 2012)
• Laureate of the International Renata Mukha
Award (2012)
• Laureate of the international Alexey Tolstoy
Award (2012)
• Grand Prix of the “Crystal Spring” Festival
(2012)
• Diploma of P. Ershov Award (2012)
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brought many exceptional children’s and young adults’ book projects to the Russian market.
We like to publish those books that speak about the most complicated subjects in an honest
and interesting way. Our books will help young readers learn about the life of their peers in
different parts of the world. We strongly believe that a pen is stronger than a sword; therefore, we hope that our books can help to destroy the walls of misunderstanding.
Our first book was published in November 2009. We have since published more than 170 titles. Our authors include Michael Ende, Wolf Erlbruch, Christine Nöstlinger, Ulf Stark, Stefan
Casta, Jutta Bauer, Andreas Steinhöfel, Beate Teresa Hanika, Ketil Bjørnstad, Timothée de
Fombelle, Bernard Friot, and many others.
Awards and recognitions:
• Winner of the “Best Book Design” nomination of the Peter Ershov Award (2013).
• Managing Editor Marina Kadetova received the Book Person-2012 Award as
an editor of the outstanding book series (“Citizen of the World”).
• The British Council Young Creative Entrepreneur Award (2011) for Marina Kadetova, the Managing Editor of the KompasGuide Publishers.
• The Embassy of France in Russia Award for the promotion of French literature in Russia (2011).
• “KompasKID” collection awarded IBBY Diploma in Chisinau (2011).
• Editor-in-Chief Vitali Ziusko received the Book Person-2010 Award as the person who showed a new model of developing boutique publishing houses.
• Editor-in-Chief Vitali Ziusko was awarded the Golden Order of Merit of the Republic of Hungary (2013)
Many KompasGuide’s books entered book fair top lists and special ca­talogues.
The translations of Russian books are supported by various organizations:
• SUPPORT FOR TRANSLATIONS INTO FOREIGN LANGUAGES OF WORKS WRITTEN IN THE
LANGUAGES OF THE PEOPLES OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION established by the Federal Agency for Press and Mass Communication (Rospechat’), through the federal target program “Culture
of Russia (2012-2018),” and the Institute for Literary Translation
http://institutperevoda.ru/static/225464788/50
• PROGRAM FOR THE SUPPORT OF TRANSLATION OF RUSSIAN FICTION, POETRY AND NONFICTION, International Project of the Mikhail Prokhorov Foundation
http://www.prokhorovfund.com/projects/own/195/
Don’t miss your opportunity to get support!