Mandana, author and illustrator
of children's books

Beyond-my-hand

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Portuguese — Persian *Le voilà enfin dans mon jardin, le coloré “O jardim de Memé” ! (“Memé” veut dire “petit mouton” en portugais … comme “Babaï” veut dire “petit mouton” en Farsi) At last, it has just arrived in my … Continue reading →

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The immortal deer 1

About illustrations: These illustrations all are coming from a philosophical tale that I wrote and illustrated. Some illustrations have been selected in Bologna book fair 2012 and exposed in several museums in Japan. Exhibition in very big format is possible. … Continue reading →

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The immortal deer 2

illustrations+details that follows the immortal deer 1:                       Details of this last colored illustration on “the deer 3, final”.          

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Encre de chine + mine de plomb

I like to work without narration as well. Experiment forms without the will to mean or communicate. (15cmx10cm – China ink, 2012)                    

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Various illustrations

Research for the book  ”Bien avant toi” éditions Didier jeunesse.         Illustration for “Le Mook” magazine from autrement publisher, Paris:  

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L’autre monsieur paul

About “The other Paul”: see the text that follows some illustrations of the book…Details/extracts:           And the story continue…       L’autre monsieur Paul (The other Mister Paul) is a book that contains a kind … Continue reading →

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Cosas con plumas

About this book: see the text that follows some illustrations…details/extracts:                       This is an odd and mysterious book : the story, written by the author Jorge Luján is  a mysterious and benevolent … Continue reading →

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Le jardin de babaï

About the book: see the text that follows the illustrations… Because of the nature of the story itself, I can’t show here too much illustrations!             This book contains the same story told in two … Continue reading →

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Soleil d’hiver

About the book: see the text that follows some illustrations of the book…Extracts/details:                   Tarde de invierno (winter afternoon) is a poem about a child waiting for his mother to come home. The original … Continue reading →

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Bien avant toi

About the book: see the text that follows some of the illustrations…Extracts/details:                     It is a love declaration from a father to his child. A poetic, simple, and lovely text from … Continue reading →

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Mon ami kemushi

About the book: see the text that follows illustrations…Extracts/details:                 for the suspense, i won’t show here the butterfly… Detail of the back cover:     The last sentence of the text by … Continue reading →

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Kodor

About this book: see the text that follows the illustrations…Extracts/details:                   This is a kind of love adventure mixed with a fairy tale placed in a desert: the Nigerian Sahara…The fantastic text by … Continue reading →