Christos Boulotis  The cat Boom Boom and the moon

picture book | 6+
ISBN: 978-960-594-033-1 • Price: 15,00€ [VAT is not included] • 21x29 cm. • Pages: 40

The book | The cat Boom Boom lives in a big square and his house lies under a dustbin. He was born on a winter night when there were demonstrations and there was big commotion. One day the cat Boom Boom will meet another cat that comes from long away because his country is in the middle of war. The moon that sees this company will help each of them find their own way and meet their desires.

The hope for peace, the faith in happiness, the search for identity and humanness are depicted in this story.

The author | Christos Boulotis was born at Myrina on the island of Limnos. He is an archaeologist and a member of the Athens Academy. Having previously taught at the Ionian University he now teaches both in the postgraduate programs of the University of Athens and the School of Fine Arts. He has conducted excavations on the islands of Crete, Limnos and Santorini and in Peloponese. Since 1987 he has been a prolific author of children’s books, with more than seventy titles published. His first published work, «The Strange Love of the White Horse and the Poplar Tree» was awarded the Pier Paolo Vergerio prize in 1989. «The Water-Melon Thief» and «The Statue Who Was Always Cold» won the annual prize awarded by the Greek Section of IBBY in 2003 and 2000 respectively.

Winner of the 2017 Greek Children’s Book Circle Prize for cover

Photini Stephanidi Painter, illustrator, engraver
Born in Greece in 1962, the artist and illustrator Photini Stephanidi - daughter of the painter Yannis Stephanidis - completed her studies in painting and fresco at the Athens School of Fine Arts in 1986, where her teachers included painters of international repute such as Giannis Moralis, Dimitris Mytaras and Constantine Xinopoulos. Since 1988 she has exhibited her work in more than twenty individual and many group and international exhibitions of painting, engraving and illustration both in Greece and abroad. Her pictures have featured in about a hundred of published works, including editions of Greek folk tales, literature and poetry, and she has made a speciality of collectors’ editions. Notable among the many prizes and distinctions her work has gained in the fields of engraving, illustration and, more recently, as an author, are the Bratislava Illustrators’ Biennale Plaque (2001), the Greek State Prize for Illustration (2003, 2007 and 2011), the Belgrade Illustrators’ Biennale ‘Golden Pen’ (2005 and 2013) and 'Plaquette' (2010), the first prize for illustrations from the Greek Section of IBBY (1995, 2005 and 2011), EBGE prize and mention 2007 and 2013, her selection as the Hellenic Republic’s candidate for the 2004 Hans Christian Andersen Prize, and for the 2008 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Awards. In 2023 she was chosen to create the poster for International Children’s Book Day which will represent Greece and achieve world-wide circulation.