Six Iranian books are assigned as Hong Kong schools’ side studies

Year of publication : 2010

Kanoon’s six books have been translated in Chinese and published by a Hong Kong publisher and have been assigned as side studies for schools in Hong Kong.
Kanoon’s Public Relations reports that these books’ copyright was sold to a Hong Kong publisher, Cotton Tree, during the 20th International Book Fair in Hong Kong last summer, 2009.
Accordingly, [...]

Zagreb admires the Iranian children book illustrations

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The illustrations of Kanoon’s three books are being exhibited in the 3rd Zagreb Book Illustration Exhibition, held every two years in Croatia.

Narges Mohammadi’s Work known throughout the world

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Narges Mohammadi gained the opportunity of publishing her work on the cover of CJ illustration competition overview book. This book is a compilation of three-year-activities of this festival. The second country that sent in the largest number of works was Iran. The total number of 2nd CJ Picture Book Award entries came to 1,565 [...]

Hamidreza Shahabadi in BIB 2009 Symposium with “Merajname”

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The festive opening of the 22nd Biennial of Illustrations Bratislava took place ;meanwhile, exhibiting the BIB Grand Prix winners of the previous year, the winners of H. CH. Andersen Prize for the year 2008 and a collection of Noma Concours illustrations.
After awarding the prizes the event continued by the meeting of the International [...]

“Hey, do you like to be my Friend?” in France

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“Hey, do you like to be my friend?” another title of Kanoon, is published by a French publisher in 1500 copies.
This book which is written by Ms. Mojgan Kalhor and illustrated by Neda Azimi was published by Kanoon in 2005 in 100000 copies.
The book is about a ladybird who was very much interested to be [...]

Iranian Illustrators at the 2010 Bologna ILLUSTRATORS EXHIBITION

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Iranian Illustrators at the 2010 Bologna ILLUSTRATORS EXHIBITION
The Bologna Illustrators Exhibition offers a broad picture of the most innovative trends in children’s illustration at a world level.

Created by the Bologna Children’s Book Fair, since 1967 it has offered artists from all over the world a unique opportunity to display their talent to key players in the sector who come to Bologna every year for the most important trade show for the exchange of copyrights for children’s literature.
Established artists and emerging talents are selected by an authoritative international jury consisting of publishers, artists and museum directors.
Fiction and non-fiction exhibited works are published in the Annual, a convenient reference tool that publishers use year-round. They will also be part of the traveling shows organized by JBBY (Japan Board on Books for Young People) in several Japanese museums, in Korea and other venues currently under study.

In this edition, the international jury, composed of experts in publishing, design, art, and illustration has selected 87 artists from 19 countries, among them there were two Iranian Artists;

- Ms. Afra Nobahar, the illustrator of “My beautiful Scarecrow” published by Kanoon in 2009
- Mr. Hasan Amekan , unpublished work
were the two selected artists from Iran.
The Bologna Children’s Book Fair, renowned for its special focus on children’s book illustration, together with the SM Foundation, whose intention is to promote children’s books and reading, have joined force to create the Bologna Children’s Book Fair – SM Foundation International Award for Illustration for the first time.
The aim of the award is to support the illustration work of young artists (under the age of 35), the special quality of whose work has yet to be acknowledged.
This annual award will be granted to one of the illustrators selected each year from the Bologna Children’s Book Fair Illustrators Exhibition.
The award, a 30,000-dollar cash prize, will be assigned by an international jury of experts, which will meet in Bologna during the Fair. The winner will be announced at the Fair. In addition, the winner will be offered the opportunity to illustrate a children’s book, which will be published by Grupo SM and presented the following year at the fair. A special exhibition will also be organized to highlight the work of the winning artist.

The International Jury decided to award the Illustration Prize of the Bologna Children’s Book Fair/Fundación SM to the work of Philip Giordano, an Italian artist who moves masterfully between the cultural idioms of the past with their graceful alchemy of the most delicate pictorial allusions, and a refined present from which the artist draws his citations of great moments of modern art.

The merchant and the Parrot (Chinese Version)

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Written by: Marjan Fouladvand
Illustrated by : Ahmad Khalili
Language: Chinese

Published in: China
Copies: 3000 copies

Masnavi-e-Ma’navi is one of the most prominent persian literary works which conveys the mystical contexts of philosophy and wisdom in the form of anecdotes and allegories and it has been writtten in verse by Molana Jalaleddin-e-Mohammad Balkhi (Rumi).
The story of this [...]

The Young Fellow and the Cunning Tailor (Korean Version)

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Written by Sharareh Vazifehshenas
Illustrated by Rashin KHeirieh
Published in: Korea
Language Korean
Copies: 2000
It is a story narrated from ‘Masnavi’, written by Molavi. There is a wily tailor in a town, who always cut out some part of the customer’s cloth for himself. A young man decides to give him some valuable cloth but not let him cut [...]

Will you be a friend of Me? (French Version)

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Written by : Mojgan Kalhor
Illustrated by : Neda Azimi
Language: French
Published in: France
Copies: 1500
Ladybird was very interested to be a friend of Spider, since Spider had a nice swing. Ladybird wanted to swing. Once she tried her best to get close to Spider and offered him her friendship. When Ladybird went nearby Spider, she found that [...]

” Another International Achievement of Kanoon”

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“The Merchant and the Parrot”, Kanoon’s books that has gained a lot of success in the world of publishing in recent years is published bilingually (Persian-Norwegian) by a Norwegian publisher affiliated to storytelling house of Norway. The book is published following the annual holding of Rumi festival by storytelling house of Norway and is going [...]