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1930 年代後半、ポーランドの有名な詩人ジュリアン・トゥヴィムは、子供向けに 3 つの詩を書くように頼まれました。
出版社のプシェヴォルスキーは 3 つの詩を 1 冊の本『Locomotive』にまとめ、ポーランドの著名なイラストレーターのコンビ、ルウィット＆ヒムにイラストを依頼しました。

本書の三つの詩は、『Locomotive(機関車）』、『The Turnip（カブ）』、『The Birds's Broadcast（鳥たちのラジオ局）』
列車が走り出す車両の中に何が入っているの？
人も動物もみんなでカブを地面から引き抜くよ。
森の集会のためたくさんのの鳥が集まると何が起こるの？

『Locomotive』は 1939 年にポーランド語で初版が出版された後、翌年すぐにフランス語と英語に翻訳され、明るい色彩とモダニズムを取り入れたイメージのイラストは、驚きと喜びで迎えられました。
古典と現代の両方で、その想像力豊かなストーリーテリングと魅力は長い年月を経た今でも色褪せず魅力的な絵本として今でも読まれています。

Locomotive
Contributor(s): Tuwim, Julian (Author) , Lewitt and Him (Illustrator)
EAN: 9780500650974
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
Binding: Hardcover
Pub Date: November 14, 2017
Target Age Group: 04 to 08
Physical Info: 1.27 cms H x 17.78 cms L x 25.65 cms W (0.34 kgs) 47 pages

Publisher Marketing:
In the late 1930s renowned Polish poet Julian Tuwim, was asked to write three poems for children. The publisher Przeworski connected the three poems into one book, Locomotive, and commissioned illustrations from celebrated Polish illustration duo Lewitt and Him. Locomotive was the beginning of a creative partnership that lasted many years.

Featuring the original three poems, Locomotive, The Turnip, and The Bird's Broadcast, children learn what's inside each train carriage as it chugs along, how many people, animals, and friends it takes to pull a turnip from the ground, and what happens when birds of all kinds gather for a meeting in the woods.

After its original publication in 1939 in Polish, Locomotive was swiftly translated into French and English the next year, appearing at a time when it would have been a surprise and a joy to encounter bright colors and modernist- inflected imagery. Both classic and modern, its imaginative storytelling and appeal has endured and will delight children today as much as it did eighty years ago.