Meet the illustrator Lemniscates

When I see the name Lemniscates on a book cover I know it will be a special book for the youngest children. Her books are always filled with interesting art and curious subjects.

Carme Lemniscates is an award-winning author, illustrator and designer of children’s books who sees each book project as a complete undertaking in which the text, illustrations and graphic design converge with the same spirit from beginning to end. In 2010, after more than fifteen years of illustrating and designing children’s books for publishers, she founded Lemniscates Studio in her home city of Barcelona to create her own children’s book projects, which she both writes and illustrates.

Lemniscates Studio is an author/illustrator/designer collective that creates children's books and storybook apps. Established in Barcelona in 2010, Lemniscates has a special interest in books that encourage creative thinking and curiosity about subjects such as nature, the environment, friendship, adoption, fear and self-acceptance.

Illustration from Birds by Carme Lemniscates

Here is the newest book from Lemniscates due for publication later this year:

When Paloma arrives at the big building with so many other children living there, she stays silent and watches. But soon the cozy red carpet beckons—a place for her to draw and make friends, learn the language and learn to read. More change looms, however, and the children learn they'll have to leave their beloved carpet behind, so Paloma and her friends get creative and imagine a fitting farewell for their magic carpet.

These are a set of spiral bound board books for babies introducing them to famous poets. There is also one about Shakespeare and also about Edgar Allan Poe.

Trees which is one of the covers I shared at the top of this post, has a very simple but also lyrical text:

"Trees sleep in winter and wake up in spring. They bear fruit in summer and drop their leaves in autumn. Trees have their heads in the clouds and their feet on the ground. ... Trees cannot change their place in the world, so they are patient and learn to live where they are."

I previously talked about Silence.