The Tales of Music: How the First Horn, the First Drum and the First Lyre Came into the World

Lily Lambrelli

Isbn:

978-960-16-5473-7

Age Group:

9+ years

Category:

Children's Fiction & Novels

Number of pages:

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BOOK

The Tales of Music ENG (introduction)

Once upon a long, long time ago, when men were not yet men nor animals yet animals, and even the gods were still not gods as yet, there lived together with a host of other creatures in the boundless forest that harboured life on earth a roe deer and a tortoise.

AUTHOR

Lily Lambrelli

Lily Lambrelli studied law. She works as a translator in the European Union. She is a story teller. She writes short stories and is a passionate traditional storyteller. Her grandfather's family came from Aivali, on the shores of Asia Minor, and her grandmother's from Mytilene, just off the coast. She was born in the port city of Piraeus, read Law at university and studied music. On graduating, she practised Law for a while, then spent many years as a translator with the European Union in Luxembourg and Brussels. In 1998, by sheer coincidence, she met the story-teller Henri Gougaud, plunged deep into the world of fairy tales and have never surfaced since. Tales and their telling have brought her many gifts, amongst them unexpected meetings. She have had fifteen books published (ten of them for children), as well as a CD with fairy tales.

ILLUSTRATOR

Iris Samartzi

Iris Samartzi was born in Athens (1979).

She studied Graphic and Interior design, as well as Children’s Art.

She ’s been working as a children’s book illustrator since 2004.

She also works as an art teacher in nursery and primary school.

As an illustrator she has received various awards. Among others:

-The Compostela Prize 2016 for picture books “El último día” (a project she worked with A. Papatheodoulou-writer).

-The Picture book award from the Greek section of IBBY for the book “The Magic World of Federico” in 2016.

-The National Children’s Picture Book Award and Picture Book award from the Greek section of IBBY for the book “The Good and the Bad Pirates” in 2012.

-The Picture book award from the Greek section of IBBY for the book “Badboy” in 2015.

-“The book "Odyssey, the ingenious story” which she illustrated, was selected for the IBBY Honour List 2014.

On September 2015 she attended Picturecamp masterclass with Benji Davies, Chris Haughton, Alexis Deacon and Jorge Martin in Atapuerca, Spain.

Rights Update

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