為dPictus平台的國際評審團選入《百本傑出圖畫書》
《我的媽媽，我的爸爸》圖畫書由描述書中人物動作的插圖和簡單句組成，透過幼兒的目光呈現出日常家庭情況。
然而這並不是關於特定家庭的故事，每個書頁介紹一對不同的父母形象，爸爸媽媽間彼此互補，共同完成各種家務活動，營造出有凝聚力且安全的世界。
本書以孩子生命中最重要的兩個人為例，呈現出表面上差異極大的個體如何形成具凝聚力的整體，彼此互補和強化，媽媽就像乘法（包很多餃子），爸爸則像除法（均分巧克力）。書中文字雖少，但含義豐富，詞句與插圖的結合創造出充滿幽默感的寓意，不僅孩童們會覺得有趣，對父母來說也具意涵。本書適合全家一起閱讀，鼓勵甚至驅動孩童發揮主動性，而不是被動接收，像是提問（媽媽往哪裡追趕？爸爸在躲避什麼？）、評論或是理解隱藏在隱喻圖像中的內容（例如「我媽媽手舞足蹈地說著」），避免互補句和圖像的單義性，成為具普遍性的一般人的故事，幫助孩子理解父母的行為。
文字和插圖皆有趣、豐富多彩且帶詼諧，適合全家一起閱讀，並就每個家庭的日常進行對話。 （M.M.）
瑪格熱妲·斯文多夫斯卡: 教育家、培訓師、印象閱讀概念的創造者、兒童文學工作坊推動者。
尤安娜·巴托西克: 波茲南藝術大學平面造型設計與視覺傳播學院博士，其原創圖畫書 《一、二、三 》系列叢書獲第九屆哈琳娜·斯克洛比舎夫斯卡童書競賽的獎項，並被收入童書博物館的珍藏書目中（2017年）。
《我的媽媽，我的爸爸》，瑪格熱妲·斯文多夫斯卡、尤安娜·巴托西克，製造廠出版社（Wytwórnia），華沙2018年
Selected samples
She climbed her first peaks in a headscarf at a time when women in the mountains were treated by climbers as an additional backpack. It was with her that female alpinism began! She gained recognition in a spectacular way. The path was considered a crossing for madmen. Especially since the tragic accident in 1929, preserved … Continue reading “Halina”
First, Marysia, a student of an exclusive private school in Warsaw’s Mokotów district, dies under the wheels of a train. Her teacher, Elżbieta, tries to find out what really happened. She starts a private investigation only soon to perish herself. But her body disappears, and the only people who have seen anything are Gniewomir, a … Continue reading “Wound”
A young girl, Regina Wieczorek, was found dead on the beach. She was nineteen years old and had no enemies. Fortunately, the culprit was quickly found. At least, that’s what the militia think. Meanwhile, one day in November, Jan Kowalski appears at the police station. He claims to have killed not only Regina but also … Continue reading “Penance”
The year is 1922. A dangerous time of breakthrough. In the Eastern Borderlands of the Republic of Poland, Bolshevik gangs sow terror, leaving behind the corpses of men and disgraced women. A ruthless secret intelligence race takes place between the Lviv-Warsaw-Free City of Gdańsk line. Lviv investigator Edward Popielski, called Łysy (“Hairless”), receives an offer … Continue reading “A Girl with Four Fingers”
This question is closely related to the next one, namely: if any goal exists, does life lead us to that goal in an orderly manner? In other words, is everything that happens to us just a set of chaotic events that, combined together, do not form a whole? To understand how the concept of providence … Continue reading “Order and Love”
The work of Józef Łobodowski (1909-1988) – a remarkable poet, prose writer, and translator, who spent most of his life in exile – is slowly being revived in Poland. Łobodowski’s brilliant three- volume novel, composed on an epic scale, concerns the fate of families and orphans unmoored by the Bolshevik Revolution and civil war and … Continue reading “Ukrainian Trilogy: Thickets, The Settlement, The Way Back”
