Hats off to Christian Inaraja for his new lift-the-flap book!
A hat is an accessory to cover and protect our heads. But it can also be a useful tool for thinking, playing and guessing what’s under it. That’s one of the purposes of the new lift-the-flap book by Christian Inaraja.
My Hat presents a gallery of portraits of kids wearing all sorts of headwear: from knitted and bath caps to scout and top hats.
Accompanied with simple rhymes, readers will discover what the protagonists want to become when they grow up. Just make your guess, lift the flaps and find out which are the thoughts kept under each hat.
And you, what do you want to be when you grow up?
My Hat
by Christian Inaraja
21 × 21 cm | 16 pages| Boardbook with flaps |Ages 3 +
Publication: September 2023
Christian Inaraja i Genís. Artist based in Barcelona mostly working on picture books & other publications, specially for children. In addition to books, he has illustrated for posters, advertising, packaging, press…
Among recent awards won include the Crítica Serra d’Or Award (2022), Junceda Awards (2013, 2022), National Award for the Best Published Book (2019), International Compostela Prize for Picture Books (2018), International Benicarló Prize for Picture Books (2020) or VEGAP Proposals (2013). He has also been included in the 2022 IBBY Honour list.
In the world of cinema, he has been the co-director of the Reus European Short Film Festival FEC Festival since its beginnings, in 1998 until 2018. The FEC Festival was a benchmark event for contemporary short filmmaking in Europe during all that years.
He is currently teaching illustration at ILLA School of Art in Sabadell & he is also member of the IBBYCat Executive Committee. He also has been Vice-President of the Catalonia Professional Association of Illustrators – APIC (2005-2012), member of the Executive Committee of the Catalan Council for Children’s and Young People’s Books – CLIJCat (2005-2012) & Head of the Illustration Department of ILLA School of Art (2000-2017).
