Littlenesses

Word
An essential word like Death
can be hard, it can overshadow you.
An essential word like Luck
can be pure, it can enlighten you.

ONE grain of sand in his shoe was the beginning of this breviary, says Pep Molist.
TWO stakes in a landscape and a thread that joins them would be like a poetry book.
THREE are the colours that illustrate the whole book.
FIVE typologies of Littlenesses: close, everyday, fantastic, bestial and natural.
…INFINITE images, emotions, sensations, memories and recollections awakened by each single verse, each
solitary phrase.
This is Littlenesses: 35 poems arranged in families of small, seemingly insignificant, but beautiful and
essential things in life. A gift for the senses.

Key points

2024 – Finalist in Cuatrogatos Foundation Award
2024 – Finalist in the Illustrators Exhibition, Bologna Children’s Book Fair

• Poetry is fundamental for the development of a taste for beauty, sensitivity and imaginative freedom.
• Simple, free verse poems about small things, such as those that children might carry as treasures in their pockets.
• Visual observation games: each poem is illustrated by a detail and, at the end of each chapter, there is an illustration of all these motifs together, creating a new visual poetry.
• A book that breathes the work of the great Catalan artist Joan Miró.

Pep Molist

2024 – Selected for IBBY Honour List
2022 – The White Ravens List

Alicia Varela

2024 – Selected for IBBY Honour List
2022, 2019 – The White Ravens List
2020 – Cuatrogatos Foundation, 100 Recommended Books
2015 – Selected for Bratislava Illustration Biennale