BOOKS – ANJA SUŠANJ https://anjasusanj.com Wed, 18 Mar 2026 11:21:24 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://anjasusanj.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/cropped-favicon-copy-32x32.png BOOKS – ANJA SUŠANJ https://anjasusanj.com 32 32 158814772 SLEEPING BEAUTY https://anjasusanj.com/nproject/sleeping-beauty/ Wed, 29 Oct 2025 12:06:41 +0000 https://anjasusanj.com/?post_type=nproject&p=4156 SLEEPING BEAUTY

Sleeping Beauty is a pop-up book that reimagines this classic fairytale, with a modern twist.
Published in 2025 by Tempar Books.
Written by Laura Sampson
Photos by Valentina Bujanić

]]> 4156 WOODLORE https://anjasusanj.com/nproject/woodlore/ Wed, 29 Oct 2025 12:00:35 +0000 https://anjasusanj.com/?post_type=nproject&p=4151 WOODLORE

Coming out in March 2026 in the US, Woodlore is a book that combines folkore with natural facts, showing us aspects of each season through the perspective of an oak.

Published by Magic Cat in the UK and Abrams Kids in the US.

]]> 4151 EXPLORE THE SOLAR SYSTEM https://anjasusanj.com/nproject/explore-the-solar-system/ Tue, 07 Oct 2025 10:10:00 +0000 https://anjasusanj.com/?post_type=nproject&p=4190 Fully illustrated, lift-the-flap concertina that lets you explore the whole Solar System, aimed at children 5+. One side of the concertina has the solar system, illustrated referencing old star maps, and the other has fact about each planet and space object mentioned.
Published by DK Books + European Space Agency, 2025

Written by Sara Forster
Designed by Robyn Makings
Photos by Valentina Bujanić

]]> 4190 BUILD YOUR OWN SOLAR SYSTEM https://anjasusanj.com/nproject/build-your-own-solar-system/ Thu, 11 Sep 2025 09:51:00 +0000 https://anjasusanj.com/?post_type=nproject&p=4171 Build Your Own Solar System is a non-fiction book for children aged 9-12. It’s a fully illustrated introduction to the Solar System with press out plantes that can be made into a 3D Solar System.

Written by Lauren Fairgrieve
Published by Nosy Crow and the University of Cambridge, 2025

Creative Play Awards 2025 — Winner
Creative Book Awards 2026 — Highly Commended, Best Primary Book

]]> 4171 NATURE TALES https://anjasusanj.com/nproject/nature-tales/ Fri, 04 Oct 2024 15:25:03 +0000 https://anjasusanj.com/?post_type=nproject&p=3275 A fully illustrated collection of folk tales, myths and legends from around the world.
Written by Dawn Casey and published by Templar Publishing, Bonnier Books in September 2024.
Bologna Children’s Books Fair 2025 Illustration Exhibition Finalist.

]]> 3275 SKY EXPLORER https://anjasusanj.com/nproject/sky-explorer/ Sun, 30 Apr 2023 04:31:00 +0000 https://anjasusanj.com/?post_type=nproject&p=3331 Sky Explorer is a non-fiction children’s book, published by Nosy Crow in 2023. It teaches children everything there is to know about the day and night sky, from different types of clouds, to stars and the ISS.

Written by Elizabeth Jenner and designed by Tina Garcia.

]]> 3331 ANCIENT EGYPTIANS https://anjasusanj.com/nproject/ancient-egyptians/ Wed, 31 Aug 2022 15:14:36 +0000 https://anjasusanj.com/?post_type=nproject&p=3602 A Ladybird book on Ancient Egyptians, published in August 2022. Written by Sidra Ansari.

]]> 3602 Curious Creatures GLOWING IN THE DARK https://anjasusanj.com/nproject/curious-creatures-glowing-in-the-dark/ Sat, 09 Apr 2022 14:12:00 +0000 http://anjasusanj.com/?post_type=nproject&p=2823 Curious Creatures GLOWING IN THE DARK is a nonfiction book about animals that “glow in the dark” by producing their own light. Written by Zoë Armstrong, it’s a nonfiction guide to biofluorescence and bioluminescence in picture book form, with many narrative scenes encapsulating these phaenomea.

It’s made for children age 7-11, and is the first book in the Curious Creatures series (with book two and three coming in 2022. and 2023. respectively).

Published by: Flying Eye Books
Photos by: Ivan Vranjić
Also in the series: Curious Creatures Working with Tools and Curious Creatures Talking Together

]]> 2823 SECRET LIVES OF MERMAIDS https://anjasusanj.com/nproject/secret-lives-of-mermaids/ Mon, 22 Feb 2021 18:10:26 +0000 http://anjasusanj.com/?post_type=nproject&p=2732 The Secret Lives of Mermaids is a non-fiction guide to Merpeople, written by the famed merologist Anuk Tola (Angela Sangma Francis). The book treats merpeople as real, depicting different clans and their respective biologies, showing underwater cities, merpeople art and culture, as well as the language they use to read and write.
Merpeople are also fighting against climate change and the books shows children how them (and their grown-ups) can help with this wicked problem.
It’s made for children age 7-11, and is the second book in the Secret Lives of.. series.

Published by: Flying Eye Books
Photos by: Ivan Vranjić

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