Shortstories

Carlsen compiled a book of beautiful short stories, and I illustrated "Die Prinzessin auf der Erbse" by H.C Andersen and "Traumschuhe für Lilian" von Isabel Abedi.

Welcome baby Lua

On the 22th of December our little daughter was born.

Noor + Naim

This is the wedding invitation for my dear brother-in-law and his wonderful fiancé.

kOi-Trio CD Cover

I just designed the CD cover for the Cologne based kOi-Trio, lead by Matthias Nowak.

Programmposter Jugend-Kunst-Schule Köln e.V.

Here's the new annual program for the youth art school in Cologne. If you're interested in their diverse courses, please visit their website.

Mami Verlag

Do yourself a treat and check out mami verlag, a small publishing house by Anke Feuchtenberger and Stefano Ricci with few but well selected art projects and books.

Religiöses Kinderbuch des Monats

"Der kleine Hirte und der große Räuber" wurde vom Borromäusverein e.V. als Buch des Jahres ausgezeichnet, mehr dazu auf medienprofile.

Semeli's Smile

Marina Michaelidou's and my book is out with "Cyprus Cultural Foundation", thanks to everyone for the productive and wonderful cooperation!! 
"Semeli knows what she wants more than anything in the world!  The red bicycle is the most beautiful bicycle she has ever seen and she cannot take it out of her mind.  But then one day, Semeli notices how sad everyone around her seems to be and wonders what can make people truly smile.  And is the red bicycle what she really needs to be happy?  An unexpected encounter will give her the answer she is looking for!"

Rubys Wintergarten

Eine superschöne frische Kinder-Musik-CD von Markus Reyhani! Zum Reinhören und Kaufen bitte hier klicken: Rubys Wintergarten

Cornelsen

New Fairly tale and legend illustrations.

Citrounille book review

There's a nice book review about my "Penouin glacé" in the latest issue of Citrounelle, a French book review magazine. Click on the image to enlarge!

Salon du Livre Nancy

Thank you for a wonderful weekend!!! I had the pleasure of being seated next to Sandra Poirot Cherif and Julia Chausson, who I admire greatly!!! Here are two of their works:

Thanks to L'Autre Rive bookstore for inviting me!

Special thanks to my cousin Maryam, who drove me all the way and helped with the translation of numerous interviews done by school kids. :-)

Die Ausstellung am 22. September in Oberhausen lädt ein zu einem Ausflug in die Bilderwelten der Kölner Kinderbuchillustratorinnen Constanze von Kitzing und Andrea Steffen.

Bettina Herre, freie Lektorin, spricht zur Einstimmung über die Entstehung eines Kinderbuchs.

Weitere Infos auf Facebook!!!

Cornelsen

Here are some new illustrations for Cornelsen:

Hamburg Exkursion

Well, this comes a little late, but in June my students and me did a very cool 2-day-excursion in Hamburg. We visited two publishing houses, Der Spiegel and GEOmini, saw lots of art in the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe and at the Lead Award exhibition, were told many insights into the illustration business by Jonas Lauströer and Igor Kuprin and had fun doing sight seeing and drawing Hamburg's nightlife.

3x3 Children's Show

Hooray, this is so cool, two of my works have been picked for the 3x3 annual Children's Show. This illustration got a gold medal. It's a work for "Das Meer Seiner Worte", published with Baha'i-Verlag.

The second prize I got was bronze for my lovely penguin, "Pengouin glacé", which was published with La Joie de Lire.

Jack and the Beanstalk

This was a nice job for Oxford University Press, thanks to Lily and Lorraine!

Magic Chant

I guess it's my Korean year. This book just came out with EEN Art, a beautiful story about a little girl with leukemia and how she's dealing with her situation.

Korean License

How cool is that! Two of my lion-books, published with La Joie de Lire, are now published in South Korea with Wonder Kids.

Popi - Bayard

The July-issue of Popi, a French children's magazine, is out now with my illustration for a really nice short story. Thanks to Marianne!!!

Nacht der Kreativität

Leute, kommt vorbei, hier werden die Bilder zu meiner Diplomarbeit ausgestellt.

Der kleine Hirte und der große Räuber

Coming out in September!!!!!!! "Voller Freude macht sich der kleine Hirte auf den Weg nach Bethlehem. Auch er möchte das göttliche Kind besuchen, von dem die himmlischen Boten berichtet haben. Ein Räuber hört ebenfalls den jubelnden Gesang. Doch er kann die Worte nicht verstehen. „Die feiern ein Fest“, denkt er. Und da er so hungrig ist, schleicht er sich an den kleinen Hirten heran, um zu sehen, was er rauben kann. Der kleine Hirte aber verschenkt seine Gaben an Menschen, die noch weniger besitzen als er. Ob für den Räuber etwas übrig bleibt? Vom Schenken und Beschenktwerden erzählt diese besondere Weihnachtsgeschichte." Sauerländer Webpage, HIER vorbestellen!!!

Illustration Friday *Shadow*

This is an illustration I did quite a while ago during my studies at MCAD, but it definitely fits the topic of this week's Illustration Friday!!!

Illustration Friday *Asleep*

There's a really nice blog on beautiful children's books, with monthly contributions by Werner Holzwarth, author of the bestseller "Vom kleinen Maulwurf der wissen wollte, wer ihm auf den Kopf gemacht hat" and professor at Bauhaus-University Weimar for Visual Communication.

SCBWI international newsletter - excerpt

* Constanze von Kitzing (SCBWI Germany) - Constanze had two children's books published in 2010: DORMEZ-VOUS? (La joie de lire; Les Versatiles edition) and C'EST MOI LE MEILLEUR! (Joie de lire; Les Versatiles edition). 

An SCBWI member since 2007, Constanze is also the author/illustrator of CACHE-CACHE (Joie de lire; Les Versatiles edition, 2009) and PINGOUIN GLACE (La joie de lire). She is an award-winning, German based illustrator and author. She has a wide variety of clients in the illustration industry, including publishing houses, magazines, newspapers, and design companies. 

Constanze's work has been published and exhibited in Germany, the USA, Korea, the UK, Cyprus, France, Italy, Japan, Canada, Denmark, Ireland, China, the Netherlands, and Spain. In 2010 her illustrations have been selected for the Illustrator's Exhibition at the Bologna Children's Book Fair (Italy) and for the cj Book exhibition (Korea). 

Here's just one of Constanze's lovely illustrations. Do you see that tiny red-roofed house beside the little boy's right boot?

"Dormez-Vous?"

My book "Dormez-Vous?", originally published by La Joie de Lire, has now been published by Fondo de Cultura Económica in Mexico!!!

Illustration Friday *Safari*

La Joie de Lire

Cool, the new stand of La Joie de Lire, presented at diverse bookfairs has my penguin on it!!!

Cornelsen stuff

I recently finished three smaller Cornelsen commissions, a fairy tale chapter, two small images for an online portal and some digital illustrations for a grammar chapter:

Illustration Friday

This week's topic is "lesson".

Exhibition in Portugal

Gémeo Luís, illustrator, graphic designer and illustration teacher at the faculty on fine arts in the city of Porto in Portugal is running exhibitions with works of illustrators from all around the world in Portugal and all of the participants will be printed in a collective book. Here's my contribution.

THANKS!!!

I got a wonderful package today: my friend Maral sent me this wonderful book that I couldn't purchase in Bologna. It's by Sandra Poirot Cherif, published with Rue du Monde, and tells the story of an immigrant girl, who tries to live a normal life but is constantly followed by a bird, symbolizing imminent deportation:

Bologna Book Fair

The Bologna Book Fair was great as usual! Here I'm sharing some inspiring links to reports and photos. First a really nice introduction to some French books by Ina Hattenauer (scroll down a bit):

Then some really good sketches by Till Lassmann, here a quick portrait of Vitali and me having lunch:

Lots and lots of fotos by Maral Sassouni, she also got a really good shot of me :-)

This year Camilla Engman exhibited at the Via Zamboni. Here's her own blog post. 

Here's a nice blog entry by Maria Bogade, who writes about her first time at the Bologna Book Fair.

If you wrote something about Bologna somewhere, send a link so I can post it here!!! 

3x3 Illustration Directory

Cool, I'm on page 224 in the 3x3 Illustration Directory!

Penguins in Wissembourg

Mid March I was in Wissembourg to do some penguin art with school kids and sign books being sold at the Salon du Livre Jeunesse. Thanks to Willy Hahn of the Librarie "A Livre Ouvert" for inviting me. Here are some impressions, photos (c) Arianne von Kitzing:

Wonderful art, done by the kids.

Thanks a million to the teacher Caroline Batt, who prepared the different little workshops.

Book signing...

I also met Clotilde Perrin and bought her book "Tout autour de moi" with a wonderful dedication.

SPRING!!!!

Wishing you all a sunny, warm and bright first day of spring!

Sketchbooks

It's actually an old photo, but cleaning my desktop after a considerable span of time, I re-found it! This is Sabrina Tibourtine, my dear next-door-illustration-buddy and me, exchanging sketchbooks.

Review "Pingouin glacé"

There have been some nice reviews on my latest book "Penguin glacé", here are two, the first in babymag and another in BODOI.