Reviews:
"In four books - as many as the seasons
- the well-known authoress narrates with originality,
humour and imagination the stories of the months...
The children-months living in the ethereal country of
their grandfather, the Year, experience the same sorrows
and the same joys like children down on earth. Their
lives are similar to people's lives, but they also remind
us of many of the things we already know about each
month via tradition. However, everything here is told
in a new way combined with contemporary elements. All
four books have many and impressive full-page colourful
pictures made of collage by the authoress herself who
presents an obviously hard and meticulous work of fascinating
outcome. These masterly books refer to all children
of the world, from 6 years old up to 70, 80..."
EXORMISI newspaper - 18.12.1988
"The well-known to Children's Literature world
Loty Petrovits-Andrutsopulou innovates at everything.
Being ahead of the already known motifs, she personifies
the without beginning, the elusive Time. She subjects
it to the human rules and metamorphoses it into months'
grandfather. To each of his grandchildren, he gives
the physiognomy with which we meet it. The whole procedure
happens with plentiful imagination and affluent lyricism".
Women's Literary Association "30 Years Offer" - 1988
"...What the authoress manages is to create a
contemporary "mythology" of the daily natural
phenomena - phenomena that nowadays have good luck (or
bad luck) to be scientifically explained. However, science
has not been able to solve, on its own, the problem
of human expression. Our technological age had the absolute
need of imagination joint action. Loty Petrovits-Andrutsopulou
presents an aspect of such contribution of imagination.
At this point, we should point out the tasteful edition
of the four books that their illustration (based on
the art of collage) is signed by the authoress herself,
presenting, in this way, another dimension of her artistic
sensibilities."
Manos Kontoleon, I AVGI TIS KIRIAKIS - 22.1.1989
"...they offer resourceful imagination, assimilated
traditional Greek lifestyle, emotive vividness through
the personification of everything, lyricism, psychognosis,
and refined modern Greek Word of exemplary ethos and
style. Indeed, it is an offer of high demands in the
sensitive field of Children's Literature. The authoress
herself made the successful illustration of it out of
collage with sensitivity and enthusiasm. Her pictures
harmonize with the text reality... A well-written and
perfectly printed book that can amaze even the most
demanding reader".
Ioannis G. Theoharis, PROINOS LOGOS newspaper, Ioannina
- 2.2.1989
"As far as its content but as well as its illustration
is concerned, the book reached the boundaries of perfection...
I believe that nobody could ever illustrate a book more
vividly, more realistically, more lyrically and more
charmingly..."
M. I. Maratheftis, Philologist-Pedagogue
fmr Principal of Teachers' Training College of Cyprus
- 27.2.1989
"Each month has its own traits... It is these
traits that Loty Petrovits-Andrutsopulou uses by including
them in the humanizing characters of the three months
of Spring... The reader - either young or old - is thrilled
with the authoress' brainwaves and enjoys her plain
as well as her sensitive style of writing".
Manos Kontoleon, DIADROMES magazine, no 13 - Spring
1989
"Even from its introduction, we understand the
dream-like way the authoress chose to talk to us about
the three children of Summer. Things that happen during
those three months... they are explained, they come
to life in such a real as well as visionary way, something
that only authentic art and technique can manage. The
illustration is of the author herself and does not only
attend the text properly, but it also gives it its full
dream-like dimension".
Galatia Grigoriadou-Soureli, DIADROMES magazine, no14
- Autumn 1989
"...In the Children of Autumn the young
readers will read about September who goes to school,
about October's imagination, about November's promises
and more other things, all written with fertile imagination
and lyricism. However, it is the marvelous edition of
the book that all, young and older readers, will enjoy
with its fantastic pictures collage that offers children
the incentive to work accordingly. It is an essential
contribution to the cultivation of aesthetic learning".
V.D. Anagnostopoulos, DIADROMES magazine, no 15 - Autumn
1989
"Loty Petrovits-Andrutsopulou gets away off the
standard forms and with poetic narration, fertile lyricism
and imagination animates the Year with its children
and grandchildren. She metamorphoses them into very
close to us characters that move around us vividly,
convincing us with mastery and humour about their "truthfulness".
And all these in a colourful feast that is the work
of her hands too".
Angeliki Varella, DIADROMES magazine - no 16, Winter
1989
"Fascinating texts full of charm and lyricism,
where the months go by the bed of the year, each one
with its own traits, whims, virtues and flaws, its oddities
and... its phenomena! It is about stories with tale-like
and real elements. Everything evolves in traditional
atmosphere, through fertile and vivid dialogues. The
knowledgeable elements, literature grace and artistic
temperament are diffused and shed their scent in child's
soul and its developing mind. The author herself made
the illustration out of collage in an original and astonishing
way, I would say unique, since such kind of creations
are rare. I regard it as a model and proposal too for
similar works intended for infants and children."
Thanasis Karagiannis, TO SCHOLIO KAI TO SPITI magazine,
no 8/November 1989
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