J.A.BRO'S first art-photo book "By Children For Children With Children and Antique Toys" was created in 1977 and own published in 1984 in 2 languages, title: "La Belle's Great Wish". The contents of this book has two main themes: a.) the loneliness of young children and primary school students in our consumer oriented, cold, violent and loveless society, which may have enough food, clothes and a lot of toys to play with but are mainly left alone with their emotional and spiritual development in Daycare Centers far away from a secure, protective and comfortable family life. Grown up the "Key-Kids" may will find after school an empty home of working parents, at a stage of their life they will need their parents most.
In her daydreams "La-Belle" is searching for a solution of the problem of emotional loneliness by finding it in the idealistic friendship with two other children which are the living counter part of, for this case selected, antique dolls creating with their similarity to the kid-actors in this book a link between the children world of the past and the children world of today in our motionless high-tech world.
The second theme b.) has again the same essential contents like J.A.BRO'S first books from 1967-69 to bring our today's world, with help of creative fantasy, to the understanding and accepting of preschool children including some "pushing thoughts" for the maturer ones. Consequently "La Belle" is experiencing on her day-dream-journey around the world other countries and cities like New York in the USA, Venice in Italy, the Tower of Pisa in Italy and the African jungle which was beautifully painted by the 12 years young "Actress" of the book which is the creator of most of the other unique and colorful children paintings in this book. Her interesting, colorful and absolutely unique painting of the curtain from the "Punch & Judy" theater reminds, in its structure, of the gorgeous paintings of the Australian Aboriginal art despite the fact she never has seen them before at that time. This beautiful, artistic picture book with unique scene arrangements dedicated J.A.BRO not only to her own kids but worldwide other kids too, adults included, by being prepared to donate a part of the net proceeds by sale to needy kids and abandoned animals. |
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