An exhibition of children’s books “Book Floods” dedicated to Nordic literature will be opened at the National Library of Latvia on September 10. The exhibition will feature Nordic books in both translated and original languages, including nominees for previous years of the Nordic Literature Prize. As you go through the exhibition, you have the opportunity to participate in various activities.
Silvija Tretyakova, the head of the Children’s Literature Center, presents an exhibition arranged as a labyrinth and located on the seventh floor of the National Library next to the Children’s Literature Center. The children will arrive and start the inspection by leaving the elevator. And then their first task is to wash their hands, but in the toilet they will be met by the Monster from the book “Monster said No!”.
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The book “The Monster Said No!” has been published in Latvian by Dena Dimiņš, and was co – invented by three authors from Iceland, the Faroe Islands and Sweden. The main character is a big, black monster, now one is reflected and looks at the entrant who washes his hands at the sink.
Then the little visitor will be able to build a city and a house in the city, slip through the volcano to get into the Nordic atmosphere. Scandinavian mythology is present in the exhibition, but a wall of the exhibition is especially colorful and rich in images.
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At the next station, moms and dads can read the Nordic books translated in front of them, here there is a rich range. The snake of Midgard is also here and, as Silvia Tretyakov emphasizes, it is a lesser-known image of mythology.
In the closing part of the exhibition there is an opportunity to write a poem, also to illustrate it or just to draw and throw it in the mailbox, three times a month the mail will be empty and prizes will be sent to the indicated addresses.
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The idea of the exhibition originated in Iceland, its author is the writer and illustrator Kristīne Ragna Gunarsdotira, but the adaptation of the design of the exhibition is in the hands of Tatjana Raičiņec. A Viking ship has been set up at the Children’s Literature Center, where you have to take on a more serious task – to write an adventure that you would like to experience.
The exhibition “Book Floods” is intended to promote the authors of the Nordic Council of Ministers’ Prize in Children’s Literature, which will travel from Riga to Lithuania and Estonia. The Latvian environment will be changed by the accents of our neighboring countries.
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