Tomi has hand-lettered the cover fonts for many of his books, including this one for Orlando from 1966.
These days the French edition of Papa Snap is published by L’ecole des loisirs under the much less time-consuming name Papaski! This modern German edition is available from Diogenes Verlag The book was first published in 1971 in the U.S. I Am Papa Snap and These Are My Favourite No Such Stories is one of our favourite children’s books by Tomi, and one of his favourites too. I Am Papa Snap…and these are my many language editions Here is the first edition cover of The Mellops Go Diving for Treasure, published in New York by Harper & Brothers in 1957.Īnd here is a modern edition of the same book in Korean! Tomi’s work has been translated into countless languages, and it’s interesting to look at the difference in cover designs from his publishers round the world. The Mellops Go Diving for Treasure and end up on the other side of the world Tomi’s work has led him down paths of experimentation in mediums as diverse as architecture and collage, but he is still an inexhaustibly prolific draughtsman. And learn more about Tomi’s poster art in our posters section.Ĭompromises was originally published by Farrar, Straus And Giroux in 1970, and it contains selections from five years worth of Tomi’s drawings. Watch the full interview (“Tomi Ungerer on writing for children”), here. As Tomi said himself in a 2010 interview with Phaidon, he likes to include “an elepha-an element of practical joke” in his work. You may recognise this elephant from Tomi’s “Expect the Unexpected” days, when a menagerie of his illustrated animals appeared in print advertisements for The New York Times. Take a look through the cover art here, and let us know if you have a favourite edition of one of Tomi’s books in the comments below! With over 140 books to his name, translated into countless languages, it’s hard to keep track of all the different editions of Tomi’s books that exist in the world! We’ve collected a few favourites to share, from first editions and out of print gems to bestselling books in unusual languages.
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