Volatilium is the international picture books offshoot of Nefeli Publishing, an established Greek publisher specializing in literary fiction, theatre, history, and art theory since 1979.
Volatilium is also the younger sibling of Tsalapeteinos, Nefeli’s acclaimed picture books imprint launched in 2009. Tsalapeteinos has published works by renowned authors and illustrators like Wolf Erlbruch, Hervé Tullet, Marianne Dubuc, Erin E. Stead, Christoph Niemann, Greg Pizzoli, Célia Chauffrey and Émile Jadoul among others.
Volatilium is committed to presenting high quality picture books to a wide international audience.
This is how books are made
and what this means for the environment
AWARDS:
The White Ravens, Greek National Book Prize, Greek IBBY Award, EBGE Design Award, Non Fiction Prize “Anagnostis”
Rodoula Pappa, Kostas Markopoulos
How is a book made?
How are paper and ink made? What is a publishing house and what does
it do? What goes on at the printer’s and the bookbinder’s? And what impact does producing a book have on the environment?
Did you know that for every book produced a tree has to be cut?
That making paper can be a heavily polluting procedure?
How have we come to make and buy books that you can scratch and sniff, that float in the bathtub or glow in the dark? What does this all mean for our environment and what can we do to protect it?
This book contains not one but two texts!
— A very short one, for little readers but also for busy grownups;
— and a longer one, for those of us who want to learn more about
how a book is really made!
Pages from the book
Volatilium is the international picture books offshoot of Nefeli Publishing, an established Greek publisher specializing in literary fiction, theatre, history, and art theory since 1979.
Volatilium is also the younger sibling of Tsalapeteinos, Nefeli’s acclaimed picture books imprint launched in 2009. Tsalapeteinos has published works by renowned authors and illustrators like Wolf Erlbruch, Hervé Tullet, Marianne Dubuc, Erin E. Stead, Christoph Niemann, Greg Pizzoli, Célia Chauffrey and Émile Jadoul among others.
Volatilium is committed to presenting high quality picture books to a wide international audience.