LILLY, HOW OLD R U?

LILLY BLUE, creative director, BIG kids magazine

How is your bed?  It is as big as a grown ups next to a window the size of the sky. It feels like I am sleeping in a tree house. Which kind of meal you do not like? I don't like spice bags in my spaghetti! And your favourite? I love peanut butter on a spoon. Your favorite book to read?  The Far Away Tree by Enid Blyton - my mum reads it to me. Have you got an imaginary friend? Yes, it is a girl called Lilly exactly the same as me. The real me climbs and hides in the tree tops and the imaginary me gets up to all kinds of mischief.

JO, HOW OLD R U?

JO POLLITT, creative director, BIG kids magazine

How is your bed?  It is against the wall and with a yellow bedspread to match the yellow curtains my mother made.  My brother's bed is a train built by my mother with a toy box engine and on the top bunk our cat births two white kittens which means he sleeps on the floor. Which kind of meal you do not like?  I do not like brussel sprouts. And your favourite? I love "meelies" (corn on the cob) and dip-it-in bolied eggs with soldiers. I love walking up to the deli with 50cents to choose Sunday sweets. Your favorite book to read?  A Very Worried Sparrow, Little Peter Rabbit, The Flopsy Bunnies and Milly Molly Mandy. Have you got an imaginary friend? No, I play 'schools' under the house with 3 children over the fence and make friends with the circus children in the park opposite. I push my dolls in the wheely washing basket and believe they are alive. I write to my 'sister' in a diary. I have only a brother.  

BIG kids magazine !

BIG Kids Magazine is an Australian-made biannual creative arts magazine that provides an immersive, interactive and imaginative arts experience for children of all ages. Driven by discovery, experimentation and response, BIG invites children to participate in topical conversations about art and the world. Congratulation Jo Pollitt and Lilly Blue!

JURE, HOW OLD R U?

JURE KOTNIK,  architect How is your bed? My bed was wooden, painted in red and with pull-out red boxes for the toys beneath. Which kind of meal you do not like? I didn’t like red cabbage! And your favourite? My favourite meal was home made pizza. Your favorite book to read? A collection of children’s encyclopedias that I got under Christmas tree. Have you got an imaginary friend? My parents often laugh to my imaginary friends that I had once with on familiy trip.

JOHANNA, HOW OLD R U?

JOHANNA KINDVALL, illustrator, kokblog

How is your bed? I share room with my twin sister Anna. My bed has a black painted cast iron bedframe with golden nobs. Sounds hard? Yes it is. I think my bed is prettier than my sister's but her's is painted green which is my favorite color. Which kind of meal you do not like?  I don't like pancakes even if they are served with plenty of jam and cream (which I like). And your favorite? My favorite meal is my grandmother's Bolognese as it's mostly made of meat and the vegetable are chopped in tiny pieces. She always serve it on rise. My other grandmother's beef patties with plenty of cream sauce is another favorite. I also like my mother's tomatoe based tuna sauce. Your favorite book to read? I like all books with ”Emil i Lönneberga” by Astrid Lindgren. They are great and have many funny images. Even if the stories can be sad the always ends well.  (the books are illustrated by Björn Berg) Have you got an imaginary friend? Yes I have. It's Emil (see above) and his little sister Ida. They live in me and my sister's walk-in closet.

ENRICA, HOW OLD R U?

ENRICA, La fatina in cucina How is your bed? My bed is very high and very old, it has got a lot of blankets and my favourite one is a black patchwork one with a lot of smart colours, the most beautiful that I have ever seen! Which kind of meal you do not like? I like eating really everything, and my favourite flavour is the one of pumpkinbread, a special sweet bread, made with orange pumpkin, with a lot of white crystal sugar on the top, that my father brings to me coming back home. Your favorite book to read? “L’allegro Bob” – the happy Bob, it’s a small illustrated book  which tells the history of a funny yellow dog. I can read it at the library of my nursery. Have you got an imaginary friend? Yes I have, not only one! I have two groundhogs, very beautiful and funny, that stay with me all the time, also if often they are sleeping ‘couse they are very lazy! Moreover we are not alone, because my groundhogs have two special friends, two squirrels

GABRIELE, HOW OLD R U?

GABRIELE GALIMBERTI, photographer How is your bed?  Soooooooo confortable!!!! Which kind of meal you do not like? I don’t like anchovies, actually i hate them! And your favourite? My favourite is pizza! Your favorite book to read? I just play with my electric train, i don’t  like books, even because i’m 5 and i can’t read yet! Have you got an imaginary friend? Yes, he’s a monkey and his name is Bingo Bongo

Toy Stories

Toy Stories is the in-progress-project by the Italian photographer Gabriele Galimberti

"Who doesn’t remember a favorite childhood toy? All kids have one. Rich or poor, all children have a chosen one, one they love the most. How can I forget that doll with a broken eye? It was ugly but had no rivals. And it was my favorite, no doubt. Gabriele Galimberti, during his tour around the world, explores this phenomenon with gentle irony and loving attention. The idea starting by chance while photographing a young Italian girl from Tuscany. Now it has become a photographic series that is mapping children’s worlds in an almost obsessive way. The toy stories of our times". Arianna Rinaldo

SALLI, HOW OLD R U?

SALLI SWINDELL, THEY DRAW AND COOKHow is your bed? Cozy.  I have my yellow bunny rabbit and raggedy ann and andy dolls and our black and white tabby cat in bed with me. I like the worn cotton feel of my pink and red quilt. Which kind of meal you do not like? I do NOT like meat of any kind. Yuk…I don’t like texture or the taste. And your favourite? I like potato chips because it means my older brother and sister are babysitting while our parents go out for the evening.  And I like red licorice which I find in the bowls left on the table after our parents bridge parties. Your favorite book to read? Dr. Seuss books!  Especially The Cat in the Hat. Have you got an imaginary friend? I don’t have an imaginary friend but all of my dolls and stuffed animals carry on very fun conversations with me all day long.  I build forts with sheets from my bed and we sit inside and tell stories.

CELINE, HOW OLD R U?

CELINE VERNIER, Pepillo How is your bed? My bed is a bunk bed, the day we can climb, jump and play at night is reassuring because my sister Sophie sleeps over. Which kind of meal you do not like? I did not like beef tongue. And your favourite?  The floating islands by my mother! Your favorite book to read? The adventures of Noddy. Have you got a year imaginary friend? No, only real and small favorite toys.

CAROLINE, HOW OLD R U?

CAROLINE, My Red Poppy

How is your bed? I share a double bed with my big sister. Our bed is covered with a typical 70's pink velvet bedspread. I feel good in this big bed with my sisiter, she teaches me how to make huts under the cover.  

Which kind of meal you do not like? I absolutly can't eat spinach, I don't like the smell! 

And which kind of meal yo do love ?  I love chicken and home made mashed potatoes. I make a little well in the mashed potatoe to put chicken juce in it.   

 Your favorite book to read? Tom-Tom and Nana stories, that i found at the end of the "J'aime lire" books collection.   

Have you got an imaginary friend? Not really, but I imagine many stories for my barbie dolls.