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Based on celebrated and award-winning illustrator Miroslav Sasek series of children's travel guides to the great cities of the world, the delightful This is Paris Wall Calendar features stylized interpretations of the best and the brightest the City of Light has to offer. Throughout the 's and '60's, Sasek's amusing and informative verse and bright and charming illustrations made the series, which has sold over one million copies, like no other, garnering international acclaim and legions of admirers. Here are cable cars, the Giants, and more! With the same wit and perception that distinguished his charming books on London, New York, and San Francisco, here this famous Czech painter presents his impressions of Paris in This Is Paris, first published in and now updated for the 21st century.

Miroslav Šašek

Czech illustrator and writer

Miroslav Šašek (November 18, , Prague – May 28, , Wettingen, Switzerland) was a Czech émigré creator and illustrator, best known for a series of books for children, originally published by W.

H. Allen & Co., titled This Is, which he signed M. Sasek.[1]

Šašek's family background was in milling: the family operated the "Lucký mlýn" mill at Chodovlice in northwest Bohemia. His father worked as an insurance agent to the south of Prague in Sedlčany, but died in , after which he moved with his mother to Prague.

In Miroslav Šašek moved with his wife Jindřiška (née Tumlířová) to Paris and started studying at the Ecole des Beaux Arts. He finished the illustrations for the Czech edition of Gabriel Chevallier's novel Clochemerle (as Zvonokosy) and started preparatory work on drawings for a tourist guide for the metropolis for the Czech publishing home Ladislav Kuncíř.

He worked as a producer for Radio Free Europe in Munich from to [2]This Is Paris appeared in , starting what ultimately grew into a series of eighteen books. Šašek's This Is London received the New York Times Choice of Best Illustrated Children's Book of the Year in , as did This Is New York in This Is New York also received the Boy's Club of America Junior Books Award in , while This Is the United Nations appeared on the International Board on Books for Young People Honor List in In addition to texts and illustrations, Miroslav Šašek is the author of book covers and graphic blueprint of many books both in the Czechia and other countries.

Before his death, Miroslav Šašek lived in Paris.

He worked as a producer for Radio Free Europe in Munich from to Contents move to sidebar hide. Article Talk. Read Alter View history.

He died in Wettingen, Switzerland, near Zürich, where he lived with his sister.

Bibliography

  • Benjamin a tisíc mořských ďasů Kapitána Barnabáše (Prague: U Ladislav Kuncíř, )
  • Veselý kalendářík (Prague: Vyšehrad, )
  • Sedm mamlasů (text by Eduard Petiška, illustrated by Miroslav Šašek; Prague: Orbis, ; published in German as Die sieben Schlemihle, )
  • This Is Paris (, reissued )
  • This Is London (, reissued )
  • This Is Rome (, reissued )
  • This Is New York City (, reissued )
  • This Is Edinburgh (, reissued )
  • Stone is not Cold ()
  • This Is Munich (, reissued in )
  • This Is Venice (, reissued )
  • This Is San Francisco (, reissued )
  • This Is Israel (, reissued ))
  • This Is Cape Canaveral / This Is Cape Kennedy (, reissued as This Is The Way To The Moon )
  • Letters from Pompeii (Wilhelmina Femmster Jashemski, illustrated by Miroslav Sasek, )
  • This Is Ireland (, reissued )
  • This Is Hong Kong (, reissued )
  • This Is Greece (, reissued )
  • This Is Texas (, reissued )
  • This Is the United Nations ()
  • This Is Washington, D.C. ()
  • This Is Australia (, reissued )
  • Mike and the Modelmakers ()
  • This Is Historic Britain (, reissued as This is Britain )
  • Zoo ist das Leben - Satierische Verse (Max Colpet, illustrated by Horst Lemke and Miroslav Sasek, )
  • This Is The World ( "A Global Treasury," selections from the "This is" series)

References

  1. ^Zprávy Společnosti pro vědu a umění při Čs.

    národní radě "Počátkem června t.r. zemřel ve Švýcarsku vynikající český malíř, grafik a ilustrátor Miroslav Šašek. Narodil se r.

    Cbr14bingo Minds I think this review fits the category since the book explores the life and work of artist Miroslav Sasek. It is the story of a innovative mind. When I was petite , my parents kept our books in a cupboard right outside my bedroom. I used to sneak out after bedtime, take some books and bring them back into my room to read.

    v Praze, odkud po studiích odešel r. do Francie, kde studoval na umělecké akademii v Paříži. Několik let pracoval v rozhlasové stanici Svobodná Evropa, ale pak se věnoval plně své umělecké tvorbě. Žil střídavě v -Paříži a v Mnichově. "

  2. ^Doris De Montreville, Donna Hill Third book of junior authors -- Page "Biographical sketch of Miroslav Sasek: MIROSLAV SASEK was born in Prague, Czechoslovakia, and educated there, specializing in art and the coup in February he chose to emigrate.

    Miroslav Sasek (Author of This is London) - Goodreads: Miroslav Šašek was born on 18th November in the Prague district of Žižkov. His mother, Anna Marie (née Nováková), born on 17th January , was the daughter of a postal clerk. She had studied typing and shorthand at secretarial school and then worked as a correspondence clerk.

    In Paris he tried to work as a graphic artist and architect for three years. In Miroslav Šašek was a member of Radio Free Europe in Munich. He started as a producer, but soon became an announcer, actor, reciter and singer. For Radio Free Europe he also drew pictures on leaflets that were in the s.

    transported to Czechoslovakia by means of balloons.

    Miroslav Sasek - is a Czech creator best known for his This is series of children books that feature cities and countries. This is series started in with Paris and did good commercially which led to 17 more books later. This page hardcover book is authored by Martin Salisbury with Quentin Blake as consultant, This book is published by Thames and Hudson. This book covers the being and career of Miroslav Sasek, starting from his childhood, s and wartime and after the war.

    He also worked with exile magazines and publishers. Together with František Smrček (radio pseudonym František Tomáš), they published a cyclo-styled magazine Scorpion. Sasek's second wife worked at Radio Free Europe as an assistant director.

    As much as he loved Paris and felt at place there, he did not grow a French citizen but has preferred to remain stateless."

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