NEW!
Monster Chetwynd
Dreams

Dreams
Dreams
Dreams
Dreams
Dreams
Fr./€ 28,00 (plus shipping)
First edition of 300 copies
2025, Cardboard book,
16 pages, 18 × 25.5 cm

ISBN 978-3-9525690-9-2

Monster Chetwynd’s diverse artistic practice is as playful as a child’s imagination – boundless, fearless, and full of surprises. She crafts wild masks, builds magical stage sets, dresses up in handmade costumes, performs with friends, and has plenty of fun! The perfect candidate for Rookie Books, for which she illustrated three of her own dreams in bold, witty collages, inviting readers of all ages into her fantastical wonder world.

NEW!
Martin Parr
Animals

Animals
Animals
Animals
Animals
Animals
Fr./€ 28,00 (plus shipping)
First edition of 800 copies
2025, Cardboard book,
16 pages, 18 × 25.5 cm

ISBN 978-3-9525690-3-0

The British documentary photographer Martin Parr is renowned for his iconic, hyper-realistic, and quirky images that highlight the peculiarities of human society and modern life. Now, for the first time, Rookie Books presents a publication in which Parr shifts his focus to animals – with the same curiosity and relentless drive to capture the ordinary in extraordinary ways. “Animals” is a treat for photography enthusiasts, animal lovers and anyone who enjoys Martin Parr’s unique, playful take on the world.

Nathalie Du Pasquier
How Many

How Many
How Many
How Many
How Many
Fr./€ 28,00 (plus shipping)
First published in 2022. Reprinted February 2023
2022, Cardboard book,
16 pages, 18 × 25.5 cm
ISBN 978-3-9525690-0-9

Nathalie Du Pasquier, a Milan-based artist and designer, was a founding member of the influential Memphis Group for which she created decorated surfaces, patterns, textiles, furniture and objects. She has dedicated herself to painting since 1987. With her counting book, designed exclusively for Rookie Books, readers young and old will learn the numbers from 1 to 10 in no time.

Michaela Eichwald
Flower Photo Colouring

Flower Photo Colouring
Flower Photo Colouring
Flower Photo Colouring
Flower Photo Colouring
Flower Photo Colouring
Fr./€ 28,00 (plus shipping)
First edition of 500 copies
2024, Cardboard book,
16 pages, 18 × 25.5 cm

ISBN 978-3-9525690-2-3

The german painter Michaela Eichwald knows that playing by the book is only half the fun. Blithely ignoring traditional methods and conventions, she typically experiments with unexpected and often very unusual materials. Her Rookie Book masterfully illustrates means of challenging and transcending the constraints imposed on us from an early age.

Vaclav Pozarek
Sweet Wood

Sweet Wood
Sweet Wood
Sweet Wood
Sweet Wood
Fr./€ 28,00 (plus shipping)
First published in 2022. Reprinted February 2023
2022, Cardboard book,
16 pages, 18 × 25.5 cm

ISBN 978-3-9525690-1-6

Vaclav Pozarek was born in Czechoslovakia in 1940 and has lived in Bern for almost 50 years. His sculptural vocabulary is influenced by constructivism, minimalism, concrete art, but also shows a great affinity for the ordinary everyday objects that surround us. In “Sweet Wood” Pozarek shows us with the simplest of means how small the leap from the artist’s studio to the children’s room really is. A must-have for friends of simplicity, harmony and order.

Toni Schmale
Buggies

Buggies
Buggies
Buggies
Buggies
Buggies
Fr./€ 28,00 (plus shipping)
First edition of 500 copies
2024, Cardboard book,
16 pages, 18 × 25.5 cm

ISBN 978-3-9525690-4-7

The steel and concrete sculptures made by Toni Schmale often evoke associations with machines and apparatuses that have a purpose. However, her enigmatic creations really only function through the viewer’s fertile imagination. The “buggies” she crafted for Rookie Books from steel remnants found in her studio vividly demonstrate the creative and inventive potential of seemingly worthless found materials.

Info

Rookie Books is an independent publishing house based in Basel, Switzerland. It was founded in 2022 by Camillo Paravicini and is specialised in children’s books designed by visual artists.

Rookie Books are available worldwide through our distributor Idea Books. We supply bookshops in Switzerland directly at the usual conditions. For orders, pre-orders or further questions please contact us via email.

Some of the books have a special edition. If you are interested, please contact the publisher.

Contact
Rookie Books
Palmenstrasse 11
4056 Basel mail@rookie-books.com
International Distribution:
Idea Books
Nieuwe Hemweg 6R
1013 BG Amsterdam
The Netherlands
Tel +31 20 622 61 54
Fax +31 20 620 92 99
www.ideabooks.nl idea@ideabooks.nl
Newsletter

How would you like to order?

CH
EU/International