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Martina's Storybook, Vol. 5 Author: Delia (Belgium) / Marie (Belgium) Publisher: Guizhou Education Press

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Introduction · · · · · ·

About the Author

In faraway Belgium, there are two such grandfathers.

One grandfather is a poet named Gilbert Delahaye (1923-1997), and he is also an excellent children's book editor at Casterman Publishing House. Sixty years ago, Casterman was going to publish a set of books for little girls, so this grandfather and another painter grandfather created a lovely little girl image Martina, telling a series of stories about Martina: Martina on the farm, traveling, taking a train, camping in the wild, traveling in a hot air balloon, learning to sail, doing gardening, and seeing interesting elves... Each of her stories is interesting and is loved by children.

Daniel Fano, a journalist and author, said: "Gibel de Leya should be very happy because he was able to use his talent to achieve the goals set by the publishing house, and he did much better than the goals: he made the Martina series of children's books reach a truly poetic level."

Guibel de Leya died in 1997. He loved children so much that he chose to pass away on St. Nicholas Day (local Children's Day) to express his tacit smile to the children in this way.

Jean-Louis Marier, son of the painter Marcel Marier, who has since taken over Guibert de Léa's work, is a man of extraordinary talent who knows Martine's entire world well and who continues the story without interruption, with all his fidelity to the characters in the book.

Another grandfather is a painter. His name is Marcel Marlier (1930-2011). He is a talented painter who showed excellent painting talent before he was 10 years old. He started to draw illustrations for magazines in his youth. He is a super storyteller with a brush. He has collaborated with many famous novelists and has drawn many very famous children's books. Of course, the most famous of these books is Martina.

This master of illustration has been constantly enriching his experience, from trying watercolor to computer painting, while adhering to a basic principle: observation takes precedence over creation, and only by drawing the essence can one look at things, animals and humans from a rich perspective, always showing three-dimensional scenes in the paintings he creates.

The preparation of each book takes months, and for Marcel Marlier this is a pure pleasure, he likes to find all possible solutions, so that the character of the protagonist does not have any affectation. He pays special attention to the reconstruction.

His great success did not diminish his self-awareness: "In any case, illustrations cannot be regarded as pictorial art. The content of illustrations depends mainly on the plot. It is telling a story. An illustrator who considers himself a painter has a frivolous mentality."

He said: "Time for research is also time to enjoy the joy of painting and dreaming. Everything is possible here..."

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