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Magda Gargulakova has a degree in Art History and is a co-founder and also curator of the OFF/FORMAT gallery in Brno, Czech Republic, which exhibits and promotes contemporary progressive art, mostly by young artists. She worked for a time in marketing, but her love affair with books has been a long one. For OFF/FORMAT, she has edited and published several art publications. Since 2019, she has added to this experience as an editor of literature for very young readers at Albatros Media, using her two daughters for quality control. Ekaterina Gaigalova is a freelance illustrator. She likes to take photos, walk and explore new places in her spare time. Modern graphics, animation and music are her great sources of inspiration, as well as beautiful children books.
Definitely of use to language educators, this packs a lot of opposites in and presents them - and only them - in nicely pictorial manner, and in English and Spanish at the same time. So on one page we have a collection of hot things - sun-baked sand, agua hirviendo and so on, and on the opposing page the direct opposite, from a banador mojado to a frosted-up window. What just those quickly-found examples should prove is that this is not a simplistic word list, but something with much more scope and variety, allowing the younger audience to come here and find some instances of opposites to fix that concept in their mind, and older students the ability to learn some useful vocab. I wonder too how young minds will get round the fact boiling water is here twice - that might be fun to explain. Either way, really nicely done, this is spot on in what it wants to do, and to repeat has more about it than many books that cover similar ground in just the one language.- John Lloyd
