Kesaint Blanc Publishing is the leading foreign language-learning publisher in Indonesia, teaching Indonesian foreign languages since 1988. Kesaint Blanc Publishing has published other book genres as well, such as Children's Book. Our children's book showcases wonderful and fun stories accompanied by colorful and beautiful illustrations. We offer variety of stories for various age groups. All the titles are selected by their high educational and morale value.
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Kesaint Blanc was founded in 1988. and focuses on books for 3 to 12 years old children. It has published more than 80 original titles with rights sold to China, Turkey, Saudi Arabia among others.
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Between Two Sounds tells the story behind the music of the world-famous Estonian composer Arvo Pärt. Arvo Pärt’s (b. 1935) music became increasingly popular throughout the world following his forced emigration from then-Soviet Estonia in 1980. International performances and recordings swelled to the point where today, in 2019, there are over 500 professional recordings featuring his works. The online concert tracker Bachtrack has listed him as the world’s most-performed living classical composer for the past eight years running (2011–2018). Pärt’s music, and sometimes that of his imitators, has become ubiquitous in film and television. In spite of this success, Pärt has remained incredibly private and modest, granting almost no interviews. Until now, there have been no biographies published on any part of Pärt’s life. Information about his personal and career developments prior to 1980 has been limited to snippets from print interviews and Estonian film documentaries. The graphic novel Between Two Sounds provides unprecedented insight into this uncovered area. It is worth mentioning that Pärt himself was closely involved in drafting the story and staying true to the facts. Between Two Sounds starts with Pärt’s birth, moves through his youth and the kindling of his love of music, covers his musical education and early years as a composer, and gradually arrives at his retreat from the world as he searched for his own musical voice. Pärt’s first creative period can be called avant-garde modernism. He was perceived as an “angry young man” in the Soviet music scene of the 1960s. The second part of his career emerged in the mid-1970s, when his own spiritual technique evolved: tintinnabuli (little bell-like). The shift between these two fundamentally different musical languages happened slowly but dramatically. Pärt ceased writing music for the public for about a decade, fully immersing in his search for a new, individual compositional technique. Between Two Sounds shows what led him to this change and how he succeeded. The graphic novel also touches upon a universal artistic problem: an inability to fully express oneself through skills or a desired technique. Another sub-theme is Estonians’ struggle during the Soviet occupation: the severe restrictions on the freedom of speech, garnished with attempts to contain and control ideas and beliefs; restrictions that sometimes played out in utterly absurd situations. The repression of Pärt’s career under the Soviet regime eventually culminated in his forced emigration to the West. In October 2018, the first Estonian-language hardcover print of Between Two Sounds was published by the Arvo Pärt Centre in conjunction with Centre’s grand opening. As of February 2019, it has been nominated for six different literary and cultural prizes. It received the annual Golden Book Award from the Estonian National Library and was selected as one of Estonia’s Best Designed Books of 2018. The work has naturally received widespread media attention, including lengthy positive reviews in Estonia’s largest newspapers.
It’s not Piki’s day. On his way to nursery, he feels moody, and even Big is in a grumpy mood. Dropped off at nursery Piki feels small and lonely, and to hide his insecurity he decides to be Storm – the wildest superhero who is not afraid of anything. But as Storm, you don’t play smoothly with others, you have to quarrel, and your anger just gets worse. With cuddles, kind words, and saying sorry, Storm disappears. The second book in the Piki series is a moving story about group challenges, feelings, building self-esteem, and friendship. Told from the perspective of a child it underlines the importance of communication with one another. Katri Kirkkopelto’s insightful and lovely illustration is full of emotion as it accurately reflects the feelings of Piki and others. A perfect story time read for any nursery aged child that supports emotional intelligence.
Beloved Blue adventures in an entirely new book series for the smallest in the family. Blue is overly excited as her best friend is coming for a sleepover! After all the fun and games, day turns into night, and its time to go to bed. This turns out to be a challenge for this giggling duo as bedtime turns wild as evening tantrums set in. What would do the trick to help them to wind down and fall asleep? This is a fun and engaging book on a topic very familiar to families with small children. Some assistance of a young reader is in need, to get the two friends asleep. By shaking, flipping, and gently patting the pages of the book, surprising things happen on the next page. Katri Kirkkopelto’s endearing illustrations complete the storyline and make this a perfect bedtime story for parents and children to read together.
What are cool kids made of? Bravery, honesty, kindness, generosity, and many other attributes that can be thought of as superpowers in everyday life. These qualities help us navigate at home, school, hobbies, in new situations and they can be practiced to make us more confident and supportive. Ten stories with delightful animal characters present cases of different ethical questions. The creative layout, facts, tips, and activities inspire to put these skills into practice. Perfect for primary schoolers and up, this guide book based on positivity and mindfulness helps us to recognise these empathic skills, to bring out the cool kid in us.
BASED ON THE HORROR THAT WILL INSPIRE THE BOOK OF REVELATION In the dark days that follow the Roman devastation of Jerusalem,nineteen-year-old Shelamzion finds herself captured and awaitingexecution.Apparently, alone and forgotten, there seems little reason to go onliving, yet a strange friendship begins to grow between her and theaustere, Roman jailor, the historian, Fabius Grammaticus.Meanwhile, time is running out, and history is being rewritten by atraitor.
