Family Sunday with Charlotte Dematons!
On March 26, it's family Sunday and party time at the Museum of Education: children's book illustrator Charlotte Dematons is coming to the museum!
Charlotte Maria Delphine (Charlotte) Dematons(Évreux, September 21, 1957) is a Dutch children's book illustrator.
Raised in France (with a French father and a Dutch mother), she came to the Netherlands after high school. After graduating from the Rietveld Academy in 1982, she was approached by Uitgeverij Lemniscaat, after which her first own picture book, entitled Dido, soon appeared. Since then, an estimated 150 titles followed, on which she (co)worked. Dematons has won several awards, including a Golden Brush in 2008, for her (textless) picture book Sinterklaas. In 2006, she already received a Silver Brush for the illustrations for the edition of Grimm's fairy tales (this book also received the Silver Griffel).
Dematons' drawings are characterized by the details, which often tell a story in themselves. This is very clear in the aforementioned Sinterklaas, but also in Bicycle and the - also award-winning - The Yellow Balloon. Another important feature of her illustrations is the fairy-tale atmosphere, which she creates by combining her realistic observations with beautiful use of color and little jokes.[source?] Her textless picture book Alphabet (2020) spent weeks in the top 10 of the Bestseller60.
Dematons provided illustrations for several world classics. In 2005 Grimm was published, in 2016 an adaptation of Hector Malot's classic Alone on the World (adaptation Tiny Fisscher) and in 2021 Black Beauty by Anna Sewell in an adaptation by Natasza Tardio.
Making ABC Leparello Workshop
11:30-12:45 a.m.: Charlotte Dematons will conduct a workshop for children ages 6 to 9. Children will work under Charlotte's guidance with an ABC - leparello. This is a kind of book, tiny with 26 pages, one for each letter. Participation costs 5 euros. Sign up and pay via the following link: Tickets | Education Museum
Watching, talking and learning with Charlotte Dematons in the Forest of Letters
1:30-14:00 p.m.: Do you have a question for Charlotte Dematons? Or are you curious about how Charlotte looks? Would you like to know how Charlotte makes all those beautiful drawings and books or would you like to tell her something? Then come to the Letterbos (in the exhibition tree rose fish) at 1:30 pm and find a nice spot. Until about 2 p.m. Charlotte will answer (almost) all your questions!
Registration is not necessary, though you can only attend with a ticket to the museum!
Read aloud party
2:30 p.m.: The Reading Foundation is hosting a reading aloud party. This read-aloud party is for children ages 4 - 8. Sit back and listen to a beautiful story. You can sign up for the reading aloud party via the site of Stichting Voorlezen. You also need a ticket to the museum.
Besides all these fun activities with Charlotte Dematons, you can also do other fun things in the Museum of Education. You can go on an adventure in the Letter Forest with the Letter Passport (ages 4 and up) or do the scavenger hunt with the escaperoom The Creepy Bus (ages 8 and up). The LetterLAB is also open with fun games and a craft activity. The museum café also has a special offer for families during Family Sundays.
