Vladimir Radunsky

Vladimir Radunsky grew up in Moscow where he studied fine art, design and architecture. In 1973, he studied at the Moscow Architectural Institute.[1] In 1982, he emigrated to New York, became a US citizen, and continued his work as a graphic designer, producing mainly art books and children's books.

Radunsky produced very different types of books, such as a book of shapes for young readers, Square Triangle Round Skinny[2] (a set of four books shaped the way their titles suggest); Discovery, a lyrical poem by Nobel-prize winner Joseph Brodsky about the discovery of America,[3] and What Does Peace Feel Like?, a compilation of conversations with children during school visits in the US and Europe.[4] His interactive book, Le Grand Bazar, subtitled For people with imagination age 5 to 105 (published in Paris by Edition du Panama), requires the reader to use scissors, pen, and stapler.[5] Boy Meets Girl is to be read forward, backward, upside down and inside out.[6] The Mighty Asparagus (Harcourt) combines the works of Italian Renaissance painters with his own paintings in a collage.[7] The Hip-Hop Dog, written by Chris Raschka (HarperCollins), is hip-hop poetry for children, where graffiti art has migrated from walls into a printed book.[8]

For his exhibition at Milanese gallery Nina Due and, subsequently, at the Palazzo delle Esposizioni in Rome, Radunsky presented a unique collection of clothes for animals.[9][10][11] Among the works that he designed were an anaconda's wedding dress, a horse's riding breeches, and a hippo's bathing trunks.

For the new production of the ballet Don Quixote at the Roman Teatro dell'Opera's 2017-2018 season, Radunsky created the set and costumes.[12] The libretto, originally created in the middle of the nineteenth century by the French Choreographer Marius Petipa, inspired Radunsky to design the set as an enormous pop-up book.[13]

• Mother Goose of Pudding Lane author Chris Raschka 2019, Candlewick Press
• If I met Bemelmans… 2015, Buffalo Zine (issue No.3)
• Alphabetabum author Chris Raschka 2014, The New York Review Children's Collection
• On a Beam of Light author Jennifer Berne 2013, Chronicle Books
• Advice to Little Girls author Mark Twain 2013, Enchanted Lion Books
• Consigli alle bambine di Mark Twain 2010, Donzelli
• Hip-Hop Dog author Chris Raschka 2010, Harper Collins
• You? 2009, Harcourt Children's Books
• Where The Giant Sleeps author Mem Fox 2007, Harcourt Children's Books
• Because... in collaboration with Mikhail Baryshnikov 2007, Ginee Seo Books
• Le Grand Bazar 2006, Les Editions Du Panama
• Fire! Fire! Said Mrs. McGuire author Bill Martin Jr 2006, Harcourt Children's Books
• I Love You Dude 2005, Gulliver Books
• Boy Meets Girl in collaboration with Chris Raschka 2004, Seuil
• What Does Peace Feel Like? 2004, Simon & Schuster/Anne Schwartz Books
• The Mighty Asparagus 2004, Harcourt/Silver Whistle New York Times Best Illustrated Books Award
• # 1 (one) 2003, Viking
• Manneken Pis, a Simple Story of a Boy Who Peed on a War 2002, Atheneum/Anne Schwartz Books
• # 10 (ten) 2002, Viking
• Square Triangle Round Skinny (four books in a box) 2002, Candlewick Press
• Table Manners in collaboration with Chris Raschka 2001, Candlewick Press
• My Dolly author Woody Guthrie 2001, Candlewick Press
• Bling Blang author Woody Guthrie 2000, Candlewick Press
• Howdi Do author Woody Guthrie 2000, Candlewick Press
• Discovery author Joseph Brodsky 1999, Farrar, Straus & Giroux
• An Edward Lear Alphabet author Edward Lear 1999, Harper Collins Children's Books
• Yucka Drucka Droni in collaboration with Eugenia Radunsky 1998, Scholastic
• Telephone author Kornei Chukovsky translated by Jamey Gambrell 1996, North-South Books
• The Maestro Plays author Bill Martin Jr 1994, Henry Holt and Co.
• The Story of a Boy Named Will author Daniil Kharms translated by Jamey Gambrell 1993, NorthSouth Books
• Hail to Mail author Samuel Marshak translator Richard Pevear 1990, Henry Holt and Company
• The Pup Grew Up author Samuel Marshak translator Richard Pevear 1989, Henry Holt and Co.
• The Riddle author Adele Vernon 1987, Dodd, Mead & Co.