Millions saw an apple fall-
only Newton asked LAMA
LAMA is a short word, but it makes the world go round. It means WHY in Hebrew, and is one of the first words a child loves to use.
LAMA books aim to inspire the love and joy of learning and stimulate young minds to ask questions and search for answers, for a better future for all of us.
Millions saw an apple fall-
only Newton asked LAMA
LAMA is a short word, but it makes the world go round. It means WHY in Hebrew, and is one of the first words a child loves to use.
LAMA books aim to inspire the love and joy of learning and stimulate young minds to ask questions and search for answers, for a better future for all of us.
You Can’t Go Wrong
From small mistakes to great discoveries
Tami Shem-Tov
Tami Shem-Tov works and lives in Tel Aviv. Following a career in journalism, she now teaches creative writing. Shem-Tov has special interest in historical novels, non-fiction and biography and has written nineteen books for young readers of all ages. Her books were adapted for the stage and won numerous awards, including the Andersen honor citation and the German Children’s Literature Award. Her MG novel Letters from Nowhere was translated into six languages. Shem-Tov is an active promoter of her books – she engages young readers in lively talks and meets them regularly
in schools, libraries and
book shops.
Tami Shem-Tov
Tami Shem-Tov works and lives in Tel Aviv. Following a career in journalism, she now teaches creative writing. Shem-Tov has special interest in historical novels, non-fiction and biography and has written nineteen books for young readers of all ages. Her books were adapted for the stage and won numerous awards, including the Andersen honor citation and the German Children’s Literature Award. Her MG novel Letters from Nowhere was translated into six languages. Shem-Tov is an active promoter of her books – she engages young readers in lively talks and meets them regularly
in schools, libraries and
book shops.
Michael Faust
Michael Faust is a graduate of the Bezalel Academy of Arts, grew up in Jerusalem. He is an Art director for animation, and an independent painter and illustrator who exhibited his works in several shows.
He worked on award winning films such as
“Waltz with Bashir”, “The Congress” and
“Legend of Destruction”. Together with the international artist David Polonsky and the
video artist Roy Nitzan he founded the animation collective studio Potemkin in Tel Aviv. You Can’t Go Wrong is his first illustrated book for children.
Michael Faust
Michael Faust is a graduate of the Bezalel Academy of Arts, grew up in Jerusalem. He is an Art director for animation, and an independent painter and illustrator who exhibited his works in several shows.
He worked on award winning films such as
“Waltz with Bashir”, “The Congress” and
“Legend of Destruction”. Together with the international artist David Polonsky and the
video artist Roy Nitzan he founded the animation collective studio Potemkin in Tel Aviv. You Can’t Go Wrong is his first illustrated book for children.
Alexander Fleming forgot to close the window and discovered antibiotics, Wilhelm Röntgen noticed a strange light and accidentally discovered the X rays.
Many more mistakes led to great discoveries and inventions. Their stories prove that you can’t go wrong if you turn every accident into an opportunity!
- 64
- 7+
- 29 x 23 cm
- spring 2023
KIDSTORY
A million and a half years of history for young readers
Tamar Weiss-Gabbay
Tamar Weiss-Gabbay who lives in Jerusalem, is an author, editor and screenwriter. She writes for adults and for children and was awarded the Minister of Culture Prize for children’s literature.
Her picture book Just an Empty Field (2022) and her new novel The Weather Woman, deal with nature and ecology. She is a co-founder and editor of the literary journal Hamosach and leads various social and literary projects, such as The Israeli Women Writers’ Forum, The Street Libraries in Jerusalem and Two: A Bilingual Project for Arabic and Hebrew Contemporary Literature.
Tamar Weiss-Gabbay
Tamar Weiss-Gabbay who lives in Jerusalem, is an author, editor and screenwriter. She writes for adults and for children and was awarded the Minister of Culture Prize for children’s literature.
Her picture book Just an Empty Field (2022) and her new novel The Weather Woman, deal with nature and ecology. She is a co-founder and editor of the literary journal Hamosach and leads various social and literary projects, such as The Israeli Women Writers’ Forum, The Street Libraries in Jerusalem and Two: A Bilingual Project for Arabic and Hebrew Contemporary Literature.
Shiraz Fuman
Shiraz Fuman is an illustrator and visual storyteller. A graduate of the Bezalel Academy of Arts, she works commercially and independently on books, comics, animation, gaming & interactive. She has illustrated numerous children’s books and is the co-founder and editor of “Scrawl”, a digital magazine for illustration & comics.
Shiraz Fuman
Shiraz Fuman is an illustrator and visual storyteller. A graduate of the Bezalel Academy of Arts, she works commercially and independently on books, comics, animation, gaming & interactive. She has illustrated numerous children’s books and is the co-founder and editor of “Scrawl”, a digital magazine for illustration & comics.
From a nameless girl a million and a half years ago, to the child who reads this book today, Kidstory offers twenty time capsules from all around the world – stories that weave the thread of history and put it in the hands of young readers. Each capsule is a moving story of one child, a piece of life, a picture of once upon a time. Together they are Kidsory – the history of children’s past, written for the children of the future.
- 224
- 7+
- 23 x 16.5 cm
- Spring 24
Professor D
Three book series
Dan Ariely
Dan Ariely is an Israeli-American scientist and author. He serves as a James B. Duke Professor of psychology and behavioral economics at Duke University. Ariely is the founder of the research institution The Center for Advanced Hindsight, as well as the co-founder of several companies implementing insights from behavioral science. Ariely’s TED talks have been viewed over 15 million times. He is the author of three New York Times best sellers: Predictably Irrational, The Upside of Irrationality, and The Honest Truth about Dishonesty, as well as the books Dollars and Sense, Irrationally Yours – a collection of his WSJ advice column “Ask Ariely”; and Payoff, a short TED book. Ariely appeared in several documentary films, including The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley and produced and participated in (Dis)Honesty: The Truth About Lies.
Dan Ariely
Dan Ariely is an Israeli-American scientist and author. He serves as a James B. Duke Professor of psychology and behavioral economics at Duke University. Ariely is the founder of the research institution The Center for Advanced Hindsight, as well as the co-founder of several companies implementing insights from behavioral science. Ariely’s TED talks have been viewed over 15 million times. He is the author of three New York Times best sellers: Predictably Irrational, The Upside of Irrationality, and The Honest Truth about Dishonesty, as well as the books Dollars and Sense, Irrationally Yours – a collection of his WSJ advice column “Ask Ariely”; and Payoff, a short TED book. Ariely appeared in several documentary films, including The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley and produced and participated in (Dis)Honesty: The Truth About Lies.
Omer Hoffmann
Omer Hoffmann is an award-winning cartoonist and illustrator who lives in Tel Aviv. Since 2007 he has illustrated numerous picture books that were published worldwide. He even got to write one. His illustrations for the picture book No Ordinary Hardil have been listed in the Andersen Honour List. When not illustrating, Omer creates comics. His personal comic Two Years in NYC won the Silver Medal from SOI. In 2018 he created Foreigner, an 8-meters-long comic scroll, published in Israel (Gnat Publishing) and Germany (Round not Square). He is a founding member of the Humdrum Comics Collective that regularly publishes comics anthologies, twice-nominated for Best Alternative Comics in Angouleme Festival.
Omer Hoffmann
Omer Hoffmann is an award-winning cartoonist and illustrator who lives in Tel Aviv. Since 2007 he has illustrated numerous picture books that were published worldwide. He even got to write one. His illustrations for the picture book No Ordinary Hardil have been listed in the Andersen Honour List. When not illustrating, Omer creates comics. His personal comic Two Years in NYC won the Silver Medal from SOI. In 2018 he created Foreigner, an 8-meters-long comic scroll, published in Israel (Gnat Publishing) and Germany (Round not Square). He is a founding member of the Humdrum Comics Collective that regularly publishes comics anthologies, twice-nominated for Best Alternative Comics in Angouleme Festival.
Dan Ariely, an internationally renowned author and scientist, brings his ideas and theories to young readers through stories full of humor and emotional depth.
In the first book – Professor D takes control – David and his rational robot Dot fall into the pits of procrastination and discover the secrets of self-control. They use science to prove to the demanding adults around them that all human beings – young and old – fall victim to the weaknesses of human nature.
- 120
- 8+
- 23 x 16.5 cm
- (book 1) fall 2024
Darwin's Missing Notebooks
A whodunit full of humor and suspense
Oren Harman
Professor Oren Harman is a historian of science and an award-winning author. His book The Price of Altruism won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize, and was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year.
Harman’s writing has a broad appeal to both academic and general audiences and his books have been translated into eight languages. He lives in Berlin with his wife, three kids and three mice. Darwin’s Missing Notebooks is his first book for young readers.
Oren Harman
Professor Oren Harman is a historian of science and an award-winning author. His book The Price of Altruism won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize, and was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year.
Harman’s writing has a broad appeal to both academic and general audiences and his books have been translated into eight languages. He lives in Berlin with his wife, three kids and three mice. Darwin’s Missing Notebooks is his first book for young readers.
Inna Gertsberg
Inna Gertsberg is a Toronto-based artist, illustrator, and monster maker. Inna grew up in the USSR, where she studied fine art and graphic design. Her family fled the country in the 80’s and settled in the US, where Inna attended the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Before returning to her first love, illustration, Inna spent more than 25 years in advertising as an art director and later, writer. Inna’s first children’s book,
The Way Downtown, was a Kirkus starred title and won the Bank Street College’s Best Children’s Book of the Year. Inna lives in Toronto with her two sons and a dog. She is the proud creator of Draw Me A Monster – an interactive art initiative, in its 8th year of making monsters for children and adults.
Inna Gertsberg
Inna Gertsberg is a Toronto-based artist, illustrator, and monster maker. Inna grew up in the USSR, where she studied fine art and graphic design. Her family fled the country in the 80’s and settled in the US, where Inna attended the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Before returning to her first love, illustration, Inna spent more than 25 years in advertising as an art director and later, writer. Inna’s first children’s book,
The Way Downtown, was a Kirkus starred title and won the Bank Street College’s Best Children’s Book of the Year. Inna lives in Toronto with her two sons and a dog. She is the proud creator of Draw Me A Monster – an interactive art initiative, in its 8th year of making monsters for children and adults.
In a clever detective story for young readers, Oren Harman weaves science, history, imagination and true crime. Based on the real-life theft of Charles Darwin’s famous notebooks on evolution from the Cambridge University Library and their anonymous return twenty years later, award-winning author Oren Harman presents a whirlwind whodunit, full of humor and suspense.
- 164
- 7+
- 15 X 21.5
- Spring 24
Out of This World
Three book series
Yossi Nir
Yossi Nir is a professor of physics at the Weizmann Institute. He was a member of the High Energy Particle Physics Board of the European Physical Society, a member of the Scientific Policy Committee of CERN, and of various other European advisory boards of physics institutes. He conducts studies in theoretical particle physics, and more recently on gender in physics. His first Children’s book Uri Travels in Space was published in 2023.
Yossi Nir
Yossi Nir is a professor of physics at the Weizmann Institute. He was a member of the High Energy Particle Physics Board of the European Physical Society, a member of the Scientific Policy Committee of CERN, and of various other European advisory boards of physics institutes. He conducts studies in theoretical particle physics, and more recently on gender in physics. His first Children’s book Uri Travels in Space was published in 2023.
Orit Magia
Orit Magia is an acclaimed children’s book author and illustrator, as well as an industrial designer and co-owner of SHULAB—an international studio for design. She studied at the Bezalel Academy of Arts and applies her multiple talents to visual storytelling, industrial and graphic design. Her works are praised for their masterful use of color and movement, as well as their minimalist expression in both words and images.
Orit Magia
Orit Magia is an acclaimed children’s book author and illustrator, as well as an industrial designer and co-owner of SHULAB—an international studio for design. She studied at the Bezalel Academy of Arts and applies her multiple talents to visual storytelling, industrial and graphic design. Her works are praised for their masterful use of color and movement, as well as their minimalist expression in both words and images.
In the company of Omer and Rom and their space savvy granny, young readers will take off into the cosmos to unlock the mysteries of the universe. Glowing comets, exploding supernovas, black holes and red giants await them in an innovative series of books that explore fascinating phenomena in space and prove that for curious minds the sky is never the limit!
- 72
- 7+
- 21 X 27 cm
- Dec 24
Yael Molchadsky
My happiest childhood memory is of my father reading to me in Russian the stories of Sherlock Holmes – the book he loved as a young reader. Years later I read my favorite book – The Never Ending Story – to my kids in Hebrew, and these were my happiest moments as a parent.
For me, there is nothing more wonderful than to connect over a book, and after fifteen years as editor-in-chief of Children’s books at Kinneret publishing house, I truly believe that this connection is the essence of publishing. Books are treasures we share and pass to each other, and as an editor I am there to discover them, curate them, and send them out into the hands of young readers.
At LAMA books, I want to share with them my special interest in making complex ideas simple and accessible through word and image and their magical connection, I want to share with them my love of learning – the one thing I never exhaust and never regret.
Daniel Dolinger
I grew up in an observant Jewish family, and the written word – in prayers and scripture – was present in every moment of my childhood. When I left home to study Psychology at Tel Aviv University and Business Management in Paris, I met another reality and started questioning the world I grew up in. Eventually, I chose a different path for myself, but the written word stayed with me and so did questioning and the challenges of reality.
I believe these three are also the pillars of my life in publishing. I thrive on the magical moments in which a new book comes to life. Every book I publish is a vessel of knowledge and beauty, every book is hope. But what will happen to it when it meets the readers remains my challenge.
As head of marketing at Kinneret Publishing House since 2014, I am there to make these magical publication moments happen. And even more so in LAMA books where the readers are young, curious and open-minded, and just like me many years ago, have more questions than answers.
more to come...