For the fourth time in Hayao Miyazaki’s career, the Studio Ghibli genius is returning to animation. The movie The Boy and the Heron is only the start to a whole new round of new films for the creator. The Verge website has an entire article about Miyazaki and his comeback. Check it out here.
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A small town in France, Aubusson, (known for its artistry in weaving together tapestries) created five magical creations for Studio Ghibli. Having mastered the art of tapestry since the 15th century, the town’s latest draperies are as lively as Hayao Miyazaki’s animated creations themselves. To view the artwork, click the link below and read all about the town, its tapestries, and its Ghibli pride.
Miyazaki Recommends
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Hayao Miyazaki’s 50 Recommended Books:
1. « The Little Prince – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1943)
2. « Il Romanzo di Cipollino – Gianni Rodari (1956)
3. « The Rose and the Ring – William Makepeace Thackeray (1854)
4. « The Little Bookroom- Eleanor Farjeon (1955)
5. « The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas (1844)
6. The Secret Garden -Frances Eliza Hodgson Burnett (1909)
7. The Treasure of the Nibelungs – G.Schalk (1953)
8. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll (1865)
9. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle (1891)
10. A Norwegian Farm » Marie Hamsun (1933)
11. Конёк-горбунок – Пётр Па́влович Ершо́в (1834)
12. Souvenirs entomologiques – Jean-Henri Casimir Fabre (1879-1907)
13. Toui Mukashi no Fushigina Hanashi-Nihon Reiiki – Tsutomu Minakami (1995)
14. Иван-дурак – Leo Tolstoy (1885)
15. Eagle of the Ninth -Rosemary Sutcliff (1954)
16. Winnie-the-Pooh – A. A. Milne (1926)
17. Les Princes du Vent – Michel-Aime Baudouy (1956)
18. When Marnie Was There – Joan G Robinson (1967)
19. The Long Winter – Laura Ingalls Wilder (1940)
20. The Wind in the Willows – Kenneth Grahame (1908)
21. The Ship That Flew -Hilda Lewis (1939)
22. Flambards – Kathleen Wendy Peyton (1967)
23. Tom’s Midnight Garden – Ann Philippa Pearce (1958)
24. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer – Mark Twain (1876)
25. Chumon no Ooi Ryouriten – Kenji Miyazawa (1924)
26. Heidi – Johanna Spyri (1888)
27. Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea – Jules Verne (1870)
28. The Borrowers- Mary Norton (1952)
29. Devatero pohádek – Karel Čapek (1931)
30. Swallows and Amazons – Arthur Ransome (1930)
31. The Flying Classroom – Erich Kästner (1933)
32. Robinson Crusoe – Daniel Defoe (1719)
33. Treasure Island- Robert Louis Stevenson (1883)
34. Двена́дцать ме́сяцев – Samuil Marshak (1943)
35. Tistou les pouces verts – Maurice Druon (1957)
36. The man who planted the welsh onions – Kim Soun (1953)
37. Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio – Pu Songling (1740)
38. The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle – Hugh John Lofting (1922)
39. Journey to the West – Wú Chéng’ēn (1500~?)
40. Little Lord Fauntleroy – Frances Eliza Hodgson Burnett (1886)
41. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler -Elaine Lobl Konigsburg (1968)
42. Alla vi barn i Bullerbyn – Astrid Lindgren (1947)
43. The Hobbit, or There and Back Again » J.R.R. Tolkien (1937)
44. A Wizard of Earthsea -Ursula K. Le Guin (1968)
45. The Little White Horse -Elizabeth Goudge (1946)
46. Bylo nas pet- Karel Polacek (1969)
47. City Neighbor: The Story of Jane Addams – Clara Ingram Judson (1951)
48. The Radium Woman – Eleanor Doorly (1939)
49. The Otterbury Incident – Cecil Day-Lewis (1948)
50. Hans Brinker or The Silver Skates -Mary Mapes Dodge (1865)