This book is a collection by Lous Martens, the wife of Dutch graphic designer Karel Martens. The publication is a compilation of handmade scrapbooks that she lovingly crafted for her five grandchildren: Jaap, Zeno, Anna, Julian, and Luca. Compiling animal photographs and illustrations, she loosely pasted clippings from newspapers and magazines relating to art, literature, and science, alongside stamps and images from advertising pamphlets. Readers can enjoy the subtle, ever-shifting variations as new materials are continuously added. More than twenty years after the birth of her first grandson, Jaap, none of the five scrapbooks have been completed. With every turn of the page, it becomes evident that this book was never intended for publication, but is rather a profound manifestation of personal affection. This is the first edition, published in 2017.
