Perfectly Awkward Tales: Color & Creativity

Different is Powerful

To all the perfectly awkward people in this world. Thank you for being you.

Color & Creativity invites you to play on every page. Jump into the stories with Vasilisa, Aila, and Ninetta. Discover your own hidden talents. There are pages to color, scribble, draw, or tell your own story, any way you want!

Creativity is a gift we all have. There are no rules. Don’t worry about what others think. What matters is what you think. Creativity builds intuition, determination, and confidence. It helps us get in touch with our thoughts and feelings by giving us space to dream.

About the Illustrator

Hanna Barczyk was born in Germany and currently divides her time between New York City and Toronto. She creates conceptual illustrations for major publications such as The New York Times and The Washington Post, among many others.

Inspired by her family’s Hungarian folk art traditions, memories, love, music, movement, and a passion for dance, Hanna’s illustrations brim with emotional truth, bold and delicate at the same time.

Hanna has been recognized by the Society of Illustrators, American Illustration, Creative Quarterly and 3x3 (Magazine of Contemporary Illustration). She is the recipient of the Melville White Award, and has been the subject of a feature in Communication Arts Magazine.

Perfectly Awkward Tales are adapted from inspiring fairy tales by Princess Ivana (a real princess), Magdalene Smith, and Marisa Smith. Gorgeous full-page illustrations by Hanna Barczyk, whose work has appeared in The New Yorker and The New York Times.

If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales. -- Albert Einstein