Sandro’s Books

Sandro’s Books is the publishing house Sandro founded in Tbilisi in 2009. It publishes his own books — children’s books, graphic novels and short stories — in six languages: Georgian, English, Italian, Spanish, French and Russian. Each book is an object that holds a story and its illustrations — many come in boxes, with a small object from the tale.

It began in Florence. While Sandro studied at the Accademia di Belle Arti there, LibriLiberi — a small publisher with a children’s bookshop, a reading and exhibition room and a garden theatre in the centre of the city — printed his first books in very small runs as the series Libri Strani: love stories, an entomologist’s poems about cockroaches, a strange pair of binoculars, Oggetti, and three books in boxes. Back in Georgia, Sandro went on publishing them himself.

Sandro’s Books runs a reading class in Georgian public schools: books go to school libraries, the children read and discuss them and then colour their heroes. It took part in a Georgian–Swedish project of children’s writers and illustrators with the Swedish Institute, and was at the Frankfurt Book Fair in 2017 and 2018.

All the books
Frankfurt Book Fair
Books in the Boxes
Sandro Universal typeface