The international art platform dPICTUS published a list of the 100 best picture books of 2023, which included the silent book (book without words) "Yellow Butterfly" by Oleksandr Shatokhin. Yuliya Kozlovets, a jury member, and the coordinator of the Book Arsenal festival announced this on her page, reports Chytomo.

“The full-scale war made the story’s outlines clear and everything fell into place. I wanted to tell a story about what I felt, saw, and heard during those months of war.”– Oleksandr Shatokhin

"It is a joy and an honor for me to join the group of curators of the dPICTUS platform, and to be involved in the formation of this year's list of 100 most beautiful picture books from around the world, which will be presented throughout the year at the largest book fairs, the first of which is the Bologna fair!" she emphasized.

The silent book "Yellow Butterfly" by Oleksandr Shatokhin is a "silent book" about life after the war, broken and limited by war.

The book was published by the Stary Lev publishing house in 2022.

dPictus is a curated platform where picture book publishers and book agents present their publications to an international professional community throughout the year, creating business opportunities and networking for B2B meetings at book fairs.