FOREIGN RIGHTS BACKLIST
EARLY YEARS
4 - 9
NOVELTY
10 - 13
PICTURE BOOKS
14 - 33
REFERENCE
34 - 39
ACTIVITY
40 - 41
FICTION
42 - 46
EARLY YEARS
Early years
Little Hand, Little Thumb Martine Perrin
Babymax 1+
Kimiko
2 TITLES 210 X 210 MM - 34 PAGES - BOARD BOOK - €12
116 X 133 MM – 44 PAGES – BOARD BOOK (CORRUGATED BOARD) - €17 – 2013
Books to read with your fingers!
Babymax is a very first vocabulary book for toddlers by talented illustrator Kimiko.
An interactive read with a strong design to develop your child’s motivity. Basic action verbs
A colourful and sweet little book to teach little ones their first words. Kimiko has
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are highlighted in vivid colours and invite the reader to touch the page…
designed every double page with different types of associations: similarities, opposites,
• Little Hand, Little Thumb (2012) Sold: Italian
actions and objects, etc.
• Little Hand, Little Thumb at the Circus (2013)
Baby Mini
Give Me My Nose Back!
Grégoire Solotareff, Alain Le Saux
Paule Battault, ill. by Amélie Falière
6 TITLES 100 X 100 MM – 16 PAGES – BOARD BOOKS - €5.90 – 2015
210 X 210 MM – 32 PAGES – BOARDBOOK WITH DIE-CUT ON ALL PAGES - €12.50 – FEBRUARY 2015
The Baby Minis are not just vocabulary books, you can also learn and play: counting, spotting the differences.
• I know how to dress up
• Everything that flies
• Farm Animals
• I know how to count
• Wild Animals
• Everything that rolls
2+
Between my feet, next to the suitcase, behind the cactus, through the window, in the magician’s garden… the clown’s nose rolls from page to page. Aaaaachoooo! The clown’s sudden sneezing unhooks his nose from his face and here is the young reader challenged to find it back, in a full color race! An entertaining book with all the useful vocabulary to get your bearings in space.
My Life in Colours Raphaël Fejtö
2+
200 X 200 MM – 12 PAGES – BOARD BOOK WITH SPOT UV THROUGHOUT - €10.10 - 2007
with one colour. For each colour, an object or a feeling that Raphaël Fejtö illustrates with
An entertaining and interactive book to learn how to write numbers.
mischievous tenderness: Dad, mum, toys, food, seasons, clothes... plenty of different topics
The grainy spot UV on each number invites the child to draw the numbers with his fingers.
Grégoire Solotareff, Alain le Saux 120 X 135 MM - 772 PAGES - FOAM COVER & FOAM HANDLE - €19.90 - 2012
whereas this book has over 700! The associations of images with words are created with humour and finesse.
What a Mess! Martine Perrin 190 X 190 MM - 48 PAGES - HARDBACK WITH DIE-CUTS - €12 - 2013
A perfect book to play with everyday objects and learn shapes, colours and words.
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appear on the right page, revealing their function. In the end, everything is in the right place!
Baby, What Are You Doing ?
170 X 170 MM – 96 PAGES – BOARDBOOK - €15.00 – MARCH 2015
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page after page. Children have to guess which object is missing, thanks to short clues. They
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Imax is more than a simple picture book: An average 2-year-old knows only 200 words
and my nose etc.
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In my house there is: 1 dad and 1 mom which makes 2. Me, my red ballon and also a sock
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in this sweet, tender and humourous box.
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Blue, green, yellow, orange, red, purple: each book included in this lovely boxed set deals
2+
Delphine Chedru
124 X 124 MM – 108 PAGES – 6 BOARD BOOKS IN A BOX SET (18 PAGES EACH) - €17.00 – 2014
REGARDE BIEN TOUS CES OBJETS,
2+
In my house, there is…
1+
200 X 220 MM – 40 PAGES – HARDBACK - €13.90 – 2014
reckless… The animals of Small Giant illustrate with humour, imagination and tenderness
With poetry and tenderness, and illustrated by beautiful silk paintings, this picture book
the opposites. From the mole that lives over and underground, to the real bear that lives
ilustrates the most important moments of the everyday life of babies around the world. A
in the forest and the teddy bear in the little boy’s arms, this affectionate and playful book
beautiful, sensitive and universal book.
will accompany the kids in their first learnings.
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Early years 3+
Early years
Brats! Justine de Lagausie, ill. by Valeria Petrone 160 X 185 MM – 14 PAGES – HARDBACK WITH FLAPS TO OPEN - €9.90 – 2014
Amélie Falière
A lift-the-flap book to laugh at the good manners parents always try to teach their
150 X 150 MM - 102 PAGES - BOARD BOOK - €12.20
children!
“When I show my bottom, my mum is very proud of me”. Under the flap: “I am the baboon!” “During the night, I shout during hours and that doesn’t bother my parents: they do just the same. I am the wolf”.
Knock, Knock! Surprise!
Let's see the positive sides of situations children usually dislike: when it’s raining outside, going back to school etc. Bonus: Along the pages, the numbers from 1 to 100 are hidden and you have to seek them out.
Good for Toddlers!
1+
Thierry Dedieu 6 TITLES 280 X 380 MM - 12 PAGES - BOARD BOOK - €14.50 - MARCH 2015
Christian Guibbaud 2 TITLES 200 X 200 MM - 20 PAGES - HARDBACK WITH FLAPS - €10.50 - 2013
Read the clue on top of the flap and lift it up to discover what is hidden under it: mysterious characters, surprising birthday presents… A clue and a flap: let’s play!
• Who Lives in Here?
3+
A small joyful and colourful book to cheer you up!
Try and guess who can be such a brat thanks to a riddle on top of each flap:
3+
100 Reasons to Look on the Bright Side of Life
• What Is in This Present?
Good For Toddlers: an innovative and ambitious series for 0 to 3 year-olds! Researchers have proved babies see contrasts better, they like large books, the music of words, and they need to listen to a variety of texts to develop their minds. So here is a new series created just for their needs!
• Cyrano de Bergerac, The Nose Speech
• Pinicho
• In a cottage in a wood, a great deer at the window stood
• A Green Mouse
• The Pythagorean Theorem
• Rafts of Rats and Rice
To Be Contrary 3+
Little Handbook for the Potty
2 TITLES 190 X 190 MM - 18 PAGES HARDBACK WITH 14 FLAPS TO LIFT €9.90 - 2013
Paule Battault, ill. by Anouk Ricard
1+
175 X 175 MM – 28 PAGES – BOARD BOOK– €9.90
Children love to contradict everyone, even
To help all babies (and their desperate parents), here is a little handbook with off-the tone humour.
themselves!
The simple and descriptive text explains everything you need to do. Absolutely everything! With
"I don't like having a bath… but when I'm in the bathtub I don't want to get out."
Anouk Ricard's unique fanciful and childlike style.
"I don't want to go to school… but when I'm there I'm happy to meet my friends." Lift the flaps on each spread to discover how cheeky children can be!
• Yuk, I love It! - ill. by Vincent Mathy
2+
• Do as I say, not as I do! - ill. by David Merveille
A Funny Picnic! Florence Guiraud 216 X 216 MM - 20 PAGES - HARDBACK WITH FLAPS TO LIFT + 1 POP-UP - €12.90 - 2013
The Worst Potty Training Book Antonin Louchard
2+
180 X 180 MM - 40 PAGES - HARDBACK - €8.90 – JUNE 2015
The Worst Potty Training Book is also the best one to play down this big step and a good occasion to laugh your socks off together! A humourous dialog between a rabbit and a voice-off whose task is to teach him become clean. This hilarious exchange plays with the codes of this “genre”. Kids won’t have to stress out over this
A game book for very young children: five friends go picnicking; each of them looks for
big step and at last parents won’t have to read them a boring descriptive book!
something to eat. Lift the flaps to discover the animals. A book to learn who eats what!
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Early years 2+
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Early years
I Want to Fly / I Am a Lion
Little Dog
Antonin Louchard
Anne Brouillard
2 TITLES - 180 X 180 MM – 40 PAGES – CUT FLUSH THREE EDGES WITH EXPOSED BOARD AND GELTEX COVER €8.90 – FEBRUARY 2015
210 X 260 MM - 40 PAGES - HARDBACK, CUT FLUSH THREE EDGES (EXPOSED BOARD) - €13.70 - 2012
Here is a new series for the little ones by renowned and awarded author Antonin Louchard.
3+
A beautiful picture book about changing seasons and time passing by. "Oh look, a balloon!" Little Dog thinks. But the ball is growing, and suddenly, it’s a mushroom! Little Dog
I Want to Fly How boring is staying on a branch all day?! The little bird has decided to learn how to fly. And who is better than dad to teach him? But the latter has other priorities and is not always available. Therefore
is soon in a forest of giants mushrooms. Their dots become snowflakes… everything is white! A little red dot suddenly appears in the snow and becomes a flower!
the little bird cries, to finally learn by himself and find his own answers to his questions. I Am a Lion "Hey, you! Would you get out of my way? Do you only know who is talking?" The crocodile doesn’t seem to be impressed by this quite imprudent character. Speechless, the crocodile ignores the little
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duck who then gets more and more irritated. "I’m not a duck, I’M A LION!, and lions are not afraid of anything, especially not of rabbits…"
The Scariest Book in the World
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countdown marks the pace of this
youngest readers, the relationship between
colorful book. It starts with 10
mother and child.
red bricks, then 9 blue blocks, 4
Being scary is hard work. It is a skill to be learned. And although this little ghost might not frighten
Jojo desperately wants to make a joke to his
yellow windows, 2 white astro-
young readers, he will certainly make them laugh.
mummy. And for this, he will need a long
nauts, 1 flame: lift off! BOOM! Then
and pointy nose, big teeth, claws, and dark
you can start all over again! An
fur. Aaaah! It works!
ingenious yet amazingly simple activity book.
Kiki, King of the Arctic
3+
Vincent Malone, ill. by Jean-Louis Cornalba
Tickle Monster
11 TITLES - MAJOR KIKIS: 210 X 210 MM - 48 PAGES – HARDBACK – €8.90 TEENY WEENY STORIES: 160 X 160 MM - 32 PAGES – HARDBACK - €5.90
Easter Egg • Kiki Has a Willy • Kiki Does a Poo • Kiki on Holiday • Kiki Goes to School
Major Kikis • Kiki King of the Arctic • Kiki in America
crazy for! This series filled with humour unfurls in 2 formats: the “Major Kikis” for Kiki’s great and epic
Mrs. Chick Sold: Simplified Chinese A book to look at the eternal chickenand-egg question: which came first?
adventures, and the "Teeny Weenie stories" for daily life topics.
There is a surefire way to stop a tickle
Edouard Manceau gives his original
Kiki is a little penguin that one day, after a happy childhood, is brutally separated from his parents
monster: tickle him right back! Tickle
answer with his graphic and colourful
when an iceberg cracks and splits. After crossing the Sargasso desert, eventually being captured by
his arms, feet, horns, and teeth, until-
illustrations.
an environmental association, he will free his friends and embark on an adventure around the world
proof! Goodbye, Tickle Monster!
(2014)
to find his mother (Volume 1: Kiki King of the Arctic).
(2013)
Arthur
The Neverending Stories
Barroux
Edouard Manceau
5 TITLES - 170 X 212 MM - 32 PAGES - HARDBACK -€10.10
210 X 260 MM – 48 PAGES – HARDBACK, CUT FLUSH THREE EDGES (EXPOSED BOARD) - €13 – 2014
Sold: Simplified Chinese, Spanish (South America & US)
Four images in this book to illustrate 3 different stories: the story of a king, the story of a dog and the one of 2 goblins. From one story to another, the author changes a colour, a detail and makes
to… the leitmotivs of the parents and the nightmares of the children! An album to laugh together.
the image turn to another meaning. In the end, the 4 images without words give the reader a
• Arthur, Stop Day Dreaming! • Arthur, Go to Bed!
3+
Sold: Simplified Chinese
A humourous series to help children laugh and play down situations that they are usually reluctant
• Arthur Do Your Homework! • Arthur Eat your Soup! • Arthur Clean up your Room!
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Sold: World English, World Castilian, Catalan, Korean, Simplified Chinese
A witty new series for young children (and their parents) bringing to life a hero who everyone will go
Teeny Weeny Stories
Sold: Italian, Simplified Chinese
A picture book that illustrates, for the
180 X 180 MM – 40 PAGES – HARDBACK - €8.90 – FEBRUARY 4, 2016
3+
180 X 330 MM - 32 PAGES HARDBACK - €11.90 - 2016
The Rocket 10,9,8,7,6,5,4,3,2,1,0! This
Antonin Louchard
• Kiki in Space • Kiki Cooks Pancakes • Kiki Is Crazy • Kiki Is Kakhi • Kiki and the
Jojo the Menace
chance to invent more and more stories.
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NOVELTY
Novelty
Painting Stories Claire Garralon
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Maxibox
BOARD BOX: 148 X 148 MM – 4 SOFTCOVER BOOKS OF 32 PAGES EACH - €15 – 2014
Grégoire Solotareff, ill. by Alain Le Saux
A beautiful box set to introduce modern art to the youngest, thanks to four mischievous and
BOX: 240 X 195 MM - BOOK: 185 X 185 MM – 48 PAGES - €19.90 – 2013
Colorful and fun Maxibox contains 3 educative games about animals: • a puzzle of 9 pieces • a memory game of 18 cards • a book of 48 pages with several games and riddles
playful stories, based on abstract paintings. Rhythm by Delaunay tells us the story of an encounter between two birds. Guitar Pipe and Score by Juan Gris, a butterfly making fun of a cat trying to catch it. Signs in Yellow by Paul Klee, a squirrel that discovers it can pick oak nuts up during Fall… at his cost. Self-portrait in 2 dimensions by Malevitch, the construction of a rocket to fly to other worlds.
Riddles to count: How many eggs in this nest? How many birds in this tree? Shadows in the shape of animals you have to recognize; Spot the difference, spot the odd one out. Which animals know how to swim? How to fly? To run fast? Which animal miaows? Roars? Quacks?
Higgeldy-Piggeldy Stories 4+
The Big Little Library Vincent Malone, ill. by Lily Scratchy BOARD BOX SET - 6 BOARDBOOKS – 95 X 110 MM – 22 PAGES EACH - €19.90 – 2013
A real library with different genres like for grown ups! Thriller, romance, literature, science fiction, cookery, spy story… Follow the adventures of Rose, the funny imaginative little girl and Emile, her little brother, obsessed by “TomatoKetchupPasta” through 6 lovely and hilarious little board books that look like
Edouard Manceau
3+
BOARD BOX: 300 X 400 MM - 4 SOFT COVER BOOKS: 32 PAGES EACH - €15 – 2013
4 books in an attractive box set which tells 8 higgeldy-piggeldy stories. A colourful and brilliant idea! Playing with shapes and colours makes each story a game of construction that can be read in multiple ways to build and rebuild as many times as you wish! Hup! The circus dismantles and becomes, through the pages…a van! Hup! The tree looses its leaves and they become…an animal! Hup! The gentleman transforms himself to become, bit by bit… a beautiful lady!
Mum and Dad’s, in very small and short!
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Before, Now and After Catherine Grive, ill. by Gilles Rapaport BOARD BOX: 180 X 180 MM – 3 SOFTCOVER BOOKS OF 28 PAGES EACH – €13.50 – 2014
Why are you Sulking ?
pop-up
J.-R. Catremin, Ill. by Arnaud Roi
Sold: Simplified Chinese
SEPTEMBER 3, 2015 - 210 X 320 MM – €16.00 – HARDBACK – 6 POP-UPS
Before? Now? After? When is that?
A tender and graphic pop-up picture book about a sulky little mouse… unless she is just in love!
Three tender small books to understand the three notions in a box set that rolls out, just like time passing by… Because it is always moving, time is a difficult notion to understand for the little ones. Those three books give a clear and sweet explanation.
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The little mouse has been sulking since dawn. A cat is getting close, but seeing her pout has ruined his appetite, he says. “Tell me, why are you sulking?” The mouse remains silent and keeps on turning her back on him. Then come the dog, the wolf and the bear…
Beforehand, the rabbit was little. He was so small that he was still in his mum’s belly. Now, he is in his bed, and his mum is reading him a story. Afterwards, the story is over, but mum is still here. Only one thing never changes in the end of each book: they have loved him and they will always do.
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Novelty
Novelty
Pop-up Zoo
2+
HERVÉ TULLET
Martine Perrin 3 TITLES - 170 X 170 MM - 24 PAGES - POP-UP BOOK - €9.90 - 2012
An animated walk at the funniest zoo you have ever seen! As the zoo opens, let’s follow the keeper and admire the animals as we walk past their cages… 9 pop-ups to discover the animals through a
Turlututu 4 TITLES 200 X 210 MM - 64 PAGES €12.70 - 2013 - 2014
4+
• It’s Magical! ‒ Sold: Korean, Simpl. Chinese, Polish • What a Story! ‒ Sold: Simpl. Chinese • Such an Adventure! ‒ Sold: Simpl. Chinese • Magical Stories ‒ Sold: Italian, Simpl. Chinese, Polish
very visual picture book.
• Pop-up Fairy Tale
• Pop-up Farm
Riddle’s Wheel 3+
• Ten Times Ten ‒ Sold:
Korean,Russian, World English, simpl. Chinese, Polish
• Don’t Mix Up ‒ Sold:
Fabienne Teyssèdre 2 TITLES - 230 X 230 MM - 8 PAGES (INCLUDING 4 WHEELS) - ROUND BOOK - €11.70
A very simple wheel mechanism to ask questions and make the answers appear. A fun filled series, made to play with first and foremost!
• Does a Giraffe… Sold: Castilian, Catalan, Finnish
German (reverted), World English (reverted), Castilian, Catalan, Korean, Danish, Dutch, Italian, Simplified Chinese, complex Chinese
• Don’t Mix Up, Again
Sold: German, World English (reverted), Castilian, Catalan, Croat,
Korean, Dutch, Italian, Russian, Simplified Chinese
• Square Man ‒ Sold:
World English (reverted), Simp. Chinese
• Round Man ‒ Sold:
World English (reverted), Simp. Chinese
• Lemon Pink ‒ Sold:
German, World English (reverted), Castilian, Catalan, Korean, Dutch, Italian, Simp. Chinese
• The Five Senses ‒ Sold: German, World English, Dutch, Italian, World Castilian, Simp. Chinese • How I Saved My Dad
Sold: Korean, SImp. Chinese
• How I Saved My Mum Sold: Korean, Simp. Chinese
• Imagine ‒ Sold: German, World English • How Dad Met Mum Sold : Simp. Chinese
• Does a Potato…
Atchoo
3+
Xavier Salomo
3+
ALAIN CROZON
195 X 225 MM - 34 PAGES - BOARDBOOK WITH ROUND CORNERS - ON THE LAST SPREAD A MIRROR AND DIE-CUT €15 - 2013
What am I? Christmas / What am I? Halloween
Mister Atchoo sneezes all the time, but he doesn’t have a cold! His hairs are growing so quickly that
116 X 300 MM - 16 PAGES - WITH FLAPS TO LIFT - HARDCOVER - 13,50€ - 2014 - 2015
they come tickling his nose all the time… A board book to laugh and play with the mirror at the end
Sold: Castilian
of the book that will show the little reader with a very hairy face!
Lift the colourful flaps to solve the holiday riddles in the new titles in this popular and playful guessing games over and over again.
Faces
POP-UP BOOKS
Séverin Millet
series with a peek-a-boo format and adorable art. Toddlers will love to play with these simple
• 1, 2, 3? Animals to Count! 130 X 330 MM, POP-UP BOOK WITH FLAPS TO LIFT
• Tractors & Co - Sold: Castilian, Italian
• ABC? Animated Animals!
• Diggers & Co - Sold: Castilian, Italian
135 X 398 MM, POP-UP BOOK WITH FLAPS TO LIFT
Sold: Castilian, Korean, Dutch
2+
207 X 270 MM – 16 PAGES – HARDCOVER WITH WIRE’O - €14 – JUNE 2015
On a red background, Severin Millet takes us in a play of composition. The process is well-known: a serie of portraits that are divided in 3 parts. We can mix and recreate a million times different faces. A pirate, a vampire, a Japanese woman, a princess, a snorkeler, many crazy figures to have fun with!
LIFT-THE-FLAP BOOKS
• What's this, who's this? -Sold: Castilian , Catalan, Simplified Chinese
Sold: Korean, Simplified Chinese
• Who are those nuts for? - Sold: Korean
• Who is hidden over there? - Sold:
• What did you eat, glutton fish? • What is this? - Sold: English (US), German, Castilian, Catalan, Danish, Dutch, Italian, Japanese, Simplified Chinese • What is rolling? - Sold: Polish • What is flying? - Sold: English (US), Castilian, Catalan, Korean, Dutch, Simplified Chinese
• Who took my ball? - Sold: Korean 12
• Who has frightened the little mice? -
English (US), Castilian, Dutch
• Who lives here? - Sold: Castilian, Catalan, Polish, Simplified Chinese
• A plenty sport! - Sold: Castilian, Catalan, Dutch, Polish, Simplified Chinese
• Who am I? - Sold: English (US), German, Castilian, Catalan, Korean, Danish, Dutch, Italian, Japanese, Polish, Simplified Chinese
Around the World Clémentine Sourdais 5 TITLES - 210 X 235 MM - 12 PAGES - BOOK WITH FLAPS AND 1 POP-UP - €16.90 - 2012 - 2014
4+
This series with 5 pages with flaps and one pop-up at the end, will help you discover jobs, houses, animals, schools and monuments from different countries around the world. A series with cheerful, colourful, and very detailed illustrations!
• Monuments around the World • Jobs around the World • Houses around the World - Sold: Catalan, Castilian, Korean
• Animals around the World - Sold: Catalan, Castilian, Korean
• Schools around the World - Sold:
Catalan, Castilian, Korean
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Picture books
PICTURE BOOKS
THIERRY DEDIEU 6+
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JOËLLE JOLIVET
230 X 330 MM – 72 PAGES – HARDBACK – €18 – 2014
Zoo-ology
Almost Everything 315 X 450 MM - 40 PAGES - HARDBACK €21.30
3+
The Earl’s Incredible Zoo
Zoo-ology is filled with beautifully crafted species from the Aardvark to the Zebra connected in thought provoking and unusual grouping of creatures of all shapes and sizes: Large and Small, Hot Weather, Cold Weather, Feathered, Homed, Spots and Stripes, Friends and Mankind, and so forth. An absorbing read.
Sold: German, English (UK & US), Spanish, Catalan, Korean, Georgian, Greek, Dutch, Italian, Finnish, Polish, Russian, Simplified Chinese
3+
Camille is Shy
TEXT BY GILLES BAUM
5+
A tender and delicate picture book
Earl Lavardens has the brilliant
that sensitively deals with shyness.
315 X 450 MM - 40 PAGES - HARDBACK €18.30
idea to gather animals in the gardens of his castle and to make
Today is the Big day for Camille:
Encyclopedic and stylish, Almost Everything is full of things both familiar and unexpected, arranged in simple categories buildings, transportation, costumes, plants, animals etc. The wealth of details and oversized design is matched in by bold, dramatic block print art, in a book that will capture and hold young children's attention.
people come to see them. But his
School year Group Photo! But the
mother in law is not happy with
photographer forgets Camille. While
the way the animals behave…
she runs away, she discovers herself
A humourous story, half way
and realizes how much she means to
between a historical testimony
the others.
Sold: German, Spanish, Dutch, English (US), Polish, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Lithuanian
and a fantasy story, with Dedieu’s beautiful vintage graphic style.
10+
1914-1918 270 X 380 MM – 40 PAGES – HARDBACK + 1 ENVELOPE – €18 – 2014
5+
The Blue Baron has a weird way to make war: From his plane, he
minute of silence to read this powerful
end this war.
Empty Fridge Yakouba / Kibwe / Yakoubwe
shopping! Only a packet of dried noodles in the cupboards, only a leek left in the fridge! Simply a catastrophe! But, maybe the neighbor upstairs has a little something to snack on… Sold: English (Australia), Korean, Simp. Chinese, italian
PREVIOUS TITLES:
Jocelyne, Milk Cow
Spécial sorcières award 2010
Sold: German, Castilian, Greek, Japanese, World English, Complex Chinese
It’s Nighttime Sold: Catalan
Cute Cat
Expression award 1995 Mille Pages award 1996 Sorcières award 1995
200 X 220 MM - 32 PAGES HARDCOVER, CUT FLUSH THREE EDGES WITH EXPOSED BOARD - €13.00
Sold: Korean, Italian, Simpl. Chinese, Portuguese (Brazil)
Sold: Complex Chinese
The Princess and the Pea
Bélisaire
Incorruptibles Award 2007
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Novels, poetry and emotions will
Selected in the 2014 White Ravens
The King of Sands
Good Evening Rage
enemies away. And it is efficient!
striking love letter…
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throws books down to chase the
picture book, acompagnied by a
200 X 330 – 40 PAGES – HARDBACK – €14.90 – JUNE 3, 2014
TEXT BY GILLES BAUM
Sold: Japanese, Spanish (Colombia & Ecuador), Korean
A tribute to WWI soldiers, with stunning imagery to narrate the war,
GAËTAN DOREMUS
The Blue Baron 190 X 270 MM – 40 PAGES – HARDBACK €12.90 – 2014
when words can’t. It will take you a
6+
190 X 270 MM – 32 PAGES – HARDBACK – €12.90 – 2015
The Master of Japanese Paintings Bluebeard
The Fables
Good Catch
3 volumes
2010 Nathan magazines’ award
by Jean de la Fontaine
It is Not Because…
Sold: Catalan, Italian, German
Aagun
Warmonger
Chrétien de Troyes award 2009
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Picture books
Picture books
FRANÇOIS ROCA
BENJAMIN LACOMBE Benjamin could have been born on a cold December night in a dark neighbourhood of London, that would correspond to the atmosphere he likes.
Jesus Betz text by Fred Bernard
But he was born in July, one of the sunniest and most joyful days of the year. With this same taste for paradoxes, he paints his stories, often with oil paint and gouache.
260 X 375 MM – 40 PAGES – €18
Stories that hover between shadows and lights, melancholy and humour.
2001 Baobab award and 2002 Goncourt children’s books award
The Book of Magic Spells
The Silence Child
text by Sebastien Perez
Tatoulu Award 2008-2009
Sold: German, Castilian, Catalan, Simp. Chinese
The Little Witch text by Sebastien Perez Sold: German, Castilian, Catalan, Dutch, Portuguese (Brazil), Simp. Chinese, Romanian
Also available: Genealogy of a Witch (box set) including: The Book of Magic Spells and The Little Witch
Sold: Greek, Italian, Korean, Catalan, Castilian, German
The beautiful and moving story of Jesus Betz, born on Dec. 24 at the beginning of the 20th century, with no arms and no legs. He seems to live his life in a state of perpetual childishness, with a naïve innocence that survives in the face of life’s most desperately trying circumstances.
text by Cécile Roumiguière
Sold: Castilian
The Yellow Train text by Fred Bernard
The Butterfly Lovers
Sold: German, Castilian, Greek, Japanese
Raoul text by Marie-Ange Guillaume Sold: German, Castilian (South America)
The Indian from the Eiffel Tower text by Fred Bernard
Sold: Castilian, Catalan, Russian, Portuguese (Brazil), Dutch, Italian
An Elephant in New York The Pipes’ Melody
Benoît Broyart, ill. by Delphine Jacquot 275 X 360 MM – 40 PAGES – HARDBACK – €16 – OCTOBER 15, 2015
Delphine Jacquot won the Grand Prix de l’Illustration in 2014
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Sold: Korean, Simplified Chinese Sold: Castilian, Dutch, Russian, Romanian
Once Upon a Time
This beautiful large format picture book tells the fantastic walk of a little boy and an elephant in the streets of New York. John is a little boy, a little lonely and always daydreaming, so of course, he has a hard time making friends. One day, to his great surprise, John sees an elephant in his block’s
Sold: Castilian, Catalan, Dutch, Italian, Portuguese (Brazil)
courtyard…
Cherry & Olive Listed in The NY Times’ 10 best children books in 2007
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The Good Life Floc’h 260 X 340 MM – 64 PAGES – HARDCOVER - €18 – 2014
Special Mention, Premio Gianni Rodari Citta di Omegna
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Sold: German, Italian, Simplified Chinese
Sold: English (US), Korean, Castilian, Simp. Chinese
Let’s get on board the Good Life, with a little girl and a rabbit!
ALSO AVAILABLE IN POCKET FORMAT: 150 X 190 MM – 40 PAGES – SOFTCOVER – €5.90
fantasies, your ludicrous dreams come true, thanks to an extravagant magician. It can be
A life in which nothing is impossible. A life in which your sweetest desires, your craziest yours if you wish. The life you will design. A wonderful, tender and ironic book, with the ageless graphic style of internationally renowned Floc’h.
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Picture books • Charles Is in Love (2015) • Charles Prisoner of the Cyclops • Charles at the Dragons' School
Charles
REMI COURGEON
Alex Cousseau, ill. by Philippe-Henri Turin 3 TITLES - 280 X 400 MM – 48 PAGES – HARDCOVER – €20.90
Sold: Italian, German, Korean, Greek, Simplified Chinese, Russian, Portuguese (Brazil), Spanish (Latin America), Romanian
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The Chatty Goldfish
Barefoot
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195 X 225 MM - 80 PAGES HARDBACK - CUT FLUSH THREE EDGES WITH EXPOSED BOARD - €13.90 - 2013
JUNE 18, 2015 – 210 X 260 MM – €13.50 – HARDBACK – 32 PAGES – CUT FLUSH THREE EDGES WITH EXPOSED BOARD
Charles is different from the other dragons. At school, he prefers writing poems rather than blowing fire. In the second picture book, finally able to fly, Charles travels the world
Do you really need to wear
and meets a weird "friend", the Cyclops. In the third one, he looks for a fairy tale princess
A beautiful friendship story: Colin
shoes to get on in life? One
With stunning illustrations by Philippe-Henri Turin.
is the only one who can understand
day, Tim decided that he
his goldfish’s language...
would no longer wear socks
A bestselling series with over 80,000 copies sold in France. Also available : a bind-up of the two volumes
(224X320MM - 140 PAGES - HARDBACK)
or shoes. A nonconformist
But years pass and the goldfish Sold: Korean
book filled with humour,
has grown: he would like to
but primarily a tale about
explore the world. Sick at heart,
determination and freedom.
the boy lets his friend go.
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Where Are You Leo?
The Little Pink Car
Guillaume Olive, ill. by He Zhihong 225 X 300 MM – 32 PAGES – HARDBACK – €13.90 – FEBRUARY 4, 2016
A sweet and tender story about the friendship between a little boy and his dog Leo. A young boy looks for his dog, Leo, who has disappeared again. Could he be hiding under his parents’ bed, like last time? As he searches, the child describes his dog, painting a loving portrait of him.
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Susie Morgenstern, ill. by Charles Dutertre 220 X 285 MM - 48 PAGES - HARDBACK - €12.90 – APRIL 2015
A sweet and poetic story told by a little pink car that was offered to a young boy for his third birthday. During his birthday party, one of his friends tries to steal it from him. He finally decides to forgive him and lends his new toy to him.
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I Am The Running Dog Marc Daniau
A beautiful book about the marvelous possibilities for playing, imagining and sharing that a toy opens up!
Ting-Ting’s Doll
245 X 340 MM – 40 PAGES – HARDBACK - €16 – 2013
Like a litany, the text rhythms the unbridled running of a dog in the twilight. With every leap he swallows a bit of the darkness ; he never stops. Soon he meets friends, keeps on running, relighting up the stars in the sleeping cities.
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Ghislaine Roman, ill. by Régis Lejonc 290 X 265 MM - 40 PAGES – HARDBACK - €15 – JANUARY 2015
A very soft and moving picture book about loss and remembrance: Ting-Ting can’t find the doll her father offered her before he died and feels guilty she might have lost it. Until she
SMALL FORMAT: 150 X 190 MM – 40 PAGES – SOFTCOVER €5.90 LARGE FORMAT: 280 X 340 MM – 40 PAGES – HARDCOVER €18.30
A kid dressed in red walked in the woods and met a wolf… you know the story! An original and clever version of "Little Red Riding Hood".
Emile, The Little Fife
UNE GRANDE ŒUVRE UNE BELLE HISTOIRE
Anne de La Boulaye, ill. by Sébastien Mourrain
Les aventures imaginaires du jeune Émile, modèle du célèbre tableau de Manet. Tous les secrets de l’œuvre dans un mini-livre : la véritable histoire du peintre et de son chef-d’œuvre.
270 MM X 270 MM - 32 PAGES + 1 FLAP WITH A SMALL BOOK UNDERNEATH - HARDBACK - €18 - 2013 UNE GRANDE ŒUVRE
UNE BELLE HISTOIRE
The "riding hood" himself has become an old man and tells us his story. Once upon a time, in Brooklyn, he was a young boy, full of dreams…
A picture book which mixes art and fiction, with a mini-book to discover all the secrets
Émile est orphelin et, à dix ans, fait partie des jeunes musiciens de la Garde impériale. Un jour, alors qu’il est puni et doit rester seul dans la caserne pour récurer le réfectoire, on lui demande d’accompagner le commandant Lejosne chez un peintre... Émile prend peur. Que va-t-il donc lui arriver ? L’histoire émouvante d’un enfant de troupe inconnu qui devient le modèle d’un des tableaux les plus célèbres au monde.
of Edouard Manet's masterpiece.
Filled with hints to the famous tale, a beautiful and surprising story in the New York of the
Émile, le petit fifre
Rébecca Dautremer, ill. by Arthur Le Bœuf
Sébastien Mourrain
The Wolf from the 135 Avenue
confides in the old tree...
Anne de La Boulaye
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Anne de La Boulaye
Sébastien Mourrain
Émile, le petit fifre d’après le tableau d’Édouard Manet
ISBN : 978-2-02-107334-8
18 €
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If I Were An Animal
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Aurélia Alcais 195 X 285 MM – 48 PAGES – HARDBACK - €15 – 2014
MARTINE DELERM Constance's Inconstancies
A catalogue of delicate pictures of creatures mixing humans and animals which take you to a world of absurd imagination and poetic dreams. When I am a dog, I will bark without reason and Without Reason will congrat me ! When I am a lion, I won’t need an epiphany
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240 X 240 MM – 32 PAGES – HARDCOVER - €13.50 – 2014
cake to be a king anymore. And my mane will keep me warm all winter long. Imagine what you could do if you were an animal!
Constance has a name which doesn’t suit her, the only certainty she has is she doesn’t want to choose. Constance likes noise but silence too, summer and winter as well, laughing and crying… All through the book, the reader discovers her tergiversations.
My Grandpa
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Once again, Martine Delerm offers a poetic world where the illustrations are soft and combined with the words' melody.
Christine Schneider, ill. by Gilles Rapaport 220 X 285 MM – 32 PAGES – HARDCOVER - €13.50 – 2014
The tender and poetic story of a strong relationship between a little child and his granddad. From the small child's point of view, his granddad looks like a giant! And the child loves feeling like such a small thing next to this sweet ogre who tells him tender words with his deep voice.He has got immense wrinkled hands who makes his hands warm, gigantic ears like nutshells, from which he can pull the lobes and the white hairs, a skin as soft as velvet...
FABIAN NEGRIN I Beg your Pardon? 6+
PREVIOUS TITLES:
Inner Little Feelings
Barnabé, Painter of Shadow Sold: Simplified Chinese
Red Nose Sold: Simplified Chinese
The Tightrope Walker
The Little Girl without Matches
Sold: Simplified Chinese
Sold: Simplified Chinese
225 X 310 MM – 40 PAGES – HARDBACK – €15.50 - JUNE 6, 2015
Fragiles Sold: Simplified Chinese
Clemence and the Great Umbrella Sold: Simplified Chinese
Rights sold: Italian A beautiful and quirky book to laugh and play with the language! There’s a strong wind today, no one can properly hear what the others are saying. A little boy is looking for something for his father. His query is passed on from one person to another, but they hear on the grapevine completely different things. The original message is distorted and distorted again, with absurd and quirky meanings.
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Frida and Diego In the Skeletons’ Country 255 X 345 MM - 40 PAGES - HARDBACK - €16.50
My Grandma’s Secret Marie Sellier, ill. by Armande Oswald
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230 X 230 MM - 48 PAGES - HARDBACK - €13.90 - 2013
Marie likes her grandma. She always wears a lovely little bun... But she also wears those Sold: Italian, Spanish (South America), Korean In each culture, we celebrate the dead. All souls' day, Halloween, the ways of honouring them are quite different. In Mexico, the Day of the Dead is one of the most important festivals. In this album, Fabian Negrin illustrates
ugly boots Marie is afraid of. She can feel that each time she visits her grandma with her mum they both feel relieved when they go home. She can feel that those boots carry a terrible secret… What can be more terrible when you’re a child than a family secret?
the preparations and the joyous side of this tradition, through the characters of Frida Kahlo and Diego Ribera, emblematic figures of Mexico, as children. Selected in Martin Salisbury's 100 Great Children's Picture Books, Laurence King, 2015.
Animals 5+
240 X 310 MM - 40 PAGES - HARDBACK - €15
Sold: Italian, Korean Two children get lost in the forest. Animal imagery is used as a metaphor to portray their feelings. A story filled with humour and beautiful illustrations with frightening undertones by 2010 Bologna Book Fair Non-fiction awarded author.
Little Nap Anne Brouillard
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230 X 300 MM – 32 PAGES – HARDBACK – €13.50 – 2014
A soft, poetic and sweet picture book by Anne Brouillard. Deep in the forest, in front a small house, laying in its snug pram, a baby is sound asleep. In the house, a grandma is peeling apples to prepare the afternoon tea. Then animals from the forest appear: a badger, a fox, a hare, a squirrel, field mice… They come close, intrigued by the baby who is waking up. They all try to put him to sleep again and to entertain him.
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Off Xavier Salomo
ANDRÉ BOUCHARD 4+
195 X 250 MM – 56 PAGES – HARDBACK - €15 – 2014
A dystopic picture book without words, dealing poetically with the hot topic of nuclear plants. A little boy and his reindeer walk through dark and mineral landscapes. They will help nature reclaim those desolate places, and bring life and colours back around them.
A Fairy’s Afternoon
240 X 310 MM – 40 PAGES – HARDBACK – €13.50 – OCTOBER 1, 2015
Rights sold: Spanish Two little girls are spending their afternoon in the park, when one of them starts transforming things around. Exciting! Until she transforms her friend into a toad...
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Sin the Watchman Françoise de Guibert, ill. by Audrey Calleja 225 X 290 MM – 40 PAGES – HARDBACK - €13.50 – MARCH 3, 2016
A lonely spot of ink in a notebook dreams of freedom, and escapes the attic he lives in to explore the world outside… but one night, he meets a young girl and his life is turned upside down.
• Ernest, Master of the World - Sold: Spanish • There is a Woooolf - Sold: German, Spanish • Lion Don't Eat Dog Food - Sold: Simplified Chinese, Castilian, Greek • The Abominable Handbag - Sold: Korean • When dad was a child, there were dinosaurs Sold: Korean, Simplified Chinese, Afrikaans, Castilian • Yuk-Yuk! - Sold: Simplified Chinese • Before School Existed - Sold: Simplified Chinese, Afrikaans, Spanish World
They Can See Your Bottom! Vincent Malone, ill. by Vincent Boudgourd
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255 X 360 MM – 40 PAGES – HARDBACK - €16 – 2014
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The Tall and The Small
With the sharp words of Vincent Malone, a small detail can turn the most serious situations
Catherine Leblanc, ill. by Jean-François Martin
pen, on the national day parade, at a protest… one character unintentionally shows us his
280 X 182 MM – 32 PAGES – HARDBACK – €13.90 – SEPTEMBER 24, 2015
Telling the friendship story of a tall character and a small one, this beautiful picture book invites children to keep their chins up and relish the moments shared with friends.
into ridiculous scenes. During a walk in the museum among the nudes, in the baboons’ backside. The gap between those ridiculous situations and the pompous journalistic tone of the text will make you laugh out loud!
The King is Crazy 270 X 200 MM – 40 PAGES – HARDBACK – €11.90 – MARCH 3, 2016
There once was a king who stayed in his castle while his queen went to visit her cousin.
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One day, he fell on his head: he went completely mad and started to terrorize his whole kingdom. One morning, he noticed a beautiful lady approaching the castle in a golden
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Looking for Santa Claus Thierry Dedieu 260 X 360 MM – 64 PAGES – HARDBACK - €18 – NOVEMBER 5, 2015
A beautiful picture book for the end of the year telling the beautiful story of a brave snowman looking for Santa Claus. He starts his journey carrying many gifts and provisions, but as he goes along, he meets animals in the forest and he has to give them all the things he has got for them to let him go.
carriage. He invited her into his castle (though he thought her crazy, when she insisted that she was his queen). A sprightly album that reminds us that, though love can make us lose our mind, it can also bring it back.
My Zombi Friend Vincent Malone, ill. by Miré
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290 X 158 MM – 64 PAGES – HARDCOVER - €13.50 – 2014
Rights sold: Russian “When I was a child, I was often sad. I stayed seated. Hours, days, alone, just like that. Telling myself zombie stories. And I listened to noises (because the zombies try to eat you by surprise). But I did not hear anything when my zombie came. Except when he fell, just
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Wonderful Neighbours
GILLES BACHELET The Knight of Flat Out
Mrs White Rabbit 230 X 330 MM - 40 PAGES HARDBACK - €15
6+
240 X 330 MM – 36 PAGES - HARDBACK - €15 - 2014
The Knight of Flat Out is going
Everything you have ever wanted to know about the White Rabbit from Alice in
to fight his rival Flabby-Horn. But before leaving, the snail
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hints from the famous tale
his Facebook page, kissing wife
by Lewis Caroll.
and kids… When he arrives on the battlefield, it’s already lunch
Sold: German, Swedish, Danish, Japanese, Italian, Dutch, Korean, Simplified Chinese, World English, World Castilian
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200 X 360 MM – 32 PAGES – HARDBACK- €12.90 - JANUARY 7, 2016
Sold: German, Korean, Russian, Simplified Chinese Gazing out the window, what do you see? Twelve double-pages, one for every month, tell the story of a neighbourhood. As time goes by, the sheep’s quiet – too quiet – neighbourhood is turning into a real zoo
having his breakfast, updating
quirky details and amusing
ic ard st P Be k Aw o Bo
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has to resolve some details :
Wonderland! With plenty of
12 20 euil ntr ir: o M Fa e ok Bo tur
Hélène Lasserre, ill. by Gilles Bonataux
time! A new meeting is set for the day after. But the day after… Sold: Italian, Spanish, Catalan
So Chic! Marie Dorléans
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220 X 285 MM - 32 PAGES - HARDBACK - €13.50 - MAY 2015
Sold: Korean, German, Russian An elegant picture book that humorously illustrates the ridiculous excesses of our
A Flying Story…
consumer society.
180 X 250 MM – 32 PAGES – HARDBACK – €13.90 – JANUARY 21, 2016
Sold: Italian
A stallholder tirelessly shouts : “Who wants coffee shoes, bag hats, a rain carpet?”. Intrigued by all those unknown objects, clients rush in numbers to buy those things they don’t own yet. Marie Dorléans diverts many ustensils from their primary use to give birth to situations and
Before going to sleep, a story must be told. But there are all sorts of types
images filled with absurdity and humour.
of stories… as many as there are types of mommies, daddies… and babies… This sweet book for small children is filled to the brim with sense of humour, nods and attention to details.
What if I Clear up My Plate? Coralie Saudo, ill. by Melanie Grandgirard
PREVIOUS TITLES:
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160 X 340 MM - 32 PAGES - HARDBACK - €11.50 - 2013
The Silliest Cat in the World
When the Silliest Cat Was Small
Sold: Danish, Japanese, German, World English, Chinese, Korean, Dutch, Hebrew,Norwegian, Czech, Italian, Castilian, Afrikaans,Portuguese (Brazil), Russian, Swedish
65,000 copies sold Baobab award
There are no ostriches in fairy tales
The Latest News from my Cat
Buffon's Monkey
Mushroomeon Bonaparte Sold: Italian
Sold: Portuguese (Brazil) A book for children short of ideas to avoid clearing their plates! A young boy who has been asked to eat his soup imagines all sorts of funny consequences, each more entertaining than the last… At some point, he’ll no longer be forced to eat soup! But he’ll have to stoop to fit through doors, he’ll have to go to the middle of the ocean to submerge himself in water without banging his head…
It’s my Cruncrunk! Lionel le Néouanic
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195 X 265 MM – 48 PAGES – HARDBACK – €16 – 2015
Cruncrunk is Pweek’s cuddly toy. Pweek is a Thingy who lives on the Thingamajig planet. Together they will live extraordinary adventures with their friend Zul, fighting the mean Bigamajigs. A hilarious friendship story.
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Wanted: Super Parents
CLAUDINE DESMARTEAU 6+
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Elisabeth Brami, ill. by Loïc Froissard
The Little Rebel
170 X 240 MM – 64 PAGES – HARDBACK - €13.50 – 2014
Through 40 irreverent adds, here is a wide overview of sorrows, disappointments, dreams
160 X 160MM - 152 PAGES - HARDBACK - €14
and justified demands by young and older children. Each add is a personal call to a dad, a
Sold: Portuguese (Brazil), Korean, Japanese, Dutch
mum, ideal parents, or at least better adapted ones: little gourmet looking for pastry chef father, girl wanting to remain the only child sells off pregnant mum, mistreated boy looks
From the first endpaper, the tone is set: ‘’to
to tidy my bedroom far too often in my
read in the evening to your parents before
life. The words in this book are not listed
putting them to bed’’. 35 ‘’rebellious’’
in alphabetical order. They are listed in the
definitions made by a very perceptive kid.
order I like because by the way this book is
For example: "To tidy: I have been asked
not a bedroom."
for fair parents. A humourous picture book, sharp and tender at the same time.
The Low Way Code
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Vincent Malone, ill. by Vincent Boudgourd 240 X 180 MM – 72 PAGES – HARDBACK - €13.50 – 2014
PREVIOUS TITLES:
Mum was a little girl before being mummy
The Dictionary of Synonyms
Text by Valérie Larrondo 25,000 copies sold Sold: German, World English, Dutch, Japanese, Portuguese (Brazil), Castilian
When parents or parents-to-be pass the highway code, they have to answer loads of questions, but strangely none takes into account the passengers: kids! This book compensates this huge lack. Presented as a Multiple Choice Questionnaire like the Highway code test, the situations are described through the eyes of kids that imagine the possible answers their parents could make. With a bit of annoyment, this hilarious questionnaire will remind everyone the joys of being on the road.
There Are Rules / At School Laurence Salaün, ill. by Gilles Rapaport
The “I’ve Had Enough” Big Book 5+
Elisabeth Brami, ill. by Gilles Rapaport 160 X 160 MM - 96 PAGES - HARDBACK - €12.90 - 2013
Sold: Spanish, Simplified Chinese
- I shall not play with matches, lighters, gaz, flint… Mum is not a firefighter.
The Little Chiefs Valérie Larrondo, ill. by Camille Van Hoof 190 X 270 MM – 56 PAGES – HARDCOVER – €12 – APRIL 2015
Leon and Cesar had always been commanding everything and everybody. They thought the entire world always obeyed them, until they met Violette. Though those all-powerful kid, this picture book deals with a major topic: Respect.
Laurence Salaün Gilles Rapa
Children have rights, all right, but they also have duties.
At last, a book to help out kids from 5 years (and under) to 7 years (and older). "I’ve had
irritations that all children experience.
Il y a des règles ! port
Written in a humourous – and slightly annoyed - tone to tell things once and for all, here
collection of annoying things, from all the everyday misunderstandings to the age-old
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la maison
70 written and illustrated rules for children to remember what you repeat all day long!
A humorous little kid’s defence manifesto for when your parents don’t give you some breathing space!
enough of Mum making me put extra clothes on when she’s the one who’s cold." There’s a
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2 TITLES 180 X 330 MM – 72 PAGES – HARDBACK - €13.90 – 2014
À
are a list of humourously illustrated rules that all children should have in mind! - I shall not ask dad his permission when mum has already said NO! Even if I know he would say yes.
Thanks Mum! Thanks Dad!
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Elisabeth Brami, ill. by Adèle Garceau 2 TITLES 160 X 160 MM - 96 PAGES - HARDBACK - €12.50 – MAY, 2015
Help children thank their mums and their dads with those two books! 45 impertinent and humourous thank yous to celebrate Mother’s and Father’s Days! “Thank you mum for teaching me how to make bubbles while forgetting the dinner that is burning.” “Thank you mum for guessing when I am sad. You’re very gifted in the art of consolation.” Humour, tenderness, grumbling... With her sharp and tender style Elisabeth Brami deals with all kinds of realistic situations and feelings.
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Lost Story Marti Meritxell, ill. by Xavier Salomo 285 X 220 MM – 40 PAGES – HARDBACK – €13.50 – MARCH 3, 2016
9 TITLES SEVERAL AUTHORS - 240 X 175 MM - 48 PAGES - HARDBACK - €12
How to tell a story when the author and the illustrator do not agree on the story!?
• Who Wants the Squat Bears Dead? (Emile Bravo)
Eva is impatient to meet her cousin. But the illustrator’s pencil goes haywire, transporting the characters to the countryside, and putting all sorts of objects in their way. Eva will not arrive at her cousin’s house as quickly as the narrator would have wanted, and will not be the only one surprised.
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The Gang of Little Ones
Tidy up your Room! Xavier Salomó
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Sold: Italian, Simplified Chinese, Russian. SERIES FILM RIGHTS SOLD Emile Bravo tells his own humourous version of the classic fairy tales in the fifth title of his successful series: already more than 78,000 copies sold accross the first four titles! Snow White, fed up with being a skivvy, decides to leave. But our squat bears won't be lonely: soon come to their house a new housekeeper called Donkeyskin and a man at least as grimy, wearing a bear skin and looking for board and lodging. Our squat bears are sure having unmasked Bluebeard himself. They clear off the house quickly because they think he wants them dead!
300 X 230 MM – 32 PAGES – HARDBACK + 1 LARGE FLAP - €16 – 2014
Sold: Catalan, Simplified Chinese
PREVIOUS TITLES IN THE GANG OF LITTLE ONES SERIES:
Tidy up your room! His dad tells François, a messy little boy. Day after day, François’s room is more and more chaotic, it gets more and more difficult for him -and for the reader!- to find out the objects he needs. A fun look and find game and a tender book.
• The Fantastic Tales of the Seven Squat Bears by Emile Bravo 276 X 200 MM - 96 PAGES - HARDBACK - BIND-UP
• Goldie Locks and the Seven Squat Bears by Emile Bravo
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The Little Pig’s Secret Philippe Jalbert
Sold: German, Italian, Castilian, English (US), Finnish, Danish, Russian, Simplified Chinese
• The Hunger of the Seven Squat Bears by Emile Bravo
160 X 260 MM – 48 PAGES – HARDBACK – €13.50 – AUGUST 27, 2015
Sold: German, English (US), Finnish, Castilian, Italian, Russian, Simplified Chinese
Sold: Simplified Chinese
• Beauty and the Squat Bears by Emile Bravo
A funny picture book which confirms that keeping a secret away from curious and
Sold: German, English (US), Finnish, Italian, Simplified Chinese, Russian
manipulative people is not easy. Even for this obstinate pig.
• Niac Niac! by Lionel Le Néouanic • The Bear Who Stole Sausages by Alain Crozon Sold: Korean, Japanese • The Pirate’s Son by Vincent Bourgeau
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Why Don't You Love Me Anymore? Declaration of Love Philippe Jalbert 210 X 260 MM – 32 PAGES – HARDBACK - €12.90 – 2014 260 X 260 MM – 40 PAGES – HARDCOVER - €13.50 - AUGUST 2014
Two sweet and humorous picture books about love.
• The Pirate’s Father by Vincent Bourgeau
Line of Fire Barroux
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180 MM X 245 MM – 196 PAGES – HARDCOVER
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The Smartypants Guidebook Elisabeth Brami, ill. by Serge Bloch 210 X 210 MM – 144 PAGES – HARDBACK - €19.50 – 2013
What is the point in being scolded if you can't laugh about it?
Sold: World English “With efficient sober illustrations, this testimony is as powerful as moving” (20 Minutes) “We need the voice of a witness to tell the unadulterated truth. We have it in the remarkable book”. Michael Morpurgo. This book has been a lucky coincidence: An old notebook was thrown away on the street,
To celebrate the 120th birthday of the illustrious Petit Bateau brand, Elisabeth Brami
illustrator Barroux walked by, picked it up, and turned it into a wonderful historical
finds rhyms for nonsense and Serge Bloch's drawings are pure joy and simplicity. Impish
testimony.
spirits are invited to reminisce about their past mischievous deeds, and maybe to test new ones.
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Corn Seeds
Little Tales to Read on the Carpet
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Manfeï Obin, ill. by Olivier Charpentier 230 X 330 MM ‒ 32 PAGES - HARDBACK, CUT FLUSH THREE EDGES (EXPOSED BOARD) - €15 - 2012
25 TITLES - BOARD BOOKS EXIST IN 2 FORMATS: - LARGE FORMAT: 12 PAGES - 250 X 350 MM - ONE BIG FLAP WITH THE TEXT IN THE END - €13 - SMALL FORMAT: 12 PAGES / 250 X 175 MM - €7.50
Sold: Portuguese (Brazil)
Board books telling beautiful stories from around the world.
brilliantly illustrated by Olivier Charpentier’s naive illustrations.
A beautiful African tale that highlights important values – honesty and integrity,
An innovative large format, the spreads are with pictures only and you can read the text on one flap placed at the end of the book while the child is looking at the illustrations or turning the pages. You can also show the images to several children or a classroom, folded towards yourself.
The Lion and The Three Buffaloes
Small format: The text is on the left page and the illustrations on the right page.
Moncef Dhouib, ill. by May Angeli
showing the illustrated spreads to them while you read the text on the flap you have
Only available in large format • Three Little Pigs • Town Musicians of Bremen • The Little Jackal and the Alligator
• Mrs Porcupine’s Boubou • The Lion with Bad Breath • I Am the King! • Snow White • The Booted Cat
• The Wolf and the Dove • Itak and the Whale • Hadidouène and the Ogresse’s Donkey • The Rabbit and the Tiger
• The Magic Pot • How Little Monkey Saved his Heart • The Three Fishes • The Three Wishes • Abu Kassem’s Slippers
230 X 330 MM – 32 PAGES – HARDBACK - €15 – 2014
Sold: Korean, Arabic (Tunisia)
2013
Be Illus st tra Awa tor rd
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Musé e de l'I llustr ation Jeune sse
Beautiful bi-chromic engravings on wood illustrate this cruel Arabic traditional tale about the consequences of submission, facing oppression and powerful people. Once upon a time there were 3 buffaloes: one was white as the moon, the other was black as the night, and the third one yellow as the ground. One morning, they decided to leave
Available in both formats • The Ugly Little Duck Sold: Spanish (South America & US)
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• Little Red Riding Hood Sold: Spanish (South America & US)
• Why Can’t the Tiger Climb Trees?
• Why Does the Tortoise’s Shell… ?
• Goldie Locks and the Three Bears
• The Wolf’s Big Fishing
• The Gingerbread Man
• The Little Red Hen
• The Wise Little Girl
The Very Little Pigs Angélique Villeneuve, ill. by Martine Camillieri 205 X 360 MM – 48 PAGES – HARDBACK - €13.90 – 2013
A quirky, original and humourous version of The Three Little Pigs by a renowned visual artist: Martine Camillieri created ephemeral works, recycling toys, waste or food and took pictures of those works to denounce our consumer society. Once upon a time, there were three very little pigs called Ham, Pâté and Bacon. One built his house with straws, one with toasted bread and the third one with sugar pieces…
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Chinese Tales
their green valley to discover the world.
The Birdless Kingdom
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Gilles Baum, ill. by Thierry Dedieu 230 X 330 MM - 32 PAGES - HARDBACK, CUT FLUSH THREE EDGES (EXPOSED BOARD) - €15 - 2013
The Maharaja, inconsonsolable after the death of his bird, decrees that no more birds will be allowed to fly over the country. All the birds are immediately hunted down and killed. Rahi goes on a mission to free the fowl. At the country’s border, he notices that an army is about to attack the birdless kingdom. He orders the birds to carry this message. The country is saved and becomes the kingdom of birds.
Guillaume Olive, ill. by He Zhihong
Yoshka
230 X 300 MM – 64 PAGES – HARDCOVER - €18 – 2014
Sabine du Faÿ, ill. by Gwen Keraval
5+
Sold: Simplified Chinese 230 X 330 MM – 32 PAGES – HARDBACK – CUT FLUSH THREE EDGES (EXPOSED BOARD) - €16 – 2013
Chinese celebrations which punctuate the lunar calendar come from old legends. This picture book, tells the tales of the eight most famous celebrations of the year: Spring, Lantern, Qingming, Duanwu, Qiqiao, Moon, Chongyang and Laba. For each tale you can read a short presentation of the celebration and an activity to
A gipsy mother tells with tenderness the journey and the extraordinary childhood of her son, from the huge spaces in Central Asia to the cities in Western Europe. A beautifull initiation story with tender illustrations, wich tells the pride of growing up.
do: ravioli receipe, DIY paper lantern, DIY kite, etc. While respecting the major Chinese traditions, He Zhihong’s rice paper paintings give this book a particular sensitivity.
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Picture books
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Picture books Three Princesses / The Girl With the Ribbon
The Big Bad Book
Anne Buguet
Catherine Leblanc, ill. by Charlotte des Ligneris
260 X 372 MM - 48 PAGES - HARDBACK - €18 – 2014 / 260 X 340 MM - 40 PP - HARDBACK - €18 – 2015
Sold: Spanish (Latin America), Greek
5+
210 X 260 MM – 32 PAGES – HARDBACK - €13 – 2014
Sold: Korean
Beautifull large format picture books with invented tales and illustrations inspired by
This is a message for all little girls: when you are threatened, use the right words. As for
famous paintings.
you, dear wolves, be wary of the Big Bad Book! While she is on her way to her grandma’s
- An Andalucian tale with illustrations inspired by the Italian Renaissance.
house, Amelie manages thanks to her imagination to escape from the wolf three times.
- A northern European tale that pays tribute to the great Flemish masters.
He will even run away when she pretends to read him the story of a little girl who eats a wolf… A humourous tribute to the Red Riding Hood.
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The Man with the Bear Skin Anne Jonas, ill. by Sebastien Mourrain 230 X 330 MM - 32 PAGES - HARDBACK - €15 - 2013
A sombre fairy-tale, with a happy ending, from the Grimm brothers, that is accompanied by brilliant illustrations by Sebastien Mourrain. This is the story of a soldier that witnesses the declaration of peace. Without an army and
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The Great Crossing Agathe Demois, Vincent Godeau 230 X 330 MM – 32 PAGES – HARDBACK – 1 RED MAGNIFYING GLASS INCLUDED - €16 – 2014
Sold: German, Italian, Finnish, Dutch, Korean, Simplified & Complex Chinese, World English, Portuguese, Spanish, Japanese Take a look through the red magnifying glass to discover a hidden world!
without resources: this solider only knows how to fight. He’s about to let himself die when
From the Arctic to the tropical forest, a bird crosses over twelve red monochrome
the devil appears. The devil promises him all the money that he could hope to live very well
landscapes: a city, a garden, a factory etc. At the end of the book, a red magnifying glass
on the condition that, for seven years, he doesn’t wash or shave, cut his nails or hair, and
invites the reader to rediscover those landscapes. Amazing, absurd, mechanical, poetic or
wears a bearskin day and night…
funny scenes that were hidden under the red lines suddenly appear.
Baba Yaga Claude Clément, ill. by Paul Echegoyen 260 X 380 MM - 32 PAGES - HARDBACK - €18 – 2013
One of the best known classic Russian fairy tales in a beautiful large edition. Once upon a time, there was a young girl named Vassilissa who was hated by her horrible step-mother. One day, to get rid of her, she sends the girl to find a needle and thread at the house of the terrible Baba Yaga… Featuring illustrations by a young and talented illustator.
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A thousand details, situations and zany characters come alive under our astonished eyes. A fascinating book. "The Great Crossing is one of the most important children's book of this Fall." Livres Hebdo, August 2014 " Not many books make us gasp . this one definitly did. In fact , we broke records on the longest jaw-drop ever when we discovered this magical book." Anorak Magazine, UK Short listed as one of 2015 most beautiful children's books by the German Art book Foundation Stiftung Buchkunst.
Coppelia / Petrouchka / The Nutcracker 6+
Claude Clément, ill. by Daniela Cytryn, Federico Combi & Beppe Giacobbe 260 X 380 MM - 40 PAGES - HARDBACK - €18 - 2012/2014
What-Is-Happening? David McNeil, ill.by Tina Mercié 230 X 330 MM - 16 PAGES WITH FLAPS - HARDBACK - €18 - 2012
3 outstanding picture books with a very large format,
Sold: Italian, Castilian, German
inspired by famous ballets, shown worldwide and
A surprising, strange and beautiful picture book in which pictures unfold to show us a
danced by little girls for many years. In the end, a spread
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different version of reality… Be careful, you may get a few surprises!
packed full of stories puts in perspective the adaptation
A small dormouse and a mole are walking in a field… but where-are-they-going?
of the ballet into this picture book.
A big pink heart made of feathers is floating as if by magic in the blue sky… but what-is-it? When we unfold the flap on each double page, the animals reveal a giant vegetable; the heart made of feathers is actually two flamingos hugging…
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Reference
The Big Busy Encyclopedia
Over and Under
Thierry Laval
Anne-Sophie Baumann
Sold: Simplified Chinese, Russian 240 X 285 MM - 96 PAGES - HARDBACK - €14.90 - 2013
3 TITLES 160 X 320 MM – 10 PAGES, EACH OF THE 5 SPREADS WITH ONE LARGE FLAP TO UNFOLD DOWN AND SEVERAL SMALL FLAPS TO LIFT – HARDBACK - €15 – 2013 - 2014
A thematic picture book in the style of the large illustrated pages of encyclopedias, this is
What’s underneath your feet? Let’s take a quick glance! A beautiful series
an incredible new book that will keep children entertained for hours. Each picture section looks at different ways of presenting things: comparisons, chronologies, families, similarities, differences.
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flap on each double-page to discover what’s hidden under it. In Over and Under, the City, you’ll discover everything about the underground, underneath the marketplace, the high street, the park, the buildings and the
Tatsu Nagata’s Natural Science
metro station.
Japanese professor Tatsu Nagata tells us the secrets of animals. Animal documentaries in which everything important is put forward, simply, with humour and with quirky illustrations for kids to remember.
• The Rabbit (Feb. 2015) Sold: Korean, Simp. Chinese
• The Bee (2014)
Sold: Portuguese (Brazil), Simplified Chinese, Korean
• The Ant
Sold: Korean, Thaï
Sold: Simplified Chinese, Korean
• The Giraffe (2014)
• The Hedgehog
• The Penguin
• The Snail
• The Tortoise
• The Shark
Sold: Korean, Simp. Chinese
Sold: Simplified Chinese, Korean Sold: Simplified Chinese, Korean
• The Frog
Sold: Simplified Chinese, Korean
• The Owl
Sold: Portuguese (Brazil), Simplified Chinese, Korean
• The Mole
Sold: Simplified Chinese, Korean Rights sold: Simplified Chinese, Korean Sold: Thai/English, Korean, Simp. Chinese
• The Whale
Sold: Korean, Simp. Chinese
• Over and Under, the City (ill. by Alexandra Huard, 2013)
• The Lion
Sold: German, Russian, Simplified Chinese
Sold: Korean, Simp. Chinese
• The Bear
Sold: Korean, Simp. Chinese
• The Louse
Sold: Korean
• The Pig
Sold: Korean
• The Cow
Sold: Portuguese (Brazil), Simplified Chinese, Korean
• The Red Worm
• The Fox
Sold: Korean
Sold: Portuguese (Brazil), Simplified Chinese, Korean
• The Beaver
• The Hen
Sold: Simp. Chinese Sold: Korean
• The Rat
• The Spider
Sold: Korean
• Over and Under, Nature (ill. by Clotilde Perrin, September 2014) Sold: Dutch, Simplified Chinese, German, Russian
Sold: Korean, Simp. Chinese
• The Gorilla
• The Wolf
• Over and Under, Around the World (ill. by C. Piccard, 2016) Sold: Russian, German
• The Ostrich
Sold: Korean, Simp. Chinese Sold: Korean
Mountains, Woods, Seaside, River and Countryside are shown in the new title Over and Under, Nature.
29 TITLES + 2 BIND-UPS 190 X 270 MM - 32 PAGES - HARDBACK - €8.50
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which helps us cross the visible borders of our environment. You can unfold a
Key themes include: animals, vehicles, people, vegetables, geography, human body…
• The Fire Bug (Aug.2015) • The Crocodile
5+
Sold: Korean Sold: Korean, Simp. Chinese
• The Horse
Sold: Korean, Simp. Chinese Bind-ups:
• Tatsu Nagata's Little Animals • Tatsu Nagata's Big Animals Sold: Basque
Fantastic Creatures
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Paul Rouillac 200 X 280 MM - 18 PAGES WITH 7 POP-UPS - €18.00 – OCTOBER 2015
A beautiful bestiary of legendary animals in 7 pop-ups! On each double spread, a large central pop-up along with lively texts tell us everything about the stories and characteristics of each creature. Cerberus, Pegasus, the Mermaid, the Minotaur, the Sphinx, the Dragon, the Werewolf… discover in three dimensions those sometimes worrying, often amusing and always fascinating characters from mythology and fairy tales.
Tatsu Nagata’s Nature Squares 6 TITLES 190 X 190 MM ‒ 32 PAGES ‒ HARDBACK - €6.90
• Of Animals that are freezing • Of Animals as low as the grass • Of Animals with sand between their toes • Of Animals that share the forests with the wolf • Of Animals that are reflected in the pond • Of Animals that should wear a cap
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Reference
Metamorphoses Frédéric Clément
GUILLAUME DUPRAT
285 X 255 MM – 40 PAGES – HARDBACK - €15 – OCTOBER 8, 2015
Zoo-optic
Rights sold: German, Russian, Korean, Simplified Chinese
245 X 330 MM - 32 PAGES WITH FLAPS - HARDBACK - €18 - 2013
A poetic reference book that shows twelve metamorphoses in the vegetal and animal kingdoms.
Sold: Italian, German, Danish, Castilian, Dutch, Japanese, Russian, Simplified & Complex Chinese , Turkish, Korean
How does a common bulb become a magnificent tulip? How does a tadpole transforms
20 portraits of animals that help us understand what they see.
into a frog? What are the steps for a larva to become, a caterpillar, a butterfly? In this beautiful book, the reader can watch twelve fascinating metamorphoses. Halfway between a reference book and an art book, Metamorphoses is an invitation to marvel at the wonders of nature!
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For each portrait, a flap in the shape of an eye mask conceals the animal’s perspective. Under the flap, simple explanations reveal what they can see and why. The animals are categorised by family - mammals, birds, amphibias and reptiles, insects with a helpful introduction that provides instructions for each section.
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On the Road to Biodiversity
You can discover how monkeys, dogs, cats, rabbits, squirrels, bats, mice, cows, horses,
Isaline Aubin, ill. by Marc Boutavant
tortoises, chameleons, bees, flies or butterflies see the same landscape, with fascinating
245 X 255 MM – 40 PAGES – HARDBACK – €13.20
shown at the beginning of the book and to a very wide and precise view of this landscape
Written in collaboration with the National History Museum (Paris) this book shows
A fascinating work that will broaden your perspective of the world!
the importance of the biological diversity of our environment. Starting with the child’s
eagles, owls, pigeons, hummingbirds, woodcocks, frogs, worms, snails, snakes, explanations. You can also compare that to the human eye view of this same landscape shown in the end.
“It’s entertaining and very clever” L’Humanité “Thank you, Guillaume Duprat” Le monde des ados
known environment, the city, and going to the river, tropical forest, and the whole planet. With colourful illustrations by Marc Boutavant.
In the Spider’s Web 7+
Delphine Godard, Christine Rollard, ill. by Marc Boutavant 210 X 300 MM – 32 PAGES – HARDBACK – €12.20
Sold: Simplified Chinese A collaboration with the National History Museum (Paris), a book to learn everything about spiders. An entertaining and lively presentation, with colourful photographs and humourous and colourful illustrations to have fun learning.
The Book One Trillion Ants 7+
Delphine Godard, ill. by Roland Garrigue 210 X 300 MM – 32 PAGES – HARDBACK - €13.50 – 2014
Sold: Simplified Chinese
2009 BOLOGNA RAGAZZI AWARD
of Imagined Worlds
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260 X 270 MM - 67 PAGES WITH FLAPS TO LIFT - HARDBACK - €20.30
Sold: Italian, German, Finnish, Castilian, Korean, Japanese, Simplified Chinese A world flat and round like a plate, a rectangle at the bottom of a box, a world in the shape of a pear, or precariously balanced on the horns of a giant buffalo, or even
A richly illustrated documentary to discover the singular social life of ants. Do ants have
buried underground... This title shows the real or symbolic geographies that scientists,
only one queen? Do they eat fruits and vegetables from the garden? What happens
shamans and explorers from all continents and periods believed in.
when one of them is in another community? And the soldiers, do they only make war? Let’s discover the ants' records, their big morphological diversity, their variety (more than 20 000 species), their peculiar social organization and their very sophisticated communication system!
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Reference
The Great Routes
My Little Art Book
Annick de Giry, ill. by Merlin
Aude Le Pichon
Sold: Simplified Chinese, Japanese, Korean
190 X 190 MM - 144 PAGES – HARDBACK - €15.00 - MARCH 2015
+ Korean edition with text only
Sold: German, Italian
270 X 290 MM - 64 PAGES - HARDBACK - €16.70
Between a fact book, a work of art and a travel journal, this wonderful book presents the major routes that have marked history and the exchanges between people and cultures: The Silk Route, The Spice Route, The Gold Route, The Tea Route, The Salt Route.
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An introduction to art history in 60 images, with simple information and little games for young children. From the bison in the prehistoric cave of Altamira, to Andy Warhol’s superman, this book contains a chronological overview of Western art through 60 works. A simple text, with technical, historical or artistic information accompanies each image and invite young readers to look at the picture in a different way and a little
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The Great World Cooking Pot Delphine Godard, Laura Guéry
game helps them get to the picture more easily (observation, quizz, riddle etc.).
Some Art in my Plate Béatrice Fontanel
230 X 330 MM – 48 PAGES – HARDCOVER – €16.70
Sold: Lithuanian From the first course to the dessert, each recipe is explained very clearly, step by step, and wonderfully illustrated for a beautiful round-the-world trip through cookery.
4+
190 X 190 MM – 96 PAGES – HARDBACK – €16 – SEPTEMBER 24, 2015
A travel into Art history through 40 painted plates from Antiquity to nowadays. The plate is the first babies’ playground: a little round world to live imaginary adventures and to travel. This book offers to the readers and their parents a way to discover the Art history and the great civilizations thanks to an amazing plate collection.
Art at your Finger Tips Annick de Giry
3+
190 X 240 MM – 80 PAGES – HARDBACK – €12.90 – FEBRUARY 4, 2016
In this reference book, Annick de Giry “dissects” five works of art, from the Renaissance to
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All About the Seasons Clementine Sourdais, Charline Picard
the early Impressionists. Page after page, the children must rebuild the painting, allowing them to delve into the secrets behind its creation (Botticelli, Georges de la Tour, William Turner…)
4 TITLES + 1 BIND-UP - 260 X 260 MM - 64 PAGES - HARDBACK - €18 - 2012 - 2013
Absolutely all you need to know about Spring, Winter, Autumn and Summer between a picture book, a work of art and a fact book. For each spread, the author and illustrator joyfully use plenty of different techniques: pencils, painting, photos, comics, linocut, digital drawing and more. Scientific information focuses on agricultural and animal life, naturalist spreads are shown to discover insects, flowers, fruits and vegetables, landscapes, poems and songs, activities: land-art, games, recipes…
Art Up Close
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Claire d’Harcourt 6 TITLES - 270 X 370 MM - 64 PAGES WITH FLAPS TO LIFT - HARDBACK - €23
Travel through time in this exciting art history lesson cleverly disguised as a game! This series gives young readers an up-close look at art around the world, with over 20
• All About the Seasons (2014) BIND-UP - 190 X 190 MM - 192 PAGES - SOFTCOVER
masterpieces, fascinating stories about each work and artist and lift-the-flap keys at the
Sold: Italian
end of the book.
• All About Spring ‒ Sold: Simplified Chinese
• Art Up Close, from Antiquity to Today - Diablotins award
• All About Winter ‒ Sold: Simplified Chinese • All About Autumn ‒ Sold: Simplified Chinese • All About Summer ‒ Sold: Simplified Chinese
Sold: English (UK & US), Castilian, Catalan, Korean, Danish Dutch, Italian, Japanese, Simplified Chinese
• Battles Up Close
Sold: Korean, Simplified Chinese
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• Masterpieces Up Close
Sold: German, Korean, Castilian, Italian, English (UK & US), Simplified Chinese
• The Louvre Up Close Sold: Korean
• Versailles and the Hall of Mirrors Up Close • Paris Up Close 39
ACTIVITY 4+
Activity
Bilingual Look and Find
bilingual
Look and Find
4 TITLES 125 X 185 MM - 14 PAGES + 10 FLAPS - €10.10
Thierry Laval, Yann Couvin
• Look and Find on the Farm
• Look and Find at School
HARDBACK - 4 FORMATS
• Look and Find on the Zoo
• Look and Find at Home
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Within very intricate scenes, go and search for the elements that are shown on the flaps. It is sometimes more complicated than it seems, so keep your eyes peeled!
Medium Look and Find
medium
9 TITLES 125 X 290 MM - 14 PAGES WITH 10 FLAPS - €10.10
• Look and Find: Princesses and Knights
Sold: Catalan, Finnish, English (US)
• Look and Find: Pharaonic Times
• Look and Find around you
• Look and Find: Nature Sold: Catalan, Finnish, Russian, Castilian, English (US)
Sold: Simplified Chinese, Finnish, Castilian, Catalan, Danish, Dutch, Russian, Basque, Spanish, English (US)
• Look and Find around the World
• Look and Find: History
Sold: Catalan, Chinese, Danish, Finnish, Russian, Basque, Spanish
• Look and Find in Imaginary lands
Giant Look and Find
Sold: German, Simplified Chinese, Castilian, Catalan, Finnish
• Look and Find: Transports
Sold: Castilian, Catalan, Finnish
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• Look and Find: Oceans
Sold: German, Simplified Chinese, Danish, Russian, Finnish, Spanish, English (US)
mini
Mini Look and Find 8 TITLES - 125 X 185 MM - 14 PAGES - + 10 FLAPS - €7.60
• Mini Look and Find: on Wednesdays
• Mini Look and Find: on the Zoo
• Mini Look and Find: on the Circus
• Mini Look and Find: Going on Holidays
• Mini Look and Find: at School
Sold: Simplified Chinese
• Mini Look and Find: on the Farm
• Mini Look and Find: at Home
• Mini Look and Find: the Four Seasons
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Sold: Simplified Chinese
My Knights Game Book Anne de la Boulaye, ill. by Léonard Dupond
7+
210 X 297 MM – 64 PAGES – SOFTCOVER - €16.90 – SEPTEMBER 3, 2015
A book with a board game to know everything about knights. From childhood to dubbing, from pilgrimage to Crusades, including fortresses, night vigils,
giant
feasts, hunting and jousting, all the life steps of the Middle Ages Knights are summarized on the 63 squares of the board.
6 TITLES - 160 X 370 MM - 16 PAGES WITH 12 FLAPS - €15.20
• Look and Find: Home (2016) Sold: Spanish, Finnish
• Look and Find: Farm (2015) Sold: Finnish, Catalan, Russian, Castilian
• Look and Find: City (2014) Sold: Finnish, Russian, Japanese, Simp. Chinese
• Look and Find: Dinosaurs (2013) Sold: Finnish, Catalan, Simplified Chinese, Russian, Dutch, Spanish, Italian
• Look and Find: Animals Sold: Danish, Finnish, Catalan, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Italian, Japanese, Castilian, Ukranian
• Look and Find: 5 Continents Sold: Catalan, Danish, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Japanese, Ukranian
The Big Book of Car Games Cedric Ramadier
5+
172 X 230 MM - 120 PAGES – WIRE-O-BINDING – €16.90 – NEW EDITION 2014
Previous edition sold: English UK & US Keep the kids amused all the way to holidays with this interactive book jam-packed with activities, games, and punch-out projects guaranteed to make any trip fly by. A colorful, spiral-bound collection of activities, masks, puppets, coloring and drawing pages, puzzles, songs, and games (including the parental favorite, King of Silence), pages of stories, trivia, riddles, and jokes; sections on geography, astronomy, and road rules; and a special selection of make-your-own postcards. The greatest thing for car trips since fast food. It's even educational - but don't tell the kids!
The Bumper Christmas Activity Book Cédric Ramadier
7+
230 X 275 MM - 78 PAGES - WIRE’O BINDING – €18 - 2013
An exciting activity book to count down and prepare for Christmas! 7 introductory themes: Home, the table, giving, counting/singing, playing, outside, after Christmas. With plenty of activities to do and information to learn.
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Fiction
FICTION
Round Like the Moon
11+
Mireille Disdero
5+
9+
140 X 205 MM – 176 PAGES – SOFTCOVER – €12.50 – APRIL 2015
Sold: Korean
Saskia doesn’t manage to fit in the groups as she is too plump. But the first person she should start seducing is herself! A subtil and intimist novel with Mireille Disdero’s realistic and clear style. Incapable of starting a diet, she has resigned herself to putting up with mocking nicknames, booings and the boys’ indifference. She has taken refuge in reading. But how can you like yourself if you think the whole world is against you? If you avoid mirrors to make sure you don’t see the image of a person you don’t want to be? Thanks to her friends’ help, Saskia will manage, slowly, to gain self-confidence and to erase, from her body and her soul, the thick flesh that isolated her from the others. • Dealing with their image has never been as difficult for teenagers as it is today
The Fleurville Trilogy
Stories before a good night’s rest
210 X 280 MM – 192 PAGES – HARDBACK- €23 – 2014
180 X 250 - 192 PAGES – HARDBACK - €18 – 2014
A beautifully and delicately illustrated edition of this classic tale of adventures of Madeleine, Camille, Marguerite and Sophie, four young girls between 4 and 8 years old in the French countryside during the Second Empire. The illustrations by Sophie de La Villefromoit capture the spirit and romantiscism of the 19th Century.
A “prequel” is a story set prior to another. It focuses on events that happened before the original story. It is with the will to discover the causes of some stories that Vincent Malone’s curiosity about children’s tales got aroused. With a peculiar humour, he invents to these 17 famous fairy tales a genesis that no one could have thought of.
Comtesse de Ségur, ill. by Sophie de La Villefromoit
Vincent Malone, ill. by Jean-Louis Cornalba
• Volume 1 : Sophie's Misfortunes - Sold: Simplified Chinese • Volume 2 : Camille and Madeleine
• An ode to reading and literature when your life goes wrong • A renowned author, recommended by teachers and librarians • A subtle and realistic friendship story
MARIE BRANTÔME 11+
ELISABETH BRAMI Letters from Lou
Your Lou, With Love 8+
8+
56 PAGES – EPISTOLARY NOVEL
This is the summer correspondance between a 9-year-old and her grandmother, both feeling lonely: Lou is for the first time going on a summer camp, and her grandma is spending her first lonely holiday as a widow, in a hotel in the South of France.
64 PAGES – EPISTOLARY NOVEL
10-year-old Lou and her grandma Thelma go on exchanging letters and sharing their souvenirs and projects until suddenly love appears in their lives…
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A bind-up of the three volumes from successful series (27,000 copies sold), illustrated by Béatrice Poncelet and Georges Lemoine.
Lou For Ever
My Dear Lou 8+
240 PAGES – EPISTOLARY NOVEL
8+
120 PAGES – EPISTOLARY NOVEL
Here is a new and more intense exchange of letters, secrets and love between the grandma and her dear grand daughter…
Your Picture in the Newspaper
After everything we have done for you
128 PAGES – FICTION DIARY
188 PAGES – FICTION DIARY
For her summer holidays, the last thing that Laure dreamt of was spending 2 months at an old couple's house with their simple-minded 30-year-old daughter Francia and some other boy Pierrot.
The diary of a teenager in distress, in 1951.
Laure will teach her new friend Pierrot how to write and read, watched by jealous Francia.
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Without Shame or Regrets 184 PAGES – FICTION DIARY
In 1959, just before turning 18, May has to suffer an unexpected setback: She fails her A-Levels and looses all her hopes: Paris, University, Freedom… She has to find a job. Earn a living.
Sold: Greek, German, Dutch
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Since her sister died from a tramway accident in front of her, May has lost her will to live and neither her mad mum, nor her blith brother or her absent dad can help. But writing gives her some hope again. May will choose to live…
‘‘Sorcières Roman" award.
Velasquez’ Princess 128 PAGES – FANTASY
When Ines sees The Maids of Honour at the Louvre, she is dazzled with the rich and splendid costumes. She wishes she was the prettiest girl in the picture… and suddendly disappears, as if absorbed by the painting. When they finally find Inès in the evening in a closed room of the museum, she looks strange and apathetic… what happened to her?
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Fiction 12+
Fiction Eutopia
12+
Jean-Marie Defossez 240 PAGES – DYSTOPIA
Orian feels weird since his last reincarnation. He is bored with the heavenly life he leads in Eutopia and cannot prevent himself from questioning everything. Follow the revolution of a young man fighting against a society based on lies and illusion…
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The Hazes Devil Luc Blanvillain
12+
12+
Amélie Sarn
12+
168 PAGES ‒ NOVEL
Marie is convinced that she was once saved last minute by Victor, the great doctor who has adopted her. But how to explain her unability to recall her own story? And this strange perception of feeling numerous?
Friendship, pleasures, curiosity, happiness… To put her life back together after her parents’ death in the tsunami, Héloïse has to learn all over again.
According to a legend, an old devil convicted to grow old for eternity will find his youth again when he seduces a Girl from the Hazes.
Marc, aged 15, forces a policeman to help find his sister he never met. Harsh and sympathetic words are exchanged inside the locked doors of the car.
Will Laura, an ordinary student, be that girl?
An original adaptation of a beautiful coming of age film by Jacques Doillon.
They made them ignorants. She wants to free them. A breathtaking dystopia in which access to knowledge is the
extraordinary intelligence. But when
key. A part of humanity have been
one of her patients comes back to life,
reduced to slavery. Exceptional Tya
her whole universe falls apart.
will try to save her people.
Dorothée Piatek, ARM
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Murielle Szac
12+
In 1945, on the brink of the
of childrens were locked up in the
German
children’s prison on a Britanny Island
find themselves involved in the
in inhuman conditions. After 2 years,
turbulence of war. Dragged against
14-year-old Marcel is shattered. But he
their wills into the waltz of History,
still has one weak hope: escaping.
some will know how to resist and join
defeat,
four
A young girl involved in a violent strike at her mother’s plant, discovers the values of the working world she thought she hated and reconciles with her mother.
At only 23, Matt Borovski becomes the most famous magician, especially known for his pickpocket acts. A journalist from a tabloid magazine interviews him to know how he became so notorious. Matt agrees to a few meetings during which he tells her about his childhood…
Fanny's Diary Fanny Ben-Ami
11+
13+
Dorothee Piatek
148 PAGES ‒ NOVEL
176 PAGES ‒ NOVEL
Since she was abused, Violette has lost her taste for life and all memories of the attack. Thanks to Arnaud, her boyfriend, she is beginning to be able to remember. A sensitive novel based on buried memory and deep love.
“The author evokes with a sense of justice, sentiments that those people must have experienced during the World War II. It’s a poignant and captivating tale.” L’Echo des Livres
In Pursuit of the Five Emperors Michel Laporte 256 PAGES ‒ HISTORICAL NOVEL
A breathtaking plot set in Imperial China, filled with conspiracies and martial arts… Young Lan is wrongfully condemned to death for attempting to kill the Emperor’s brother, but he runs away and meets three other fugitives. Will our four outlaws manage to unravel the Imperial City’s plots?
On Walipo’s Shadow Yves-Marie Clément 192 PAGES ‒ HISTORICAL NOVEL
Spain, beginning of the 19th century. Suddenly an orphan, Gabriel leaves to Venezuela to repay his father’s debts. He becomes a soldier, in charge of stopping the Indigenous’ rebellion. But when he meets the pretty Walipo, he’s not so sure of what he’s doing with his life anymore…
teenagers
I Marched in the Devil’s Footsteps
Jo Witek 160 PAGES ‒ NOVEL
The true and moving story of an incredibly brave young girl.
11+
In an Instant
144 PAGES ‒ NOVEL
168 PAGES ‒ TRUE STORY
Waltz with the Devil
the right side… whereas others won’t.
44
The Strike
In Occupied France, 13-year-old Fanny leads a group of Jewish children accross the border to Switzerland.
setting. Until the 1960s, hundreds
Mireille Disdero
The humorous and moving diary of a 13-year-old teenager. And if, for once, a novel about love for young adults was seen from the boy’s side?
168 PAGES – HISTORICAL FICTION
A heartrending story in a terribly real
13+
9+
Bertrand Solet
180 PAGES – HISTORICAL FICTION
Forgotten in the Shadows
Vol.2 : (Almost) Integral story of a failed haircut!
Johan Heliot
has built her entire life upon her
Silence of the Birds
13+
The Substitutes
Alice Crane, a young gifted coroner
Jo Witek
128 PAGES ‒ FICTION DIARY
324 PAGES – DYSTOPIA
372 PAGES – FANTASY THRILLER
(Almost) Integral story of my very first kiss
Also available a bind-up: "The sentimental diary of an almost perfect boy"
Christophe Léon
228 PAGES ‒ NOVEL
12+
12+
The Young Offender
348 PAGES – THRILLER
Alice Crane, The Crows (Vol. 1)
Mireille Disdero
324 PAGES – FANTASY THRILLER
Vol. 2 : Too Human (2015)
N. M. Zimmermann
11+
My Ocean Life
Resurectio
14+
The Mendelson’s Saga Fabrice Colin 288 PAGES – HISTORICAL NOVEL 2 VOLUMES
The destiny of a Jewish family all along the xxth century, from Odessa to Hollywood, through Vienna and New York. The story of this exceptional family is told by awarded Fabrice Colin thanks to testimonies, diaries and photos from the family’s archives.
45
Fiction 13+
Lena and Real Life Yaël Hassan
12+
112 PAGES ‒ NOVEL
Sold: Korean As her socialite parents neglect her, Lena decides to leave to a boarding school, to discover ‘‘real life’’ and build her own personality.
12+
13+
13+
304 PAGES ‒ THRILLER
304 PAGES ‒ THRILLER
A fast-paced thriller with colourful characters and hints at Agatha Christie… In a nursing home, a man’s naked dead body is found under a walnut tree. Three old men investigate on their own and seem to know more about the case than police officer Gilles Lafosse.
On his 18th birthday, Alan only has one wish: to meet the one he has never met, whom he doesn’t know anything about, not even her name: his mother. This wish will turn his life upside down. Deep characters, action and suspense: an intense thriller.
Extreme Nature Yves-Marie Clément
12+
304 PAGES ‒ THRILLER
Toxic blue Christophe Léon
112 PAGES – SHORT NOVELS
Just over 16 years old Mireille Disdero 80 PAGES ‒ NOVEL
A novel about teenage years: their wanderings, questionings and their uneasiness. A life-story, set in summer at the heart of a council house, far from the common clichés.
46
Just a Mistake Hubert Ben Kemoun 144 PAGES ‒ NOVEL
Melitine -discrete- and Melanie, more extrovert are best friends. Melanie fails at a casting for an advertising campaign. So does her main rival. Both of them will attempt to kill themselves but they will be saved at the last minute…
13+
Fragiles
Marie-Sabine Roger 144 PAGES ‒ NOVEL
Two destinies linked to two major ecological disasters… 1956 In Minamata’s Bay, Japan, children suffer from an unknown disease… 1984. In Bohpal, India, a chemical plant explodes. 14 years later, Gaz, born the night of the tragedy, tries to survive in the ruins of the factory… Shortlisted for three literary awards.
12+
Never Without Her Again Mikaël Ollivier
Claire Mazard
An ecological page-turner for today's teenagers. Five teenagers get lost in the Canadian forest close to an American former secret military zone. Suddenly, nature, animals and plants start to go wild...
12+
Gilles Fontaine
176 PAGES ‒ DYSTOPIA
A breathtaking French dystopia, written with finesse and intensity. In a close future, an unknown virus is ravaging the population. Teenagers are accused of being the perpetrators of the illness and are isolated from the rest of the population.
Yaël Hassan was awarded the 1998 "Sorcières award"
The Dead under the Walnut Tree
Virus Zero
France Télévision award 2002 Laurence is 23 and she lives with her son Nono under a bridge. Nel is a blind teenager. Step by step, we grow fond of these characters with their intimate pains, their breaks, we follow them in their daily battles, up to the day when their paths cross.
12+
E-Conspiracy Arthur Ténor
360 PAGES – THRILLER
In real life, Clotaire is an inhibited geek and Lucile is a young shy teacher. Online, in The Game they are Amber’s partner and Firefly, true heros. One day, they discover murders in The Game are perpetrated in the real world too...
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