Selling points
• MATERIAL WORLD: Author Tallec’s text offers educators and parents a creative, engaging way to discuss materialism and greed with their children.
• NOTHING AND EVERYTHING: The King and Nothing brings philosophy into early childhood in a way that’s both humorous and, more importantly, accessible.
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• BIG RED: Tallec couples his intelligent text with a bold illustration style and a can’t-miss color palette heavy on reds and whites.
• ILLUSTRATION KING: Authorillustrator Olivier Tallec has more than 9K followers on Instagram.
The King and Nothing
Text and illustrations: Olivier Tallec
Hardcover with jacket
40 pages
Width: 9”
Height: 12”
Ages: 4 to 8 Grade: P-3
Publication date: March 18, 2025
Full-color illustrations throughout ISBN: 9781990252389
Price: US$21.99 CAN$27.99
Fiction
Distributed in the US by Abrams and in Canada by Manda Group
From author-illustrator Olivier Tallec, a clever, joyful story about a king with everything who goes searching for nothing — literally.
There once lived a king who had absolutely everything — and we mean everything. From elephants without trunks, to caramel-flavored ice skates, to caterpillars on bicycles, and even storm clouds that refused to make lightning. Yes, there was simply nothing you can imagine that this king did not have… well, except for nothing itself. From authorillustrator Olivier Tallec, The King and Nothing is the wonderfully whimsical and philosophical take of one person who searches high and low for nothing, only to encounter something at every turn.
Just how far will the king go to find nothing?
Other titles by this creator You’re going to love this book! (Jory John, Olivier Tallec - Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2024), How Messy! (Clare Helen Welsh, Olivier Tallec - Happy Yak, 2022), It’s MY Tree (Olivier Tallec - Kids Can Press 2020)
Olivier Tallec is a French illustrator and graphic designer. After graduating from the École Supérieure d’Art Graphique in Paris, he worked in advertising as a graphic designer, after which he devoted himself to illustration. Since then, he has illustrated more than seventy books, in addition to numerous illustrations for newspapers and magazines. Olivier lives in Paris.
