Seuil Jeunesse Shortlist for Spain SUMMER 2017
Seuil Jeunesse in Spanish, Catalan and Basque A few examples ............................................................................. Look and Find series By Thierry Laval and Yann Couvin More than 100,000 copies printed out so far in Spanish, Catalan and Basque Publishers: SM, Cruilla, Ikasmina Translated into 10 languages Gilles Bachelet’s picture books Publishers: Juventud, Adriana Hidalgo, Calibroscopio
Wonderful Neighbours By Hélène Lasserre and Gilles Bonotaux Published by Bira Biro in Spanish and Catalan Sold in 6 languages
Once upon a time… By Madalena Matoso To be published by Anaya &Barcanova
Benjamin Lacombe’s picture books Publisher: Edelvives
Inside the Villains By Clotilde Perrin To be published by Maeva in Spanish, Catalan and Basque 2017 “Nuit du livre” Award
The Great Journey By Agathe Demois and Vincent Godeau Publisher: Patio Sold in 10 languages Shortlisted for the German Art Book foundation award (2015 best picture book)
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Cover illustration from Emmet et Cambouy, by Karen Hottois and Delphine Renon Š Editions du Seuil, 2017
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100 REASONS TO LOOK ON THE BRIGHT SIDE OF LIFE Amélie Falière March 2, 2012 150 x 150 mm – 102 pages, light card– €12.20 Rights sold: simplified Chinese
Selling Points: • A lovely way to laugh together with complaining children • Bright and humourous illustrations • A rich book but light for the small hands
No more complaining, dragging my feet or whining ... I’ve decided that I am going to look at the bright side! BRR! It's already winter ... Yes, but we can go tobogganing! I can draw pictures in the condensation on the windows. It’s hot chocolate season! Faced with 10 unpleasant situations of daily life, Amélie Faliere offers plenty of good reasons to see the positive side of each situation.
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THE LITTLE HANDBOOKS, series Paule Battault, illustrations by Anouk Ricard 175 x 175 mm – 14 pages – hardback with round corners – €9.90
Rights sold: simplified Chinese
Selling Points: • Timeless topics • Anouk Ricard’s quirky illustrations • Yes, books for toddlers about good manners can be crazy and fun!
A hilarious series to help little ones (and their parents) get through difficult moments, including going to the potty, getting ready for bed and having lunch! “Lunch time!”… In many families, open warfare starts with this sentence! For many parents, it marks the beginning of running after children who say “I’m coming!” but never do, carefully negotiating the washing of hands, praising the advantages of broccoli or zucchini, all this while stopping the youngest ones from covering the table with mashed potatoes. Here is a fun and quirky guide!
• Three titles: The Little Handbook for Lunch Time The Little Handbook for the Potty The Little Handbook for Bedtime
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1001 BABY ANIMALS Julie Colombet October 6, 2016 216 x 260 mm – 20 pages – hardback with pop-ups – €16.00 Rights sold: simplified Chinese Everything you need to know about baby animals, from the koala bear to the clown fish! Selling Points: •
A gifty reference book with 9 pop-ups
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Surprising and unique information on baby animals and their parents
Whether they’re 1, 6, or more than 1,500, baby animals are revealed in this lovely pop-up book about the mothers and their young. Did you know that at birth the baby koala is just 2 cm high and grows in the warmth of the mother’s pouch? And did you know that the mother fox has a habit of borrowing a badger’s or a rabbit’s burrow to give birth to her young? A cute title to discover species and numbers at the same time!
• Funny, tender and endearing illustrations
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THE RENDEZ-VOUS Julie Colombet June 1, 2017 190 x 230 mm - 32 pages – hardback - €11.90 A sweet and tender album to make bedtime a fun time.
Selling Points: • A tender and funny album that helps children ease into their bedtime • A beautifully crafted book with soft-touch cover and five-colour printing
Sitting on a big stone, Lapinou the rabbit waits. What is he waiting for? Or who? We do not know. Squirrel, Robin, Badger, Frog, Fox, Cat, Bear, Owl, and Deer would all like to know, but Lapinou does not answer their questions, and advises them to stay quiet. And so, they wait in silence, all together. And as the night falls, so enters the Sandman, piercing the dark with his golden grains of sand. And the animals, soothed, fall asleep. This album’s joyful growing group of animals will delight children, lulling them gently to sleep.
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EMPTY FRIDGE Gaëtan Dorémus March 19, 2009 200 x 330 mm – hardback - 44 pages - Cut flush three edges with exposed board - €14.70 Rights sold: English, Simplified Chinese A humorous yet realistic modern tale of solidarity by Gaetan Dorémus.
Selling Points: • 2015 Bologna Ragazzi Award, Books And Seeds • Promotional video available: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n etUWjAI_IM&feature=youtu.be&ap p=desktop
It seems everyone in Andrew’s block has been so busy during the day, they’ve forgotten to buy anything for dinner. Their fridges are empty … almost. With only three carrots to eat, Andrew decides to go upstairs to ask his neighbour Nabil if he’s got anything in his fridge. Nabil’s not doing much better: he only has two eggs and a small piece of cheese. Together, they decide to try the family on the second floor. As they ascend each floor of their block of flats, they gather more ingredients from more neighbours until they reach the top floor and everyone finally has enough for a meal. But what to cook? Empty Fridge is a picture book that taps into strong themes in children’s lives: the love of food, sharing, and the importance of solidarity.
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AN ELEPHANT IN NEW YORK Benoît Broyard, ill. by Delphine Jacquot October 15, 2015 275 x 360 mm – 40 pages - hardback – €16 Rights sold: Simplified Chinese, Korean This beautiful large format picture book tells the fantastic walk of a little boy and an elephant in the streets of New York.
Selling Points: • A poetic and dreamy story about friendship and imagination • Wonderful illustrations by Delphine Jacquot, winner of the Prix de L’illustration de Moulins in 2014
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 courtyard! He rushes in to tell his parents, but as they are used to their son’s wild imagination, they don’t pay attention to him. John decides to go for a walk with his new friend. Together, they stride across the streets of New York: they walk past the pizzeria, the bookshop, the candy shop and then go to the park. Strangely, on their way, the passersby hardly even notice anything… Next to one another, John and the elephant don’t need to talk, they just feel very good together. Thanks to this encounter the little boy discovers the joys of friendship.
• A beautiful tribute to the city of New York • “ A beautiful friendship story” (…) “the most lovely way to discover the Big Apple” (…) “brilliantly illustrated by Delphine Jacquot” Vogue
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WHERE ARE YOU? Benoît Broyart, ill. by Violaine Leroy September 8, 2016 220 x 295 mm – 40 pages – hardback – €13.90 Rights sold: Simplified Chinese, Korean A powerful picture book depicting the relationship between a father and a son.
Selling Points: • A powerful story about the strong relationship between father and son
Luc and Jacques are father and son. They live in a house on the outskirt of a forest. One evening, Luc, busy cutting a tree, is late coming home. Jacques grows impatient: as he stirs the soup for dinner, he decides to go out looking for his father. But he knows he is not allowed to go into the forest alone at night: Luc has forbidden it many times. But he wants to hug his father so much! He promises himself not to go further than the end of the track that leads to the dense forest...
• Violaine Leroy, a very talented illustrator • ‘Timeless, universal, this is the story of an initation with a capital I’ Ricochet
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ON THEIR TIPTOES
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Christine Schneider, Hervé Pinel October17, 2017 220 x 285 mm – 48 pages – hardback – €13.50 Rights sold: Italian Claire and Louis are spending the night at their grandparents’. When hunger leads them to leave their bed, a great adventure through the vast house begins…
Selling Points: • A highly talented illustrator’s first book with Le Seuil Jeunesse! • An original mix of fantasy, realism and humour
One night, Claire and Louis are walking through their grandparents’ house. And not too discreetly either… Grandpa is watching TV and Grandma is reading in bed, and they both wonder where all these strange noises are coming from. Is it the children, or the other inhabitants of the large house? Meet Coco the toucan, who flies away in a feathery rush; Grangrosgris the elephant who lives under the stairs; Minouchette the tiger who guards the fridge; and Boboa the baobab, always playing with the gardening hose! This album takes the reader to the boundaries of dreams and reality. Its inner poetry will take children through an epic adventure.
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EMMET AND CAMBOUY
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Karen Hottois, ill. by Delphine Renon September 7, 2017 165 x 200 mm - hardback - 64 pages - €14.50 A soft and tender album about friendship over the seasons.
Selling Points: • A tender and poetic album about friendship and all the big and smaller joys of every season • The book is divided into four parts, four stories to be read again and again
“Cambouy gets up in the middle of the night to look at the moon. The leaves reflect a silver light. Water gurgles in the basin, insects rest under the little white stones. Before closing the blinds, he counts the stars. At this moment, the international space station going around the planet passes overhead. He stretches out on his bed and pulls the covers up to his eyes. As he falls asleep, Cambouy thinks about how he has known Emmet forever.” Emmet and Cambouy live next door to each other. They have been friends for a long time. Spring, summer, autumn, winter, the seasons go by bringing with them their big and smaller joys. Walks through the fields, tumbling through the leaves or in the mud, picking flowers, or eating snow by the handful! Their friendship is built on these little moments, times spent together, good or bad gifts, fights and laughter, secret words, magical words, serious words.
• A book with the same timeless charm as Arnold Lobel’s Ranelot et Bufolet
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CHARLES THE DRAGON, series Alex Cousseau, ill. by Philippe-Henri Turin 3 titles – 266 x 380 mm – 48 pages – hardcover – €19.90 Rights sold: Italian, German, Korean, Greek, Simplified Chinese, Russian, Portuguese (Brazil), Romanian ‘‘Charles is like many children: he is just waiting for someone to give him a little push and encourage him to take off.’’ Selling Points: • A humourous text, with stunning illustrations • Timeless themes: Shyness and growing-up • A bestselling series with over 100,000 copies sold in France
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Charles at the Dragon’s school: Like all dragons his age, Charles must learn to fly and blow fire... Obviously, Charles is different from the others. Rather than taking off, he remains hopelessly grounded. Rather than burning his book, he turns it black with words, spending time writing strange poetry. Charles, prisoner of the Cyclops: Charles travels the world, from the Great North to Sicily… But he feels lonely and would like to have a friend. He will cross the paths of various characters, small and big: a walrus, an Inuit, ladybirds and a Cyclops! He will have to choose… or be chosen. Charles is looking for love! As Charles has read many tales books, he knows he has to find a princess and will fall in love with her. But what does a princess look like? Charles doesn’t have a clue...
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IN THE BELLY OF THE EARTH Cécile Roumiguière, ill. by Fanny Ducassé October 13, 2016 250 x 250 mm – 32 pages – hardback – €14.00 A poetic picture book that tells and dreams the fascinating adventure of the nine months before birth.
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By the same author, Louve – Thierry Magnier -received the First Picture Book Award (Sorcières)
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A dreamlike picture book of rare poetic power
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A graphically dazzling gift book
“In the belly of the Earth, there is a child. Tiny. Forgotten? He sleeps a lot. His hair serves as a pillow and his feet caress the soft moss.” In this picture book, Cécile Roumiguière tells us a story in poetic pictures of nine mysterious months spent out of sight, in the hallows of Mother Earth. During these months, the child grows, becoming more and more sensitive to what is happening around him, while preparing himself for his birth… Fanny Ducassé’s illustrations, with millions of fresh and delicate details, draw us into a fascinating and dreamlike, vegetal universe.
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BUFFALO BILL Taï-Marc Le Tahn, Lucile Piketty
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October 26, 2017 270 x 330 mm – 40 pages – hardback – €15,50 The American Far West like you’ve never seen it before!
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Selling Points: • A picture book with an epic tone to discover the American Far West, a fascinating universe for young and older children
« William Cody had a busy life, so full of twists and turns that on the day he died, just before he drew his last breath, the Great Spirit of the Buffalo visited him ». As this majestic being asks him if he is at peace with himself, William Cody reviews the main stages of his life and tells how, guided by the call of the Wild West, the little kid he was, a cattle’s conveyor, grew up to be the great, the legendary Buffalo Bill. The Poney Express, the Civil War, the Indian wars, the railroad’s construction… The adventures of Buffalo Bill carry us throughout the American Far West and allow us to retrace its history, a thrilling and epic one. A great picture book to set your imagination free!
• The centenary of the death of Buffalo Bill, a fascinating figure • A young and gifted artist: Lucile Piketty
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A LOVE STORY
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Gilles Bachelet October 26, 2017 165 x 225 mm – 40 pages – hardback – €15
The hilarious and romantic adventure of two dish gloves who fall in love…
Selling Points: • Gilles Bachelet, a renowned and awarded author translated into many languages • A hilarious picture book where objects from everyday life come to life: you will never look at your sponges and brushes the same way you did before
« George was a lifeguard, and Josette did the synchronized swimming ». Love at first sight at the swimming pool. A first kiss at the funfair. A honeymoon in Italy… A first child, then others… Joys, sorrows, sulks and hugs… … and life that goes by. It is the story of Georges and Josette, a love story like so many others, but between two gloves.
• Le Chevalier de Ventre-à-terre has sold 15,000 copies and Madame le Lapin Blanc has sold 20,000 copies in France
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WHAT IF I CLEAR UP MY PLATE? Coralie Saudo & Mélanie Grandgirard April 1, 2013 160 x 340 mm – hardback – 32 pages – € 11.50 Rights sold: Portuguese (Brazil) A young boy that has been asked to finish his soup imagines all sorts of funny consequences, each more entertaining than the last…
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The child in this book asks what will happen if he eats his soup. In all likelihood, it’ll make him grow, and grow, and grow…as he’s repeatedly told that he must eat in order to grow. And then what? 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… So…? Is it really a good idea to eat soup? A book for children short of ideas to avoid clearing their plates! The charming illustrations are completed with a limited pallet which brings out their graphic quality.
• « A real delight that puts an end to the soup’s dictatorship! » (Le Libraire, France) • “Coralie Saudo serves us a bowl of everyday life, very simple, but with spices of creativity” (La Presse, Canada)
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PAVOR NOCTURNUS The story of a slightly too perfect boy Letizia Iannaccone, Marilina Cavaliere August 25, 2016 195 x 260 mm - 40 pages – hardback - €12.90 Rights sold: Simplified Chinese, Korean A funny story about Pavor, a cute little boy who is very proper, but a little too smothered by his mom…
Selling Points: • A story, full of humor, to teach little kids and older children and their mothers to free themselves from their fears… • A book about learning how to meet others!
Pavor is a little boy like all the others, well almost… His mother told him a little too much about the risks involved in playing with children his age: contracting lice, horribly snotty colds, getting bitten by a rabid neighbor… The result: Pavor washes his hands ten times a day and doesn’t spend time with anyone. But one day everything changes. Pavor starts to scream at night and has terrible nightmares. He washes his hands more than ever, but that doesn’t change anything. So, Pavor and his mom go see the doctor who prescribes a surprising treatment. He writes: “make friends, dream with your eyes open, adopt an animal (small or large), take some fresh air, think about life”… and it works!
• A picture book that reminds, by the charm and strangeness of its drawings, the universe of Edward Gorey • « A subtil and humourous picture book to smile at overprotected children » Livres Hebdo 37
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ALMOST ALL THE TRUTH ABOUT GNOMES Clothilde Delacroix October 3, 2016 290 x 265 mm - 96 pages – hardback - €18.00 Rights sold: Simplified Chinese Discover in this hilarious book, everything (or almost) that you always wanted to know about gnomes without ever daring to ask!
Selling Points: • A hilarious book • « A very zany and really funny encyclopedia that tells he story of gnomes » (La Mare aux mots)
Why do gnomes dress only in red and green? Why are their ears pointed? What do they do to get such nice beards? Do they really have the ability to become invisible? What forms of transportation do they use to go to work? Once you close this humourous, comic-book-style picture book, the gnomes won’t have any hidden secrets left from you!
• « Irresistible with its humour and cleverness » (L’étagère du bas) • « Funny and creative » (La Revue des livres pour enfants)
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LITTLE MISS EARTH Olivier Costes, ill. by Camille de Cussac
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September 9, 2017 230 x 230 mm – 40 pages – hardback – €13.90 An ecological fable filled with humour to remind us to take care of our planet.
Selling Points: • An ecological fable to teach the big and the little ones to be concerned about their planet’s fate • Joyful and stylish illustrations by Camille de Cussac, a young and gifted illustrator
The Earth is desperate: the contest for the most beautiful planet organised by the Master of Cosmos will take place in only a few days, and she’s absolutely not fit to be seen! The Earth scratches, and the more she scratches, the more she worries. When her friend the Moon takes a look at her face, the verdict comes down as a hammer blow: the Earth is covered by hideous humans! The Earth goes in search of solutions and first asks the Wind, then the Rain, and then the Sun. Cyclones, hurricanes, tornados, floods… everything they come up with to get rid of the humans seems a bit too violent to Earth, who steals away and goes round and round in circles looking for a solution. But then, a human falls on her finger. As she is about to give him a hard time (the Master of Cosmos has indeed threatened to throw the losers of the contest in a black hole), the human, concerned, offers to make her look better with the help of all of his friends. It’s an elegant, lively and beautiful Earth who wins the crown with flying colours.
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LISON AT NIGHT
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André Bouchard April 13, 2017 215 x 165 mm - 64 pages – hardback - €11.90
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André Bouchard’s first series for the youngest children
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A book that blends the styles of an album and a comic
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By the same author: Les lions ne mangent pas de croquettes has sold over 16 000 copies
The first book in André Bouchard’s new collection of stories for children. 14 tales explore the bedtime ritual with honesty and humour. This book is a bedside companion helping children get to bed with a smile! Here are fifteen comic strips, each one funnier than the previous one. With tenderness and a lot of humour, each one dissects a little girl’s fears at bedtime and all the ploys she uses to call her parents at all hours of the night. In The Night, the darkness invades every corner of her room, leaving her no choice but to find safety in her parent’s room… in The Parents, the little girl wakes up her parents in the middle of the night because they were making to much noise in her dream… it is safe to say that Lison’s character and cheekiness will soon make her the talk of the school yard!
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ODILE? Martine Dorléans March 2, 2017 230 x 230 mm - 48 pages – hardback - €12.90 Rights sold: Castilian (Colombia, Panama, Ecuador), Korean A fun and elegant album that will clear any child’s bad mood!
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Elegant and highly detailed illustrations
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Odile is a grumpy little girl… To distract her from her mood, her parents take her to the natural history museum. The little girl follows, dragging her feet, and neither the ibis, nor the sheep, nor the pig are able to cheer her up. But as she arrives in front of the crocodile, she barely has the time to scratch his snout that he swallows her whole! Panic at the museum! Her parents faint, visitors yell, but they are all interrupted by a little voice… It is Odile, telling them all not to worry. She is quite comfortable in the reptile’s tummy. She has found here all the essentials: good things to eat, a warm blanket, and… a bit of peace. Her parents end up bringing the crocodile home with them, but their normal life, however, is completely changed. One morning, Odile feels strange. She misses her parents. So she gets out of the crocodile’s tummy, with the strong intention of enjoying her life! And just in time, for the circus has come to town. Who or what will she encounter there?
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SMISSE’S LIFE, series Isabelle Chavigny, Ivan Grinberg, ill.by Marie Caudry 2 titles - 170 x 230 mm – 32 pages - hardback – €9.90 The hectic life of Smisse, a little three-year-old boy, mischievous and funny.
Selling points: • A fun-filled series that paints a true picture of a young child’s life through a « true » child’s voice • A funny and endearing character that will accompany the youngest children in the important moments of their lives
Smisse’s Life, At Home: On Wednesday afternoons, Smisse plays at home, with his mother and his monkey, Ouf. Sometimes, Uncle Unk comes for lunch. When it rains, he is stuck in the house. And he has plenty of ideas: transforming into a ‘nelicopter’ or a garbage truck, doing the work on daddy’s computer, tasting whatever is inside Tata the Tortoise, making art on the walls, or playing hairdresser with himself… Smisse’s Life, School Days: It’s the first time Smisse is going to school. He’s excited to go. There is so much to discover and so many adventures in this new place! Smisse makes friends, like Boubou, and learns to take naps without his cuddy toy (Ouf, the monkey). He also encounters strange, bad-tempered creatures: girls! Mary Caudry’s refreshing illustrations take us on a colourful and joyful journey through childhood.
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EARLY MAN
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3 titles – January 2018 THE SMALL PICTURE BOOK -190 x 190 mm - 32 pages hardback - €5.95 – 3+ THE PICTURE BOOK - 285 x 255 mm - 48 pages - hardback €10.95 – 5+ THE ACTIVITY BOOK with stickers, cuts out and stop motion guide - 210 x 260 mm - 24 pages + 12 stickers pages - €7.95 – 5+ Rights sold: Dutch The upcoming stop-motion animated film turned into books! Selling points: • Shaun The Sheep grossed over USD 100m worldwide and was nominated for Best Animated Feature at the Academy Awards and BAFTA • Exclusive rights for the Spanish, Basque, Catalan and Galician languages
Early Man is a hilarious comedy about a plucky caveman, Dug who leads his misfit tribe in an epic battle to save their home from the mighty bronze age. Set at the dawn of time, when prehistoric creatures and woolly mammoths roamed the earth, Dug, along with sidekick Hognob, unites his tribe against the mighty Bronze Age in a battle to beat them at their own game, resulting in becoming the very first game of European football. Directed by Nick Park and written by Mark Burton and John O'Farrell, Early Man is the new stop motion film released by Aardman studios after among others Wallace & Gromit and Chicken Run.
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THE ATTIC
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Mona Leu-Leu September 7, 2017 165 x 225 mm – 40 pages – hardback with ultraviolet ink and ultraviolet torch – €14.90 With the help of a magical flashlight, the reader shines a light on the book’s grey illustrations, revealing a treasure trove of memories kept in the attic.
Selling Points: • A beautiful and innovative object • A wonderful way to deal with memories and the link between the past and the present
In Oscar’s dark and dusty attic, various objects are waiting for someone to give them a new life. Among these are: Oscar’s school souvenirs, his mother’s dance shoes, his grandfather’s trumpet… But what if Oscar was not the only treasure hunter? Sweeping the magical flashlight across the pages, by day or by night, children reveal the book’s different layers. Page after page, they discover hidden illustrations that poetically tell the various stories of the objects waiting in the attic’s bazaar.
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Early Years / Age: 3+
ALMOST EVERYTHING Joëlle Jolivet November 19, 2004 315 x 450 mm - 40 pages – hardback - €18.30 Rights sold: German, Dutch, English (US), Polish, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Lithuanian Encyclopedic and stylish, Almost Everything is full of things both familiar and unexpected. Selling Points: • A reference long-seller, perfectly in line with the high quality nonfiction trend, ready for a second life in Spain! • A stunning large format with Joëlle Jolivet’s wonderful lino cut illustrations
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.
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OVER AND UNDER, ANIMALS Anne-Sophie Baumann, ill. by Clémence Dupont
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August 24, 2017 160 x 320 mm – hardback - 10 pages with flaps to lift - €15 Selling Points:
Rights sold: German, Russian
• A rich reference book to learn the secrets of five species
The fourth instalment of a successful series, Over and Under - Animals takes us on a journey to discover the secrets of five animal species.
• An entertaining book with close to 30 flaps to lift
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What’s under a snail’s shell? What do you find in a shark’s tummy? Why does a cow have four stomachs? Which animal has 160 000 teeth? The flaps, large and small, of this animated documentary, unveil the animals’ many secrets. The reader will discover the inner workings of the snail, the cow, the chicken, the adder, or the great white shark. What do they eat? What path does their food take? How do they give birth? An album that will lay bare the secrets of big and small animals.
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WHOSE SKELETON IS THIS? Anne-Sophie Baumann, ill. by Clémence Dupont October 20, 2016 245 x 330 mm – 40 pages – hardback – 25 flaps – €18.00 Rights sold: German, Dutch, Polish, Simplified Chinese This simple and fun lift-the-flap (25 flaps) reference book with its very distinct graphical style, will teach you everything there is to know about the skeleton, from the head down to the toes. Selling Points: • An entertaining book with its 25 flaps unveiling the skeletons’ owners • A unique documentary written by an expert on the subject of skeletons, those mysterious and sometimes frightening parts of the body
No, a skeleton is not necessarily scary! No, a picture of a skeleton doesn’t have to be boring! No, when you have seen one skeleton, you haven’t seen them all! Written by a renowned scientist, this book teaches how to recognise bones, understand how they are articulated, their uses, and how they have evolved over the centuries. Did you know that some animals proudly expose their skeletons? That the leg bones of dogs, frogs, bird wings, and even your arms are organised the same way? Can you recognise a turtle skull among others? Or recognise a baby hippo’s mother just by looking at her bones?
• Its striking and unique graphical design makes it a perfect gift
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MY LITTLE ART BOOK Aude Le Pichon March 12, 2015 190 x 190 mm – 144 pages – hardback – €15 Rights sold: German, Italian An introduction to art history in 60 images, with simple information and little games for young children. Selling Points: •
A rich selection of works
• Clear and pedagogical texts to bring art to the little ones • An entertaining book with several games
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From the bison that was painted by prehistoric men in the cave of Altamira, to Andy Warhol’s superman, this book contains a chronological overview of Western art through 60 works. Why is the Mona Lisa so well-known? How did Matisse create his collages? How large is the Bayeux tapestry? 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. They will also find a little game that helps them get to the picture more easily (observation, quizz, riddle etc.) In the end, an index of all the works to help the parents, and the solutions to the games. Young children are very open to art, let’s encourage them with this beautiful and entertaining first art history book!
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