Albin Michel-Otoño-2012

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ALBIN MICHEL JEUNESSE

ALBIN MICHEL JEUNESSE

MARION JABLONSKI, MANAGING DIRECTOR marion.jablonski@albin-michel.fr

AURÉLIE LAPAUTRE, Coeditions/Foreign Rights aurelie.lapautre@albin-michel.fr

All of our publications, be they pop-up books, novelty books, picture books, novels or non-fiction titles, are brought to life with imagination and enthusiasm. It is our pleasure to share them with you!

ELOÏSE ELANDALOUSSI, Coeditions/Foreign Rights eloise.elandaloussi@albin-michel.fr

ÉVELYNE GUYOT, Acquisitions Editor evelyne.guyot@albin-michel.fr

SHAÏNE CASSIM, Editor shaine.cassim@albin-michel.fr

Editor beatrice.vincent@albin-michel.fr

Tel.: 33 (0) 1 42 79 46 00 Fax.: 33 (0) 1 42 79 46 80

LUCETTE SAVIER,

www.albin-michel.fr

Editor lucette.savier@albin-michel.fr

WILLIAM BABOIN, Come and visit us

in Hall 6.1, Stand B964

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Artistic Director william.baboin@albin-michel.fr

Cover Design by François Roca

BÉATRICE VINCENT, ALBIN MICHEL JEUNESSE 22, rue Huyghens 75014 Paris

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Camille Jourdy

Board book with sculptural embossing on cover, 210x150mm, 8 spreads, 7.90 €

Toddlers

Farm Animals Animals of the Savannah These new toddler books, soon to be classics, Forest Animals are altogether tender, simple and delicate.

Polar Animals

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ere are Wordbooks with a story to tell; that of Louise, Arthur and Lison, a charming bunch of friends. Discover the animal world at their side as they engage the reader in their child play and delightful adventures in the forest, the savannah, the farm and the Polar Regions.

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The colourful stories that illustrate these themes will make these important childhood notions fun and lively.

Zo and Lou are not alike Amélie Billon & Gabriel Alborozo Board book, 220x220mm, 12 spreads, 10.90 €

Board book

Board book

Wordbook Stories

Toddlers

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ig bulky bear Zo and little Lou are the best of friends. They share both tender and funny moments. With these attaching characters, children will discover colours, shapes, opposites and even the subtleties of the weather.

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Marion Bataille Concertina folding in slipcase, 105X170mm, 10 spreads

All ages

Romance By the bestselling author of ABC 3D and 10.

Blexbolex Hard cover picture book, 130×175mm, 280 pages, 17.50 €

Ages 3+

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his image-based story builds up, page by page, over seven sequences. The initial sequence is made up of three images: the beginning, the middle and end of the journey. The following six sequences take up this same story again, but with new details and extra images added to the journey each time. The little story thus quickly becomes enormous as the number of new images doubles with each sequence. The recurring pictures also become increasingly detailed, exercising the reader’s concentration and memory. The journey is never dull or too familiar as each new image can radically change the tale.

Picture Book

Pop Up Book

Number

Whatever happens along the way, we always find our way home.

Number is both a counting book and a spectacular show.

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sing only one simple mechanism and two basic shapes, the rectangle and the circle, Marion Bataille shows us how to write all the numbers from 0 to 10. The simplicity of it all is extremely satisfying!

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The Daughter of the Samurai

Gwendal Le Bec Hardcover picture book, 225X360mm, 40 pages, 15 €

Fred Bernard & François Roca

Ages 3+

After the prize winning Le Roi des Oiseaux, Gwendal Le Bec returns at the height of his art as an illustrator with Un Bois.

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he woods are awake from dawn to dusk; each animal has its hour. With every spread Gwendal Le Bec depicts a moment of the day, its sights, sounds, and sensations; softly leading the reader deep into another world – that of the life in the woods.

Picture Book

Picture Book

The Woods

Hardcover picture book, 285X335mm, 48 pages, 19 €

Ages 7+

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red Bernard has set this exotic coming of age story in the 19th century.

The beautiful Japanese landscape that is the backdrop of this tale is skilfully rendered

by François Roca’s stunning illustrations.

All readers will be moved by the story of recently orphaned Tomé, who is accepted in the home of an elderly blind Samurai master who teaches him the ancient art of war, and introduces him to his gorgeous daughter Tomo.

More than a beautiful love story, The daughter of the Samurai also has all the elements of a great adventure book: a shipwreck, samurais, demons, a wise old man, a young woman covered in graceful tattoos and a sailor’s son.

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Benjamin Lacombe Hardcover picture book with 16 pages of translucent paper, 255x310mm, 40 pages, 19 €

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ollowing his international bestseller, L’Herbier des fées, Benjamin Lacombe returns with yet another stunning book: Ondine. This time, Lacombe’s dazzling use of translucent paper enhances the famous tale of the water nymph whose union with the handsome knight Huldebrande is tested repeatedly by the complexities of love and the traditions of her people.

Stationery

Picture Book

Ondine Ages 7+

Benjamin Lacombe returns with a spectacular retelling of the well-known romantic myth.

2013 Agenda 94×167mm (portrait), 18 €

2013 Calendar 330×450mm (portrait), 15 €

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Troubles

Claudine Desmarteau Softcover, 145x215mm, 192 pages, 12 €

Mark Twain & Atak

Ages 13+

Soft cover with flaps, 190x260mm, 176 pages, 20 €

Ages 11 +

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roubles captures the essence of teenagehood. Camille and Fred are friends, it seems they always were. Fred is slightly lost, while Camille on the other hand knows exactly where she is going; to film school, if it is up to her. It is through Camille’s voice that we discover their every day life, at school, at home, and with other friends. With her razor sharp style, Claudine Desmarteau builds up the tension that will lead to a dramatic climax that will affect their lives for ever.

Masterfully illustrated by Atak, this novel

by Mark Twain, the celebrated author of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, is a novel full of enchantment.

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ln 16th century Austria, three young friends meet a stranger.

When they discover that he is an angel named Satan, after his uncle the devil himself, they are initially frightened but soon come to enjoy his calming, bewitching company. Over time, the angel will open their eyes to truths about mankind, its cowardice and vanity, its moral sense. This tale brings together magic and philosophy and challenges readers to consider fundamental questions about human nature.

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Novel

Illustrated novel

The Mysterious Stranger

Claudine DESMARTEAU is the author and illustrator of the Petit Gus series and of the illustrated rock novel, Teen Song.

• A novel and a style that will leave no reader indifferent.

• In the vein of the international bestselling novel Thirteen Reasons Why

by Jay Asher.

• Has the dramatic rhythm of a script.

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