BOLOGNA BOOK FAIR
2014
HIGHLIGHTS concept books
Aurélie Lapautre aurelie.lapautre@albin-michel.fr +33 1 42 79 46 00
Eloïse Elandaloussi eloise.elandaloussi@albin-michel.fr +33 1 42 79 46 00
The Book of Opposites Delphine Chedru Hardcover picture book, 230x280mm, 48 pages and 3D decoding case (blue and red APET)
Ages 3 & Up
Delphine Chedru skillfully combines the pedagogic goal of teaching the important concept of opposites with the playful appeal of an astute novelty book.
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n this graphic and ingenious new book, Delphine Chedru revisits an essential children’s notion: the opposites. Each page displays a beautiful and surrealistic amalgamation of two images, one in red and one in blue. Using two translucent papers (one red, one blue) provided with the book, children will be able to make successively appear each of the two hidden images and their corresponding word on the facing page. As if by magic, the blue city landscape will appear under the red translucent paper, while a red countryside landscape will show when watching the page through the blue translucent paper. With humour and aesthetics, the superposition of papers offers two opposite versions of the same scene.
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Aurélie Lapautre Tel.: 00 33 1 42 79 46 00 aurelie.lapautre@albin-michel.fr
Éloïse Elandaloussi Tel.: 00 33 1 42 79 46 00 eloise.elandaloussi@albin-michel.fr
WHAT IS IT? Cécile Boyer
Novelty book, hardcover, 40 pages and one unidentified object, 255x310mm, €15
Ages 5 & Up
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hat is that peculiar shape? Once positioned in the right place, it becomes the obvious missing piece to compose a multitude of images! With the clues contained in the text and a little bit of imagination, this most improbable shape can turn into a moustache, a pair of sunglasses, clown shoes or even a deserted island. Page after page, the child has to figure out how to complete these 16 unexpected, funny and poetic images and the solutions are all revealed at the end!
Cécile Boyer offers a smart and playful exploration of shapes and objects Cécile Boyer is a young graphic designer and illustrator, author of three picture books published by Albin Michel Jeunesse. She was awarded several prizes, including a Mention in the OPERA PRIMA CATEGORY of the 2010 BOLOGNA RAGAZZI AWARD for Ouaf Miaou Cui Cui.
Foreign Rights & Coeditions
Aurélie Lapautre Tel.: 00 33 1 42 79 46 00 aurelie.lapautre@albin-michel.fr
Éloïse Elandaloussi Tel.: 00 33 1 42 79 46 00 eloise.elandaloussi@albin-michel.fr
POMELO’S SHAPES
Ramona Badescu & Benjamin Chaud Hardcover picture book with padded cover, 155x160mm, 128 pages, €11.50
Ages 5 & up
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dmiring the fantastic form of a sea star, famous pink elephant Pomelo wonders what his own shape is. In this quest, he discovers the imperfect circle of potatoes and the oval shape of eggs, compares the refreshing square of ice cubes with the polka-dot square of dice and the alphabetic triangle of letter A with the soft triangle of strawberries. Not to mention the drop form of sadness and rain or the cauliflower shape of cauliflowers!
Foreign Rights & Coeditions
Aurélie Lapautre Tel.: 00 33 1 42 79 46 00 aurelie.lapautre@albin-michel.fr
This joyful, poetic and eccentric listing plays with adjectives, comparisons and surprising approximations to make up a lively approach to the fundamental theme of forms to be enjoyed by parents and children alike.
Éloïse Elandaloussi Tel.: 00 33 1 42 79 46 00 eloise.elandaloussi@albin-michel.fr