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Foreign Rights Catalogue • Picture Books Spring 2012
Summary
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BOOKS Iris de Moüy Vincent Bourgeau & Cédric Ramadier Mila Boutan Soledad Bravi Benoît Charlat Raphaël Fejtö Bénédicte Guettier Matthieu Maudet & Jean Leroy Dorothée de Monfreid Nadja Alex Sanders & Pierrick Bisinski Alex Sanders
A STORY TO COLOR 16 Stephanie Blake 17 Matthieu Maudet 18 Nadja
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PICTURE BOOKS 19 Adrien Albert 20 Perceval Barrier & Matthieu Sylvander 21 Magali Bonniol 22-23 Stephanie Blake 24 Michel Gay 25 Alan Mets 26 Jean-Charles Sarrazin 27 Maud Sene 28 Charlotte Sjöstrand & Chr istelle Vallat 29 Anaïs Vaugelade 30 Myrha Verbizh 31 François Vincent & Maryse Lamigeon 32 Francis Ysebaert NON-FICTION BOOKS 33 Michel Backès 34 Jean Binder 35 Thibaud Guyon
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Iris de Moüy
Board book, 38 pages, 180 x 180 mm
Honoré at Full Speed A board book to learn transport vocabulary. To get to their meeting at the other end of the world, which is already no easy feat, Honoré and his friends use a whole ser ies of means of transportation with funny, complicated names.
lives in Paris, where she draws and spends time strolling and daydreaming. All this intense activity has led her to write books for children, to her immense pleasure.
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Poster - Board book 32 pages 212 x 290 mm
Imagine... An Orange A board book that becomes a g iant poster to decorate baby’s room. There an orange, here a cloud, a little further a hand, a baby bottle... This is no ordinary picture book. The images arranged in a checkerboard form a beautiful, immense, colorful poster that you can hang on the wall.
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With a degree from Camberwell School of Arts in London,
Cédric Ramadier entered the world of publishing in Paris. It was a stroke of luck. He has since worked as artistic director, graphic designer, editor, and now author, thanks to his friend Vincent Bourgeau. Board book, 26 pages, 220 x 180 mm
Where is the Wolf? When the little pig goes for a w alk, he is very careful not to cross paths with the wolf. Behind each flap, you think you see the wolf, and it’s often a relief when it’s not him!
Born in Brussels,
Vincent Bourgeau quickly took up drawing and never stopped. As a young adult, he began to write and illustrate stories for children. Then he started drawing for other authors.
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Mila Boutan was born in Spain. First she made paintings, then she had children, then she made books. Now, she makes books about paintings for children. She lives in Alicante and Paris.
Accordion board book, 18 pages, 255 x 440 mm
Mila’s Garden Children will spend hours looking at each panel in this folding book full of fantastical animals, enchanting vegetation, and colors, each one more shimmering than the last.
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Soledad Bravi
Board book, 120 pages, 140 x 140 mm
The Book of All Colors A picture book about colors, with every color possible, like bird poop or crushed raspberry, or even grandma pink!
was born in 1965. She has a degree from an art school and was an artistic director in advertising before returning to drawing. Today she draws a lot for children and teens and a bit for fashion magazines.
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Board book 14 pages 208 x 273 mm
At the birth of his two children, Benoît Charlat suddenly discovered a passion for scribbling, squabbling and sniveling, and became an author for little ones.
That’s My Bird! What does this little bird need the most? A ball? A teddy bear? An ice cream? No! He needs...
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Raphaël Fejtö
Accordion board book 32 pages 220 x 110 mm
Who Is on My Head?
was born in 1974. After hesitating between film and music, he chose drawing and writing (without renouncing the other two). He has published more than a dozen books at l’école des loisirs, and made the well-received film Osmose.
An uncommon book that unfolds and grows little by little as the animals ask one another who is above them.
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Bénédicte Guettier was born in 1962. She has diplomas from two different art schools. She works as a graphic artist for many magazines and draws fashion prints and posters. Guettier writes and illustrates children’s books in a highly inventive way.
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Little Mice Gray mouse, white mouse, two-tone mouse: the mice in this collection meet and meet again, having fun in the course of their adventures.
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Matthieu Maudet used to draw in the margins of his schoolbooks. Today he is illustrating comic books and books for children.
Board book with flaps, 22 pages, 147,5 X 195 mm
Roll! Roll! Tiny wheels, little wheels, and then a great, big wheel! Each page has a hole where you can see a wheel. Guess which vehicle it belongs to!
Jean Leroy first started writing on his own and now collaborates with Matthieu Maudet to do children’s books and comic books.
See Maudet’s other books on page 17
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Coco SERIES (9 TITLES)
Dorothée de Monfreid was born in 1973. She has lived in Paris for years. She has published over a dozen books at l’école des loisirs: stories about cats, rabbits, elephants, stinking monsters and even about cakes.
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Board book, 26 pages, 190 x 260 mm
An Elephant Love “My heart is for Coco”, says Sidonie the mouse. Coco here, Coco there, the little mouse loves Coco so much that she sees him everywhere. It’s love with a capital L.
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12 board books in a box 12 pages each, 50 x 60 mm
The Nursery Rhyme Box It is with great pleasure that we find this little box, in which there are well-known little books with little nursery rhymes so nicely illustrated.
Nadja was born in Alexandria and grew up in Lebanon, then moved close to Paris. She is the author of the well known Chien Bleu.
See Nadja’s other books on page 18
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Pierrick Bisinski has devoted himself entirely to children’s books since 1996. Paper cutouts illustrate his stories.
Board book, 22 pages, 210 x 280 mm
Alex Sanders was born in 1964. He has never stopped drawing and painting, and in 1993 he decided to devote himself fully to children’s books.
Poo-Poo and Pee-Pee The story starts off badly for Poo-Poo, who is the hero. But it all ends well... thanks to an obvious encounter.
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Board book, 26 pages, 210 x 280 mm
Crock! When Crock wakes up, it’s breakfast time. Barely time to play, and it’s already lunchtime. A bit of painting and now snack time. Crock’s day passes by quickly. What will he crunch on for dinner?
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Stephanie Blake was born in the United States. She didn’t study drawing, but rather Chinese! As a child, she was fascinated by the illustrations of Dr. Seuss, Ludwig Bemelmans, Tomi Ungerer, and William Steig. She lives in Paris, surrounded by her children and her husband (A total of six!).
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Board book, 32 pages, 190 x 250 mm
I Invite You to My Party Mimi’s friends are invited to her birthday. The characters and the decor to color ar e on a black background, which makes the colors stand out in this beautiful stor y.
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Matthieu Maudet used to
Board book, 32 pages, 190 x 250 mm
The Color Thief Stop, thief! Where did the colors in this story to color go? You have to follow the animals, who leave in search of the stolen colors.
draw in the margins of his schoolbooks. Today he is illustrating comic books and books for children.
See Maudet’s other books on page 11
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Nadja
was born in Alexandria and grew up in Lebanon, then moved close to Paris. She is the author of the well known Chien Bleu.
Board book, 32 pages, 190 x 250 mm
The Every Color Dress What color will Marinette’s ball gown be tonight? Jojo the dressmaker gives her the dilemma of choosing, but to do that we have to start coloring!
See Nadja’s other books on page 13
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Jeanne Taboni Misérazzi’s story was born one summer evening on a deserted beach. Children were heading home, leaving behind their beautiful sand castles. She wrote this tale of nostalgia about the courage to build and the passing of time.
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Adrien Albert chose to “place his cameras,” as he says, in a way that emphasizes the mother-child complicity, while still making the castle the main character, and ending on an optimistic note with the returning animals.
The King of the Castle Émile spent the morning building a magnificent castle, the biggest and most beautiful on the beach. It’s so beautiful that everyone covets it and wants to live there. As soon as Émile tur ns his back to play in the water, a family of periwinkles, then a young crab, come charging in and claim to be the kings of the castle. Obviously, Émile doesn’t agree. He’s the king. But he will have to learn that monarchies don’t last long so close to the waves. SOLD German
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Perceval Barrier, who is a graphic artist, has long dreamt of illustrating a story that both stimulates and channels his imagination. He found it in this exciting collaboration, a picture book that’s not just for children.
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Matthieu Sylvander is a seismologist. That doesn’t stop him from inventing stories that contain another kind of trembling; quite the contrary. To begin with, he has taken a strange pleasure in imagining the character of Ali Baba right in the middle of the desert, rich but completely lost.
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Who Wants to Help Ali Baba? Ali Baba has been r ich ever since he succeeded in entering the famous cave. But now he is lost, with his dromedary loaded with treasures, in the great desert of Egypt. He must ask passersby for directions. But in the desert, creatures are rare. Those that he does encounter don’t seem disposed to inform him, even for payment. This vulture, for example, is barely interested in the treasures, but very interested in dromedary meat. Luckily, there’s a magic lamp, with a real genie who grants wishes inside...
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Magali Bonniol
Hardcover, 36 pages, 210 x 260 mm
The Gift Today is Goat Girl’s birthday, and her parents have gone out to get a big cak e. So far, her friends Pat the Pig and Robby Rabbit have only given her stupid gifts. Ding-dong! Someone’s ringing at the door. Surprise! It’s a wolf, with a ribbon around his neck. He knows how to jump rope, float in the tub, and play a game called sweet toast... This is the most fantastic birthday present ever! But watch out, the parents are coming back. They are going to spoil everything if they discover a wolf at home. SOLD Italian
has created a charming story based on the idea that the most beautiful gifts for children are not necessarily the ones their parents imagine! What better gift than a wolf, for you and you alone? Something unknown and a bit dangerous... In the end, children like it when something finally happens!
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SERIES SOLD Catalan, Chinese (simplified), Danish, English, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Swedish, World Spanish
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Stephanie Blake wanted to
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A Baby in Mom’s Belly? Simon and his little brother Gaspard were calmly playing with little cars when their parents broke the news: “There is a baby in mom’s belly.Your little brother or little sister is going to be bor n in a few months. Aren’t you happy?” How can you know, before you’ve met this baby? But the questions that preoccupy Simon the most are: Where did he come from? How was he made? Dad is a bit embarrassed and too busy to explain. Luckily, Lou awaits Simon at school, and she knows everything!
add a touch of pink to the Super Bunny family. In short, she wanted to see a little sister born. But along the way, the big question How are babies made? caught hold of her. Then the admirable and incomparable book by Babette Cole came back to her.
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Michel Gay’s nephew Andy is a considerable source of inspiration for his uncle. He’s a funny little zebra who is neither all white nor all black - like Michel’s characters Zou and Elzee. (Disney has just purchased the rights to that story for a show in 3-D). Andy also inspired the character of Rabbit Express. Maybe he should ask his uncle for some royalties…
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Rabbit Express For his birthday, Pat the rabbit received a splendid gift: the pair of roller skates that his grandfather was wearing when he met Pat’s grandmother. Cool, he can go everywhere in them! Well, almost... The countryside where Pat lives is full of holes, hollows, and puddles. What if he climbed onto a train headed for Paris? What an adventure! It’s smooth here, and you can really glide! He flies along on the big avenues! Fast, faster, but not too fast! Let’s not forget that these skates have sentimental value, and have the power to elicit surprise encounters.
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Dragoony Bernard is a fast dragon who has a wonderful first name and who scores a lot of goals in football. But he is the smallest in his class, and Marcel the jealous brute takes advantage of this, bothering him and making fun of him in front of the girls. With insults, punches, black eyes and then revenge, this story might end badly. Even his mom’s reassurance could turn against Bernard, when others take her words of love and turn them into jibes. It is time to set things straight.
He admits it: like many little boys, he once dreamt of seeing his school burn down. Today, Alan Mets has a much larger ambition: to avenge the children who are victims of difficult families, evil schoolmates, and stupid, derisive nicknames. A diminutive diminishes, so cry out in anger when you hear one. And giggle at the adventures of Bernard, the dragon who wouldn’t put up with being degraded.
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In the past
Jean-Charles Sarrazin was like a lot of parents: radically AGAINST the pacifier. Now that he is the father of a child who can’t do without one, he has become FOR the pacifier. But he has thought about it, above all. A pacifier is a treasure for a child. This story tackles a controversial subject.
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Hardcover, 32 pages, 240 x 310 mm
Pacifier Pirate It’s stronger than him. Rabbit-Roo the pirate can no longer do without his cursed pacifier. Dad and Mom have had just about enough. This pacifier makes their child do silly things: he doesn’t help them, he screams, and all he wants to do is play. But does any pirate worth his title still suck on his pacifier? It will take a memorable adventure to change him.
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When she was little,
Maud Sene
Hardcover, 32 pages, 170 x 220 mm
The Friend Muche has plenty of games and toys in his bedroom, but nobody to play with him. Maybe he can make a friend? Or build one? Off to work! Muche creates a good friend by painting a face on an empty box. What if they went outside? Alas, the rain gets the best of this silent friend. But things have a way of working out. A new friend arrives to console Muche, a flesh-and-blood friend. The moral: when we’re lacking friendship, all we need to do is go out and be patient. The solitude can’t last!
lived in a big rectory next to a cemetery. When she went outside to play, she would often collect dead animals and look at the tombs nearby, calculating the ages of the departed. The lies that parents tell their children about death shock her. Parents try to distance them from it, although it is all so familiar. This picture book is her contribution to the optimist reparation of this injustice.
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Christelle Vallat is a teacher and a mom of two boys. While once looking at a chestnut bur more attentively than usual, she said to herself, “Hey! A hedgehog could mistake one of those for himself!”
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Charlotte Sjösgrand stepped in. The autumnal atmosphere, solitude, friendship, and love all seduced her. As she began to make the drawings for the first hedgehog story, she wanted to write what happens next: after winter there is springtime, a season of big changes!
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Hardcover, 64 pages, 150 x 185 mm
The Season of the Hedgehogs The first story begins in autumn. Rudo the hedgehog must build himself a cozy nest in which to hiber nate. But ouch! Under the leaves there is a ball of thorns.You might say it’s a miniature sleeping hedgehog. Rudo calls her Anna. Anna doesn’t move, doesn’t eat, doesn’t say a thing... That’s normal, Anna is a chestnut bur. Whatever the case may be, Rudo is happy to have a friend. Things become more complicated when Line, a real live, wide-awake hedgehog enters the nest. Will Anna accept her? Rudo would really like Line to stay. The second story comes with springtime, and the imminent birth of a baby hedgehog!
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Anaïs Vaugelade has
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Four Stories about Amir How could anyone think that the life of a small child is humdr um and repetitive? All you have to do is open one of these four books about Amir’s adventures to be convinced this isn’t so. At the edge of the pond, with mama duck and her five little ones, during nap time with a mischievous fly, in the hay barn with baby cats, on the way to nursery school, and with a g reen tractor, Amir’s life is a festival of games and surprises.
taken three scenes from the life of her son Amir and mixed them with her own childhood memories, adding a few exaggerations and an English nursery rhyme. The result is a collection full of affection and wonder.
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It was with her younger sister Alyssa that
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Myrha Verbizh concocted her first picture books. With Sacha and the Catfish, Verbizh has set out on her own for the first time, writing the story and illustrating it. Catfish? She thinks they’re extraordinary. As for lakes unexplored and mysterious, they inspire her.
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Sacha and the Catfish Playing by the lake having fun skipping stones can be an adventure...You might beat records, of course, but that’s not all. Thanks to a particularly successful toss, Sacha is going to meet a f an of his pebbles, an enormous catfish who collects them to decorate her entr yway. But today we’re not just playing around. The catfish is worried and needs Sacha’s help. One of her little ones has been wounded by a hook... A modern version of a classic tale that g ives particular emphasis to the children.
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Maryse Lamigeon has
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become godmother to a pink flamingo! She was present one August night when scientists put a band on the bird’s leg. Ever since, she follows the flamingo’s travels and this unique experience inspired her to write the adventures of Rose.
Rose, Flamingo of the Camargue Pink flamingos don’t just live in Africa. There are some in France, too, in the salty ponds of the Camargue. Going there to spend a few days at his cousin Fannette’s house, Pierrot, the friend of Mistral the horse and Engane the bull, discovers a beautiful landscape with little islands of pink flamingos! It’s springtime, and many little babies are born. For the moment, they are still all gray! That doesn’t stop them from being very appetizing for the foxes... Luckily, Pierrot watches over them, and along with Fannette, he will succeed in saving a chick from the claws of a predator.
Always inspired by his beloved Camargue, and his companion’s stories,
François Vincent has enriched his palette with a beautiful pink, the color of dawn, shrimp, salt marshes, and adult flamingos!
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Francis Ysebaert worked as a coordinator at youth centers in Belgium for twenty years, and has published cartoons in numerous magazines. He discovered his character Red Pig while scribbling, imitating a little riding hood of the same color, and remembering his grandmother who lived on the other side of the main road.
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Hardcover, 32 pages, 180 x 230 mm
You’re Exaggerating! Yes, I know, grandma. I’m late. And my basket isn’t as full as it was when mom gave it to me. It’s true, the chocolate has disappeared, and the precious cakes are all crushed. But is it my fault if on my way I crossed paths with an injured toad that I had to care for? And if the main road became liquid and I almost drowned? And if I didn’t have a license to dr ive here with my grocery basket, and the police arrested me? Perhaps you think I’m exaggerating. Barely.
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I, Joshua Slocum, Lone Sailor At the end of the 19 th century, the steamship replaces the sailing ship, and large numbers of experienced, courageous sailors find themselves unemployed. But Joshua Slocum is not the type to be tak en down. He decides to patch up an old fishing boat and leave for the other end of the world. On his own, he confronts pirates and storms. But he does have his cherished books and his many childhood memories to accompany him. His trip around the world will last three years, two months, and two days. Today, he is the inspiration and point of reference for all solo trips around the world.
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Stevenson . 19 th Century
Hardcover, 48 pages, 220 x 280
Even if Michel Backès isn’t a patented sailor, he is no less passionate about boats, pirates, and adventurers. So when his editor recommended he read the memoires of Joshua Slocum, a guy who, after fifty years, calls his whole life into question and braves economic crises and changes in civilization, he dug right in. He had fun adding family photos in his realist drawings, an homage to the French engravings from the beginning of the 20th century that he loves so.
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Jean Binder has liked Félix Vallotton for a long time, finding the Post-Impressionist’s scratchboard technique simple and exemplary for those who work in black and white. Recently, Jean had the opportunity to dive into the ambience of Valloton’s era and research the painter’s life.
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Vallotton’s Cat A little girl grows bored, all alone in her family apartment. Her father, a printer, has just bought new machinery. He must work hard. A white cat has been lost in the streets ever since its master, painter Félix Vallotton, moved.Valloton is a member of the avant-garde group Les Nabis. But fate is a great provider. The cat scratches at the little girl’s door. After days of hesitation and inquiry, the girl is determined to return the animal to its owner. She doesn’t know it yet, but a formidable reward awaits her: she is going to provide her father with a very well-paid job, and obtain an excellent printer and engraver for the painter!
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He didn’t want to do a simple biography, but a sort of tale. While reading through the mass of books that exist on the ultraromanesque life of le Douanier Rousseau,
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Charlotte and le Douanier Rousseau He painted luxurious jungles, tropical sunsets, snake charmers beneath the moon, and battles among ferocious animals, but he almost never left Paris. He was slandered during his lifetime, mocked, avoided, excluded from official exhibitions, and even accused of fraud. But the poets Apollinaire and Alfred Jarry, and his young colleagues Picasso, Braque, Léger, and Delauney, thought he was a genius. It was in homage to his character and style that a mo vement of painting was named “Naïve art”. So who better than a child could br ing us closer to le Douanier Rousseau?
Art . 19 th Century
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Thibaud Guyon came across the painter’s story when, accused of fraud, he spent Christmas in prison. As proof of his client’s innocence and naiveté, his lawyer displayed one of his paintings to the jury!
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From Book to iPad
BOOK RIGHTS SOLD World English, Italian, World Spanish, German, Dutch, Polish, Korean, Basque, Catalan
The Noisy Book Games Rediscover the pictures from the famous Noisy Book by Soledad Bravi on iPod and iPad with “The Noisy Book Games.” This application, adapted together with the author, is already available in English and French.
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