l’école des loisirs Foreign Rights Catalogue • Picture Books Fall 2014
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PICTURE BOOKS 18 Delphine Bournay 19 Chen Jiang Hong 20-21 Stephanie Blake 22 Gabriel Gay 23 Pauline Martin & Éric Veillé 24-25 Yvan Pommaux & Christophe Ylla-Somers 26 Iela Mari 27 Gerda Muller 28-29 Claude Ponti 30 Audrey Poussier 31 Grégoire Solotareff 32-33 Catharina Valckx NON-FICTION BOOKS 34 Thibaud Guyon 35 François Vincent & Marion Pussey
© Illustrations: Claude Ponti, Blaise et le Kontrôleur de Kastatroffe.
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BABY BOOKS 3 Soledad Bravi 4-5 Vincent Bourgeau & Cédric Ramadier 6 Ella Charbon & Gwendoline Raisson 7 Malika Doray 8 Raphaël Fejtö 9 Clothilde Delacroix 10 Kimiko 11 Kimiko & Margaux Duroux 12 Nadja 13 Alain Le Saux 14 Matthieu Maudet & Michaël Escoffier 15 Dorothée de Monfreid 16 Alex Sanders 17 Alex Sanders & Pierrick Bisinski
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Soledad Bravi was born
Board book, 44 pages, 190 x 255 mm, €11
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in 1965. She has a degree in art 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.
Choose an Animal Guess what animal I am! An animal very hard to find! A classic children’s game revisited. After reading this book we can play the game to infinity!
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With a degree from an art school in
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London, Cédric Ramadier works as artistic director, graphic designer, editor, and now author thanks to his friend Vincent Bourgeau.
Board book, 20 pages, 185 x 250 mm, €10,50
The Sleeping Book It’s time to go to bed. But this time, it’s the book that wants us to read it a story before sleeping. Gently, its eyes become heavy. Then they close when we kiss it, and it falls to sleep. To be published in February 2015.
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Born in Brussels,
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Vincent Bourgeau Board book with flaps, 28 pages, 200 x 250 mm, €11,50
Who’s That? Surprise! Pinpin has a party while waiting for Santa Claus. When someone knocks at the door, Pinpin thinks he recognizes him. He is all excited, but each time he opens the door, which is a flap, there’s a new surprise…
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.
A book full of flaps, and full of surprises!
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After wasting time at law school, Ella © Rights reserved
Charbon found
her direction in the studios of an art school. She also draws and devotes more and more of her time to illustrating children’s books.
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Board book, 40 pages, 200 x 200 mm, €11,70
After she was monoski champion of France, a snail sorter, and a globetrotter,
Gwendoline Raisson started her career in journalism. When she became a mother, she decided to mend her ways by writing stories for children.
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One Side… and the Other This tall wall that prevents us from seeing the other side is annoying. Oh, a hole! Right away, we want to look through it… When we turn the book, boo , the wall is still there. And, from that side, there are two wo bears wondering wonderi g what is on the other side.
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Malika Doray was Board book, 20 pages, 260 x 190 mm, €10,50
Great, It’s Raining! Drip, drop, drip, drop. When it rains, we generally think we’re going to be bored, and we’re sad. But sometimes, what happens is we say to ourselves: It’s nice when it rains!
born in 1974. After studying arts and art history at the National School of Fine Arts in Paris, she now works with kids, writing and illustrating books for them.
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Warning: Kisses!
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Look at the sign, dad! It’s the slide sign, for playing on the slide. Now the sign says, “Warning, mom working!” And what do we do when mom works? We hold up the sign, “I want to play!” Signs for every moment of the day, that you can detach from the book and wave at will. Board book with detachable parts, 26 pages, 170 x 190 mm, €11,30
Raphaël Fejtö was born in
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1974. After hesitating between pursuing film or music, he chose drawing and writing (without giving up the first two).
A Christmas codebook, with detachable warning signs that parents and children can wave at each other and play with together.
Board book with detachable parts, 26 pages, 170 x 190 mm, €11,30
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LOLOTTE SERIES (2 TITLES)
Clothilde Delacroix Board book, 36 pages, 205 x 205 mm, €11,70
Lolotte and the Pillow Before going to bed, Lolotte and her two friends meet up in the land of pillows. It’s a country full of surprises and adventures that is indispensable to visit before falling asleep!
was born in 1977. She studied fine arts as well as other subjects. She regularly takes a flight to her imagination, where she assiduously reflects on how to do nothing.
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CRUNCHY KISSES SERIES (5 TITLES)
Kimiko was born in 1963 to a Japanese mother and a French father. After design studies in Tokyo, she worked for a couture house in Paris. She then left the world of fashion to make books for children.
Board book, 24 pages, 180 x 210 mm, €10,50
Do You Play Crunchy Kisses? It’s time to go to sleep, yet Little Mouse wants to play. “Fine, I’ll race with you, but on condition that you try my kisses after!” says Crunchy Kisses. “We’ll see!” replies Little Mouse. A new adventure for Crunchy Kisses to be published in January 2015.
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Board book, 26 pages, 190 x 230 mm, €11
Hansel the Hungry and Gretel the Courageous It’s autumn in the forest. Hansel and Gretel, brother and sister, are lost. Attracted by a magnificent and delicious house of candy that they want to taste, they find themselves prisoners of a clever witch who wants to eat them!
Margaux Duroux was born in 1988. After studying art in Paris, she hesitated between drawing and photography. And she now intently practices both.
After Little Red Riding Hood and the Three Little Pigs, here is the famous tale by the Brothers Grimm, with photos and stuffed animals.
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Nadja was born in Egypt in 1955 and now lives in Paris. She is the author of numerous books for children. She travels a lot between her studio and her house, which are at least ten meters apart.
Board book, 26 pages, 230 x 280 mm, €10,30
Blue Dog to Color Here finally is the story of Blue Dog, to color! Everyone, whether big or small, will want to take out the color pencils! A best seller to color!
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Alain Le Saux went Board book, 32 pages, 265 x 190 mm, €12,80
Guess In this book, there aren’t seven mistakes between two photos, but just one and only one difference per double page! Some are easy to find, others much more difficult… Let’s go to play the game of differences!
to an art school and has worked as an illustrator in advertising and for various magazines. He has been making books for children since 1980. He likes Winsor McCay, Roland Topor, Robert Crumb, Jean-Marc Reiser, Saul Steinberg, André François and James Ensor.
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Michaël Escoffier
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was born in 1970 and developed a passion for writing at an early age. He lives in Lyon with his wife and two children.
Matthieu Maudet used to draw in the margins of his schoolbooks. Today he is illustrating comic books and books for children.
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Board book with flaps and cut-outs, 38 pages, 150 x 215 mm, €12,30 - SOLD German
Open the Door Knock, knock, knock. The big deer knocks on the little rabbit’s door. “Open up! I’m being followed by the wolf!” he cries. The little rabbit opens for the deer, obviously. But when it’s the wolf who knocks and says, “Open up! I’m being followed!” neither the deer nor the rabbit believe it. And yet…
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Dorothée de Monfreid was Board book, 26 pages, 160 x 300 mm, €12 SOLD World English
Nighty-night It’s nighttime, and everyone is sleeping except for Nono, because Popov is snoring. He asks Micha to read him a story. Pedro wakes up, Zaza tosses and turns. While Kaki opens one eye, Omar no longer wants to stay in bed. Such excitement in the bedroom as Popov continues to snore!
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born in 1973. She loves cats, stuffed animals, elephants, and cakes. They can often be found in her books, and also in her studio, where she spends a lot of time making sculptures of them with papier mâché.
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LULU SERIES (13 TITLES)
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.
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Board book, 22 pages, 205 x 220 mm, €11
Bravo Lulu! Big news for our friend Lulu! An incredible event has taken place, and everyone is talking about it. It’s really big news, and the King appears in person to congratulate Lulu and reward him with a medal!
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POP SERIES (4 TITLES)
Board book, 22 pages, 240 x 210 mm, €11,20
Pop at School Pop goes to school like all dinosaurs do. And what does he do at school? He learns to count to 10, starting with 1 gift for the teacher. Then he draws 2 hearts. He also knows how to write 3 letters in his name.
Pierrick Bisinski was born in 1961. He has devoted himself entirely to children’s books since 1996. Paper cutouts illustrate his stories.
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Delphine Bournay is the venerated author of the novel series Grignotin et Mentalo. But this project, born four years ago, remained packed away in boxes. Delphine has learned a lot since then: about renouncing one’s ideas from the start; about erasing pages that serve no purpose; about abbreviating. Patience and the passing of time have done the rest.
Hardcover, 40 pages, 230 x 160 mm, €11,50
Who’s the Strongest? Lil’ Mole was baking cookies when a big rock came and blocked the entrance to his tunnel. Fox arrives to help, but as he tries to help move it, he digs it in even deeper. Lil’ Mole is furious: now he’s forced to use candlelight! Fox has another idea: he suggests they have a contest to see who’s the strongest, with a nice prize offered to the winner.
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Chen Jiang Hong was born
Hardcover, 48 pages, 285 x 280 mm, €13,70
Sann The day Sann was born, his village was buried in a pile of rocks when the mountain caved in. All the inhabitants fled. Everyone, that is, except for his family. Sann’s mother often takes him with her when she goes to work in the fields that are still farmable. What suffering! Sann decides to help her by removing the big rocks, one after the other. One day, Sann meets an old hermit and tells him about his project. His determination is so great that, without giggling at him or mocking him, the hermit decides to help.
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in 1963, in a big city in the north of China. A painter and illustrator, he was trained at the School of Fine Arts in Beijing. His stories blend legends, culture, and the history of China with feelings and universal questions for today’s children. Chen joins traditional techniques – ink painting without preliminary sketches, on rice paper or silk – with a modern concept of the picture book, based on visual narration.
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SUPER BUNNY SERIES (16 TITLES)
The pool at school… how painful for kids! Entrusting your child in a bathing suit to a group of strangers… how frightening for adults! In her project to make both parents and children relax, Hardcover, 36 pages, 220 x 275 mm, €12,70
I Don’t Want to Go to the Pool! The pool? That horrible place where you shiver with cold, fear, and shame in a bathing suit, where you go under water, where sea monsters can attack you? Simon the Superbunny has only one answer when his parents announce that the first visit is tomorrow: “No way!” Yet when he sees Lou, who is trembling even more than he is at the edge of the water, Simon simply listens to his courage, and he discovers that the pool isn’t as terrible as he thought.
Stephanie Blake decided to take on that weekly event that some look forward to and others fear. Because when you think about it, swimming, floating, and diving are so much fun! Simon and Lou remind us at just the right time that with two friends, you won’t be as scared.
A new adventure for Simon, who has already had 15 of them!
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When Gabriel
Gay was little, he loved video games, gangsters, and Ninja Turtles. So he put together a story that is like a video game, with levels, tricks, and bosses to beat in order to reach the next level. Zero, who is rejected without understanding why, starts from zero, builds his strength, and grows up on false values (appearances, money) before discovering, thanks to a ruse, that there are other paths in life to follow besides fights and big business.
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Hardcover, 40 pages, 255 x 230 mm, €12,50
Zero Poor little crocodile! One day his owner had enough, and flushed crocodile down the toilet to get rid of him before he had even given him a name. Fortunately, crocodile knows how to get by, and the stories he watched on television at night as he lay in his miniature aquarium gave him some ideas. It’s incredible but true: deep in the sewers, among exiled animals, rats, spiders, and strange fish, our crocodile will find a bit of warmth… and a magnificent name!
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After a brief time spent in medical school, Pauline
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Hardcover, 44 pages, 210 x 240 mm, €12,20
My Life in Pyjamas Stop! That’s enough! Down with routines! Getting dressed every morning? Going to school every day? Eating the same old fish and broccoli? Going to bed at a reasonable hour every night? It’s over. A new life must begin. At first, the parents aren’t for it. But they quickly give in when they see how much easier their life has become. Hmmm! Pyjamas, non-stop games, chips, candy… this is the life, right? Um… no, actually.
Éric Veillé lived in Cambodia for two years, after which he wrote an absurdist comic book titled Le Sens de la vie et ses frères, published by Cornélius in 2008. He and Pauline have already published other books together at Actes Sud.
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For a long time, Yvan
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Us, Our History Humanity was born approximately 150,000 years ago, in the heart of Africa. Then, slowly but surely, man explored and colonized all the lands. At first hunter-gatherers, humans later invented tools and became farmers and breeders. They took shelter in caves, and then they learned to build houses and stayed in them. Next, writing was born in the Middle East, China, and South America. Far-flung cousins separated from one another, everyone founded civilizations. Soon the first scientists asked questions about the world and the universe. Inventions arrived, one after the other. Over the course of several centuries, humans who had lived isolated on continents, without any contact, learned that they form one big family: us, humans. Those who inhabit our world today. With big, beautiful images and simple text, this is the story
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had been developing the crazy project of a universal encyclopedia in one volume. In one of his plays for theater (which remains in a drawer), one of the characters wanted to become a history professor “to learn the history of the world”!
Christophe Ylla-Somers is not only Yvan’s son-in-law; he’s also a medieval historian. He established the plan of this book and provided Yvan with a summary of documents… to be summarized.
that Us, Our History, tells us.
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Iela Mari passed away in January, at the age of 82, but we know very well that those who charm children never die. She started her career in 1968, with the mythic Red Balloon, a book revolutionary for its restraint. Her credo since then has been to draw attention to shapes, in reaction to the barrage of images on television. For almost a halfcentury, she has never deviated from this. An exhibition of her work will be held in Tokyo in November 2014.
Board book, 20 pages, 160 x 160 mm, €6 SOLD Italian
Round What’s round? A lot of things are! The stars we see in the sky, but also the planet on which we live. Some things we play with, and other things that make us afraid. Certain foods we eat, and of course, the plate on which they’re served. We are surrounded by slices and spheres that make up rounds. To help us find them, name them, and then, why not, draw them, this book offers some insight, with clear examples. With this book, previously unpublished in France but first out in 1970 in Italy, l’école des loisirs pays homage to Iela Mari.
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When she began to illustrate this famous tale by the Brothers Grimm, Gerda
Muller
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The Town Musicians of Bremen Too old to work, a donkey is condemned by his master to die. The donkey decides to run off and become a musician in Bremen. Along the way, he encounters a dog, a cat, and a rooster, who are also too old… They will spend the rest of their lives among friends and fanfare! In 1819, the Brothers Grimm published this story about exiles who take their revenge on a society who no longer wants them. It’s not too surprising that this tale still resonates today. A story where strength is found in numbers and where the weakest win, thanks to friendship.
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let herself be guided by the past. Since she especially loves Brueghel, she chose to pay homage to him by way of some visual quotes: a watermill here, a banquet beneath a thatch roof there, a windmill at the summit of a hill. With warm colors and Gerda’s precise lines, this story of outcasts who triumph over the bandits takes on a particularly mischievous dimension.
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Claude Ponti
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Blaise and the Kastatroffee Kontroler One night, a storm breaks out in heavy thunder and the chicks’ house caves in, from top to bottom. The Kastatroffee Kontroler arrives right away. Blaise and the chicks don’t have a caving permit on the house. They must pay a fine, otherwise they will be imprisoned INSIDE the Kontroler. Where do you find a fine? On which tree? In which forest? And how do you pay it on time? A long, frantic search for the chicks now begins. In this new adventure by Ponti, we happily meet Blaise again, with even more chicks.
doesn’t just make books: he also implants his universe in the Jardin des Plantes in Nantes. And Ponti doesn’t just draw for children. He recently illustrated a little book coming out this autumn with Presses universitaires de France, Les lois fondamentales de la stupidité humaine, a scientific work that demonstrates, with graphs and examples as supporting evidence, that the proportion of stupid people remains constant.
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One day, Audrey Poussier was asked by a friend of hers, “Don’t you want to tell a story about baths? My daughter hates them…” Audrey’s son used to love baths so much that he screamed with despair each time the water disappeared. Little children live in the moment and cannot imagine that things will happen again. And that’s what inspired Audrey’s new book.
Hardcover, 36 pages, 300 x 280 mm, €12,50
Abel’s Bath Where does the bath water go? Abel would really like to know. He worries about it each night when his mom empties the tub. One evening, however, as if by magic, he succeeds in slipping through the side of the drain stopper. Then, from pipe to brook and into the river, from one discovery to the next, Abel follows his bath… and travels through all sorts of landscapes, where he encounters all sorts of animals. Will he return from his trip? Yes, but accompanied by a flock of new friends who are all very dirty. That works out well, because Abel loves baths!
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Born in Egypt in 1953, Grégoire Solotareff
Hardcover, 40 pages, 240 x 320 mm, €12,70
The Red Cat Valentin was a cat like any other, except that he was very unique, original, and… of a different color. He was red, and this forced him to stay away from other cats, who mocked him. He lived alone in the forest, where he hid. But then one day, Valentin felt less alone. It was the day he saved a completely white female cat. He yanked her from the claws of a wolf, and then together they yanked themselves from the clutches of a witch. And then? Perhaps they had a lot of pink kittens…
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chose to devote his time to children’s literature in 1985 after several years working in the field of medicine. His secret recipe: he starts with the text and some drawings, shelves the text and draws again, then adds details for more proximity to the text.
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One day at a school, a little boy handed
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Hardcover, 40 pages, 210 x 260 mm, €12,70 SOLD German, Dutch
Billy’s Party It’s Billy’s birthday today! What does he want? Grilled hazelnuts and a costume party! His dad is in charge of the hazelnuts. But organizing the party falls on Billy. Now he’s stepped out to invite his friends: Jean-Claude the earthworm, who has a new little brother, Didier, Josette the mouse, and the buffalo! Alas, Jack the vulture risks ruining the party with his bad mood and threats. At least Billy comes up with a fantastic idea to calm him down.
minuscule drawing of an earthworm. She said to him, “Thanks for the nice picture of JeanClaude!” But the boy replied, “No! That’s not Jean-Claude, that’s his little brother!” Amused and touched by this gesture, Catharina immediately decided that the little brother would appear in her next book.
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Thibaud Guyon was fascinated by the trajectory of Nicéphore Niépce, this fantastic researcher, and he dug into the subject, helped by the latest discoveries: an original of the first photo that was found, a letter that was recently published, plus a museum set up in one part of the house Nicéphore was born in.
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The Very First Photo With his older brother Claude, Nicéphore Niépce began by perfecting a combustion engine, the Pyréolophore. Next they tried improving the fountains at Versailles, cultivating indigo, and lithography. But the project that Nicéphore now holds closest to his heart is a box, invented in the 4th century B.C., that is called the camera obscura. With the help of science, chemistry, and the sun, he is in the process of inventing something that isn’t yet called photography. The world doesn’t know anything about it. Clarisse, however, the daughter of the house domestic workers, has been entrusted with the secret.
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François Vincent went
Hardcover, 48 pages, 220 x 280 mm, €12,70
to visit the Musée de l’Air in Paris, where the crazy flyingman has his effigy, a life-size mannequin installed under one of his gliders that hangs from the ceiling. Impressive!
Paul came to spend his long vacation of 1891 at his cousin Marie’s place, on the Baltic Sea. Their shared passion? Making kites and sending them into the sky. This summer, they have even constructed a miniature hot air balloon for their dolls. They are struggling to make it fly when suddenly, a bizarre creature, a giant bird, passes by, gliding above them. Intrigued, they follow, and find out it’s a man. It’s Otto Lilienthal, a fantastic scientist. He is going to share his secrets with them, so much so that they will become the aeronautic pioneers Marie Marvingt and Paul Tarascon.
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Lilienthal, the Crazy Flyingman
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Born into a family of writers, Marion
Pussey was good in school, especially at literature. Recently, her imagination took flight while discovering these heroes from the end of the 19th century. She chose one who was less known, Otto Lilienthal, and told his story.
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漏 Illustrations: Claude Ponti, Blaise et le Kontr么leur de Kastatroffe.
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