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Foreign Rights Catalogue • Picture Books Fall 2011
Summary
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BOOKS Stephanie Blake Vincent Bourgeau & Cédric Ramadier Soledad Bravi Malika Doray Isabelle Gil Céline Herrmann Bénédicte Guettier Kimiko Alain Le Saux Matthieu Maudet Mila Alex Sanders
A STORY TO COLOR 17 Kimiko 18 Dorothée de Monfreid 19 Iris de Moüy
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PICTURE BOOKS 20 Stephanie Blake 21 Magali Bonniol 22 Soledad Bravi & Grégoire Solotareff 23 André François 24-25 Michel Gay 26 Daniel Hénon & Fabienne Mounier 27 Satomi Ichikawa 28 Kimiko 29 Thomas Lavachery 30 Wendela Ploux de Buck 31 Yvan Pommaux 32 Claude Ponti 33 Grégoire Solotareff 34 Frédéric Stehr 35 Catharina Valckx NON-FICTION BOOKS 36 Michel Backès 37 Fabian Grégoire 38 Olivier Melano 39 François Vincent & Maryse Lamigeon
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Stephanie Blake was born in
Board book, 30 pages, 190 x 260 mm
Wait for Me! Who’s running after whom? At first, the wolf races after the rabbit, then the other way around, then the snail catches up with the two. We’re almost out of breath reading this colorful, energetic book.
the United States in 1968. 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!).
SERIES SOLD World Spanish Catalan, Korean Swedish, Japanese Simplified Chinese English (USA, New Zealand, Australia) Norwegian, Italian
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Board book with flaps, 24 pages, 210 x 210 mm
Standing up, Lying Down! Thanks to the ingenious flaps on each page, you can see the characters go from one state to its opposite. Cécile is dry, then plop! She’s wet. Cédric is up high, then boom! He’s down low.
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Cédric Ramadier
was born in 1968. With a degree from Camberwell School of Arts in London, he 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 with flaps, 14 pages, 200 x 200 mm
But Where Is He? Where is the little canary? We look all over. Under the fallen leaves, there are mushrooms. And under the mushrooms? An ant! And so on, with two flaps on each page, for even more surprises.
Born in Brussels in 1967, 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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Soledad Bravi 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 little bit for fashion magazines.
Board book, 60 pages, 140 x 140 mm
Adore, Bicker, and Cuddle This is the story of dad and mom, who never agree with one another. They keep an eye on each other, and they fight with each other. But they love one another, from A to Z.
SOLD Catalan, English (Commonweath), Korean, Dutch, German, Basque, World Spanish, Italian, Polish
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Malika Doray
3 Board books in a bag 10 pages each 175 x 215 mm
was born in 1974. She studied arts and art history at the French National School of Fine Arts, and now works with kids, writing and illustrating books for them.
3 Little Puppet Books We’re Sleeping It’s Going to Be a Girl We’re Mad! These paper dolls stand up by themselves. You can read them, or simply set them beside you to admire them. A little story accompanies each puppet.
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Isabelle Gil received her training
Board book, 28 pages, 210 x 155 mm
in photography and studied fine arts. Her various projects now all have to do with picture books.
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One or Two Blunders Teddy is at grandma’s to celebrate his birthday with his friends. But just because he’s a teddy bear made of chocolate doesn’t mean he can’t have fun, or get into mischief !
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Céline Herrmann
Board book 14 pages 320 x 250 mm
My Rainbow Palette A book in the shape of a palette: what a great idea! Each palette-page represents a color, with pictures and poetic little stories. We’re not sure if we want to start painting or just look at these pretty colors!
was born in 1976. She studied French literature and fine arts at university. When her daughter was born she started creating and drawing stories for her. She now spends her time making children’s books, painting, writing, and running visual arts workshops.
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Little Fishes Fish have more thrilling lives than we ever believed, even when they are in a fishbowl. And those that live in the sea can catch colds, too. Did you know that?
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Bénédicte Guettier was
Board book, 32 pages, 180 x 180 mm
My Favorite Dad If my dad was a gorilla, or a dolphin or koala, or any other animal, we would do extraordinary things together. Things I don’t do with my real dad, who is a rabbit. But he and I can cuddle, because he is my favorite Dad!
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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Crunchy Kisses SERIES (2 TITLES)
Kimiko was born in 1963 to a Japanese mother and a French father. She has mainly lived in France but often spent her holidays near Kyoto. After studying fashion design in Tokyo, she worked for a haute couture group in Paris. She left fashion to make books for children.
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Board book, 20 pages, 180 x 210 mm
The Friends of Crunchy Kisses At the beginning of the story, Little Mouse is a bit worried when Crunchy Kisses takes off with her in the night. But then he introduces her to some uncommon friends that you never see when it’s daytime. And that changes everything!
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Alain Le Saux
4 board books in a box, 20 pages, 142 x 124 mm
The Box of Dads, 4 This time we discover dad’s professions, dad’s anatomy, dad’s activities, and what dad likes. And we never grow tired of it!
went to 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 Windsor McKay, Roland Topor, Robert Crumb, Jean-Marc-Reiser, Saul Steinberg, André François and James Ensor.
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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, 26 pages, 190 x 190 mm
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I’m Going! He finally decides to leave the nest. He receives all sorts of recommendations from mom, dad, and granny: “Take a sweater and some crackers, don’t forget your cap...” And little bird is headed off, in search of adventure!
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Board book, 34 pages, 220 x 220 mm
Little Bits of Paper Mila invites children to have fun, invent, and draw with little torn-up bits of paper. A square becomes a bull, and a circle transforms into a sheep. Anything is possible!
Mila 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. Little Bits of Paper is her first book with Loulou & Cie.
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Alex Sanders was born in 1964 and has never stopped drawing and painting since then. In 1993, he decided to devote himself fully to children’s books.
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Board book, 62 pages, 150 x 150 mm
Pure Wolf A picture dictionary of everything that has to do with wolves: what you already know, but also what you never even suspected. For example, have you ever seen a wolf ’s car?
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Board book, 20 pages, 305 x 430 mm SOLD World Spanish
Kimiko was born in 1963 to a French father and a Japanese mother. She has mainly lived in France but often spent her holidays near Kyoto. After studying fashion design in Tokyo, she worked for a haute couture group in Paris. She left fashion to make books for children.
Snacktime Anita has bought so many cakes that she decides to invite her friends over. But what she forgot is that some of them really love to eat. This story is a real feast of treats! A picture book to color by yourself!
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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 cakes.
Board book, 20 pages, 305 x 430 mm
Coco-Color The adventures of Coco continue, but this time it’s the reader’s turn to make them colorful. Coco picks red cherries and eats yellow bananas, but when it rains, what happens? Do all the colors disappear? A picture book to color by yourself!
Coco SERIES (15 TITLES)
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Iris de Moüy
Board book, 20 pages, 305 x 430 mm
Red Rabbits Do Not Exist
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.
This is the story of a rabbit without color, unhappy because he would really like to be red. But do red rabbits exist? With help from his friend the cat and the reader, maybe the rabbit will see his dream come true! A picture book to color by yourself!
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Super Bunny SERIES (12 TITLES)
Stephanie Blake was born in the United States in 1968. 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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Hardcover, 32 pages, 220 x 275 mm
Merry Xmas Everyone knows that on Christmas Eve, Santa Claus comes down from the sky to bring gifts for the children who have been good. Simon and his little brother Gaspard have prepared everything with their parents: they trimmed the tree and left a snack for the traveler, and something for his reindeer, too. But ay, ay, ay! It’s snowing big flakes. What if this storm prevents Santa Claus from finding their house? Santa needs help! How? Simon and Gaspard will make a mega landing strip on the ground!
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Magali Bonniol, the 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 gift. 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... What if he knew how to do everything? This is the most fantastic birthday present ever!
author of Pipi dans l’herbe and Rien faire is a self-made woman. She creates her books by retreating deeply into her flipping memories and fumbling through the piles of drawings she has been collecting in numerous files since she was a teenager.
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Soledad Bravi was born in 1965. She had a diploma from an art school and had been an artistic director in advertising before returning to drawing. Today she draws a lot for children and teens and a little bit for fashion magazines.
Hardcover, 32 pages, 200 x 250 mm
Grégoire Solotareff is the author of many albums, including the famous Loulou. He has also published children and teen novels.
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My Rabbit One day when Garance Littlefoot was home alone, her hunting dog Go Fetch brought her a poor, little rabbit, all soft between his teeth. The rabbit was warm, and still breathing... not only was he alive, he also talked! Garance wanted to dress his wounds, but he preferred to have a conversation. Garance liked changing names, so she called the rabbit Jean, whereas he used to be named Augustin. But Jean thought that there was something besides names that needed to change in this house. Like where the dog slept, for example.
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André François
Hardcover, 40 pages, 250 x 205 mm. SOLD Italian
You are RI-DI-CU-LOUS! Mister Punch and Mister Poo look at each other. They stare each other down. They point their fingers at each other. They find all sorts of reasons to joke and laugh themselves silly, to make fun of one another. One has a big nose, and can even stand on it! The other has a fat belly, and can balance on it like a roly-poly doll! They act like clowns and they love it! But when together they joyfully agree to make fun of the two-headed dragon, things get complicated. This guy isn’t funny! Although...
was a painter, sculptor, graphic designer, poster artist, and innovative illustrator. François is also the author of many picture books, including this one, which was first written in English, You are Ridiculous, and published in France under the title Qui est le plus marrant ? It is now rereleased with this new translation.
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Michel Gay
was born right across from a zoo. If he charms little ones, it’s most likely because he draws them so well, whether they be humans, penguins, zebras, kittens or wolves. And he understands them perfectly. He is the creator of Biboundé, Loup-Noël, and Zou, as well as other characters, like Cromignon, Cropetite’s brother who saves his tribe from starvation by inventing writing!
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Hardcover, 32 pages, 280 x 230 mm
Zou’s Coins They’re going on an adventure! Today, Zou’s Dad is taking him on a walk through the streets of the city with his friend Elzee. They have everything they need: Dad has his debit card, and Zou has a shiny, new coin! But what happens if the machine eats Dad’s card, and Zou loses his coin? Well, coins are crazy: they’re earned, found, kept, given away, spent, and lost... But is a coin given a coin lost? Not at all! And to have fun, do you really need coins? The answer to this will come from Elzee and Zou...
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Drawing, writing, theater, music...
Daniel Hénon and Fabienne Mounier are multidisciplinary artists, and together they are the founders of a theater troupe. Notable performances with the group include their adaptation of Histoire du petit tabouret.
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Hardcover, 32 pages, 200 x 270 mm
My Name Is Beep At the kennel where Beep is born, the other dogs, husky optimists, quickly find owners. But he has to wait a long time for a master to come take him. And this new owner is Farmer Martin. Beep, overcome with appreciation, searches for a way to please him and serve him. Since the farmer makes no demands, Beep tries everything. Should he run after the cows? Bring back chickens between his teeth? Bother the Old Horse? What if what Farmer Martin was expecting was a lot simpler and less tiring?
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Having left her home in Japan, Satomi Ichikawa arrived one day in Paris, without knowing a single word of French, with her suitcase in hand. And she decided to stay no matter what the price. She didn’t know that her professional calling was in the field of drawing. She had this revelation while looking through an illustrated book by Maurice Boutet de Monvel. Her picture books have already been translated into eight languages.
Hardcover, 36 pages, 215 x 265 mm
Jibril’s Cars Jibril is an exemplary shepherd. Every day, he leads his little flock across the desert, in search of fresh grass and water. While waiting, he makes miniature cars out of everything he comes across: pieces of iron, plastic debris, crumbling shoe soles... Alas, his father grows angry. This tinkering won’t amount to anything. Make it all go away! Jibril will need a lot of ingenuity in order to obey his dad and not suffer too much.
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Kimiko was born in 1963 to a Japanese mother and a French father. She has mainly lived in France but often spent her holidays near Kyoto. After studying fashion design in Tokyo, she worked for a Haute Couture group in Paris. She left fashion to make books for children.
Hardcover, 40 pages, 225 x 290 mm
Charlie No-Friends At age six, Charlie is shy and not too sure of himself. He thinks he doesn’t have any friends. And so one day, when he receives an invitation from his neighbors to come have snacks in the glade, he hesitates. Meet with others? Talk? Too complicated! But where there are snacks, there are cakes... Charlie is such a food-lover he cannot resist. By gathering his courage and going, he discovers something there that exceeds anything he could have imagined. A festival of pastries, yes, but also a stunning surprise!
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Thomas Lavachery is the
Hardcover, 48 pages, 150 x 210 mm
Padouk Leaves Padouk, a friend of Jojo of the Jungle, is very sick. Too sick to survive. Serene and courageous, he asks his friends to let him die. But how can they resign themselves? They try everything to keep him alive, to resuscitate him: noise, music, dances. All in vain. After Padouk has died, life returns to its normal course.Years pass. Then one day, Jojo’s sister panics: she thinks about Padouk, but can’t conjure up his face. Jojo has an idea, so that the memory of Padouk will never fade away.
illustrator and author of the series of novels Bjorn the Morphir. He started drawing comics at around age twelve or thirteen. His first character, Sumac, bore a strong resemblance to the future Jojo. He has published comic strips in Tintin magazine.
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Wendela Ploux-de Buck comes from a family of artists who love China, and this plunged her into the world of drawing early on. Also, through her work, she has had the opportunity to meet many children. She thus needed nothing more to start creating picture books.
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Hardcover, 32 pages, 290 x 210 mm
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Meng and Yùn Meng dreams of going to school and learning to read and write! But how can she do that? Her family is very poor, she lives far from any city in a province in China, and the school is expensive. There is only one solution: to enthusiastically participate in all the work on the farm with her cherished donkey,Yùn. She gets up at dawn, harvests the watermelons that her mom has grown, puts them into the little cart, and goes to sell them in the market. Alas, when Yùn falls ill, Meng must make a choice: keep the money for school or bring her donkey to the doctor.
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Mythology SERIES (4 TITLES)
Yvan Pommaux
Hardcover, 80 pages, 250 x 330 mm
Ulysses of a Thousand Ruses The Sirens, the Cyclops, the nymph Calypso, Circe the magician, Penelope the faithful wife, the Lotophagi, tempests and shipwrecks: all these legendary encounters and mythic adventures have something in common: the man who lived through them. Ulysses, the man of a thousand ruses, is twenty times diverted from returning to his native land after his victory in the Trojan War. Thanks to Yvan Pommaux’s enchanting style, Homer’s masterpiece is destined for a new life.
is the author of many picture books at l’école des loisirs. His book about his own childhood in Paris, Avant la télé, has already become a classic in the French bookshops and abroad. Yvan Pommaux is also the author of a cartoon series called Marion Duval at Bayard.
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A painter, illustrator for press, and an author and illustrator of books,
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Claude Ponti created his first book for children in 1985 for his daughter Adèle. Since then, he has taken us into a poetic world full of humor with his numerous picture books that are invitations to dream. In all of Claude Ponti’s picture books there is an itinerary, metamorphoses, and the spirit of Lewis Carroll.
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Meye-Luv Sometimes, someone changes your name and you become Meye-Luv. Sometimes this same someone says he wants to play with you, to live with you, but all he does is force you to make him cakes, and he acts like you are a ball, sending you here and there with strikes and blows. Sometimes someone else, a shining star that has fallen from your pain, comes to tell you the truth: Heesez Thateeluvsyoo But-Eewishus Yooharmm. So you must leave, and look for peace elsewhere. This is what happened to Isaeus. She had become an orphan, she had become a victim, but it couldn’t go on forever.
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Loulou SERIES (3 TITLES)
Grégoire Solotareff is Hardcover, 80 pages, 250 x 330 mm
Loulou at Wolf School
the author of many albums, including the famous Matthieu and Toi grand et moi petit. He has also writes novels for teen.
Tom the rabbit just had a conversation with Loulou the wolf, his friend for life. They talked about fear. To Tom’s great regret, Loulou affirms that he is not afraid of anything, at least not of anything that really exists. When you have a friend for life, you want to share everything with him. That’s why Tom, who knows all about fear, wants to help Loulou experience it, too. Then he learns that a wolf school exists. A frightening school...
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Frédéric Stehr studied fine arts, but spent more time in the gardens where he sketched. Before writing and drawing for children, he was a painter and a carpenter. He created the Foufours series with his brother Gerald, the Calinours series with Alain Broutin, and the Mariette et Soupir series with Irène Schwartz.
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Hardcover, 32 pages, 210 x 260 mm
Hello, Grandma? Helena has everything she needs to make a good cake: pan, big bowl, spoon and whisk. Everything except... the ingredients! Luckily, by calling her friends the animals on the phone, everything can be arranged. Each one arrives with his speciality. The squirrel brings hazelnuts, the rabbit carrots, the fox brings eggs, and the bear the honey... Oh, no! The wolf! You’re not going to put mice in my cake. Who’s the chef? We grate, we stir, and we’re all done. Darn, we don’t have an oven! I have an idea, says Helena. “Hello, Grandma?”
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Catharina Valckx was born in the Netherlands in 1957. She has also lived in France and writes in French as well as in Dutch. Her stories are very realistic and full of imagination. Her main characters are always very human, always funny and graceful.
Hardcover, 32 pages, 210 x 260 mm SOLD Italian, Dutch
The Buffalo Billy the hamster just saw his father’s lasso hanging on a nail, and now he has only one idea in mind: he wants to catch an animal with it, the biggest, most impossible animal: a buffalo! That would impress Dad. Billy starts practicing on his friend, Jean-Claude the earthworm. Hmm... That doesn’t amount to much. But it seems that destiny is on his side, because an enormous buffalo is nearby, drinking from the river. Now who is going to catch whom? SOLD German Simplified Chinese Italian Dutch
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Michel Backès was born
Hardcover, 48 pages, 220 x 280 mm
in 1961 in Paris. He has loved painting and drawing since the age of four. He also likes rain, jazz, family stories, everyday stories, and playing the piano.
I, Joshua Slocum, Lone Sailor
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At the end of the 19th century, the steamship replaces the sailing ship, and large numbers of experienced, courageous sailors find themselves unemployed. But one of them, Joshua Slocum, is not the type to be taken down. He decides to patch up an old fishing boat, the Spray, and leave for the other end of the world. On his own, he confronts pirates and storms. But he does have his cherished books, the heroes from the past that he admires, and his many childhood memories to accompany him. Along the way he will meet Fanny Stevenson, the widow of the author of Treasure Island. His trip around the world will last three years, two months, and two days. His travels since become the inspiration and point of reference for all solo trips around the world.
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Hardcover, 48 pages, 220 x 280 mm
The Lighthouse of the Forgotten A girl walks along the beach barefoot at low tide, collecting cuttlefish bones. A funny, old, nostalgic man carves faces from these bones so as not to forget the Papuan masks he saw when he was traveling around the world on sailboats. This picture book tells us about their passions, their affection, their friendship, and their humanity. And it tells us about lighthouses. Lucie and her grandfather live in one. They work there, maintain it, and guard it. As fate would have it, Augustin crosses paths with them.Years later, he recounts this story.
born in 1975 in Belgium and now lives in France. He loves doing in-depth research for each of his albums, with a predilection for historical subjects or scientific themes and techniques. His objective is to make more attractive what once seemed to him so off-putting when he was a student.
l’école des loisirs
FA L L 2 0 1 1
NON-FICTION
Fabian Grégoire was
20 th Century
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Last light house
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16 th Century
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Great Discoveries
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Olivier Melano was born in 1957. He teaches fine arts and works as an illustrator for the press. His eclectic choices, sense of storytelling, and taste for meticulous documentation have quickly made him a pillar in the Archimède collection, and he now has a dozen titles to his name.
l’école des loisirs
FA L L 2 0 1 1
Hardcover, 48 pages, 220 x 280 mm
The King’s Cartographer Lisbon, 1502 – a captivating city. The riches of the entire world arrive here to be bought and sold. Tiago enjoys strolling along the port, but he also likes drawing for his friend Ana in her father dom Joaquim’s studio. Her father is the author of the most precise map ever made, the Padrão Real. It is coveted by many because it contains State secrets. But a traitor is lurking among the staff in dom Joaquim’s studio – someone who will do anything to make a fortune with a copy of the precious map. Even to the point of kidnapping Tiago!
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Maryse Lamigeon
Hardcover, 48 pages, 220 x 280 mm
Pirate from the Island of Reunion The Island of Reunion, in the summer of 1710. Paul, an orphan boy, has had to work from a very young age on a coffee plantation. It is exhausting. Luckily, Flora is there. She is the daughter of his former Malagasy nanny, and Paul is in love with her. One day, the master strikes Flora, and Paul defends her so vehemently that he then must flee. Along the way, he happens to cross paths with a terrible pirate, the ruthless La Buse. What Paul does not yet know is that he will see him again: he will confront him during a naval combat and save a ship captain’s life, and then sail to the Indies. But for the moment, he only has one plan in mind: he has promised Flora that he will return to her.
live together with their daughter Leïda, their horses and their cat, on the edge of the Camargue. After several albums inspired by their beautiful region, they took us on voyages that followed the paths of Jacques Cartier, Roland Garros and Buffalo Bill. Let’s follow them on this new adventure!
l’école des loisirs
FA L L 2 0 1 1
18 th Century
and
NON-FICTION
François Vincent
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Slaves & Pirates
7+
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