Foreign Rights Catalogue Ecole des Loisirs Narrativa Fall 2014 by Isabelle Torrubia Agente Literaria

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Foreign Rights Catalogue Novels Fall 2014

ntirely dedicated to

children’s books since

1965, l’école des loisirs’ main ambitions are to make reading a pleasure for children and to create a home for the authors. We like to consider the authors’ entire works rather than simply their latest title; that is why this catalogue tries to present the books to come but also those we have already published.You will probably notice that our authors write for all ages, including some for adults.

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Mouche - First readers 3 Isabelle Bonameau 4 Sophie Chérer 5 Agnès Desarthe 6-7 Colas Gutman 8 Nathalie Kuperman 9 Susie Morgenstern 10 Nadja 11 Christian Oster 12 Dominique Souton 13 Matthieu Sylvander Neuf - 9 to 12 years old readers 14 Luc Blanvillain 15 Claire Castillon 16-17 Marie Desplechin 18 Christophe Donner 19 Malika Ferdjoukh 20 Maëlle Fierpied 21 Aurélien Loncke 22 Mathieu Pierloot Médium -Young adults 23 Jean-François Chabas 24 Marie Chartres 25 Fanny Chiarello 26 Hélène Duffau 27 Thomas Lavachery 28 Esmé Planchon 29 Nastasia Rugani 30 Anaïs Sautier 31 Jean-Noël Sciarini 32 The Killer Cat: A Comics

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MAUD & PIERRE SERIES (3 TITLES)

Isabelle Bonameau sings in a rock group and plays guitar in another. But Bonameau is and does much more than that. Forget the monotone life – her books resemble her existence, a cleverly varied mixture that’s always simmering.

Full-color illustrations by the author 56 pages

Maud and Pierre’s Grandfather With our Grandfather, it’s a fiesta! On the program: gymnastics, music, and fishing! Maud and Pierre are two little pigs, curious about everything and overflowing with energy. They can be found here in three new adventures. “The comic book format and the humor will thrill children, who will without hesitation adopt these pigs that look an awful lot like humans! […] A lot of humor and fantasy for those learning to read.” Les riches heures de Fantasia blog

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MATHILDE SERIES (10 TITLES)

The death of her mother due to lung cancer and conversations with children convinced

Sophie Chérer

that we worry about our parents at any age, and we want to save their lives.

This volume is the tenth in the Mathilde series, with mischievous, humorous illustrations signed by

Véronique Deiss.

Black & white illustrations by Véronique Deiss 72 pages

Mathilde Makes a Fuss Before, when Mathilde gave her mom a kiss, it was like embracing a fruit salad. But ever since her mom started smoking, she smells strongly of tobacco, even at breakfast. And that dirty odor isn’t all! Mathilde thinks she’s not looking too good, and she hears her coughing. She starts to seriously worry about her mom's health. She wants to throw it all away: the cigarettes, the lighters, the ashtrays... But is that the right solution? How can you convince someone you love to stop smoking?

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Author of numerous books for children and teenagers as well as novels for adults,

Agnès Desarthe resumes here with fables and poetic anthropomorphism. Her stories about animals touch us because they speak of love, hope, and the wish to be loved that animates each one of us.

Full-color illustrations by Anaïs Vaugelade 144 pages

My Animals In this book, you will discover the story of a donkey who missed everywhere, and secretly turned into a racehorse.You will learn about a ravishing gnu who thought he was participating in a beauty contest, but in the end saw himself awarded for his courage. Then there is a labrador who was so bored with life that he wanted to sell his soul to the devil, and the story of a dachshund whose extraordinary sense of smell was the cause of his loss, before bringing him happiness.

A specialist in the illustration of animals,

Anaïs Vaugelade had a field day drawing donkeys, dogs, and gnus, making them come to life in this joyful menagerie!

This book brings together four stories already published at l’école des loisirs: Who’s the Best Looking?, I Want to Be a Horse, Yankel the Dachshund, and Igor the Labrador.

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Dumb Dog Series

Full-color illustrations by Marc Boutavant Deluxe Edition 72 pages

Merry Christmas, Dumb Dog! Flat Cat is set on spending Christmas Eve in a house. But who would want a mite-infested dog and a flattened cat for a holiday celebration? The Christmas family, perhaps? When Dumb Dog comes scratching at their door, he arrives at the right moment. Marie-Noëlle is thrilled to have finally found the worst gift for her brother, Jean-Noël. Beneath the Christmas tree, the war of the filthy gifts begins. A dirty old dog and a flat cat... A marvelous garbage can tale!

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DUMB DOG SERIES (4 TITLES)

Colas Gutman

invented a one-of-a-kind dog, a cross between a wet rag and a doormat: Dumb Dog. Thrilled with his discovery, he decided to start a series starring this totally dumb doggy with the great illustrator Marc Boutavant.

Full-color illustrations by Marc Boutavant 72 pages

Marc Boutavant

Dumb Dog at School Today Dumb Dog is going to school! Will he succeed at behaving in front of his teacher, and not falling asleep in class? Will he be able to play football at recess without using a ball? And above all, will he learn to read so that he can decipher the tags in his garbage can? Good luck, Dumb Dog!

fell in love with Dumb Dog right from the start. He’s always happy to rejoin these furry characters. By making them evolve within a new framework, he feels like a little boy who transports his cowboys and Indians to an unusual world.

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In order to face real problems, Nathalie Kuperman likes to play with the imagination and summon the fantastic, like this monster who terrorizes Gustave and is the symbol of his interior anguish. Luckily, a monster can be tamed.

Full-color illustrations by Louis Thomas 80 pages

After receiving a degree in fine arts in 2012,

Louis Thomas has collaborated on multiple projects. In this story, he has succeeded in making the monster terrifying at the beginning and touching at the end.

A Monster Entered My Life He has little yellow eyes and a scary smile. He has a two-colored tongue, a mushy mouth, a metallic voice, and plus he... belches. As soon as I close my eyes, I see him: the monster that hides behind my eyelids. He is there at night, in the dark. And in class, too. And at the house, each time I think of my little brother. What do you do to tame monsters? Or get rid of them? That’s what I’d really like to know.

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Everyone says that listening to Susie

Morgenstern speak is a real joy, and her love for life is infectious. She entertains young readers, and awakens their interest in subjects that concern them, like school, family, and love, all with humor, fantasy, and generosity.

Full-color illustrations by Iris de Moüy 88 pages

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Iris de Moüy

Silence! All Catherine the teacher dreams about in her class is a little bit of silence. It would be so much more simple to teach and help her students progress if they knew how to remain quiet. But no. The chatterboxes never stop... And so Catherine is ready to try any and every method to reach her goal.

finds inspiration in her own childhood. Her drawings can also be seen in the press, with fashion designers, and even on dishes!

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Nadja was born in 1955 in Alexandria, Egypt. Her childhood in Libya and later near Paris was far from ordinary: no school, but correspondence classes until the age of thirteen, along with stories told and drawn by her mother, author and illustrator, Olga Lecaye. Besides the famous Chien bleu, Nadja has published numerous picture books for children and toddlers.

Full-color illustrations by the author 176 pages

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Do you remember the little girl no bigger than a thumb, who slept in a nutshell with a rose petal for a quilt? Who was kidnapped by a toad who wanted her to marry his son, and saved by a fish, then kidnapped by a maybug and locked up by a mouse who pretended to be her friend? Thumbelette – that is who we’re talking about – is now Queen of the Flowers, and she’s very busy with her responsibilities. But she has agreed to tell us about her terrible, marvelous adventures. If you would like to learn her true story and discover the secrets of her heart, then all you need to do is open this book!

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Christian Oster

recognizes that he was late to discover tales. The audacity and inventiveness of the Brothers Grimm now fill him with enthusiasm. He never tires of paying homage to the genre, renewing it each time he writes a story.

Full-color illustrations by Bruno Gibert 56 pages

The Pig Who Popped Pills Aaaa... cha! And raaa... choo! Charles the pig has become the king of colds. He can’t stand sneezing anymore, he can’t stand wiping his nose anymore. So the doctor prescribes pills. Except that Charles doesn’t like pills. He doesn’t want to take them. He prefers to hide them. But what happens to the pills once their hidden? If he doesn’t take care of his cold, Charles is going to have to take care of his secrets.

Bruno Gibert really likes pigs and he loves the color pink. This story reminded him of the Père Castor books from his childhood. He took inspiration from them, all while adding a touch of modernity.

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Nominated for the Jugendliteratur Preis 2014

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Dominique Souton has two

children who have often given her ideas for novels. She remembers finding in one of her girl’s rooms a letter full of sorrow, addressed to her best friend who had dropped her for another.

Full-color illustrations by Pascal Lemaître 112 pages

Pascal Lemaître has illustrated numerous books for children. He too has discovered his daughter’s torments while illustrating this story.

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My Best Friend Has a Best Friend Mimi knows how to make a Cola painting, get glittery lips, and put her panties on over her stockings. Nat knows how to fold a t-shirt in two seconds, go pee in the street, and draw eyes in a realistic way. They exchanged these tricks at the beginning of the school year, the day they met. They hit it off right away, and promised not to ever abandon each other. But then Nat fell ill. When she comes back to class, she learns that during her absence, Mimi invited Angèle to sleep over at her house! Ever since, Nat feels terrible...

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Matthieu Sylvander admits

Full-color illustrations by Perceval Barrier 56 pages

he has a soft spot for orangutans, “Orangutan in Malay, or in some language from Borneo, means 'man of the forests,’ which is the same as 'Sylvander’ in Latin or Greek. The orangutan, therefore, is somewhat of a cousin, and this book constitutes a means of familial homage.”

Orang and Utan What? Monkeys aren’t allowed to visit this hotel? Orang and Utan can’t believe their ears. Mr. Fred, the director, has forbidden them from entering the new establishment in a very impolite manner. It’s all the more unfair because the buildings were constructed right at the site of a jungle in Borneo, where the monkeys would come to play! Cut to the quick, Orang and Utan bet that they will succeed at entering the hotel. Even if it means transforming themselves into humans. The problem is that humans rarely have long, orange fur.

Perceval Barrier, his accomplice, has illustrated several of his books, with much enthusiasm.

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Luc Blanvillain has met many parents “dreadful in spite of themselves,” and “excessively worried about their child’s success,” like the parents of Nils. He sees in this obsession one of the ills of our century, and an excellent subject for a book. He treats it in his own unique way, cheerfully and tinted with black humor.

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Ever since he has been a French teacher,

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Journal of a Useless Beginner An excerpt from Nils’s journal: September 2nd, the night before the first day of school Contrary to what my mother thinks, I am not undertaking this journal today because I want to, nor because I’m going into high school. I have nothing to say about all that. And even less to say about all the subjects addressed by my teacher in her long good-bye speech last June: our “beginnings into adolescence,” “the time of secrets,” “the changes in our bodies,” and other heaps of rubbish for adults. I want to talk about the reasons why I’m becoming useless. And that’s it.

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Claire Castillon

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wrote this story for her beloved godson, and the hero isn’t a girl, for once. She imagined a little boy who is sensitive, fragile, and has a poetic spirit. Diving into her memories, she captured that moment from childhood when disappointments fall and masks rise.

You Are Cute Because You Are a Bit Hopeless Everything is all mixed up for Quentin. The members of his family aren’t the exciting heros he thought they were. Without explanation, his grandfather is no longer talking to him. And then, his whimsical aunt Rude, who is a night singer, is none other than his mother’s brother. And high school? Things aren’t any more simple, either. Quentin must go on a school ski trip even though he doesn’t know how to put one ski in front of the other. Which isn’t going to improve matters with Lydie, with whom he is in love, but who regally ignores him. For Quentin, one thing is certain: nothing is certain.

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Poor Little Witch Girl Series

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Green

Appel

At age eleven, Green shows no talent whatsoever for sorcery. Even worse, she says that she wants to be someone normal, and she wants to marry one day. Her mother, Ursula, is dismayed. It is very important for a witch to transmit the craft to her daughter. And so she decides to have Green spend one day a week with her grandmother, Anastabott. Right from the first session, the results are excellent. A bit too much so, perhaps.

We left Green radiant in the company of her mother Ursula and her grand-mother Anastabott. Things could have been simple from now on. But of course they won’t be. Green is suddenly surrounded by people, and yet she feels all alone. Luckily, a girl and her mother have just moved into the building next door. It’s Appel. Green says to herself that this is the perfect name for her future best friend, her equal in everything. Everything? Even witchcraft?

In 1997, this book won the “Funniest Book of the Year” prize and the“Tam-Tam/J’aime lire” prize, awarded through the Montreuil Book Fair. In 1998 it won the “Graines de Lecteurs” prize, and the “1000 Jeunes Lecteurs” prize.

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POOR LITTLE WITCH GIRL SERIES (3 TITLES)

210 pages

Mauve Appel is in a terrible mood, and Green is going to lock herself up in her bedroom. This doesn’t seem like them at all. Is it a teenage crisis? That would be too simple. When Appel comes back from classes with a bruise on her face, there is no longer any doubt: something isn’t right. Wicked characters arrive into this world. They are represented by a new girl in their class, Mauve, who organizes a form of harassment on the two little girls, who are then confronted with this aggression. Ever since the new girl arrived at middle school, everything seems out of whack. What are the sorcerers going to do about the situation?

I remember that when I was searching for a way to follow Green and Appel, I went to a class, and a little boy said, “All you have to do is add some bad guys, because there is never anyone bad in your books!” Therefore Marie

Desplechin imagined enemies for her heroine-sorcerers. It was an opportunity, since this was about Evil, to talk about rejection, exclusion, and those terrible human urges that are expressed everywhere in all societies. But even if the subject is serious, Marie Desplechin keeps her sense of humor......

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Writer, journalist, filmmaker, and literary critic

Chris Donner is the author of a varied body of work. In the majority of his books, he dramatizes a family trying to make its way out of perilous jungles, like this seaside vacation, or back-toschool. We’ve all experienced so many of these situations at one time or another.

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Letters from My Little Brother Letters from My Little Brother: “A hilarious tale of a failed family vacation by the sea. Just beneath the surface, the reasons of the brother’s absence are revealed little by little: the parents’ rejection of a homosexual friendship.” Revue des livres pour enfants, Autumn 1991 Death of a Teacher: “A strong, original book that tells how the narrator fell in love with his teacher. It is much more than an awakening to love: it is also a child’s inordinately sensitive view of people and things. The end of the novel will perhaps bewilder young readers. No matter. They will discover that novels are not always rosy.” Le Vif – L’Express, January 1992 When Letters from My Little Brother was first published, this delicate, unique, wildly funny book stirred up enthusiasm in critics and young readers alike. Today it is one of the great classics of children’s literature.

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THE RAIN CLUB SERIES (2 TITLES)

Malika Ferdjoukh has a name that alludes to the sun, but she likes fog and wind. This lover of American detective novels has included her memories of reading as a child and her experiences teaching at a boarding school on the edge of a forest in order to imagine the Rain Club.

Black & white illustrations by Cati Baur 88 pages

The Rain Club Braves the Storm It’s the end of winter vacation in Saint-Malo, and at last the Rain Club has a moment when they don’t have a mystery to dig into. But then Jeanne Eyrmont, the goddaughter of the principal, shows up at the Pierres-Noires boarding school, and she seems frightened, as if she had seen ghosts. Ghosts, really? Ambroise, Rose, Nadget and Milo have decided to bring this case to the light of day. This book brings together two new Rain Club investigations, The Ghost of Pierres-Noires and The Red Shoes Mystery.

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After studies in literature, Maëlle Fierpied worked for six years in a children’s bookstore. Passionate about language, she collects rare and little-known words and ideas for novels in little notebooks.

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The Prodigious Destiny of Peter “Ladies and gentlemen, allow me to tell you the story of Peter, the angel at the Circus of Marvels. Is he man or bird? Nobody knows. Let yourself become bewitched by the magic of his aerial ballet, and fly by his side during his performance.” As Peter takes flight beneath the tent at the Circus of Marvels, nobody can imagine that the boy with long, outspread wings was an ugly little duckling a long time ago. As a baby, he was born fragile, and judged slow by the doctors. When he was a bit older, his back was deformed and two stumps of wings grew, so they called him Peter Chicken! What happened? It’s a difficult tale to tell. It all began with the explosion of a heater in a slippers factory, when Peter was covered in polyductymal paste.

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The Grimme Gang and the Witch of Candy Palace Why the devil have Grimme and his gang gotten on board this steam train? They followed the advice of Ignatius Luminos, a clairvoyant who was supposed to put them on the trail of Sucette and Bretzel’s parents. But then the nine orphans meet their sworn enemies, Muschler and Izburk, on the same train! Just escaped from prison, the atrocious characters are already plotting their next dirty trick. This time, they plan on stealing the cash drawer from a place dear to Sucette. The fabulous Candy Palace!

THE GRIMME GANG SERIES (3 TITLES)

In this third volume of The Grimme Gang,

Aurélien Loncke wanted to add more candies and even more problem-solving. And it’s raining magic! Born in Sarrebourg, he has been accustomed to winter snow since childhood, and he likes to sprinkle it into his novels. These days, Aurélien Loncke lives in a tiny house and studies literature.

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teacher in Brussels who has been writing for the past six or seven years. After illustrating comics, novels, picture books, and a short film, he has now launched into young adult literature. He appreciates this genre because he finds high literary standards in it, from the point of view of its form, as well as an uninhibited choice of subjects.

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Mathieu Pierloot is a young

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Love Is... Whatever! After she had a dream that a great writer was hiding among her students, Miss Junon handed out spiral notebooks to each one of them so that they could write down everything that went through their heads. For want of writing a novel, Sacha takes notes on all those around him, and the questions he asks himself. He wonders how you can really know if you’re in love: “Does love mean one wants the other to be as unhappy as oneself? On the other hand, I saw that papa was doing exactly the opposite. He spent his life trying to please mom! But then... Does love mean one wants the other to be as happy as oneself?”

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The Cruel Trail Life was easy in Calabria, in the south of Italy, for Giovanni, Curzio, and Paola. But when their father is left without work, the family decides to expatriate. It’s 1879, and the country that sets their mother dreaming is America, and the city of San Francisco. But after crossing the Atlantic, another long crossing still awaits them before they arrive on the West Coast. Hostile lands, badly marked trails, aggressive humans armed to the teeth, rabid beasts, fear, hunger, thirst... Day by day, these trials transform the jovial, optimistic mother. She loses her spirit. The three young children think they have seen all of the world’s darkness, until the morning when they must face the fact: their parents have disappeared.

Jean-François Chabas wrote this book to give his readers an image of the conquest of the West that is more realistic than the one that is usually shown in Hollywood mythology. His references include Cormac McCarthy, Jim Harrison, and Russell Banks. Like them, he makes an effort to describe the toughness of a country that is new, strong, but unforgiving to the unlucky.

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Marie Chartres works in a library and writes novels for young adults and poetic tales for adults. She loves the sea and the wind, but also a small island in Brittany for its colors and hidden places.

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Like a Furious Fire Far in the north of Siberia, on the Arctic coast, is Tiksi. Half the city’s inhabitants have left. What remains now? Empty houses, the icy sea, games in the snow, the magic of the aurora borealis, and old men who remember everything and speak of enigmas. But there is also Lazar, the child who can’t sleep. And Gavriil, the poet who no longer speaks. And then there is me, their sister, Galya Bolotine, who struggles with my silent anger and oceanic daydreams. Me, who would like to understand what’s occurring under the black sky. Hoping for the return of the majestic icebreaker that will lead us away from this stifling immensity.

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Frank Sinatra spoke of the “blues of little cities” in his song New York, New York. These words were the point of departure for Fanny Chiarello, a musicloving writer, as she started to write this story, which resembles her own adolescence.

The Blues of Little Cities This morning, in the courtyard of the high school, Sidonie is on the verge of doing something dangerous, perhaps irreparable. Sidonie is a young girl who normally is not afraid of anything. She wears red shoes, isn’t interested in anyone, and has always thought that her life wouldn’t begin until she left the awful little city where she was born. But this morning, life has the haunting rhythm of the blues, the scent of a searing friendship, the evidence of a love story so strong, so perfect, that Sidonie never could have imagined it. And it has the face of Rebecca.

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Passionate about writing,

Hélène Duffau teaches the techniques of it in professional contexts and at universities. She splits her time between writing short stories, novels, poetry, and songs. Twenty-one hours is her first novel for young adults. It was a personal anecdote that inspired her to tell this parenthetical moment in the life of Pauline.

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Twenty-one hours “Out for bread.” These are the banal words that Pauline finds on the table when she gets up that morning. But something isn’t right. First of all, no one takes that much time getting bread. And then, Émilien isn’t getting up. And once on the beach, he flirts with danger. Twenty-one hours – that’s how long will take Pauline and Émilien’s mother to come back. And twenty-one hours is the decisive moment when a young girl full of doubts learns to trust life.

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Ramulf They say he’s a bit simpleminded, as deprived as a poor child and incapable of doing any wrong. Nevertheless, there’s a price on Ramulf ’s head. The young man let the monkey he had just bought at market escape, and the creature used the opportunity to publicly mock Jehanne the Pious, a poetess and daughter of a duke. The humiliation is so great that it has caused the noble lady to sink into a mortal depression. Enraged with hatred, the knight of Montluc, secretly in love with Jehanne, has sworn he’ll have the head of Ramulf, and that of his pet. Ramulf must flee, and leave the kingdom of Lotharingie as fast as possible.Yet the manhunt has only just begun.

While we await the new Bjorn, Ramulf has just arrived from Brussels.

Thomas Lavachery introduces him as an enchanted parentheses so that his readers remain patient, a step to the side which is necessary before undertaking the last episode of the saga Bjorn aux armées. Rest assured that Bjorn and Ramulf, in the genre of improbable heros, have several rather troubling points in common!

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spent her childhood telling stories to herself out loud. Today, she directs musical comedies, does happenings in galleries, nightclubs, and hair salons, and tells stories in all sorts of ways. Her pastimes largely consist of drinking green tea and learning texts by heart.

As a Montessori student,

Esmé Planchon

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Got to Play the Game When Armand and Gabriel introduce her to “Enter into Fiction,” a game they invented, Solange is hooked. The other students in her class have advised her to concentrate on important things: final exams, what to study at university, real life! But Solange doesn’t want a life where there is no place for games, fiction, and everything that makes her happy.

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All the Heros Are Named Phoenix Can you get into a car with someone you barely know? It’s hard to resist the temptation, if the driver is Mr. Smith, the most fascinating and seductive English teacher at high school. One night, he offered to drive Phoenix and her little sister Sacha to their house. He won them over during the trip. Several days later, their mother Erika was also seduced. Mr. Smith started coming to the house more and more often, and accumulated brownie points with his gift for baking. Phoenix and Sacha noticed that he was a bit too strict and authoritarian, and at times he was tough and brittle for no reason. Oh, no big deal, there’s nothing to worry about. How could they have suspected that they had just let the wolf enter the sheepfold?

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Nastasia Rugani was born in 1987. When she was little, she loved big novels and big insects. Later, she wanted to be a neurologist to erase nightmares. That was before she discovered that you could live with them by putting them on paper. She then moved into literary studies, feeding the hope of one day becoming a writer, which she is today.

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Anaïs Sautier has written a lot since the publication of Des yeux bleu trottoir, and this novel was born from a suggestion of her grandfather, who is the grandpapa of the book, to write his story and by way of that, the family’s story. She has made a passionate novel, tragic and cheerful at the same time. You won’t set it down unmoved.

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American Soup The night before Pentecost, Mona and her sister Elsa prepare to go to their grandparents’ house. But this year, their stay promises to be different. First of all, there is the list of parental commandments to respect under penalty of seeing Mona’s birthday party cancelled. Plus there’s the call from Greece that upsets grandma Lala so much. But above all, there is the incomprehensible behavior of grandpapa, who seems to have forgotten everything, including the names of his granddaughters, and his inexplicable fatigue. The discovery of family secrets seems to signal the end of our heroine’s childhood, but it contains in it the promise of a new look on life, a bittersweet look that tastes like American soup.

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Who Is the Hunter? Who Is the Deer? Ever since Mary is no longer there, her family must hold on. Before, they were proud and full of energy. Billy, who is seventeen and tries to keep the house in order, is haunted by the memory of an innocent deer killed during a hunt when he was a child. His sister Hope, from all of her nine years, clings to the occasional appearances of their mother. And their father Jim feels more and more uninvolved with his former workmates and neighbors. What do dreams become in the face of repeated assaults from reality?

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Jean-Noël Sciarini knows how to tell about characters whose lives are skidding out of control, whether it’s a boy who wants to be a girl, a teenager who is insulted on the Internet, or a young girl who is convinced she makes the feelings of others disappear. His characters are everyday heros, injured birds that teenagers can relate to. Billy, one of the three heros of Qui est le chasseur? Qui est le chevreuil?, fits into this group.

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One of our best selling series

adapted into comics by Véronique Deiss Anne Fine’s successful novel sold over 765,000 copies in France. Today, the comics version of Diary of a Killer Cat revisits Tuffy’s life. Tuffy isn’t really a sociable cat. He is grumpy, loves to torture birds, and he often comes home with a victim in his teeth, which never fails to make his owner Ellie break down in tears. This happens so much that when he comes back with the neighbors’ rabbit dead between his paws, he is immediately accused... but he can’t speak to tell his side of the story! Here is his diary, which reveals to us all the psychology of a killer cat. Full-color illustrations by Véronique Deiss 56 pages

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