Bologna rights list 2011 french collective stand – H 30/A14
Wake Up, Sloth!
Carnival Animal
Louis Rigaud & Anouck Boisrobert
Iris de Véricourt
The deforestation by the hand of men threatens the animals of the forest, who flee their natural habitat – except for the sloth, unaware of the devastation going on around him. After having destroyed and conquered, man, via the child’s hand, will hopefully plant new seeds for a new forest to grow. An interactive, flourishing pop-up.
Discover a whole lot of fancy, incredible animals! And invent new ones with this mix and match pop-up book. A new talented pop-up artist.
From 3 up • hardback / 14 x 28 cm 10 spreads, 9 pop-up scenes & 1 pull the tab
From 3 up • hardback / 14 x 32 cm / 8 spreads, 7 pop-up scenes Iris de Véricourt recently graduated from the arts décoratifs of Strasbourg.
Popville Louis Rigaud & Anouck Boisrobert An amazing paper city in volume comes to life, one building after another. With each new page, the city grows, with buildings, cars, buses and public parks that have all been domesticated by man. An exceptional pop-up vision of the modern landscape metamorphosis. From 3 up • hardback / 14 x 28 cm Popville: 7 spreads, 6 pop-up scenes
The Magic Circus Tour Book
Louis Rigaud and Anouck Boisrobert graduated in 2009 from the arts décoratifs of Strasbourg.
Have a Nice Trip!
Tiny Maxi
Didier Cornille
Didier Cornillle
The Book of Shapes, Colors and Patterns A whole lot of luggages! Snow-White helping the Seven Dwarfs to board! NYC’s Statue of Liberty by night and beautiful Venice by day, Madras and Damas tissues… the new book of shapes, numbers, patterns and colors by the talented author of Tiny Maxi.
The Book of Opposites This is a tiny, bright red book, with a minimalistic design, that offers a subtle face-to-face of images. Starting from a simple visual detail, Didier Cornille turns the empty into full, the vertical into horizontal, the round into square. With, also, a few surprise pages to unfold.
From 4 up • 12 x 15 cm / 64 pages / foldings
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Didier Cornille designs lamps, and is a teacher of design. From 4 up • 12 x 15 cm / 64 pages / foldings
Gérard Lo Monaco A magic pop-up book where bears play with clowns and dogs dance with riders, or is it the other way around? A fabulous merry-go-round with a new system that reveals surprise scenes. Also: learn how to count. From 3 up • hardback, with a ribbon on the sides / 25,5 x 21 cm / 5 pop-up scenes / 6 direct tones Gérard Lo Monaco is an artist, an illustrator and the artistic director of the graphic design studio Les Associés réunis. He has also worked on other pop-ups such as The Little Prince with Gallimard jeunesse.
Up to 100! Count them all
10 Little Penguins
Gauthier David
Text by Jean-Luc Fromental Illustrations by Joëlle Jolivet And then there were… no Penguins left ! From 10 to 0, the penguins are eager to introduce the children to the concepts of subtracting and adding. The 10 Little Penguins disappear one after the other, until we realize with the last pop-up surprise that it was just a huge penguin joke. From 3 up • 16 x 19 cm / 11 spreads + 10 pop-up scenes and tabs
A playful and coloured game-book full of holes, to learn how to count. Couting up to 100? This is easy with this book filled with holes. There’s a surprise to find behind each of them: a red hole will reveal, on the following page, the red cheeks of a shy boy; turn the page that holds an orange hole and find the sunny side of a fried egg!… A firework of colours and riddles, to juggle with figures. From 4 up • Hardback, round corners / 19 x 23,5 cm / 108 pages with die-cuts Gauthier David is an author and an illustrator as well as a songwriter. He has published 3 titles with Albin Michel jeunesse.
Ten Little Penguins
around the World
Jean-Luc Fromental and Joëlle Jolivet The now famous Ten Little Penguins are on the road (or on the water). Taken aboard on the sailboat of the Saviors of Planet Earth to become the ambassadors of Ecology, our mischievous friends cause an oil slick. But there is not time to think since they are already off, on their way to China, for new adventures… Around the world in ten little books to collect, ten stories for first readers to follow the extraordinary adventures of their favorite birds. Stylish and humorous. From 5 up • 3 books in a bus-box / 13 x 18 cm / 32 pages
Ten Little Penguins
on the Fridge
Jean-Luc Fromental and Joëlle Jolivet Learn how to count and substract on your fridge, with these crazy Ten Little Penguins magnets! Joëlle Jolivet is the illustrator of Rapido in the city, Oops (hélium) and 365 Penguins (naïve) as well as Zoologique (Seuil Jeunesse) and Costumes (Panama). Jean-Luc Fromental is a publisher, a famous author and film screenwriter. He is the author of 10 Little Penguins, Oops ! and 365 Penguins.
Rapido dans la ville Illustrations by Joëlle Jolivet with a quiz (behind the flaps) by Jean-Luc Fromental Rapido is a truck always on the verge of being late, who somehow manages to deliver in every corner of the city, right on time, the most important things missing from the shop, the hotel, the factory… the elements are to be found behind the flaps throughout a game of funny questions. From 3 up • paperback, round corners / 27 x 32 cm / 20 pages with 40 big flaps
All my stuff Iris de Moüy An amazing touch-and-feel book for babies with cut-out surprises. You will find all my stuff in this book, and the good news is that you will be able to feel it too! From 1 up • 17 x 18,5 cm / 11 cardboard spreads with 5 materials and 5 cut-outs
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All My Colours A delicate all-image book that works like a puzzle with removable pieces introducing very young readers to the concept of colours. From 1 up • 17 x 18,5 cm / 12 cardboard spreads with 11 removable pieces Iris de Moüy regularly works for fashion magazines, designers or stores and has published books for Autrement, naïve livres and l’école des Loisirs.
What are you thinking about?
Where is Baby Bear?
Laurent Moreau
Benjamin Chaud
What are the others thinking about? Perhaps of the coming holidays, of someone they care about, or of their next delicious piece of cake! A lift-the-flap poetic book about emotions and feelings.
What do bears do during hibernation? They sleep. Except baby bear! He saw a bee this morning and decided to follow it. Father Bear runs after his baby on a crazy trip that will brings him to the city… and on stage!
From 4 up • hardback / 19 x 23,5 cm / 48 pages + 20 pasted flaps
From 4 up • hardback / 21,4 x 33,5 cm / 40 pages
Beautiful Moments Beautiful Moments
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Farewell, Sock!
An opulent and graphic colouring book to explore seasons, sensations and words, throughout everyday life.
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From 3 up • paperback / 27 x 32 cm / 40 pages / 2 direct colors
When I realized I was too old to have a clumsy, boring rabbit as a best friend, I made up my mind: he should go back to the forest where he belongs. The only thing I did not think about was how hard it would be to leave stupid Sock behind… From 4 up • hardback / 21,4 x 33,5 cm / 40 pages
Laurent Moreau draws, paints, creates posters and collages. He has illustrated a few books at Le Rouergue and Actes Sud.
Benjamin Chaud is the renowned illustrator of Pomelo and La Fée Coquillette (Albin Michel jeunesse) and of Tralali (Diddledy, hélium).
Blanche Nathalie Choux and Françoise de Guibert
NINA Maylis de Kerangal & Alexandra Pichard
Nô doesn’t feel anything anymore. He stays in bed all day long. One day, Blanche decides to help her dearest friend and goes on the road, trying to find a remedy for him… Sweet and delicate, this sensitive story takes the reader on an Edward Gorey/Tim Burton-like initiatory journey.
ET LES OREILLERS
– Je t’en achèterai une nouvelle paire quand celle-ci sera vraiment usée. Tant qu’elles prennent pas l’eau, tu n’as pas besoin d’autres baskets, Joseph. Quand la mère de Joseph dit « Joseph » en fin de phrase, en insistant sur le « Jo », c’est qu’il n’y a pas moyen de discuter.
Et un mardi, jour des friands au fromage, ça tombe bien : lors d’un match dans la cour de l’école, une des baskets de Joseph se déchire. Joseph se voit déjà arborant la nouvelle paire dont il rêve : des Mike Air ! Mais ses espoirs s’effondrent à la vue du sac en plastique que lui tend sa mère...
Le premier album pour la jeunesse de Joy Sorman, rythmé par les illustrations subtiles d’Olivier Tallec.
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From 3 up • hardback / 23 x 15 cm / 48 pages Nathalie Choux is an illustrator for publishing and advertising and an artist who creates jewellery and crockery. She has published around 30 books for children. Françoise de Guibert used to be an editor, now she’s a writer.
Brave Knight
Little bug
Delphine Chedru
Delphine Chedru
Become the hero of the story along with Brave Knight, the brave character who lost his courage. An interactive book with a medieval feeling, filled with a whole lot of things to do, riddles to solve, images to search through and graphic traps.
A fun « find-the-bug » educative book for small children, with big patterns, flaps and cut-outs.
From 4 up • hardback, round corners / 22 x 34,5 cm / 48 pages Delphine Chedru has published many children’s books for Le Seuil, Naïve, Albin Michel Jeunesse…
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From 3 up • hardback, round corners / 22 x 34,5 cm / 40 pages + flaps and cut-outs
My Sneakers
Nina and the pillows
OOPS!
Joy Sorman and Olivier Tallec
Maylis de Kerangal and Alexandra Pichard
Jean-Luc Fromental and Joëlle Jolivet
Since Nina has been falling asleep on her new pillow, her dreams have become rich and adventurous: she turns into a gymnastics champion, a pirate, a woman in King Kong’s hand… Nina is even more surprised when she discovers she is able to enter other people’s secret dreams when she falls asleep on their pillows.
We were to catch a plane for our holidays when Aunt Roberta, looking after the apartment, threw… oops! a soap out the window! From this moment on, a crazy sequel of disasters happens in the city!
From 6 up • hardback / 21,4 x 33,5 cm / 40 pages
From 5 up • hardback / 21,4 x 33,5 cm / 36 pages
From 5 up • hardback 28 x 36 cm / 40 pages + 1 big flap
Joy Sorman has published several novels for Gallimard. Her writing is literary and contemporary. My Sneakers is her first children’s book. Olivier Tallec is a renowned french illustrator who has illustrated, among many others, the endearing series Rita et Machin (Rita and Whatsit, Gallimard Jeunesse).
Maylis de Kerangal is one of the most talented French writers. Her latest novel won the Medicis prize 2010. Nina is her first children’s book. Alexandra Pichard is a young illustrator whose first picture book, Herman et Dominique, was published in 2009 by Thierry Magnier.
When Joseph’s old pair of sneakers gets torn, it’s the best day of his life! Because all he wants is a pair of Mike Air. But when his mum comes home, she hands him a brand new pair of HORRIBLE sneakers with a logo he has NEVER heard of before. Could Joseph feel more miserable and betrayed ? How will he EVER get over this ?
Jacotte Text by Géraldine Collet Illustrations by Estelle Billon-Spagnol The slices of life of a mischievous and endearing unique little girl. The Bridget Jones of primary schools. Meet Jacotte : two reddish pigtails, a motto (what a cheat! ), a small brother often used as a guinea pig, parents who get along very well (what a cheat! ), a sweetheart called Perceval and a strong personality. Nearly seven years old, Jacotte moans a lot, finds ways to conquer constantly falling tights and entertains the reader throughout 60 short illustrated adventures.
Jacotte on holidays Text by Géraldine Collet Illustrations by Estelle Billon-Spagnol Goodbye schoolbag, hello, holidays! And Jacotte’s holidays at the camping resort just rocks: karaoke nights, giant ice-creams, huge holes in the sand so that little brother can get lost, the ‘breadcrumbed’ parents trick, befriending a dog… Enjoy! 65 new short illustrated adventures of Jacotte. From 6 up • paperback / 17 x 23,5 cm / 96 pages + 5 tones (orange hair! ) Géraldine Collet is a teacher and a children’s books author. Estelle Billon-Spagnol is a new talent of illustration.
A series of paper game boxes by talented artists The Mixo Mixers
Mister Potato Bird
by Serge Bloch
by Delphine Chedru
A whole gang of funny chaps to mixo-mix!
Create amazing birds with re-usable stickers!
The Tree of Seasons
The Animals go to the Pool!
by Julia Wauters Play memory games with playful animals!
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