Bologna • Rights List 2013
It depends!
• Janik Coat and Bernard Duisit
Day and Night
• Julie Safirstein
A pop-up book which will help you decide what to wear. What shall I wear today? This question is a big challenge for infants, but also a way to get them to acquire independence and self-insurance. What will you wear? Well, it depends on the way you feel, on where you’re going, on the weather… With the quirky animal characters created Janik Coat, it’s always great fun. From 2 up • soft cover • 15 cm x 18 cm • 8 spreads • French retail: 11,90€ Janik Coat is a free-lance designer, author and illustrator. She has published many children books for Autrement jeunesse or éditions Memo. Bernard Duisit is a paper engineer.
A real artist’s book accessible to the youngest ones: a big format, various systems and volumes, opposites, shapes and colors, notions of space… Stories are also included, with close-ups on various animals: the black spots of the ladybug, a mamma bear fishing with her cub… Enthralling. From 2 up • softcover • 28 x 38 cm • 7 spreads + flaps + pops + cover • French retail: 19,90€ In the same collection
Puss in Boots
• Clémentine Sourdais
After Little Red Riding hood, Clementine Sourdais revisits the classical tale Puss in boots by 17th century French writer Charles Perrault: a laser-cut accordion book to fold and unfold, that offers a new insight of the tale through visual surprises and shadow-silhouettes. Le Chat Botté
TexTe de Charles PerraulT
IllusTré Par ClémenTIne sourdaIs
un livre accordéon avec des décors et des découpes
From 2 up • 14 x 17,5 cm • a 16 pages book fan to fold out • French retail: 13,90€ Clémentine Sourdais is a young illustrator who has published children’s books for Actes Sud junior, Le Sorbier… By the same author
Julie Safirstein is a young painter who lives in Paris. She creates artists books, some of them published by art gallery Maeght. Day and Night is her first book for children.
Inside the book
• Text by Fani Marceau • Illustrations by Joëlle Jolivet
A picture book for toddlers. 70 illustrations like posters for babies to zoom on the things, tiny or huge, that compose their universe. 70 invitations to imagine stories: the story of the rabbit in his hole, the story of the turtle in its shell… From 1 up • hardback • 25 x 27,8 cm • 80 pages • French retail: 15,90€ Fani Marceau is the author of many children’s books among which Zoo-logy (Seuil Jeunesse) with Joëlle Jolivet, the renowned illustrator of 365 Penguins (naïve). For hélium, she notably illustrated Oops! and the 10 Little Penguins pop-up book.
The Dog in Feathers
A Story of George • Claire Brun A mechanical duck, a fancy owl, the Witch of the Forest, three apples, a rocket, a wolf popping by and a princess, of course: all these elements, most of them straight out of fairy tales, compose the story that George is writing as he goes along. His own story in fact, the story of a tiny man, the story filled with hearts of an artist with a moustache (of course). A quirky gift-book with a wink at fairy tales. Softcover • 15 x 18 cm • 96 pages • French retail: 13,90€ Claire Brun studied art at École Duperré in Paris. She worked as a fashion designer in Milan and has now become a textile designer in Paris. A Story of George is her first book.
• Jean-Baptiste Bourgois
A chronicle about solitude and the meaning of friendship and love – with a touch of fantasy. Every morning, while playing his ukulele, Tristan watches his neighbours right across the street. Especially the girl on the second floor, who lives with her yellow cockatoo. One day, Tristan sees a dog barge in the girl’s place, play with the bird… and eat it! The poor dog is so sorry that the animal lover keeps him. Slowly but surely, Tristan sees the dog change and grow yellow feathers… From 5 up • hardback • 21 x 28 cm • 32 pages • French retail: 14€ Jean-Baptiste Bourgois is a young illustrator. He lives in the north of France with his parrot named Georgie. This is his first book.
Camille and Jeanne • Laurent Simon Toddlers attack! Camille and Jeanne are cousins, and they are two of the tiniest, funniest little girls you will ever meet. Be it on holidays or in the middle of the living room, they will not stop arguing about a toy (is it a duck or a truck?!), having fun, or saying Thank you to a loved one (even if this means repeating the same WORD twenty times in a row). Drawn with a loving and humorous hand, Camille and Jeanne are as talkative as teenagers but endearing like only three-years old little girls can be. From 5 up • hardback • 19 x 14 cm • 56 pages • French retail: 13€ Laurent Simon is a French illustrator who studied at Emile Cohl in Lyon. In 2013, he will also publish a book with Mijade. Camille and Jeanne is his first book as author and illustrator.
To Each his own Skyscraper
• Didier Cornille
Skyscrapers accessible to everybody (grown-ups as well as smaller ones). After TO EACH HIS OWN HOUSE, Didier Cornille has selected skyscrapers from all over the world, illustrated with his precise and delicate drawings. From the highest to the most symbolic, including the Eiffel Tower, the Chrysler Building, the Agbar Tower and Burj Khalifa, a clear and original insight on architecture. From 7 up • hardback • 17 x 25 cm • 96 pages • French retail price: 14,90€
To Each His Own House
• Didier Cornille
• “An enchanting book” • • • • • BRAW jury Book mentioned for the Non Fiction category •
Architecture? Easy as pie! A roof, two windows and a door, that’s almost the first drawing of every kid. The author embarks us on a tour through 10 houses designed by the greatest architects of the 20th and 21st centuries (Wright, Eames, Le Corbusier, Koolhaas...). With his subtle and precise drawings, he follows the various steps that start with an innovative idea right to the final houses, absolute masterpieces. From 7 up • 25 x 17 cm • 88 pages • landscape binding • French retail price: 14,90€ Didier Cornille is the author and illustrator of Mini-Maxi and Bon voyage (hélium). He teaches design at the Fine Arts School in Le Mans.
Oceano
• Anouck Boisrobert and Louis Rigaud
A new pop-up book by the talented creators of Popville and In the Forest. Following a little boat that journeys through the seas and oceans, the reader will discover the wonders of flora and fauna that live above and under water. From 3 up • hardcover • 16,5 x 30 cm • 9 pop-up pages • 15,90€ Louis Rigaud and Anouck Boisrobert graduated in 2009 from the arts décoratifs in Strasburg. They are the young creators of Tip tap and of the pop-up books Popville (sold in 7 languages) & Dans la forêt du paresseux (sold in 11 countries)
After • Laurent Moreau After Winter, Spring brings back colours. After watching a movie, I can’t go to sleep. After Anger, there is a big silence. After taking a bath, my skin is all wrinkled… And after? Before after, there is now! A delicate picture book that evokes feelings and impressive sensations of childhood moments in a sensitive and accessible way. From 4 on • hardback • 19 x 23,5 cm • 40 pages • French retail : 14€ Laurent Moreau draws, paints, creates posters and collages. He’s the author of À quoi penses-tu ? and Les Beaux instants for hélium.
By the same authors
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