Frankfurt 2014 - Hall 6.1 - B 111
Look for me! Illustrations: Kristien Aertssen Text: Natalie Louis-Lucas
Grubby Santa! 32 pages / 225 x 225 mm
- Crocodude, do you want to play with me? Hummingbird asks. - No, you’re a midget. - So are you, Hummingbird says. You can’t even fly! - Hem... That’s true! Crocodude answers. - Shall we play hide and seek then? Did the rabbits, the lion, the deer... see Hummingbird? Kristien Aertssen was born in Antwerp in 1953. After studying graphics at the Antwerp Academy, where she now teaches, Kristien received a scholarship to specialise in illustration in Pasadena, US. She currently lives in Gent and publishes her picture books in the Flanders, Holland and France. Inspiration comes to her from primitive and naïve arts, Indian and Islamic miniatures, children’s drawings and toys. Natalie Louis Lucas lives in Strasbourg, where she studied at l’Ecole des Arts Décoratifs. She created children's stories before turning to psychology. She currently works in specialised institutions for children.
32 pages / 210 x 240 mm
Jean Maubille
Santa Claus would also like to receive his presents! “Tut-tut! Santa will get his present later!” Big Raindeer says. “Why?” ask the elves. “Because Santa is grubby!” There’s only one thing to be done: throw his coat, socks, shirt, pants and underpants... into the washing machine! JeanMaubille was born in 1964 in Leopoldville, Congo. He lives in Belgium, where he is an illustrator and a child carer.He gets his inspiration in the daily observation of children. Before devoting himself to children and books, he was an art teacher. He usually works with collage.
Olaf laf laf Magali Bardos
Joy Boxes 40 pages / 190 x 270 mm
32 pages / 200 x 170 mm
Illustrations: Claude K. Dubois Text: Carl Norac
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On a nice autumn afternoon, Olaf the lion, goes for a walk and picks berries. He reaches the foot of a mountain. He breaks into a roar which reverberates all around. “By the hair of my mane, this mountain is redoubtable!” Table table table… Softhair the rabbit, is having breakfast in his cottage. Surprised by this strange sound, he almost chokes. “There’s somebody on this mountain who rumbles like a storm.” Storm storm storm… Irritated, Olaf and Softhair shout with one voice: “Who keeps repeating after us all the time?”
Claude K. Dubois was born in Verviers, Belgium, in 1960. She teaches sketching at the Saint-Luc Institute in Liège, where she studied herself. At school she worked on drawing from life, sketching and watercolours, which she particularly enjoys.
Magali Bardos lives in France. She majored in staging-design and drawing at l'Institut Saint-Luc in Brussels and has been a full-time illustrator since 2000. Her work has been published by several publishers; she also works for newspapers.
Born in Belgium in 1960, Carl Norac worked as a French teacher, a television scriptwriter, and a journalist before devoting himself to writing. In addition to poetry and plays, he has written many children’s books (most of which are published by Pastel) and received a lot of prizes (Honour List for The Andersen Prize in 2004). Carl Norac is the father of a little girl called Else.
“What would you like as the present I promised you, Lola?” “Mum, I want those two boxes to assemble on my own! The small one for small joys and the big one for big joys! So, Alphonse, my old teddy-bear, my seashell collection, the card I got from Simon, my best friend in the world, small pebbles, big or small joy?”
Island-Dad Émile Jadoul
Mother Medusa 32 pages / 200 x 295 mm
Once upon a time there was a bear named Betty and a bear named Jean-Louis. - You’re going to be a father soon! Betty whispers gently. Jean-Louis is happy, but he’s also worried. What kind of a dad will I be, Jean-Louis wonders. Will I be a super dad? A super dad likes to play football, or go to the swimming pool and builds wonderful huts for his kid. I hate all of that. - But you’ll be a hut-dad, and protect our little one from the wind and the rain. You’ll be a horse-dad and take our cub on adventures. You’ll be an island-dad, so our baby can rest, Betty says with a smile. Émile Jadoul was born in 1963 in Avennes, Belgium. Since he left the Fine Arts Academy, he’s been living in the countryside in a house in the the woods, out of which rabbits and foxes regularly come, aswell as pigs and even bears! All these animals inspire him with pictures full of colour.When he’s not drawing in his studio, he talks about his work and gives classes to future illustrators.
44 pages / 210 x 250 mm
Kitty Crowther
Irisée’s life begins in her mother Medusa’s hair. Irisée, like the mother-ofpearl which covers and protects the inside of certain shells. You are my pearl, Medusa thinks. In the village, everybody says that she is adorable. “She’s mine”, Mother Medusa says. Irisée would like to meet the children outside, to go to school… Kitty Crowther was born in Brussels in 1970, from a Swedish mother and a British father. Children’s literature - especially that from Great Britain and Scandinavia - has always been a passion for her. Because she’s hearing-impaired, Kitty has always been captivated by images, signs and the hidden meaning of things. She has two sons, Théodore and Elias. Since 1994, she’s devoted herself to children’s books. Kitty has won many important prizes in Belgium and France, and in 2010 she received the prestigious Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award (ALMA), the world’s largest prize for children’s and young people’s literature.
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Give Me a Story Jean-Luc Englebert
- Hey, Dad? Give me a story... - Ok! Let me think. Hmm... A princess story? - Dressed in pink? Boo! - All right, all right... A knight’s story? - Aha! Heeey! A lady knight!
32 pages / 170 x 240 mm
- Yes, yes, of course. - I need soldiers. - Here’s an army. And the lady knight commands it. Followed by her powerful army, the lady knight goes to war…
Jean-Luc Englebert was born in Verviers, Belgium, in 1968. He attended courses at the Saint-Luc Institute in Brussels and, after being tempted by comic strips, became an illustrator of children’s books. His stories are tender and focus mainly on interior life, illustrated by airy, luminous and sober watercolours. He also works for children’s magazines. He lives in Brussels and has two little daughters.
36 pages / 170 x 240 mm
Michel Van Zeveren
The hunter is living in a small log house. On the wall, he hung his trophies. That evening, the hunter is tired, tired... But hardly had he started snoring that a noise wakes him up. Downstairs in the kitchen, he discovers a wolf looking for the coffee. But this wolf seems to float, he is transparent. “It’s a ghost wolf ! What is he doing here?” “I live here,” says the Ghost Wolf. “Nope, it's me who lives here!!” said the hunter. Michel Van Zeveren was born in Gent, Belgium, in 1970.He enrolled in the School of Graphic Studies (Erg) in Brussels, where he turned towards the illustration course and children's books in particular. He now divides his time between creating picture books and comic strips and collaborating with different magazines.
Hänsel & Gretel Illustrations: Rascal
36 pages / 200 x 200 mm
This very famous story is presented here in a version without text. In black and white purely, through a play of shadows and outlines. The visual language, simple and original, enables children to reconstruct stories... or invent them. Other classic tales illustrated by Rascal
Goodbye, Adélaïde 40 pages / 225 x 225 mm
Geneviève Casterman
Adelaide, The day I crossed paths with you, by Jove, it was love at first sight! I was the happiest of kangaroos. With you, I was ready to do anything. When our children grew up and left home, there were so many places to discover: Paris, the Black Forest, Australia, Japan… So many memories! I started to worry the day you made rose soup. Little by little, I understood what was happening to us. Illness crept in on us like slow poison. It carried away your words, your smile, and your reason. Adelaide, I’ve loved you for a long long time, I will never forget you. Your Maturin
Rascal was born in Belgium in 1959. After working in advertising, drawing posters for the theatre and having different jobs, he decided to devote himself to children’s books. He has been awarded the Great Prize for children’s literature of the French-speaking community of Belgium for 2009-2012.
Geneviève Casterman has always loved books. When she was a teacher, she read picture books instead of textbooks in class. To create thousands of stories with children. This is probably the reason why she wanted to create her own picture books.
Where is Light? Stibane
Big Calao and Little Man 32 pages / 210 x 295 mm
56 pages / 240 x 310 mm
Illustrations: Anne-Catherine De Boel Text: Carl Norac
In those days, everything was dark. “Where is light?” the child asked. “Where we bears live, they say it’s hiding deep down in a cave in the mountains.” So the bear, the squirrel and the child decided to go and look for light. They climbed the highest mountains, searched the deepest caves. For a long time, they didn’t find anything. Finally, one day, they climbed very high, where the snow never melts, and went into a cave. The bear saw a small glimmer. He scratched at the surface and pulled out some pieces of light. “Look what I’ve found! Let’s hang them in the sky, they will illuminate the earth.”
Anne-Catherine De Boel was born in 1975 in Namur, Belgium. She studied illustration at the SaintLuc Institute in Liège. She lives now in Africa which she particularly loves because of its range of colours bursting with sun and heat. She mainly uses gouache and acrylic paint.
Stibane lives in Belgium. He grew up in the Liège province and used to spend his holiday in the Ardennes, filled with fields, woods and legends. After working several years in the comics industry, he started a career in children’s literature.
Born in Belgium in 1960, Carl Norac worked as a French teacher, a television scriptwriter, and a journalist before devoting himself to writing. In addition to poetry and plays, he has written many children’s books (most of which are published by Pastel) and received a lot of prizes (Honour List for The Andersen Prize in 2004). Carl Norac is the father of a little girl called Else.
Amoila lives with his mother near a village up in the mountains. Whilst his mother weaves, and weaves, and weaves, Amoila gets bored. One morning, his mother sends him to the village, but suddenly a shadow appears. A pair of giant wings... It’s the Big Calao. “Stand up, Lazybones! You’re bored, it seems. Go to the market and fetch me Sweetness and bring her back to me before this evening. Otherwise I’ll send Yagana, the hyena, after you.”
The Ogre’s Promise Illustrations: Régis Lejonc Text: Rascal
48 pages / 210 x 297 mm
The Ogre was uncouth and must have weighed, without his boots and his animal skin clothes, as much as a Charolais ox. He’d been bald for a long time and his long beard, often straggly, was always dirty because of touching the ground. As for the Ogre’s son, he had a sensitive and delicate heart. The father had an ogre’s appetite and cooked wonderfully. “You are the Ogre’s son and a well respected ogre eats children!”
8 Minutes and 19 Seconds Photographies: Hubert Grooteclaes Text: Rascal
32 pages / 294 x 191 mm
It takes sunlight 8 minutes and 19 seconds to reach the Earth. Your eyes went faster to tell me you loved me. My sadness is hidden like the secret of the trees. Like the rainbow bird flying between sun and rain. But the swallows will return.
Born in 1967, Régis Lejonc lives and works in Bordeaux. A self-taught man, he spends his time between children’s books (he even directs a series), advertising and comics. He has received many awards, including the Montreuil children’s book fair Baobab prize for Au bout du compte.
Hubert Grooteclaes was born in Belgium in 1927. He died in 1994. A self-taught photographer, he was a professor at the École Supérieure des Arts Saint-Luc in Liège for over twenty years. Internationally acclaimed, he photographed famous artists such as Jacques Brel, Jean Marais, Romy Schneider, Samy Davis Junior, Léo Ferré, Serge Gainsbourg...
Rascal was born in Belgium in 1959. After working in advertising, drawing posters for the theatre and having different jobs, he decided to devote himself to children’s books. He has been awarded the Great Prize for children’s literature of the French-speaking community of Belgium for 2009-2012.
Rascal was born in Belgium in 1959. After working in advertising, drawing posters for the theatre and having different jobs, he decided to devote himself to children’s books. He has been awarded the Great Prize for children’s literature of the French-speaking community of Belgium for 2009-2012.
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Cover illustration: Jean-Luc Englebert, Donne-moi une histoire