l’école des loisirs Foreign Rights Catalogue • Picture Books Spring 2015
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Š Illustration: Claude Ponti.
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Ever since it was first created in 1965 by Jean Fabre, Jean Delas and Arthur Hubschmid, l’école des loisirs has endeavored to balance the magical equation between authors and readers in the most harmonious way possible. Boldness, impertinence, a constant concern for quality, and maintaining artisanal working methods are the keys to the longevity of this familial publishing house and the estime brought to it.
This wonderful birthday is thus for us an occasion to thank all our © Illustration: Claude Ponti.
foreign partners for their contribution to our success abroad!
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Summary
BABY BOOKS 5 Stephanie Blake 6 Jeanne Boyer 7 Vincent Bourgeau & Cédric Ramadier 8 Giulia Bruel 9 Soledad Bravi 10 Benoît Charlat 11 Ella Charbon & Gwendoline Raisson 12 Raphaël Fejtö 13 Malika Doray 14 Margaux Duroux 15 Isabelle Gil 16 Alex Sanders 17 Alex Sanders & Pierrick Bisinski 18 Kimiko 20 Dorothée de Monfreid 22 Matthieu Maudet
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PICTURE BOOKS 19 Cendrine Borzycki Dorothée de Monfreid 21 23 Matthieu Maudet Magali Arnal 24 Adrien Albert 25 26 Cati Baur & Célia Le Dressay Pénélope Jossen 27 28 The Latest Rights Sales
© Illustration: Adrien Albert, Papa sur la Lune.
NON-FICTION BOOKS 29 Emmanuel Cerisier Fabian Grégoire 30 31 Olivier Melano
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LIL’ WOLF SERIES (2 TITLES)
Stephanie Blake was born Board book with flaps, 18 pages, 290 x 210 mm, € 13
Do You See Me?
© Illustration: Adrien Albert, Papa sur la Lune.
Where are you, clever guy? The house is big and lil’wolf can hide behind all these doors, which can be opened thanks to flaps. Hurry! Go and find him!
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 husband and their six children.
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Jeanne Boyer belongs to Generation Y. She draws frenetically in different media on all kinds of surfaces, from walls to textiles. Cat and Dog is her first picture book with l’école des loisirs.
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Board book, 38 pages, 160 x 240 mm, € 10,50
Cat and Dog A dog and a cat are like a brother and sister. They adore each other and hate each other, they play and they fight. But they can’t do without one another…
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Born in Brussels,
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, too.
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Shapped cat board book, 20 pages, 193 x 347 mm, € 12
Who Saw the Cat Pass By? He passed by here, but he already went that way. Will he pass by here again? Have you seen this cat? He keeps disappearing! Will you find the cat in this hide-and-seek book?
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With a degree from an art school in London, Cédric Ramadier works as artistic director, graphic designer, editor, and now author thanks to his friend Vincent Bourgeau.
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Board book, 26 pages, 215 x 270 mm, € 11,30
Giulia Bruel was born in 1986. She lives and works in Paris, where she graduated from an art school. This is her third book for children.
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A Surprise of Every Color Pierre the octopus feels very ugly among his colorful friends, the fish. But they have a funny idea to get rid of his complex and cheer him up!
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Soledad Bravi was born
Board book, 44 pages, 190 x 255 mm, € 11
in 1965. She has a degree in art and was an artistic director in advertising before returning to drawing. Today she draws a lot for children and teens and a bit for fashion magazines.
Mom, How Are Babies Made? How do we respond to THE existential question children ask? There’s the version where the baby arrives by post, or the one about the stork and the baby, or the one about the little seed. But which one do you think children like the most?
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The Rainbow Seed! Do you know how to plant rainbows? The recipe is simple. All you need is a rainbow seed, dirt, water, some experience in gardening… and a tiny bit of luck!
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Board book, 26 pages, 205 x 205 mm, € 11
T-Choke the Artichoke! When you have an artichoke heart, you need to know how to unveil it to seduce a lovely tomato.
When his two children were born, Benoît
Charlat suddenly discovered a passion for scribbling, sniveling, squabbling, and the “I hate broccoli” scenes, and became an author for little ones.
Board book, 36 pages, 165 x 250 mm, € 10,70
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After wasting time at law school, Ella
Charbon found her direction in the studios of an art school. She enjoys drawing and has been devoting more and more of her time to illustrating children’s books.
What Is This Circus? Ladies and Gentlemen, your attention, please! What a great show Super and his friends, the circus artists, are presenting! After the show they are so hungry, they devour everything dad prepared.
© Cyril Nouaille
Board book, 30 pages, 200 x 200 mm, € 10,70
After she was monoski champion of France, a snail sorter, and a globetrotter,
Gwendoline Raisson started her career in journalism. When she became a mother, she decided to mend her ways by writing stories for children.
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Raphaël Fejtö was born in 1974. After hesitating between pursuing film or music, he chose drawing and writing (without giving up the first two).
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Board book, 26 pages, 200 x 220 mm, € 10,70
Crack! Boom! Ow! We fight over Cuddly, and, as we pull and pull, Cuddly rips in two. So then what do we do with two chunks of Cuddly?
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Malika Doray was Board book, 20 pages, 260 x 190 mm, € 10,50
One Night at the Pirates’ At the pirates’ place, it’s time to go to sleep. It’s a bit complicated, however, because when you’re a pirate, you don’t give kisses or snuggle before going to bed… Are you sure about that?
born in 1974. After studying arts and art history at the National School of Fine Arts in Paris, she now works with kids, writing and illustrating books for them.
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Margaux Duroux was born in 1988. After studying art in Paris, she hesitated between drawing and photography. Now she intensively practices both.
Board book, 20 pages, 150 x 200 mm, € 8,50
When I Was Big When I was a bear, I was very busy. I was taming a ferocious animal, being a great pastry chef, painting, and flying in space. What an exciting life! But it was very tiring, too.
After her collaborations with Kimiko (The Three Little Pigs and the Big Bad Wolf, Little Red Riding Hood), here is the first solo book of photographs by Margaux Duroux.
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Board book, 18 pages, 210 x 155 mm, € 8,50
The Bone Magician Douglas is an extremely gifted bone archeologist-researcher-sniffer-dog. And contrary to what people may think, he isn’t happy to dig dirt in search of old bones.
After technical training in photography and studies in fine arts,
Isabelle Gil now works on picture book projects. She is particularly interested in narration, characters, objects, landscapes, and what happens among them.
A new photographic adventure by Isabelle Gil!
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NAUGHTY WOLF SERIES (3 TITLES)
Alex Sanders was born in 1964. He has been drawing and painting all his life. In 1993 he decided to devote himself fully to children’s books.
Board book, 22 pages, 210 x 280 mm, € 12,20
Still Not in Bed? “Hey! Wolf! When you say that you’re going to eat the children who don’t want to go to bed, who are so tired they’re easy to catch, you’re not serious, are you?”
After obedience and mealtime, Alex Sanders’ facetious little wolf picks another moment in the daily life of little children: bedtime.
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POP SERIES (5 TITLES)
Pierrick Bisinski
Board book, 22 pages, 240 x 210 mm, € 11,20
was born in 1961. He has devoted himself entirely to children’s books since 1996. Paper cutouts illustrate his stories.
Pop’s Words In Pop’s world, there are a lot of stripes, and ever since he started school, he only likes to list striped things! A new adventure for Pop, a hero to small children!
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Kimiko was born in 1963 to a Japanese mother and a French father. After design studies in Tokyo, she worked for a couture house in Paris. She then left the world of fashion to make books for children.
Pop-up board book, 14 pages, 320 x 240 mm, € 20
A Day at Sea In this adventure, Lola dives into colorful scenes, all in relief, where algae seem to undulate under water. She makes new friends and even has an unexpected encounter.
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After a first comic book in 2013,
Cendrine Borzycki Board book, 22 pages, 160 x 180 mm, € 8
Do You Want to Play? Little kids like it when big kids play with them. But what a little kid really loves is when there’s someone even smaller nearby. Then it’s time for a party, because not only can the little kid play, he becomes the big kid of someone else. The mischievous baby in this picture book has his dog play catch and hide-and-seek before he tells him to climb up very high. This is too hard for a very young dog, who would rather be pet and tickled!
wrote and drew this little book for her youngest daughter. The story is inspired by her two daughters’ favorite games when they were taking their first steps.
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Dorothée de Monfreid studied at the Arts Décoratifs in Paris. First a graphic artist, today she is author and illustrator of over fifty picture books for children, most of which have been published by l’école des loisirs.
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Board book, 28 pages, 210 x 260 mm, € 10,70
Wait for Me! When a group of friends goes somewhere, there is always someone lagging behind… but it’s not necessarily a bad place to be!
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Here is the recipe for Maxiyummy, exclusively delivered by its inventor,
Dorothée de Monfreid:
Hardcover, 40 pages, 240 x 310 mm, € 12,70
Maxiyummy Arnold is lucky; his mom has a fascinating job: she’s a wild animal trainer. Arnold isn’t lucky; his mom is brave, yes, but she categorically refuses he come with her to the zoo. It’s too dangerous for a little boy. One day, however, Arnold is going to see his dreams come true: he’ll meet a monster, nearly die of fear, see his mother come running to save him, and finally convince her to bring him with her to work. And why all this? Because he didn’t follow a recipe while cooking.
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1. Take one Pictoplasma art show full of dripping characters, gentlemen monsters, colorful yetis. 2. Add a nice dose of childish passion for magic potions and other explosives. 3. Sprinkle with the memory of The Blob, a disaster movie with Steve McQueen. 4. Mix well!
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Matthieu Maudet also loves to illustrate books for toddlers!
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Matthieu Maudet used
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The Pirate and the King After a terrible shipwreck, King Jehan I, the only survivor, arrived on an island he thought was deserted. He was surprised when he found Matt the Cursed, a ruthless pirate, there. At first, they were very different. One plump, the other scrawny. One crowned, the other with a mane. One docile, the other aggressive. Over time, the island prisoners ended up resembling each other, like two brothers. But the day a ship came to save them, each was tempted to return to his old role…
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to draw in the margins of his schoolbooks. Today he illustrates comic books and books for children. He is the mischievous one in this authors’ duo. When Jean sprinkles the text with great sentiments, Matthieu draws something darker, or greener, or at least less pink!
Jean Leroy got a taste for writing after watching his father scratch away at his first drafts. Later, he discovered Matthieu’s illustrations and they created their first stories together. Today, Jean also writes for adults.
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Magali Arnal is an artist living in Brittany. Since she doesn’t have a driver’s license, she began to write stories about vehicles. The road seemed long, very long… until her father bought a camper van, which delighted his granddaughter and gave his daughter a source of inspiration.
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Hardcover, 36 pages, 205 x 260 mm, € 12,20
Our Camper Van! Cool! Today is the big day! Grandpa is taking me to the sea in his camper van, the most beautiful camper van of all. It’s like a real house: you can play inside it, sleep inside it, and even prepare picnics there. But Grandpa doesn’t see things that way. As soon as we park, we must get out, go for a walk all the way to the coast, and seek adventure. I complain… Luckily, an enormous storm lifts. Quick! We must take refuge. Guess where? In our cozy camper van!
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After working in public law and as a metallurgist, videomaker, butler, cook, furniture burner, and cartoonist for the
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Dad on the Moon Today Mona is going to visit her dad on the Moon. “Hurry! Dad is waiting for you,” says Mom. It’s a bit far and the trip requires organizing, but now Mona has got the hang of it. Rocket, ship, and capsule are waiting in the yard. And they’re off! After a magical voyage through space, Mona lands on the moon and jumps into her father’s arms. They observe the stars through the refracting telescope and collect Moon rocks, but they also eat, play, and sleep, like on Earth. Perhaps it’s a bit tiring, but it’s worth having two homes.
press, Adrien
Albert now devotes his time to making books for children. And more than anything else, Adrien loves telling stories.
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Cati Baur has had many different jobs: bookseller, “front desk girl,” publishing assistant… She used to keep a drawing blog. Now she publishes comic and picture books.
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Hardcover, 40 pages, 240 x 200 mm, € 12,70
A Very Big Prince Once upon a time, there was a very big prince. What was big about him? First of all, his piggish character. His hatred of others. The curses that he threw at whatever he claimed bothered him. One day, a very little girl came ringing at his door. He began to chase her away, of course. But he quickly realized that he was worried about her, and he was ready to invent the most improbable pretexts to meet her again, and to never, ever leave her!
Célia Le Dressay has lived in Tahiti, Reunion, Morocco, the Czech Republic, and Croatia, but this story was born while contemplating the islands in Britanny, where she has spent her summers ever since childhood.
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Pénélope Jossen grew
Hardcover, 40 pages, 240 x 260 mm, € 12,70
How We Landed on the Moon Madmen, poets, wise men, and children all over the world dream about it. Three American astronauts did it, when they traveled 380,000 kilometers by rocket ship from Earth to the Moon, and set foot there. Children nowadays didn’t directly experience this miracle. Their grandparents did though, on July 20th, 1969. With simple lines and step-by-step explanations, this picture book recounts the journey of Apollo 10 and the LM, and tells us about the accomplishments of the space pioneers: Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins.
up in Corsica surrounded by animals. After studying art at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Bologna, she worked as an assistant animator for short films. Encouraged by Tony Ross, she started to write and draw her own picture books, and it was in England that she published her first book.
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Twenty-five years ago, l’école des loisirs published a novel by Jakob Wassermann.
Emmanuel Cerisier
Hardcover, 48 pages, 220 x 280 mm, € 12,70
© Illustration: Perceval Barrier.
Manco the Inca It’s 1533, and the conquistador Pizarro is traveling with 180 armed men to the Incan city of Cajamarca. He has just met the emperor Atahualpa, but what he’s really intending to do is take his gold. In a few days, the Spanish will have defeated and massacred the Incas, who numbered 80,000 and surrounded them. What happened? Thanks to the destiny of Manco, a young peasant from the Andes, we closely follow each step of this drama. He teaches us the morals of his people and their exemplary organization, and through him we attend interviews with the chiefs. Manco is eventually taken in by Pizarro’s troops, and the Incas are decimated in just a few months by firearms and small pox.
learned so many fascinating facts reading the book that he decided to take inspiration from it to tell the story of a character of his own, Manco. He succeeds at making us love and lament the loss of the Inca civilization, where helping one another was common currency and the earth was more sacred than gold.
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Astronomy • Arabia
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In December 2013, Fabian Grégoire set out for Muscat, the sultanate capital of Oman. Shortly prior to this, he had learned about the sundials used there to distribute water in the oases, and his trip for pleasure thus became a trip for study. This picture book demonstrates that astronomical knowledge was developed by circulating freely in Greece, Egypt, India, Arabia, and the Maghreb well before arriving in Europe!
Hardcover, 48 pages, 220 x 280 mm, € 12,70
The Secret of the Astrolab When the owners of the irrigation canal started to fight because water was lacking, Aqil volunteered to go fetch Abu Harun, a wise man who travels across the country ready to help villagers when they need it. But he has another reason to go searching for the old sage. Fascinated by the stars, he has questions about the mysterious sundial that his father left him. How does one use it? When he finally finds Abu Harun, the man warns him: studying the stars and the skies can take an entire lifetime. That works out well: Aquil has his whole life ahead of him!
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It was while reading the German novel Measuring the World that Olivier
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Hardcover, 48 pages, 220 x 280 mm, € 12,70
The Slaves of Cumaná Amazonia, June 1800, on the banks of the Orinoco. Pablo, the son of a slave, has become the scapegoat of his half-brothers and has little hope of leading a better life, when two European explorers land in his village. Humboldt and his friend Bonpland are crossing Amazonia to assemble an inventory of its fauna and flora. They quickly notice Pablo’s natural curiosity, lively spirit, and gift for drawing, and they bring him with them. In the jungle, the boy saves Bonpland’s life. During the voyage to Cuba, during a storm, he manages to protect their most precious item, a giant herbarium. Galvanized by their faith in him, Pablo revives his childhood dream to find his mother.
discovered an inspiring fascination for the explorer duo, Bonpland and Humboldt. He found Humboldt to be a strange celebrity, solitary and a showoff all at once, while Bonpland was a man in the shadows, an authentic humanist forgotten because he was more familiar with the land than salon society.
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