Rights Catalogue Albin Michel jeunesse Frankfurt 2013

ALBIN MICHEL JEUNESSE

ALBIN MICHEL JEUNESSE

MARION JABLONSKI, MANAGING DIRECTOR marion.jablonski@albin-michel.fr

AURÉLIE LAPAUTRE, Coeditions/Foreign Rights aurelie.lapautre@albin-michel.fr

ELOÏSE ELANDALOUSSI,

ÉVELYNE GUYOT, Acquisitions Editor evelyne.guyot@albin-michel.fr

SHAÏNE CASSIM, Editor shaine.cassim@albin-michel.fr

BÉATRICE VINCENT, Editor beatrice.vincent@albin-michel.fr

LUCETTE SAVIER, Editor lucette.savier@albin-michel.fr

servane guiho, Editor servane.guiho@albin-michel.fr

ALBIN MICHEL JEUNESSE 22, rue Huyghens 75014 Paris Tel.: 33 (0) 1 42 79 46 00 Fax.: 33 (0) 1 42 79 46 80 www.albin-michel.fr

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WILLIAM BABOIN, Artistic Director william.baboin@albin-michel.fr

Cover Design Anne-Margot Ramstein & Matthias Arregui

All of our publications, be they pop-up books, novelty books, picture books, novels or non-fiction titles, are brought to life with imagination and enthusiasm. It is our pleasure to share them with you!

Coeditions/Foreign Rights eloise.elandaloussi@albin-michel.fr

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FRANKFURT 2013 FOREIGN RIGHTS CATALOGUE

Juliette Vallery & Yu-Hsuan Huang All board, 18.6x18.6cm, 8 spreads + 7 flaps + touch and feel materials, 3D embossing on cover, 10.90 €

Ages 1 & Up

A playful new collection introducing little ones to the body and the senses.

The first 2 titles: Flip Flap tickles Flip Flap kisses

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isten: each nursery rhyme-style story can be read aloud.

Look: there is much to observe in the sweet and colourful scenery and animal characters.

Touch: by lifting flaps and touching materials, young readers interact with the story.

Imitate: each page invites children to recreate the actions of the characters: through cuddles with mommy or tickles with daddy, they gradually discover their own body and all the senses.

Board book

Board book

“FLIP FLAP” COLLECTION

THE POPS

Juliette Vallery & Tristan Mory Hardcover, 16x16.5cm, 24 pages, Glossy lamination all over, 5.90 €

Ages 3 & Up

A new collection teaching young children how to get along.

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eet the Pops: curious Mimimouse, boastful Rorylion, grumpy Grumblebunny, and Zebrazilly the dreamer. Together they have fun adventures and step-by-step experience the joys and challenges of life among friends.

Each story presents an important theme which reflects the concerns of children aged 2-4 – sharing, overcoming conflict, facing fears together – in their own world, without the mediation of adults and guiding them towards independence!

The first 4 titles: Why are you sulking?

Just for me!

Who’s the tallest?

It’s too early for bedtime!

THE BOOK OF OPPOSITES

Hardcover picture book, 21x16cm, 48 pages, 19.50 €

Hardcover picture book, 23x28cm, 64 pages and 3D decoding case (blue and red APET), 15.90 €

Pittau & Gervais Ages 3 & Up

A playful and graphic approach to discovering colours by international bestselling duo Pittau & Gervais.

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hroughout the metamorphosis of Pittau and Gervais’ emblematic elephant, children are guided from pink to blue and from primary to secondary colours via transparencies. In this simple and fun world bursting with observation and interactive games, you just have to lift a flap or place a translucent paper on top of a page to see a range of shades appear.

Delphine Chedru Ages 3 & Up

In this innovative novelty book, acclaimed illustrator Delphine Chedru confirms her talents as an illusionist, making one thing and then its opposite appear as by magic.

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ach page displays a beautiful and surrealistic amalgamation of two images, one in red and one in blue. Using two translucent pages (one red, one blue) provided with the book, children will be able to successively make appear each of the two hidden images and their corresponding word on the facing page.

With humour and aesthetics, the superposition of papers offers two opposite versions of the same scene.

Picture Book

Picture book

COLOURS

Anne-Margot Ramstein & Matthias Arregui Hardcover picture book, 21x16cm, 76 pages, 19.90 €

Ages 4 & up

A smart and graphic approach to the compelling theme of Before and After.

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bjects, events, landscapes and human beings are working in pairs, facing each other or in subsequent double spreads showing two states of the same reality.

The absence of text incites the reader to imagine, understand and recount the story of these changes. Before and After is both an interactive reading experience and a time-related work of imagination.

Picture Book

Picture Book

BEFORE AND AFTER

ROSE ET L’AUTOMATE DE L’OPERA

Fred Bernard & François Roca Hardcover picture book, 28.5x35.5cm, 40 pages, 18 €

Ages 6 & up

A fascinating expedition into the graceful and captivating world of ballet, set backstage at the famous French opera.

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andering in the attic of the opera, Rose, a young ballet student, finds Hermès, a dismantled dancing automaton. In the first-person narrative of Hermès’ voice, he recounts Rose’s efforts to repair and render him his dancing skills.

Fred Bernard offers a powerful story about will and friendship, beautifully illustrated with François Roca’s light effects and spectacular drawings.

Stationery

Picture Book

2014 Agenda

9.5x16.5cm, 176 pages, 15.50 €

MADAME BUTTERFLY Benjamin Lacombe

Hardcover picture book, 26.5x38cm, accordion fold, Swiss bound, 76 pages, 29 €

All Ages

A masterly adaptation of the famous love tragedy by bestselling author Benjamin Lacombe.

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et in an antiquated Japan, the tragic story of Madame Butterfly is beautifully rendered here through Benjamin Lacombe’s illustrations. The tale is told to us by Pinkerton, the American officer filled with remorse for breaking the wings of his delicate butterfly woman Cho-Cho-San, a Japanese Geisha who gave birth to his son once he had already set sail.

With its large-scale format, precious paper and accordion-style binding that unfolds into a 10 m long panel, this beautifully produced book makes an amazing case for Benjamin Lacombe’s gorgeous oil paintings and exquisite ink frescos.

2014 Calendar 33x45cm 15 €

notebook

14.5x19cm, 120 pages, 11.50 €

Les Petits Débrouillards (Clever kids)

Hardcover picture book, 26x33cm, 112 pages, 19.90 €

Association des petits débrouillards

WATER IN 40 KEY EXPERIMENTS

Virginie Aladjidi & Emmanuelle Tchoukriel All ages

Hardcover, 22.5x30.5cm, 96 full-color pages, Ebook / Apps

Ages 8 & up

An innovative introduction to science across different media.

With stunning naturalist illustrations and fascinating facts, this lavish atlas offers readers the remarkable opportunity to marvel at the geographical and living diversity of our world.

hildren ask simple questions… which don’t always have simple answers: why do boats float? Where do rainbows come from? These concepts are clearly explained through 40 fun, easy experiments.

• The book presents each experiment, cheerfully illustrated, in 4 steps: What do I need? What to do? How does it work?

What is it for?

• The ebook adds simple and personalized interactive activities.

• The animated app-experiments and app-quizzes form an introduction or complement to the book.

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his large atlas of 120 pages identifies 250 animals in nine distinctive regions of the world.

• The animals are classified according to their movement patterns (terrestrial, aerial and aquatic), • They are placed on 23 maps enriched with colourful pictorial elements of their living environment, and • And they are further presented in thematic spreads which deliver fascinating facts about their habitats, biology and behaviours.

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Following titles will cover AIR, the EARTH, and STARS. The previous version of this series was sold in 7 countries.

NON-FICTION

NON-FICTION

THE ANIMAL ATLAS