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PHOTO BOOKS
TO GROW UP, YOU HAVE TO…
by Catherine Grive, photos by Jean-François Spricigo
TO GROW UP, YOU HAVE TO… / COLOURS AND SENSATIONS (p. 3)
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Pour grandir, il faut... Catherine grive Jean-François Spricigo
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Une collection d’imagiers où l’évidence des photos et des mots saute aux yeux. Pour entrer à pieds joints dans les images, dès le plus jeune âge.
PICTURE BOOKS
Pour grandir, il faut… naître, d’abord ! Puis, manger, bouger, courir, jouer, réfléchir, s’étonner, aimer, détester et, surtout, imaginer… À travers une galerie de portraits en noir et blanc se déclinent l’enfance et ses étapes.
Pour grandir, il faut...
COLLECTION «YAPASPHOTO»
THE EVENING SCHOOL / LEO’S TOWER / LOLA’S CUDDLE BLANKET (p. 4) COME IN! / JIM POP (p. 5)
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If childhood can be summed up in a single action, we might call it “growing up”. In this picture book, childhood is broken down into a series of actions describing the fundamental stages of life as a child: birth, eating, moving, loving, hating, boredom, and more. These expressive portraits of children embody the fascinating wealth of emotions that help us grow.
Pour grandir, il faut...
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ISBN : 978 2 8126 0177 4
US MEN! / DADDY’S GONE AWAY / SIDE EFFECTS (p. 6)
Jean-François Spricigo catherine grive
www.lerouergue.com
GURGLE / HELLO MONSIEUR HULOT! (p. 7)
CHILDREN’S NOVELS A WEEK AT MY MUM’S HOUSE / HOW I MET DAD (p. 8) MY FIRST NIGHT BENEATH THE STARS / THE PRIMROSE MYSTERY (p. 9) AN INDIAN IN MY GARDEN (p. 10)
YOUNG ADULT NOVELS
COLOURS AND SENSATIONS YAPASPHOTO
Couleurs à sensation isabelle gil
TEEN THRILLERS DO YOU REMEMBER THE MOON (p. 11)
Une collection d’imagiers où l’évidence des photos et des mots saute aux yeux. Pour entrer à pieds joints dans les images, dès le plus jeune âge.
Une palette de douze couleurs pour partir à la découverte de ses sens. Rose ? La mousse trouée d’une éponge ou le nuage nacré d’une barbe à papa. Orange ? La pulpe acide du fruit ou la peluche soyeuse d’un jouet. Rouge ? Le goût sucré des fraises ou les pétales veloutés d’une rose rouge… Car voir, c’est aussi sentir, toucher, goûter et… imaginer !
Couleurs à sensation
HOW TO RUIN YOUR VACATION (p. 10)
by Isabelle Gil
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XI-10 ISBN : 978 2 8126 0196 5
www.lerouergue.com
Couleurs à sensation
12 colours in 24 materials: a picture book without words offering younger children an infinite range of sensorial experiences through the exploration of the colours and materials of the world around them.
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PHOTO BOOKS
Léo takes great delight in making a pile of incongruous and unexpected objects: toys, books, and bits-andbobs of his child’s world. Piled one on top of the other they form a very, very high tower, a tower higher than him. But all he has to do is push and the tower comes tumbling down, and the toys, books, and bits-and-bobs all resume their lives as everyday objects. Child’s play!
André Benchetrit – Julie Mercier
2+, 17 x 21 cm, 32 p., 12 €
COME IN!
by Sébastien Joanniez and Joanna Concejo
“So there we were, dad, mum and me, sitting in the rain. But we had forgotten something…” With the boy in the story, the reader names and brings to life the essence of the boy’s life and his childhood: his parents, loves, laughter and all the rest. A simple tale about finding ones way in our hurdy-gurdy world.
fousf{!"
by André Benchetrit and Julie Mercier
fousf{!" Sébastien Joanniez Joanna Concejo
3+, 19 x 30 cm, 40 p., 15 €
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THE EVENING SCHOOL L’école du soir Elzbieta
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L’école du soir
by Elzbieta
At the night school, the animals are pupils and the moon is the teacher. On the syllabus today: BABIES! Do they bite? Why do they cry? Do they have whiskers? An amusing appealing book to read to younger children before bed time, which shows how fascinating children are from the moment they are born. The largest of Elzbieta’s albums so far. 2+, 18 x 22.5 cm, 32 p., 13.50 €
JIM POP
by Tom Henni
And now, ladies and gentlemen, for your delight, the exceptional human cannon ball, Jim Pop, will be fired up into the air! But… oh no! Jim Pop flies over the safety net and embarks on a madcap tour of the world. A large format picture book that invites children to view the action in close-up. A mischievous tale about the magic of the circus and its bewitching power. 3+, 22 x 34 cm, 40 p., 16 €
LOLA’S CUDDLE BLANKET
by Irène Cohen-Janca and Natacha Sicaud
Something terrible has happened. Lola’s cuddle blanket has disappeared. Everybody goes crazy looking for it and day-by-day, the neighbours bring back patches of Lola’s blanket. Finally Lili, her new little neighbour, brings round the final piece. But now Lola doesn’t need a cuddle blanket, because she has a new friend. A powerful appealing album about children’s emotions, the relationship to the self and others. 3+, 23.5 x 18 cm, 40 p., 13.50 €
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Christian Voltz
NOUS LES HOMMES !
by Nina Blychert
What do four buddies do to celebrate the victory of their favourite football team? A real man goes for a drink at the local bar. But not if it’s his turn to do the cleaning and washing, make the meal and take care of the children. A new and highly mischievous album by Christian Voltz, about the division of labour between men and women.
All the (serious) answers to the (crazy) questions people ask about the stomach are to be found in Gurgle. Nina Blychert’s new picture book has a mock-documentary format parodying science books, encyclopaedias, texts books and journalism. In it we learn how many stomachs a giraffe has, what a gurgling stomach actually means, and how we can cultivate a fine paunch!
4+, 17 x 21 cm, 48 p., 13 €
5+, 22 x 22 cm, 40 p., 14 €
by Christian Voltz
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DADDY’S GONE AWAY
by Daniel Nesquens and Maria Titos
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A boy waves goodbye to his father as his father climbs aboard a ship destined for the other side of the world to go in search of a rare bird of paradise. After his father’s departure he spends the day with his mother and younger sister. The boy is torn between admiration for his father’s noble quest and his great feeling of solitude, and feels the separation has made him grow up somehow. A simple subtle tale illustrated with art of great delicacy. 4+, 21 x 18, 32 p., 13 € xxxx ISBN
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SIDE EFFECTS
by Maurizio Quarello
Maurizio A.C. Quarello
Oh no! Mister X is losing his hair. Without a moment’s thought he went straight to his doctors who prescribed a miracle lotion. The remedy works wonders but causes another problem requiring more medicine, which in turn causes yet another illness. How will Mister X break the vicious circle in which he is caught? A hilarious album for children who need a spoonful of sugar to help the medicine go down. 5+, 17 x 17 cm, 40 p., 12 €
HELLO MONSIEUR HULOT !
by David Merveille, based on the work of Jacques Tati
After his work Le Jacquot de M. Hulot, David Merveille sends Jacques Tati’s character back into action in a series of 22 strips featuring all the poetry, humour and subversive character of M. Hulot. In these mini-cartoons full of vim and verve, David Merveille shows us once again how Hulot is both magnificently oddball while still in tune with his times. All ages, 26.5 x 19 cm, 56 p., 15 €
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GURGLE US MEN!
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by Gladys Marciano
The parents of Bianca, 13, her older brother Lenny and his little sister Luna, have divorced. The children now live in joint custody, one week with their mother, one week with their father. Bianca isn’t especially put out: when they go to their mother’s, they have to carry their suitcases up two floors. But otherwise there’s no real difference. However, one week turns out to be no ordinary week. Firstly she is invited to a party on Saturday night. At that party there will be Gabriel, a boy older than herself, for whom she has more than a soft spot. And to complicate things, Lenny, in the throes of adolescence, is set to be expelled from his school. As a result, father turns up at mother’s house for a “crisis meeting”. Meanwhile, when it’s Mum-week, her little sister, who’s a real “marshmallow” in her life sticking to her all the time, has to go with her to school. We follow Bianca from Sunday evening to Sunday evening, at the heart of the tempest that blows throughout this week at Mum’s house, right up until the magnificent party when she gets to kiss a boy for the first time. 128 p., 7.50 €
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CHILDREN’S NOVELS MY FIRST NIGHT BENEATH THE STARS by Alex Cousseau
While the grown-ups are partying, Cléo prefers to take his cousin outside far from her bedroom and the noise of the evening to gaze at the night sky. Our young narrator soon understands that his cousin Cléo has a secret. Why is she so afraid of her bedroom? And what do Cléo’s tiny silent tears really hide? To encourage her to speak and to reassure her, he tells Cléo of his own fears. His fears from when he was younger, when he was only five and a half. But Cléo’s fear is a stranger fear. She confides to her cousin that there is a pink spot on her bedroom ceiling that keeps on growing every day. She is almost sure that someone has died in the attic. Hand-in-hand the two children go upstairs to explore the scene of the crime. 56 p., 5.50 €
HOW I MET DAD
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by Séverine Vidal
Ava is ten and has always believed she is a “daddy-less girl”. Since her birth her mother has told her that her father preferred running off to photograph kangaroos in Australia rather than take care of a baby. But Ava is a girl who never stops asking questions and her aunt Josefa finally spills the beans: her father hasn’t abandoned her, it was her mother who hid the fact she was having a child. Josefa, like a modern day fairy godmother, has stayed in contact with Antoine since Ava’s birth and suggests she write him a letter. Ava sets about writing straight away, and makes sure her mother doesn’t find out – there is no way she can let her know how the cat has been let out of the bag. Ava finally gets to meet her father, his wife and her half brother and sister. Everything goes swimmingly for a while, but the time comes when Mum is going to have to find out. 80 p., 6.50 €
THE PRIMROSE MYSTERY by Hervé Mestron
Everything starts when Hippolyte discovers a wallet in a street in Lille, belonging to a strange old lady, Madame Delange. Hippolyte too is not your usual boy: bald since the day he was born, he has lived the life of a nomad following his opera-singing parents on the road. He doesn’t know anyone at his new school, and through boredom, he strikes up a friendship with Madame Delange. But there are things about her he can’t quite grasp: at the age of ninety, she lives alone in an insalubrious home which she claims evil developers are trying to force her to leave; she also claims not to have seen her only son for thirty years. Things become complicated when the French teacher invites a writer by the name of Primrose to the school who strangely resembles a portrait of the old lady’s husband. When the teacher asks each child to write a story based on real life, Hippolyte gets caught up in a wild and crazy tale of his own making. And what if, in life too, his own imagination was playing tricks on him? 144 p., 8 €
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TEEN THRILLERS
Agnès de Lestrade
UN INDIENN DANS MO JARDIN
by Agnès de Lestrade One morning Mia wakes up to find an Indian in her garden. She isn’t dreaming; it is a real Indian. However, this Indian is in fact her father. Bedecked in feather headdress and fringed jacket and trousers, her father has decided to live in a tent. The whole family is worried. Has the man finally gone crazy? Mia’s family sometimes do get funny ideas but this time her father has maybe tipped over the edge. And what will they do next Sunday when they visit Aunty Grouch in her retirement home and take her to lunch. This really is most inconvenient. But maybe Aunty holds the key to the Indian mystery! 64 p., 6 €
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HOW TO RUIN YOUR VACATION by Anne Percin
Last year, Maxime swore this would be the last time he went on holiday with his family. But here he is once more, Mr. Anti-Social-NoFriends with no back-up plan with his pals to fall back on. His only plan B to avoid a hiking holiday in Corsica with his parents is to spend a month with his grandma just outside Paris, at the Kremlin Bicêtre, a stone’s throw from the busy city ring road – just like when he was ten. Ah such happy times! But his peaceable holidays soon go topsy-turvy when his grandmother has a minor heart attack which sees her confined to hospital. Events take over for Maxime as he is arrested in the street for carrying his grandmother’s handbag (he was going to take it to the hospital), then his experiment with cookery explodes, then he has a run-in with a drag-queen, then he gets outrageously drunk, then a family skeleton comes tumbling out of the cupboard. Meanwhile his parents cannot be contacted, and they are blissfully unaware of their son’s misadventures as they continue their hiking trail of Corsica. 192 p., 13 €
DO YOU REMEMBER THE MOON by Stéphane Servant
David lives with his father in a mobile home in Carrefour, a nowhere’s-ville in the Louisiana boondocks, inhabited by coloured, Indian and poor folk. David has nearly finished his training to be a mechanic and is soon set for a placement in a garage. The only other futures open to him are working in the refinery or winding up whisky-soaked on a roadside. David, though, dreams of a real life, and to escape his life of mediocrity, he writes and dreams of becoming a writer. However life in Carrefour is not so uneventful after all: in six months, eleven teenagers have disappeared without trace. The school meanwhile hosts a writer, Frank Lebreton, who has suddenly become famous with the publication of his last novel. David asks him to read his stories. But despite his fame, Frank Lebreton is no Mark Twain, and he humiliates David for what he calls his “virgin’s diary”. Something strange then happens: David notices a lizard carved into one of the classroom tables. He vomits and wakes up in the bayou, covered in scales. The head-turning mechanism of the tale is set in motion twisting between fantasy and social reality. In this metaphor for the powers of writing and the confusion between reality and fiction, Something possesses David and this Something writes scenes for him, scenes that will actually take place. This Something seems to have emerged from David’s inner desires and feeds on his hatred for Carrefour, like an evil-twin brother, the power of whom lies in writing. As though writing can change whole lives. 304 p., 14 €
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Thierry Magnier • Publisher Cécile Emeraud • Editor Picture Books Sylvie Gracia • Editor Fiction 18, rue Séguier - 75006 Paris France - Tel: +33 (o)1 55 42 14 42/47 Fax: +33 (0)1 44 83 80 01 Johanna Brock Lacassin • Foreign Rights B.P. 90038 - 13633 Arles cedex France - Tel: +33 (0)4 90 49 57 25 Fax: +33 (0)4 90 96 95 25 e-mail: j.brock-lacassin@actes-sud.fr Nathalie Alliel • Foreign Rights Assistant e-mail: nathalie.alliel@actes-sud.fr