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A new collection of illustrated storybooks Olivier Douzou and Frédérique Bertrand
BOARD BOOKS PONY / DACHSHUND / BEAR / CAT (P. 3)
PICTURE BOOKS ME IN PAJAMARAMA (P. 4) THREE LITTLE PEAS / TICK-TOCK TRUCK (P. 5) MY FRIEND, A GRAY GIANT ADVENTURE GOOD DOCTOR MADLOUSE / MISTER 2D (P. 6) A BREEZE / GOLDILOCKS AND THE TWO BEARS
- One nursery verse per collection - Theme: Animals - Each collection features a variation around one animal: pony, dachshund, cat, poodle, trout, piglet, hen, etc. - Rolling cover principle: the cover visuals placed in sequence form a bigger picture - With each new book published, a picture of the animal in the book joins pictures of the previous animals - A 20 page cardboard book for the very young - 12 titles planned
THE ADVENTURES OF ALEXANDER THE ACORN (P. 7)
KID’S NOVELS BOOMERANG COLLECTION: MY BROTHER IS A HORSE/A HORSE NAMED STORM, BENT DOUBLE/GREEN WITH FEAR (P. 8-9) SUPER-FERRET / DOWN WITH KISSING! / WHEN I GET BORED, I SAVE THE WORLD / THE PROBLEM WITH CHRISTMAS (P. 10-11)
PONY The first in the continuous rolling series stars Pony who takes stock of himself and decides he is in for a great future. Naturally, nobody believes him.
DACHSHUND
JUNIOR NOVELS ARISTOTLE IN LOVE / THE GHOST-TRAP (P.12)
The second volume of verse looks at a disobedient Dachshund who refuses to lie down. This time he’s really gone too far.
WHAT DOES CRUSOE DREAM ABOUT? / POP SUMMER (P.13)
BEAR
YOUNG ADULT NOVELS HOW TO BECOME A ROCK STAR (OR NOT) / MY HEART IN THE RAPIDS (P. 14) ASKTHEIMPOSSIBLE.COM / THE THREE LIVES OF ANTOINE ANARCHASIS (P. 15)
YOUNG ADULT THRILLER SLEEP TIGHT, SHRIMP! (P. 16)
The third volume of verse looks at a bear who enters a race with something striped reminiscent of the bars of his cage.
CAT From early morn, throughout the day, then at sundown, through to the heart of the night. One clue: Meeoow! Who can it be?
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Michaël Leblond and by Frédérique Bertrand
Two plump little peas go AWOL, laughing and bouncing until danger appears. Each picture holds clues - a marble, a key, a car – about what they encounter along the way, a reference to the passage from childhood to the more material world of adults. Pursued by all manner of beasts, they manage to escape and burrow themselves away next to each other. Finally, they germinate. Life keeps rolling on and goes full circle, like two peas in a pod. The third pea finally turns up, but to see it you have to prize your own mental pod wide open. 2 years + • 25 x 20 cm • 40 pages • €15
A child goes to bed and takes a journey through his body: Lights flicker beneath his eyes, and inside his head he notices tingling. He imagines things circulating, feels his heart beating, and listens to his breathing. What an incredible machine it is! After New York in pajamarama and Lunapark in pajamarama, the body becomes the latest dream world. When the gears get rusty, the shivers and sweats start. Our hero breaks through the bars of his pajamas and his body escapes; the dream turns into a fever. A book in two dimensions: vertically, there is Frédérique Bertrand’s illustrated story responding to the horizontal and tactile imagery of Michaël Leblond, who has created graphics that spring magically to life thanks to a striped acetate sheet. 4 years + • 24 x 32 cm • 24 pages • €16.80
TICK-TOCK TRUCK by Olivier Douzou
A tiny truck is transporting 49 crates. On the crates is written a long sentence. But in his race against time the tiny truck sheds his load. The abandoned crates now spell out a different message, using the same letters as before: “Fire, police stop! Turn around!” During the trip, the first sentence gradually disappears leaving only one precious crate when the truck finally arrives. T for truck! 3 years + • 21 x 28 cm • 32 pages • €14.50 1??
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THREE LITTLE PEAS ME IN PAJAMARAMA
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by Juliette Binet
MY FRIEND, A GRAY GIANT ADVENTURE Gray Giant sets out to meet the sun but bumps into Barium, a tricky little yellow man who turns out to be a bit of a liar, something of a joker and slightly deceitful. Barium and Gray Giant finally end up as friends, before Gray Giant heads off back into his giant gray world. The author creates a manifesto for the color yellow and all the values it represents through a simple tale about relationships with others, about difference and friendship. This first Gray Giant adventure looks at color, pointillism, shadow and more. Gray Giant is a new character who will feature in a series of picture books. 4 years + • 17.7 x 27 cm • 40 pages • €16.50
An accordion book connecting two characters together, one on the front cover, the other on the back. The book unfolds and encounters the two extremities, formed by the two characters. When you want to speak to someone close, sometimes you have to use special methods. Two people standing back to back seem to ignore each other. One talks to the other in a whisper that turns into a breeze, a gust, and a storm that is unleashed over the oceans. It is strong enough to go around the world or at least around a book, which is here imagined as a panoramic poem, unfolding like a silent but ever so eloquent landscape. 5 years + • 21 x 17.5 cm • 14 pages • €18
GOLDILOCKS AND THE TWO BEARS
by Zidrou and illustrations by Monika Hanulak
Once upon a time there were three bears who lived in a house. Happy with life, they sat down to a bowl of soup which turned out to be too hot, so they went for a walk in the forest. But when the bears return, there are only two of them. Cutesy little baby bear has gone missing. A little girl by the name of Goldilocks turns up but this time she is welcomed with open arms. She is offered soup in a tiny bowl which has been tidied away in a special place, because, for mummy and daddy bear, hope springs eternal. As in the traditional version of the tale, Zidrou evokes the question of adoption but also of borrowing. Monika Hanulak’s illustrations offer us a contemporary version of the tale as well as a simple evocation of broader themes such as disappearance and adoption. 6 years + • 23 x 28 cm • 48 pages • €17.70
GOOD DOCTOR MADLOUSE
by Olivier Douzou and José Parrondo
Little Edgar Allan keeps on coughing. His mom calls out good doctor Madlouse, the general practitioner to the lice. He returns with his diagnosis the following day, and there can be no doubt about it, little Edgar Allan has caught hair. Hair is very contagious among lice and soon Doctor Madlouse is overwhelmed by cases. The epidemic spreads like wildfire, even the larvae catch hair. Doctor Madlouse scratches his head and thinks: He has a hunch about where the problem comes from. What if he, the good doctor, was in fact some kind of “fire-raising firefighter”? After all, why do so many lice catch hair just after his visits? 5 years + • 18 x 24 cm • 40 pages • €15
MISTER 2D
by Bruno Heitz
Paper-cut-out Mister 2D is curious to discover the world in 3 dimensions. With an accordion he creates a staircase, and disappears into an unknown world where all he wants to do is “surface” again and rediscover his true nature. Bruno Heitz’s paper constructions (photographed in black and white) unfold with magical simplicity in this tale. 5 years + • 21 x 28 cm • 40 pages • €16.50
THE ADVENTURES OF ALEXANDER THE ACORN by Olivier Douzou
This is the tale of an acorn, the last descendant of a great oak, who refuses to follow the time-honored family tradition of falling, burrowing to survive then growing to ensure the survival of the species. It is a work about life in general, about its learning curve and moral values. It is a work that pays tribute to Collodi’s Pinocchio and draws similar lessons through a series of encounters and fables exploring laziness and cowardice. 7 years + • 20 x 26 cm • 112 pages • €24.80
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A BREEZE
by Gaétan Dorémus
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A double-edged collection, with an A-side and a B-side to be read in both directions, symbolically looking at the desire of reading. Fun books for 7-9 year olds offering two short novels, which, while cultivating differences shed light on each other. The “boomerang effect” brings two stories in one book to prolong and vary the pleasures. Two stories about a horse, that brings two children together.
Two stories about what makes Joseph laugh or cry.
BENT DOUBLE
by Rachel Corenblit
Joseph is afraid of nothing: wolves, ogres, monsters and vampires – all make him burst out laughing. What’s more, he loves inventing and telling horrible histories. At school, his teacher calls him Mister Terror because Joseph makes Leila, the prettiest girl in the class, cry. He also terrorizes Alexandre, the school’s best soccer player and the toughest in the playground. Instead of making her cry, though, Joseph would love to make Leila smile, the way she smiles when Alexandre scores a goal. But that’s an entirely different question.
MY BROTHER IS A HORSE by Alex Cousseau
Elvis was born on exactly the same day and at exactly the same time as a foal, who is also called Elvis. In the Mongolian desert where he lives, a shepherd’s life is hard, but as long as he can go horseriding, he is happy. Elvis is a wild horse, running free and only his young human namesake knows how to ride him. When Elvis is eight, the winter is even harsher than the year he was born. Elvis decides to sell his horse to help his parents. He promises his horse, however, that, one day, they will see each other again.
A HORSE NAMED STORM by Alex Cousseau
On the day of his eighth birthday, Sarantoya receives the present she’d been dreaming of: a horse. The horse is wild and has a lively temperament. Sarantoya decides to name him “Storm”. That night, Sarantoya cannot sleep. She slips into Storm’s enclosure in her pajamas and mounts the horse. Barely is she on Storm’s back when Storm takes off, through the open stable door. For two days and two nights, Storm gallops without stopping. On the third day, when the pair is totally exhausted, Storm stops and a boy comes over to them. It is Elvis. He has been waiting for them.
GREEN WITH FEAR by Rachel Corenblit
What is this ridiculous book with a pink cover that his sister has left on her desk? Joseph opens it up with a sneer, until he is horrified to discover the most terrifying story he will ever read: The story of a boy who’s terrible at sport, but who’d love to attract the attention of the prettiest girl in the class. The story gives him goosebumps. Now Joseph understands what he’s really scared of: love stories.
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EARLY READING COLLECTION 8 years + • 12 x 17 cm • 96 pages • €7
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WHEN I GET BORED, I SAVE THE WORLD
by Guillaume Guéraud and illustrations by Martin Romero
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by Elisa Vix and illustrations by Chiara Dattola
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Since the start of the year, a number of little objects have disappeared in Noémie’s class. With her friends, she decides to seek out the thief. To lead her investigations, Noémie has the perfect companion: Fly, a highly intelligent ferret. Apart from his unfortunate smell, he is extremely efficient and discreet. It is thanks to Fly that Noémie manages to ferret out Etienne. But why Etienne? He’s such an unassuming kid and usually he causes zero problems. What could possibly be his motivation? Noémie and her friends understand that Etienne’s step-mother is beating him and is trying to distance him from her father. How can Noémie help? Noémie calls up her friend, super-ferret, to elucidate the problem so that Etienne can win back his father’s love and trust.
Eugène is bored with everyday life and wants to live more exciting adventures. With disconcerting ease, he starts projecting himself into different fictional worlds: pirates, astronauts and manga comics. He loves imagining he’s a superhero defeating bad guys. Often he casts his teacher, Miss Charbonneau, as the enemy to be defeated, while Lisa the prettiest girl in the class is the princess who needs saving from the monster’s clutches. Eugène’s natural tendency to hide his head in the clouds isn’t to his teacher’s liking. His parents are worried and his friends bewildered. Eugène doesn’t understand the problem. When he grows up, he’s going to save the world. The doctor manages to reassure everyone. Eugène just needs escapism in life, and it’s something that he’s very good at. It is this ability that is his real super-hero power, the kind of thing you never learn at school.
THE PROBLEM WITH CHRISTMAS DOWN WITH KISSING!
by Agnès de Lestrade and illustrations by Clémence Pollet
Kaï has just turned 9, and at the age of 9, kisses are finished. On the day of his birthday, he proudly announces his decision and shakes his uncle and aunt’s hands. Everybody is dumbfounded, his parents have real difficulty accepting the situation. His grandpop meanwhile doesn’t notice the difference (must said, he’s getting on). But Kaï feels so much better. Until the day he meets Pascal. “Why does Pascal cry all the time?” wonders Kaï. To cheer him up, Kaï invites him home after school. But when Kaï’s grandfather embraces Pascal, he breaks down in tears once more. His own grandfather has just died and he wasn’t allowed to embrace him one last time. Kaï starts asking himself a lot of questions. What do kisses mean? Is his own grandfather on the verge of dying? How do you show someone they matter to you? And how do you console a friend?
Since the death of her mother in a car accident, Christmas holidays remind Cerise just how much she misses her mother. That year, like every year, Cerise and her father are invited to Aunt Nina’s house. Nina is her mother’s twin sister. For Cerise and her father, finding themselves in the whirl of Aunt Nina’s happy family life is like a knife in the heart. On the way to Aunt Nina’s house, a snow storm forces them to stop in a small village. The mayor of the tiny village invites them, along with the other stranded motorists, to sleep in the community hall. The hall, though, is empty and cold, and there isn’t even a Christmas tree. With a little imagination, a disco ball, a nice hot soup, and everybody’s help, Cerise and her father spend one of the best ever Christmas eves for years.
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WHAT DOES CRUSOE DREAM ABOUT? dacodac
by Florence Delaporte
Mia and her twin brother Thor live in Sydney, Australia, in a district dacodac where the relations between Whites and Aborigines are highly strained. Since they were small, the twins have always dreamed the same dreams. But they lose touch with each other when Thor joins an antiAborigine gang. In Mia’s class, there is a new student, Crusoe. He is of Aboriginal original and asks Mia to help him with his school work. In exchange for the private lessons, Crusoe initiates Mia into his culture and into aboriginal symbols. Thor and Mia suddenly start dreaming the same premonitory dreams that their home falls down or is flooded. As the dreams start, Crusoe disappears without a trace. Thor and Mia put their differences behind them to plunge into Aboriginal culture, to elucidate the meaning of their dreams and to find Crusoe. www.lerouergue.com
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Since he joined the junior high, Aristotle has been asking himself questions: 1) Where does his name come from? 2) Who is Aristotle? 3) Is Yasmine much more than a friend? And 4) Who is his father? This chain of questioning is initiated when Yasmine, who sits next to him in class, says, “Aristotle? Sounds like the name of a warrior!” Suddenly, he is forced to find out about this Aristotle character. When he first discovers he’s a philosopher he is disappointed. Philosophy is less sexy than war. But this gives him an idea: What if he opened up a philosophy agency to help people answer their questions? His first client, Mathieu Robinier poses Aristotle with his first question, free of charge. Aristotle is forced to grapple with logic to answer Mathieu’s tricky question. “Will Yasmine go on a date with me?” It is out of the question that Yasmine goes on a date with Mathieu. A fight ensues and the music teacher gets involved. Aristotle is summoned by the principle… But things start turning out better for our philosopher-warrior: He has his first kiss with Yasmine and finally talks to his mother about his father.
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THE GHOST-TRAP Alex Cousseau
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by Alex Cousseau
Antonin is doing his homework and has to write a poem. What’s poetry? Everybody in his family gives him a different answer. One day his mom comes back from work with a dead deer in the trunk of her car. Having knocked it over accidentally in the road, she is distraught. Grandma wants to chop it up and hang it to have roast game at the weekend. Antonin is suddenly beset by dreams of a deer running through the forest and starts to ask himself: “Do ghosts really exist?” Like in a movie he once watched with his parents, Antonin gathers up the remains of the deer and buries them in the forest. His dreams suddenly stop. Using the ghosts and imagery that haunt him, Antonin finds his poetry. Like a spider’s web clinging to the fur of an animal in flight, his words catch his ghosts and recapture the lifestory of the deer. Ghosts do exist after all, and so does poetry.
à quoi rêve crusoé ?
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ARISTOTLE IN LOVE
Florence Delaporte
Une série d’événements met les jumeaux Thor et Mia en alerte. Mia s’inquiète de la disparition de Crusoé, son nouveau camarade de classe. Une nuit, avec son frère, elle aperçoit un jeune Aborigène, couvert de peintures, qui danse dans leur jardin. Et que veulent dire les rêves étranges que Mia et Thor font en commun ? Alors, quand leur maison tremble, ils prennent vraiment peur… Thor peut jouer les durs avec sa bande dans les rues de Sydney, Mia sait qu’ils sont en danger !
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POP SUMMER
by Vincent Cuvellier
Mario lives with his father in a hippy community where he makes his own bread and cheese, and listens to jazz. The community is frowned upon in the village. Michel, meanwhile, spends his holidays in the same village with his parents. He has joined the local brass band and gets his kicks from throwing stones at the “hippies” with his gang. When they first meet, the pair does not hit it off. But Michel and Mario soon learn to get along through music. Michel plays the snare drum, while Mario sings the blues and rock with an incredible voice, like a black star. Accompanied by Michel, Mario wins over the audience at the village fair and they are selected for a young talent television show. Together they go to Paris for this big event. But who cares if they don’t win ? It’s playing music and enjoying the pleasure that counts.
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ASKTHEIMPOSSIBLE.COM by Irène Cohen-Janca
“I’m going to tell you about my pathetic life,” such is the narrator’s goal, which he sets about with great humor. Antonin is a happy child, in body and mind. However, he does ask himself a lot of questions about the meaning of life. Like, for example, how do you live it to the full? Looking at the adults around him, it’d worry him to grow old. His parents are nice but quiet, and turn a blind eye to the drama unfolding at home: Their daughter, Emma, 18, is perfect in every way, but anorexic. It is Antonin and not his parents, who decides to help her. To Antonin, his parents are so normal they’re dull. Antonin prefers his uncle, Max, who was involved in the May ’68 revolt, is proud of it, and still lives by its slogans, such as “Be realistic, ask the impossible”. Antonin has long, involved conversations with his adolescent-minded uncle about history and literature, but Max refuses to broach certain issues from his youth, such as: Why he has a hidden photo of Antonin’s mother at the age of seventeen? Adults have secrets to tell too. 13 years + • 14 x 20.5 • 202 pages • €13.20
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Here at last, the long-awaited third volume of the Percin series after How to ruin your vacation and How to take control of your love life. Maxime is trying to rescue his Christmas holidays that have been a disaster. Instead of going straight home to his parents’ house, he takes refuge at his Uncle Christian’s house. His uncle is a first-class loser who, with his record collection and Fender guitar, has never grown up. During the three days they spend together, Maxime is delighted to find out that his uncle is not only a living encyclopedia of rock but that he plays the guitar. He’s been dreaming of forming a group since the second volume of the series. What if he hooked up with his uncle? Their musical adventure turns out to be pretty freakish in every sense of the word. His taciturn, depressive uncle enrolls a cop-drummer (the same cop who, in the first volume, wrongfully arrested Maxime and accused him of stealing a handbag), as well as a lunatic bassist who dresses like a Tellytubby. The unlikely quartet manages to extract themselves from all manner of comic scrapes. In the meantime, Maxime’s life continues its chaotic course, especially with Natacha, who is still just as jealous as ever, as we discover here. As for the Mainard family’s secrets, in particularly concerning Grandma’s Brazilian lover, finally we’re going to find out more. 5 years + • 21 x 17.5 cm • 14 pages • €15.70 How to ruin your vacation: 30 000 copies sold in France How to take control of your love life: 10 000 copies sold in France
MY HEART IN THE RAPIDS by Ahmed Kalouaz
The summer before returning to high-school, Juliette leaves for a canoe camp with her leisure center. At the last minute, Léa, a friend from school, also signs up. They’re not really best buddies but they get along Ok. Léa has a tendency to fall in love too often for Juliette’s liking. Juliette isn’t “really into boys”. Between two canoe lessons, the girls meet a boy, Nicolas, at the village snack bar. Nicolas is too shy to talk to them. They bump into him a few times and learn that he is staying with his aunt for the holiday to help her look after her goats. The boy is a daydreamer and a bit of a mystery. He is also very handsome. Juliette feels her heart waver. She has to make the first moves, however, because Nicolas is far too shy. In this beautiful tale, they soon fall in love and learn how to talk to each other, express their fears, and kiss, all in the preciously short space of a holiday camp. 13 years + • 14 x 20.5 cm • 96 pages • €9 approx.
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by Anne Percin
Bon, alors, comme ça, vous voulez que Maxime Mainard vous déballe sa life, une fois de plus ? Vous voulez qu’il vous raconte avec quelle bande de dingues il va fonder son (fameux) groupe de rock ? Tout découvrir sur les secrets (brésiliens) de sa mamie Lisette ? Ouvrir (enfin) les yeux sur la vie privée d’Alex, sa meilleure pote ? Découvrir (avec stupeur) qui a osé rouler une pelle à Natacha, sa petite copine ? Et vous demander comment, avec tout ça, il va réussir à avoir son bac ? Entre Noël et les vacances d’été, il va lui en arriver, des aventures inoubliables… Musique (à donf) et affaires (émouvantes) de famille : Anne Percin poursuit et signe une saison 3 toujours aussi délirante !
do ado Irène Cohen-Janca
HOW TO BECOME A ROCK STAR (OR NOT)
Irène Cohen-Janca
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THE THREE LIVES OF ANTOINE ANACHARSIS by Alex Cousseau
This is the story of the three lives of Antoine Anacharsis, told by himself. A hero of extraordinary adventures. The great-great-great grandson of the famous pirate, Olivier Levasseur (a real historical character), Antoine is still in his mother’s belly when his parents are taken prisoner by slave traders off the coast of Nosy Boraha Island near Madagascar. Antoine is finally born in 1831, and en route for the West Indies, his mother drowns in a storm, leaving him with a medallion around his neck containing a cryptogram supposedly telling the secret hiding place of his ancestor’s treasure. His adventures have only just begun. He spends the first twenty five years of his life on the move, traveling from the Caribbean to North America, then South America. He is confronted with the major upheavals of the 19th century: the struggle against slavery, the great technical inventions (telephone, railway, photography), and he meets extraordinary characters, both real and fictional: the writer Edgar Allan Poe, and Phineas Gage, one of the first curiosities to join the Barnum circus. He becomes a slave on a plantation in South Carolina, a whaler on Cap Horn, and a hoodlum in New York. On his way, he has his tongue sliced off, and encounters love before finally finding the island of his ancestors and the genuine treasure! The novel includes maps tracing the hero’s journeys, photographic documents from the time as well as an index of real characters that the novel brings back to life. 13 years + • 14 x 20.5 • 288 pages • €15.70
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by Sylvie Deshors
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On the day before Christmas, a teenager accompanies his mom to a huge shopping mall in town. It soon becomes apparent that his mother has attempted to shoplift a games console to offer her son a Christmas gift and was stopped by a guard as she made her getaway. The mother, who is on welfare, doesn’t have the money to buy him one. Haunted by his mother’s arrest, he spends the evening alone, takes refuge on the beach and hides under a rock. A twenty-something dropout by the name of Nasta discovers him. Nasta has been living on the street since his father-in-law kicked him out. Nasta dubs the boy “Shrimp” because even if he is fifteen, he is tiny compared to him, a shaven-headed giant. Shrimp climbs aboard Nasta’s scooter and together they go stealing Father Christmas decorations from house-façades. But their game soon gets out of hand when, on the road, they meet a real live Father Christmas, a vagrant, who takes them to a blockhouse. When Nasta steps outside for a moment, the vagrant locks the reinforced door and takes Shrimp prisoner. With his stooge, the vagrant decides to demand a ransom in return for Shrimp’s freedom. Sylvie Deshors’ story telling brings in elements of video games and mangas, as she creates a thriller with multiple twists and turns, where baddies really are bad and the fighting is dirty. It is a world teens will identify with, a world packed with thrills and fear. 13 years + • 14 x 20.5 cm • 96 pages • €8 approx.
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