Foreign rights autumn 2010
by Mathis
PiCture BooKs «Boris»
Boris is a small bear funny and lovable with quite a strong personality. he has a love hate relationship with his toys…. Boris can be stubborn, mischievous, domineering, quick-tempered, but never boring.
PiCture BooKs
Boris
i Want Kisses! / it’s snoWing! / BunCh oF CoWarDs! age 2+ • 14 x 14 cm • 32 pages • hardcover • 6.50 € the teDDY that sPeaKs / LittLe man / iF i Were a Penguin
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the surPrise / the PerFeCt PrinCess From PaPuan reD to green tWentY stories oF CoLours
CooKBooK CooKing With ChiLDren aLong the Year
CoLouring BooK the CraZY CoLoring BooK
KiD’s noVeLs aLBert’s eYes / the ChiLDren, the sheriFF anD the ugLY the FairY anD the FuLL montY / it haPPeneD here
i Want Kisses! Boris is capable of the worst abominations to get hugs from his mom and dad. “there isn’t a good day without kisses” he says, but everyone doesn’t think so. his toys for example, think that the end doesn't always justify the means! ...
it’s snoWing! Boris loves snow. and what he loves above all is to bombard his toys with snowballs after carefully setting them on a tree branch. his toys are impatiently waiting for spring to come...
Young aDuLt FiCtion granDPa / Prisoners oF Chaos / John ii the gooD CoLine, 17 Years, in the street / eVerYone is an iDoL
short stories
BunCh oF CoWarDs! Like a Prince, Boris welcomes in his bed all toys afraid of the dark. But suddenly he panics: While he protects everyone, who protects him? his mom and dad of course!
maD FroggY / What’s Wrong With us?
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teenage Crisis? WhiCh Crisis, 20 PreConCeiVeD iDeas aBout teenagers
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the teDDY that sPeaKs
the surPrise
By Frédéric Kessler Illustrations by Élisa Géhin
By Nadia Roman Illustrations By Jean-Pierre Blanpain
tonight, Lea doesn’t want to sleep. she takes the opportunity to discuss seriously with her teddy: “tell me, my dear talking teddy, why are you mY teddy?”. a tender exchange follows on Lea’s feelings towards her teddy: his smell, his tenderness and even his beloved wear. anything that makes him unique and irreplaceable and so reassuring... and she falls asleep while talking to him! a true vision on the intimate relationship that exists between a child and his "teddy", cheerfully and cleverly illustrated by elisa géhin.
the narrator’s grandmother behaves in a very strange way lately: she has changed hair colour, bought new clothes, and never leaves without her cell phone! she’s also more secretive and dreamy… the narrator and his sister will soon get to know the surprising news: grandma is in love! Jean-Pierre Blanpain’s engravings wonderfully illustrate this sparkling and topical story which proves that it is never too late to fall in love! 5 years + • 25 x 25 cm • 32 pages • hardcover • 15€
Sara
3 years + • 16 x 21,5 cm • 32 pages • hardcover • 12€
Sara
LittLe man by Sara
this little awkward pencil-drawn man comes out of his bubble to explore the world, and tries to find his place by moving around on the page. he will have to cross obstacles (to face hurricanes and storms) and go a long way before entering a room and find his place on a... child's drawing! it’s a marvel to once again discover sara’s world full of poetry, whose torn up papers and collage immediately communicate intense emotions. 3 years + • 15.6 x 24 cm • 32 pages • hardcover • 13€
the PerFeCt PrinCess
By Frédéric Kessler Illustrations By Valérie Dumas When the Princess was born, her godmother gave her a rather burdening gift : being perfect . While growing up, the child meets the expectations of those around her without raising any objections. But before she dies, the mother she makes the princess promise her to choose upon her 16’s birthday, the godmother who will give her the gift to be... herself! a queen who dies leaving her princess forlorn, a king completely lost and fairies and godmothers all over the place… gathering all the ingredients of the fairy tale but at the same time the author plays with all these traditional codes. this is also a story specifically written for Valérie Dumas and her chubby and deliciously exuberant women. 5 years + • 22.5 x 27.5 cm • 40 pages • hardcover • 15,50€
iF i Were a Penguin By Juliette Le Roux
“if i were a penguin, i would have lots of friends, a big family, live on ice” a little boy dreams himself as a penguin, games and journeys on ice, loads of friends… a simple ice setting, an unfamiliar world and yet reassuring were the child’s imagination runs wild. Picturing yourself as a penguin, surrounded and alike all the other penguins can help one be oneself! 5 years + • 21 x 16 cm • 32 pages • hardcover • 14€ 4
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the CraZY CoLoring BooK
By Olivier Besson
By Lily Scratchy
olivier Besson, illustrator and engraver, tells us about his colours. the big red Vermillon, fearing stains, the yellow "in a hurry to leave," that briefly exposes himself on façades late in the afternoon, or the raven’s black and blue, because one way to be black is also to be blue... accompanied by short texts often humorous, these pictures arouse in all of us stories and memories, like windows open both towards our intimate life and the world.
after Crazy Coloriage, we find the offbeat world of Lili scratchy in a new, large colouring book and book of games. Based on the "Where's Waldo?" series with large pages full of wacky and unusual details where a multitude of creatures or strange things are to be found... and coloured! as fresh, funny and lively as the previous book. 5 years + • 29 x 41,50 cm • 34 pages • Pasting writing paper style • 15,80€
CoLouring BooKs
From PaPuan reD to green twenty stories of colours
5 years + • 27.5 x 37 cm • 48 pages • hardcover • 19,90€
Bleu mob’
CooKBooK
Jolie, pétaradante et à roulettes, c’est la « bleue », la mob’, la mobylette, la bleue véloce…
CooKing With ChiLDren aLong the Year
By Virginie Aladjidi and Caroline Pellissier Illustrated by Marion Billet
Cold cucumber soup, green peas in “jardinière”, strawberry salad with mint and dash of lemon juice... in this cookbook, the authors teach children about seasonal products and offer to young buds tasty recipes, simple but also sophisticated. easy for children, to learn how to cook and eat well, while respecting seasonal products. an awakening to simple food, joyful and vitaminized! 3 years + • 21.5 x 25.5 cm • 56 pages • hardcover • 15€
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aLBert’s eYes
By Claudine Aubrun grandma marcelle is the best of grand-mothers, her old car is a mess, she smokes cigarillos, sings anything and loves macDonalds. a grandmother attentive and understanding: in one word, she’s great. But grandma marcelle also has secrets, and manon would like to know about them, because they create a lot of fuss with her mother. When grandmothers have complicated love stories, the relationship with daughters and grand-daughters can be confusing.
the ChiLDren, the sheriFF anD the ugLY By Mathis
Jane is ten years old and lives in a farm with her parents in the outskirts of Creek Village. sheriff robert Farnum needs her father, who is a very good shot, to rid the village of a fearsome outlaw. But Jane doesn’t want to lose her father, and she doesn’t want him to kill anyone either. Jane and her classmates will then develop a strategy to arrest the outlaw John moore without any bloodshed. the children who are terrified by a violent and unjust schoolteacher will show great courage facing of the danger that even adults would envy them for… a real western written with inspiration, humour and subtlety.
the FairY anD the FuLL montY By Frédéric Kessler
Being son or daughter of a fairy, it's not funny every day! all right, there is the art of magic that fills the pockets of incongruous objects (Barbie for girls, tools for boys, it's great!), but even for geraldine and oliver there is a line you can’t cross: going up to the sixth floor is forbidden. it is well known though that restrictions are made to be transgressed, even if a very wicked witch lives on the sixth floor, a witch that loves fresh meat. Children will tremble in fear…
granPa’
By Christophe Léon it has become an obsession for granpa’; the arizona oil Company won’t take over Bullfrog ranch, where he raises Quarter horses! since John is seven, he lives with his grandfather, and shares his beliefs, and follows him in his fights. at night, he follows the old man on the arizona oil Company’s site to sabotage machines in order to delay the construction work. But the powerful company has the means to fight granpa’, who resists... a generous and flouted nature, a preserved ranch, a combative and stubborn old man, a determined oil company, this is the setting for an unequal struggle that by all means has to be carried on. When environmentalists are leaving their old hippie clothes and take arms, it becomes a western! 12 x 21 cm • 80 pages • softcover • 7.20€
FiCtion For Young aDuLts
KiD’s noVeLs
age 6 + • 10.5 x 15 cm • 48 pages softcover • 5 €
Prisoners oF Chaos By Roland Godel
Fifteen is the ideal age for a “life experience” – anyway, that is what maxime’s parents think, sending him to spend the summer holiday on a mediterranean island, in a “humble” family. the gap is big, and even if he is welcomed by angelo, the little brother in the family, maria, the big sister, won’t lift a finger for the young rich man who squats her bedroom. it’s very hot outside, a black cloud stagnates in the sky and old people lament a haywire in the climate. maxime, angelo and marie leave for an ordinary trip to the mountain which will turn into a nightmare. a typhoon strikes the island, wiping out all benchmarks. the three children will have to walk and climb days in a row. they will meet a hermit, half crazy but warm-hearted and find refuge in a monastery lost in the mountains. maria and maxime cling desperately, passionately, to one another, and in this chaos they will fall in love with each other. Coming back to civilization is difficult, as everything is destroyed, but life goes on for the two adolescents who now have a different outlook on life. 12 x 21 cm • 240 pages • softcover • 10.50€
eVerYone is an iDoL
By Marie-Sophie Vermot
it haPPeneD here
By Emmanuel Bourdier it’s 1:23 p.m. on the sidewalk, the crowd is watching the marcelPagnol e building. as the minutes pass by, each spectator tells us something from his life in the building, big or small memory, they are all moments of emotion impossible to share. and then at 2 o’clock! a loud bang. With very few words, emmanuel Bourdier reveals some intense moments that will make great memories. a poetic text, where characters parade for just a few minute wait. 8
matthias Vernier, who was a carefree, funny and rowdy boy, doesn’t exist any longer. his class was the victim of a massacre and matthias is the only survivor. everyone wants to help him… but he doesn’t want to see anybody. he leaves for his grandparents in tuscany, to take some rest. Bohemians, attentive and warm, his grandparents want to show him that life goes on. Bianca, a forty-year-old bilingual woman, will help him. matthias begins to trust her, but the woman hides a big secret that matthias will have trouble hearing under the current circumstances. Yet he has to, as the only thing that matters when you are 16 is life. 12 x 21 cm • 144 pages • softcover • 8€ 9
CoLine, 17 Years, in the street
short stories
By Valérie Lacroix
Coline has had enough of everything: high school with the finals coming up, her father who left home and hasn’t been heard of ever since, and especially her mother for whom she saves all her resentment. and so, she leaves, disappears, runs away. not far away, but yet Lyon is a big city. along with her dog, who protects her, she gets used to life in the street, she sleeps anywhere, works at mcDonalds and refuses any connection with her former life. she knows very well this can’t last forever but she needs this social "vacation" to start over again. her mother, an alcoholic, barely manages to get up to work and is too ashamed of herself to even look for her daughter. Like her daughter, she needs to spend time on her own. a first novel written without drama or pathos, it is simply the story of a teenager who needs to get to the bottom with her problems, but without any self-destructive temptations. 12 x 21 cm • 176 pages • softcover • 9€
many adolescents of today are too busy to read, even if the need of stories still remains essential for them. that is why this collection proposes books filled with high quality short stories, written by well known authors, to be read without great effort! age 12 + • 13.5 x 16 cm • 160-168 pages • 9.80 €
maD FroggY By Vincent Crouzet mad Froggy is the driver of rikki, one of these colored taxibuses that crisscross the city of Cape town. if this is the less expensive method of transport in Cape town, it is also the most random: vehicles that are put-putting, run down and driven by a bunch of nuts, amongst whom the craziest one is mad Froggy. he is the eccentric French man, the favourite of the city’s dropouts. a big beanpole with long hair, always wearing ray-Ban sunglasses, he drives along all social categories and, awkward but bold, is often involved in adventures that overtake him.
John ii the gooD By Fabrice Vigne
We remember John ist, the Posthumous, king for a few hours and about whom the adolescents arthur, stan and elsa had written a story (John ist, the Posthumous, an historical novel, by Fabrice Vigne, 2005). Four years have passed, the teenagers have grown up and they have forgotten their work. Well, not completely, as arthur would like to write another novel much more important but in the same vein, about John ii the good. elsa has become an underground singer: more intellectual and more cultured than ever, she approaches literature in a theoretical and political way (revolutionary, of course!) stan is very keen on pictures, on DVD, on experimental film shot with his cell phone and posted on his blog, and he likes nothing more than action, gore and sensation. the three of them are off on conversations where everyone defends fiercely his vision of literature, always in connection with the events of everyday life. Juicy and scholarly dialogues, literary concerns and other more down to earth ones, the connections are closely woven together. 12 x 21 cm • 240 pages • softcover • 10.50€
What’s Wrong With us? By Hervé Giraud some time has passed since we read the adventures of Pas folle la guêpe. the family is as nuts as ever, the father’s Jaguar has even more kilometres on the clock and the narrator’s point of view, now a teenager, is even sharper. high school, friends, girls, the torments of desire, resourcefulness to make pocket money ... the short stories in this book fit between the regrets of childhood and the impatience to grow up and to become an adult.
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teenage Crisis? WhiCh Crisis, 20 PreConCeiVeD iDeas aBout teenagers By Gérard Dhôtel
the author, tired of all the alarming talks and articles in the newspapers about teenagers, is reviewing all of the preconceived ideas on teenagers with a close up on the 20 most popular ones whether true or false. the arguments the author develops here are accompanied by notes from specialists (psychologist, sociologist, educators…) a journalist’s book, lively and uplifting for parents who are at a loss and worried. 13.5 x 22 cm • 200 pages • softcover • 14,50€
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