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toddlers
picture books
Apple, Apple, Apple
My Grief-Elephant
Apple tree. Apple. Plop! It dropped. Crunch. Crunched. All that’s left is the seed. And once it’s been watered it’ll grow into an apple tree, and everything will start again. This cardboard picture book for younger kids delights in playing with simple words and onomatopoeia and tells the story of the life cycle of a lovely red apple. Beautifully drawn and lots of fun.
Grief can be cumbersome, especially when it’s elephant-shaped. It’s like an elephant that follows you everywhere, all the time. At night it steals the covers and by day it fills the room, stopping others from getting close and sweeping away everything you know with a swing of the trunk. But what if we could find the elephant a nice comfortable nest where it can snuggle down without crushing everything? In an especially planted soft and tufty garden, grief calms and shrinks. A tiny elephant isn’t nearly quite so bulky, and it’ll even snuggle into the crook of your neck and listen to you murmur all that is past so that you never forget. An affectionately humorous text with happy pictures from a pair of authors acknowledged in the world children’s literature for the way they tackle the issues of grief and sorrow in general.
Text by Cécile Roumiguière, illustrations by Madalena Matoso
Corinne Dreyfuss
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2 years + 14.7 x 19.5 cm 24 pages boardbook 11.90 €
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4 years + 22.5 x 24.5 cm 32 pages hardcover 15 €
Pommier
Panda
Pauline Kalioujny “How are babies made?” asks the tiny panda who clearly has no intention of going to bed. Once upon time there were two lovers and they became three – an everyday tale of Day and Night, Earth and Rain, Egg and Daddy Hen. The author of Un jardin en hiver (A garden in winter) once more uses engraving to reach out to young readers in this beautifully moving picture book that delightfully evokes the great mystery of birth. An album adapted to babies who are incapable of seeing color in the early months of their lives, but who develop their vision by concentrating on highly contrasting images.
Fanny Ducassé
Memories dance and jostle in the head of the little bear, memories of happy times with Grandma and Grandpa. So the bear invents himself a garden, with no insects or weeds, to savor his memories and never forget. A special house-like garden, a place where the little bear feels at home and stops him being afraid to wander. In this third album, Fanny Ducassé casts her typically affectionate, poetic eye on the little adventures and daily feelings of childhood, and on the special relationship between grandchildren and their grandparents.
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2 years + 14.7 x 19.5 cm 24 pages boardbook 11.90 €
5 years + 30.5 x 24.5 cm 40 pages hardcover 15 €
Un beau jour que Louve traquait le cèpe et le pied-de-mouton, des bruits étranges lui firent dresser l’oreille. Elle s’approcha à pas de loup. Tapie derrière un buisson, elle sentit son cœur se soulever, et ses yeux s’écarquillèrent…
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The Garden of the Bears
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picture books
picture books
When the Wolf Came
Text by Gauthier David, illustrations by Marie Caudry As she happily wanders through the forest rediscovering the delights of its mushrooms and winding paths, Kiki comes across something in the river. Something as black as night. Warm and living. A wolf! Not an angry wolf, though, but a wolf who’s in pain. Despite an inner voice telling her to beware and a creeping feeling that the whole forest is watching her, Kiki decides to help the wild beast. What ever is she going to do with a wolf that seem to need her so? And what will it do when it gets it strength back and the beast inside reawakens? A picture book that takes us deep inside the forest, a land where the animal is king.
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5 years + 27 x 33 cm 40 pages hardcover 16.50 €
7 years + 30 x 36 cm 32 pages hardcover 18 €
My Mother
Text by Stéphane Servant Illustrations by Emmanuelle Houdart
In Albert’s Head
Text by Annie Agopian, illustrations by Carole Chaix
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When he watches his master daydreaming in front of his cereal bowl in the morning and getting excited at the idea of spaghetti for supper, or stammering when talking to pretty girls, Albert’s dog develops great doubts about his master’s intelligence. “What is the point of having such a large head? Yet clearly things are happening inside it.” While he is apparently idling in bed, Albert is in fact resting and regenerating himself, storing up energy, while dreaming and reliving his day. Albert picks through his life and throws things away, classifying, archiving and memorizing – a whole host of essential processes that he carries out far from prying eyes. As the adventure develops, from scene to scene, the texts and images interact to explore Albert’s swarming daily life, from the inside and out. 5 years + 26 x 24.5 cm 40 pages hardcover 16.50 €
“My mother’s heart is between sun and night.” Sometime vixen, sometimes she-wolf, this mysterious and fascinating woman takes form through the child’s eyes. The poetry of the text is enhanced by Emmanuelle Houdart’s illustrations, that depict this multiple personality in its own graphic world, bringing life to the inanimate, combining animality and humanity, wonder and monstrosity. A big beautiful picture book that reads like a love song to motherhood, and which looks at filial love and the fear of separation.
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6 years + 31 x 18 cm 40 pages hardcover 16.50 €
An Island
Fanny Michaëlis At the very end of a vast continent, on a bay isolated from the world, live a fisherman and his wife. The couple once dreamt of giving birth to child strong enough to resist the violence of the sea, but instead they bore a tiny girl, whose infant wailing chimed delicately like tiny bells. The fisherman made a pact with the sea, so that the peninsular wouldn’t be swallowed by the waves, but this pact is on the verge of breaking down. But what if the tiny child is actually the one person everyone has been waiting for? A Tom-Thumb-like tale to remind us how often the smallest do the biggest things. A poignant tale telling of the importance of not being afraid to forge ahead.
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9 years + 27 x 37 cm 48 pages hardcover 20 €
Kodhja
Text by Thomas Scotto Illustrations by Régis Lejonc A boy sneaks into the mysterious city of Kodhja to meet its king, who alone can answer his questions and ease his doubts. Amid the maze of this disturbing city’s lanes and allies, guided by a mischievous somewhat sardonic child, the boy confronts his fears, his anger, his childhood memories and revisits the places and emotions that created him. When the long-awaited but much dreaded moment comes to confront the king, the young boy, now a young man, declines the invitation and decides instead to remain in the kingdom of childhood. A voyage of discovery inspired by ancient myths (the Minotaur, the Tower of Babel, etc), which illustrates the important role of digression and self-acceptance in growing up. A powerful symbolic text about the passage from childhood to adolescence. Between picture book and comic book, a breath-taking bewitching tale of adventure.
non fiction
early readers
The Legend of Tideon Adrien Cadot
Adrien Cadot
Each year in late summer, Tideon would set out, his heart full of fear, to build up meat reserves for the winter. While hunting is not his forte, he is an accomplished tracker and only he knows to recognize animals’ trails. One day he ensnares a huge majestic stag. When he takes its body back to the village, he is greeted as a hero, and his reputation conquers the land.
La légende de Tidéon
La légende de Tidéon A. Cadot
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Room with a View
8 years + 31 x 18 cm 40 pages hardcover 17 €
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Finely tuned scrambled eggs, a cake made of multiplication shortbread, a Mondrian pie or a prehistoric soup: this work contains over fifty recipes each offering a carefully prepared lesson. A book that sprinkles math, French, history, geography, visual arts, sciences and languages into a big bowl, with a pinch of seasoning, and stirs them up to create a readily digestible dishes so that kids can cook and have fun, while also learning their lessons. Each lesson is accompanied by a short explanatory text, offering aspects of essential learning in primary schools, ideas that are then playfully translated into recipes. A fun and culinary way of learning about the rule of three, proportions, and grammar, written and devised by the school teacher, Aurélie Caudron, and delightfully illustrated by Matthias Malingrëy. Les trois caramels capitaux J.-C. Mourlevat
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Murielle Szac
J’attends maman
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Les trois caramels capitaux J.-C. Mourlevat
Seymourina Cruse and Aurélie Caudron, ill. Matthias Malingrëy
Chambre avec vue
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50 recipes to learn your lessons
The windows of his bedroom look out onto the highway and at night when he closes his eyes, he thinks he can hear the sea. The highway is a gateway to beyond: to holidays, work and travel. When it closed to traffic, it becomes a vast playground. An urban novel depicting children’s ability to transform their environments into adventure playgrounds.
Raphaële Frier Il y a encore une heure, bravant l’eau glacée de la rivière, Tom crapahutait dans les gorges. Sous l’œil bienveillant de son père et de son chien, il y domptait sa peur. De la voiture qui les descend vers la ville, il compte les tournants. Sa mère est là-bas, et de l’enfant qui naît, Tom, sans le voir, est déjà le frère. Jusqu’au bout des doigts.
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Mathis
Le bébé et le hérisson
Il a mené une belle vie, simple et honnête, sans tache. Aussi lorsqu’il meurt, la première fois, il est sûr d’avoir gagné son paradis. Oui, mais saint Pierre n’est pas de cet avis : il n’a pas oublié les trois caramels mous volés à l’âge de sept ans et demi…
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Tsunami
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Franck Prévot
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Jeanne Benameur
Valentine remède
7 years + 10.5 x 15 cm 48 pages softcover 3.90 €
teen novels
teen novels
Living It All Again Mélody Gornet
Jordan and Matthis have just lost their mother in a car accident. They have to go and live with their father who has married again and whose new wife doesn’t look kindly on the arrival of the two children in their tiny home. Their cousin, Solveig, returns to the two boys’ lives, offering them solace in their sad daily lives. The three of them have grief to share. As they restore an old house, they rediscover confidence in themselves and in the future. Three voices in sequence, continuing the story where the last narrator left off. This harsh poignant novel explores the stages of grief which sometimes leave us deaf and blind to others. The work, the author’s first novel, has a rare intensity.
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Heads Aren’t just meant for Growing Hair Sabine Panet and Pauline Penot
Awa is in the final year of high school. When she visits a gynecologist for the first time due to stomach ache, she discovers she has been circumcised. She has never heard of the practice before and she has to come to terms with her parents’ acceptance of her mutilation by turning anger into action and preventing her 8-month-old sister from suffering the same fate. The author, Pauline Penot, is a doctor herself so tackles the issue of female circumcision with medical precision and without judgment, placing the practice in the context of African culture. We also rediscover the Bocoum family a year after Penot’s previous novel, Le Cœur n’est pas un genou que l’on peut plier: Ernestine is dreaming of becoming a star, Aunt Dado is in love with Awa’s French teacher, and we discover what has become of Awa’s mother and even her grandmother in a dynamic family saga, full of humor.
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14 years + 14 x 22 cm 240 pages
My Life with Chopsticks Chloé Cattelain
Kevin and Mickael Zhang are French, born to parents of Chinese origin. At home, they speak Chinese and respect ancestral traditions. Every holiday is spent in Beijing where Mr. Zhang has an import /export business. 17-year-old Kevin, however, is only interested in Facebook and girls – i.e. of being like teenagers of his own age. Why, he wonders, does his father refuse to talk about his recently deceased wife? And why have the boys never met their mother’s family? The boys are eager to break the silence surrounding these mysteries, revealing the family secret lurking beneath. A lively, joyous first novel with beautifully developed secondary characters telling of the lives of two teenagers caught between two cultures, and the tensions this creates, such as how jokes about origin, however devoid of spite, are ultimately tiring and ultimately unbearable when you have to hear them all year round.
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Captain Triplebutt Hop to Board, volume 1 Fred Paronuzzi
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When they go to the Louvre to prepare their classwork about the Raft of the Medusa, Hugo and Lila never imagined the adventure they had in store. The pair set sail on an incredible journey as fearless pirates and encounter the less-than-dread pirate, Captain Triplebutt. The setting has been thoroughly researched, providing a dynamic tale of maritime adventure, laying low liars and cowards. A gem of a work with a bewitching exotic flavor. Our endearing heroes, with their very opposing characters, jump between fantasy and reality as they come face to face with a legend of the high seas: the incredible Triplebutt, the mysterious character at the centre of this rip-roaring novel. A mazy adventure, not for the faint-hearted, bringing laughter, suspense danger and adventure for the madcap crew. 12 x 18 cm 192 pages 6,90 €
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Captain Triplebutt
To the Rescue, volume 2
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Tommy Lynx-Eye comes looking for Lila and Hugo in Paris to take them with him to the world of the pirates. The crew of the Shifty Shrimp needs help: Dumbrain turned traitor and the Island With No Name has been overrun by Raoul and the Red Devils. A cohort of the pirates have been taken prisoner and are wiling away their days on a floating prison while Triplebutt suffers a huge dose of the blues in Tortuga. There’s only one possible solution: to stage a cunning attack of prince Raoul’s fortress in order to free the brothers and sisters and settle scores with the past. In their battle with treachery and skullduggery, will our two heroes manage to thwart their enemy’s evil machinations in this second and final volume of the series?
12 x 18 cm 176 pages 6,90 €
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