But what does Graine2 mean? Graine means SEED in French.
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Graine2 is a publishing house founded in 2002 by 4 passionate partners. The idea? Publishing children books, with the strong conviction that in each child, there is a seed of passion which will grow! Travel books for kids, activity books, picture books and novels‌ Graine2 offers interactive books, always both fun and instructive to encourage children to be actual actors of their reading. Here is the spirit of Graine2.
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Launched in 2008, the Travelling Kids Series has very quickly become a success.
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travelling kids
The Travelling Kids Series Especially thought up for young travelers from 7 to 12, these city guides turn each child into great travelers. Vocabulary, style, thematic: everything is conceived to give them the taste of travelling together with practical ideas for their tourist trip. The two mascots, Alex and Maya, escort children the entire trip along throughout the whole collection.
â‚Ź11.90 15x21 cm 96 to 112 pages 7 years+ 3
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You will find in each guide: - The most interesting cultural aspects of the city - Indications on fauna and flora - Some charmingly original walking tours - A travel journal and a visit notebook to be filled in by the child to record their holiday memories in - A removable map with must-see visits for the whole family - An amazing treasure hunt to visit every nook and cranny of the city with! - Several pages of quizzes and games... And much more! Titles available: London, Paris, Provence and French Riviera, New York, Rome, Spain, Barcelona, Ch창teaux of the Loire, Marrakech, New York, Berlin.
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Family guide
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A Family Visit of London, Paris, New-York and Barcelona A new series of guides dedicated to the parents who travel with their entire clan! This new series of travelling books is a collection of great ideas and good tips to prepare a trip and to choose the spots according to the age of the children and to everyone’s taste! The special thing about this collection is that it features stories of families living in different areas of the city; they share their everyday life and give their favorites plans. In the family guides, you can find: • A selection of the best accommodations in town for families • A great number of tips to travel with children without spending too much money • All the essential practical information • A selection of activities classified under 12 themes • The selection of the best addresses to go shopping with children • The selection of the best “family-friendly” restaurants • A city map by areas with all the information you need to find your way in town
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€12.90 12x21 cm 160 pages Soft cover
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My travel diary This fun notebook invites children to observe, taste, feel, while their five senses are in action! It’s a companion for investigations: fauna, flora, customs, legends or cooking.
€10,90 24x16 cm 80 pages 7 years +
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My first travel diary
€10,90 22x18 cm 64 pages 40 stickers 4 years+
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Cro magnon ! What about following the steps and sharing the day-to-day life of the men and women who have lived 28,000 years ago? This funny book puts together hilarious activities, comical comic strips, illustrated information… and includes everything about the Cro Magnon’s life – food, animals, art, clothes, language and beliefs… Lighting a fire without a match, building a prehistoric tool, creating a fossil, making a beggar’s bag or cooking CROOKIES: that will become so easy thanks to this book! With its animalskin-like cover, its leather shoe-lace, and its tiger teeth, this book is proper time travel.
€19.90 19x26 cm 92 pages Hard cover 9
By Muriel Zürcher, illustrated by Phicil
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By Muriel Zücher and Stéphane Hurtez, illustrated by Raphaël Houée Through the voice of the Mad Scientist, and his hilarious anecdotes, this title is a true initiation handbook for children to become mad scientists themselves. Four major steps are necessary through this scholarship. Each time many wild experiences have been prepared for the apprentice: changing ink into dust, lightening gravity, making strange bubbles, take light out of sugar, etc. Each experience is detailed step-by-step and explanations help understand the secrets of scientists.
€19.90 26x31cm 160 pages Hard cover
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Chronobooks Chronobook is a new concept of chronological leporello book, made of 12 flaps for a total length of 2 metres! On one side, Chronobook presents a fully illustrated panorama, with dots indicating the key dates to remember for each subject. On the other side, short texts explain the history and help children get the essential of the period. Presented in a square box, this chronological panorama can be stored on the bookshelves of be hanged up to decorate the bedroom, or the classroom! Chronobook is a new way to look at history, understand its course and remember its great moments.
â‚Ź9.90 16x16 cm, 2-metre long when unfolded 12 flaps, full colour both sides
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Illustrated by GrĂŠgory Blot
3 titles available: Chronobook Dinosaurs Chronobook Prehistory Chronobook Great Inventions 7 years +
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My First Chef Box By Nathalie Cahet, illustrated by Fabien Veançon Already more than 10 000 copies of this cookery box have been sold, which includes a quality cotton hat, a wooden spatula and a beautiful cookery book... everything to become a talented chef ! It offers simple yet original recipes to give kids the desire to get started in the kitchen! Starters, main course, deserts and snacks... a total of 48 ideas to go on a real cooking adventure. Health information also initiates children to nutrition. All the recipes have been tested, tasted and approved by children. And pictures of the meals are beautiful yet true to life, so let’s taste it now!
Inside: A white cotton hat €19.90 A cardboard box: 21x27x2 cm The book: 21x27 cm 96 pages
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My First Chocolate Box By Nathalie Cahet, illustrated by Fabien Veançon Following the success of the My First Chef Box, here are 48 recipes for chocolate lovers. The recipes have been created so that children have playful moments while cooking. They are simple yet original. Great basics such as muffins or cookies are reinvented. New recipes include the chocolate salami or the chocolate cheesecake! Along with an artistic yet realistic photograph, they are also illustrated with original and funny characters.
Inside: With a cotton hat and an apron €20.90 A cardboard box: 21x27x2 cm The book: 21x27 cm 128 pages
Sorted according to the “occasion”, they fit for different kinds of parties and evenings! TV dinners (chicken nuggets, potatoes, calzone goat cheese and rocket), picnics (choux pastry filled with cheese, brioche filled with pesto), improvised pre-dinner buffets (spicy breadsticks, sausage rolls), fancy parties (salmon tartar with apples, gyozas, nems, skewers of duck with pineapples, salmon wraps)! 48 easy-to-make and delicious recipes, with large pictures and funny characters to help children take their first steps in the kitchen.
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No forks and no knives needed here – you can eat all these recipes with your fingers!
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Finger Food
By Nathalie Cahet, illustrated by Fabien Veançon
€20.90 21x27 cm 128 pages Hard cover
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My Little Artist Box My Super Hero Box By Sandrine Andrews, illustrated by Fabien Veançon Here is a journey at the heart of art history and its surprising anecdotes, from rock paintings to contemporary art! This great box includes a humorous book to discover art history, and an activity notebook to create work of art in the same way as the most famous painters. Children will discover the major art movements from the classics to the most contemporary ones and the most emblematic painters in a dynamic and playful manner. Techniques, funny drawings and tips guide children through each step of the creation process.
€22,50 The book: 21x27 cm 96 pages One spiral notebook: 21x27 cm 64 pages A cardboard box: 22x28x3,5 cm
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By Béatrice Gernot, illustrated by Bérengère Delaporte A complete set to know everything about super-heroes and become one yourself through 15 steps. The book identifies the emblematic super-heroes from Batman to Superman, The Mask, Ironman and others. They are all described with their powers, costumes and exploits… Then follow the guide to become a super-hero! Develop your neurons; recognise the bad one, etc. After a final test, you can even choose a name, a logo, super-powers and costume. A hilarious and creative activity book!
With cape and mask to customize €20.90
A cardboard box: 21x27x5cm The book: 21x27cm 80 pages
€20,90 15x21cm 64 pages
By Alexia and Stéphanie Rosanis, illustrated by Claire Le Gal Here is a sparkling box dedicated to young girls looking for ideas to decorate their own bedroom. Inside, 40 new objects or decorations that they can create on their own: how to decorate paper lamp and create a soft light, how to reorganize your desk... The book is made of 4 major parts: - Ground rules of decoration (how light your bedroom, match the colors, re-use and transform furniture…) - Techniques (painting, wallpaper, stencils…) - Atmospheres (Zen, pop, retro…) - Fourth part: 40 examples of objects and decorations!
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By Karina Perez, illustrated by Claire Le Gal Long live natural beauty! Thanks to My Beauty workshop, young girls will feel comfortable in their own body, and first and foremost in their heads! In My Beauty Workshop, you will find: - A vanity case in printed cotton - An illustrated book narrated by two pictured mascots who provide good tips on how to take care of yourself - 20 tutorial cards, for example on how to hydrate your skin and coil your hair in a bun... - 10 recipe cards, on how to prepare your own cosmetic products.
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My Beauty Workshop My Deco Box
Inside: 5 wall stickers and 5 stencils €20.90 A cardboard box: 22x28x3,5cm 144 pages 16
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Cats from Around the World to Colour Horses from Around the World to Colour Let’s follow globetrotter cats and horses from one country to another, through beautiful colouring pages to fill-in. This large format allows children to invest in a coloring activity with a real artistic process.
Birds From Around the World to Colour Wild Animals From Around the World to Colour Illustrated by Emilie Lapeyre
Illustrated by Prasha Mallya
Illustrated by Maeve Parker Illustrated by Emilie Lapeyre
â‚Ź8.90 24x32 cm 32 pages 7 years +
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Everything you can do with A Book at Sea: - Have fun (forget the crisis and the little bothers of everyday life) - Imagine that you’re a famous writer (would you choose Proust or Dan Brown?) - Create (leave a trace to posterity, perhaps someone will find out your manuscript in one hundred years!) - Offer it – It’s the NEW essential present for all birthdays and weddings - Offer it to yourself – that’s always nice - Have a party – to celebrate the day you bought this fantastic book - Have a bigger party – to celebrate the day you finished your masterpiece - Pick the best writer – and offend all the others - Bury it, forget it, and find it again again10 years later
€14.90 24x32 cm 32 pages One spiral notebook
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A Book at Sea is a community book, to write together with friends or people you don’t know, going from one hand to the other like a bottle at sea. For each chapter, everyone becomes a famous writer and has fun inventing a story. Each author brings his/her contribution, according to his/her desire or skills, and then hands it over! At the end of the voyage, A Book at Sea becomes a unique creative book and a fascinating experience for its authors-partners. Little ones and grown-ups - everyone can participate by writing a text, making a drawing, sticking a collage. Advices and directions are here to guide the authors and help to write a fantastic story, so that they can share, have fun and create.
By Alix Minime
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When I am a Grown Up Illustrated by Marie de Monti What will you do when you grow up? If you have no answer to this question, you can try out 50 silly and creative activities: become a cat moustache barber, or a veterinary surgeon for red ants… Surely you’ll find your way! An unusual and funny coloring book.
€10.90 22x28cm 112 pages 19
Illustrated by Marie de Monti And what if roosters laid eggs? What if it snowed sweets? What if we could walk upside down on our hands? And what if Cinderella wore Velcro shoes? Ask yourself existential questions you never thought about before‌ And illustrate, color and scribbles these 30 funny proposals!
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My Crazy Activity Book 1 and 2
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Dingo!
â‚Ź8.90 22x28cm 56 pages
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The Crazy Adventure of Cuddly Toy in Paris By Raphaëlle Barbenègre Cuddly Toy has been forgotten at the feet of the Eiffel Tower! But when humans don’t watch them, Cuddly toys have a very active life... In a picnic basket, on the back of a dog, in a business woman’s handbag: Cuddly Toy is reluctantly brought through Paris and its emblematic places. From the Champs Elysées to Notre Dame, from the catacombs to a café terrace… where will Cuddly Toy finally arrive? A vivid large-framed picture book with high quality graphics.
€14.90 26x31cm 40 pages Hard cover
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London - So British! Illustrated by Erica Salcedo Saiz For every thematic, a fun activity provides the keys to understand the British capital. From the Tower of London to Tower Bridge, from pubs to tea time, from the street phones to Sherlock Holmes, the book invites to discover the city and its inhabitants, thanks to 30 so british activities!
â‚Ź10.90 19x25cm 64 pages soft cover
I Draw, I Travel! Paris to Color
New-York to Color
Through 15 paintings to color, let’s visit the most emblematic places of Paris, and discover the true Parisian way of life the Eiffel Tower and the fireworks of the 14th of July, the Louvres and the mommies, Les Champs-Elysées and its crowded pavements... A great number of different areas, from the most posh to the most popular!
What about paying a visit to the famous Freedom Statue, hanging around in Times Square, jogging with some friends in Central Park, or having a stunning evening in one of Broadway’s musicals? This book will make you discover all these fantastic places, and much more!
I Draw, I Travel Around the World
€12.90 18x36cm 32 pages Soft cover
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A new series of very artistic and fashionnable coloring books to discover cities from all around the world.
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Illustrated by Josie Portillo
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This special issue of the series “I Draw, I Travel”, offers a worldwide tour of emblematic cities and places, in a very large format book. 35 things that you have to experiment in a life time, 35 must-see places in extraordinary surroundings, through 35 paintings, in simple or double-spread pages. On each page features a coloring made by the illustrator to enrich the book. Taking the train in San Francisco (USA), surfing in Bells Beach (Australia), walking bare-foot on the great wall of China, taking part in the festival of colors in Bengalore (India), visiting Roma (Italy) on a Vespa… Take out your color pens and you will feel like you’ve been there!
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The Fidget Gang By Muriel Zürcher, illustrated by Bérengère Delaporte This is a new concept in books to make toddlers and young kids move their bodies! Be careful: reading this book and looking at the nice pictures is not enough, first you have to do everything that the characters ask you to: stick your tongue out, laugh, find the secret code, pedal as fast as you can, breathe out as strong as you can… Your goal: to be admitted in the famous Fidget gang! Good luck…
€14.90 26x31cm 40 pages Hard cover
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Tom Spud By Emmanuelle Maisonneuve, illustrated by Franรงois Gomes
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Tom Spud is the extraordinary adventure of a young boy, the size of a potato! First discovered in a big potato in a garden, Tom Spud is soon adopted by the Granmanitous, a secret society that protects garden animals. But Tom is desperate to discover its true origins. In the search for his identity, he will approach the doors of another marvellous and dangerous world, the world of his origins… This wonderful novel mixes adventure, fantasy, feelings and ecology, creating a work of fiction that will delight children. More than 18 000 copies sold. Book club rights sold to Pocket. A three-volume novel Vol 1: The Secret Society of the Granmanitous Vol 2: The Hidden Land of Alba Spina Vol 3: Eïlandihis or the Infuriated Nonnes
€19.90 26x31cm 192 to 248 pages b&w illustrations Hard cover
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In the Branches A teenager addicted to online multiplayer games will have an encounter that will change the course of his life. Is it a fantasy creature? No, just an extraordinary one. Mo is a 14-year-old introvert teenager who lives and breathes for Endof World, a Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game. But one day, while he gets lost in the forest during an orientation trail at school, he is suddenly pursued by a strange creature. Convinced that it’s a troll from the fantasy world he’s so fond of, he tries to find it again. But he will soon understand the truth after an accident in the mountain... The creature is not a troll - it’s a girl of his age, who has been hiding in the mountains for so many years. An extraordinary story, full of sensitivity, twists and surprises, that deals with original topics such as growing up in the woods and child abuse… but also with first love and freedom. Emmanuelle Maisonneuve has an incredible talent to make us fall immediately in love with the forest, the nature and the animals she describes. A beautiful novel.
€15,90 14x22cm 350 pages
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Paris,
By Julia Raison, illustrated by Karim Friha
There are a large number of rumors going around in Paris... There would be a phantom in the opera, mummies would be buried under the Place de la Bastille, and a man with an Iron mask would be kept imprisoned by the cruel King Louis XIV of France... Here are 15 famous and captivating novelized legends! After each legend, an illustrated double spread, The Mystery News Sheet, exposes the historical sources and the real facts. A fascinating book, beautifully illustrated, with a gorgeous lay-out.
â‚Ź18.50 19x28cm 160 pages Hard cover
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Creatures, This second volume focuses on the mythical and legendary creatures from all around the world. 15 frightful stories inspired by legendary creatures: Dracula, the Loch Ness Monster, the Gremlins, Frankenstein… After each legend, an illustrated double spread, The Mystery News Sheet, exposes the historical sources and the real facts. A fascinating book, beautifully illustrated, with a gorgeous lay-out.
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By Muriel Zürcher, illustrated by Karim Friha
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Beyond the Frozen Lands Benjamin Thenor’s Extraordinary Trips Travelling through Finland with his father, reporter, Benjamin soon realizes that something is strange he can speak to animals, see creatures adults can’t see… Does it come from being in Lapland, from him, or from the locket his mother gave him before she disappeared? A thrilling novel mixing narration, illustrations and comics, which transport the reader to a freezing landscape and a fascinating adventure.
€19.90 26x31cm 160 pages Hard cover
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By Ronan Le Breton, illustrated by François Gomes
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The Ostrich Doesn’t Get Goose Bump!
The Mammoth Takes the Plunge! By Muriel Zürcher Olivier Pelletier
After The Ostrich Doesn’t Get Goose Bump, here is the second title of a great series about emotions! Myla thinks she’s too fat. Her worst nightmare? Being in swimsuit in front of her schoolmates at the swimming pool. And the swimming pool day is... today! She decides to hide in a bush before the bus leaves. But a strange woman with a green scarf suddenly appears and begs Myla to look after her pet for a couple of days... But what a pet! Myla unwillingly becomes a mammothsitter. She will soon forget the swimming pool, the swimsuit, and her shame! A witty text and a character to which every child can easily identify.
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€11.90 14x21cm 128 pages Soft cover
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