picture books & comics 24

Awa

Zelia Abadie, ill. Gwenaëlle Doumont

160 x 200 mm – 80pp – paperback – 7+

A new endearing heroine who speaks true about light and serious topics, making us laugh and think! Awa is seven years old. She lives in Belgium with Maia, her older sister, her parents, her mother Fatou, who was born in Guinea, and Tonio, originally from Italy. She feels Belgian, Guinean, Italian… and lefthanded. She has a lot of friends, some “no friends”, she is good at school and raises a lot of questions. She is curious, funny, stubborn and is ready to share her daily life with her readers…

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The Hidden Side of Insects Clara Corman-29x32cm-44pp-hardcover+flaps

Lift the insect's wing, open a cocoon and admire plenty of fascinating insects in this elegant book. Sold: Korean, Italian. Simp. Chinese Next coed delivery February 2022 In the Eggs Clara Corman-21x24cm-24pp-hardcover-light board-flaps

A fascinating book to discover hidden secrets of nature: what's inside the eggs. Sold: Italian, Japanese

Incredible Bugs R.Rurans-21x28cm-40pp-hardcover

Incredible Bugs magnifies a fascinating world of small creatures through charming illustrations and fun facts that highlight their superhero-like capabilities. Little Known Facts - Animals / Human Body Diarmuid Ó Catháin-19x23.5cm-48pp-hardcover

Surprising facts about animals and the human body enhanced by stunning visuals to make this read enjoyable and memorable. Published: English, Slovenian

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Amazing Living Beings

Claire Lecoeuvre, ill. by Marta Orzel

165 x 230 mm – 72pp – softcover – €17.90 – 8+

How to lure, munch, terrify, adapt, parade, disappear, communicate… Living beings are surprising and fascinating! Do you know that octopuses play Lego bricks? That Japanese macaques clean sweet potatoes before eating them? That an elephant fish communicates with electric signals? That there are kamikaze ants? That before mating, the male scorpio anaesthetizes the female with their poison, otherwise shecan kill him? That the largest flower in the world imitates the smell of carrion to lure flies? Do you know that living being are amazing?

Why Orang-Utans Don't Like Toothpaste

Emmanuelle Figueras, ill. by Tristan Gion

210 x 275 mm – 32pp – hardback – €17 – 6+

An entertaining and enlightening book to get to know the consequences of our daily life actions on the planet. How can a cyclist in Paris save bears in the North Pole? Which pieces of the world can you find in a game console? Why do tomatoes prefer if you don’t flush the toilet?

Through a series of questions that are less foolish than they seem, this book deals with the consequences of basic daily life actions on nature, close to us or on the other side of the world.

Avoiding pessimism or moral lessons, the lively text and wonderful illustrations take the readers on a migratory trip with the swallows, invites them to understand how internet datas cross the oceans or what a goldfish becomes when you free it back into the river.