ALBIN MICHEL JEUNESSE

ALBIN MICHEL JEUNESSE

MARION JABLONSKI,

MANAGING DIRECTOR [email protected]

AURÉLIE LAPAUTRE,

Coeditions/Foreign Rights [email protected]

ELOÏSE ELANDALOUSSI,

Coeditions/Foreign Rights [email protected]

ÉVELYNE GUYOT,

All of our publications, be they pop-up books, novelty books, picture books, novels or non-fiction titles, are brought to life with imagination and enthusiasm. It is our pleasure to share them with you!

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SHAÏNE CASSIM,

Editor [email protected]

BÉATRICE VINCENT,

Editor [email protected]

LUCETTE SAVIER,

Editor [email protected]

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WILLIAM BABOIN,

Artistic Director [email protected]

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ALBIN MICHEL JEUNESSE 22, rue Huyghens 75014 Paris Tel.: 33 (0) 1 42 79 46 00 Fax.: 33 (0) 1 42 79 46 80 www.albin-michel.fr

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FRANKFURT 2014 FOREIGN RIGHTS CATALOGUE

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THE KINDERGARTEN Lucie Brunellière

Board book with two round corners, 15.2x15.2cm, 4 spreads + 8 full-size flaps, 6.90 €

Ages 3 & Up

Board book

Board book

MY 3D WORDBOOK SERIES

WHO IS HIDING? Illustrated by Vincent Mathy

All board binding, 4 different die-cut shaped pages, 15.2x15.2cm, 5 spreads, 7.90 €

Ages 10 months & Up

A simple and effective new collection of books for toddlers. The endless possibilities offered by this clever format are sure to make this series a classic!

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hanks to an ingenious system of flaps, these highly original wordbooks open up like a carrousel to form 4 rooms and to offer children the unique opportunity to explore every nooks and crannies of a kindergarten, a farm, a zoo and even of Santa’s workshop. This spectacular three dimensional format will incite children to look closer at the detailed images, to lift the flaps and find out the name of each object, and to make up their own stories, just like they would do with a playhouse.

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hose two big ears are those, poking out from under the chicken? Who do those feet belong to that we can see under the elephant? Whose long neck is that, sticking out from under the crocodile? Each page takes the shape of an animal. Under each animal another is hiding… And it’s up to the child to guess who! An introduction to animals which is both graphic and tactile and a fresh take on the timeless game of hide and seek.

Rights sold: Basque, Catalan, Dutch, German, Hungarian and Korean.

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First 4 titles: Who’s hiding under my chicken? Who’s hiding under my whale? Who’s hiding under my elephant? Who’s hiding under my ladybug?

Joyful books to share with one’s baby from age 10 months!

Next titles to be published: Who’s hiding under my cat? Who’s hiding under my bear? Rights sold: Basque, Catalan, Dutch, Finnish, Korean, Norwegian, Spanish and Swedish

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Picture Book

Picture book

ALL YEAR ROUND WITH PIP & POM’

LIFE AND HABITAT OF MINIMOUTES

Sanae Uchida

Godeleine de Rosamel

Hardcover picture book, 40 pages, 25.5x31cm, 13.90 €

Hardcover picture book, 64 pages, 20.5x26.5cm, 13.90 €

Ages 3 & Up

Ages 6 & Up

With its unique and generous style, this fresh and promising first picture book by Sanae Uchida is sure to amaze, enchant and amuse any child!

A hilarious treatise on the minimoutes, a rare and poetic species.

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eet Pip and Pom, two joyful kids, who set off on a journey to explore the seasons and celebrations of the year. Join them as they explore the eventful twelve sceneries filled with brightly vivid illustrations, quirky characters and clever references. From the snowy slopes of January to December’s Christmas tree there is so much to see and do! Young readers will wonder at the vibrant scenes and look over the busy illustrations again and again.

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ave you ever heard of the minimoutes? The author of this most unusual essay swears she has approached and studied this improbable horned and six-legged species. She now reveals, in this beautifully illustrated album, all the characteristics of the seven fanciful types of minimoutes. Anatomy, habitat, ancestors, way of life… You will discover all there is to know about this endearing imaginary species through an incredible documentary. Filled with false facts, it is also full of poetry and humor.

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Delphine Chedru

Hardcover picture book, 23x28cm, 48 pages and 3D decoding case (blue and red APET), 13.90 €

BEATRICE ALEMAGNA

Picture book, 42 pages and 1 gatefold, 21.5x28cm, 13.50 €

Ages 3 & Up

Ages 3 & Up

In this innovative novelty book, acclaimed illustrator Delphine Chedru confirms her talents as an illusionist, making one thing and then its opposite appear as by magic.

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Faithful to her famous and unique style mixing collages, paint, drawing and patterns, Beatrice Alemagna delivers yet another inventive, poetic and intelligent story.

NOVELTY BOOK

Picture Book

HELLO GOODBYE

FLUFFY-SQUISHYITTY-BITTY aking up one morning, Eddie perceives her sister mutter these strange words: « birthday-mommy-present-squishyfluffy-itty-bitty». It’s her mom’s birthday and Eddie wants to be the one to offer her this squishy-fluffy-itty-bitty present. She sets off on a quest straight away but quickly realises that this is not such an easy thing to find. Throughout her adventure, shop after shop, she collects seemingly useless presents which might just as well help her fulfill her quest for the marvellous squishy-fluffy-itty-bitty! Through her abundant and warm illustrations, Beatrice Alemagna invites us to rediscover these enchanting places that are the local shops and which can turn into treasure troves worthy of Ali Baba in the eyes of an imaginative little girl.

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ach page displays a beautiful and surrealistic amalgamation of two images, one in red and one in blue. Using two translucent papers (one red, one blue) provided with the book, children will be able to successively make appear each of the two hidden images and their corresponding word on the facing page. With humour and aesthetics, the alternative superposition of the two coloured papers unveils two opposite versions of the same scene.

Rights sold: Catalan, Dutch, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish.

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Benjamin Lacombe

2015 Agenda

9.5x16.5cm, 176 pages, 15.50 €

notebook

14.5x19cm, 120 pages, 11.50 €

2015 Calendar 33x45cm, 15 €

Stationery

Picture Book

SUPER-HEROES HATE ARTICHOKES! Hardcover picture book, 19.5x27cm, 96 pages and 3D decoding glasses (red and blue), 17.90 €

All Ages

Benjamin Lacombe returns with a brand new graphic universe, mixing different techniques, inspirations and typographies, to offer an unforeseen cross-genre picture book!

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hosfo is a real super-hero who saves the world, combats supervillains and fights injustice. He knows everything about the strengths, traits and weaknesses of his fellow costumed crime-fighters: Narasimha, the Man-Lion, Bee, the thorny diva, Sun Wukong, to name but a few. With supporting evidences of archive press cuts and vintage adverts, Phosfo shares his tips, secrets and all the things you ever wanted to know to be a competent super-hero in today’s violent and merciless world. And you will even be able to experience the super-vertiginous vision of the super-heroes through the provided 3D glasses!

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This new title in the Illustrated Inventory series is a ticket to a celestial universe: the world of birds.

Les Petits Débrouillards (Clever kids)

WATER IN 40 KEY EXPERIMENTS AIR IN 40 KEY EXPERIMENTS

Virginie Aladjidi & Emmanuelle Tchoukriel

Association des petits débrouillards

Hard cover picture book, 21.5x30cm, 80 pages, 15 €

Hardcover, 22.5x30.5cm, 96 full-colour pages/Ebook

Ages 8 & Up

All Ages

An innovative introduction to science through fun and easy experiments.

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nlivened by beautiful naturalist watercolours, this works unveils the characteristics of 80 birds, classified into orders. The first half of the book focuses on the order Passeriformes which groups together half the world’s bird species. Among passerines, we find the well-known tit, robin, sparrow and blackbird – and other mysterious winged creature, such as the Bohemian waxwing and the raggiana bird-of-paradise. In the second half, we discover 17 other orders and learn about incredible coloured plumage, impressive wingspans, flight and speed-related feats: cockatoo, macaw, golden eagle, hawk, stork, greater flamingo or even the surprising kiwi…

NON-FICTION

NON-FICTION

ILLUSTRATED INVENTORY OF BIRDS

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hildren ask simple questions… which don’t always have simple answers: why do boats float? Where do rainbows come from? These concepts are clearly explained through 40 entertaining experiments doable with everyday household items, and which have all been veted by the Academy of Sciences. The book presents each experiment, cheerfully illustrated, in 4 steps: What do I need? What to do? How does it work? What is it for? The ebook adds simple and personalized interactive activities.

Following titles will cover the EARTH, and STARS. The previous version of this series was sold in 7 countries.

Rights sold: Simplified Chinese, Galician, German, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish.

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