Table of Content Toddlers – p.2 Picture Books – p.19 Activity Books – p.57 Fiction – p.63 Non-Fiction – p.83 Characters – p.96
Toddlers
From 2 years old
One by One Board books 15,3 cm 24 Pages 9,95 €
Cold Breeze Mélusine Allirol October 2014
What a strong gush of wind! Blowing everything around, scattering everything away, under the eyes of one astonished little brown bear! First, a tree takes off; next it’s the house of his rabbit neighbour that follows the same fate. But soon, little brown bear and all of his brothers are taken away by the breeze too, along with a very surprised musician who was rehearsing his part. And very quickly, they all meet up, up in the clouds… but as quickly as it came, the wind soon tires out and all of the little friends and Rabbit’s house eventually come down to the middle of a river where Rabbit’s house soon turns into an improvised boat on which they can all party and listen to the musician’s music! 27 cm x 15,3 cm 24 Pages 9,95€
My Little Donkey Claire Frossard April 2014
Little Donkey, Little Donkey, It’s so cold out there that Your friend Incey-Wincey Has knitted you a lovely hat She also thought about your hooves And brought you some pretty shoes.
… and over the course of the day, Little Donkey gets even more help from his animal friends. First, his friend the mole brings him a pair of blue glasses to relieve his sore eyes. Then, the hare brings him some lovely earrings to embellish his ears, and when his belly starts rumbling, the marmot brings him a large cup of hot chocolate. Even his friend the mouse eventually gives him a toothbrush to look after his teeth…! And after such hard work, Little Donkey can do no less than invite all of his exhausted friends on board his cart and take them home!
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Toddlers One by One Board books
45 titles available Gipsy the Spider Boat on the River My Beautiful Christmas tree There is a Fire! The Little Green Mice The Turtle Family The Little Chick The Dandling Elephant Love you so much Ten little hens Little Rabbit Let’s walks into the woods
Let’s dance Go to sleep, little borther The Ferret Simon says I like cake I hold you, you hold me… The Green Key The Little Prince Dagobert the King The Sweaties My house Yum, I’m going to eat you! Through the window
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Boubou, the tiny pigmea The Little Bug Little Snail Can you plant cabbages? Fitness trail Peanuts Pippin apple and Lady Apple Everybody goes there Gee-gee The Crocodiles The Kight of Tickles Hello Owl!
Toddlers
From 9 months old
Novelty books
Sound Books Farm Animals 18,5 cm – 18,5 cm
Noises of the house
5 pages
Zoo animals
12,50€
Vehicles Hector Doxet October 2015
Look out, here’s a revolution in book making! Books with sound no longer need to rely on pressing on a sound chip: now you can just turn the pages and listen. In each title, familiar sounds are put into context: from cow to cockerel; Fire engines to trains; vacuum cleaner to door bell; Tiger to elephant…! And what’s more, a little bird mascot guides us through each page, speaking to us throughout each book.
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From 2 years old
Toddlers
29,5 cm – 22 cm 10 pages with flaps 12,50€
Pinkie told me Patricia Berreby and Melusine Auriol March 2015
A clever animated book, highly interactive and exhilarating. With the finger puppet included, the small player can participate in the story!
Pinkie told me that baby bear was just disgusting ... But it is true that he is all dirty! Quickly, the player uses his finger to wash his muzzle, soap his paws, rub his tummy. And when the flap is lifted ... surprise: little bear is all clean! But it is not over: we must also take care of baby rabbit that has a big boo boo, doudou marmoset who is grumpy and crocro who has a great sorrow! And when all this is done, all these babies must go to sleep!
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Toddlers Word book
1500 Words
19 cm – 27 cm
Madeleine Brunelet
96 pages
August 2014
12,00€
An essential picture book compendium brimming full of important themes to help each child learn and grow.
Colourful, diverse, bursting-full, interactive and fun, this new picture book contains over 39 different themes in 1,500 picture-words, perfect to stimulate the curiosity of pre-school children. Build key concepts of colours, shapes, numbers and letters; discover musical instruments and sport; learn about farm animals, wild animals, and those in the jungle or at the bottom of the sea, follow daily life around the house, in the town or at school – and let’s not forget about holidays! Each page is an entire little world in which children are invited to observe, play, recall, mime, take part, wonder at and immerse themselves in.
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From 2 years old
From 2 years old
Toddlers Board Books
An interactive board book series for young ones to play with launching with three titles at once. Tap Tap is a brand new board books series for early years (2-5 years old) based on interactivity. Led by a likeable hero who the reader (boy or girl) can easily relate to, each book tells a short and simple adventure story. On each spread, a very easy to spot and recognisable pictogram (a red hand) invites the child to interact and help the main hero by accomplishing a small action i.e. find food, overcome an obstacle, or avoid danger... As soon as the child spots the red hand, they are invited to touch, hide, show something or even scream to interact with the action. In that way, their path through the story becomes both fun and stimulating.
18,5 x 24 cm 16 pages Board Book 8,50€
All on board! Orianne Lallemand and Marie Pruit March 2014
18,5 x 24 cm 16 pages Board Book 8,50€
Princess Zoe can’t find her dog! Orianne Lallemand and Marie Pruit March 2014
18,5 x 24 cm 16 pages Board Book 8,50€
Baby Dragon wants Mummy Orianne Lallemand and Marie Pruit March 2014
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From 2 years old
Toddlers Bénédicte Guettier
16,7 cm - 17,3 cm 10 pages 12,95€
Hairy Paws – Touch and Feel Bénédicte Guettier Available
I Say MOO
says the cow with a smile. And I say croaksays the frog
laughing. I say baa says the lamb gently, and I say quack quack says the duck jokingly. What an orchestra. I can’t hear anything anymore says the cow with a smile. It’s good to smile before going tobed!
Don’t Be Scared! It’s not always easy to be a little crocodile. When he wants to play everybody is scared of being bitten. Even learning to swim or smell a flower becomes a challenge. Fortunately there is also a hedgehog and not even a crocodile would dare approach him.
What do you need to be a Big Bad Wolf? According to the wolf himself you need a red tongue, bright eyes, hairy ears and dark fur. Now this wolf is so scary that he even scares himself !
The Lion is a bit pretentious: he claims he is the
King of Animals !
But what about the elephant, the giraffe or the zebra, who are all as beautiful as him? Finally, the Lion agrees the other animals can also be kings… but in that case, he is the King of Kings!
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From 2 years old
Toddlers Emile Jadoul 16,5 cm – 22 cm 12 pages– with flaps 9,95€
Hide-and-Seek Animal Fun Emile Jadoul August 2014
Watch out for Big Bad Wolf! Watch out, I’m counting to ten… eight, nine, ten… aaaand I’m coming! And off goes Big Bad Wolf with his big basket to look for the hidden ones. Oh! Who’s there underneath the blanket, shaking? Lift the flap to uncover the small rabbit hiding! And what can you see there, behind the moving curtain? Lift the flap and discover a piglet and a small hen! And let’s not forget about lifting the lid of the big wooden box where you’ll find a little curly sheep, ready to join all of his friends in Big Bad Wolf’s big basket! Now, it’s time to eat. But eat what? Or who? Surely, not all of those little ones? No, eat together instead. And quick, so we can play hide-and-seek once more afterwards!
Big Bear’ cold day. Brrr… It has been snowing all day and Big Bear is on his way home. But who’s hidden behind those shuddering bushes? Let’s have a look, lift the flap and… oh, look who’s there: Little Rabbit shaking with cold! And who’s underneath Big Bear’s hat now? Little Rabbit’s little brother, all cosy in the warmth of Big Bear’s big hat! But they’re not the only ones to hide from the cold: two little birdies whose beaks were chattering behind a leaf can soon enjoy the warmth of Big Bear’s scarf, and three tiny mice who were sheltering in a tree stump are being carefully rescued by Big Bear who puts them in his big basket. But let’s all get in the warm, and quick, because now Big Bear himself struggles to keep warm! Luckily, Mama Bear was awaiting everyone at home, where she was getting some nice hot chocolate ready for all!
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Toddlers
From 2 years old
Emile Jadoul Noveltybooks
Touch and Feel 19 cm – 15,5 cm 14 pages 12,50€
My Hat Emile Jadoul Available
Yvette the Goat, Achile the Crocodile, Olga the Hen, Lili the Mouse, Sacha the Cat…Each one of these adorable animals has its own hat. All have different colours and textures and the young reader is invited to discover them by turning the pages and lifting the flaps. A touch-and-feel book that children can use alone or with an adult. 100 000 copies sold so far
8 titles available Who’s that? Abracadabra! Tickle-tickle My House Who’s who? Who’s there In the Water 10
Toddlers Emile Jadoul Noveltybooks Other titles by Emile Jadoul Cheers!
When I’ll be a grown up
Not me!
16,2 cm - 21,2 cm Hard cover with Flaps 10 pages
16,2 cm - 21,2 cm Hard cover with flaps 12 pages
25,6 cm – 25,8 cm Pop-up and sound. 12 pages
Coulouring Books
Silly Things
21,2 cm – 24,8 cm Soft cover – 80 pages
13,8 cm – 19 cm soft cover – 200 pages
Zip Ba Boum 10 cm – 10 cm - Board books
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Toddlers
From 2 years old
Board Books 23 cm – 28 cm - boardbooks 12 pages 7,50€
Can You Spot ? Jacky Goupil December 2014
Can you spot the King’s Cake By Jacky Goupil and Kim Sejung
11 titles available Can You Spot The Fire Brigade Truck – Can You Spot The Teacher – Can You Spot The Teacher – Can You Spot The Kitten – Can You Spot The red Ridding Hood – Can You Spot Goldie Locks – Can You Spot The Teddy Bear – Can You Spot The Big Bad Wolf – Can You Spot Sant Claus – Can You Spot The Witch 12
From 3 years old
Toddlers
24 cm – 30 cm 48 pages 14,95€
My Megabook of Opposites Elisabeth Brami and Marie Paruit August 2014
Familiarising children with important topics whilst remaining attractive and without sounding moralistic or patronising is the challenge that Elisabeth Brami and Marie Paruit have set themselves to overcome in this new series. With this new collection launched by two first titles on opposites and politeness, young children are solidly introduced to important concepts in a light-hearted way. Merging between picture book and non-fiction, this new collection opens on two topics: politeness and opposites. Through a wide variety of graphic approaches and with the main concern of being as fully comprehensive as possible, this Megabook covers 24 different categories of opposites (up / down ; over / under ; true / false ; inside / outside ; soft / hard…) and enjoys a mixed layout including fully illustrated spreads, single pages, loose illustrations etc. The text is cleverly adapted to each opposite set covered and is brought to the reader in differentiated text on the page.
24 cm – 30 cm 48pages 14,95€
My Megabook of Good Manners Elisabeth Brami and Marie Paruit August 2014
At the cross between picture books and non-fiction, this new collection opens on two topics: politeness and opposites. In The Megabook of Politeness, 20 different everyday situations (such as ‘on public transport’, ‘at school’, ‘in the bathroom’, ‘at the table’, ‘in family’…) are widely illustrated in four-colour. Each situation is given two attitude examples, each presented by two different characters (alternatively male and female) called Polite and Impolite and surrounded by a cast of human and animal characters. The narration comes in short descriptive rhyming bursts for each side of the situation and always concludes on the idea that being polite, far from being a constraint, is what makes living together easier and also makes everyone happier.
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Toddlers
From 4 years old
Janik Coat
5,5 cm – 18,2 cm - board books 32 pages 9,90€
Romi at The Beach Janik Coat Available
Romi is a funny rhyno who likes to play with opposites. Atthe beach it can be hi tide or low tide, you can be suntanned or not, you can sun bathe or moon bathe….Theyoung reader will thouroughly enjoy the discovery of the seaside with Romi the rhino who has fun with all theopposites!
16 cm – 20 cm 128 pages 14,50€
Clotaire in Disguise Janik Coat March 2014
A long nose, two dots for his eyes, a little round body. This is Clotaire. Clotaire loves to dress up to look like a famous character; Babar, Harry Potter, Barbapapa, Casimir, Zorro, Totoro…The costumes and decors change but you can always recognise his funny head! In this new and enhanced edition he shows us new clothes as well as 10 activity pages. Some games such as colouring activities and guessing games: get into Clotaire’s world with malice!
By the same author ABC Menagerie Hippoposite
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From 3 years old
Toddlers Marion Billet Novelty Book
28 cm – 26 cm 18 pages with animations die cuts, flaps and wheel 15,00€
The Magic Island - Big Adventure Marion Billet 24 September 2014
Follow Loustic in an adventure full of surprises on the magic island! Loustic, our animal hero, has been sent a message: he must get to Orc’s Point at the other end of the island before nightfall. And you, the reader, are invited to follow and help him in his journey. Together you must find your way across the forest, through a dark cave, under the water, through an underground labyrinth, or across dangerous quicksand. Each page reveals a new world enhanced with exciting extra features: contained within the busy spreads there are flaps, wheels, glow in the dark ink, glitter and cut-outs, guaranteed to make reading fun and highly interactive, and above all wonderfully magical!
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Toddlers
From 3 years old
17 cm – 21 cm 24 pages 8,00€
The Ptimounes Madeleine Brunelet March 2015
The Ptimounes are tiny creatures who live in the forest. They make their houses from dry grass and their beds from leaves. Greedy little things, they especially love to eat fruits and vegetables and bake tasty tarts and pies. The whole community live adventurous lives in wildlife that’s full of many surprises.
2 titles to be published in March 2015: The Ptimounes and the Pesky Birds Disaster! When waking up the Ptimounes discover a hole in the shed roof. There’s no way of repairing it – there’s not a single strand of grass lying around anymore. But maybe they could turn this hole into a wonderful window, to gaze up at the sky?
The Ptimounes and the Too-Cute-For-Words Little Fish After heavy rainfall, the Pitmounes save the life of a little fish stranded in the middle of a puddle. They look after it and feed it… but they are not prepared for what happens when the little fish grows…
Two other titles will be released in October 2015.
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From 3 years old
Toddlers Word Book
21,5 cm – 26 cm 40 pages 13,50€
My First Book of Nature Florence Giraud September 2014
From plants to animals, stunning and colourful pictures of all things nature arranged in themes, perfect to learn and memorise the vocabulary of the nature around us, from the easiest of words to the more complicated ones. A first comprehensive look at nature’s entire universe in full colour. Arranged in 7 distinct sections, My First Book of Nature explores the main categories of both animal and plant life: vegetables, fruits, flowers, insects, birds, sea animals and animals of the earth. Each chapter is laid out in double spreads, featuring 12 different vignette pictures on the left page and a full blown-up picture with a short text on the right page. Each section of the book also has its own dominant colour – red, blue, green, yellow etc… The wide choice of the chosen topics allows for a large spectrum of the vocabulary introduced, from basic words to more elaborated ones. The book also comes with a small Memory game in the endmatter with 16 full-colour cards to tear out.
Both detailed and inviting, this is the perfect book to introduce children aged 4 and up to the wonderful life around them.
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From 4 years old
Toddlers
26 cm – 21 cm 24 pages 12,00€
My Train Book Adrien Siroy April 2015
26 cm – 21 cm 24 pages 12,00€
My Bus Book Mélisande Luthringer April 2015
Two books designed in the shape of a different form of transport and in which nine spreads tell the daily life of the passengers aboard at different points in their journey. Each double page features a game element based on observation, reflection and deduction, in the popular ‘Search and Find’ style.
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From 4 years old
Picture Books Père Castor’s Classics 21 cm – 18 cm - Soft cover 24 pages 4,75 €
The Christmas Tree Charlotte Gastaut October 2014
Over 100 titles available In the series!
A little Christmas tree longs to grow up to be as beautiful as the majestic trees around him. What he wishes the most is to discover the world. Season after season he stays in his woods. One day in winter, he is finally chosen, cut down and put in a beautiful house on Christmas Eve. But after a few days, he is put away in the attic.
21 cm – 18 cm 24 pages 4,75€
Sun, are you there? Sylvie Poillevé and Vanessa Gautier October 2014
In the land of the Elves, the disappearance of the Sun worries many. Smarty-Elf climbs up the mountain to look for the Sun. ‘Sun, are you there? Sun, are you there?’ He asks the snail, the groundhog and the bear, but they are half asleep and none of them is very helpful. When Smarty-Elf finds the Sun hidden in the clouds, he tells the elf that if he is nowhere to be found it’s beacause it’s winter and even the Sun needs some rest!
The Bear and the Mountain Trolls 21 cm – 18 cm 24 pages 4,75€
Albena Ivanovitch-Lair and Nathalie Ragondet October 2014
On Christmas’Eve, Olaf the shepperd and his domesticated bear decide to go to the Royal palace. Olaf wants to offer his bear to the king as a present. Caught in a storm, the two travellers seek shelter in a small cabin. The local people warn the travellers as they are about to leave that a herd of Mountain Trolls attack them every year. But Olaf and his bear don’t care, in fact they will give the trolls a special welcome.
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Picture Books
From 3 years old
Bénédicte Guettier
Sundays with the Daddy Who Had 10 Children
24,6 cm – 31,8 cm 48 pages 13,95€
Bénédicte Guettier Available
To celebrate the reissue of the classic ‘The Daddy Who Had 10 Children’, Bénédicte Guettier delivers a brand new story building on this successful story and characters. Today, Daddy’s incredibly busy. He has the most enormous breakfast to get ready: with 10 croissants, 10 hot chocolates, 10 freshly squeezed orange juices… You can imagine how busy it gets with 10 children! But today’s not like any other day. Today’s Sunday, and everyone’s out and about in the city. Starting off with a bit of cycling and a walk through the woods, Daddy takes everyone boating on the lake and after lunch – with 10 sandwiches and 10 apples, of course! – they all get ready to go to the museum, where Daddy can finally enjoy some nice rest in front of his favourite painting! But deep in contemplation, Daddy loses tracks of his little ones and the search begins! Where can they be? Oh here is one fast asleep under the bench, and then another two in the pottery room, another three there playing hide-and-seek, and one by one, Daddy finds them all again… all, except one! Always the last one. Where could he be hiding? Daddy finds him behind the bathroom door, where baby is having a pee by himself, like a big boy. Impressed, his siblings want to do the same too. That night, back at home, Daddy tells himself that his children have really grown up.
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From 5 years old
Picture Books Ronan Badel
24 cm - 30 cm 32 pages 13,50€
Daddy Dragon and Son Alexandre Lacroix and Ronan Badel March 2014
Now that he’s older, Strokkur the dragon must honour his family and follow the family tradition… To prove that he’s a true dragon, Strokkur must burn down some houses. But as he prepares to set an abandoned house on fire, he is interrupted by a child who suggests it would be better to burn down his school instead. But the headmistress won’t allow that to happen, and he reluctantly turns to an old fishing hut. When nothing goes to plan, our young dragon comes home without accomplishing his mission. Now stronger and more cunning than ever from his recent contact with humans, the young dragon thwarts the anger of his father and turns it into immense pride.
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From 3 years old
Picture Books
19,5 cm – 24 cm 24 pages 10,5€
Thumb ! Alice Brière-Haquet and Amélie Graux Available
The story of a rebellious thumb who is fed up of being trapped in the mouth of his owner! Normally very well behaved, hidden in the mouth of his owner, today thumb has some funny ideas: he decides to draw, he picks up a bird fallen from a nest and he also hold hands with his friend Manon! Tonight he will tell all the adventures that await him: learn to play the guitar, build a hut, tame a tiger….Little thumb grows up and so does the young boy!
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From 4 years old
Picture Books
24 cm – 31 cm 32 pages 13,95€
A Story of Friendship Amelie Billon and Marion Duval October 2014
This is the very simple story of three friends: two children and one polar bear. A story to remind us what it is to have friends, and how friendship can win over everything. Janet startles as the sound of a cry in the forest. Who could this be? Could this be her friend Bear? Could he possibly have fallen in a trap and need help? At once, she goes to the rescue – she remembers how Bear had saved her from drowning in the frozen lake not too long ago. To be faster and more efficient, she runs like a bear herself, and goes off on all fours, sniffs around to track him down and even makes the ground shake under her feet. Soon, Charlie hears a cry, too. Could this be Janet? Could she have stumbled upon a trap? Off he goes to the rescue too. After all, hadn’t she lent him her bike every time he needed one? Charlie runs and runs faster until he unexpectedly falls in a giant pit where Bear and Janet have ended up trapped themselves. But friendship can win over everything and with three pairs of arms and legs and the best of friends, the three manage to get out of the pit. They can then and forever continue with their lovely story of friendship. After all, friendship weighs much, much more than Bear’s weight!
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Picture Picture Books Books
From 4 years old
22 cm – 24 cm 32 pages 10,50€
Princesse Tralala Magdalena and Gwen Kerwal August 2014
Learn about vowels with a princess who loves to sing!
“a,e,i,o,u” – everyday Princess Tralala practises her vocals, wanting to become an opera singer. “Ra, re, ri, ro, ru,” a rat scuttles past her bathtub. “Cah, che, chi, cho, chu,” a cat flees away! “La, le, li, lo, lu” the rabbit comes out of its hiding place. The Princess disturbs everyone in her castle until one day when, “ba, be, bi, bo, bu” she meets a beautiful bearded prince who whisks her into his arms and marries her..
By the same authors: 1,2,3… She’s a Witch !
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From 4 years old
Picture Books
24 cm – 32,5 cm 3 double pages and pop-ups 18,00€
The Pirates’ Boat Dario Cestaro October 2015
A short story set in the world of pirates + a board game (a treasure hunt) + a pop-up pirate ship Sales points By an Italian illustrator and paper engineer who specialises in pop-ups A book that it is at the cross-roads between a picture book and a game book, to appeal to all readers. Pirates: a theme ever so popular with young children
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Picture Books
From 4 years old
28 cm – 36 cm 32 pages 14,95€
The Little Time Thief Nathalie Minne August 2014
How to introduce children to the very ethereal concept of time? Nathalie Minne offers her answer to the question, with a delightfully poetic text and her very unique imagery. The little time thief never had a great understanding of time. Seconds, minutes, hours, from dawn to twilight, all seem to relentlessly go by, the same way every day. Until he meets a little girl, one day, and all of a sudden – it all starts to make sense! Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday… how many days until he meets her again? The week, slowly and painfully goes by, never quickly enough. Will he be able to catch those fleeting minutes to be able to be with her again and spend more time by her side? Time has never been so precious: precious because they share it together. Following on from The Word Thief and The Little Boy from the Woods, this is Nathalie Minne’s third picture book. A heartfelt story told in a very subtle manner adorned by Nathalie’s very enchanting and unique illustration style which shows off her maturity.
By the same author : The Little Words Thief TheLittle Boy from theforest
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From 4 years old
Picture Books
24 cm – 31 cm 32 pages 13,95€
The Fox in the Tree Magali Dulain and Simon Quitterie August 2014
The touching story of a young boy meeting a fox, told in a beautiful, almost dreamlike manner. “Today I saw a fox, perched in a tree. Would you believe it? I thought that foxes lived in the fields…” This is how this story begins: a little boy discovering, by chance, up there in the branches of a tree, a wild orange-furred animal that quickly fascinates him. Soon, he joins the fox in the tree and they both strike up a shy conversation at first, the fox being the most reserved of the two (because in this charming story, of course little boys and foxes know how to talk to one another). It quickly transpires that the fox is waiting for someone who isn’t coming. The narrator decides to wait alongside him and to take his mind off the wait, with some food, jokes and a nice, friendly conversation. Little by little, without seeming to do so, he manages to domesticate the wild animal, which is still waiting for his friend to arrive. And when it gets too cold to wait up there for the missing friend, they both get to the ground and decide to be the best of friends forever – because, it appears clearly then that the very friend the fox was waiting for, was the little boy himself! A powerful story of a friendship which breaks the boundaries of difference cleverly brought to life with the dreamlike imagery of Magali Dulain and the heartfelt words of Quitterie Simon.
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From 5 years old
Picture Books
24 cm – 30 cm 32 pages 13,50€
The Mamani Sandra Nelson and Sébastien Pelon November 2014
Will Mamani dare to challenge Salamanca the wicked wizard to save little Anita?
Mamani is a good witch and healer from the Andes Mountains and spends her time relieving her local people from their daily troubles. One day, Anita pleads for her to help her little sister Nina, struck by a very peculiar disease: Salamanca the wicked wizard has stolen her doll and her dreams. Even though Mamani is afraid of Salamanca and aware of the risks, Anita’s courage pushes her forward. But the terrible Salamanca is not easy to defeat…
By the same authors : La Befana Matriochka
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From 6 years old
Picture Books
The Marvelous adventures of Sinbad 24 cm – 30 cm 64 pages 15,50€
Michel Laporte and Sébastien Pelon October 2014
Follow the stories of six voyages and discover the incredible adventures of Sinbad the Sailor. (recommended by the National Department for Education ) Sinbad is the son of a rich merchant in Bagdad who has left his son his entire fortune. Once he has spent it all, and not wanting to grow old in poverty, Sinbad sets sail, to become a merchant like his father. After his first voyage, strewn with danger, he could have, with the money he gained, finished his life in joy and peace. But, driven by the irresistible urge to travel over new seas, Sinbad undertakes another five voyages, facing untold terrors before finally spending his days content.
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Picture Books
From 6 years old
24 cm – 30 cm 48 pages – with flaps and– die cuts. 15€
The Encyclopedia of Martians Gwendoline Raisson and Roland Garrigue October 2014
Organised like a traditional Encyclopaedia, this original title is the perfect tool for little earthlings who want to know everything there is to know about planet Mars and its inhabitants: Who are the Martians ? How do they live ? What do they eat ? Do they go to school ? How do they get about ? How do they communicate ? All the essential aspects of Martian life are represented in this picture book full of quirky illustrations. And in the end, we may realise that despite all the differences or similarities, the Martians may not be so distant from us after all… The reader will also learn the basics of the Martian language and test his own ability to be a perfect Martian. Simply hilarious!
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From 6 years old
Picture Books Charlotte Gastaut
24 cm – 30 cm 32 pages 13,50€
The Wild Swans Charlotte Gastaut October 2014
The famous fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen, magnificently illustrated by Charlotte Gastaut!
A king lived alone with his eleven sons and only daughter, Eliza. When he remarried, the wicked queen separated the children, sending Eliza to live with peasants then turning the princes into wild swans. One day, Eliza discovered the terrible fate of her brothers and set herself one goal: weave eleven tunics from nettle to break the evil spell. Forced to keep silent while carrying out her task, Eliza was accused of witchcraft. But she continued her mission relentlessly up until the villagers were about to light the pyre to burn her and she was about to finish the final tunic. She finished just in time, the eleven princes returned to human form and the truth was revealed.
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Picture Books Charlotte Gastaut
By the same illustrator Donkey Skin Thumbelina Goldie Locks and the Three Bears Cinderella The Little Mermaid The Little Chrismas Tree The Great Journey of Miss Prudence The Twelve Labours of Hercules The Great Travel of Ulysses Gods and Goddesses of the Greek Mythology
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Picture Books Charlotte Gastaut
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Picture Books
From 4 years old
Olivier Tallec 28 cm – 26 cm 32 pages 13,00€
Marlaguette Marie Colmont and Olivier Tallec Available
While Marlaguette is picking up mushrooms in the woods she gets taken by wolf who wants to eat her. While getting into his grotto the wolf bangs his head and is badly hurt. Marlaguette feels sorry for him and decides to take care of him, day after day. The famous tale of Marlaguette, beautifully illustrated by Olivier Tallec. The author born in 1895 and passionate about her fight against injustice in the world decided to denounce the suffering through children’s books.
By the same author Waterloo and Trafalgar Michka Big Wolf and Little Wolf The Leaf that did not fall Such a beautiful Orange
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From 5 years old
Picture Books Olivier Tallec
24 cm – 30 cm 32 pages 13,50 €
Me first Nadine Brun-Cosme and Olivier Tallec March 2015
Leon, Max and Remy are three friends who travel together. As the book progresses, you realise that they travel the world in single file: they cross Paris, London, New York and Athens, and travel through the jungle, across grassy plains and the seaside. But Max and Remy can’t see anything behind big Leon. It’s only when Leon told them that there is a balloon that Max and Remy feel the urge to be in front to see it. And eventually, the three of them can finish their journey side by side.
New book from the Nadine Brun-Cosme and Olivier Tallec duo, the team behind the internationally successful series Grand Loup and Petit Loup. A story about friendship, respect, and the wish to grow up, which every child can relate to.
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Picture Books
From 6 years old
Olivier Tallec
19,5 cm – 24 cm 32 pages 10,50€
The Dancing Party Charlotte Moundlic and Olivier Tallec Available
It’s the same every year: come November, Michel’s mum always wants to organise a birthday party for her son. But why does she always have to decide on everything? She even decides who to invite! This year Michel is determined to organise his own party himself and to his biggest surprise his dad thinks it’s an excellent idea! But how does one go about organising a party without being ridiculous? Luckily for Michel he can count on the help of his best friend Malik! The new funny and touching adventures of the characters from The bathing suit and The shattered heart.
In the series so far The Bathing Suit The Shattered Heart
Kevin and the Extra-terrestrials: Vol. II – Job done ! Laurent Rivelaygue and Olivier Tallec May 2014
15 cm – 25,5 cm 96 pages 10,00€
From 8 years old
Kevin, age ten, is a future Ghost Hunter but he’s struggling to keep up with the problems of his alien friends. On the one hand Cassius, the yellow giant, has decided to stay on Earth with his family, while on the other hand Napo and Albert have gone off on the flying-saucer bus … landing in Saint-Antoine-LesMouches, just a few miles away. As a result, Kevin and his parents must go and collect them, and it’s definitely not a restful journey. What’s more Kevin has other worries at school with Mrs Laraide, his headmistress… This book offers five stories mixing fiction and comic form and features a double page comic strip between each story.
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From 5 years old
Picture Books
The Farm at the end of the Meadow Jean-François Dumont 5 November 2014
26 cm – 21 cm 96 pages - box set – board game 15,00€ Contains three stories: - Watch out for Edgar! - Piggy Friends - The Geese March in Step
There are many animals in the Farm At-The-End-Of-The-Meadow: a lonely, grumpy rat who hates everyone, pink pigs and black pigs which can’t get along, geese which walk in line and know how to bounce across the farm in rhythm, and many others! Meet the animals of the Farm At-The-End-Of-The-Meadow again and their colourful adventures and enjoy a nice game of Snakes and Ladders with a free poster to play on!
Jean-Francois Dumont lives in Rennes. Author and illustrator of the five titles that from the Farm AtThe-End-Of-The-Meadow series, he is also the author of A Blue so blue (St Exupéry Prize 2004), The Word-Catcher, The Small King Who Acted Big, The Wrecked Roundabout, as well as The Ogre and the Dentist. He has also contributed to retellings of famous classics such as Pinocchio and Treasure Island
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From 8 years old
Picture Books
23,5 – 28 cm 56 pages 16,50€
The Birthday Pierre Mornet Available
“She is the friend I was dreaming of and I am the friend she was waiting for” On the day of her birthday, a young dark-haired girl wonders off in the forest and meets a beautiful golden-haired girl. hey immediately become friends and grow inseparable. But the Queen of the night has decided to break this beautiful friendship. The dark haired girl is ready to do anything in order to save her friendship and she decides to challenge the Queen of night. To do so, she has to descend into a scary world. Through this world of dreams and darkness, the author reveals a beautiful friendship.
23,6 cm – 23,6 cm 48 pages 13,95 €
A Butterfly on a Hat Bruno Gibert Available
From 8 years old
A journey in the life of a butterfly with an uncommon destiny. What if the flutter of a butterfly’s wings could change it all?! The butterfly in this story will prove it by becoming the model of a very fashionable hat. A playful and inventive book full of rebuses and pictograms, where images are used instead of words.
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From 8 years old
Picture Books
Freedom
19,5 cm – 26 cm 42 pages 16,50€
By Paul Eluard , Anouck Boisrobert and Louis Rigaud Available
Paul Eluard’s famous poem in an accordion format. Each paragraph unfolds page after page, the die cuts reveal a stunningly poetic scenery. Little by little, the horizon grows until Freedom echoes in the whole universe.
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Picture Books
From 4 years old
Eric Battut On the Way to Holidays 13,5 cm – 17 cm 32 pages 12,50€
Eric Battut Available
Just as every summer, Cat and Dog go on holidays. However this year nothing goes according to plan. Abandoned without leashes or collars, this great couple are going to run away, and while at it take vengeance on their owners. And what if the way to holidays was not what we had imagined?
By the same author My Dearest Friend – Battle – Supercat - Between Cat and Dog – Broum - Big and Tiny - Zebra and Leopard - Two Birds – Jules and Cesar – Like the White Wolf
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From 3 years old
Picture Books
24 cm – 30 cm 32 pages 13,50€
In the Darkness of the Night Magdalena and Christine Davenier March 2015
It’s time to go to bed, but little Louis doesn’t want to sleep. He has lost his favourite comfort, his soft sheep-blankie. Little Louis goes on an expedition under his sheets and comes face to face with all the other soft toys who can help him find his sheep-blankie. And only when the sheep-blankie is in his arms, can little Louis finally fall asleep. A new story from Magdalena, the well known author of « Je suis en CP/I am in Year 2 », « Bali », etc. and brought to life in images by Christine Davenier, an illustrator published both in France and internationally. A story that brings together everyday experiences with children’s imagination A universal theme – the importance of the comfort blanket in the bedtime routine of young children.
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Picture Books
From 3 years old
Wordless Stories
26 cm – 15 cm 35 pages 12 €
Chicken Thief Trilogy Beatrice Rodriguez Available
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26 cm – 15 cm 32 pages 12 €
The Friendly Sloth Ronan Badel Available
Nothing can wake up our sloth, not even the lumber jack who cuts the tree where he is sleeping. Our friend, without even noticing, gets carried firstly deep in the forest and then all over the place. Fortunately throughout all his sleeping, his friends will follow his journey to prevent him from getting hurt! This is what friends are for!
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Picture Books Wordless Stories
26 cm – 15 cm 32 pages 12€
Lightning Strike at the Zoo Aurore Callias September 2014
While visiting the zoo with his family, a little boy suddenly finds himself, in a flash of lightning, face to face with an orangutan. This seemingly consequence-free encounter however leads to a series of most unexpected events…. Each of them goes back to their normal lives but little by little, their roles start to reverse! Much to the reader’s surprise, we get to see a family of humans becoming monkeys, and a family of monkeys becoming human… Exhilarating humour guaranteed!
Aurore Callias is an illustrator who loves a busy, teeming world, inviting the reader to look for the tiniest of details among her scenes. She knows how to accurately convey the emotions and behavior of her characters in a fresh, dynamic style.
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27 titles in the series Football club 10 Little Clouds The Cherry The Large Seed The Day of the Kings Miss Cotton My Lion The Sad Bear The Song Little Fish Tours the Country Fox Racing Western The Little Train An Encounter Ice Edmond The Fisherman’s Dream The Path Mr Goahead The Falling Star The Factory
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From 4 years old
Picture Books Princesse Camcam 21,6 cm – 28 cm 22 pages– with flaps 14,50€
Follow the Guide in the Garden Princesse Camcam September 2014
A walk full of surprises, set in the gardens of an old manor house.
The little puppies from the first book have now grown up and this time Mr Tomcat is taking them around the garden. Its inhabitants, he informs them as they follow along, are animals of the worst kind, bad-mannered, and what’s more, sly and lazy! Look at them, he continues, drawing a list: simple-minded dormice, sly raccoons, short-sighted good for nothing moles… while in fact what Mr Tomcat doesn’t know is that all of them are secretly preparing a birthday celebration for him. Surprise! Certainly our grumpy Mr Tomcat, is lucky after all to have such great friends! A refreshing walk in the huge garden of a house like no other… A truly magical garden, where all would dream of spending many hours!
Also available : Follow the Guide in the House
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Picture Books Princesse Camcam
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From 5 years old
Picture Books Beatrice Alemagna
28 cm – 38 cm 40 pages 18 €
The Huge Little Thing Beatrice Alemagna Available
What is happiness? Where can you find it? Sometimes happiness can appear in very small things or moments: by standing in the rain; by tasting a snow flake when it falls; or in the small of an old book; in the eyes of a loved one... Here is a beautiful, sensitive book, of large dimensions, by the brilliant and award winning illustrator Beatrice Alemagna.
By the same author Jo, Monkey boy Short Story of a Drop Karl Ibou A Lion in Paris
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From 5 years old
Picture Books
14 cm – 20 cm 40 pages 8,95€
The Flavour of Travels Anne Bouin and Vincent Bourgeau April 2014
Oh it is so sweet to travel! But how do you bring all your pets with you: a bunch of cats, a stuffed crocodile, a coq and a dormouse when going on the most exciting tour of the world? From Vesuvius to the Niagara falls passing through Marrakech palaces, the Eiffel tower and even Japan.
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From 6 years old
Picture Books David Sala
25 cm – 27 cm 64 pages - With gold foil inside and on the cover 14,95€
The Beauty and The Beast David Sala 1 October 2014
A stunning and stylish take on the popular fairy tale by David Sala, at the top of his art. ‘There was once a very rich merchant. His daughters were extremely handsome, especially the youngest. When she was little everybody admired her, and called her "The little Beauty" ’ To saver her father’s life, Beauty accepts to become hostage to the terrifying Beast until she realises that behind his monstrous looks, there is a man who can be respected … and loved. This very popular tale has been made all the more famous by Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont’s version. Here, this classic text meets an illustrator worthy of its richness and beauty: David Sala’s luminous, inspired style relentlessly challenges its own limits. Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont’s original text is reproduced unabridged and is complimented by Sala’s beautiful art, alternating in simple pages and double spreads. A gorgeous foil colour gives the cover a little bit extra, and in the insides, beautifies the visual splendour of this very unique picture book.
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Picture Books David Sala
The Wrath of the Banshee Ferocious The Enchanted Chest Crazy Seasons Happiness in a Cage
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From 6 years old
Picture Books Anne Herbauts
30,8 cm – 23 cm 40 pages 14,50€
A Day called Sparrow Anne Herbauts 3 September 2014
A sleeping giant and a wonderfully smelly cake meet in Anne Herbaut’s latest masterpiece. That day, when Morning wants to open his door, he finds it blocked. Nothing will do. At that moment exactly, Sparrow, the Day, is flying by his window. Morning goes: “Hello, Day! Do you know what’s happening in front of my door?” What could it possibly be, he thought? A giant rock? Or an elephant, perhaps? A meteor, maybe? None of those in fact as it turns out that it’s a giant, a sleeping giant snoring helplessly by his door! What an extremely unlucky situation. But Morning has an idea: to wake his nose up, first. So they all help out in the household – the stairs, the clock, the wooden beams, the floors, the attic, the pillow, the lightbulb, the stove, the chair, and the window, all indicating in turn which utensils and ingredients Morning will need to bake the most amazing cake. And soon, a delicious smell is filing the house, and little by little, escaping through the door. The giant, at the front door, wakes up slowly with delight. And after having marvelled at the smell (he coughed, cried a little and eventually smiled too!), he took off, and left, very simply, as light as a feather. Morning has opened the door now, and meets Day, who is already chirping. Good Day, Morning! Stones are flying, hearts are light ; Sparrows are chirping, and morning’s a delight!
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Picture Books Anne Herbauts
or verticality. I think of the text and the image at the same time, it’s like a compact mass, that I hardly separate to be able to work on it in a practical way. I work the rhythm in the text, in the images, in the pages, in the book. I am part of the book, I smell the book, I build it. I write as if I was sculpting, nicking, cutting, quavering. This tingling produced by the writing is something close to the soul’s and body’s skin, to the thoughts. Writing-stamen that between text and image, filters, pierces, stings awakens. You never tell what, you pick around it so that it appears. So the more you try to get close, the more you kill what you want to show. The point is, that it is the whole where invisible things go through, and the mark, the stain that shows. Shape, detour, around, hole, point. With these recesses and marks, these blemishes of sound, of colours, of paper, of stitching, of language, I write my books. Something happens, Between the text and the images, Somewhere in the folds of the book, the stitching, the margins. The book is a space of paper, of couture and wind. There are pages, text, images. But most of all its fabric is time. Reading, enfolding, the gesture of turning the page inscribe themselves in the fourth dimension of this articulated object with elytra made of cardboard.
Anne Herbauts was born somewhere in Brussels around 1975. She studied at the Academie des Beaux- Arts of Brussels illustrations and graphic novels. She has, since, published over 30 children’s (and adult’s) books and graphic novels. Sometimes she spreads herself over other types of writings, short movies, animated films, narrating spaces and huts. She collects moon’s shavings and flakes of images. She draws empty spaces and absences with borders made of writing, with traces of evidence, by superimposing, by repetition, by stuttering. She loves short phrases and delectable words. She is eager and too big of it. She is not in the image or in the text but in both at the same time. In between, between the two and in her “work space”. Books and time are raw materials. Moons and wood shavings Books mean time. Time is my material. Via vertical writings, piercings, suspensions, “pure time” I find the horizontal narration of the book. I play with the space-time of the book. The larger books have slow rhythms, deep breaths. You have the space to dip your stares, to plunge into the image. The text is part of the image. The smaller formats like Edouard and Armand, roll, bump into each other, they propel themselves from one page to the other. There is no space here for time
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All the titles by Anne Herbauts I Love you so Much… Theferless Monday WhatCcolour is the Wind Silencio Knock knock knock The Small LittleTthings Alice in Wonderland What does the Moon do at Night? The Small Trouble Little Meteorologies Albert Recycles The Empty Hour The Princess with the Little… And Three Crows… The Letter The Bleue House The Cake and Great Bear
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Picture Books François Place
14,5 cm – 22 cm 432 pages 13,95€
The Secret of Orbae François Place Available
Bologna Ragazzi Award in 2012
Two starting points, two exceptional beings, two journeys that will meet and become one. An impulse has pushed Ziraya onto the Spice Route, and Cornelius has a goal to achieve in the unknown countries on the Silk Road. She wanders over the seas; he crosses deserts and mountains. The two explorers will meet, then fall in love with each other and unite their destinies to find Orbae together, the land of the Sumptuous and Mythical Web with Clouds The novel was originally published as two separate novels together with 18 exquisite illustrations in a box set. It won the prestigious Fiction
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From 8 years old
From 8 years old
Picture Books François Place
26,8 cm – 21,8 cm 216 pages 26,00€
Atlas of Geographs of Orbae Two volumes François Place 14 January 2015
A paperback reissue of François Place’s uncontested masterpiece, already considered a classic in children’s literature. Written in the dreamy, excited tone of ancient atlases at the time the discovery of the world was in its early days, Atlas of Orbæ is the exploration of a fictional, alternative world which has become a classic of imaginary writing across all age categories since its release in the late 90s. A true publishing phenomenon awarded many prizes (such as the Cercle d’Or Livres Hebdo for best picture book, the Prix France Télévisions, the Bologna Book Fair Best Non-Fiction prize, or the Prix Sorcières 2001), this work of fiction takes the shape of fantastical tales and has propelled its author and illustrator, François Place, to a star status in children’s literature.
15 years after its initial publication and with a couple of the volumes now out of stock, Atlas Of Orbæ enjoys a fresh new edition split over two volumes only instead of the three originally published as well as a complete revamp: revised layouts, a new format, new typesetting and an added map inserted at the back of the book. In short, a new look for a timeless book, one of the most important works in French children’s literature.
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François Place
From 10 years old
14.5 cm - 22 cm 320 pages 15,00€
Angel, the White Indian François Place 2 April 2014
In his new book, François Place takes us to 18th century Antarctica. A riveting read with a fantasy touch, this is a pure adventure story at heart. Born mixed-race from a Caucasian European mother and Indian father, Angel is a ‘white’ Indian who has so far miraculously survived the brutalities of slavery. When a French boat called Neptune on its way to the cold southern territories pulls over in the Buenos Aires bay for a few days, Angel doesn’t hesitate and hops on board clandestinely, certain that life on board, whatever it might be, couldn’t possibly be worse than the one on the ground. Thus begins an extraordinarily adventurous journey, which eventually leads Angel and his fellow boatmen through a very peculiar stone arch and to the very intriguing and fabulously beautiful territory of Antarctica. With his newfound friend Corvadoro, a well-educated Venitian, Angel meets the fascinating people of Waonas, humanoids with two mouths, who will introduce them to their far-flung land and customs – a land akin to the mythical Atlantis. Back in Europe from a very perilous and bumpy journey, Angel and Cordovo will do their best to bring this ghost land to attention, realising at once that their beautiful land seems to fall off any known map of the world. With this engrossing adventure story, François Place aims to celebrate the true beauty of imagination, which lives on the edge of our world and which infuses it, bringing to each and everyone more power to build it every day.
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From 5 years old
Activity Books
22 cm – 21,5 cm 54 pages + slate and pencil 15,00€
I draw and I write! August 2014
Key early learning concepts presented in a fun, handwritten style. Learn to drawn shapes while having fun: A square can turn into a house, a rectangle into a truck, and an oval into a bee… Trace numbers that become animals: a ‘2’ is a swan, an ‘8’ is a bird, and a ‘9’ is an ostrich… Learn to write lower case letters, each letter is followed by a picture and a word that you can write on the line below.
A practical and easy to carry book for use anytime, anywhere!
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From 6 years old
Activity Books
19,5 cm – 24 cm 124 pages + 50 sheets of origami paper 10,00€
50 Origamis for Fun Olivia Cosneau June 2014
50 origami for fun - an activity book "all-in-one" with 50 sheets of origami and 12 templates (heart, little boy, bomb Water ...) easy to achieve through illustrated step by step. There are 3 difficulty levels to progress gradually and tricks to vary models, make small gifts or decorate the house…
19,5 cm – 24 cm 124 pages + 50 pages of origami paper 10,00€
50 Animals in Origamis Stéphanie Desbenoit-Charpiot June 2014
50 Animals in origami - an activity book "all-in-one" with 50 sheets of origami and 12 templates (panda, swan, giraffe ...) easy to achieve through illustrated step by step. There are 3 difficulty levels to progress gradually and tricks to vary models, make small gifts or decorate the house…
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From 6 years old
Activity Books
23 cm – 23,2 cm 32 pages 9,95€
Animals in Origamis Maryse Six October 2014
From a little lamb to a stripy Zebra, here are twelve easy-to-make animal paper puppets that even the youngest of children will manage to put together.
This new craft book is packed with activities in everything origami! It’s all very straightforward: all you need is several sheets of colour paper, glue, scissors, and a few accessories (pens, rulers, crayons, wooden sticks, colouring pencils etc) and hey presto, you’ve got yourself a real menagerie!
Covering all kinds of animals from lamb to zebra and from the tiniest (a green mouse) to the biggest (an elephant or a giraffe), this book offers twelve different animals to make yourself in the form of a paper puppet: choose from a cat, a bear, a pig, a bull, a bird – all as fun to make as one another. The folds are very easy, even for very young children, and the instructions for each stage are presented very clearly and supported by illustrations and photographs. Hours of unlimited fun with the family, or in groups.
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From 6 years old
Activity Books
24 cm – 18 cm 80 pages 10,00€
Make 100 … 11 June 2014
Make 100 Fashion Outfits Madeleine Martin The first fashion book in the ‘Make 100…’ series. – A guaranteed success! Make 100 fashion outfits – an all-in-one activity book with 10 shapes to draw around, 15 images to colour in, 8 patterns to cut out, and 2 sheets of stickers to personalise and decorate your drawings – and a little extra: anecdotes on the world of fashion so you can learn more about the world of your dreams!
Make 100 Pirates Raphael Hdaid Pirates make their entry into the ‘Make 100…’ series Make 100 Pirates –an all-in-one activity book with 10 shapes to draw around, 15 images to colour in, 8 patterns to cut out, and 2 sheets of stickers to personalise and decorate your drawings- and the usual extra: anecdotes on the world of pirates so you can discover more about your favourite pirate heroes.
Make 100 Princesses Chhuy-Ing la and Raphael Hadid For every Princess fan, here is an activity book full of surprises: shapes of princesses to draw around, colouring in pages, pages of fabric to cut out and decorate and stickers to personalise your drawings. Accompanying each of the activities overleaf are little anecdotes about the princesses of the past and present.
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From 6 years old
Activity Books
23,2 cm – 23,2 cm 40 pages 13,50€
My Favourite Artists’ Activity Book Anne-Laure Witscher 3 September 2014
The perfect activity book to discover the most famous artists, and maybe become one! This activity book offers a new way of introducing children to some of the most famous artists. In no chronological order, but exploring all major artistic movements in a very clear manner, the book invites you on a journey through contemporary arts. Each spread focuses on a particular artist. An illustration of the artist’s workspace along with some biographical elements and a short text explaining his artistic approach fill up the left page. On the opposing page, children will find a succinct presentation of the artistic movement the artist belonged to along with a step-by-step activity to make inspired by his work and approach. That way, kids can make their own Klein, César, or Andy Warhol-like creations. From ‘poetic mobiles’ based on Calder’s work to ‘wrapped objects’ inspired by the Christo couple’s work, there is a wide variety of activities and things to make! Simple, clever, hugely entertaining, and with its clever artists-based creations, this is the perfect artfocused activity book to learn about art without realising it!
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From 5 years old
Activity Books
14,8 cm – 21 cm 128 pages 9,90€
Activities for Each Season Stephane Keihl Available
Put an end to your child’s boredom with this wonderful activity book! A new activity for every week or day: colouring, drawing, labyrinth, guessing games… Includes a drawing pad with detachable pages.
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From 6 years old
Fiction Fairy Tales for Primary School
15 cm – 19,5 cm 32 pages 5,50€
The Stone Soup Magdalena and Jess Pawels August 2014
Discover the classic tale, Stone Soup, adapted to the reading level for Year 2. Because he is cold and hungry, Fox goes to his next door neighbour, Chicken, to cook a stone soup in his cooking pot. Chicken, as greedy as she is, has never had stone soup: she accepts. Fox assures her that stones cooked by themselves are delicious, but it’s also very good with a little salt, pepper and bacon; potatoes, onions and cabbage; green beans and leeks. Chicken provides all the ingredients, and Fox will use all his cunning to swallow the soup down as quickly as he can. Reading the tale allows you to perfect and master language, but also gives you the right tools to help growing up. In this collection the classic tales are refined and adapted to Year 2 to help pupils learning to read…
15 cm – 19,5 cm 32 pages 5,50€
The Frog Prince Magdalena and Raphaëlle Barbanègre 27 August 2014
Discover the classic tale of the Frog Prince adapted to the reading level for Year 2. A princess is playing with her golden ball next to the castle, but the ball ends up at the bottom of a fountain. The princess is very sad, but just then a little green frog offers to help her. In return for finding the ball, he wants to be invited into the princess’s castle. The princess accepts but doesn’t take the promise seriously once she has her golden ball back... but the frog hasn’t finished yet! Reading the tale allows you to perfect and master language, but also gives you the right tools to help growing up. In this collection the classic tales are refined and adapted to Year 2 to help pupils learning to read…
In the series so far: The Red Riding Hood The Three Little Pigs
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From 7 years old
Fiction Princess Olympus
13,5 cm – 18 cm 48 pages 5,30€
A Royal Rider Sandra Nelson and Louis Alloing September 2014
To be a true cavalier, Princess Olympus must tame her horse and conquer her fear.
In two weeks it’s the royal parade in Versailles! For the event, Olympus, Camille and Simon will parade in uniform on their magnificent horses. The Princess wants to be perfect in front of her parents who are rushing back to see her. She is taking riding lessons with her friends, but everything goes wrong for Olympus: she’s got a horse that’s much taller than a pony, and one with a much worse temperament…
In the series so far Princess Seeks knight A Ghost in the Palace Treasure Hunt The Ball Prince in the Castle 64
From 8 years old
Fiction Best Friends Forever
Best Friends For Ever. Vol. 1 A Big Lie
13,5 cm – 18 cm 64 pages 6,30€
Anne-Marie Pol and Isabelle Roger February 2015
Cleo is not thrilled: her teacher gave her a very hard homework: “Describe your best friends in 15 lines” The problem is Cleo has no friends. As her classmates ask her embarrassing questions, Cleo makes up a story where she has a secret friend who happens to be a princess. Nobody belives her. A few days later, a new family moves in Cleo’s neighbourhood and their daughter, Chloe, is just as pretty as a princess. The two teenager will become best friends and make Cleo’s lie will become the truth.
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From 8 years old
Fiction Olympus’Spies
13,5 cm – 18 cm 96 pages 6,90€
In the Cyplops’ Lair Alain Surget and Julie Faulques 15 October 2014
What if a little, barely known goddess messed up the Greek Myths? And if the story of Ulysses and the Cyclops didn’t happen as we all thought…
The war in Troy finished a long time ago and Ulysses still hasn’t returned to Ithaca. Penelope is getting impatient and complains to the gods! Zeus instructs his daughter Lea, and his friend Lithos to find Ulysses. Thanks to his eagle, they spot Ulysses’s ship near the island of the Cyclops. The king of Ithaca docks and explores the island with his men to get supplies. They come across a herd of sheep which lead them to a cave…where they meet Polyphemus, the man-eating Cyclops! Luckily, Lea and Lithos are not far away and will do all they can to help Ulysses and his companions.
In the series so far The Golden Apple Trojan Horse
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From 8 years old
Fiction Charlie Tempest
19,5 cm- 13 cm 80 pages 6,95€
All for one! Annelise Heurtier and Clotka September 2014
A new challenge for Charly and his group of friends: do everything they can to get their friend Igor to come with them on their school trip! School has a nice surprise in the bag for Charly and his friends. They will be taken to the mountains for a ski school trip in February. Everyone is excited by the news! Everyone but Igor, one of Charly’s friends, who is very worried that his family won’t be able to afford the trip, his father having just lost his job. But nothing can stop Charly’s little troop. They take the opportunity of an upcoming car-boot-sale organised by their school to try and raise as much money towards the trip as possible. So in order to get the right sales through, the little group hunts the streets of the city down for items to sell. On the actual day, Charly’s latest invention ‘Snowfunkit’, the perfect ski trip kit (knitted woollen nose-shield, lollipops, snowball launchers etc…), sells like hot cakes and just in time, they all manage to raise the right funds to cover for Igor’s trip!
In the series so far We move house A strange start of terms The Case of the Missing Dog 67
From 9 years old
Fiction Art in Junior Class 13,5 cm – 18 cm 96 pages 6,90€
Rock and Roll trip Alice Brière-Haquet and Kim Consigny August 2014
With the help of Sibylle’s journal, discover all the talents of Year 7 Art, a Year 7 class specialising in the arts: dance, song, music and drama.
The Year 7 trip to England is finally here… in Ireland, with the rain and the sheep! Sibylle is disappointed… upon arriving, the pupils are expected to each go to their host family, and that’s the problem! Sibylle and Jenny, her best friend, are at opposite ends of the town. Worse still, Jenny is very chummy with her penfriend and totally ignores Sibylle, who feels very lonely. … Fortunately handsome Mat lives in the house next door and he helps her a lot. However, in this new country with its peculiar culture, Sibylle is bound to have more surprises… Humour and rock’n’roll guaranteed!
In the series so far Friends, Drums, etc Silence and Action! Singers’ s Gang 68
From 9 years old
Fiction I, Ben 14,5 cm – 20 cm 144 pages 10,00€
My Pathetic Love Stories’s Book Bernard Friot 11 February 2015
Ben is in 2nd grade. His new French teacher wants the students to write a "diary". But acording to Ben, he has nothing to tell. He doesn’t want talk about his difficult relationship with Arianna, a young Italian he met during a circus school last summer, to which he is attracted but she rejects him hard. Ben seeks by all means to respond to the imposed exercise, but his schemes are ineffective. Fortunately, he discovers his sister’s old diary and he copied some passages. BUT, he forgot to change the names and his teacher thinks he's fallen in love with a boy! How to get out of this mess!
In the series so far My pathetic records book My pathetic holiday book
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From 10 years old
Fiction Eulalie de Potimaron 14,5 cm – 20 cm 224 pages 12,00€
The Vampire of Castille Anne-Sophie Sylvestre Available
In the autumn of 1679 Marie-Louise of Orleans is on the way to Madrid to join her fiancé king Charles II of Spain. Unfortunately she has to give up her crush on Louis. Eulalie who travels with her also has to separate from Philip. New encounters, discoveries and unexpected adventures will spice up their day to day life.
In the series so far Versailles, here we come The Pledge Secret and Omen The Sidesaddle ride 70
From 10 years old
Fiction
13,5 cm – 190 cm 144 pages 10,00€
Mentine Jo Witek and Margaux Motin February 2015
Holiday in the French countryside with a cranky old man for roommate: the horror! Mentine Green is twelve years and will be in 5th grade next term: she is gifted! However, she has done everything to get bad grades! Exasperated by her behavior, Mentine’s parents decided to punish Mentine by sending at Raoul’s place for the summer. The olde man is a friend of her grandmother, a peasant from the depths of the French countryside. While preparing to spend her vacation with her friends, Clémentine is stuck in a farmhouse that smells rancid cheese and dust. And besides, there is no network at all!
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From 10 years old
Fiction
14,5 cm - 20 cm 144 pages 10,00€
Evilferno Cassandra O’Donnell October 2014
In a magical universe, two children are searching for a monster responsible for mysterious disappearances.
Gabriel, twelve, and his little sister, Zoe, Six, live near the dangerous Malenfer forest. The magic trees, called the Devourers, are getting closer and closer and destroy everything in their path. Their parents have left to seek the help of a sorcerer. It has been two months since the children were left alone. Charles, a classmate of Gabriel’s, has disappeared. The children want to try and find who is responsible. A teacher then disappears, and Zoe who has the ability to detect lies and see into the future, senses that the lake nearby holds a malevolent presence. One night, in her sleep, Zoe says the word: Elzmarh. After some research, they discover that it is the name of a dragon. The next day, the children discover a dragon in the sky, who seems to attack teachers. The creature demands that everyone leaves the town, or else, it will kill everyone. The parents of Gabriel and Zoe finally find Master Batavius, a powerful sorcerer, committed to fight against the Malenfer forest. He reveals to Gabriel that since he has been marked by the dragon, he is now an apprentice: and he also has powers.
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From 10 years old
Fiction Yael Hassan 19.4 cm - 13.5 cm 136 pages 7,85€
M as in… Yaël Hassan Available
How to tackle bullying and violence in school? Year 8 pupil Mylène has her own idea of how to stampit out. Mylène is 12 years old and has had a lot on her plate since her parents divorced. As if the trauma wasn’t enough, she has to deal with being bullied by of a group of teenage girls who wait for her every morning at the gates of her suburban Paris secondary school. In a couple of months, however, Mylène’s attitude develops from one of a shy teenage girl to one of a strong-willed young woman. The highly talked-about suicide of a 13-year-old boy following his bullying had got her thinking. She refuses to suffer any similar treatment ever again and is ready to take action to prevent everyone else from suffering it too. She soon becomes class rep and a young mediator at her school. In a tone both light and serious, this new book by Yaël Hassan tackles the theme of school violence through the eyes of a young teenager of today, preoccupied by a complicated family situation but also by the upheaval of the development of feelings such as love.
By the same author From Sacha to Macha The Music teacher Albert the toubab A Granddady fallen to earth On the other side of the wall The good colour
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From 12 years old
Fiction Annelise Heurtier 14.5 cm - 20 cm 208 pages 12€
Where Clouds Are Born Annelise Heurtier April 2014
The tale of a very tormented teenage girl, who comes back from a summer in Mongolia, changed forever. Amelia is 16 years old and her parents, albeit very loving, don’t have any time for her. Food and overeating have become her refuge. Amelia carries around the weight of her body and her undesirable kilos like a punishment. But one day, an unexpected letter from Mongolia comes through the post and completely shakes her daily life. It will take her to the very poor streets of Oulan-Bator, Mongolia, where she decides to spend her summer working for an NGO specialising in helping children in need. With Isaure, who has lived in Mongolia for a while, and knows the reality of it all too well, Amelia is confronted by the harsh street violence and misery of the people of Mongolia. Utterly shaken and forced into reconsidering her own issues and certainties, Amelia grows fond of a little homeless boy, Mukshuk, and will do all she can to try and find a fugitive pregnant teenager, who urgently needs looking after if she wants her baby to have a chance of survival. At the end of an awakening and emotional journey of several weeks in the land where the ‘clouds are born’, Amelia will find out more about herself than she could ever have anticipated: her identity and innate truths, which will be crucial in becoming the adult that she is growing into. This is a highly credible and somewhat surprising coming-of-age story by the very talented author of Red Diary and Sweet Sixteen. At the back of this real identity quest stands the honest and touching picture of what Mongolia looks like today.
By the same author The Red Diary Sweet Sixteen
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From 12 years old
Fiction
13,5 cm – 19,4 cm 160 pages 9,95€
The Magic Tangram – Vol. I The Peony Mystery Florence Lamy and Amandine Laprun August 2014
The first of a new four-book series focused around Li-Na’s exciting adventures in Ancient China. Like everywhere else in China, today is Double Ninth Festival day in Hangzhou. But for Li-Na, today’s extra special since it marks the tenth anniversary of when she was discovered on the steps of an ancient temple as an abandoned baby; only one day after the big fire that destroyed most of the city. She has since then been taken care of by Grandma Dong. She still wonders whether her parents were really killed in the fire as everyone keeps telling her. As she is just coming back from a day of labour by the lake where she sells tortoise-shaped lucky charms, she is welcomed by a surprise birthday party thrown by Grandma Dong, who has also invited Mr. Zhou, the apothecary of the city. He has a present for her: a beautiful Tangram puzzle made out of ebony wood, rumoured to be magical. Intrigued at first, she soon becomes addicted to the gimmick, which as she is drawing figures with it, seems to be sending her cryptic messages. She will eventually learn to use it to decipher the mystery of a stolen painting. While on the case, she befriends Cheng, a young tea trader, who will come join her in her adventures…
With the surprising figures that the magical Tangram draws in each of the books, Li-Na, amateur magician, decipher clues and resolves a specific mystery in each of the titles. In time, the Tangram will also help her out to uncover her own life mystery: discover what happened to her parents. A real tangram game, with magnetic orange pieces is offered as a cover mount.
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From 12 years old
Fiction Anne Pouget 13,5 cm – 21 cm 260 pages 12,00€
The Bearer of Words Anne Pouget September 2014
Anne Pouget’s latest title set in medieval times, which takes us to both Paris and Venice with a young poor heroine at its heart and the backdrop of the rise of the printing industry. Paris, 1499. While France is celebrating Louis XII’s rise to the throne, Pernelle, a young and modest water bearer dreams of a better life. Truly fascinated by the idea of writing and reading, both talents which are on the rise thanks to the printing industry becoming bigger by the day and books getting a wider distribution, she sets herself the challenge of educating herself. She eventually meets Enzo, a young Italian student, who, in return for her friendship, accepts to help her out in her task. Struck by bad luck, with her father Arsene having succumbed to illness and her mother Rolande imprisoned on suspicion of witchcraft, Pernelle is in desperate need of money and accepts she must leave for Italy to sell a few manuscripts on behalf of Antoine Vérard, a bookseller and publisher friend who has entrusted her with these. In Italy, as she is conducting her task, she meets a lot of different people which in time lead her to Aldo Manuzio, the famous printer and inventor of the italics characters. Whilst at his side, she helps him to put together an innovative new form of printing: the in-octavo book, ancient precursor of the paperback. Back in Paris, stronger with her new skills, she secures herself a paid position at Antoine Vérard’s and meets her friend Enzo again, who she couldn’t stop thinking of, and in time, reunites with her mother. Pernelle’s adventures have not only made her an adult, but also a very different person – from a modest water bearer, she has grown to become a genuine bearer of words.
By the same author: Beyond the Horizon The last Games of Pompeï - What a time! Inch’Allah - Montfaucon’s Mist The Mystery of the Stones 76
From 12 years old
Fiction Christel Mouchard 13,5 cm - 21 cm 128 pages 13,00€
The Apache With Blue Eyes Christel Mouchard 7 January 2015
May 1870, Herman, 11 years old, is kidnapped by Apaches. First they treat him as a slave, but then Herman realises that he is being offered from leader of the tribe to his wife who can not have children. His new family makes a true apache warrior out of him. At the age of 20, during the war against the "Pale faces," Herman is recognized by soldiers. Back to the Indian camp, he finds out his adoptive parents are dead. At this point, he decides to follow the path of peace by becoming the intermediator between Indians and Whites of America. Eventually he will go back to his first family and the memories of his life before he is kidnapped will return gradually.
By the same author A Girl in the forest Devi The African Princess Volume I & II The Secret of the Jade Statue 77
From 12 years old
Fiction
Carabosse – The Legend of the Five Kingdoms Michel Honaker
Available 13,5 cm – 21 cm 386 pages 14,00€
The legend of the evil fairy from Sleeping Beauty. Beautiful Cara is cursed: she is a hunchback. Lonely and lacking love, she falls into the dark side of magic, eventually becoming the Evil Wind Fairy. She turns her bitterness towards her sister and curses her entire lineage. Her sister is none other than the beautiful Aurora, the Sleeping Beauty. After 99 years, as the last surviving fairy to have escaped the dreadful ruling of Carabosse, Lilac begins her search for prince charming, destined to save Princess Aurora, who fell asleep on the day of her 18th birthday. Hugo, a young street jester, is the one the fates have decided should fall in love with the princess. He alone may wake the beautiful Aurora while Lilac must face Carabosse, who has transformed herself into a dragon to destroy her enemies once and for all.
13,5 cm – 21 cm 160 pages 12,50€
Vinyle Vincent Brunner Available
Thanks to a bag of old vinyl records found at her grandparents, Eva begins to unravel the secrets of her birth. Eva is in year 11. She lives for music and rock’n’roll music follows her everywhere with her headphones, in her bedroom or on the bus. One day, her grandparents entrust her with a bag of old vinyl records which used to belong to her biological father, who died just before she was born. These records upset her a lot more than she would like to admit. A terrible anger builds inside her and after getting into a fight with a girl in her school, she is expelled for three days. Three days which allow her to think about and better understand that her biological father is actually part of her, that she must accept losing him, and grieve for him. Especially as she discovers she has lots of things in common with him: most obviously her love of rock music.
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From 10 years old
From 12 years old
Fiction
13,5 cm – 21 cm 336 pages 14,5€
The Death Shifters Fabrice Colin Available
What if death was a family business? As she suddenly witnesses this transition from life to death, Angel’s life is suddenly threatened. She becomes a bate… Angel’s uncle has left her some rather strange looking glasses. As she puts them on her nose, she can’t believe her eyes: she can now witness the transition from life to death. But who are these weird members of the Cooper family? And what is their link to the disturbing employees who guide the spirits to the gates of death? A riveting novel.
By the same author: The Uncommon Life of Common People
13,5 cm – 21 cm 224 pages 13,00€
Listen to my Beating Heart Nathalie Le Gendre Available
Lula is determined to live as a musician, happy, free and in love ! Lula is 17 years old, her mother is super protective and is preventing her to live her life and play music. For her holidays Lula is allowed to visit a friend in the capital: over there she discovers freedom love and music as she meets Mathias a young cellist. A beautiful book full of strong emotion which deals with the themes of independence, family ties and coming of age.
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From 13 years old
From 13 years old
Fiction
13,5 cm – 21 cm 192 pages 12,00€
A Gun to the head Claire Mazard September 2014
How does a young teenager, a child-soldier recruited by force, make any sense of his life?
Appolinaire is a young African teenager raised in a home near Paris. As a child he was removed from his family to become a child-soldier by a group of military rebels from an African country, which we ignore the name. Drugged, manipulated, he remembers these moments of extreme violence from which he was getting intoxicated. He is haunted by the memory of Wamba, his best friend, killed by the leader because he was too weak. Now safe, the young man reassesses his past and attempts to rebuild himself. Friendly encounters on his life journey will give him hope.
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From 13 years old
Fiction
21 x 13,5 cm 224 pages 12,00 euros
If I was a dream… Charlotte Bousquet February 2015
A beautiful and moving spiritual epistolary friendship 16 year old Lina and Nour are in year 11. One lives in Sofia in Bulgaria, the other in the Parisian suburbs. Under the supervision of their teachers they begin writing to each other and soon they start exchanging secrets. Lina expresses her outrage at the corrupt state of Eastern European countries while Nour reveals to her friend the intense uneasiness which consumes her. They gradually support each other until one day Lina announces that she is coming to visit her friend. But Nour refuses to see her. When they ultimately meet, Nour’s secret is out in the open.
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From 13 years old
Fiction
16 cm – 32 cm 352 pages 15,00€
Penelope Green – 4 titles Beatrice Bottet Available A great series with a very strong female heroine. The writing of this series is engaging and captivating and the world of Penelope Green is intriguing and mysterious, fraught with danger and unexpected turns of event…making each book a fast paced and very exciting read. There are also distinct repetitive features: Penelope’s fiercely independent will, the development of a semiromance with her “bodyguard”, Cyprien Bonaventure, and her nose for a story (and for danger!). Interestingly, the author has chosen to set the stories in a lost time, the late 19th century, when female character were rarely independent, so Penelope Green is a very distinctive and unusual character, which creates a strong ‘follow-ability’ 80.000 copies sold so far.
14,5 cm – 22 cm 432 pages 15,00€
Purple Moon – 4 titles Marilou Aznar Available
From 13 years old
The much anticipated and very explosive final instalment to the unusual destiny of a teenager looking for her lost mother. Purple Moon introduces us to a young high-school student called Séléné Savel who discovers, after a series of rather dramatic events, that her mum, who mysteriously disappeared, is in fact from somewhere else entirely: a parallel universe called Viridan where an ancient Mesopotamian civilisation settled under the powers of an intelligent Moon, Ishtar, worshiped like a god. With nothing else to go on except this new destiny she had to fulfil, Séléné has had many adventures, travelling from one world to the other, growing stronger and more mature in the process. In this final book, plenty of new adventures draw the series to its final climax.
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From 8 years old
Non Fiction
28 cm – 25 cm 48 pages 16,75€
The Night Book Valerie Gidoux and Hélène Rajack September 2014
A beautiful exploration of night and night-time in all of its aspects, halfway between core nonfiction and lyrical evocation. Night-time. A beautifully rich and vast universe in itself, with its myriad of creatures and phenomena. A universe so vast you could spend a night getting to know it, in the same manner this picture book does, starting from twilight to the early stages of dawn… At night, many things happen. First, it is sleeptime, a time we get off our daily lives, during which most of us sleep, but there are many other things to know about: the moon and the constellations, night-time animals, nocturnal creatures born out of human imagination, but all of those awake who work and enjoy life overnight too as well as many other nocturnal creatures and surprising events. Each night theme is treated in one or several spreads and given a rather poetical chapter heading such as ‘A Journey through Twilight’, ‘Shhh...They’re sleeping’ or ‘Light Show’. Fascinating and informative facts meet the often surprising illustrations by Hélène Rajcak. A unique non-fiction title laid out like a journey through nightlife, to be read like a story you wish had no ending from the early evening … until the break of dawn.
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Non Fiction
Where does the word internet come from? The funny origin of words
From 8 years old
13,5 cm – 18 cm 96 pages 6,10€
Géraldine Smith September 2014
Track down the etymology of everyday words through strange little stories, funny, unusual and very unexpected! Did you know that snails carry scallops on their backs? Or the ‘@’ sign existed in the Middle Ages? Or that “O.K.” was created from a spelling mistake? Do you know the juicy stories behind harmless pastries and cakes such as the croissant or the rum baba? Or the disturbing stories behind the naming of ‘shark’ or ‘work’? As for the famous ‘selfie’, it existed well before the use of mobile phones as cameras! Discover the amusing origin of all these words and plenty more! Dive into the depths of the history of language, with each little story as surprising as the next! The familiar words that we use every day won’t ever sound the same to you…
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From 6 years old
Non Fiction
19 cm – 25 cm 112 pages 15,00€
The Book of Seasons Sophie Coucharrière and Hervé Le Goff March 2015
Four days in the life of a little boy in kindergarten: in spring, summer, autumn and in winter. What’s the weather like? What clothes should he wear? What different foods will he be eating? Packed with information frames, definitions, recipes, nursery rhymes, and extra ‘Did you know?’ panels, this is a perfect book to learn about the seasons. The compilation of four successful picture books A child-friendly narrative structure using the ‘a day in the life’ device that encourages easy identification with the main character
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Non Fiction
All the Children Have the Same Rights!
From 8 years old
16,5 cm – 24 cm 18 pages 15,00€
Dieter Berstecher, Thierry Delahaye and Aline Bureau Available
All over the world, all children have the same rights. But these fundamental rights are not respected everywhere: illiteracy, destitution, slavery, violence or armed conflicts, are some examples where the children’s rights are not respected. Fortunately, countless organisations exist to help them. Illustrated with children’s testimonials, the book gives a positive view on the progress children’s rights have made, without hiding the truth that can sometimes be harsh.
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From 8 years old
Non Fiction
28 x 21.5 cm 56 pages 13.50 euros
Lookalike animals Bednar Sylvie March 2015
Frog or toad? Whale or sperm whale? Cheetah or Leopard ? Wasp or bee ? Who has never wondered about the differences between the two? This book is the perfect answer to the question how to differentiate lookalike animals! It provides a detailed description of each animal, its shape, size and colour, in short all of its particular characteristics always in comparison with the lookalike animal. This amusing yet informative documentary looks at the differences between 25 pairs of animals, with a fresh and colourful layout.
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From 8 years old
Non Fiction
What Happens in the World? At the Time of the Pyramids
19,5 cm – 26 cm 64 pages 15,00€
Benjamin Bachelier and Thierry Delahaye Available
Discover more about the mysteries of the pyramids with thisdiverse approach to the world of Ancient Egypt. From 3000 to 2000 BCE: that’s how long it took the Egyptians to transform the banks of the Nile into the site of the Pharaohs that we now know well, where pyramids stand and a Sphinx towers up high. But also elsewhere in the world … many other architectural feats come into being and will punctuate the millennium (i.e. the Indus valley, the tunnel under Euphrates’ tomb, the Palace of Knossos). The world is revolutionised by the invention of writing in Mesopotamia, the mastering of irrigation in China and the conquest of new territories (Europe, Middle East). A lively revisit to antiquity, where there are plenty to meet, like Gilgamesh and the native Indians of the Great Plains, Sargon of Akkad, the aboriginals of Australia, Kheops but also the Mintotaur. A huge historic frieze which ranges from the alignments of Carnac to the desertification of the Sahara, the Mayan hills in Yucatan to the domestication of horses and the rearing of silkworm.
What Happens in the World? At the Time of Christopher Columbus
19,5 cm – 26 cm 64 pages 15,00€
Marie de Monti and Thierry Delahaye Available
Learn more about the adventures of Christopher Columbus with this diverse approach to the world at the time of great discoveries. 1492: Christopher Columbus approaches America, opening the pathway to Vasco, Gama, and Magellan. But elsewhere in the world… Chinese explorer Zengh He had preceded him on the seven seas as the head of a flotilla of 62 junk boats - boats which inspired the creation of Portuguese sailing ships, launched to discover the new world, directed by navigation instruments invented by the Arabs, which at this time were fleeing Spain because of its Catholic Kings… A fascinating discovery of the Renaissance which features many historical heroes such as Vlad the Emperor, Anne of Brittany, Leonardo de Vinci, Gutenburg, Cortes or Babur ‘the Tiger’. A vast historic frieze ranging from the Songhai Empire to Turkish domination in the Mediterranean, from Tenochtitlan chocolate to the giraffe of Nanking, and from the rise of Joan of Arc to the pillage of the Incas.
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Forthcoming title : What happens in the World at the time of the Roman Empire
From 14 years old
Non Fiction
20 cm – 30 cm 96 pages 16,95€
Nasty Legends Sophie Lamoureux and Virginie Berthemet 15 October 2014
A guide to the worse and nastiest figures of History, from Antiquity to Modern Day. Remembering the bad and ugly is also part of our work of remembrance. We all know the most famous and heroic people in History, but how about the others? The crazies, the traitors, the tyrants, the criminals, the dictators, the assassins, the bad and plain horrible? Nasty Legends introduces children to the abominable characters in history, often detested, controversial, who horrified their people but have nonetheless marked history and played a part in it. Here is a very comprehensive guide to the worst of men (there actually were only a few bad women) along with of all of the reasons why they were so detestable: i.e. Herodias, Akhenaton, Nero, Attila, Genghis Khan, Ivan the Terrible, Pierre Cauchon, Torquemada, Cortes, Henry VIII, Robespierre, Rasputin, MarieAntoinette, Custer or else, closer to us, Hitler and other Nazis, Pinochet, Ceausescu or Pol Pot. Each figure is given full spread treatment, with a high level of illustration, along with a short informative text written in the form of a shameless biography. A must-have and the last piece needed to complete History’s puzzle!
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Non Fiction
Do your dreams hide beneath your pillow?
From 7 years old
17 cm – 23 cm 32 pages 12,50€
Anne Terral and Amélie Fontaine 14 October 2014
A picture book written in nursery rhyme format to take us into the wonderful whirlpool of childhood memories.
‘Is a book happy to be opened for the first time?’ ‘Will your shadow dare one day to go far from you?’ ‘Do the walls regret not being able to walk?’ ‘How does summer morning feel about always being the first to get up?’ ‘And the holiday road, is it as desperate as you to put its feet in the water?’ A text like a catchy nursery rhyme which accurately explores the vivid imagination of children. The poetry and the charming nostalgia of childhood are brought together in this book like no other.
Anne Terral was born in Toulouse in 1970. Editor and author, she writes for both children and adults. She lives and works in Paris. Amélie Fontaine was born in 1987. After having studied decorative arts in Paris, she launched her career in illustrated books and also works for the press. She has already published with Helium and Gallimard Jeunesse.
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From 8 years old
Non Fiction Philosophy
19,5 cm – 25,5 64 pages 13,50€
Beauty According to Ninon Oscar Brenifier and Delphine Perret Available
Ninon is always asking many questions and in this particular book she invites us to think about the concept of « beauty ». What is beauty? What makes something beautiful? Is it to do with feelings? Is beauty subjective or objective? How to recognise a work of art when one sees one? Many questions that Ninon asks and invites the reader to think about. In this new book the author talks in an innovative and creative way about beauty. Ninon’s way of thinking improves gradually thanks to dialogue, anectodes and the confrontation of ideas. She brings the reader to ask even more questions
Also available Love According to Ninon Hapiness According to Ninon Truth According to Ninon 91
From 6 years old
Non Fiction Playmobil 30 cm – 30 cm 96 pages 18,50€
Sherlock Holmes and the Hound of the Baskervilles Richard Unglik Available
After working on several documentary titles, Richard Unglik is presenting his first Playmobil fiction. A successful photographer, Richard Unglik is the inventor of a unique concept beyond the norm: the reconstruction of whole worlds, using figurines and elements of Playmobil. The real images that he composes in this way are photographed one at the time and they are organised so that they can tell a story. Besides their precision and the complexity of the work that they demand, these images full of details are also remarkable for their sense of humour.
Also available : History with Playmobil The Animals with Playmobil Around the World with Playmobil
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From 9 years old
Non Fiction Philosophy
15,5 cm – 22,5 cm 48 pages 10,00€
And What About Polititcs? Jeanne Boyer and Mauro Mazzari September 2014
A collection of philosophical works mixing knowledge and humour for a young readership.
A reflection at a child’s comprehension level on the questions about our role in society, the role of the state, equality and freedom, beliefs and ideas, supported by quotations from Locke, Marx and Rawls, and punctuated by the illustrations of Mauro Mazzari. What if we talked about Politics? follows the main principles already established in the collection: first essays in dialectics via little stories in which the reader is the hero, commentary on imagery, explaining quotes from the great thinkers, all of which is interspersed with games (puzzles, proverbs to unravel), quizzes and mini comic strips.
Also available Why is This Right? Why is This Wrong? How do You Know What You Know? Can You Decide to be Happy? Can You Live Without Others?
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From 7 years old
Non Fiction
17 cm – 22 cm 80 pages 14,50€
Archie Rabbit’s Big Questions Astrid Desbordes and Claudia Boldt Seprtember 2014
Dear reader, time to brace yourself! Archie Rabbit is going to challenge all of our commonly accepted ideas.
Archie Rabbit, despite looking somewhat of a simpleton, is a rabbit of the highest intelligence… This Socrates of modern times will astound you! In three different parts, he is asking himself (and you) many questions: for example, who is he exactly, what does he like, and what does he know? Would he still be a rabbit if he didn’t have his big ears? And you, if we took away your big ears, would you still be you? Why, he wonders also, does he love carrot crisps so much, and his darling Pamlita? Why don’t words come out when we really want them to? Is it possible to understand big, complex things when you are only small, or is it only possible for adults? The text, written with wit and a wry kind of humour, approaches the questions that are of interest to everyone, young and old alike, with subtlety and a pinch of philosophy. A gift for everyone to enjoy!
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From 7 years old
Non Fiction
25 cm – 30 cm 96 pages 12,00€
Graal – The Ledgend of the Kights Christian de Montella 12 November 2014
Ride next to the legendary knights of the Round Table and join in the quest for the Holy Grail.
A work richly illustrating the legend of the Holy Grail in the shape of a collection of adventures. From the origins of the quest for the Holy Grail to the legends of the people who shaped its path: Merlin, the witch Morgana, King Arthur, Viviane, and the knights Lancelot, Perceval and Galahad.
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Characters Chamalo
Chamalo Discovers Figures, Shapes, Colours and Frutis
15,5 cm – 15,5 cm 16 pages 2,95€
Marion Billet Available
18 cm – 18 cm 24 pages 5,50€
Chamalo storybooks Marion Billet and Charlotte Moundlic 20 titles available
Chamalo is Afraid ofEverything - Chamalo loves School - Chamalo is looking for the Easter Eggs Chamalo sleeps at Papouille’s - Chamalo is Jealous - Chamalo and the Epiphany Cake - Chamalo and his Baby Sitter - Chamalo Celebrates Christmas - Chamalo’s Birthday - Chamalo doesn’t want to eat his Soup - Chamalo doesn’t want to lend - Chamalo takes the Train - Chamalo lends his Pot - Chamalo is back to School - Chamalo goes to the Swimming Pool - Chamalo goes to the Doctor - Chamalo goes to the Beach - Chamalo is up to No Good - Chamalo does not want to go to sleep - Chamalo is looking for his Friend 25 cm – 18 cm 10 pages 3,95€
Chamalo Stickers Book Marion Billet 4 titles available
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Characters Little Rascal 18,5 cm – 19 cm 16 pages 5,50€
Little Rascal Celebrates Christmas Emile Jadoul November 2014
Also available: Little Rascal goes to the doctor Little Rascal doesn’t like the soup Little Rascal goes fishing Little Rascal celebrates his birthday Little Rascal has forgotten his teddy bear Little Rascal doesn’t want to go to school Little Rascal wants to go camping Little Rascal, movie star Little Rascal rides a bike
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