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Des cupcakes
CONTENTS ts magne matériel
Tissus épais (25/10 cm) Formes de papier pour cakes Épingles Perles colorées Aimants Colle forte
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Avec le tissu, faites un long boudin et ensuite enroulez-le en spirale sur lui-même. Fixez-le avec 1 ou 2 épingles.
Collez cette spirale dans une forme à cake.
Collez un aimant en dessous
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Ajoutez des perles et éventuellement un filet de peinture imitation chocolat.
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TODDLERS
PICTURE BOOKS
ACTIVITY BOOKS
FICTION
NON FICTION
CHARACTERS
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TODDLERS Gipsy the spider By Aurélie Guillerey 27 cm – 15,3 cm 24 pages 9,95€
ONE BY ONE BOARD BOOKS
The little boat By Laure du Fay
from 2 years old
My beautiful Xmas tree By Mylène Rigaudie
There is a fire By Émile Jadoul
Gipsy the spider climbs a gutter….oh, here comes the rain and gipsy falls down…and she is not the only one falling dawn, as the story progresses all the animals in the garden also fall down from somewhere; Leo the flea or Lili the ant, Esther the worm or Bella the lady bird. Help!!! Everybody is upside down!
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The little green mice The turtle’s family The little chick The dangling elephant Ten little hens Let’s take a walk in the woods
Love you so much It’s the little animal that…. Through the window Everybody goes there… Simon says…
The pacifier All the way Hello owl Little snail My house
TODDLERS
Hairy Paws
HAIRY PAWS
By Bénédicte Guettier
TOUCH AND FEEL
SMALL BOOKS WITH FABRIC 16,7 cm – 17,3 cm 10 pages 12,95€
from 12 month old
To be a big nasty wolf
I say MOO I say MOO says the cow with a smile. And I say croak says 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 to bed!
Don’t be scared
It’s me the king of animals
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.
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TODDLERS
CLAUDIA BIELINSKY
Funny Luggage
NOVELTY BOOKS
by Claudia Bielinsky BOARD BOOK WITH FLAPS 20,8 cm – 27,8 cm 16 pages 13,50€
The nicest present of all By Claudia Bielinsky BOARD BOOK WITH POP-UP 21 cm – 27,9 cm 22 pages 13,50€
Claudia Bielinsky
from 2 years old
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www.casterman.com N001
ISBN 978-2-203-06383-9
13,50€
It’s daddy bear’s birthday and he has been promised the nicest pesent in the world!!! An animated book full of surprises.
Each of these weird animals has its own suitcase. What could the funny suitcase contain? In Armand the Bear’s there are his…. underpants! Very large underpants! And in Agathe’s, hundreds of shoes, but that’s normal for a centipede. Antoine the mole stuffs his glasses in it. And Aurelie, a very pretty mammoth girl, carries her make up, brushes and perfumes. What’s in Bertrand’s tiny suitcase? His car keys, so he can take all his friends on a trip!
Daddy bear wakes up in a good mood, today it’s his birthday. However in a letter he finds in the kitchen his little ones inform him that they are out shopping, that he will need to have a little patience and that he will have to wait until they get back to open his present.
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TODDLERS
Can you spot Goldie Locks? By Jacky Goupil and Marie Kyprianou
CAN YOU SPOT ? BOARD BOOKS
BOARD BOOKS 23 cm – 28 cm 12 pages 7,50€
from 2 years old
Can you spot the kitten? By Jacky Goupil and Laure du Faÿ 23 cm – 28 cm 12 pages 7,50€
Can you spot the princess? Can you spot the truck of the fire brigade? Can you spot the little red ridding hood? Can you spot the big bad wolf? Can you spot the father Xmas? Can you spot the Easter Eggs? Can you spot the Cuddly Toy? Can you spot the Witch?
Two new titles in this collection designed to play: you need to find Goldie Locks or the kitten in different rich and colourful illustrations.
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TODDLERS
What is it?
WHAT IS IT?
By Bénédicte Guettier BOARD BOOKS WITH HOLES 14,5 cm – 14,5 cm 12 pages 7,95€
Whose Eyes Are Those Big Eyes?
from 12 month old
What’s in There? By the way, what’s in there ? A bird? A spider? An elephant? Unless it’s a mouse, or a giraffe? No no no! I’ve got it! It’s a cuddly toy… that’d like to have a kiss!
Whose eyes are those big eyes? Do they belong to that snail passing by? To this little frog? To this giraffe? Unless they belong to the adorable dog? Or to this big bad wolf? Of course not! They are yours! And it’s about time to close them!
What Are Those Tiny Holes?
What’s That Thing?
By the way, what could they be, those tiny holes? The portholes of an enormous ship? A cat mask? Glasses? Two cupcakes? No no no! I’ve got it! Those holes are the nostrils of a tiny pig who loves to put his finger in them
It’s round, soft and noisy… but what’s that thing? It’s nice, funny. Oh, yes, I’ve got it! It’s a kiss on your cheek before you go to sleep!
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TODDLERS
My very first tale
MY VERY FIRST TALE
By Marianne Dubuc BOARD BOOK 20,2 cm – 20,8 mm 20 pages 9,95€
3/5 years old
The ugly duckling Hansel and Gretel The Three Little Pigs
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Goldilocks and the Three Bears The little red ridding hood The Wolf and the Seven dwarfs
TODDLERS Don’t make that funny face!
FUNNY FACE
Don’t make that Scary face!
By Nathalie Dieterlé and Patricia Berreby BOARD BOOK WITH HANDLES 28 cm – 25 cm 12 pages 12,75€
3/5 years old
A new collection of animated books to read and play with. With handles that allow the child to hold the book in front of his face and eyes, each book opens into a mask and pop-ups to make the different faces. Simply hilarious! Each volume is thematic. The first title is about animal moods: the crocodile who weeps, the wolf that is hungry etc. The second one is about scary characters: vampires, witches, ogres and wolves.
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TODDLERS The funny dictionary of animals By Elisabeth Brami and Tor Freeman 14 cm – 14 mm 208 pages 14,95€
Caméléon Vert sur les feuilles, brun sur le tronc, Qui a vu le caméléon ?
Cochon Le cochon n’est pas maigrichon, À part sa queue en tire-bouchon.
100 animals that make you laugh! Feel like chatting? Go and see the parrot, he repeats words without ever stopping. Feel like some exercise? Little fowl runs all day long. Feel like a rest? Join the pink flamingo and rest on a leg. Fancy a bite? Rush to get a crumb, the sparrows are coming.
from 2 years old
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TODDLERS
My hat
CHARACTERS TOUCH AND FEEL
By Émile Jadoul 19 cm – 15,5 cm 14 pages 12,50€
My house
Tickle/Tickle
In the water! 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. Abracadabra!
A stroll into the enchanted world of Emile Jadoul!
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ÉMILE JADOUL
TODDLERS JANIK COAT
Clotaire dresses up(again)!
Romi at the beach
By Janik Coat
By Janik Coat
16 cm – 20 cm 128 pages 14,50€
14,5 cm – 18,2 cm 32 pages 9,90€
from 4 years old
H TOUC L EE AND F
Romi is a funny rhyno who likes to play with opposites. At the beach it can be hi tide or low tide, you can be sun tanned or not, you can sun bathe or moon bathe….The young reader will thouroughly enjoy the discovery of the seaside with Romi the rhino who has fun with all the opposites!
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!
ABC Menagerie
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Hippopposites
TODDLERS The First Easter Egg
NOVELTY BOOKS
By Zemanel and Amélie Dufour
My book of teddies Where are they hidden? By Sebastien Pelon
21 cm – 29,7 cm 32 pages 10,5€
22 cm – 22 cm 12 pages 13€
from 18 month old
A book to observe and touch that will help the child find the hidden teddies.
Chicky has just laid her first egg! But while on her way to the Egg Fair, she encounters a series of adventures that stain the egg with mud, tree leaves, sand and flower petals. Surprisingly, her egg ends up being so well decorated that it wins first prize at the Egg Fair.
On each page the teddies are playing hide and seek. However among the teddy bears, rabbits, cows, elephants or donkeys only one has a coloured label. On the side of the page, coloured bows made out of different fabrics allow us to identify the particular teddy amongst all the images.
Zemanel’s famous tale about the origins of Easter eggs, now published in an egg-shaped book.
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TODDLERS My very first stories BOARDBOOK 18,5 cm – 18,5 cm 6 double pages with padded cover and round corners 7,50€
MY VERY FIRST STORIES
In the arms… Élisabeth Coudol, Sigrid Martinez
My favourite kiss Élisabeth Coudol, Kim Sejung
Hey ho, hey ho, let’s go with the flow, let’s drift on the water All cuddled-up in the arms of Grandpa Sailor. Beddy-bies beddy-bies… close your eyes , snuggle-up In the comfy arms of Grandma-Cuddles. . (…)
A peck in the neck, A kiss on the forehead A peck on the cheek What’s your favourite kiss?
A sweet melodious tale about a baby who is passed on from arms to arms to his greatest delight!
A tender and poetic text in the world of animals. from 1/2 years old Lily’s day Élisabeth Coudol, Géraldine Cosneau
Plop Splat Pitapat Frédéric Maupomée, Mélusine Allirol
Who sings in the mornings? It’s lily the Canary, who babbles and tweets! Who hops about in the grass? It’s lily the sheep, who bounces in leaps!
Plop, a drop on the nose Splat, a drop on the toes Pitapat, what heavy weather Let’s run for shelter
A cheerful tune and miming game about the highlights of the day.
A catchy tale about the fun to be had in the rain.
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TODDLERS
My first stories
MY FIRST STORIES
18 cm – 21,5 cm 24 pages 7,50€
Trot Trot goes the mouse Anne Fronsacq, Anne Montel The nightmare Frédéric Maupomée, Claire Dufay
Not a sound in the savannah The animals are all asleep And suddenly, a leaf falls to the ground Startled Little mouse runs out of her hole…
During the day I lie low, Well hidden in the draws I patiently await for nightfall I’m the biggest nightmare of all
A tiny little noise and suddenly all the savannah annimals are running for their lives! A funny little tale about the foolishness of panicking.
A tale about how to tame one’s nightmares and go to sleep peacefully! from 2/3 years old Yucky, Icky, Poo ! Magdalena, Claire Frossard
Not my bedtime! Magdalena, Marion Piffaretti
Lola wears her potty on her head To hide away from the scorching sun - This potty-hat is far too warm for me!
– It’s nap time ! says Mummy – No not now, I’m playing ! Answers Lucas as he opens up a new game
Lola is old enough to go on the potty. But first she needs to get used to the idea… and so must her teddy!
Most children go through a phase of refusing to go to sleep.. Lucas feels sufficiently grown-up to decide. And as he finally decides that it is bed time for his teddy he realises it would also be good for him to rest now.
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PICTURE BOOKS The snowman and the bird
Tales from Russia
By Alice Brière-Haquet and Clotilde Perrin
By Robert Giraud and Sébastien Pelon
19,5 cm – 24 cm 24 pages 10,50€
22 cm – 24 cm 24 pages 17€
from 4 years old
from 5 years old
12 tales, beautifully illustrated to initiate the young readers to the Russian culture.
In the middle of winter, a snowman shelters a little bird in his scarf to keep him warm. The bird nestles comfortably in the garment and to thank him he starts telling tales from exotic, warm, far-away countries. When spring arrives the snowman melts and only the branches are left.
Set in the great plains, the vast forests or the snowy region of Siberia, these twelve tales will take the reader to the heart of the Russian traditions. Full of animals such as the cunning fox, or the friendly bear, these tales also stage brave children as well as terrifying characters such as Baba Yaga the evil witch.
A poetic text about friendship and the arrival of spring.
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PICTURE BOOKS Kongjwi, the other Cinderella
The tree of peace
By Lim Yeong-hee and Marie Caillou 28 cm – 36 cm 32 pages 17€
By Anne Jonas and Régis Lejonc 28 cm – 36 cm 32 pages 17€
from 5 years old
from 6 years old
Once upon a time there was Cinderella….in Asia.
Even after the death of Youba the tree above his tomb continues to grow and spread the message of peace around the world….
Kongjwi, a beautiful girl lived under the grip of a hideous step mother and her daughter. The day of the ball daughter and mother dressed up in their most wonderful clothes and while leaving the house made sure that Kongjwi had uderstood the list of task she was supposed to fulfil in their absence.
All around Youba you can hear the sound of war and of cries. He dreams of peace and tries to convince the people of the absurdity of war.
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The Nightingale and the Emperor of China
PICTURE BOOKS The ogre and the orthodontist
By Hans Christian Andersen, illustrated by Qu Lan
By Jean-François Dumont
26 cm – 28 cm 32 pages 13,25€
from 6 years old
One day, the Emperor of China learns of the existence of a gifted nightingale who sang wonderfully. He orders his people to bring the bird to him and then asks the bird to remain by his side so he can enjoy his singing. But one day, the Emperor prefers a mechanical bird to the nightingale. For a long time, his court and the people admire the mechanical replica, until the fake bird breaks down and doesn’t work anymore. A few years later, the Emperor is sick, and asks the real bird to come back to send Death away with his singing.
24 cm – 30 cm 32 pages 13,25€
Since the ogre has met the orthodontist he has started to eat vegetables! But for how long? The ogre has bitten all the children in the village and has nothing else to eat. Or may be that little man over there…however that is the orthodontist who suggest to the ogre that maybe he should have brand new teeth.
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PICTURE TODDLERS BOOKS CHARACTERS
Thumb By Alice Brière-Haquet and Amélie Graux 19,5 cm – 24 cm 24 pages 10,50€
The Encyclopaedia of Martians By Gwendoline Raisson and Roland Garrigue 24 cm – 30 cm 48 pages 15€
2/3 years old
7/10 years old 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 ? The story of a rebellious thumb who is fed up of being trapped in the mouth of his owner!
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.
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 are awaiting him; learn to play the guitar, build a hut, tame a tiger….Little thumb grows up and so does the young boy!
Simply hilarious!
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PICTURE BOOKS Goldilocks and the Three Bears
CHARLOTTE GASTAUT
Hans Christian Andersen illustrated by Charlotte Gastaut
Gods and Goddesses of the Greek Mythology By Françoise Rachmuhl and Charlotte Gastaut
24 cm – 30 cm 32 pages 13,50€
Other titles available in the series: The twelve labours of Hercules Ulysses’ travels Arabian nights
24 cm – 30 cm 64 pages 15€
from 6 years old
The classic tale revisited by Charlotte Gastaut. Lost in the woods after she wandered off too far away from home, Goldilocks finds a tiny house. It looks very comfortable, so she decides to go in and take a tour. In the kitchen, she tastes the soup. She tries the chairs in the living room, and the beds upstairs. By this time, the inhabitants of the house, a bear family, are back. Imagine their surprise when they find a little girl asleep in one of their beds. Goldilocks awakes with a jolt, runs away!
How did Zeus become king of gods and master of the world? Why did Aphrodite initiate the Trojan wars? This stunning picture book reveals the most incredible secrets of the 12 Olympian deities. A family tree at the beginning of the book enables the reader to understand the complex relationships between the different gods and at the beginning of each chapter each god is presented with a facts card.
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A gripping text enhanced by Charlotte Gastaut’s gorgeous illustrations!
PICTURE BOOKS CHARLOTTE GASTAUT
Thumbelina
The Little Christmas Tree
DonkeySkin
Prudence’s Great Journey Pay a trip into the mind of an imaginative little girl. 100 000 copies sold. Rights sold in Brazil, Germany, Italy, Spain, Sweden. The little mermaid
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Cinderella
The dance party or the worst idea of my entire life
PICTURE BOOKS OLIVIER TALLEC
Kevin and the Extraterrestrials By Laurent Rivelaygue and Olivier Tallec
By Charlotte Moundlic, Olivier Tallec 19,5 cm – 24 cm 32 pages 10,50€
15,5 cm – 25,5 cm 96 pages 10€
from 6 years old
from 8/9 years old 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!
Kevin has three new friends, three extraterrestrials who get in trouble all the time. Kevin, ten years old, will be the next masked hero, at least when he is a grown-up. He has a dad, a mum, a dog named Rufus and three extraterrestrial friends: Nepo the red one, Albert the blue one and Cassius the yellow one. The least that can be said is that they are far from being unnoticed in Kevin’s little village, but they need to fix their shuttle hidden in the forest near the village.
The new funny and touching adventures of the characters from The bathing suit and The shattered heart.
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PICTURE BOOKS Marlaguette
My Shattered Heart The Bathing Suit The scar
OLIVIER TALLEC
By Marie Colmont and Olivier Tallec 28 cm – 26 cm 32 pages 13€
from 4 years old
Waterloo & Trafalgar
Michka 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. 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.
Big Wolf little wolf
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PICTURE BOOKS The Birthday
A Butterfly on a Hat
By Pierre Mornet
By Bruno Gibert
23,5 cm – 28 cm 56 pages 16,50€
23,6 cm – 23,6 cm 48 pages 13,95€
from 8 years old
Après des semaines de traversée,
“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. They 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.
il arriva
enfin chez lui, en
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.
Through this world of dreams and darkness, the author reveals a beautiful friendship.
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PICTURE BOOKS My Dearest Friend
ERIC BATTUT
On the way to holidays
By Éric Battut
By Éric Battut
32 cm – 21 cm 32 pages 13,95€
13,5 cm – 17 cm 12,50€
from 4 years old
A tale about shyness and self-esteem. Mr Tim is very, very shy. But when he meets the discreet Mr Flea, it’s like an epiphany: no lisping, no stuttering, no hesitation… these two are meant to be together.
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?
A beautiful tale about shyness and the selfesteem given by friendship, with a touch of humour.
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PICTURE BOOKS The friendly sloth
WORDLESS STORIES
By Ronan Badel
An Encounter By Princesse Camcam
26 cm – 15 cm 35 pages 12€
26 cm – 15 cm 32 pages 12€
from 3 years old
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!
On a cold winter’s night, a fox desperately seeks a refuge to give birth to her cubs, but the wild animal is not welcome in the village. Luckily a kind young boy will give her shelter for the night. How can she thank him?
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An enchanting picture book about the importance of sharing and mutual assistance.
Football club The chicken thief 10 little clouds The cherry The large seed The day of The Kings Miss Coton
My lion The sad bear The song The fishing party The little cloud Little fish tours the country Fox racing
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Western The little train OTHERS TITLES : Ice Edmond The rooster’s revenge
The fisherman’s dream The path Mr Vadelavant The falling star The factory
PICTURE BOOKS In the snow
My ballerina doll
By Delphine Chedru
By Junko Shibuya
BOARD BOOK 20 cm – 19 cm 40 pages 13,95€
17 cm – 23 cm 40 pages 12,50€
from 3 years old
from 4 years old But who has left those prints in the snow?
“for my fifth birthday my mother made a doll for me…” A young girl fascinated by ballet has a doll that she takes everywhere. It is her best friend….But one night, after her ballet classes the doll falls off her bag and lands on the snow.
The snow has started falling and has covered the whole forest. Little by little the animals come out of their nests and slightly touch the virgin ground: here it could be the boar that went by, or may be the squirrel….could it be the dear or the hedgehog?
A beautiful story with great illustrations that will delight parents and children alike.
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PICTURE BOOKS The Huge little thing
BÉATRICE ALEMAGNA
by Béatrice Alemagna 28 cm – 38 cm 40 pages 18€
Jo the Monkey Boy
A Lion in Paris Prize winner at the Bologna Childrens Book Fair in 2007, and the Rueil-Malmaison prize for illustration 2007.
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.
Karl Ibou
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PICTURE BOOKS The flavour of travels
Follow the guide!
By Anne Bouin and Vincent Bourgeau
By Princesse Camcam BOOK FITH FLAPS 21,6 cm – 28 cm 22 pages 14,50€
14 cm – 20 cm 40 pages 8,95€
from 4 years old
from 5 years old
In an old manor you can find many things from the basement to the loft. Mr Cat has decided to take the little new born puppies for a tour of the manor. Be careful! He warns: in the cupboards and in the drawers there are some really scary animals. As soon as the curious lot gets to the loft they finally find out how scary the other inhabitants really are. A real pleasure to go through all the flaps of this enchanting book!
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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PICTURE BOOKS Talking flowers
Carabinette
By Jean-François Chabas and Joanna Concejo
By Jean Leroy and Beatrice Rodriguez
18 cm – 35 cm 64 pages 16,95€
25,6 cm – 25,8 cm 32 pages 13,95€
from 3 years old
from 8 years old
Three beautiful tales inspired by flowers. Do not disturb a witch when she is studying her spells! One evening, Carabinette the apprentice witch is studying her spells when a toad bursts out of the pond and asks her to turn him into a Prince Charming. Of course it’s impossible; he should have been a prince from the start! “Fair enough, so what can you turn me into?” the toad insists. “What about me?” adds an owl coming out of the night.
Three colours of flowers – a purple tulip, a white carnation and a red poppy flower. With every colour and every flower a totally different story, told by JeanFrançois Chabas and illustrated by the talented Joanna Conjeco. The first tale is set in the beginning of the century in the Netherlands and the main character is an old botanist, who creates a very special tulip, the Purple.
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PICTURE BOOKS Crazy seasons
DAVID SALA
By David Sala and Jean-François Chabas 31 cm – 29 cm 32 pages 14,95€
from 6 years old
Since always seasons follow a specific order, always the same; spring, summer, autumn and winter. After spring would come back and everything started again. Nobody ever thought that things could be different. This is however what a summer day was mumbling in a extremely hot moment. The summer day was truly bored and this is when he decided to do something crazy. He went to visit Mr winter. Can you imagine, skipping Mr Autumn without even saying hello and passing directly to winter. Nobody had ever heard of that. This is how all of a sudden there were all these changes among animals, trees, skies, oceans and humans. Everybody had to learn how to live differently.
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PICTURE BOOKS DAVID SALA
The Enchanted Chest
Happiness in a cage
Banshee’s Wrath
Big Bear
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PICTURE BOOKS Young rabbit dreams of glory
The big chill
By Alexandre Chardin and Mylène Rigaudie 23,4 cm – 31,3 cm 32 pages 13,95€
By Gianni de Conno and Ivan Canu 24,6 cm – 31,8 cm 32 pages 13,95€
from 3 years old
from 6 years old
An unlikely friendship between a lonely wolf and a human.
Achab is a little rabbit who is dreaming to go beyond his land to discover the world. He dreams of adventures just like the ones that his mother reads to him at night. As soon as he can he jumps on a raft ready to face monsters that will cross his path. This is how little rabbit, despite all the warnings he has received form his friends who want to protect him, the prawn, the sparrow and the otter, goes on a great adventure.
The cold weather is on its way, almost there and the wolf is not in a great mood. The thought of spending yet another winter alone, without even a friend. So slowly but surely the wolf calls all the animals in the forest to offer his friendship. Until he meets mankind...
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PICTURE BOOKS TODDLERS Babakunde
CHARACTERS
All white
By Mariona Cabassa and Annelise Heurtier
By Sylvie Serprix and Marie Sabine Roger
28,1 cm – 24,8 cm 32 pages 13,95€
from 4 years old
23,4 cm – 31,3 cm 32 pages 13,95€
from 3 years old
In an imaginary Africa discover the story of a rich and powerful man who is very busy, far too busy, so busy in fact that he forgets the essential…. Babakunde is a very rich man who lives in a big house, travels a lot for his business and has no time for anything else than his pursuit of making more money. Even when his friends die he has no time to go to their funereal. Babakunde will realise too late at his own expense that one cannot expect from others what you are not capable of giving yourself.
The snow has been falling all night and everything is white. However at the end of lake there is a little red dot that is moving. What is it? A fairy? A gnome? Or one of those big bad red wolves? That is the way the narrator is seeing things on that very same cold day surrounded by white snow. Sad thoughts because the narrator is cold and feels the tight grip of the winter. Fortunately the red dot that has not stopped moving and twisting, is soon becoming two legs, two arms a nice chapka and a big parka: it’s an ice-skater, a young girl dancing on ice.
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PICTURE BOOKS ANNE HERBAUTS
Anne Herbauts was born somewhere in Brussels around 1975. She studied at the Academie des BeauxArts of Brussels illustrations and graphic novels. She has, since, published over 30 children’s (and adult’s) books and graphic novels. Some times she spreads herself over other types of writings, short movies, animated films, narrating spaces and huts.
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 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.
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
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INTERVIEW ANNE HERBAUTS
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.
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ACTIVITY BOOKS I make my own books
Are you a genius?
By Nadine Palmaerts and Marie Paruit
By Pilippe Brasseur
23 cm – 23,2 cm 48 pages 14,50€
19,3 cm – 26 cm 80 pages 14,50€
from 3 years old
from 10 years old
A surprising activity book that teaches geniuses secrets. Do geniuses think in a different way to other men? If so, how can we manage to adopt and develop their ideas? This is the premise that the book follows and page by page you will follow Salvador Dali, Charlie Chaplin, Thomas Edison, Vincent Van Gogh or the philosopher Heraclitus. These thinkers, artists or famous scientists have all created in an original and sometimes funny way. 27 special sheets explaining the techniques to become a genius.
A book full of ideas on how to create books while having fun. For the little ones and not so little, keep them entertained by making books, from the simplest note book to the more sophisticated pop up. Everything is easy and fun.
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ACTIVITY BOOKS New Recycl’Creations
Origami Planes and Boat
By Gaétane Lannoy
By Maryse Six
23,2 cm – 23,2 cm 32 pages 8,95€
23,2 cm – 23,2 cm 32 pages 8,95€
Flasks, cans, corks… gather this new range of items and give them a second life. More than ever, it’s time to recycle. But why always give the same material to children? Here is some new material: CD’s, plastic cans, can clips, from which they can create new uncommon objects: an articulated fish made from plastic stoppers, a fake trophy found when hunting down waste.
A new edition of a successful activity book. Due to its success among readers, this book has received a makeover: new layout, new pictures, new format that give more breadth to the creations. Sailing ships, boats and planes of all kinds are on the menu with novelties. Easy creations that’ll entertain kids. They can try them at school during the break… or in the classroom.
There is no limit to creativity.
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ACTIVITY BOOKS A baby on the way!
Go to sleep!
By Catherine Metzmeyer and Lucile Ahrweiller
By Catherine Metzmeyer and Annette Boisnard PADDED COVER 28,7 cm – 27,2 cm - 1,9 cm 80 pages 16,75€
PADDED COVER 23,8 cm – 27,3 cm 80 pages 16,75€
from 3 years old
from 2/4 years old
With padded cover and spiral binding.
100 rituals, games and relaxing activities that will invite children to softly go to sleep.
100 games to help older children understand the big event. The arrival of a new baby. Questions, games, information and activities for the whole family because everybody is really concerned!
How difficult is it to send the little ones to bed? Going to sleep is a very important moment in the life of the little ones: facing the dark and silence. Going, from being together to being alone. So many sensations and emotions! Through a family of reassuring rabbits, this book goes through all the different steps, all the different rituals of going to bed.
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Do-It-Yourself with Your Grandparents
ACTIVITY BOOKS
My Pirate Birthday party My Princess Birthday party
By Catherine Metzmeyer and Annette Boisnard 29,4 cm – 19,5 cm 60 pages 10€
19 cm – 26 cm 128 pages 15€
Lots of activities to do with children from 3 to 12 years old. 46% of older people welcome their grandchildren on Wednesday afternoons or during school holidays. Games and activities are essential to bind the relationship between generations. This book offers a hundred activities, by period of the year and for all ages: modelling, drawing, die-cut, games, little gifts… a huge range of original, easy, cheap ideas to have fun together.
These books offer hundreds of ideas to celebrate kids’ birthday parties with originality! Every little boy wants to be a pirate rowing on the seven seas!! Let’s party like a real pirate! All the little girls are in their wonderful palace waiting for the reception to begin in their wonderful dresses. Fancy dress to be created, invitation cards, partes hats, games… and recipes too!!
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ACTIVITY BOOKS Activities for each season By Stéphane Kiehl 14,8 cm – 21 cm 128 pages 16,75€
from 6 years old
With a detachable drawing pad. 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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Il neige. Et si les flocons étaient en couleurs ?
Magie ! Peux-tu faire disparaître ce lapin sans arracher la page ?
Les petites sœurs de la poupée russe ressemblent à leur grande sœur !
Et toi, tu aimes le chocolat ?
Cette journée va être mouvementée ! Et si le flamant n’était pas rose ?
FICTION
Clarence Flute and the rival that knew too much
CLARENCE FLÛTE
By Sandrine Bonini 17 cm – 22 cm 80 pages 12€
Clarence Flûte and Sybille’s secret
from 7 years old
Clarence Flûte An almost perfet duo
There is a new Japanese student in the classroom. Clarence doesn’t know what to think about this new shy young girl. Clarence Flute is a young boy who is mad about science, he is always in the process of constructing something or making the most bizarre experiments. In this third book Clarence is preparing a plan to get rid of one of the teachers, the one that replaced his favourite teacher. This replacement is very popular with all the girls even his sweetheart Sybille seems to be besotted. When, however, this new clumsy and shy Japanese girl arrives in his class his dubious plans will have to change……. A very humorous book with great illustrations and well structured text.
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FICTION
MERLIN ZINZIN
The Elf from the Shadows By Marc Cantin, Isabel and Stan and Vince VOLUME 8 13,5 cm – 18 cm 96 pages 6,60€
from 7 years old
1 / A spell book for Merlin 2 / Concern for Lancelot 3 / The spell persists 4 / Nothing stops Viviane! 5 / Morgane stops interfers! 6 / A Unicorn for Five! 7 / perfect creature!
Magus Antha’s dragon flies away and there is a chance that he might fill his stomach with villagers from CrazyThought. The five friends from Broceliande must bring back an Elf from the Shadows, only he can stop the mighty dragon with his lullabies. Unfortunately, the elf is way too sensitive and Merlin’s head is still in the clouds.
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FICTION
Welcome, Earth creature!
Ghosts at the party
THE YOUNG MONSTERS
By Fabrice Collin and Gerald Guerlais VOLUME 5 13,5 cm – 18 cm 64 pages 6€
from 8 years old
Vampire’s Laughter
Troubles and Dragons
bob the blob
An earth creature in a world of monsters! Poor Giles, he doesn’t know what is expecting him. The little monsters have to come to the rescue of Giles, an earthly creature who has landed in Tenbria because of a secret portal. Great success of this series. More than 12 000 copies sold!
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FICTION
The peasants of Pontalbert By Didier Dufresne and Didier Balicevic VOLUME 12 13,5 cm – 18 cm 48 pages 5€
WILLIAM THE YOUNG KNIGHT
from 7 years old
William works as a peasant in order to discover the true value of things After having wasted some wheat William is sent to Pontalbert to help with the picking. Never would he have imagined this work to be so hard! Fortunately his friend Gregory is there to help and advise him. 1 / Tristeland’s tornament - 2 / The Abbey’s secret 3 / The Big Fair - 4 / Tranchelard the crook 5 / Malcombe’s feast - 6 / The Night of the Wolves 7 / A Crown for Two Kings - 8 / The treasure of the Basilica - 10 / Love at first sight in Malcombe 11 / The monster of the dead moon
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FICTION
New school new friends
IN SIXTH GRADE
By Emmanuel Bourdier and Glen Chapron
Let’s rock & roll By Emmanuel Bourdier and Glen Chapron
13 cm - 15 cm 128 pages 10€
13 cm - 15 cm 128 pages 10€
from 9 years old
This new term is rather scary for Gabin! Being one year ahead of his mates and changing to a new school in the city to which his parents have just moved, Gabin has left his best friend Marjorie behind. He has to face this new term all by himself and all this is quite overwhelming! But he will soon make some new friends Gaspard, Sami and Boris and will even fall desperately in love with the irresistible Liberty… A funny new series about love, friendship and family.
Gabin hasn’t heard anything from Liberty over the holidays and he’s not sure whether she is coming back this semester. Luckily his best mates Gaspard, Sami and Boris are there to cheer him up. But things are still looking pretty grim: Liberty is now going to be staying with his friend Boris and their favourite teacher has been suspended… Anything is good to get her back including putting together the most unconvincing rock band!
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FICTION
Friends, drums and the rest
ART IN JUNIOR HIGH!
By Alice Brière-Haquet and Kim Consigny
Quiet, we are on By Alice Brière-Haquet and Kim Consigny
14 cm - 18 cm 96 pages 6,60€
14 cm - 18 cm 96 pages 6,60€
from 9 years old
While reading Sybill’s secret daiary you will find out the talents of the class of sixth grade, specialised in dance, singing, music and comedy.
A television team has arrived in Sybill’s school to film Silvan and Alex the twins who are television stars and their friends from school. How exciting for everybody. This television programme is a great opportunity for all students to show their talents.
Sybill is the seventh daughter in a family of musicians but she does not share their passion for music…well up to her 11th birthday. On that day she received a drum kit and a secret diary. This is how her dairy starts with tales of family situations, school events and her life in general. But overall, she talks about her friends and of the rock band she creates with her friends: Jenny her best friend and John Hubert who is totally in love with Jenny.
A new series about friendship and rock’n’roll, in the line of the «Glee » televison series!
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FICTION
The photograph
SECOND YEAR OF PRIMARY
SCHOOL
By Magdalena and Emmanuel Ristord 15 cm – 19,5 cm 32 pages 5€
Back at school
from 7 years old
The library
It’s the day the kids are going to be photographed for the year photo. Everybody has made a great effort to look his best. Noah however does not want to wear his new glasses, he think he does not look cool in them. Anna and Lea on the other hand would love to wear glasses so they have an idea: what if everybody in the class was to wear carnival glasses for the class photo?
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TODDLERS FICTION
CHARACTERS I AM IN PRIMARY SCHOOL
School trip! By Magdalena and Emmanuel Ristord VOLUME 8 15 cm – 19,5 cm 32 pages 5€
from 6 years old
It’s the end of the school year and everybody is going to the sea with Miss Julie! They will stay at the seaside to learn, discover and have fun together!
1 / Back to school! 2 / Clash at break-time 3 / Swimming pool day 4 / The Substitule
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5 / The Lovers 6 / School fair 7 / The New boy
FICTION MYSTERY IN THE KEEP
The ultimate secret By Alain Surget and Karine Bernadou VOLUME 8 13,5 cm – 18 cm 96 pages 6,60€
from 9 years old
It’s time to face each other. Who will win the battle? 1 / The dark knight 2 / The child witch 3 / Prey to the recession 4 / The strange forest 5 / The Court of Miracles 6 / The bewitched Ring 7 / The prisoner of the keep
It is really serious: the castle of Gobervaux is preparing for the attack of the Bourguignons who are holding Margot an Brouck, the magician child. However Sir Hubert cannot forget what happened to Ludine the witch….. Who is that shadow that visits him every night? Only the last battle will reveal all the secrets…
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FICTION
A prince in the castle
1/ Princess seeks Knight
PRINCESS OLYMPE
By Sandra Nelson and Louis Alloing VOLUME 5 13,5 cm – 18 cm 48 pages 5€
from 7 years old
2/ A ghost in the palace
3/ Treasure hunt
4/ The ball
The arrival of an Indian prince will upset Olympe’s relationships with her friends. Prince Jai, son of the Maharadjah from Jaja has come to visit Olympe. On this occasion, the princess has invited Camille and Simon. But Simon is extremely jealous as the two girls have fallen for the prince and are fighting over him. A delightful series full of humour and mystery
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FICTION The Vampire of Castille
EULALIE
By Anne-Sophie Sylvestre VOLUME 5 14,5 cm – 20 cm 224 pages 12€
from 10 years old
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. 1 / Versailles, here we come! 2 / The pleage 3 / Secrets and Omens 4 / The sidesaddle rider
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FICTION The Death Shifters
Listen to my beating heart
By Fabrice colin 13,5 cm – 21 cm 336 pages 14,5€
By Nathalie Le Gendre 13,5 cm – 21 cm 224 pages 13€
from 11 years old
from 13 years old 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 with a taste of the series « Six feet under »
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 independance, family ties and coming of age.
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FICTION If you die, she will come back
The legend of the first air-mail
By Maud Tabachnik
By Philippe Nessman
13,5 cm - 21 cm 224 pages 13€
19 cm - 14 cm 260 pages 12€
from 13 years old
from 11 years old Francis and Maureen O’Mara love their only daughter Patricia dearly and for her they would do anything. On the eve of her 25th birthday she is killed in a hit and run and her parents are stricken with grief. Her father decides to search for her daughter’s killer. From the skycrapers in Aberdeen to the oil rigs in the North sea, his thirst for justice will take him much further than he could ever imagine.
Santiago de Chile, 13th June 1930. Henri Guillaumet pilote for the first airmail service has just taken off. He is trying to reach Buenos Aires with a stop over in Mendoza. It’s a dangerous flight over the Andes and the weather forecast is not a good one. Guillaumet knows he has to stay extremely focused but the conditions are so bad that his plane crashes. An incredible story of courage and determination.
A gripping police inquiry.
Other titles in the series: Discovering the north pole, The Mystery of Tutankhamun, Magellan’s travels around the world, The sources of the Nile, Mission Apollo, The conquest of the far-west, Marco-Polo’s Travels, The night of Pompeii.
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FICTION TODDLERS My pathetic record book
CHARACTERS
My pathetic holiday exercise book By Bernard Friot
By Bernard Friot
14,5 cm - 20 cm 160 pages 11€
14,5 cm -20 cm 160 pages 11€
from 9 years old
Ben is 11 years old and he’s useless. Well, that’s what everyone tells him, from his teachers to his annoying older sister! But never mind that! Ben has decided to compete for the most rubbish records: the worst face of all, the dumbest looking expression, the most unusable pair of socks.
Ben’s holidays are looking pretty dim. There has been a muddle in the holiday dates and as a result none of his family are going away. Ben is stuck at home while his mentor Lukas the clown and his best friend Martin are away for the summer. Ben is getting ready for some pathetic holidays… How is he going to spend his time? Certainly not by working on some summer exercise book! But these depressing holidays will turn out to be full of surprises.
A humourous fiction about the stuggles of an 11 year old boy!
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The totem of the people without shadow
FICTION The valley of the death By Michel Honaker
By Michel Honaker
14 cm – 21 cm 266 pages 13€
VOLUME 4 14 cm – 21 cm 246 pages 13€
from 13 years old
The popular agent Nick Galore of the Pinkerton agency has been kidnapped by a mysterious tribe…… Neil Galore has become famous after tracking down and imprisoning some criminals. He is still not totally partner in the agency. One day he takes Elly Aymes to the train station, she is on her way to San Francisco to follow up on her dream to become a singer. On his way back Neil is mysteriously kidnapped.
What if a simple kiss could bring you back to life? Jubella, young journalist, finds herself in the middle of a fantastic adventure…. Jubella is a young journalist who has been asked to interview Lord Denholm, an old business manwho lives in hi manor. Lord Denholm tells Jubella a secret: the real existence of the wakers, individuals who can bring dead peole to life by just kissing them. A fantasy thriller inspired by the myth of sleeping beauty as dark and strange as Twin Peaks.
A detective series about the pinkerton agency, the forefathers of the FBI.
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TODDLERS FICTION CHARACTERS
Sweet Sixteen By Annelise Heurtier 14,5 cm – 22 cm 224 pages 12€
A dream life, or almost By Sophie Dieualde 15 cm – 21 cm 240 pages 15€
from 12 years old
After the success of the first diary of Manon D here is a second part of her life. Still narrated in a diary format, filled with images, drawings photos and wonderful funny text.
Inspired by a true story, where teenagers are confronted with racism and hatred. 1957, Arkansas, USA Molly, a fifteen-year-old girl, is facing a fate bigger than she is. With eight of her friends, she is ready to attend Little Rock High School, a school for white people. She is black. The attempt to integrate in this southern state provokes violent rejection and an overwhelming wave of hatred. The reader follows the journey of this young girl who is shy but gifted with a strong, unwavering will.
In this last book we hear about her mother who is always depressed, her father who is a total control freak, her half sister and her half brother. We also learn about the school life of Manon D. and the boy who definitely makes her dream.
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FICTION
Nefertiti tiara
PENELOPE GREEN
By Béatrice Bottet 16 cm – 32 cm 352 pages 15€
Lost children’s song
The bluewaters’s case
from 12 years old
Penelope Green is back with a new adventure…in Egypt, with her friend Cyprien of course! As they are digging in the site of Akhet Aton, old pharaos Akheaton and Nefertiti’s land, Martha Morely and Robert Jennings, archaeologists, can’t believe their eyes! Would it be possible that in this isolated cavity situated in the queen’s apartments there is one of the most desired objects in the world?
Mrs Li’s fan
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Purple Moon volume 3 The chosen one
FICTION
LUNE MAUVE
By Mrilou Aznar 14,5 cm – 22 cm 432 pages 15€
from 13 years old
This is the follow up to the destiny of Selene, a young ordinary student who suddenly has to fight for her mother’s cause. A mother, who comes from a different world. After a series of events in the first and second volume of this series Selene discovers that her mother who mysteriously disappeared came from another world, Viridan, an old Mesopotamian civilisation created under the influence of the moon was adored just like a divinity.
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Charlie Tempest We move house!
FICTION
CHARLIE TEMPÊTE
By Annelise Heurtier and Clotka
Charlie Tempest A strange start to the term! By Annelise Heurtier and Clotka
VOLUME 1 19,5 cm – 13,5 cm 80 pages 6,95€
VOLUME 2 19,5 cm – 13,5 cm 80 pages 6,95€
from 8/10 years old The Tempest family is moving house and it’s a very difficult moment!
Charlie has just finished getting accustomed to his new house when he has to start his new school.
It is not easy to leave a really nice house in the country side, one’s football friends and a sweetheart just to live in a small maisonette in the centre of a town. Charlie, 9 years old rapidly overcomes this major upheaval, unlike his mother who is having a rough time. Charlie will get his mother back on track and get her to laugh again. In the meantime he will continue with his favourite pastime: inventing objects.
It’s “the day” to go back to school and Charlie is not happy at all. Charlie only knows one boy in the whole school and that is not really helping. He also just found out that his new teacher Ms Vinegar is not pleasant at all. She is hated by all the students of the school. However Charlie fears are soon gone as he meets new friends: Igor who is a little Russian and Eleonor who is a little red head and most of all very pretty.
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TODDLERS FICTION
Beyond the horizon Christopher Columbus’childhood
CHARACTERS
The Secret of Orbae By François Place
By Anne Pouget and Christel Espié
14,5 cm – 22 cm 432 pages 13,95€
19 cm - 13 cm 192 pages 8,95€
from 10 years old
Anne Pouget
L’ enfance de Christophe Colomb
JUNIOR
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
Genoa 1460. A 10 year-old boy moves back and forth between the wool quarters of the city where his family live and work and the port of the city where many boats from Sicily anchor. For many years now this young lad has been dreaming of understanding the mysteries of the world and discovering what is hidden beyond the horizon. But could these dreams be too big for a little boy from a poor background?
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The novel was originally published as two separate novels together with 18 exquisite illustrations in a box set. It won the prestigious Fiction Bologna Ragazzi Award in 2012
NON FICTION Beauty according to Ninon By Oscar Brenifier and Delphine Perret
NINON
PHILOSOPHY
19,5 cm – 25,5 cm 64 pages 13,50€
Love according to Ninon
Happiness according to Ninon
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.
Truth according to Ninon
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Can you decide to be happy? Can you live without others?
NON FICTION CRAZY PHILO
By Jeanne Boyer
PHILOSOPHY
Why is this right ? Why is this wrong?
15,5 cm – 22,5 cm 48 pages 10€
A brand new collection dedicated to big philosophical questions that children may ask with the subject approached in an unusual way. A true story in which they are the hero, with pictures comments, explanations of classic thinkers’ quotes, games and small comics.
from 11 years old
Two new titles in this successful series.
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How do you know what you know ?
All the children have the same rights !
NON FICTION
By Dieter Berstecher, Thierry Delahaye and Aline Bureau 16,5 cm – 24 cm 18 pages 15€
from 7 years old 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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NON FICTION My body and me By Sophie Coucharrière and Alexandra Pichard 19,5 cm – 26 cm 96 pages 15€
from 3 years old
The book approaches every aspect of the human body: bone structures, the senses, breathing, the food we eat,..) and answers kids’ questions through 8 themes. It also deals with some of the psychological aspects such as respecting the body, where do the babies come from?, dreams and emotions. The book is built from interviews with specialists; the parents will find glossaries to help them answer specific questions.
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Sherlock Holmes and the hounds of Baskerville
NON FICTION PLAYMOBIL
30 cm - 30 cm 96 pages 18,50€
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.
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NON FICTION PLAYMOBIL
All the animals with Playmobil
History with Playmobil
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Around the world with Playmobil
NON FICTION Leonardo Da Vinci
India today
By Ludivine Stock and Jean-Baptiste de Panafieu
By Oliver Da Lage and Tirthankar Chanda
21 cm – 27 cm 48 pages Hardcover 12€
24,5 cm – 33 cm 80 pages Hardcover 19,50€
from 7/13 years old
Africa today
China today Like its neighbour China, India is becoming more and more, an economic world strength. Having changed drastically during these last few decades its population is slowly emerging from underdelopment. This huge country is full of surprises where one can find incredible growth next to old traditions.
An illustrated book that retraces the work and life of this great genius. The focus is on his work as an engineer and inventor.
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Also includes an application software for computer tablets and smartphones: Flying, a child’s play! With Leonardo Da Vinci
Human rights Today’s combat
NON FICTION The Seasons
By Isabelle Bournier 18,5 cm – 26 cm 80 pages 13,75€
By Sophie Coucharrière and Hervé Legoff 19 cm – 25 cm 32 pages 12,20€
from 13 years old
Human rights: a strong universal ideal that we need to keep on promoting and defending, still and always. The book is written by an authority on the subject and is divided in 3 parts; Human rights from antiquity to now, Human rights now, state of emergency (children’s rights, women rights, freedom of the press, death penalty….) and last but not least the future. A reflection of what might be. The establishment of new rights, such as the right to difference, the right for a natural environment, etc.
Why do leaves fall? How do clouds form? What are those rare vegetables growing in the garden? Why is it so cold? How do snowflakes form? This book explains weather conditions through the day-to-day life of a little boy in kindergarten. Halfway between fiction and documentary, the book is completed by fact sheets, definitions, recipes, nursery rhymes and a “Do you know?” section.
Many photographs and images add nicely to this interesting and informative text.
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Bali’s Word Book the house
CHARACTERS BALI
By Magdalena and Laurent Richard 18 cm – 21 cm 48 pages 8€
20 TITLES IN THIS COLLECTION
Bali’s Lost His Cuddly Toy By Magdalena and Laurent Richard
from 3 years old
19 cm – 19 cm 24 pages 2,95€
Bali is crying: he has lost his cuddly toy. Dad reassures him and offers to look everywhere, «like a treasure hunt.» Bali discovers many forgotten treasures throughout the house. Finally Bali finds his toy in the washing machine: Mom took advantage of his nap to wash it ! Bali Takes Care of His Little Sister By Magdalena and Laurent Richard 19 cm – 19 cm 24 pages 2,95€
This word book helps little children to rediscover with Bali what they know already: home and its contents. Bali presents all the different rooms and young children go through all the different objects one by one: the sofa, the computer, the forks, the nightgown… Underneath each illustration the word is written in three different styles of writing.
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Mom and Dad are working and Bali must look after Lea. Very pleased with this responsibility, he does so with enthusiasm. But now it is not easy to take care of his little sister, especially when she has decided to go her own way! By the end of the morning, Bali is exhausted. Fortunately, Dad and Mom are back!
CHARACTERS CHAMALO
Figures, shapes, colours and fruit
17 STORYBOOKS AVAILABLE
By Marion Billet PAPERBOOK 15,5 cm – 15,5 cm 16 pages 2,95€
from 3 years old
Chamalo likes school By Charlotte Moundlic and Marion Billet WITH TEAR-PROOF PAGES 18 cm – 18 cm 24 pages 5,50€
It’s the first day at school for Chamalo. He is going to kindergarden. For this special occasion, he has decided to dress-up on his own. But as he is getting closer to school a knot forms in his stomach. But Daddy is here to comfort him and give him the strength to face this new adventure! Chamalo has a sleepover By Magdalena and Laurent Richard WITH TEAR-PROOF PAGES 18 cm – 18 cm 24 pages 5,50€
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Great news: Chamalo is going to spend the night at his friend Papouille’s house. Chamalo is both happy and worried at the same time. But once at his friend’s place, he is reassured. Papouille has thought of everything and there is a cosy bed for him to sleep in. What a fun experience!
CHARACTERS JINJU
Jinju - My first Christmas Tree By Lim Yeong-Hee and Amélie Graux 18 cm – 21,5 cm 32 pages 10€
from 4 years old
Chistmas is nearly there and Jinju does not understand all the fuss in Paris streets, and who is this mysterious “Father Christmas” that all the children are talking about? Her friend, Noémie, shows her how to decorate her own Christmas Tree, and make Jinjju enjoy all the customs of this celebration. Jinju looks forward to her very first Christmas gift with all her heart.
My new school I don’t like the canteen My best friend My pyjama party Look at the Sweethearts!
Jinju is a young girl from Korea how has just landed in Europe. Every title in this series brings to light the cultural différences between the Western and Eastern way of life.
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Emilie goes to the market Emilie and the chicks
CHARACTERS EMILIE
By Domitille de Pressensé 20 cm – 25 cm 32 pages 5,75€
10 Stickers books
Big book
21 TITLES IN THIS COLLECTION OF STORYBOOKS
2 Flip-Flaps
Word Book
3/5 years old Albums New series: I start to read with Emily
Emilie is the daily adventure of the little ones. She is not an ordinary kid, however she has the same problems as every child: she wets her bed, she does not want to take a bath, she is grumpy... A little girl’s life is not that easy. She sulks, she is angry, she cries, she doubts, she asks, she thinks, and comes across the day-to-day issues of life.
By Domitille de Pressensé FLEXI BINDING 14 cm – 18,5 cm 40 pages 4 TITLES AVAILABLE
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from 6 years old
CHARACTERS
The true story of Ernest et Céléstine
ERNEST AND CÉLÉSTINE
produced by the Armateurs and written by Daniel Pennac
The birth of Céléstine By Gabrielle Vincent
24,5 - 21,6 cm 208 pages 14,50€
IN HARD BACK AND SOFT BACK 26,5 cm – 19 cm 192 pages 24,95€
How does the story of Ernest and Celestine starts and why it will never end.
Célestine never believed in the stories that she was told when she was little about big bad bears. She was a trainee dentist in the underworld and one of her tasks was to go up in the dangerous world of bears to collect young bears’ baby teeth. Every time though that she approaches the house of a bear she is chased away. It is during one of these tripes, whilst hiding in a garbage can, that the course of her life changes. Ernest who was passing by, absolutely starving, hears a noise in the garbage can and is about to start eating Celestine. She however, starts giving him a thousand reasons why he should not eat out of trash cans, and tempts him to go and burgle a sweet shop. This is how these two unlikely companions start their many adventures that will strengthen their friendship.
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CHARACTERS
ERNEST AND CÉLÉSTINE
23 TITLES AVAILABLE
The Aunt from America Josephine’s room Streets Musicians E&C go for a picnic
Other titles : The Big Fear My Secret Notebook Rataplan plan plan A whim from Celestine the shed
E&C have lost Simeon E&C at the Museum E&C at the Circus Christmas at E&C
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The broken cup E&C got lice Ernest is hill Celestine’s Questions E&C and Us The Christmas tree
CHARACTERS Boubou’s run
BOUBOU
By Cyril Hahn
Animated books
22,6 cm – 216,8 cm 28 pages 8,50€
Touch and feel books
Albums
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CHARACTERS By Émile Jadoul and Jean Leroy
LITTLE RASCAL
18 cm – 18 cm 24 pages 5,50€
Little Rascal plays in a film Today daddy’s taking Little Rascal, Cannelle and Tortillon to the movies. But unfortunately the theatre is closed for repairs! Luckily daddy’s got another idea up his sleave. It’s far more fun than the movies!
Little Rascal wants to go camping Little Rascal and Cannelle are very excited as they have won a tent at the fair on their outing with Grandpa. Grandpa has offered to set it up for them in the garden. But little Rascal and Cannelle think it is taking him rather a long time.
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Little Rascal goes to the doctor Little Rascal doesn’t like his soup Little Rascal goes fishing Little Rascal celebrates his birthday Little Rascal has lost his teddy Little Rascal doesn’t want to go to school
PICTURE BOOKS There is trouble brewing!
LOUISETTE THE MOLE
By Bruno Heitz 18 cm – 24 cm 40 pages 8,50€
from 5 years old
A new adventure for Louisette the mole and her friends! Vroum, vroum….but what is this noise and what is the monster destroying all our homes and tunnels. That particular morning all the rabbits and Miss Ferret discover that a drill has started destroying their homes. Louisette is called to the rescue and she explain that no doubt the human race is after gas. What a catastrophe! So the whole ecosystem of the forest is threatened. But how can our animal friends stop the humans so determined to destroy everything?
Super fast Sardine express Sheep Circus Louisette and the racoon
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Last stop Sorting garbage Different path The Grimm hour SuperMiro
