Ecole-Loisirs-Albums-Fall-2011

Foreign Rights Catalogue • Picture BooksFall 2011

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y BABY BOOKS 3 Stephanie Blake4-5 Vincent Bourgeau & Cédric Ramadier6 Soledad Bravi7 Malika Doray8 Isabelle Gil9 Céline Herrmann10-11 Bénédicte Guettier12 Kimiko13 Alain Le Saux14 Matthieu Maudet15 Mila16 Alex Sanders

A STORY TO COLOR 17 Kimiko 18 Dorothée de Monfreid19 Iris de Moüy

PICTURE BOOKS 20 Stephanie Blake21 Magali Bonniol22 Soledad Bravi & Grégoire Solotareff23 André François24-25 Michel Gay26 Daniel Hénon & Fabienne Mounier27 Satomi Ichikawa28 Kimiko29 Thomas Lavachery30 Wendela Ploux de Buck31 Yvan Pommaux32 Claude Ponti33 Grégoire Solotareff34 Frédéric Stehr35 Catharina Valckx

NON-FICTION BOOKS 36 Michel Backès37 Fabian Grégoire38 Olivier Melano39 François Vincent & Maryse Lamigeon

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StephanieBlake was born inthe United States in1968. She didn’t studydrawing, but ratherChinese! As a child, shewas fascinated by theillustrations of Dr. Seuss,Ludwig Bemelmans,Tomi Ungerer, andWilliam Steig. She livesin Paris, surrounded byher children and herhusband (A total of six!).

Wait for Me!Who’s running after whom? At first,the wolf races after the rabbit, then theother way around, then the snailcatches up with the two. We’realmost out of breath reading thiscolorful, energetic book.

Board book, 30 pages, 190 x 260 mm

SERIES SOLD World Spanish

Catalan, KoreanSwedish, JapaneseSimplified ChineseEnglish (USA, NewZealand, Australia)Norwegian, Italian


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Standing up, Lying Down!Thanks to the ingenious flaps on eachpage, you can see the characters go fromone state to its opposite. Cécile is dry, thenplop! She’s wet. Cédric is up high, thenboom! He’s down low.

Board book with flaps, 24 pages, 210 x 210 mm


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CédricRamadier wasborn in 1968. With a degree fromCamberwell School ofArts in London, heentered the world ofpublishing in Paris. Itwas a stroke of luck. Hehas since worked asartistic director, graphicdesigner, editor, andnow author, thanks tohis friend VincentBourgeau.

But Where Is He?Where is the little canary? We look allover. Under the fallen leaves, there aremushrooms. And under themushrooms? An ant! And so on, withtwo flaps on each page, for even moresurprises.

Born in Brussels in1967, VincentBourgeau quicklytook up drawing andnever stopped. As ayoung adult, he beganto write and illustratestories for children.Then he started drawingfor other authors.

Board book with flaps, 14 pages, 200 x 200 mm



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Soledad Braviwas born in 1965. She

has a degree from anart school, and was an

artistic director inadvertising before

returning to drawing.Today she draws a lotfor children and teens

and a little bit for fashion magazines.


SOLD Catalan,English(Commonweath),Korean, Dutch,German, Basque,World Spanish,Italian, Polish

Adore, Bicker, and CuddleThis is the story of dad and mom, whonever agree with one another. They keepan eye on each other, and they fight witheach other. But they love one another,from A to Z.


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Malika Doraywas born in 1974. Shestudied arts and arthistory at the FrenchNational School of Fine Arts, and nowworks with kids,writing and illustratingbooks for them.

3 Board books in a bag10 pages each175 x 215 mm

3 Little Puppet BooksWe’re Sleeping

It’s Going to Be a GirlWe’re Mad!

These paper dolls stand up by themselves.You can read them, or simply set thembeside you to admire them. A little storyaccompanies each puppet.



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One or Two BlundersTeddy is at grandma’s to celebrate hisbirthday with his friends. But just becausehe’s a teddy bear made of chocolatedoesn’t mean he can’t have fun, or getinto mischief !

Isabelle Gilreceived her training

in photography and

studied fine arts. Her

various projects now

all have to do with

picture books.



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CélineHerrmann was born in 1976. She studied Frenchliterature and fine artsat university. When herdaughter was born shestarted creating anddrawing stories for her.She now spends hertime making children’sbooks, painting,writing, and runningvisual arts workshops.

My Rainbow PaletteA book in the shape of a palette: what agreat idea! Each palette-page represents acolor, with pictures and poetic littlestories. We’re not sure if we want to startpainting or just look at these pretty colors!

Board book14 pages320 x 250 mm



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Little Fishes Fish have more thrilling lives than weever believed, even when they are in afishbowl. And those that live in the seacan catch colds, too. Did you know that?


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BénédicteGuettier wasborn in 1962. She hasdiplomas from twodifferent art schools.She works as agraphic artist for manymagazines and drawsfashion prints andposters. Guettier writesand illustrateschildren’s books in ahighly inventive way.

My Favorite DadIf my dad was a gorilla, or a dolphin orkoala, or any other animal, we would doextraordinary things together. Things Idon’t do with my real dad, who is arabbit. But he and I can cuddle, becausehe is my favorite Dad!




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Kimiko was bornin 1963 to a Japanese

mother and a Frenchfather. She has mainly

lived in France butoften spent her

holidays near Kyoto.After studying fashiondesign in Tokyo, she

worked for a hautecouture group in Paris.

She left fashion to make books

for children.


The Friends of Crunchy KissesAt the beginning of the story, Little Mouseis a bit worried when Crunchy Kissestakes off with her in the night. But thenhe introduces her to some uncommonfriends that you never see when it’sdaytime. And that changes everything!

Crunchy KissesSERIES (2 TITLES)


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SOLD Korean, World Spanish,Catalan

Alain Le Sauxwent to art school andhas worked as anillustrator in advertisingand for variousmagazines. He hasbeen making books forchildren since 1980.He likes WindsorMcKay, Roland Topor,Robert Crumb, Jean-Marc-Reiser, Saul Steinberg, André François andJames Ensor.

The Box of Dads, 4This time we discover dad’s professions,dad’s anatomy, dad’s activities, and whatdad likes. And we never grow tired of it!

4 board books in a box, 20 pages, 142 x 124 mm

The Box of DadsSERIES (4 TITLES)



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MatthieuMaudet used to

draw in the margins ofhis schoolbooks.

Today he is illustratingcomic books and

books for children.


I’m Going!He finally decides to leave the nest. Hereceives all sorts of recommendationsfrom mom, dad, and granny: “Take asweater and some crackers, don’t forgetyour cap...” And little bird is headed off,in search of adventure!

SOLD World Spanish SOLD German, WorldSpanish, Catalan,Basque, Dutch

SOLD Danish, Italian,Swedish, World Spanish


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Mila was born inSpain. First, she madepaintings. Then shehad children. Then shemade books. Now, shemakes books aboutpaintings for children.She lives in Alicanteand Paris. Little Bits ofPaper is her first bookwith Loulou & Cie.

Little Bits of PaperMila invites children to have fun, invent,and draw with little torn-up bits of paper.A square becomes a bull, and a circletransforms into a sheep. Anything ispossible!




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Alex Sanderswas born in 1964 and

has never stoppeddrawing and paintingsince then. In 1993,

he decided to devotehimself fully to

children’s books.


Pure WolfA picture dictionary of everything thathas to do with wolves: what you alreadyknow, but also what you never evensuspected. For example, have you everseen a wolf ’s car?



Kimiko was bornin 1963 to a Frenchfather and a Japanesemother. She hasmainly lived in Francebut often spent herholidays near Kyoto.After studying fashiondesign in Tokyo, sheworked for a hautecouture group inParis. She left fashion to make books for children.

SnacktimeAnita has bought so many cakes that shedecides to invite her friends over. But whatshe forgot is that some of them really loveto eat. This story is a real feast of treats! A picture book to color by yourself!

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Board book, 20 pages, 305 x 430 mmSOLD World Spanish



Dorothée deMonfreid was

born in 1973. She haslived in Paris for years.

She has publishedover a dozen books at

l’école des loisirs:stories about cats,rabbits, elephants,stinking monsters,

and even cakes.


Coco-ColorThe adventures of Coco continue, but thistime it’s the reader’s turn to make themcolorful. Coco picks red cherries and eatsyellow bananas, but when it rains, whathappens? Do all the colors disappear?A picture book to color by yourself!

Coco SERIES (15 TITLES)

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Iris de Moüylives in Paris, whereshe draws andspends time strollingand daydreaming. All this intense activityhas led her to writebooks for children, to her immensepleasure.Red Rabbits Do Not Exist

This is the story of a rabbit withoutcolor, unhappy because he would reallylike to be red. But do red rabbits exist?With help from his friend the cat and thereader, maybe the rabbit will see hisdream come true!A picture book to color by yourself!


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StephanieBlake was born in

the United States in1968. She didn’t study

drawing, but ratherChinese! As a child, she

was fascinated by theillustrations of Dr. Seuss,

Ludwig Bemelmans,Tomi Ungerer, and

William Steig. She livesin Paris, surrounded by

her children and herhusband (A total of six!).

Hardcover, 32 pages, 220 x 275 mm

Merry XmasEveryone knows that on Christmas Eve,Santa Claus comes down from the sky tobring gifts for the children who have beengood. Simon and his little brother Gaspardhave prepared everything with theirparents: they trimmed the tree and left asnack for the traveler, and something for hisreindeer, too. But ay, ay, ay! It’s snowing bigflakes. What if this storm prevents Santa

Claus from finding theirhouse? Santa needs help!How? Simon and Gaspardwill make a mega landingstrip on the ground!

Super Bunny SERIES (12 TITLES)

SERIES SOLD World SpanishCatalan, Italian

Korean, NorwegianJapanese, Swedish Simplified Chinese

English (AustraliaUSA, New Zealand)


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MagaliBonniol, theauthor of Pipi dansl’herbe and Rien faire isa self-made woman.She creates her booksby retreating deeplyinto her flippingmemories and fumblingthrough the piles ofdrawings she has beencollecting in numerousfiles since she was ateenager.

The GiftToday is Goat Girl’s birthday, and herparents have gone out to get a big gift.So far, her friends Pat the Pig and RobbyRabbit have only given her stupid gifts.Ding-dong! Someone’s ringing at thedoor. Surprise! It’s a wolf, with a ribbonaround his neck. He knows how to jumprope, float in the tub, and play a gamecalled sweet toast... What if he knew howto do everything? This is the mostfantastic birthday present ever!




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Soledad Braviwas born in 1965. Shehad a diploma from an

art school and hadbeen an artistic director

in advertising beforereturning to drawing.

Today she draws a lotfor children and teens

and a little bit forfashion magazines.

GrégoireSolotareff is the

author of many albums,including the famousLoulou. He has also

published children andteen novels.


My RabbitOne day when Garance Littlefoot washome alone, her hunting dog Go Fetchbrought her a poor, little rabbit, all softbetween his teeth. The rabbit was warm,and still breathing... not only was he alive,he also talked! Garance wanted to dresshis wounds, but he preferred to have aconversation. Garance liked changingnames, so she called the rabbitJean, whereas he used to benamed Augustin. But Jean thoughtthat there was something besidesnames that needed to change inthis house. Like where the dogslept, for example.


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AndréFrançois was apainter, sculptor,graphic designer, posterartist, and innovativeillustrator. François isalso the author of manypicture books, includingthis one, which was firstwritten in English, Youare Ridiculous, andpublished in Franceunder the title Qui est leplus marrant ? It is nowrereleased with this newtranslation.

You are RI-DI-CU-LOUS!Mister Punch and Mister Poo look ateach other. They stare each other down.

They point their fingers at eachother. They find all sorts ofreasons to joke and laughthemselves silly, to make fun ofone another. One has a bignose, and can even stand on it!The other has a fat belly, and

can balance on it like a roly-poly doll!They act like clowns and they love it! Butwhen together they joyfully agree tomake fun of the two-headed dragon,things get complicated. This guy isn’tfunny! Although...

Hardcover, 40 pages, 250 x 205 mm. SOLD Italian



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Michel Gay wasborn right across from

a zoo. If he charmslittle ones, it’s most

likely because hedraws them so well,

whether they behumans, penguins,

zebras, kittens orwolves. And he

understands themperfectly. He is the

creator of Biboundé,Loup-Noël, and Zou,

as well as othercharacters, like

Cromignon, Cropetite’sbrother who saves his

tribe from starvation byinventing writing!

SERIES SOLD World Spanish, Simplified Chinese, ComplexChinese, English (USA, Commonweath), Catalan, Hebrew,German, Greek, Japanese, Korean


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Zou SERIES (5 TITLES)


Zou’s CoinsThey’re going on an adventure! Today,Zou’s Dad is taking him on a walk throughthe streets of the city with his friendElzee. They have everything theyneed: Dad has his debit card, andZou has a shiny, new coin! But whathappens if the machine eats Dad’scard, and Zou loses his coin? Well,coins are crazy: they’re earned, found,kept, given away, spent, and lost... Butis a coin given a coin lost? Not at all!And to have fun, do you really needcoins? The answer to this will comefrom Elzee and Zou...



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My Name Is BeepAt the kennel where Beep is born, theother dogs, husky optimists, quickly findowners. But he has to wait a long timefor a master to come take him. And thisnew owner is Farmer Martin. Beep,overcome with appreciation, searches for away to please him and serve him. Sincethe farmer makes no demands, Beep trieseverything. Should he run after the cows?Bring back chickens between his teeth?Bother the Old Horse? What if whatFarmer Martin was expecting was a lotsimpler and less tiring?


Drawing, writing,theater, music...

Daniel Hénonand Fabienne

Mounier aremultidisciplinary artists,

and together they arethe founders of a

theater troupe. Notableperformances with the

group include theiradaptation of Histoire

du petit tabouret.

SOLD Simplified Chinese


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Having left her home inJapan, SatomiIchikawa arrivedone day in Paris,without knowing asingle word of French,with her suitcase inhand. And she decidedto stay no matter whatthe price. She didn’tknow that herprofessional calling wasin the field of drawing.She had this revelationwhile looking throughan illustrated book byMaurice Boutet deMonvel. Her picturebooks have alreadybeen translated intoeight languages.

Jibril’s CarsJibril is an exemplaryshepherd. Every day, heleads his little flock acrossthe desert, in search offresh grass and water.While waiting, he makesminiature cars out ofeverything he comes across: pieces ofiron, plastic debris, crumbling shoe soles...Alas, his father grows angry. Thistinkering won’t amount to anything.Make it all go away! Jibril will need a lotof ingenuity in order to obey his dad andnot suffer too much.


SOLD Korean

Dutch, WorldSpanishGerman

Italian English (USA)

GreekJapanese



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Charlie No-FriendsAt age six, Charlie is shy andnot too sure of himself. Hethinks he doesn’t have anyfriends. And so one day, when he receivesan invitation from his neighbors to comehave snacks in the glade, he hesitates. Meetwith others? Talk? Too complicated! Butwhere there are snacks, there are cakes...Charlie is such a food-lover he cannot

resist. By gathering his courageand going, he discoverssomething there that exceedsanything he could haveimagined. A festival of pastries,yes, but also a stunning surprise!


Kimiko was bornin 1963 to a Japanese

mother and a Frenchfather. She has mainly

lived in France butoften spent her

holidays near Kyoto.After studying fashiondesign in Tokyo, sheworked for a Haute

Couture group in Paris.She left fashion to

make books forchildren.

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ThomasLavachery is theillustrator and author ofthe series of novelsBjorn the Morphir. Hestarted drawing comicsat around age twelve orthirteen. His firstcharacter, Sumac, borea strong resemblanceto the future Jojo. Hehas published comicstrips in Tintinmagazine.

Padouk LeavesPadouk, a friend of Jojo of theJungle, is very sick. Too sick tosurvive. Serene and courageous,he asks his friends to let him die.But how can they resignthemselves? They try everythingto keep him alive, to resuscitatehim: noise, music, dances. All in vain. AfterPadouk has died, life returns to its normalcourse. Years pass. Then one day, Jojo’ssister panics: she thinks about Padouk, butcan’t conjure up his face. Jojo has an idea,so that the memory of Padouk will neverfade away.




Meng and YùnMeng dreams of going to school andlearning to read and write! But how canshe do that? Her family is very poor, shelives far from any city in a province inChina, and the school is expensive. Thereis only one solution: to enthusiasticallyparticipate in all the work on the farmwith her cherished donkey, Yùn. She gets up at dawn, harvests the

watermelons that her mom has grown,puts them into the little cart, and goesto sell them in the market. Alas, when Yùn falls ill, Meng must make a choice: keep the money for school or bring her donkey to the doctor.


WendelaPloux-de Buckcomes from a family ofartists who love China,

and this plunged herinto the world of

drawing early on. Also,through her work, she

has had the opportunityto meet many children.

She thus needednothing more to start

creating picture books.

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YvanPommaux is theauthor of many picturebooks at l’école desloisirs. His book abouthis own childhood inParis, Avant la télé,has already become aclassic in the Frenchbookshops andabroad. YvanPommaux is also theauthor of a cartoonseries called MarionDuval at Bayard.

Ulysses of a Thousand RusesThe Sirens, the Cyclops, the nymphCalypso, Circe the magician, Penelope thefaithful wife, the Lotophagi, tempests andshipwrecks: all these legendary encountersand mythic adventures have something incommon: the man who lived throughthem. Ulysses, the man of a thousand ruses,is twenty times diverted from returning tohis native land after hisvictory in the TrojanWar. Thanks to YvanPommaux’s enchantingstyle, Homer’smasterpiece is destinedfor a new life.


SOLD World Spanish

Mythology SERIES (4 TITLES)



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A painter, illustrator forpress, and an author

and illustrator of books,Claude Ponticreated his first book

for children in 1985 forhis daughter Adèle.Since then, he has

taken us into a poeticworld full of humor with

his numerous picturebooks that are

invitations to dream. Inall of Claude Ponti’s

picture books there isan itinerary,

metamorphoses, and the spirit of

Lewis Carroll.


Meye-LuvSometimes, someone changes your nameand you become Meye-Luv. Sometimesthis same someone says he wants to playwith you, to live with you, but all hedoes is force you to make him cakes, andhe acts like you are a ball, sending youhere and there with strikes and blows.Sometimes someone else, a shining starthat has fallen from your pain, comes totell you the truth: Heesez ThateeluvsyooBut-Eewishus Yooharmm. So you mustleave, and look for peace elsewhere. Thisis what happened to Isaeus. She hadbecome an orphan, she had become avictim, but it couldn’t go on forever.

SOLD German

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GrégoireSolotareff is the author of manyalbums, including thefamous Matthieu and Toi grand et moi petit. He has also writes novels for teen.Loulou at Wolf School

Tom the rabbit just had aconversation with Loulou the wolf,his friend for life. They talkedabout fear. To Tom’s great regret,Loulou affirms that he is not afraidof anything, at least not of anything thatreally exists. When you have a friend for life, you want to shareeverything with him. That’swhy Tom, who knows allabout fear, wants to helpLoulou experience it, too.Then he learns that a wolfschool exists. A frighteningschool...


SOLD Arabic,Japanese,Italian,Swedish,Danish,SimplifiedChinese,Korean,Hebrew, World Spanish,Catalan,German,Basque

LoulouSERIES (3 TITLES)



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Frédéric Stehrstudied fine arts, but

spent more time in thegardens where hesketched. Before

writing and drawing forchildren, he was a

painter and acarpenter. He created

the Foufours serieswith his brother

Gerald, the Calinoursseries with AlainBroutin, and the

Mariette et Soupirseries with Irène

Schwartz.


Hello, Grandma?Helena has everything she needsto make a good cake: pan, bigbowl, spoon and whisk.Everything except... theingredients! Luckily, by callingher friends the animals on the phone,everything can be arranged. Each onearrives with his speciality. The squirrelbrings hazelnuts, the rabbit carrots, the foxbrings eggs, and the bear the honey... Oh,no! The wolf! You’re not going to put

mice in my cake. Who’s thechef? We grate, we stir, andwe’re all done. Darn, wedon’t have an oven! I havean idea, says Helena.“Hello, Grandma?”

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The BuffaloBilly the hamster just saw his father’s lassohanging on a nail, and now he has onlyone idea in mind: he wants to catchan animal with it, the biggest, mostimpossible animal: a buffalo! Thatwould impress Dad. Billy startspracticing on his friend, Jean-Claudethe earthworm. Hmm... That doesn’tamount to much. But it seems thatdestiny is on his side, because anenormous buffalo is nearby, drinkingfrom the river. Nowwho is going to catchwhom?

Hardcover, 32 pages, 210 x 260 mmSOLD Italian, Dutch

SOLDGermanSimplifiedChineseItalianDutch

CatharinaValckx was born inthe Netherlands in1957. She has alsolived in France andwrites in French as wellas in Dutch. Her storiesare very realistic andfull of imagination. Hermain characters arealways very human,always funny andgraceful.



MichelBackès was born

in 1961 in Paris. Hehas loved paintingand drawing sincethe age of four. Healso likes rain, jazz,

family stories,everyday stories, and

playing the piano.

I, Joshua Slocum, Lone SailorAt the end of the 19th century, the steamshipreplaces the sailing ship, and large numbers ofexperienced, courageous sailors find themselvesunemployed. But one of them, Joshua Slocum, isnot the type to be taken down. He decides topatch up an old fishing boat, the Spray, and leavefor the other end of the world. On his own, heconfronts pirates and storms. But he does have hischerished books, the heroes from the past that headmires, and his many childhood memories toaccompany him. Along the way he will meet FannyStevenson, the widow of the author of TreasureIsland. His trip around the world will last threeyears, two months, and two days. His travels sincebecome the inspiration and point of reference forall solo trips around the world.


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FabianGrégoire wasborn in 1975 inBelgium and nowlives in France. Heloves doing in-depthresearch for each ofhis albums, with apredilection forhistorical subjects orscientific themes andtechniques. Hisobjective is to makemore attractive whatonce seemed to himso off-putting whenhe was a student.

The Lighthouse of the ForgottenA girl walks along the beach barefoot at low tide,collecting cuttlefish bones. A funny, old, nostalgicman carves faces from these bones so as not toforget the Papuan masks he saw when he wastraveling around the world on sailboats. This picturebook tells us about their passions, their affection,their friendship, and their humanity. And it tells usabout lighthouses. Lucie and her grandfather live inone. They work there, maintain it, and guard it. Asfate would have it, Augustin crosses paths withthem. Years later, he recounts this story.


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OlivierMelano wasborn in 1957. He

teaches fine arts andworks as an illustrator

for the press. Hiseclectic choices,

sense of storytelling,and taste for

meticulousdocumentation havequickly made him a

pillar in the Archimèdecollection, and henow has a dozentitles to his name.

The King’s CartographerLisbon, 1502 – a captivating city. The riches of theentire world arrive here to be bought and sold.Tiago enjoys strolling along the port, but he alsolikes drawing for his friend Ana in her father domJoaquim’s studio. Her father is the author of themost precise map ever made, the Padrão Real. It iscoveted by many because it contains State secrets.But a traitor is lurking among the staff in domJoaquim’s studio – someone who will do anythingto make a fortune with a copy of the precious map.Even to the point of kidnapping Tiago!


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FrançoisVincent andMaryseLamigeonlive together with their daughter Leïda,their horses and theircat, on the edge ofthe Camargue. Afterseveral albumsinspired by theirbeautiful region, theytook us on voyagesthat followed thepaths of JacquesCartier, Roland Garrosand Buffalo Bill. Let’sfollow them on thisnew adventure!

Pirate from the Island of ReunionThe Island of Reunion, in the summer of 1710.Paul, an orphan boy, has had to work from a veryyoung age on a coffee plantation. It is exhausting.Luckily, Flora is there. She is the daughter of hisformer Malagasy nanny, and Paul is in love with her.One day, the master strikes Flora, and Paul defendsher so vehemently that he then must flee. Along theway, he happens to cross paths with a terrible pirate,the ruthless La Buse. What Paul does not yet knowis that he will see him again: he will confront himduring a naval combat and save a ship captain’s life,and then sail to the Indies. But for the moment, heonly has one plan in mind: he has promised Florathat he will return to her.


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