A whole cook book on chocolate

by Alain Serres, ill. by Nathalie Novi
Childhood, chocolate and imagination: three ingredients that complement each other with pleasure in this large picture book, designed with warm colours. There are 40 recipes: sweet and salty, from the essential fondant and brownies to surprising innovations, such as litchis au gratin with bitter chocolate. Together with background information on the history and the culture of chocolate, each spread also includes an original short story to take us into the imaginative, delightful world of chocolate. Children will want to stick their fingers in it, but every chocolate lover, regardless of age, will want to savour it and return to it!
64 pages, 28 x 35 cm, 8 years +
Mention at the Bologna Ragazzi Awards 2007
Rights sold: Spanish (world)

A cook book as big as a garden

by Alain Serres, ill. by Martin Jarrie
A unique way to discover fruits and vegetables differently and cook fantastic recipes: ginger-chocolate litchi brochette, puzzling tomato salad, Garriguette strawberries with fresh garlic or Christmas spices tea and grape jelly... Dedicated to fruits and vegetables, the book gives information on their culture and history and offers proverbs from all over the world to celebrate them. The illustrations, lavish paintings, invite us in an extraordinary garden.
80 pages, 28 x 35 cm, 8 years +
Rights sold: Spanish (world)

A cook book as big as the world

by Alain Serres, ill. by Zaü
In this book you will find 60 recipes to travel around the world and cook with your whole family. Discover faraway landscapes as well as thousands of tastes from 5 continents. Open this kitchen window and you will get a taste of 25 different countries.
64 pages, 28 x 35 cm, 8 years +
Rights sold: Spanish (world)

Hide-and-Seek Numbers

by Anne Bertier
An imaginative game with 40 "number" cards, 2 game boards and one book. Let yourself be guided by the figures suggested in the book or make up your own! The aim of the game is to get caught, to rediscover familiar signs that one thought one knew so well. Going further in her research on signs -numbers or letters-, Anne Bertier creates here a game for all, to play alone or with others. The book inspired an exhibition presented at the Cité des Sciences et de l'Industrie in Paris.
Box size 27 x 27 x 6.5 cm with a 64-pages book and 40 cards, 4 years +

Popov and Samothrace

A bestiary by Janik Coat
A funny and graphic animal book featuring thirty-three animals. On the left page, they are simply sketched with their name and species. On the right, they are painted in their natural environment. Each animal is given an actual personality. Janik Coat is a very keen observer and she knows how to highlight the particular features of the animals in her books.
68 pages, 16 x 24 cm, 3 years +
Rights sold: Italian

I'm not like the others

by Janik Coat
This animal book unveils its characters through comical and unexpected situations. You thought that lazy people were phlegmatic? Driss has enough energy to go and lie down... on top of the Eiffel Tower! A book about the pleasure of being different.
48 pages, 14 x 16 cm, 3 years +
Rights sold: Italian, Korean, Portuguese (Brazil)

That book

by Malika Doray
Eleven small animals are reading, concentrated and amused. Each holds a book with only the back cover visible. A pop-up system opens the book to the reader. "That book" represents all the books imaginable and all those one would like to read: a book for grown-ups, a book for little ones, a book to be shared, a book to be scared... and a book for you!
28 pages, 15 x 21 cm, 2 years +
Rights sold: Dutch and Korean

The chairs

by Louise-Marie Cumont
How amazing to think that chairs, simple chairs, can offer so much space for creativity? Louise-Marie Cumont invents a minimalist geographical space in which her characters perform in short acts, strong and significant. Conflict, complicity, fear and tenderness are present throughout the book. This silent book becomes a place for exchanges between children and adults. To go along with another title by the same author: Bedtime!
36 pages, 22 x 22 cm, 2 years +
Rights sold: Korean

All humans have the same rights

by Marie-Agnès Combesque, ill. Clotilde Perrin
The 1948 United Nations Declaration of Human Rights explained to children
The complete Declaration is reproduced in the book, while each page highlights two or three elements of the text, going into further detail to help young readers understand this fundamental document.
Examples from contemporary life provide concrete links to today's realities.
40 pages, 23 x 26 cm, 10 years +
Rights sold: Dutch

The little white buffalo

by Fabienne Thiéry, ill. Judith Gueyfier
On a mountain in a remote Chinese province, a small white buffalo is born into Li's all-black herd. "What a wonderful omen", says the old wise man of Stork's Peak. But the next day Li becomes deaf, and his son later loses sight. When war begins neither is called upon to fight...
40 pages, 25.5 x 25.5 cm, 4 years +

This is a Poem that heals fishes

by Jean-Pierre Siméon, ill. Olivier Tallec
To heal Leon, his ill gold fish, Arthur must read him a poem. But is there anybody on this earth that can explain to Arthur what a poem is? The baker, the bird, his grandparents, the old Mahmoud, everybody has a different answer. Poem sounds like a very mysterious word. But it's getting urgent, and Arthur needs to know the answer. To save Leon.
"Exuding magic and unbridled creativity on every page, this is a book with the potential to heal more than just a fish." Publisher's weekly
Nominated Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis 2010
48 pages, 25 x 25 cm, 4 years +
Rights sold: Chinese (Complex and Simplified), English (World), German, Italian, Portuguese (Brazil), Spanish (World)

When we'll have eaten the planet

by Alain Serres, ill. Silvia Bonanni
Could you imagine, one day, our planet without any water, no air, no trees, no plants or animals? Improbable scenario in the form of a poetical tale, which tells that money is not everthing and that the mind of a child might know how to cure this coughing planet...
A successful title in France that invites small children and parents to discuss this major topic together.
32 pages, 22 x 33 cm, 3 years +
Rights sold: Chinese (China), Farsi, Korean, Spanish (Latin America)

Face numbers

by Anne Bertier
Nine numbers means nine faces! First only half of the character's face appears, the other part being hidden by a half-page. Turn the page and the full face is revealed. From Zero to Nine, 10 funny faces to make children laugh and think! Anne Bertier's research on signs (letters or numbers) has resulted in several books, game and exhibitions that all invite children to participate and create they own graphic works while seeing these signs from a different perspective.
48 pages, 20 x 20 cm, 3 years +
Rights sold: Korean

And what about me?

by Malika Doray
"And what about me?" is a gallery of portraits featuring a complaining manatee, a giant elephant, tiny mice and a terrible crocodile... all different! But what about the little rabbit? The little rabbit is a little rabbit and that is good... In the same series of "That book", this is a simple and funny little book, full of bright colours, that tells it's best to be yourself.
32 pages, 15 x 21 cm, 2 years +

You

by Martine Bourre
Two creatures, a big blue one and a small orange one, meet each other. They love each other, hide and meet again. All our fears and moments of happiness are contained in these pages. Martine Bourre has chosen here simple lines with ample and accurate brush strokes to sketch the two creatures and bring tender and reassuring impressions to this delicate work.
32 pages, 18 x 24 cm, 2 years +

Terrible

by Alain Serres, ill. by Bruno Heitz
Terrible is a black wolf that frightens everybody, his wife and children included. One day, the little wolves take off their father's boots and gloves and are stunned to discover that he has coloured legs! This compelling, gentle book is about a feeling that sometimes frightens grown-ups: tenderness!
40 pages, 30 x 30 cm, 4 years +
Rights sold: Catalan, Chinese (Taiwan), English (Australia and New Zealand), Farsi, German, and Spanish (world).

Nyéba's journey

by Yves Pinguilly, ill. by Nathalie Novi
Nyéba's mother is vey ill. The Marabout gives strict instructions: Nyéba must collect leaves, flowers and fruit from a jujube tree to save her mother. She undertakes a long journey across river and desert, meeting an old elephant and an evil genie along the way, but this little girl's bravery can make miracles happen.
40 pages, 25.5 x 25.5 cm, 4 years +

A tiny little pea

by Stéphane Servant
This stylized, colourful book tells the story of Little Pea, who starts out in his mother's warm belly and then explores the world and discovers other people. Full of impressions, feelings and very simple questions on early childhood, this book is all about play, discovery, touch, love and encountering the world. The very simple illustrations play with colours and geometric forms to reveal various situations. To be enjoyed at day care, nursery school or at home...
48 pages, 20 x 20 cm, 18 months +

The story of Julie who had the shadow of a boy

by Christian Bruel, ill. by Anne Galland
Julie's parents are complaining so much that she is a tomboy, that one day her shadow becomes the one of the little male who caricatures all her moves. She finds this double amusing at first, until she starts doubting of her own identity. But how can you get rid of a shadow that is not even yours?
This title was first published in 1976 in France and had many foreign editions at the time. It had often been reprinted and was an important book for many readers. This new edition with a modern design but original text and illustrations proves how this story is still essential to children's literature.
Rights sold: Spanish (Latin America)
74 pages, 17,5 x 24,5 cm, 5 years +