Zoo

by Flavia Ruotolo
A surprising graphic bestiary borrowing from building blocks their joyful piling up of colours and shapes. The wolf, the squirrel, he crocodile are set in funny and inventive positions. For all it's a game to discover and guess what the animal is. Each animal is also named in Italian, English, Spanish and German.
44 pages, 18 x 23,5 cm, 4 years +

Highway Code

by Tibor Harpati
be careful, pixel traffic! Each road sign corresponds to a setting on the road. Bright colours for a happy design, in-between the road-carpet and the computer screen. A first discovery of the highway code for the youngest which grown-ups will also enjoy.
44 pages, 18 x 23,5 cm, 4 years +

Little Great Ones

Picasso, Chaplin and Prévert: three genius in art introduce this new series at Rue du monde. It plunges into the childhood of those who marked history. It reminds us that even great ones have been little and instils into children more desire to become grown-ups. From birth, through childhood each title tells the life of the character until he/she became famous. Photographs, reproduction of art, songs or poem will invite children to discover the work of this child who became an artist, a politician, a great figure of history. The text is lively and inviting for an easy but thorough reading, children will learn without noticing and identify to this child who became a great figure.
48 pages, 12 x 18,5 cm, 8 to 11 years old
Already published: Little Pablo will become Picasso, Little Charlie will become Chaplin, Little Jacques will become Prévert.

The Tales of Tatonka

Meet four wolf-cubes in the plains and forests of North America. They discover life according to the seasons. They learn to grow together as a family in contact with nature - with their own kind as well as with other species, such as Cinksi their lynx friend, Poum the bear or Wahi the squirrel. Their friend Tatonka, the lone bison, initiates them to a world unknown to wolves. They will face their fears and even fight dangers, but they will also have so much fun, playing tricks to one another.
A 3D HD 52 x 11' series
4 to 8 years old
All publishing products license available

At the Same Time, on Earth...

by Clotilde Perrin
Can you imagine, like a giant around the globe, one could see everywhere at the same time! This is the proposal of Clotilde Perrin with this stunning cardboard book made of 24 flaps that unfold like a leporello and tale the shape of a large wheel: the 24 time zones. The "giant child" can look over and discover what is happening at the same time on earth: in Paris Benoît is drinking his hot chocolate in the morning, while in Vietnam, Kanka is having a little nap. On the Samoa Islands, Abby is cooking fish for dinner, and a baby is born in the middle of the night in Peru!
48 pages in a leporello format and in a cardboard box. Folded format 16 x 33 cm, 4-metre long unfolded. 3 years+
Rights sold: Korean

Nomads Tales

by Catherine Gendrin, ill. by several
These earthmen have movement as a style of life. Tuareg, Sioux, Mongol, Chukchi, Arab, Berber people, on horses, sleighs, caravans or camels: these processions of many different latitudes all have in common a strong oral tradition. Tales issued from the culture of nomadic people tell about the status of girls, family life, wisdom of these tribes that often had to fight to survive. But also laughing and laughing at, for the greatest pleasure of travelling readers!
144 pages, 18 x 25 cm, 8 years+

Wild Plants From the Cities

by Emilie Vast
Vast's third Herbarium is dedicated to plants that find the strength to creep into our urban space, into the joints of gutters and pavements, in the wall's cracks, at the bottom of the trees, the park's grass, on the roofs... They can be arborescent or creeping, with flowers or seeds, and just like their cousins from the woods, they have a history, uses and mythology.
40 pages, 21,5 x 28 cm, 8 years+

Eliott and Nestor, Morning Time

by Mélanie Rutten
It's summer time. Eliott has convinced Nestor to go on travelling with him. On their way, Nestor's bad mood and small habits are getting on Eliott's nerves. Nestor finds his friend too intrusive and inconsistent. They quarrel. A story on friendship, on accepting oneself, on small and big things of the universe, and the place to take there. A story about walking down to the river, eating under the trees, looking at the stars and climbing mountains. Third book of a four-title series.
64 pages, 16,5 x 23 cm, 5 years +
Rights sold: German