Once upon a tree

by Emilie Vast
Follow the life of a tree, from Spring to Winter: the birds nesting, the dears enjoying the new leaves, the courtship display of the animals, the fruits growing, the birds learning to fly while the Autumn winds arrives, the foxes playing in the snow. Holes in the pages allow the animals to jump from one page to the other and the child to follow their tracks. A delicate and delightful exploration of nature.
32 pages, 16,5 x 30 cm, 6 holes with differents sizes, 2 colours printing
3 years +
Rights sold: Italian, Greek, Korean

Who's there ?

by Clotilde Perrin

Mum brings home a newborn baby and this is baby's first day with the family, the first bath, the first feed. The pages gradually unfold to create a 160 cm illustration depicting the whole of this first day. A book to share with the rest of the family, at the childminder's or at nursery school when a child becomes a big sister or brother!
24 pages, 17 x 17 cm (160 cm unfolded), 3 years +

When they heard the news

by Malika Doray
When they heard the news, the bears prepared parcels, the koalas hurried up, the crocodiles put their teeth away, the lynx smiled, the wolves muttered, but they all went... “When they heard the news, all went to celebrate the newborn”. An exceptional format made of two books that open and reveal a pop-up inside. See the video on Youtube
64 pages in a leporello format, one pop-up spread, 24 x 32 cm, 2 years +
Rights sold: Italian

I undress alone

by Julie Clélaurin and Claire Le Grand

Now that I grown, I know how to undress alone. I take off my sweater, my t-shirt, my socks and my pants. Then I take off my underwear, and what can we see? A small child is taking his clothes off to go for his bath. The young reader can touch fabrics of the different clothes before seeing the child diving into his bath! 

20 x 20 cm, 14 pages, 2-5 years

Dressing up!

by Julie Clélaurin and Xavier Deneux

Today it’s carnival at school and the children are wearing their favourite costume. Only one of them forgot to dress up, but he has an idea! Readers can touch Harlequin’s costume, feathers from an Indian, the princess’s dress, the ghost’s sheet, and the clown’s nose… 

20 x 20 cm, 14 pages, 2-5 years

Pop pop poem

by Alain Serres and Candice Hayat

Here is the first anthology of poems for the very young, through a spiral-bound board book, an original introduction to poetry. A short story about nature and familiar themes such as animals, the home etc. is linked to extracts from poems and short poetic texts by major authors. Hayat’s reassuring design and intense colors takes young child’s hand to initiate him to the different look the poet has about the world.

32 pages with cutouts in the pages, 24,5 x 24,5, 3 years +

Who ate this?

by Anne Crausaz
Who ate my salad? To this question, the answer comes on a page the colour of the vegetable, nibbled on one corner. Behind a flushing snail: Raymond. Then follows the radish, tomato and spinach until winter comes and Raymond goes... sleeping, of course!
32 pages, 17 x 18 cm, 2 years +
Rights sold: Chinese (Mainland China)

Where are you?

by Anne Crausaz
Hide and seek! Two foxes are playing, between the trees of the forest and with underground galleries. A book with holes inviting the reader to participate to the search and play at going inside/outside like the foxes.
32 pages, 16 x 19,5 cm
Rights sold: Chinese (Mainland China), Italian

No time

by Anne Crausaz
An ant colony is inviting itself in the bowl of the hens, taking the food away slowly but surely into its underground gallery. They have no time to sing with the cicada or rest in the sun with the ladybugs! Holes in the pages take the reader from outside to inside, from light to darkness.
32 pages, 16 x 19,5 cm, 2 years +
Rights sold: Chinese (Mainland China), Italian

Crazy Zoo

by Julie Clélaurin, ill. Cyril Hahn
A surprising and fun-filled title for little ones, with fabrics to touch on each page, about animals. Each specie presented is not one we usually find in the zoo: the cow has a zebra's skin, the cat has scales, the crocodile is as soft as a lamb... A short and funny text gives preposterous explanations to this animal muddle.
14 pages, 20 x 20 cm sturdy board books with touch-and-feel fabrics, 2 years +

Where do you live?

ill. Pronto
A series both educational and playful presenting information through realistic images, inviting the child to lift up a flap and link things together. Children will discover were farm and wild animals live, people's habitat, what houses are made of, and even where fairy tale character live. At the end of the title one wonder where the hairy hook-nosed monster live, on books of course!
Other title in the series: Where do you come from?
20 pages, lift-the-flap book, 18 x 19,5 cm, 3 years +

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

Where Do You Come From?

A series both educational and playful presenting information through realistic images, inviting the child to lift up a flap and link things together. Children will discover where and how fruits and vegetable grow, which animal is behind the cheese or yogurt they eat, what is used to make our clothes, where do animals and plants come from, etc. At the end of the book a mirror suggests the question: where do I come from?
18 pages, 18,8 x 20,5 cm, lift-the-flap book
3 to 7 years old
Secret of the Origins Series

The School Teacher's Comforter

by Julie Clélaurin, ill. Marie Quentrec
A tender book for very young children with fabrics to touch on each page, on a major theme at this age: their security blanket. That day everybody is introducing its companion to the caregiver. The young reader can feel different objects (a teddy bear, a sheet, a cotton rabbit, etc.) on each page. Until all the children ask their teacher: where is yours?
12 pages, 20 x 20 cm sturdy board book with touch-and-feel fabrics
Soft and Touch Books Series, 2/5 years old

Playtime

by Anne Bertier
Small Round and Big Square are friends and love playing figures and forms together. They learn, while trying to mix their shapes, to build together and discover a game that is both fun and infinite. There is no longer a small and a big one, they need each other to continue. They also discover that friendship requires some generosity. As always in her work, Anne Bertier is particularly careful on the way the images and the white lay down on the page. She explores and renew the relationship between children, signs and their images.
48 pages, 22 x 22 cm, 3 years +
Rights sold: Italian, Farsi, Korean, Spanish (world)

All around me

by Clotilde Perrin
This large-format picture book has plenty of details, allowing little readers to look at it from various angles, going round and round to explore a wealth of new things on every side of the image. Each spread depicts a child's world close-up, from eating and bathing to going to bed. A way to start from everyday life and create an imaginative world.
36 pages cardboard book, 29 x 29 cm, 2 years +

The never-ending little books

by Malika Doray
Again, again, and again! These little books have a particular format: they can be read just like any other book by turning the pages, reading their fun and witty never-ending stories. They can be unfolded, put flat on the table and turned around. On the back the main image is reproduced in black and white and can be coloured by the children. They can also be hung like a mobile! A fifth little book is included in the box to explain the various uses, showing the format and the folding system so that children can make their own little never-ending books.
5 little books in a box,
8 pages each
10,5 x 8,5 cm folded
21 x 29,7 cm unfolded
2 years +
Rights sold: Korean

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

by Malika Doray
A succession of dialogues: the red jumper? No, the green dress. Bedtime? No, I want to stay up. Very upset? No, I want a kiss... all the minor conflicts and the major plans of a toddler collected in a few pages. A book in all ways, based on the immense pleasure of saying NO! A simple "system" book, with half pages inserted between two full pages.
36 pages, 15 x 21 cm, 18 months +

Colours

by Malgorzata Gurowska
One page out of two has a hole through it, showing a coloured circle opening onto the following pages. Turn the page and discover an animal. What is green? A frog! A preschool book for toddlers with bright colours in geometrical blocks, showing the round and simple silhouettes of the animals featured. The names of the animals are in French and in English.
36 pages, 23 x 20 cm, 18 months +