Hannele & Associates

We are thrilled to present you our new agency, representing around the world a selection of French publishers and their fantastic children's books. This blog will soon be replaced by a more efficient website, in preparation: www.hanneleandassociates.fr
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The little school of the imagination

by Alain Serres

This boxed set features 15 large-format illustrations and 30 tokens that serve as visual prompts to stimulate children’s imagination: children choose an image, take a token and then invent their own story! A mobile phone disturbs the hustle and bustle of a port, for example, where they are loading a baby elephant onto a cargo ship: What’s the story? What happens next? What adventures might occur? Can you invent a story that no one has ever written before? And if you can’t think of what happens next, you just take another token, and the story begins again.

28 x 35 cm box, 5 years +

The wolf that was always hungry

by Eric Battut

This wolf really has a voracious appetite. He devours everything, everywhere, all the time: wild boars, mountains, forests... And inevitably he gets fatter with every meal! Why not go on a diet? He hates the idea. What about medical help? He swallowed the doctor before he could even utter a word. Who can quell his incredible hunger pangs?

40 pages, 23 x 33 cm, 4 years +

Little by little

by Emilie Vast
Little by little, starting from the smallest, the animals march two by two onto the deck of the ship while the water rises gradually. The story is well known. Emilie Vast tells it to us once again with her animals that speak of the carelessness of men during the rise of the waters. A modern fable about climate change. 
36 pages, 24,5 x 28,4 cm, 3 years +

Toys of the meadow

by Anne Crausaz

Lucien and his mother go for a walk in the forest. A bag must be prepared but of course all the stuffed animals cannot fit in. Little bear, the favourite will always have his place, but the others must stay home. During his walk Lucien will transform the world around him into a field of exploration to discover all the new toys offered by nature.

40 pages, 21.5 x 25.5 cm, 3 years +

The little market

by Nathalie Parain 
Published in 1935, this book was part of an innovative collection of game-books by the famous French publishing house Le Père Castor. The children can supply shops, sell or buy food and organize lottery games. The charming old-style goods or tools for each trade renders the re-release perfectly accessible to today’s children. The book contains 8 shops and 117 strong paper pre-cut cards. An all times best-seller. 
32 pages, 24 x 28 cm, 4 years +

Korczak, a true friend to children

by Philippe Meirieu, ill. Pef
Very few books are designed to help children think about their education. This book explores the career of Janusz Korczak, a doctor and gifted educator who was a tireless champion of children's rights throughout his life.
48 pages, 25 x 25 cm, 5 years +

Babak, the day your horse was born

by Alain Serres, ill. Vanessa Hié
The illustrations in this volume show each stage of a single painting that grows more complex with every page. As readers follow the “birth” of this work, they’re also invited to witness the birth of another wonder: the story’s phlegmatic hero, Babak, has a mare that is about to deliver a foal. Throughout the story, the villagers seek the ever-dreaming Babak but they’ll never find him – because he’s painting the picture!
32 pages, 28 x 35 cm, 5 years + 

Playing with numbers

by Anne Bertier

A new and original way to have the small ones understand how and why we calculate numbers: adding and multiplying should be easier with an artistic twist. In a glimpse, red and white shapes make arithmetic operations look simple and funny. A small format that can be handled easily by children, to look at again and again and memorise the visual effect of addition or subtraction. At the end of each book a page to be cut out with shapes to practice the operations and have fun!

5 titles, 36 pages each, 15 x 15 cm, 5 years +

And if all this was just a dream

By Thierry Lenain, illustration by Irène Bonacina

Radhija is a girl who wonders: “and if I was just someone’s dream, of someone who dreams? And when he wakes up, I may not exist anymore...". She thus asks her mother, her father, her cat and the president, each time digging a little deeper her questioning as these supposedly “sensible” people struggle to respond... A philosophical journey accompanied by beautiful watercolours.

48 pages, 16.5 x 22.5 cm, 6 years +

Five Friends

by Junko Nakamura  
5 friends live together on a farm. Then each has to go live on his own, but each continues to think of his old friends. Being separated without being forgotten, to be able to stay friends even when apart, hoping to meet again, such are the beautiful lessons of this very simple small book but with great quality of feeling and colourful illustrations.
44 pages 24 x 15 cm, 3 years +

Zou activity books

Zou is a five years old foal; he lives with his family in Zebratown. Each day brings a new sense of discovery, exploration and fun to Zou. An animated series filled with humour and tenderness.
52 x 11' on Disney Channel
The first titles are now available in Zou publishing license: activity books with stickers, games, and colouring.
48 pages, 21 x 29 cm, 3 years +
Three titles available and more to come

That's what children are like

by Alain Serres, ill. Silvia Bonanni
What are children like? This highly imaginative collage book attempts to define what it means to be a child, both seriously and with humour. A strong text that can be read aloud, even claimed if necessary... so that everybody can hear! A continuation of Rue du monde's editorial line on children's rights. Because a child holds tomorrow's world in his hands...
40 pages, 23 x 33 cm, 4 years +

1,2,3 stars!

Counting nature
by Anne-Sophie Baumann, ill. by Anne-Lise Boutin
This unusual picture book invites children to explore the world of figures and big numbers: from zero for a worm's paws, to 10 pips hidden in an apple, to billions of stars... There are so many things to see, count and name! A simple and elegant book specially documented. The poetry of mathematics meets up with the delicacy of the natural world.
48 pages, 25 x 25 cm, 4 years +
Rights sold: Portuguese (Brazil)

Feather

by Isabelle Simler

This title draws the portrait of birds, funny and stylized, in contrast with the drawing of their feathers, detailed and naturalistic. Filled with humour and tenderness, the book will be enjoyed for its details. One can feel like a collector, just like this mischievous tomcat, who just adores his fellows with feathers... A LPO-BirdLife France labelled book.
48 pages, 23 x 32,5 cm, 4 years + 
Rights sold: Spanish (World)

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

Little Boy Brown

by Isobel Harris, ill. André François

Little Boy Brown is a young boy who lives in New York City. He describes the world he and his parents live in, with no nature, almost underground, between tunnels and subways. One day, Hilda, the chambermaid, takes him to her family in the countryside. There he discovers the pleasure of making a fire, helping Hilda to cook a cake and patting the house’s dog. The afternoon tea brings the whole of Hilda’s family together. They speak a foreign language. At the end of the day, it is a wonderful experience for Little Boy Brown whose life has been changed as well as his outlook on the others.

56 pages, 17 x 25,5 cm, 7 years +
Rights sold: English (North America)

Now open the box

by Dorothy Kunhardt

Pewee is a tiny little dog in a box at the circus. Everybody loves him. But one day a terrible frightful awful thing happened, Peewee the tiny little dog started to grow. He became so big, that he now had the size of an ordinary dog and no place in the circus anymore. Everybody loved him still but he had to go until a splendid wonderful thing happened...

A new edition of this comical American tale from the 30’s.

24,5 x 17 cm, 64 pages, 4 years +
Rights sold: Italian

The City

Book 2: The Battle of the outer limits
by Karim Ressouni-Demigneux
Polly is the narrator of this second volume. She lives on a tiny British island and The City is her dream: freedom! Under the pseudonym Liza, she meets with Arthur, JC and Harry. Together they explore this strange world. She is fascinated by it all – the immensity, the surveyors who map the city, the linguists who unpick words... But she also wonders about this mysterious man called the Planner and the memory robbers who kidnap shadows and march towards the City’s outer limits where fighting rages. Liza fearlessly confronts this violence. She trusts in friendship and the growing feeling of love inside her. But things can fall apart so quickly in The City.

240 pages,16 x 23 cm, 12 years +

Papagayo

The little library of tales from around the world

The giant from the land of ice

by Laurence Fugier, ill. Julia Chausson

A reindeer herder and his family settle near Lake Vuolvojavri, unaware that a cruel and stupid ogre lives on the other shore. When the ogre wants to marry the herder's daughter, her father plays a clever trick on him, dressing up a pine log as the bride. A tale and information on the Sami people.

48 pages, 14 x 22 cm, 5 years +

The monkey and the golden cob

by Claire Laurens, ill. Martine Bourre

A monkey finds a golden cob in the forest but it is stolen from him. In vain he seeks help from the fire, the river, the anteater, the jaguar. But it is the hunters from the village who help him, and the monkey thanks them by giving them some grains from his cob. And that was how, according to legend, the Nahua Indians began to grow maize. At the end of the book, information on the Nahua Indians.

48 pages, 14 x 22 cm, 5 years +