Tuesday, December 15, 2009

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

Monday, December 14, 2009

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 +

Tuesday, December 8, 2009

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)

Saturday, December 5, 2009

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)