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 +

Chronobook series

Chronobook Dinosaurs
With Chronobook Dinosaurs, children will be unbeatable about history of living beings on our planet millions of years ago. From the creation of the planet 4.6 billion years ago to the dinosaur extinction 65 million years ago, through the appearance of first vertebrates, Chronobook offers a new vision on the world of dinosaurs.

Chronobook Prehistory

Australopithecus, Homo Sapiens, not to mention the Cro-Magnon, no major step is missed in the Chronobook dedicated to Prehistory. From the appearance of the Hominids 8 million years ago to the end of the Prehistory 5300 years ago, this frieze allows a better understanding of history and evolution of mankind, for a new vision of Prehistory.

Chronobook Great Inventions

In Chronobook Great Inventions, children can trace the history of objects or processes that surround us. From the invention of the fire to the MP3, this frieze resumes the chronology of major inventions that have changed people's lives. In total, some 5,500 years of history reviewed to understand how our society was built for a new vision of the world around us.

Three titles available, and more to come.
16 x 16 cm, 2-metre long when unfolded
12 flaps, full colour both sides in a cardboard box
7 years +

Papagayo

The little library of tales from around the world

The sultan's diamond

by Catherine Gendrin, ill Judith Gueyfier

The sultan wants to give his pregnant wife a gift once the baby is born. He asks the jeweller to drill a magnificent diamond. But the jeweller splits the stone in two! He is devastated, for the Sultan had threatened to kill him if he damaged the stone. But luckily, the next day, the Sultan's wife gave birth to twins...

48 pages, 14 x 22 cm, 5 years +

The grandmother who saved a whole kingdom

by Claire Laurens, ill Sandrine Thommen

A Lord gives orders that all the old people should be abandoned in the mountains. The young Shoji refuses to accept this fate for his beloved grandmother. Her life will be saved when she will be the only person able to solve three riddles. From then on in Japan, the elderly are cherished and respected for their experience and wisdom.

48 pages, 14 x 22 cm, 5 years +

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 +