Creating With...

The six-titles series is introducing major artists (Picasso, Kandinsky, Vermeer, Vinci, Magritte and Warhol) to young children, while proposing activities and games created by contemporary artists.
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64 pages, full colour cover, black & white inside, 22 x 28 cm, 4 years +

All My Art Histories

Each of the 24 titles available explores a movement, a period or a key artist through the description of their main features, looking at commented works of art and experiencing activities on the subject. Titles include Abstraction, Art Nouveau, Impressionism, the Nabis, Pop art, etc.
52 pages, 25 x 29 cm, 8 years +

Nassim and Nassima

by Ingrid Thobois, ill. Judith Gueyfier
Nassim and Nassima live on the heights above Kabul, Afghanistan, and always spend their days together, playing and doing typical children's chores. It seems this friendship will last forever - until one day it's time to go to school - but only for Nassim; Nassima must stay at home. Her father is firm about it: school is not for girls! Nassima disagrees, however...
116 pages illustrated novel, 8 years +

The Hut on the Roof

by Stéphane Servant, ill. by Monike Czarnecki
Yanis has built a small hut on the roof of his building, where he often hides out to read, listen to the radio and daydream about the beautiful Tamaya joining him there one day. He also does there to boost his courage, because he has a difficult time with the young Momo - the self-proclaimed children's gang leader who is up to something - and wants Yanis in on it.
116 pages illustrated novel, 8 years +

I Can Only Think About That

by Karim Ressouni-Demigneux, ill. Monike Czarnecki
At school, some call 12-year-old Ismaïl "queer", but he doesn't understand and the teasing really disturbs him. He spends his days constantly wondering and worrying about what teenage life will be like. His French teacher, who doesn't hide her homosexuality, will support him and help him to grow up with a sense of self-assurance even though he wonders what adult he will be.
116 pages illustrated novel, 11 years +
Rights sold: Korean

Silver Fish

by Sylvie Deshors, ill. Monike Czarnecki
They call him "Calamity". Because he was the 13th to join the gang of the D Line, living in the corridors of the metro. There are only calamities in the cruel world of these children anyhow. Fortunately there is the tall Mila to get along with him. Although his only happiness is a tiny little thing, hidden in his shoe. The only safe place he has. A happiness made of paper, vowels and consonants, handed on by a tender grand-mother. Can it be the path to freedom at last?
112 pages illustrated novel, 9 years +

Oh Dear! Lola

by Clotilde Bernos, ill. Olivier Tallec
At school a rumour is starting to spread: Lola is seriously ill. Some people would prefer if she stayed at her home. The word AIDS frightens them. Her friend Sam wants to stay along with her, and continue laughing together. He would so much like if she told him the truth about her mysterious blue rabbit...
112 pages illustrated novel, 8 years +