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)

Little Drop's Journey

by Anne Crausaz
This is the story of a small drop of water, blown by the wind and heated by the sun, it becomes vapour, snowflake and dewdrop. It discovers the sea, the mountain and the valleys. It encounters animals and plants until it lands onto Raymond the Snail! A new "natural" story from Anne Crausaz to tell children about the cycle of water. Other titles by the same author at Editions MeMo include the story of a growing seed or the birth of a snail, called Raymond, of course!
40 pages, 18 x 22 cm, 3 years +
Rights sold: Simplified Chinese, Farsi, Japanese, Spanish (Mexico).

Monsieur Seguin's Last Kid Goat

by Alphonse Daudet, ill. by Jean-Luc Buquet
How lovely she is Monsieur Seguin’s kid goat. Lovely and in love with freedom… She doesn’t want to live tied up. She wants to gambol in the mountain, to her liking. But in the mountain, there’s the big bad wolf. Daudet’s most famous text is also one of his most delightful. The encounter of two beings who have a real love for freedom and discovery, but are bound to be enemies on their common ground. As cruel as a true fairy tale, the moral of this story tells children about the happiness of freedom and the dangers of its excesses.
48 pages, 27.5 x 30 cm, 5 years +

Big Dog

by Olivier Morel
This is the story of a little boy who has a new dog. The dog is very big, and is getting difficult; he runs everywhere, chases everybody and bites. But who is rude, the dog or the little boy? Olivier Morel, a talented painter is also a great storyteller. With a few stokes and some beautiful colours, he takes us here into a funny a witty world.
32 pages, 22 x 22 cm, 4 years +

Mandela, the Multicoloured African

by Alain Serres, ill. Zaü and b&w photographs
20 years ago, Nelson Mandela was set free after 27 years in prison. He was to become the first black president of South Africa. From the fields of his childhood to the supreme victory, this is the destiny of an uncommon humanist, who became a universal symbol of peace and freedom. A picture book with the colours of hope.
At the centre of the book, 27 special pages tell this endless eternity: 27 black and white drawings, surrounded by two red bands that tell about imprisonment. 8 non-fiction pages with photographs also bring essential information for the understanding of Mandela's unique destiny.
68 pages, 26 x 26 cm, 9 years +
Rights sold: Korean, Italian

The Surprise

by Janik Coat
The Surprise is a story with no text, a graphic tale on the emotions and feelings between a human being and a cat. It shows the tacit agreement of a woman and her animal on the arrival on the new born baby. Not a sound, not a word is needed to express the strength and the surprises that life has in store for us. This is Janik Coat's third title at Editions MeMo.
36 pages, 22 x 25,9 cm, 3 years +
Rights sold: Italian

The Herbarium: Small Wood Flora

By Emilie Vast
Both a botanical treatise and a book with stunning images, Emilie Vast's new herbarium shows the plant with details of their leave, fruit and seed. The thin and delicate line of the author perfectly describes the wood anemone, campanula, wild strawberry and other bluebell. Mythology, history and use of these plants are also mentioned in this poetical yet practical object. Sequel to a first title on broad-leaved trees that was granted a non-fiction mention at 2010 Bologna Ragazzi Awards.
40 pages, 21,5 x 28 cm, 6 years +
Rights sold: Italian