Les chaussures lentes et le curieux chemin, by Charlotte Lemaire

One Thursday in Spring, Gisele slips an “ice cream voucher” into her pocket and heads to the ice cream van. But on the way, she discovers a mysterious pair of “slow trainers”. Shoes that slow you down when you try to run! And so, she sets off on a year-long journey. Slowness becomes synonymous with observation, encounters, fun and poetry. It takes Gisèle a whole year to get from her house to the ice cream van. A year observing the landscape that stretches out like chewing gum, listening to the leaves crunch under her feet, the fruit whisper in the forest, the chestnuts waiting to ripen… A world in which climbing over a rock literally lasts as long as it takes a larva to turn into a beetle.

Hardcover picture book, 24 x 33,5 cm, 40 pages

Rights sold: Greek and Korean