Editions MeMo Archives - Hannele and Associates

Un pull pour te protéger, by Malika Doray A sweater is to keep you warm, a blanket is to keep you cosy, a bottle is to keep your milk, a spoon is to keep delicious food, a mouth is to keep you babbling, our eyes are to keep looking at ...

To Keep You Warm

Chut !, by Claire Garralon Look at this funny bear! What did you say You can’t see him and you don’t even hear him So let’s carefully open our eyes and ears and play a game First let’s ask the colours all around to make less ...

Hush!

Je veux un super-pouvoir !, by Émilie Vast After I am Scared of the Wolf, Émilie Vast’s two bunnies now discover the amazing gifts of both familiar and exotic animals Tortoise can hold his breath for six hours, Chameleon changes ...

All I Want is a Super Power!

Nathalie Parain, by Michèle Cochet, Michel Defourny, Claude-Anne Parmegiani Born in Kiev in 1897, Nathalie Parain studied at the Vkhutemas in Moscow In the 1920s, she moved to Paris with her husband, philosopher Brice Parain ...

Nathalie Parain

Sioux, Soussou et Souzy, by Anne Kellens Sioux, Soussou and Souzy are very curious and creative mice Each season is a new adventure for them Ice-skating on a frozen pond in Winter, carnival time in Spring, picnics with friends in ...

Sioux, Soussou and Souzy

Engloutis !, by Emilie Vast Something is coming The animals have no idea They’re running, scratching, looking for food Snail is the first to be caught as he nibbles on a dandelion Gulp, gobbled up in one go Then Bumblebee, Toad, Adder and ...

Gulped!

Lune, by Junko Nakamura Night has fallen Leaving the circus, a child walks along under the gaze of his old friend, the Moon Somewhere between waking dream and everyday wonder, Junko Nakamura takes us once again into the poetic magic of her ...

Moon

Surf, by Frédéric Boudet For Adam, home for the holidays, Brest does not have a lot to say for itself The cranes of the port are still there in the distance, closer, in between the rooftops, the same piece of ocean, closer still the ...

Surf

La Chose du MéHéHéHé, by Sigrid Baffert and ill Jeanne Macaigne On the surface of the sea’s blue belly, things are serious A Thing, with red and white stripes, hard as a giant shell and yet soft like seaweed, is floating ...

The Thing From MéHéHéHé

Petit garçon, by Francesco Pittau, ill Catherine Chardonnay Tonight, the little boy metamorphosed into a fly Since then, with his head upside down, the world all topsy-turvy, he’s been walking on the ceiling Today, or maybe before, he ...

Little Boy

Alionouchka, by Françoise Morvan and illustrated by Étienne Beck A popular Russian folk tale, Alyonushka narrates the misfortunes of the daughter of an Orthodox priest and his wife, who is left all by herself After getting rid of ...

Alionouchka

13824 jeux de couleurs, de formes et de mots, by Patrick Raynaud 13,824 games with colours, shapes and words are contained in this hodgepodge On the left-hand pages, we find suggestions for poems in the form of calligrams On the ...

13,824 Games With Colours, Shapes and Words

La fête d'anniversaire, by Malika Doray One day, a mouse has a hankering for cookies So she decides to celebrate a birthday She bakes and wraps up her cookies, then she adds a birthday card, and bingo! There they are at the foot of the ...

The Birthday Party

Gros chien, petit chien, by Claire Garralon This morning, like every morning, Big dog and Little dog are going for a walk Giraffe has fun greeting them with, “Hello, Bigfoot! Hello, Munchkin!” Then Fox teases them: “How are you, ...

Big Dog, Little Dog

L'arbre de Ploc, by Mélanie Rutten Tine, Ploc, Bubu and Baba are playing hide and seek behind the trees But Ploc has thought of another game: Let’s all be seeds! So they curl up into a ball, they wait, then they stretch, they spread out, ...

Ploc’s Tree

L’arrêt du cœur ou comment Simon découvrit l’amour, dans une cuisine, by Agnès Debacker, illustrated by Anaïs Brunet Since Simone left, Simon comes to his building caretaker Françoise’s office every day for ...

When Your Heart Misses a Beat, or How Simon Discovered Love in a Kitchen

Pombo Courage, by Émile Cucherousset and illustrated by Clémence Paldacci There’s nothing Pombo enjoys more than spending the day sipping a fruit juice with scum, toes warm in his slippers From time to time, hunger or sleep make him ...

Fearless Pombo

Jusqu’en haut, by Emilie Vast Coati is looking for fruits at the bottom of a tree Ocelot suddenly falls on his back But if Ocelot has fallen, it is because Ibis has pushed him down his branch And if Ibis has pushed him, it is ...

To The Top

Pull, by Claire Lebourg It is early summer and Jumper has lost his master at the train station Having ventured ahead to go and sniff a trash-can, Jumper has to face the fact: Francis has gone missing Jumper sets off on a tracking mission ...

Jumper

Chnourka, by Gaya Wisniewski Four friends are threading their way through the forest There is too much snow, though Tomek the bison can’t move anymore – but then Mirko the little cat catches a glimpse There is a house ahead! It is ...

Chnourka

Les Trois Gibbons et la chanson du colibri, by Kenji Abe As the three gibbons take a stroll, a gust of gale lands a tiny hummingbird in front of them The little birdie is lost, having been blown by the wind away from her parents ...

The Three Gibbons and the Hummingbird’s Song

Quel est ce légume , by Anne Crausaz My skin fades out from pink to white Munch munch, crunch my flesh with a touch of salt It stings! Who am I The radish Let us discover the existing fruits and vegetables in these large-size books ...

What Is This Vegetable?

Quel est ce fruit , by Anne Crausaz My thin skin shines under the spring sun My red flesh stains clothes Who am I The cherry Let us discover the existing fruits and vegetables in these large-size books with holes Each guess is made of a ...

What Is This Fruit?

Plic ploc banquise, by Claire Garralon Drip drop, ice floe, drip drop A little penguin and a small polar bear have to face the truth: the ice floe is melting! So off they go to warn the whale, the beluga, the fur seals, the walrus – and all the ...

Drip Drop Ice Floe

Livre Magique, by Fanette Mellier On the first page you will discover a shape -in this case a circle that, little by little, makes its way into the binding, eventually disappearing into the book at its half-way point But it is not over, ...

Magical Books

Laurent le Flamboyant, by Karen Hottois and illustrated by Junia Woignier / Polonia Series by Chloé Mary Just like every morning, Utang Laurent wakes up on the wrong side of the bed He may swing from branch to branch throughout the ...

Laurent the Flamboyant