Editions MeMo Archives - Hannele and Associates

D’où ça vient by Anne-Sophie Baumann and Claire Garralon Where does milk and water come from Sugar and honey And sand And a balloon And bread And where do they go Anne-Sophie Baumann and Claire Garralon geniusly answer ...

Where Does It Come From?

ChatChat, le chat du chien, by Mélanie Rutten Kitty Cat usually wakes up at sunrise But this morning he can’t put his second sock on He puts it at the tip of a stick and starts drawing circles before Doggy Dog says “Let’s go for a ...

Doggy Dog and his Kitty Cat

Ours à New York, by Gaya Wisniewski Everyday Aleksander has the same boring routine to go to work He walks to his workplace located in a gloomy building There he organises files all day long while his co-workers never actually notice him ...

Bear in New York

L’imagier de l’hiver, by Anne Bertier Following her brillant Summer Time book, Anne Bertier keeps exploring seasons and this time it’s a visual wandering through winter When turning the pages, paper cut snowy views ...

Winter Days

La maison de l'ours, by Émilie Vast Mr and Mrs Bear live with Little Bear in a dark, narrow, but very comfortable cave One day Mrs Bear wonders at the nice houses of human families: they are big with light rooms and countless treasures ...

Mrs Bear’s House

Rouge-queue, quatre histoires d'oiseaux, by Anne Crausaz Explore in four chapters and four seasons, the vibrating lifetime of four different species of birds: redstarts, nightingales, robins and rock ptarmigans Follow them through the ...

Redstart, Four Bird Stories

Les fleurs sucrées des trèfles, by Cédric Philippe Agathe is a shy little girl who is very fond of her old uncle, Yvon One day she hears by accident that he is suffering from a heart illness and that he is slowly dying ...

The Sweet Flowers of Clovers

L'oiseau bleu, by Isaure Fouquet This is the story of a very special bird When he flies in the sky, his feathers actually provide water to the ground And when every year his swallow friends fly away for their big trip, he knows it’s his ...

Bluebird

Dans la forêt, by Ghislaine Herbéra Winter is coming and cold days are expected to be harsh At Nin’s house, there is no more wood and not much food left One night she hears her parents whispering: “At sunrise, we’re all going to ...

Into The Woods

Papa, écoute-moi ! by Gaya Wisniewski Father Badger goes camping with his four sons The whole family enjoy their time except Neil, the eldest He sulks all the time and makes mischief after mischief Going fishing, helping and preparing ...

The Badgers

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!

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!

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