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Le voyage de Chnourka, by Gaya Wisniewski In the forest, autumn is in full swing Chnourka and her friends are invited to eccentric professor Crumski’s Mirko can’t wait to see him He knows that he’ll tell them some of his amazing ...

Chnourka’s Journey

Le grand jour de Poussin, by Claire Garralon This morning Poussin (Little Chick) is not in his prime He’s moody, he doesn’t play, he doesn’t laugh and he wants to stay all by himself What is happening to him Canard and Canard (Duck and ...

Little Chick’s Big Day

Le nouvel arrivant, by Charly Delwart and Delphine Perret Who is this newly-arrived creature in the house It does strange things It has its own logic and rituals The narrator observes it with precision and astonishment, without ...

The Newcomer

Mes maisons archi zinzins, by Arthur Dreyfus and Raphaël Journaux A droll, poetic picture book, My Crazy, Crazy Houses, written by acclaimed author Arthur Dreyfus and illustrated by the talented Raphaël Journaux, explores an ...

My Crazy, Crazy Houses

La maison sur la dune, by Niels Thorez and Odile Santi A young girl finds herself confronted with her mother’s surprising silence during a stay at her family’s beach house after her grandmother passes away Every day, Lou’s mother sets ...

The House on the Dune

Kangourouz, by Thierry Lenain and Nathalie Dieterlé This is a kangaroo who, like all male kangaroos, has no pouch And, as inevitably happens to all kangaroos, one day a gang of pouchless kangaroos come to him to teach him how to box… But ...

Kangourouz

Dans les poches, by Isabelle Simler Here is the renowned author and illustrator Isabelle Simler’s second volume of the acclaimed "In Their Pockets" series Young readers will delight in discovering what different professionals—including ...

In Their Pockets (Jobs)

Et pendant ce temps paissent les bisons, by Mickaël El Fathi While the Bison Graze takes readers on a breathtaking journey into life on the steppe and the world of cave painting alongside Sahâna, a young teenager who depicts indigenous ...

While the Bison Graze…

Le vieux qui aplatissant les enfants, by Thomas Grand Told from the quirky point of view of a scary, grumpy yet tender and endearing old man, the story follows a curious and intrepid little girl, who discovers a house in the middle of the ...

The Old Man Who Flattened Children

Coucou !, by Anne Zeum “Bertie, you haven’t had your breakfast yet” Claude, a small green cell, is not able to finish his sentence before he is eaten up by Gilbert, a large blue microbe which itself is swallowed by a thick pink virus who in ...

Hi There!

Ce qui nous lie, by Anne Laval "Flowers, fruit, leaves, puddles, seeds, and trees Life is a circle", says Granny Over a year, a little girl growing as fast as a flower spends time with her grandmother, ageing slowly like a tree From spring to ...

What Binds Us

Ulysse, by Alexandra Pichard What can a snowman do whilst waiting for the little boy who made him Go to the movies, meet the love of his life, have an amazing evening… and melt In a snow-covered city garden, a child builds a snowman and ...

Ulysse

Contes des ours et des loups, by Patrick Fischmann and Bruno Pilorget Fear, strength, power and poetry are common threads found in the world’s folk cultures, with tales from the Rom and the Native American peoples, and from Russia, ...

Tales of Bears and Wolves from around the World

Chez Bergamote, by Junko Nakamura Afternoons at Bergamote’s are like being out of time At her nice and cosy place, I pet Abricot (Apricot), Mirabelle (Plum) and their three little kittens Then we go straight to the backyard There we play ...

Bergamote’s Place

La colline, by Liuna Virardi As summer comes to an end, autumn reveals its colours and birds start to migrate to the south At dawn, a snail wakes up after a long sleep Now it’s time to hit the road! The young gastropod rediscovers the world ...

The Hill

Yasuke, by Frédéric Marais At the foot of Mount Kilimanjaro, in Africa, lived a young slave who had no name No one had ever given him one He ran away from his village and found work on a ship, crossing the seas to Japan, where the most ...

Yasuke

Ma mère est une panthère, by Malika Doray My Mom is a panther especially when she’s angry When we’re late, she’s a jaguar who turns into an orangutan when she has free time It’s almost in a twinkle of an eye when the child’s mother ...

My Mom is a Panther

J'ai le droit d'aimer les livres (et le chocolat!), by Alain Serres and Aurélia Fronty The series continues after the right to be a child, the right to culture and the right to save the planet Here is a lively and joyful ...

I Have the Right to Love Books (and Chocolate!)

L'étrange collection de Mamita, by Thomas Medard and Lisbeth Renardy Behind each collection, there’s a collector And behind each collector, there’s a story to tell! To collect stuff is the action of gathering a whole lot of objects ...

The Strange Collection of Mamita

Faune du monde entier, by Laure Ourmières From the animals in the Caribbean to the ones in Borneo, including those who live in the depths of the abyss or in our garden, discover many varieties of living beings that inhabit our continents in this ...

Wild Life Around the World

Quelques gouttes de pluie sur la terre, by Abbas Kiarostami, illustrated by Hoda Hadadi 55 simple and luminous haïkus by the great Iranian artist Abbas Kiarostami, with drawings by one of Iran’s most talented illustrators Hail breaks a ...

A Few Drops of Rain on the Earth

Les coquelicots savent-ils qu'ils sont fragiles by Alain Serres, illustrated by Judith Gueyfier Short poems in the form of questions and answers, which children can continue, following the same fun principle The simple words of Alain Serres make ...

Do Poppies Know that They are Fragile?

Le roi qui voulait décrocher la lune, by France Quatromme and Françoise Rogier An exuberant, highly visual joke that says something about our societies where so many people are trying to climb to the top! Even in the middle of the ...

The King who Wanted to Catch the Moon

Qui va me manger , by Émilie Vast Oh! What happened to my flower Oh! There’s an aphid drinking all its sap But I don’t think he will for long A ladybug just ate it! She can swallow up to 100 per day! Oops, I think she’s going to end up ...

Who’s Going to Eat Me?

Aiko, by Christoffer Ellegaard and Ainhoa Cayuso Propelled at several million kilometres per hour, the B-Troot rocket explores the Universe in search of extra-terrestrial life Aiko, a brave astronaut trained to face the extreme conditions of space, ...

Aiko

De fleurs en fleurs, by Anne Crausaz After The Bird on a Twig with its fifty-two weeks and its parade of birds, this time, Anne Crausaz deals with diversity among flowers and the ways they pollinate Did you know that wild orchids mimic the shapes ...

From Flowers to Flowers