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Cap ! by Loren Capelli A young girl steps into the forest Little by little, she observes and discovers the blossoms, trees, birds and insects around her by sight, smell, touch, sound and taste, all the while playing, dreaming and ...

Ahead!

Un éléphant ne peut pas monter dans un arbre, by Kotimi Everyone has their limits, even an elephant, who’s not capable of climbing a tree But he can uproot it! A bird can’t knock down a tree, but it can fly! From cat to ...

Elephants Can’t Climb Trees

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

L'avale-tout, by Laurence de Kemmeter This fish-shaped steel giant is casting off for the ‘Big clean-up’, the 36th operation of its kind! Céleste the duck and Zéphir the frog go fishing for rubbish, with the help of the entire ...

The Devour-All

Vite, vite, vite, by Clotilde Perrin This is a story that travels at 1000 miles an ...

Hurry Hurry Hurry!

L'oiseau lyre, by Nancy Guilbert, ill by Valérie Michel A certain lyrebird sings the most beautiful melodies Alih, the sultan’s son, falls under its spell and tries to lure it back to the palace Alas, the musical bird refuses to leave ...

Lyrebird

D'après nature, by Isabelle Simler In Nature’s Way, Isabelle Simler pays tribute to ...

Nature’s Way

Tu crois quoi by Charly Delwart and illustrated by Camille de Cussac Do you think that if you were from Italy you would want to eat pizzas more often than if you were from Japan When do you think people start being old Do you think ...

Do You Think…?

Animaux autour du monde, by Ingela P Arrhenius One book was not enough to display all our favorite furred, feather and scaled friends so here they are: even more animals, still in a giant format! Just as Animals – Marcel et ...

Animals Around The World

Toute une histoire pour un sourire, by Frédéric Marais and illustrated by Émilie Gleason That morning, in the subway, passengers are worried Why is that man who just walked into the wagon smiling like that Someone’s hand pulls the ...

Warning Smile!

Nip et Nimp en voiture, by Lionel Serre Mr Tidy and Mr Messy live in Normaltown, a very ordinary city Everything looks the same in Normaltown, even the days that go by Except at Mr Tidy and Mr Messy’s home, where there are never two ...

Mr. Tidy And Mr Messy In A Car

Sacha le pêcheur, by Florie Saint-Val Sacha is a fisherman whose life is well paced, yet a little monotonous Every day he goes fishing at the lake with his cat Moustache Everything always goes the same way without anything unexpected ...

Sacha The Fisherman

Ninon, petite fille modèle, by Gaëtan Dorémus Ninon washes like a grown-up She smells as good as a flower, has great table manners, is polite and careful What a delicious child, this Ninon! As the pages of this hilarious picture book ...

Ninon, The Perfect Little Girl

Une maman c'est comme une maison, by Aurore Petit A mother is like a nest, a mother is like a vehicle, a mother is like a fountain Like a nursery rhyme, these short sentences accompany every step of a baby’s daily life As the pages go ...

A Mum It’s Like A House

Kiki en promenade, Marie Mirgaine Julien is walking his dog Without him noticing, he is carried away by an eagle Now Julien is walking his eagle But that was before he was replaced by a tiger Until it is substituted by a fox, ...

Kiki Goes For A Walk

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

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

La guerre en mille morceaux, ou le petit musée du soldat Machin, by Alain Serres and Zaü This 100-page picture book tells us about the war of this hairy man who,one day in August 1914, had to leave his field, his family and his horses The story ...

The War in a Thousand Pieces

Tous les enfants ont le droit à la culture, by Alain Serres and Aurélia Fronty After the great success of I have the right to be a child, the same author/illustrator duo have produced a new picture book telling children about the joys of ...

All Children Have the Right to Culture

Souris par-ci, par-là, by Early in the morning, Mum Mouse goes to find food for her little ones She sneaks into the garden, then inside the house The cuts in the pages allow the little reader to take her to the cheese while avoiding ...

Mice Here and There

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

Le grand voyage de la Reine, by Atelier Saje The Queen would love to travel the world: when she is daydreaming, she usually thinks about all the foreign lands she has never been to before From dawn to dusk, she dreams about matriochkas ...

The Queen’s Journey

Eh bien, oui ! by Alain Serres and Anna Griot Oscar has heaps of toys, but unable to see his favourite Titouk on waking up, he is desperately upset Can he cope without him Oh no! Oscar goes in search of his cuddly toy, about which the reader ...

Well, Yes!

Cendrillon, by Charles Perrault and Anna Griot Charles Perrault’s tale may be all too familiar but most of us have probably never seen Cinderella for who she really is: a mischievous, triumphant heroine, a far cry from the ...

Cinderella

Tétrodon, by Li Lamarre and Odile Santi When the pufferfish Tetraodon blows bubbles, the other fish have a blast playing with them But day in and day out, the same thing happens: they gobble up his bubbles and ignore him completely Tired ...

Tetraodon