Rue du monde Archives - Hannele and Associates

La guerre, ce n'est pas pour moi ! by Éric Battut A young African, who calls himself Baki-the-football-king, is recruited by a military group, even though he’s only 12 years old We follow his training sessions and the fighting he’s ...

War Is Not For Me!

Le livre qui parlait toutes les langues, by Alain Serres and Fred Sochard, music by Nicolas Allemand A young boy outwits a Big Bad Wolf with the help of a magic book that has sights and sounds from all over the world The story never ends because ...

The Book that Spoke Every Language

L'enfant, le libraire et le roi, by Thierry Maricourt and François Place In the hope that the long freeze of the pandemic is over, this short and beautifully crafted text arrives on the children’s shelves as a literary homage to the ...

The Child, the Bookseller and the King

T'es fleur ou t'es chou By Gwendoline Raisson and Clotilde Perrin According to folklore, boys are born inside cabbages and girls in flowers Boys are said to have springs under their feet and to enjoy war games Girls supposedly like to ...

Are You a Flower or a Cabbage?

A l'école vitamine, by Alain Serres and Christel Jeanne A creative approach to the world of school and to fruit and vegetables Funky compositions of bell peppers, oranges, lemons or avocado explain how delicate César’s vitamin C, ...

The Vitamin School

Si tous les livres du monde se donnaient la main, by Alain Serres and Aurélia Fronty If all the drops of water joined hands then the palm trees, children and hummingbirds would never be thirsty again if all the houses ...

If All the World’s Books Joined Hands

L'esclave qui parlait aux oiseaux, by Yves Pinguilly and Zaü Alexandre wants to know more about his friend Mariama’s African origins Mariama tells him about the rainy season, the savannah, and the long and terrible history She ...

The Slave Who Talked to the Birds

Une sirène tombée du ciel, by Raphaële Frier and illustrated by Sandra Poirot-Chérif Pierre, a fisherman and dreamer, sees a siren fall from the sky Once, then twice – and each time an explosion sounds as the figure falls The fisherman ...

The Siren Who Fell from the Sky

Dehors, dehors, dehors, by Hubert Ben-Kemoun and illustrated by Bruno Pilorget “Outdoors!” pleads Pablo’s mum, horrified to see him glued to his screenson a beautiful spring day… The boy is told not to come home until tea-time and sets ...

Outdoors, Outdoors!

Petit pêcheur, grand appétit, by Suzy Vergez A little fisherman living on an island used to catch one fish for the whole family to share but as time passed his appetite got bigger So he made larger and larger nets to bring in a bigger ...

Little Fisherman, Big Appetite

Cabanes amies, by Delphine Roux and illustrated by Evelyne Mary The thing he loved most of all was building huts with his friends in the Little Wood It was so good to hide away there, cosy and sheltered from the world, smiling and ...

The Hut Lover

Qui cache qui Bestiaire farceur, by Didier Lévy and Elis Wilk Here is an offbeat bestiary, full of humour and fantasy, which shows us not the animal described but another, often related to it Thus the cheetah in the text sulks to pose in front ...

Who Is Hiding Who? A Mischievious Bestiary

Momoko, une enfance japonaise, by Kotimi Kotimi is Japanese She spent her childhood in Tokyo in the 1970s Here she gives us eight stories drawn from her childhood in a modest family, with her little sister who was handicapped, with ...

Momoko, A Japanese Childhood

Le pangolin n'y est pour rien, by Laurana Serres-Giardi and Nathalie Dieterlé The first title of a NEW SERIES of portraits of animal species to rethink our relationship with nature: NATURE HOLDS THE KEY TO ALL OUR FUTURES The pangolin evokes ...

Don’t Blame the Pangolin

Et si on redessinait le monde , by Daniel Picouly and Nathalie Novi Revised and enlarged 2020 edition This sumptuous picture book returns to the bookshops to tell us that there is an urgent need to redraw the world The pandemic invites us to ...

Let’s Redraw the Earth

Robinson et l'arbre de vie, by Alain Serres and illustrated by Julie Bernard Robinson, half child, half cricket, lives in the forest of the middle of the world, where there are trees that can laugh and play the flute But for the ...

Robinson And The Tree Of Life

Fatou du monde, by Angélique Thyssen and illustrated by Judith Gueyfier Somewhere in Greenland, there’s a little girl with the unusual name of Fatou Her parents found the name in a beautiful book they borrowed from the village ...

Fatou Around the World

Tu seras les yeux de la mer, by Alain Serres and illustrated by Zaü Colour photos, ...

You Will Be The Eyes Of The Sea

Si les poètes étaient moins bêtes, by Boris Vian and illustrated by Serge Bloch Boris Vian liked to provoke! To mark the centenary of his birth, here he lays down the gauntlet to poets, laughing at himself at the same time A ...

If Poets Weren’t Such Fools

Mon premier livre de poèmes du monde, by various poets and illustrated by 15 artists from here, there and the world over Poetry is the most beautiful way to experience the world, and this collection offers a first invitation to ...

My First Book Of World Poems

Bienvenue en poésie, 30 poems to celebrate birth by various poets and illustrated by Aurélia Fronty Poets know better than anyone how to weave a cradle of words for new arrivals They evoke our relationship with nature, the seasons, ...

Poetry Welcomes You

Et Léonard de Vinci réinvente la peinture, by Karim Ressouni-Demigneux Why is a book, an exhibition or the discovery of a new drawing by Leonardo da Vinci still an event, five centuries after his death Because Leonard was an extraordinary ...

And Leonardo da Vinci Reinvents Painting

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

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!

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