Rue du monde Archives - Hannele and Associates

Ma maison à moi !, by Sarah Zambello and Chiara Raineri A gate in the middle of a field, with no fence – a magical place where a little girl happily chats with squirrels, rabbits and foxes She even shares her snack with them and ...

My Very Own Home

Ma Maison Bleue, by Alain Serres, ill by Edmée Cannard A little earthling’s magical journey around the universe Zooming in from the farthest reaches of the galaxy to a small planet, the narrator identifies continents bursting with ...

My Blue House

Comment faire la paix, by Francis Combes and Bruno Heitz A playful anti-war poem that halts the cannon fire while encouraging children to erect monuments to life in village squares! The aim is to catch a sleeping tank and, in the ...

How to Make Peace?

Pain, beurre et chocolat, by Alain Serres and Suzy Vergez It’s the middle of summer and Margaux thinks she’s alone in her city, but through her snack of bread, butter and chocolate, she discovers that lots of people have in fact been ...

Bread, Butter and Chocolate

Les vacances de Momoko, by Kotimi - the second volume of the series A Japanese Childhood Momoko is back ! After the first volume which introduced us to the little girl and her little sister Minako, here are Momoko's adventures and emotions during ...

Momoko’s Holidays – A Japanese Childhood

L'arbre m'a dit, by Jean-Pierre Siméon and illustrated by Zaü A compendium of some 40 short pieces on the theme of our relationship to trees by the poet Jean-Pierre Siméon, published here for the first time The Tree ...

The Tree Told Me

Si tous les livres du monde, 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 joined doormats, if all ...

If All the World’s Books…

Ton premier poème avec les mains, by Alain Serres A poem for toddlers, playing on the rhythm of nights and days, on black and white, and the colours that emerge at dawn: a large sun to grab hold of Clever visuals bring the book ...

My First Poem

Une seconde, papillon ! by Pierre Coran and Carl Norac, illustrated by Cécile Gambini The two poets, father and son, write together for the first time! Forty tiny poems about time, the ephemeral and the joy of watching the years go by ...

One Moment, Butterfly!

Poèmes cueillis dans la forêt de vos yeux, by Françoise Lison-Leroy, illustrated by Nathalie Novi 40 first names and as many short forms on what the poet has read in the eyes of children A bit of the hidden life of each one, a bit of their ...

Poems Gathered in the Forest of your Eyes

Martin des colibris, by Alain Serres, ill by Judith Gueyfier At the beginning of the 19th century, young Martin boards on a ship for Brazil In the magical Brazilian forest, guided by a botanist, he discovers wonderful little hummingbirds He also ...

Martin of the Hummingbirds

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

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

Les devinettes de la langue au chat, by David Dumortier, illustrated by Aurélia Fronty This small format book opens up the appetite for words and offers a playful journey through poetry to children, but also to all those who want to pick up ...

Riddles

Ouvrons l'oeil du coeur ! by Abdellatif Laâbi, illustrated by Laurent Corvaisier Open the Heart’s Eye brings together a selection of short forms drawn from the work of Abdellatif Laâbi In a small pinch of words, the poet provokes in us a ...

Open the Heart’s Eye!

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