Refuge Mouchette, by Inbar Heller Algazi

If your name is Lou Mouchette and you reside in a home that your mother has turned into a shelter for wild animals, friendly but intrusive, how do you express your desire for tranquility and a cat… one that’s stuffed?

Lou Mouchette’s mother founded Refuge Mouchette. So, Lou is always with animals… real ones. Tigers climbing curtains, swans needing to be taken to the park before school, and elephants that consume all the bath water. His quirky daily life would be any child’s fantasy, but Lou only dreams of two things: a normal life and a stuffed cat. How can a child be heard amidst the chaos of the Mouchette family?

A whimsical story full of humour, but not only that. For these invasive animals may also evoke the noisy, hectic world in which our children live. They need calm to express themselves, and we need to listen more closely.

Hardcover picture book, 18.5 x 25 cm, 32 pages