Olive et Léandre, by Alex Cousseau and Janik Coat 

A bear and an octopus are looking for each other in the ocean’s vastness. Everything opposes them, and though…

Léandre is a bear living far up North. Olive is an octopus that lives all the way down South… Perhaps between the North and the South, somewhere in the middle, they can find space together. This is a very classic love story (with love letters, and everything opposing the lovers, etc.) but with fantasy added in. And yes, a bear and an octopus can live together, whatever ethologists or oceanologists may say.

32 pages hardcover picture book, 24.8 x 34.8 cm

Rights sold: Dutch and Korean