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Tortue, grand roseau et petit clou, by Anne Terral and Géraldine Alibeu On the island, Turtle, who is very, very old, has the feeling her life is coming to an end She brings together all her friends, Beaver, Otter, Toad and Po, Toad’s son, ...

Turtle, Big Reed and Little Nail

Toute personne qui tombe a des ailes, by Elisabeth Brami All the Fallen Have Wings is one mother’s heartfelt monologue to her son after he commits suicide As she tries to understand what motivated her son to take his own life, she ...

All The Fallen Have Wings

Mortel, by Emmanuelle Houdart Emmanuelle Houdart explores the theme of Death in a spectacular and humorous, impertinent picture book Anyone who has been close to a child knows that the question of Death is omnipresent and perfectly ...

Mortal

Les fleurs sucrées des trèfles, by Cédric Philippe Agathe is a shy little girl who is very fond of her old uncle, Yvon One day she hears by accident that he is suffering from a heart illness and that he is slowly dying ...

The Sweet Flowers of Clovers

L’arrêt du cœur ou comment Simon découvrit l’amour, dans une cuisine, by Agnès Debacker, illustrated by Anaïs Brunet Since Simone left, Simon comes to his building caretaker Françoise’s office every day for ...

When Your Heart Misses a Beat, or How Simon Discovered Love in a Kitchen

Mon bison, by Gaya Wisniewski “The first time I saw it, it was springtime I was in the tall grass, I couldn’t see an awful lot being all of four years old” A little girl and a bison get to know each other One spring morning ...

My Buffalo

Hibou, by Mélodie Baschet On the day Hibou disappeared for three hours When she came back, she seemed to have fatten a bit And it happened one day, all of a sudden Hibou’s kitten was there, on the couch Hibou and Douglas learned to live ...

Hibou

Chamour, by Emilie Vast Catkin grew up at her owner’s side, doing the little things cats do, some good, some naughty She had her own, special way of moving and behaving And now Catkin has gone – her life has come to an end In this sensitive ...

Catkin

La Maman de la maman de mon papa, by Gaëtan Dorémus A child dreams of meeting his great grandmother, even if she must be « really really really old »… He manages to convince his parents and goes to visit the famous mother of the mother ...

My Father’s Grandma

Maudite soit la guerre, by Didier Daeninckx, illustrated by Pef It is 1917 One child sets off to deliver a letter to his father in the trenches The story of his secret and moving journey through inhospitable landscapes takes up the cry of one ...

Cursed Be War

Öko, un thé en hiver, by Mélanie Rutten It's winter in the village and Madeleine, the old cicada, has just died Everybody gathers to say goodbye to her Öko, Mitsu, Eliott and other friends discuss around the fireplace about her, and also ...

Öko, Tea in Winter

Éphémère, by Frédéric Marais No matter how short their life is, mayflies can, too, aspire to a remarkable fate! A poetic and refined picture book with a fatal outcome… inevitablyA fragile and graceful insect, the mayfly only exists for ...

Ephemeral

Il y a, by Guillaume Apollinaire and Laurent Corvaisier The great French poet Guillaume Apollinaire died in 1918 in World War I His poem, “There Is”, which he wrote while at the front, is an ode to love and peace 2014 will be the centennial ...

There Is