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Même pas en rêve, by Elisabeth Brami It is August 31, 2002 and twelve-year-old Marieke won’t be making any more sand castles on the Ostend beach with her favorite cousin She feels like her childhood is coming to an end and is filled ...

Don’t Even Think About It!

A coeur ouvert, by Marie-France Zerolo and Élisabeth Benoit-Morelli Boris is in love with his neighbour but is terribly shy and doesn’t know how to tell her how he feels! That is when a talking crow, Odilon, comes to his res- cue But ...

Open Heart

Louise, ou l'enfance de Bigoudi, by Delphine Perret and illustrated by Sébastien Mourrain Louise must leave the green fields of the countryside to live in an ebullient urban city She hates everything about it, especially her new ...

Louise Or Curly Polly’s Childhood

Vezovele Tupoleck, by Delphine Perret Vezovele is an alien who loves to change shape and colour One day, he’s a pineapple and the other, a plant That’s how it is Vezovele is passionate about human beings When he travels to Earth, he ...

Vezovele Tupoleck

Vacances timbrées, by Mathilde Poncet Alice sends a letter to her grandmother from her holiday camp She tells her about the activities she has done, the children she has met and the landscapes she has seen The text is about the daily ...

Crazy Holidays

Sioux, Soussou et Souzy, by Anne Kellens Sioux, Soussou and Souzy are very curious and creative mice Each season is a new adventure for them Ice-skating on a frozen pond in Winter, carnival time in Spring, picnics with friends in ...

Sioux, Soussou and Souzy

Mon Corps est un trésor, by Hélène Romano and illustrated by Germain Barthélémy Bully Free is the story of a young child who takes part in perilous games to be accepted by a new group of friends at school The consequences are terrible: the ...

Bully Free

Mais ils sont où by Charly Delwart and illustrated by Élo A smart board book to ...

Where Did They Go?

Sacha le pêcheur, by Florie Saint-Val Sacha is a fisherman whose life is well paced, yet a little monotonous Every day he goes fishing at the lake with his cat Moustache Everything always goes the same way without anything unexpected ...

Sacha The Fisherman

Surf, by Frédéric Boudet For Adam, home for the holidays, Brest does not have a lot to say for itself The cranes of the port are still there in the distance, closer, in between the rooftops, the same piece of ocean, closer still the ...

Surf

La fête d'anniversaire, by Malika Doray One day, a mouse has a hankering for cookies So she decides to celebrate a birthday She bakes and wraps up her cookies, then she adds a birthday card, and bingo! There they are at the foot of the ...

The Birthday Party

Gros chien, petit chien, by Claire Garralon This morning, like every morning, Big dog and Little dog are going for a walk Giraffe has fun greeting them with, “Hello, Bigfoot! Hello, Munchkin!” Then Fox teases them: “How are you, ...

Big Dog, Little Dog

L'arbre de Ploc, by Mélanie Rutten Tine, Ploc, Bubu and Baba are playing hide and seek behind the trees But Ploc has thought of another game: Let’s all be seeds! So they curl up into a ball, they wait, then they stretch, they spread out, ...

Ploc’s Tree

Pombo Courage, by Émile Cucherousset and illustrated by Clémence Paldacci There’s nothing Pombo enjoys more than spending the day sipping a fruit juice with scum, toes warm in his slippers From time to time, hunger or sleep make him ...

Fearless Pombo

Tétrodon, by Li Lamarre and Odile Santi When the pufferfish Tetraodon blows bubbles, the other fish have a blast playing with them But day in and day out, the same thing happens: they gobble up his bubbles and ignore him completely Tired ...

Tetraodon

Chnourka, by Gaya Wisniewski Four friends are threading their way through the forest There is too much snow, though Tomek the bison can’t move anymore – but then Mirko the little cat catches a glimpse There is a house ahead! It is ...

Chnourka

Les Trois Gibbons et la chanson du colibri, by Kenji Abe As the three gibbons take a stroll, a gust of gale lands a tiny hummingbird in front of them The little birdie is lost, having been blown by the wind away from her parents ...

The Three Gibbons and the Hummingbird’s Song

Dimanche, by Fleur Oury Clementine, a small girl-fox goes along with her parents to her grandmother’s another unremarkable and boring day in the countryside She suddenly discovers a hole in the garden hedge Curious, she rushes through ...

Sunday

Le rêve de Gaëtan Tapla, by Stéphanie Demasse-Pottier & Adèle Verlinden Gaëtan Talpa has everything a young mole could dream of: a nice home, toys, hugs and a joyful gang of friends There is Hedgehog Harry, Field-Mouse Joe, Spider Sam, ...

Gaëtan Talpa’s Dream

Hamaika and the Fish, by Pierre Zapolarrua and illustrated by Anastasia Parrotto Under her skinny coat of feathers, Hamaika is a very curious little hen She likes to leave her house and venture far, far, ever further away The ...

Hamaika and the Fish

4998 amis, by Davide Cali and Kotimi A young social media user has 4,998 ‘friends’ Well, almost Because, of these 4,998 friends, 78 have forgotten his birthday and there are 98 he never writes to And what about those he asked for ...

4,998 Friends

Laurent le Flamboyant, by Karen Hottois and illustrated by Junia Woignier / Polonia Series by Chloé Mary Just like every morning, Utang Laurent wakes up on the wrong side of the bed He may swing from branch to branch throughout the ...

Laurent the Flamboyant

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

Mon petit paradis, by Lili Scratchy A fresh and bubbly picture book to remember that our own paradise is never far away! What could be worse than parents always watching you, a cat vomiting into your slippers, or having the same friends since ...

My Little Paradise

Un coup de main, by Cristina Sitja Rubio Manuel and Monelle, two inseparable handymen, live in harmony in a big birdhouse Every day, they tend to plants, bake delicious seeds cakes, walk dogs and build houses So much so that they don’t have a ...

Someone Handy

Ouin-Ouin, by Christophe Nicolas and Anouk Ricard Creatures that are stubborn but also tenderhearted and terribly endearing, in a word: kids! The characters of Coco’s gang come to life with Anouk Ricards quirky and humorous drawingAfter Coco ...

Whiny Whiner / Coco’s Gang Series