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Le dehors, by Mélanie Rutten While their dads were making pancakes and their mums were gone for a walk, Coyote and Bear are playing outside They suddenlty hear a noise PUPOWEE Coyote wants to know where this sound comes from and takes ...

The Outside

Comme ça, by Claire Lebourg The day you were born, it was sunny just like now I hugged you tightly and our life together began, just like that Claire Lebourg tells, with warmth and delicacy, the arrival and the daily life of a baby but ...

Just Like That!

La première année en photos, by Ingela P Arrhenieus 24 step cards from 1 to 12 months, to tell the first achievements of babies, illustrated with mischief by the great Ingela P Arrhenius! "My first stroller ride", "my first tooth", "my ...

My First Year In Pictures

Comme un poisson fleur, by Julia Sørensen This book gently addresses the themes of parenthood, difference and inclusion through the story of Marcel, born with webbed feet and an extra chromosome We follow Marcel's daily life from his birth to ...

Like a Fish-Flower

Le plus grand, by Malika Doray The whale is the biggest animal in the ocean The giraffe is the tallest on land And who do you think is the biggest of them all in my arms It’s you! With a warm visual style and the musical quality of ...

The Biggest of Them All

Pas pareil, by Émilie Vast First there was Me and then there was You By the way, have you ever seen a corgi And a dalmatian No two dogs are more different One has a plain coat, the other’s is spotted One has short legs, the other ...

Not The Same

L'été de Chnourka, by Gaya Wisniewski In spring flowers blossom and now summer has finally arrived It’s time for Chnourka and her friends to enjoy picnics in the hills, swimming in the blue lake and spending long summer evenings ...

A Summer With Chnourka

Corentino, by Benjamin Lesage Corentino harvests coconuts for a living Every day, he climbs to the top of the coconut trees on the Milcoco estate to harvest their fruits He is not unhappy in Colombia but he yearns to discover his grandfather’s ...

Corentino

ChatChat, le chat du chien, by Mélanie Rutten Kitty Cat usually wakes up at sunrise But this morning he can’t put his second sock on He puts it at the tip of a stick and starts drawing circles before Doggy Dog says “Let’s go for a ...

Doggy Dog and his Kitty Cat

Ours à New York, by Gaya Wisniewski Everyday Aleksander has the same boring routine to go to work He walks to his workplace located in a gloomy building There he organises files all day long while his co-workers never actually notice him ...

Bear in New York

Sous les palmes d'Odilon, by Julie Billault and Jean-Charles Baty A young duck named Odilon is living the good life when one day his cocoon breaks open and he falls to the ground Alone in the jungle, he is clueless as to how to get back ...

Odilon’s Underworld

Papa, écoute-moi ! by Gaya Wisniewski Father Badger goes camping with his four sons The whole family enjoy their time except Neil, the eldest He sulks all the time and makes mischief after mischief Going fishing, helping and preparing ...

The Badgers

Petit garçon, by Francesco Pittau, ill Catherine Chardonnay Tonight, the little boy metamorphosed into a fly Since then, with his head upside down, the world all topsy-turvy, he’s been walking on the ceiling Today, or maybe before, he ...

Little Boy

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

Parfois, by Maxime Derouen “Sometimes I feel playful, sometimes I feel impatient, sometimes I feel free, sometimes I feel sad” A little boy describes the large range of emotions that he is going through from day to day On each ...

Sometimes

Tendre bestiaire, by Combine de Forville and Alice Ricard Through a dozen familiar wildlife pictures, Gentle Bestiary is an ode to filial love This book reveals the emotional attention that all species, animal and human, have in common ...

Gentle Bestiary

Poule bleue, by Claire Garralon Blue Hen laid three eggs She brooded them until three chicks hatched out So proud, Blue Hen introduced them to everyone in the farmyard but kept on overprotecting them One day, chicks are big enough to ...

Blue Hen

Comme-ci, comme-ça, by It's Raining Elephants Inspired by the song “I’m This” by the poet and musician Moondog, “Like This Like That” highlights everybody’s duality and contradictions via a game of graphic and poetic ...

Like This Like That

Le bouton, by Thibaud Primard Carl is a young boy with questions about the button on his belly: if he presses it, will it blow him up like a balloon Or are there hidden people living in it The mystery remains complete as Carl considers all the ...

The Button

C'est l'histoire, by Anne Crausaz Four children are waiting for Madame Ourse She comes in every week at the same time to tell them stories Each to their own book, each to their own story Once everyone gets cosy on the carpet the adventure can ...

This Is The Story

C'est ma mare, by Claire Garralon “Oh, what a pretty pond”, says the yellow duck “This is my pond” A white duck comes along, “Oh! What a lovely pond! This is my pond!” And thus the pond is divided But, along comes a red duck Then a ...

This Is My Pond

Dans ce monde, by Malika Doray This title tells a toddler about his place in the world When he arrives; the simple everyday actions he is the centre of Then learning how to be independent kindly surrounded by grown-ups Eventually discovering ...

In This World

Le gros mensonge de Nino, by Pascale Hédelin, Laurence Jammes and Marc Clamens Follow these animal characters and discover the natural world The Little Nature Stories take young readers on exciting adventures in the natural world and help ...

Nino’s Big Lie

La Forêt entre les deux, by Mélanie Rutten This book is, the third volume of the trilogy, which began with L’ombre de chacun (The Rabbit and the Shadow) and La source des jours Here the soldier is the main narrator but all the other ...

The Forest Between the Two

Couac, by Emilie Vast and Angélique Friant Once he has broken out of his eggshell, this character, not quite the Ugly Duckling, discovers the world around him and other people’s opinions Since the ducks reject him, he sets off in search ...

Quack