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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

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

Old Soul, by Nancy Guilbert Fernis a teenager After her father dies, her mother falls in love with another man and takes Fern and her blind younger brother, Tim, to live with him in Canada Constantly mocked and beaten by her new stepfather, Fern ...

Old Soul

Une sirène tombée du ciel, by Raphaële Frier and illustrated by Sandra Poirot-Chérif Pierre, a fisherman and dreamer, sees a siren fall from the sky Once, then twice – and each time an explosion sounds as the figure falls The fisherman ...

The Siren Who Fell from the Sky

Cabanes amies, by Delphine Roux and illustrated by Evelyne Mary The thing he loved most of all was building huts with his friends in the Little Wood It was so good to hide away there, cosy and sheltered from the world, smiling and ...

The Hut Lover

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

Dis, pourquoi tu boudes by J-R Catremin & Arnaud Roi This is the story of a little mouse who has been waiting, staying still since dawn But why A cat, a dog, a wolf and a bear approach her one after the other, ...

Why Are You Pouting?

L'oiseau lyre, by Nancy Guilbert, ill by Valérie Michel A certain lyrebird sings the most beautiful melodies Alih, the sultan’s son, falls under its spell and tries to lure it back to the palace Alas, the musical bird refuses to leave ...

Lyrebird

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

Une maman c'est comme une maison, by Aurore Petit A mother is like a nest, a mother is like a vehicle, a mother is like a fountain Like a nursery rhyme, these short sentences accompany every step of a baby’s daily life As the pages go ...

A Mum It’s Like A House

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

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

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

Amour, Beauté et Crottes de nez, by Mrzyk & Moriceau Alleluia! Boogers are back! Mrzyck & Moriceau are in peak condition in this absolutely irresistible new episode In the land of boogers lives Magali She has two passions: potato ...

Love, Beauty & Boogers

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 ...

Olive & Léandre

Lapin rouge & Lapin jaune, by Claire Garralon One day, Red Rabbit meets Yellow Rabbit They fall in love and shortly after have a cute baby What colour do you think the baby will be And when he has babies of his own, what colour will they ...

Red Rabbit & Yellow Rabbit

Je l'attends, je l'attends, by Pef Alone in front of her mirror, a little girl muses: “Will I live happily ever after or will I be sad” “Will my parents approve” So many poignant questions, but the story doesn’t end as expected, with ...

Waiting, Waiting…

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

Pétite Pépite, by Nada Matta An adult is looking for a dress, a game or a book to offer her little girl Each time, she has to explain that she is not like other children Nada Matta takes us, page by page, through questions and answers, to ...

Little Treasure

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

Après l'orage, by Hélène Romano and illustrated by Adolie Day Growing-up in a happy family, this child has not understood what the attacks are exactly The parents did not dare to explain what happened and they have locked themselves ...

After The Storm

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

A samedi, by Hubert Ben Kemoun, illustrated by Zaü This graphic novel in three colours plunges into the emotional worlds of ten or so characters aged 15 to 40 over a period of four days These intersecting destinies all have in common ...

Until Saturday!

Madame Cerise et le trésor des pies voleuses, by Sandra Poirot Cherif Granny Cherry tends ...

Granny Cherry and the Thieving Magpie’s Treasure

Le Chant de Colombine, by Emilie Vast A musical picture book by Emilie Vast Colombine wants to catch Pierrot’s attention Page after page, bird after bird, she learns a different note from each of them Finally, using them all together, she ...

Colombine’s Song