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Alice au pays des merveilles, unabridged text by Lewis Caroll, Illustrated by Isabelle Simler A treat for adults and children alike, Isabelle Simler’s fantastic, whimsical take on Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland bursts with color and ...

Alice In Wonderland

Fleur de Cendre, by Annick Combier and Anne Romby Ash Flower is beautiful, sweet, intelligent, and generous… But to her dismay, her father she loves so much has remarried a terrible woman who hates her The odious stepmother has moved into the ...

Ash Flower

Elle tourne comme ça, by Martine Laffon, illustrated by Icinori For how long has the Earth been turning around the Sun That’s easy! Since four giants have been pushing it across the sky… On a grey moon night, four giants started a big ...

This is How the Earth Turns

La fourmi, l'oiseau et le vaste monde, by Niels Thorez and illustrated by Valérie Michel This is the hilarious, timeless tale of a pompous, loudmouth ant and its encounter with a wise, worldly bird The book’s theatrical tone, biting ...

The Ant, the Bird and the Wide, Wide World

Polly et les trois chiens, by Adèle Verlinden Princess Polly and her faithful corgi Waikiki both live in Canid Land, where humans and dogs live in harmony But one day, all the dogs went mysteriously missing The audacious Polly goes looking for ...

Polly and the Three Dogs

Un éléphant ne peut pas monter dans un arbre, by Kotimi Everyone has their limits, even an elephant, who’s not capable of climbing a tree But he can uproot it! A bird can’t knock down a tree, but it can fly! From cat to ...

Elephants Can’t Climb Trees

Alionouchka, by Françoise Morvan and illustrated by Étienne Beck A popular Russian folk tale, Alyonushka narrates the misfortunes of the daughter of an Orthodox priest and his wife, who is left all by herself After getting rid of ...

Alionouchka

Hernig & Zebraël, by Victor Boissel, illustrated by Beax Everything opposes Hernig, a lonesome and silent man, and Zebraël, a spirited and charming teenage boy But these two heroes will have to unite and travel together on a quest that ...

Hernig & Zebraël

La Souris qui sauva toute une montagne, by Alain Serres and illustrated by Aurélia Fronty A mouse wants to replace the precious milk she has just stolen from a child But nature has been ransacked, even on the great mountain of Sardinia ...

The Mouse Who Saved An Entire Mountain

Didgeridoo, by Frédéric Marais How a young Aborigine, thanks to a long and hollowed baton (the didgeridoo), pushed back the sky, thus allowing men and nature to blossom, and invented music At the beginning of time, there was so little space ...

Didgeridoo

L'Enfant Lumineux, by Clotilde Perrin When all the other children are falling asleep, the Glow-in-the-Dark kid presses his nose and his whole body lights up! He goes straight out into the night – of course, luminous kids aren’t afraid ...

The Glow-in-the-Dark Kid

L'Invention du dictionnaire, by Frédéric Marais and Jean Lecointre To celebrate the 419th anniversary of the creation of the dictionary, Marais and Lecointre tell us about its origins… At the dawn of the world, the Earth was delivered to ...

The Invention of the Dictionary

Méchant Méchant, by Laurent Condominas and Niki de Saint Phalle Life is still at County-City Cloth-Cloth is always most elegant, Work-Work most hardworking, while Fish-Fish is quietly having a good time with his feet in the river But one ...

Meany Meany

Le Héron et l'Escargot, une fable, by Marie-France Chevron, ill by Mathilde Magnan This is a funny and efficient tale, a new version of the law of the strongest No lamb or wolf here, but a starving heron and a dreaming snail A snail that, before ...

The Heron and the Snail

Perdu! by Alice Brière-Haquet, ill Olivier Philipponneau A title inspired by Tom Thumb: "on Monday when I was taken to the forest, I left wild strawberries behind, but there were many already! To find my way, it took me a whole day" So it goes, ...

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