FOREIGN RIGHTS AUTUMN 2012

BOARD BOOKS

BOARD BOOKS

MY FIRST LITTLE DICTIONARY

MY FIRST LITTLE DICTIONARY / THE SEED OF COLOR / INSIDE ME (p. 3) EMILE AND KNACK AT THE RESTAURANT / GOLDILOCK (p. 4)

Author: Corinne Dreyfuss Illustrator: Benjamin Chaud

PICTURE BOOKS CROCOLOU LOVES HIS TEACHER / WHAT A TREAT! (p. 5) UP TO 100 / LITTLE SISSY SHELL BOY (p. 6) PARIS 2050 / THE MYSTERIOUS LAKE IN THE SOUTH POLE (p. 7)

Baby’s first dictionary featuring all those words that babies and parents love to say: sleepy-byes, mommy, daddy, etc. Those little words that seem more like sounds and have a single meaning. Everyday words, the basis of babies’ language but also of their relation to others are defined here with poetry and humor. Benjamin Chaud’s bright and cheery illustrations provide the perfect mischievous accompaniment to this play on words, born of the universals delights we all enjoy in repeating things. 14 months + • 14.5 x 23.5 cm • Board-book •32 pages • ¤13.80

COMIC BOOKS JEAN-MICHEL THE REINDEER IS IN LOVE / INSPECTOR CATS (p. 8) THE PUJOL BROTHERS (p. 9)

CD BOOKS THE TOY ATTIC (p. 9) MUSIC IS ONE BIG HISTORY / THE SECRET OF ACHACHILA (p. 10)

NOVELS KID’S NOVELS CALICIA THE 7 YEAR OLD MAGICIAN (p. 11) JUNIOR NOVELS THE DUEL OF THE FLINT BROTHERS / THE MAD GRAFFITI ARTIST FROM BARCELONA (p. 11) LULU IS NOT SUPERSTITIOUS BUT… / MONSTER LOVE TO THE MAX / ZHANG THE PAINTER MAGICIAN (p. 12) TEEN NOVELS BAIMING’S TIGER / KING-KONG GOES IN-SEINE (p. 13)

ACTIVITY BOOKS YOU’RE THE DETECTIVE Collection: CLASH ON THE BEACH / MAGIC MADE EASY (p. 14) DOING WEIRD STUFF WITH… WORKS OF ART! / THE PLAY OF STREET-ART (p. 15)

THE SEED OF COLOR

Author: Claire Astolfi Illustrator: Laurent Corvaisier Célestine picks up some mud, black mud in little pink hands. In a yellow pot, she plants a green seed. With her red watering can, she pours blue water, to make brown bubbles. With a little patience and a little yellow sun, she soon sees a little green shoot and a little pink bud appear. Then… A beautiful white flower. When young children discover matter, their senses come alive. They also discover a sense of passing time, as they savor the surprises of nature. 18 months + • 18 x 18 cm • 24 pages • Board-book • ¤11.50

INSIDE ME

NON FICTION OPEN YOUR EYES Collection: TO THE POND and TO THE KITCHEN GARDEN / UNDERSTANDING HORSES (p. 16) THE NATURAL HISTORY OF IMAGINARY ANIMALS / BECHAMEL AND FRIENDS (p. 17) STEP-BY-STEP Collection: INVENTIONS / ANIMAL SOCIETIES / SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT (p. 18) THOSE WHO SAID NO Collection: AIME CESAIRE: NO TO HUMILIATION / INVISIBLE CHILDREN: THE STORY OF STREET CHILDREN (p. 19)

Author-illustrator: Aurélia Gaud Inside me there is happy, party tunes that dance around his head, growling storms and thunder that make me wild with rage, strange little nothings that make me sad, and bubbles so soft and light that my thoughts float away. When my heart overflows with emotion, there is nothing more comforting than my mother’s arms. An early learner for younger children looking at emotions, which takes an artistic look at the evocative power of colors and geometric shapes. 18 months + • 18 x 18 cm • 24 pages • Board-book •¤11.50

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PICTURE BOOKS

BOARD BOOKS EMILE AND KNACK AT THE RESTAURANT Author-illustrator: Thomas Baas

CROCOLOU LOVES HIS TEACHER Author-illustrator: Ophélie Texier

Emile is taking his dog Knack for a walk, when Knack spots sausages being delivered to a top restaurant and runs away. What follows is a frenetic dog-chase through the restaurant’s kitchen, storeroom, cellar and dining room. Emile has to catch Knack as quickly as he can. But Knack ducks and dives, bobs and weaves between foods, dishes and waiters, creating havoc in his wake. A delightful mazy trail that will enthrall young and old alike.

Crocolou loves going to school. Days spent with his teacher Miss Babycakes go past so fast. Today she is taking them to see a puppet show, followed by a picnic and a drawing competition. To thank her, Crocolou draws his teacher a pretty picture on the blackboard. 2 years + • 19.3 x 14 cm • 32 pages • Hardback • ¤7.50

2 years + • 25.5 x 32 cm • 16 pages • Board-book • Rounded corners • ¤14

WHAT A TREAT! Author-illustrator: Marie-Hélène Parenty A picture-book inviting children and grown-ups to discover foods together. From carrots to bread, from yogurt to grapefruit, from rice to beans, all foodstuffs are in there. To illustrate them, Marie-Hélène Parenty, uses a variety of artistic techniques: watercolor prints, engravings, gouache, pastels, ink and papercraft. The result is an artistic feast for the eyes, celebrating the wonder and beauty of fine food, to tempt the palate and make children hungry for fruit and vegetables! 3 years + •16.5 x 22.5 cm • Hardback •64 pages • ¤14

GOLDILOCKS Author-illustrator: Julia Chausson A new version of the famous fairytale, rewritten and illustrated by Julia Chausson. The book is also an attractive object in the form of a house, with cut-away interiors. This is the house where the three bears live and where Goldilocks takes refuge. With its word-less wood engravings and text - a mischievous reworking of the encounter between a frightened little girl and a bewildered family of bears – this is one album that can be read time and time again. 4 years + • Album •21 x 21 cm • 32 pages • Board-book • ¤17

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PICTURE BOOKS

PICTURE BOOKS PARIS 2050 Author: Davide Cali Illustrators: ALE + ALE

UP TO 100 Author-illustrator: Magali Bardos 1 forest, 2 mountains, 3 bears on each mountain, 4 paws in the air, honey 5 times a day, 6 bears in the forest, 7 mushrooms collected, 8 hunters, 9 rifle shots, 10 butterflies that flutter away. Thus begins a picture chase taking us from the forest to the town, from a ball, to a birthday party, and onto the opera, then far, far away to exotic beaches. The book grows in invention, and every turn of the page brings ever more detail for observation and calculation. An enjoyable tale to teach children to count up to 100, the fun way.

What will Paris look like in the year 2050? This unusual picture book takes us on a trail through the capital of the future. On the Place de l’Hôtel de Ville, kids will now find their favorite attraction: a giant gruyere cheese for climbing and exploring. Meanwhile, on the Île Saint-Louis, a gigantic octopus has set up home, devouring tourists who get too close. The transport system is now dominated by hexa-deckered Mammouth buses, supersonic aircraft and Manatees for river travel. Paris 2050 creates a full portrait of a future fantasy Parisian way of life, with ironic undertones of today’s society. The work portrays a dream vision of a Paris threatened by destruction, which plays on the mystery and nostalgia intrinsic to the mythical city’s identity.

5 years + • 20 x 24 cm • 104 pages •Hardback • ¤15

All ages • 25 x 32 cm • 56 pages • Hardback • ¤14

When Malo was born he was a delightful baby. Then a strange shape started growing on his back: a shell, like a snail’s shell. His parents took him to 213 doctors who said it was rare but: “That’s life! Got to learn to live with it!” At school his buddies, especially the Williams brothers, make fun of him and call him “Little sissy shell-boy”. Luckily, Nina is there. When it comes to the annual sledding competition, Nina proposes that they team up together. But the race goes haywire and the sled gets out of control. The pair winds up balancing on Malo’s shell which scoots down the slope much quicker than any other sled and wins them the race! His folks and friends are very impressed and congratulate Malo. Shell-boy isn’t a sissy, after all! Après Le Pôle nord en ballon avec Jean-Louis Étienne, Elsa Pény-Étienne nous entraîne dans une épopée passionnante, entre aventure scientifique et récit fantastique.

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E LSA PÉNY-É TIENNE

Un lac immense à 3 600 mètres de profondeur sous l’Antarctique... Le monde scientifique a les yeux braqués sur la petite station de Vostok, perdue dans la nuit polaire. Tasha, une jeune chercheuse russe, Ulysse et Conrad, ses homologues français et américain, ont été choisis pour participer à l’expédition qui s’organise : pour atteindre le lac, ils devront parcourir un long tunnel foré dans la glace à bord d’un nouveau prototype de sous-marin. Voici le récit de leur plongée dans les eaux sombres du lac à la rencontre d’un écosystème préservé depuis des milliers d’années…

THE MYSTERIOUS LAKE IN THE SOUTH POLE Author-Illustrator: Elsa Pény-Étienne

LE LAC MYSTÉRIEUX DU P^ÔLE SUD

LITTLE SISSY SHELL-BOY Authors: Arnaud Cathrine and Florent Marchet Illustrator: Aurélie Guillerey

LE LAC MYSTÉRIEUX DU P^ÔLE SUD Texte et illustrations de

ELSA P ÉNY-É TIENNE

The Russian Vostok exploration station is lost in the interminable night of the Antarctic, subjected to its -69°C temperatures. Scientists at the station made an incredible discovery – a cavity, 12,000 feet deep beneath the ice cap, containing a lake. Tasha, a young Russian researcher, Ulysses, a French exobiologist and Conrad, an American researcher, set out in a small submarine on a special mission to explore the lake. The expedition members embark on a 2500 mile long tunnel bored into the ice. All they have is 24 hours, otherwise the tunnel will close over and they’ll be held prisoners beneath the frozen wastes. When they reach the lake, magnificent discoveries are in store: live species of creatures they believed to be extinct, and a volcanic eruption! 9 years + • 18 x 23 cm • 56 pages • Hardback• ¤13.80

5 years + • 20.5 x 20.5 cm • 48 pages • Hardback

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COMIC BOOKS

COMIC BOOKS JEAN-MICHEL THE REINDEER IS IN LOVE Author-illustrator: Magali Le Huche When Jean-Michel the reindeer turns superhero for the day by taking a little injured rabbit to hospital, his eyes meet those of Gisèle, a stunning camel-nurse. He is so thunderstruck he starts stammering. What on Earth has happened to him? It must be love. But how can he tell her what he is feeling? He seeks advice from friends, but all his attempts at meeting Gisèle come to nothing, because every time his tongue freezes up. Finally he manages to write her a letter. Gisèle is so sorry she did not understand what he was trying to say: she is deaf and only uses sign-language to talk. Jean-Michel learns how to say “I love you” in sign-language. A new Jean-Michel adventure, full of love and tenderness in comic book form!

THE PUJOL BROTHERS Author: François Delecour Illustrator: Sophie Chaussade The Pujol twins are Phil, the easy-going loafer, and Gilmo, the reckless adventurer. Together, they love getting up to high jinks. Sometimes they sneak their pet penguin into school. Or they improvise a game of ten-pin bowling in the museum. Or they transform the potato masher into a space rocket. They’re also fond of teaming up with their buddies to thwart the evil plans of their terrible teacher, Mr. Dictation. Follow the adventures of Phil and Gilmo in this fun and slightly madcap cartoon book. 6 years + • 18 x 24 cm • 48 pages • Hardback • ¤12.50

5 years + • 17 x 23 cm • 48 pages • Hardback • ¤12

INSPECTOR CATS Author: Agnès Bihl Illustrator: Éric Héliot At night, Inspector Cats sets to work. With his sidekick Brigadier Berlioz, he patrols the streets to get to the bottom of the mysteries besetting the town. Tonight, he winds up in the cabaret-bar-restaurant, the Hounddog, and our eager duo is sure that something is afoot. Mischievous Miss Pussyfoot announces that the magician Bunny Haha has disappeared in the middle of his act. Inspector Cats suspects that Felicia Felix, the attractive yet dastardly cunning tigress and Bunny’s sworn enemy, has kidnapped him. Along with her accomplice, the infamous Doctor Fox, she became involved in an illicit feline-fur network. But their dumb stooge, Rat Tafia kidnapped the rabbit instead of Miss Pussyfoot! The confusion leaves Inspector Cats just enough time to intervene. Bunny Haha is safe and sound and the guilty parties manage to escape. They might not be so lucky next time! 5 years + • 17.5 x 28 cm • 40 pages • Hardback • ¤19

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CD BOOKS THE TOY ATTIC Author: Bernard Friot Illustrator: Amélie Jackowski Music: Jean-François Verdier It is raining outside. Anna and Léo are sitting in the attic of their holiday home bored out of their minds. Suddenly a teddy bear pops out of the closet and asks if he can go snack in the kitchen. Anna and Léo are intrigued and start rummaging through the attic, looking for other strange encounters. In the process, they come across Jonathan the Snake who is learning Chinese, Roberto the Clown who likes to tickle, Lili the Doll who is as stubborn as a mule. The old toys in the attic come to life, then move onto new adventures. “Look, it’s stopped raining!” Now the time has come to go outside and leave all those sweet childhood memories behind them. 5 years + • 20.5 x 20.5 cm • Hardback with padded cover • 32 pages • ¤19.50

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CD BOOKS MUSIC IS ONE BIG HISTORY Authors: Angèle Cambournac and Isabelle Péhourticq Illustrator: Vanessa Hié Music: Bizet, Saint-Saëns, Gounod, Dukas, Delibes, Dubois, Thomas In this book-CD, the reader is invited to discover eight familiar, and lesser known works from the French classical repertoire. Each musical extract is accompanied by a beautifully illustrated summary of the opera, to recreate the legend that inspired it. At the end of the work, there are biographical elements enabling readers to understand the composer’s lives. 5 years + • 13.5 x 21.5 cm • Hardback • 48 pages • ¤20

KID’S NOVELS 6 years + • 12.3 x 18 cm • 48 pages • ¤8.20

CALICIA THE 7 YEAR OLD MAGICIAN Author: Gilles Abier Illustrator: Jess Pauwels At a bring-and-buy sale, Alicia is trying to sell her old books and toys, and she is totally fed up. Nobody stops to buy things. Apart from a funny little man who offers a strange swap: he exchanges Alicia’s magic book for a black box with the power to make things disappear when they’re shut up inside it. The stunt will work only if Alicia takes on a magician’s name and finds the magic spell. Alicia becomes Calicia and she experiments her new found power on her brother’s cat. In the process she understands that being a magician also brings with it great responsibilities.

THE SECRET OF ACHACHILA Authors: José Mendoza and Cécile Boisel Illustrator: Louise Heugel Copublication with La Cité de la Musique. In a small Bolivian village, Achachila, a wise old man, tells its inhabitants where to find fertile land. How does he know these things? That’s his secret. A secret whispered in his ear by his friend Quirquincho. Quirquincho is a legendary armadillo, who each night, in the company of Achachila sings and dances to the Moon to express his love for her. The Moon loves the armadillo’s song, and her beams point the way to fertile lands. But time slips by, the armadillo grows old and dies. Achachila has to find a way to revive his friend’s voice. He takes the armadillo’s shell and creates a magnificent stringed instrument, the charango, the gentle melody of which delights the Moon and makes her dance. 5 years + • 20.5 x 20.5 cm • Hardback with padded cover • 48 pages • ¤16

JUNIOR NOVELS 8 years + • 12.3 x 18 cm • 80-112 pages • ¤7.70

THE DUEL OF THE FLINT BROTHERS Author: Thomas Scotto Illustrator: Benjamin Adam The United States of America, April 1869. President Grant arrives in the small town of Promontory to join the two railroad tracks leading from East to West coast. Promontory’s inhabitants are preparing to celebrate the event with much excitement. In Miss Picqles class, the Flint brothers suddenly start behaving bizarrely. Even Lili their neighbor and long time friend is baffled. The tension mounts. Suspicion reigns and tongues wag. Shortly before the ceremony, it is discovered that the twins have disappeared. Did they run away? Maybe there was a quarrel? What terrible secret is lurking behind the disturbing events? THE MAD GRAFFITI ARTIST FROM BARCELONA Author: Jacques Vénuleth Illustrator: Benjamin Bachelier In the Catalan capital, a lunatic has decided to punish worshippers of Gaudi, Dali and Picasso’s art. The city’s most famous monuments have been daubed with black paint. The mad graffiti guy even starts tagging tourists. On her computer, Lola follows the enquiry, and lends a helping hand to her grandfather, a former police commissioner, who is on the ground in Barcelona trying to catch the mysterious felon. Hacking into surveillance servers, scouring social networks: there is nothing the budding young investigator can’t do. There are surprises galore in store before our crack team manages to get to the bottom of the mystery.

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MONSTER LOVE TO THE MAX Author: Richard Couaillet Illustrator: Aurélie Grand Aliénore is new in Max’s class. She’s a puny, pale and distant girl who is kept at arm’s length by the other kids. Max, however, is fascinated by her mysterious beauty and falls head over heels in love with her. Gradually he tames Aliénore and, above all, he discovers her secret: she suffers from a serious heart problem, which means she is incapable of any physical effort. The girl’s state of health grows worse and Max decides to take a serious look at the exact nature of her medical problem. He reads stuff on the Internet; he even starts dissecting rats and frogs. Max is ready to do anything to put the color back into his paper-thin-skinned friend’s cheeks, even offer his own heart.

ZHANG THE PAINTER-MAGICIAN Author: Pascal Vatinel Illustrator: Peggy Adam While Spring Blossom is learning the delicate art of calligraphy, Lao Sheng tells her an old legend, the legend of Zhang, a young painter who, to escape the royal guards, took refuge deep within a forest in the home of an old hermit. For three years, Zhang learned from Master Lin all the secrets of silk, its manufacture and its use in painting. His progress was extraordinary. Zhang’s canvases were beautiful, but they could also come to life. The power of his art stirred the greed of men, and Zhang once more had to flee.

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BAIMING’S TIGER Author: Pascal Vatinel During a butterfly hunt in the jungle, a young villager, Baiming, discovers a female tiger and her cubs. The species is believed to be totally extinct in this region of southern China. Baiming decides to tell his veterinary friend, Doctor Song, so that she can help him protect these last survivors. But the secret soon gets out and poachers start moving in, encouraged especially by Baiming’s gangster uncle. In this hostile environment and with time ticking down, Baiming is forced to thwart the dastardly plans of determined enemies to save the endangered felines. Suddenly, plunged into an adult work, Baiming discovers the greed and cruelty of man, but also in contact with the vet, the strength and power of commitment. A breathtaking tale combining adventure with an ecological message.

PASCAL VATINEL

Lulu is a down-to-earth kind of boy. Quite the opposite of his grandma, Mamina. Mamina is horrified when thirteen people sit at the table, and she never walks under ladders. So the day when her wooden spoon breaks when making custard, Mamina is convinced a curse is upon her. The next day, Lulu breaks a leg playing football at school. Then the gym teacher bumps his head. Then the principle falls down stairs and bites her own son’s hand through to the bone. From his hospital bed, Lulu admits that something is up. But how can they rid themselves of the curse? Mamina has only one solution: In the same day and totally by chance, she has to meet three pairs of identical twins. The solution proves to be quite a challenge for Lulu.

12 years + • 13.5 x 21.5 cm • 208-224 pages• ¤12.80-13.20

LE TIGRE DE BAIMING

LULU IS NOT SUPERSTITIOUS BUT… Author: Isabelle Péhourticq Illustrator: Clotka

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KING KONG GOES IN-SEINE Author: François Devenne

A man disguised as an ape starts causing trouble in the Louvre Museum. For the police the case is a joke. However, the main witnesses to the crime tragically die from shock, such is the impact of the mysterious creature. Furthermore, who is the enigmatic black girl who always appears when the ape is at large? It’s the summer vacation, and Victor, 12, decides to help his father, a police detective, in his investigations. Stranger still: after the Louvre attack, the mysterious felons then start turning up at the Museum of Mankind and the Quai Branly Museum of Primitive Art. It would appear the mystery man and girl covet African art and in particular a set of ancient Dahomey kingdom statuettes. Suspense reigns in this crime mystery set in the heart of the capital, combining old African legends and the history of the origins of humanity, all mixed together with a good helping of fantasy.

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ACTIVITY BOOKS

ACTIVITY BOOKS

YOU’RE THE DETECTIVE Collection edited by Cédric Ramadier, written and illustrated by Pronto. Eleven suspects and one culprit! Three big investigations per volume. It is the reader’s role to track down and interpret the clues. 8 years + • 15.4 x 19.6 cm • 64 pages • ¤8.50

CLASH ON THE BEACH Who tried to blow up the toilet in the suite at the Grand Hotel? Who sabotaged the Tash concert at the camp site during karaoke night? And who switched the vanilla cream for mustard and the strawberries for chili sauce in the ice cream machine at Bichoma Beach? Budding young detectives have three big investigations to solve where they have to pay close attention to the reconstruction photos and decipher ten clues to eliminate the suspects one by one to reveal the real culprit.

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DOING WEIRD STUFF WITH… WORKS OF ART! Author: Sylvette (Sylvie Hazebroucq) Everybody has always dreamed of doing weird stuff with works of art. Some scare us, others make us want to reach out and touch them. With this activity book, children learn how to decipher the emotions that art works inspire and have the chance to produce creations from their inspiration. The author, Sylvette, uses works from a number of museums and offers a dozen creative and original activities that reinterpret the artist’s work. Using old dolls, boxes, sequins and sweets, young creators can make magic coats to keep fear at bay, as well as dinosaur poop and delicious monster brains. 5 years + • 25 x 32 cm • 56 pages • Softback, glossy cover • ¤14

MAGIC MADE EASY Author: Claire Laurens Illustrator: Soledad Bravi

THE PLAY OF STREET-ART Author: Cécile Gabriel

A tiny album presenting twelve easy-to-perform magic tricks to create the most incredible magic show in the world! The secret card,the fantastic elastic, the four aces, the magic rings, the phantom matches. This book presents a set of essential magic tricks for children to amaze their friends and family, and to even learn how to read their minds. Soledad Bravi’s cheeky, amusing illustrations provide the perfect accompaniment.

The pages of this fun and creative activity book turn into walls on which we discover the artistic world of urban graphics and street-art. The work contains 9 portraits of street-artists featuring different activities based on their different techniques. There is a sheet of stickers stuck into the book recreating the pixelized world of Space Invaders. There are also original activities where children learn how to cut out, paint, stick and tape in the style of the world’s greatest street-artists.

6 years + • 18 x 18 cm • 32 pages • Hardback • ¤8.50

8 years + • 25 x 32 cm • 56 pages • Softback • Sticker sheet • ¤15

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“OPEN YOUR EYES” Authors: Anne-Sophie Baumann and Christophe Rivier Photography by Biosphoto 4 years + • 18 x 18 cm • 40 pages • Hardback • ¤10

OPEN YOUR EYES TO THE POND This picture book takes us on a trail around ponds, lakes, and swamplands, those stretches of shallow water that are home to veritable ecosystems. It will help children identify and name the plant and animal species adapted to damp environments that live near stagnant waters.

OPEN YOUR EYES TO THE KITCHEN GARDEN A kitchen garden is naturally a place to produce flavorsome ripe homegrown vegetables. It is also a place to observe nature at work: the soil breathing, plants growing and insects and other small animals thriving. An original picture book for learning to recognize and name the vegetables in a kitchen garden, and to learn the pleasures of gardening.

THE NATURAL HISTORY OF IMAGINARY ANIMALS Authors-illustrators: Damien Laverdunt and Hélène Rajcak Does anyone still believe in animals of legend? The unicorn, the griffin, the jackalope or the Chinese dragon... Since antiquity, these legendary creatures have fed the folklore of civilizations over five continents, and belief in them has been swept away by science. This book invites us to rediscover this extraordinary bestiary. The work presents a classified index of seventy creatures through anecdotes, morphological traits and behavioral descriptions, and recreates their legends. The exploration combines naturalist plates, scientific diagrams and humorous narrative friezes. The result is a work that encourages us to breathe new life into the zoology of fantasy lurking within our imaginations and to take great pleasure in the make-believe world of wonderment. 9 years + • 25 x 32 cm • 80 pages • Hardback • ¤19.50

UNDERSTANDING HORSES Author: Catherine Sanson-Stern Recently, a new approach to horses has developed breaking with the traditional military equestrian culture. Studying the forms of horse communication, such as the position of a horse’s body, the position of its ears, and the sounds it makes also has many important messages to impart for the sensitive rider. The method prevalent today is called “natural equestrianism” or “ethological equestrianism”, which aims to “talk horse”, that is to say adopt attitudes that are logical and reassuring for the animal. The technique was made famous by the movie, The Horse Whisperer. The book has a concrete look at the practice of this new form of equestrianism which aims to develop a closer, more harmonious relationship between man and horse. 9 years + • 22 x 28 cm • 96 pages • Hardback • ¤19

BECHAMEL AND FRIENDS: THE HISTORY OF PROPER NAMES THAT HAVE BECOME COMMON NAMES Author-illustrator: Dimitri Delmas In 1765, the 4th Earl of Sandwich refused to interrupt his card game to eat, so he made servants bring him a snack tucked between two slices of bread and the famous bite-to-eat for munching on-the-hoof was born. In 1929, Louis Braille, a young blind man, designed an alphabet composed of raised points to enable blind people to read and communicate. The men and women in this book, whether engineers, military men, artists or scholars, all dreamed up an object, dish, language, or device that became so indispensable that it slipped into our daily language. This work tells the story of twenty-two proper names that turned into common nouns. 7 years + • 14.5 x 21 cm • 48 pages • Hardback • ¤9.90

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“STEP-BY-STEP”

“THOSE WHO SAID NO”

9 years + • 16.5 x 24.5 cm • 72-80 pages • Softback with glossy cover • ¤12.70

12 years + • 11 x 17.6 cm • 96 pages • Softback • ¤8

INVENTIONS STEP-BY-STEP Author: Véronique Corgibet Illustrator: Laurent Kling This book looks at the great inventions that have marked history and people’s lives: writing, agriculture, the first steam engines, electricity and many more, as well as smaller discoveries that have also changed our daily lives. Today, revolutionary discoveries come thick and fast. What inventions lie in store for us tomorrow? The great notion of progress will have to be questioned. The stakes for researchers in the 21st century will also involve the preservation of the planet’s resources, as well as the living conditions of all of its inhabitants.

AIMÉ CÉSAIRE: “NO TO HUMILIATION ” Author: Nimrod Through Aimé Césaire, the suffering and humiliation endured by the victims of France’s former colonies found a voice. We are in the 1930s. The young Martinique Poet Aimé Césaire and his friends launched their “negritude” movement. Together they fought against the condescending colonial rule of mainland France. They invited all peoples, from the Antilles to Senegal, to reject the suffocating colonial machine and feel proud of their accents, their plural culture and their histories. Until his death in 2008, Aimé Césaire used his work as a writer and as a politician to struggle against colonial reflexes for the dignity of black people.

“Other available titles : Nelson Mandela, Rosa Parks, Gandhi and more.” ANIMAL SOCIETIES STEP-BY-STEP Author: Antonio Fischetti Illustrator: Clémence Germain The human being is not the only animal to live in society. Many species do the same. This book draws up a panorama of animal societies, based on the most recent scientific discoveries and developments. The observation of animals teaches us much about the benefits of living in society. It also helps us better understand human society. Microscopic societies (ants and termites), bird societies, aquatic societies (sardines, whales) or special societies (amoeba, rats, etc) are described here through the common and different traits they present in relation to human societies.

SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT STEP-BY-STEP Author: Catherine Sanson-Stern Illustrator: Pénélope Paicheler

INVISIBLE CHILDREN: THE STORY OF STREET CHILDREN Authors: Olivier Villepreux and Marie-José Lallart Illustrator: Guillaume Reynard A former international representative for Unesco, Marie-José Lallart, gives a voice to children living in the street. Street children are known as bui doi in Vietnam (“the dust of life”), los desechables in Colombia (“disposables”), bana imbia (“dogs”) in the Republic of the Congo, etc. Invisible Children documents the dramas behind the scenes, the realities we never get to read about. The reader follows the tales of different children in different countries, involved in different projects: the construction of a school in Haiti, a children’s’ sports day in Guyana, Amerindian and Creole community events in Guyana, and the arrival of new sports material in a refugee camp in Gaza. A double page is devoted to the historical and socio-cultural context of the countries involved in each account. 12 years + • 24.5 x 17.5 cm • Hardback • 96 pages • ¤17

Because sustainable development responds to the needs of current and future generations, more than ever, it is a highly topical issue for everybody to grasp hold of. What is sustainable development? And how does it work? Through a series of simple questions, this guide presents young readers with the central issues surrounding the environment in our day-to-day lives. Children will discover the causes of global warming, the advantages of renewable energies and the benefits of recycling in a fun, light-hearted way. An essential book to promote awareness that, at school as well as in the home, everyone has a role to play to protect the diversity of the planet.

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