albums - La Joie de Lire

SPRING 2016
Illustration by Albertine, from mon tout petit
New titles
editions la joie de lire sa • 5 chemin neuf • 1207 geneva • switzerland • +41 22 807 33 99 • www.lajoiedelire.ch
TOUT-petits souris collection
Odile Bailloeul likes works every new technique with enthousiasm, textile designer we found
her poetic universe and her love of color in each of her books or her creations. She created an
entire universe around cloth mouse-figures. Incredible work, detailed, careful, funny and poetic at
once! A miniature anthropomorphic world, imaged by Claire Curt, in which toddlers can easily be
projected.
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Barnabé l’inquiet
Barnabas worried
Odile Baillœul
2+, 16 x 16 cm, 18p., 9.50 €
Barnabas is a little mouse who is afraid of everything. All
panics him: to cross the bridge, to sleep without light,
getting lost on the way to school, the big voice of Uncle
Casimir.
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Salomé la pressée
Salome pressed
Odile Baillœul
2+, 16 x 16 cm, 18p., 9.50 €
Salome is always pressed: she hates queuing, loves to ride
on the bike Uncle Pierrot, makes always three things at
once, got up early in the morning… Only in front of the toy
store Salome is quiet…
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Boum
Karelle Menine
Mirjana Farkas
4+, 20 x 24 cm, 40p., 14 €
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Lilio is born in a salad. He is ugly and looks like nothing. He has yet
no legs, no head, arms or hands… “But Lilio is smart and resolute.
During his trip, he will meet all sorts of characters and gradually
transform but to be truly someone… it lacks a heart. And that is
not so easy to find… A gentle and poetic fable that addresses itself
to the construction and the importance of other, our meetings, our
experiences in the performance of our being.
Karelle Menine is a French-Swiss writer born in Mazamet
in the Tarn and lives in Geneva. Holds a Master of Ancient
History at the University of Mirail (Toulouse), journalist
graduated from the Institute of Practical Journalism (IPJ)
of Paris, she was a reporter for France Culture and Radio
Suisse Romande until 2007.She has written several plays.
Mirjana Farkas was born in Geneve in 1979. She studied
history before leaving six years to Barcelona, where she
got illustration education in Escola Massana. She had
as teacher, Arnald Ballester, illustrator of “Le Facteur
Quifaiquoi” published in La Joie de lire. Back in 2010 in
Geneve, Mirjana works on press illustrations, posters and
personal projects sometimes with skillscreen printing.
She published “La Java martienne” at Le poisson soluble
in 2012, a great homage to Boris Vian.
Carnet de bal
Ball notebook
Mirjana Farkas
4+, 19 x 32 cm, 40p., leporello, 21 €
Sold to USA, Korea, Germany and Spanish worlwide
For this gorgeous leporello, Mirjana Farkas was inspired from ball
notebook, very popular in social evenings of the XIX century. Following
a little boy as a common thread, thirty whimsical dances are presented
here such as origami mambo, french cancan under the rain, waltz in
space… At the end of the book, the reader will find explanatory notes
on each dance. With those lively and coloured illustrations, even the
most stubborn are invited to dance until they get restless… An ode to
sixth art.
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ALBUMS collection
Le petit bonhomme et le monde
The little man and the world
Sylvie Neeman
Ingrid Godon
6+, 18 x 24 cm, 44p., 14.90 €
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This is the story of a little man in his glass ball. But one day he
leaves… Faced with an other reality, the little guy doesn’t recognize
anything more: the tree of the snowball is very different, the dog
too, even the snow is not cold like the one he knows. Then he
found a house inhabited by “others” like him. And he decided
to stay. But sometimes he thinks that “it was better there…”. A
questioning of our relationship with reality. Is my reality the reality
of everyone? Is there a truth? Do the other apprehends things in
the same way as me?
An album between philosophy and poetry.
Sylvie Neeman was born in Lausanne in 1963. After a
bachelor’s degree in literature and the birth of her two
daugthers she progressively specialized in children’s
literature. She is in charge of “Parole”, the magazine of the
Swiss Institute for Children’s and Youth Media and writes
columns in Le Temps newspaper. Her first novel “Rien n’est
arrivé” (Nothing Happened) was published in 2001 by the
Denoël publishing house, and has been translated into
Italian and German. “Mercredi à la librairie” (Wednesday
at the Library) came out in 2007 (Sarbacane publishing
house, illustrated by Olivier Tallec).
Ingrid Godon was born in Belgium in 1959. She devotes
herself to illustration for more than twenty years, giving
priority to a mixt technique – grease pastel, coloured
pencil and paint. She was twice selected in Bologna and
she won many prizes.
Quelque chose de grand
Something big
Sylvie Neeman
Ingrid Godon
6+, 18 x 24 cm, 44p., 14.90 €
Sold to USA, Korea, Germany, Spanish worlwide and Simple Chinese
A young boy and an older one talk. The young boy would like do to
something big, but not as big as a mountain, « it’s too big », not as
big as an elephant, « it’s too grey », not as big as a tower or a house,
but something as big as a lighthouse with the sea and some light, “but
not exactly”. Then the older boy suggests to go for a walk by the sea
so that they can think. A tasty talk between the young boy who has
trouble clearly expressing what he would like and the older one who
tries to guess his desires.
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Sylvie Neeman was born in Lausanne in 1963. After a bachelor’s degree in literature and the birth of her two daugthers
she progressively specialized in children’s literature. She is in charge of “Parole”, the magazine of the Swiss Institute
for Children’s and Youth Media and writes columns in Le Temps newspaper. Her first novel “Rien n’est arrivé” (Nothing
Happened) was published in 2001 by the Denoël publishing house, and has been translated into
Italian and German. “Mercredi à la librairie” (Wednesday at the Library) came out in 2007 (Sarbacane publishing house,
illustrated by Olivier Tallec).
As a young artist from Geneva, Albertine already exhibited her works several times. Since 1992, she cooperates with
many daily newspapers in French-speaking Switzerland. She teaches silkscreen printing at the Superior School of Visual
Arts of Geneva. She has been the first Swiss artist to receive the Golden Apple in 1999.
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La mer est ronde
The sea is round
Sylvie Neeman & Albertine
5+, 18 x 26 cm, 32p., 15.90 €
Sold to Spanish worlwide
Tina works on a boat, she cleans the cabins, she makes the beds,
she cleans the windows. Sometimes, there is no window in the
cabins, thus Tina hangs on the wall a big picture where the sea
and the sky can be seen; it is almost the same. Tina has a lover; he
is a cook. All day long, he peels carrots, cuts some zucchini, and
every night, he cooks pasta with tomato sauce, flowers and ice
creams. But his specialty is fish, the real one, not the one cut in
small rectangles. Antonio also works in a boat, but not on Tina’s
one. Then they don’t see each other so often. But at night, they
write to each other. One day, Tina is tired of this situation, she
would like to see Antonio again…
A beautiful love story illustrated by Albertine and told with the
right words of Sylvie Neeman.
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ALBUMS collection
ALBUMS collection
Livre-promenade, boardbook, by Germano Zullo & Albertine
by Germano Zullo & Albertine
Germano Zullo was born on the 16th of may 1968 in Geneva and got the swiss nationality in 1985. In 1990, he passed his degree
at the Superior Commercial School of Malagnou. Then, he travelled during two years across Europe and, from 1992 up to 2002,
he worked as an accountant. Since 1996 he and his wife Albertine (illustrator) have published many children books at La Joie de
Lire editions. He has also published some poems and erotic stories.
Mon tout petit
My sweet little one
Germano Zullo & Albertine
all ages, 15 x 21 cm, 80p., book in a slipcase, 14.90 €
Sold to Spanish worlwide
mon tout petit
J’ai tant de choses à te dire.
Tant et tant de choses.
Il faut que je te raconte tout.
Albertine
Germano Zullo
Albertine
mon
tout
petit
Germano Zullo
À la campagne
In the countryside
12 months +, 26 x 34 cm, 16p., 16.90 €
After at the seaside, in the city and in the mountains we are now in the countryside! In the forest, in gardens, on a picnic near a pond, at the
farm… Superman is still there of course, holding
a scale that will fall or helping a boar mom find
her child. After all those adventures, he deserves
a rest !
A cardboard album funny and colorful that
sharpens the sense of observation.
slipcase with hole
14.90 €
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Les Robes
The dresses
6+, 28 x 35 cm,
48p., 20 €
A la montagne
In the montains
12 months +, 26 x 34 cm,
16p., 16.25 €
Sold to Korea
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A la mer
At the seaside
12 months +, 26 x 34 cm,
16p., 13.90 €
Sold to Spain, Netherlands
and England
A mother slowly turns round with her baby in her arms,
her chid, her little one, who grows up imperceptibly
while she whispers to him sweet words, telling him their
story. The child grows to a man and it’s the mother who
begins to shorten more and more…
A book about motherhood, about love, that can be read
as a flipbook. A round, a farandole, telling with poetry
the circle of life. For this book, Albertine uses only a grey
pencil. Germano Zullo’s simple words, allied to the pure
drawings of Albertine, bring even more intensity and
emotion to the strory.
En ville
In Town
12 months +, 26 x 34 cm,
16p., 14.70 €
Sold to Netherlands
The dresses has generous dimensions and colors. One
page opens on an extravagant and huge dress and on
the other page, the author offer us a life moment in
a short text. In a few lines, he wrote the Morgane’s
portrait, postman’s daughter who likes playing alone,
Marc-Henry, the morbidly shy boy, or Mélina who
collects everythings that is disgusting… Intimist
moments in a whimsical mirror effect that Albertine
brings to light.
This book will be part of an Albertine’s exhibition in
L’Art à la page in Paris in november 2014.
Bimbi
Albertine
20,5 x 29,5 cm, 112p., 24.80 €
Childhood might seem like an enchanted interlude for some people.
First of all it is the time of insouciance, this very rare and ephemeral
state of being. Bimbi delves into the footbridges that link up our
different states of mind; from freedom to pressure, from joy to
sadness; from imagination to reality; from insouciance to torment.
This book looks at the matter that shapes one’s personality or that
even builds a society. To take time to observe feelings and emotions
where there are the liveliest (during childhood) might enable the
reader to reinterpret the world by speculating on the meaning of
life. What do we do with these first feelings? What do we keep from
these small splinters of insouciance? Albertine’s illustrations are the
opportunity to understand what makes us come alive and what brings
us together.
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ALBUMS collection
ALBUMS collection
by Germano Zullo & Albertine
by Germano Zullo & Albertine
Les Aventures de Marta
Marta’s Adventures
6+, 15 x 19 cm, 32p., 4 books in a box, 19.90 €
sold to Korea, USA, Japan, Israël, Thailand, Iran,
simplified Chinese, Tawain and Netherlands.
La Joie de lire will be 30 years in 2017. For the occasion,
Albertine’s famous orange cow is back and La Joie de
lire gathers the four adventures of Marta : Marta et la
bicyclette, Marta au pays des Montgolfières, Marta et
la pieuvre, Le Retour de Marta, in a box.
Ligne 135 / Line 135
5+, 33 x 19,5 cm, 48p., 18 €
Sold to USA, China, Germany, Korea and Spanish worldwide
Inside the train, a little girl who just left her mother on the
platform and who will call on her grandmother. Landscapes
pass by, and the little girl’s thought unfolds: business area,
working-class area, industrial suburb, no man’s land, wood…
The little girl talks about the places she knows well, and the
places she does not know, she talks about the way she sees
the world and about the way it changes.
Prix Jeunesse et Médias
2013
Les gratte-ciel / Skyscrapers
6 +, 16 x 37 cm, 48p., 18.25 €
Sold to USA, Korea, Taiwan (complex Chinese),
Greece, Spain, and simplified Chinese
In the box set :
Two billionaires, Agenor-Agobar Poirier des Chapelles and
Willigis Kittycly Junior, build their new house, real skyscrapers.
And it is to the one who will build the highest.
A beautiful tale of human folly, a humorous critique of the
modern world, the competition at any price and the «ever
more.»
Golden Apple, Biennale
de Bratislava 1999
Les Oiseaux / The Birds
4+, 21 x 21 cm, 68p., 14.20 €
Sold to Italy, USA, Germany, Israël, Spain, Iran,
Korea, China, Brasil, Taiwan (complex Chinese),
Finland, Estonia and Sweden
Upon arriving at the end of a road, a lorry driver opens the
door of his trailer. A cloud of birds fly out of the lorry and
disappear over the horizon. In the back of the truck, he
finds a small, shy bird. It looks like it has no intention of
following its companions.
New York Times Book Review
One of the Best Illustrated Books of 2012
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Nominated by the
Prix des Incorruptibles
2008-2009
Dada / Jumping Jack
4+, 23 x 31 cm, 40p., 14.50 €
Sold to USA, Germany, Spain,
Brasil and Slovenia
“Roger Trotter and Jumping
Jack are champions in show jumping. They are practically
invincible because they constitute a very harmonious team.” But
nevertheless, the day of the international Saint-Alor-sur-Fleur
contest, Jumping Jack performs in a very disappointing way, a way
that is even worst than a hobbyist’s way... What is happening?
Roger Trotter is ready for anything in order to get Jumping Jack’s
foot on a ladder.
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ALBUMS collection
ALBUMS collection
Juste à côté de moi
Just beside me
Sigrid Baffert
Julien Billaudeau
5+, 16 x 29 cm, 32p., 13.90 €
Victor and Igor are friends, they live in the same town, they are in the same
class, they love the same girl, they have the same problems: they both have
troubles getting up on the morning, none of them is fond of the canteen
food, they both are very bad at dictation and bored on evenings while
waiting for their parents to come home.
And yet Victor and Igor are very different. Victor eats his fill, his father is an
advertisement designer, he has a baby sitter who takes care of him on the
evening until his parents come home, and a nice bedroom all for himself.
Igor is always hungry, his parents leave early and come home very late
because of their jobs, he has to take care by himself of his young brothers
after school and his apartment has only one room.
Only the subtle and delicate style of Sigrid Baffert could explain to the
children the social differences, our two-tier society, the everyday of
the poorest.
The graphic style, spirited and colourful of Julien Billaudeau brings good
mood and vitality to this album, of which the theme is grave and so actual.
Ingénieuse Eugénie
Ingenious Eugenia
Anne Wilsdorf
4+, 17 x 24 cm, 44p., 13.90 €
Sold to Italy
Eugenia and her little brother Nestor live on the Forgotten Island. One day,
they glimpse far away in the mist the island of Nowhere. They are quickly
explained they must have had visions: this island is nothing but a myth, an
unreachable ground. That’s all it takes to convince Eugenia to reach it at
all costs. With her gift for inventions and the unexpected help from a few
inhabitants of the island, beavers and fireflies, Eugenia manages to cast
bridges between her island and the one she dreams about, where she is
welcome by nice autochthons. A book as a plea for science, reminding us
that it is within reach of everybody, including girls!
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Drôle d’encyclopédie
Funny Encyclopaedia
Adrienne Barman
all ages, 18.5 x 25.5 cm, 216p., 24.90 €
Sold to Poland, Italy, Germany, Netherlands, Spain, English
worldwide, China (simple chinese), Russia, Brasil and Taiwan
The snow white, the hunters, the disappeared, the noisy,
the gigantic, the nervous, the endangered… What a very
personal way to classify animals. Adrienne’s work is as much
a scientific research than a titanic process of colouring. Proof
of this is that the illustrator looked at the case of her 216
pages encyclopaedia for a year-long. Patchwork of tints or
gradations, she stages with humour, and in her own way, many
and varied animals in their natural environment: from the
leopard lounging on a branch to the smiling hippopotamus on
the bottom of the water or the worried owl into the dark night.
A beautiful piece of work that reminds one of the
encyclopaedias of yesteryear, but in a much more funny way…
Mélimélanimo
Mish-mash animals
Constanze v. Kitzing
2+, 16 x 23 cm, 36p., mish-mash boardbook, 14.90 €
Sold to Spanish worlwide
An elephant in a hot pink tutu, a rhinoceros in green and white stripped
pyjamas, a sheep knitting a sock, a fox in uniform, a penguin carrying his
baby on the back… And why not mix them all? The horned tail of the goat
with the chubby body of the pig and the skinny legs of the zebra, to create
animals even funnier! Full-face… or from behind, it’s even better!
A mish-mash book, funny and charming, which will ravish the little ones.
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MILTON collection
MILTON collection
Album, hardback cover, all ages, 19 x 14 cm, 40p., 10.80 €, by Haydé
Haydé was born in Cologne in 1956. She is graduated from The Lausanne School of Visual Art, in Graphic Art section. She worked as
an illustrator at the review L’Hebdo for ten years. Since 1997, she is the illustrator of the « Milton » collection. The first illustrated
book of this collection won the Prize of « The most beautiful Swiss books ». In her studio, in Lausanne, she designs posters for the
« Petit Théâtre » and regularly collaborates on City council’s projects related to children and public health. She mostly works in the
illustration and painting field.
Milton quand j’étais petit
Milton when I was a child
Sold to simplified Chinese
Milton, Haydé’s waggish black and white cat,
comes back to tell us about his new adventures…
or rather his former adventures. Indeed, Milton
remembers his debut in life, and notably his arrival at his owner’s place, when he was a kitten. He
remembers his red pillow, his home’s warmth,
the foolish things he used to do but also the way
he was punished, the well-known airbrush…
One will be happy to recognize Haydé’s “touch”
and style of drawing (Indian ink and felt-tip pen),
her clever framing and her humour.
Milton et le corbeau
Milton and the Crow
Sold to Japan, Netherlands, Venezuela,
Russia and simplified Chinese
Le Nöel de Milton
Milton’s Christmas
Sold to Japan, USA, Germany, Spain and
simplified Chinese
How Milton, taking many risks, pits himself
against a crow family whose little ones he
particularly appreciates.
It is quite careless to leave a nozy cat with
the Christmas tree...
Les vacances de Milton
Milton’s Holidays
Sold to simplified Chinese
This time, we will follow Milton during his
holidays. As an urban cat, he likes to go
on holidays in the south of France. Everything surprises him in the country. He
discovers new smells, new shapes, new
noises. A Milton fond of liberty.
Tatoulu Awards 2013 - category Tatou Rose
Milton en pension
Milton at the boarding house
Sold to simplified Chinese
It’s holyday time! Well, not for Milton who has to
go to a boarding house. And he does not really
like the idea… To live together with other cats,
how awful! And what is this slimy cat food? A
walk with a group? No way! Milton is a very
special cat, and he lets it be known.
Drawn with Indian ink and a felt pen, Haydé
takes us one more time into her waggish feline’s
adventures.
Milton chez le vétérinaire
Milton at the Vet
Sold to Japan, USA, Netherlands, Venezuela
and simplified Chinese
Milton’s new adventures : he now
takes us along to the vet. You’ve
probably guessed that he hates it,
as any cat does…
Moi, Milton
Me, Milton
Sold to Japan, USA, Netherlands, Spain,
Venezuela, Portugal, Germany, Russia
and simplified Chinese
“ Moi, Milton ” tells the day by day
adventures of a very special cat. The very
loved one of the illustrator.
Nominated
Les plus beaux livres suisses 1997
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Mais où est passé Milton ?
Where is Milton ?
Sold to Portugal, Germany, Russia and
simplified Chinese
Like all cats, Milton likes to find some little
places where he feels good. We believe
that he hides himself but he is sometimes
so funnily visible, that we laugh about it !
Haydé offers us an anthology of situations, brilliantly mixing graphic talent and
poetic humour.
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VERSatiles collection
by Constanze v. Kitzing,
album, hardback cover, 5+, 20 x 20 cm, 40p., 9.80 €
Born in 1980, Constanze v. Kitzing studied at the Bauhaus University in Weimar, in the Visual Communication
department. She lives in Hamburg where she is working both as a painter and illustrator for children’s books. She also
conducts painting workshops.
Mais qui est là ?
Who is here ?
Constanze v. Kitzing
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As in her previous books,the illustrator seeks to stimulate
the imagination and sense of observation of toddlers. The
first image shows a close-up of an animal bite.The child has
to guess who it is? An elephant ? A cat ? A rhinoceros ? A
frog ? The second drawing gives the answer. The little reader
will find here with delight the Constanze Kitzing child’s warm
universe, playful and soft lines.
Mais qui va là ?
Who’s there?
Sold to Sweden
Mais qui vit là ?
Who lives there?
A first image represents a
close-up of an animal’s coat
part. The child has to guess
what it is about. The second
image gives the answer.
A first close-up shows an animal’s environment. The child
can guess what lives there.
The next picture provides the
answer.
By the same illustrator :
Pingouin glacé
Frozen Pinguin
Constanze v. Kitzing
Sold to Korea
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C’est moi le meilleur !
I’m the best !
Sold to Korea
Cache-cache
Hide and Seek
Sold to Korea and Sweden
Dormez-vous ?
Do you sleep?
Sold to Mexico
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Somnambule collection
Comics, 6+, soft cover, 19 x 25 cm, 40p., 10 €
Victor Hussenot was born in 1985. After obtaining his DNSEP (national diploma of plastic expression)
at the Fine Arts school of Nancy, he goes back to Paris. During his last year as a student, he meets
the publishers Warum at a young talent contest in Angoulême, and publishes his first comic book
for adults, “La Casa”, in 2001. In this book, the panels, which are synonyms of an appartment rooms,
are at the center of the plot ; you can make the characters go into or outside of them.
Chemin des souvenirs
The path of memories
Victor Hussenot
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”The path of memories” is the following of “The Land of
Lines”, first comic by Victor Hussenot published by La Joie
de lire. At the end of the first album, the reader had left
the hero, a funny little man all blue dragon hunter, who
accompanies a small red girl at home after living many
adventures with her. This time the little boy runs through
the mountains in search of his lover whose memory haunts
him. But his quest is strew with obstacles and more or less
friendly matches.
A beautiful story of love and adventure.
Au pays des lignes
The land of lines
Victor Hussenot
sold to USA
“The land of lines” tells us about a dragon hunter, a funny little blue
chap. In the mountains, in a savage and hostile environment, he
meets a little red girl who is completely lost. Little by little the two
kids will fall in love, fight a yellow dragon, live many adventures and
finally find the little girl’s parents.
Without words, very graphic, mostly drew with blue and red ballpoint
pen, “The land of lines” is a minimalist comic book with a strong
narrative framework. You always observe the story from a distance,
there is no close-ups. Just by drawing lines, straight or curved, the
illustrator gives life to his characters full of emotions.
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Somnambule collection
Encrage collection
Comics, 6+, soft cover, 19 x 25 cm, 40p., 10 €
15+, 14 x 21 cm, soft cover illustrated by Séverin Millet
Un jour il m’arrivera un truc extraordinaire
One day something extraordinary will happen to me
Gilles Abier
160p., 14 €
Alcibiade
Rémi Farnos
Once upon time, the small Alcibiade leaves his village, determined to go to the
East in order to find the great prophet. He wants to know his destiny. During his
journey, he mets Assatour, the condor, who becomes a loyal friend, and Akim
the blacksmith, who will sell him a magic armor which grows together with its
owner. He will cross the terrible mountain range “Shark’s jaw”, will be caught in
a snowstorm, will be lost in a labyrinth, will fight the Minotaur… and will finally
become a man.
Alcibiade is a great fable with mythological creatures, it is an initiatory and
homeric journey carried by Rémi Farnos’s precise stroke. All this punctuated by
extremely funny dialogues...
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Small and slim, Elias is 13 but looks 10. He spends his time inventing stories and
extraordinary adventures. His parents are divorced and he lived mostly with
his mother and her new companion, Franck that he did not really appreciate.
For some time, the life of Elias changes. He dreams that he flies, like a bird
and that slowly his body turns into that of a crow. But Elias does not want her
mother and his best friends perceive this change.
So hallucination or real transformation? The end, totally unexpected, reveals a
tragic truth...
Gilles Abier was born in Paris in 1970. After a youth in the suburbs in Seine et
Marne and studying literature in Grenoble, he spent seven years in London and
Manchester,
where he has studied at the Theatre Conservatory. Back in France, Gilles Abier
works part-time at the Centre Pompidou and spends the rest of his time to
writing and theater. His first novel was published in 2000 by Actes Sud Junior.
He also published by the Rouergue and by Sarbacane.
Fugitifs du futur
Fugitives of the futur
Valérie Dayre
Pierre Leterrier
15+, 14 x 21 cm, 320p., 17 €
Swimming Poule mouillée
Guillaume Long
Sold to Spain
For the swimming class,
Robin will have to pass a
terrible test called “the
golden sardine”. Will Robin
manage to face the events
that he will have to pass
and show the terrible
swimming teacher that he
isn’t a coward ? A tender
and comical story in which
children and adults will
recognize themselves.
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Le Génie de la boîte
de raviolis
The Ravioli Can Genius
Germano Zullo - Albertine
Sold to Korea and Iran
Armand works in a ravioli
factory, lives in a suburban
dormitory town and loves
flowers. Of course, when
he is hungry, he opens a
ravioli can. One evening
something bursts out of
the can… How to transform
everyday life and make it
acceptable !
Le grand marécage
The great swamp
Mickaël Jourdan
Les nouveaux pirates
New Pirates!
Lionel Richerand
A run is organized in a summer camp. Lucien, Gaspard,
Eléonore and their friends
take place on the start line.
But mysterious informations are heard around in
the swamp that children
have to cross over, a
strange and evil shadow is
roaming, letting out terrible growlings. Runners are
worried, except Eléonore
who really wants to meet
the monster.
Thomas, aged 5, is a new
pirate: he has not read
Treasure Island, but he
knows the story of Black
Beard and his plastic hook
so well that when Thomas
curses like a sea-dog in the
graveyard next to his holiday house in Brittany, he
wakes up the furious ghost
of the local pirate. Black
Beard, urged on by Thomas,
puts together his old crew
for a fantastic voyage to
nevernever Island.
Achille Tanakis, a renowned
researcher, and Yak, aka
Yves Albert Keller, a Parisian
neurosurgeon,
are
both
famous. They are about to
make an important discovery
that might change the world,
especially the Informatics and New Technologies filled. Their
children, the twins Mila and Ilam, and the young Liam are
always together. But during a summer, while Achille gage Liam
to his friend Yak, this one tries, without Achille’s consent, an
experiment on the three children and implants a chip in the
back of their skulls. But the experience turns bad few days
later: one of the children is found dead.
Some criminals interested by this experience chase the
researchers and kidnap Yak and her daughter. Achille and
Liam are the only one who can help them… but it will come
with a price.
A breathless thriller, rich in twist, which puts the stress on
science and ethics.
Le caméléon et les fourmis
blanches
The Chameleon and the white ants
Emmanuel Bourdier
15+, 14 x 21 cm, 144p., 13.90 €
Casimir, a teacher hammered
by life, eyes fixed on the
rearview mirror, sees his
life as a dead end and is
slowly recovering from a
break-up. In his class, a young
illegal immigrant from Mali
exasperates him more than any other pupils. Devouring
books, thirsting for the future, he lies, skips school and
pretends to be more ignorant than he is. But when Issa’s
father, threatened with deportation, entrust Casimir with
Issa’s care, they will have no other choice than to learn
how to live together.
At last, Casimir will find a way to redemption and Issa the
opportunity for a new start.
Two voices, two views of the world, a world in which the
word fraternity slowly takes dust.
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L’un d’entre eux
One of them
Géraldine Alibeu
5+, 16 x 30 cm, 36p., 14.90 €
Le bon moment
The right moment
Géraldine Alibeu
5 +, 22 x 30 cm, 40p., 15.20 €
La Balade en traîneau
The hauling-sled trip
S. Corinna Bille
Géraldine Alibeu
5+, 20 x 15 cm, 32p., 13 €
Sold to United Arab Emirates
Le Pantin noir
The black puppet
S. Corinna Bille
Hannes Binder
21 x 30 cm, 76p., 19 €
L’école est fermée,
vive la révolution !
The school is closed,
long live the Revolution!
May Angeli
7+, 24 x 29 cm, 40p.,
15.50 €
Diapason
The conductor
Laëtitia Devernay
hardback cover, all ages,
33 x 14 cm, 68p., 17 €
Sold to USA, Germany, Italy,
Mexico and China
Bestiaire mécanique
The mechanical bestiary
Laëtitia Devernay
hardback cover, 6+, 28 x 26 cm,
48p., 16 €
Sold to Italy and China
(simple chinese)
Be Bop !
all ages, 21.5 x 15 cm,
40p., 15 €
La Marelle
The Hopscotch
Germano Zullo
Albertine
4+, 30 x 25 cm, 40p., 15.10 €
Le Chat botté
Puss in boots
Charles Perrault
Albertine
4+, 18 x 23 cm, 32p., 13.50 €
Marietta chez les clowns
Marietta with the clowns
S. Corinna Bille - Albertine
6+, 19,5 × 22 cm, 40p.,
18.50 €
Le Masque géant
The Giant Mask
S. Corinna Bille
Janis Heezen
6+, 21 × 29,7 cm, 32p.,
14 €
Moi et toi
Me and you
Caroline Laffon
Constanza Bravo
6+, 20 x 26 cm, 32p., 13.50 €
Les Pendules de Dana
Dana’s clocks
A. de Lestrade - C. Bravo
5+, 21 x 30 cm, 48p., 13.70 €
Sold to Germany
Le plus gentil Loup du monde
The kindest wolf in the world
A. de Lestrade - C. Bravo
5+, 21 x 26 cm, 40p. 13.50 €
Sold to Germany, Mexico
and Korea
Reine / Queen
Jacqueline Delaunay
6+, 22 x 34 cm, 40p., 14.90 €
Sold to United Arab
Emirates, Sweden and
Denmark
Blanche et Marcel
Germano Zullo
Albertine
4+, 22 x 17 cm, 32p., 14 €
Le Fromage
The Cheese
Germano Zullo
Albertine
6+, 21 x 28 cm, 36p.,
14.90 €
Hôtel Rimini
Germano Zullo
Albertine
4+, 21 x 21 cm, 40p., 16 €
La Java bleue
Germano Zullo
Albertine
5+, 20 × 20 cm, 40p., 15 €
Sold to Germany, Taïwan
Spain, and Korea
La Rumeur de Venise
The Venetian Rumour
Germano Zullo
Albertine
4+, 11 x 26 cm, 52p., 15 €
(leporello)
Grand Couturier Raphaël
Raphael the fashion designer
Germano Zullo
Albertine
5+, 23 × 32 cm, 44p., 15.90 €
Dimanche
Irène Bonacina
4+, 22 x 17 cm, 56p., 16 €
Tandem
Séverine Vidal
Irène Bonacina
4+, 22 x 17 cm, 36p., 12 €
Sold to simplified Chinese
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ALBUMS
ABC XYZ
Adrienne Barman
3+, 26 x 34 cm, 60p., 18 €
À vos fourneaux !
Let’s start cooking !
Adrienne Barman
27 x 12.5 cm, 56p., 14.90 €
Au coin du fourneau
Beside the stove
Adrienne Barman
27 x 12.5 cm, 56p., 14.90 €
+ - (plus moins)
+ - (more less)
Marta Ignerska
25 x 21 cm, 48p., 14.90 €
Matcha
Eva Offredo
5+, 12 x 20 cm, 40p., 12.90 €
(vintage binding)
Et toi, où habites-tu ?
And you, where do you live ?
Gaia Stella
25 x 33 cm, 32p., 14.90 €
Sold to Korea
Le vent / The wind
Edith Cornulier-Lucinière
Sara
7+, 20 x 23 cm, 32p.,
10.05 €
Le rêve / The dream
Edith Cornulier-Lucinière
Sara
7+, 20 x 23 cm, 32p.,
10.05 €
Enchaîné / Chained
Valérie Dayre
Sara
7+, 20 x 23 cm, 32p.,
14.70€
Le fourneau voyageur
The traveler stove
Adrienne Barman
27 x 12.5 cm, 56p., 14.90 €
Les trois petits cochons
The three little pigs
Noëlle Revaz
Haydé
5+, 14 x 17 cm, 68p., 12.90 €
(theater for toddlers)
Que deviennent…
What become of…
Delphine Chedru
Album with flaps, 2+,
18 x 21 cm, 36p., 13.20 €
Sold to Korea, Italy and
England
Drôle d’encyclopédie
Funny Encyclopaedia
Adrienne Barman
all ages, 18.5 x 25.5 cm,
216p., 24.90 €
Sold to Poland, Italy, Germany,
Netherlands, Spain, English
worldwide, China (simple chinese),
Russia, Brasil and Taiwan
Drôle de coloriage
Funny coloring book
Adrienne Barman
all ages, 22 x 30 cm,
40p., 9.90 €
Sold to Spain, English
worldwide, Italy, China
(simple chinese)
Milton joue !
Milton plays !
Haydé
all ages, 26 x 19.5 cm,
35p., 9.90 €
Milton au musée
Milton at the Museum
Gabriel Umstätter
Haydé
7+, 21 x 15 cm, 76p., 16 €
Already in English and
German
Milton et le corbeau
Milton and the Crow
2+, 19 x 14 cm, 40p., 10.80 €
Sold to Japan, Netherlands,
Venezuela, Russia and
simplified Chinese
Milton en pension
Milton at the boarding house
2+, 19 x 14 cm, 40p., 10.80 €
Sold to simplified Chinese
Le Nöel de Milton
Milton’s Christmas
2+, 19 x 14 cm, 40p., 10.80 €
Sold to Japan, USA, Germany,
Spain and simplified Chinese
Les vacances de Milton
Milton’s Holidays
2+, 19 x 14 cm, 40p., 10.80 €
Sold to simplified Chinese
Milton chez le vétérinaire
Milton at the Vet
2+, 19 x 14 cm, 40p., 10.80 €
Sold to Japan, USA, Netherlands,
Venezuela and simplified
Chinese
Moi, Milton
Me, Milton
2+, 19 x 14 cm, 40p., 10.80 €
Sold to Japan, USA,
Netherlands, Spain,
Venezuela, Portugal,
Germany, Russia and
simplified Chinese
Mais où est passé Milton ?
Where is Milton ?
2+, 19 x 14 cm, 40p., 10.80 €
Sold to Portugal, Germany,
Russia and simplified Chinese
Milton quand j’étais petit
Milton when I was a child
2+, 19 x 14 cm, 40p., 10.80 €
Sold to simplified Chinese
5
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ALBUMS
Alice racontée aux petits
enfants / Alice’s adventures in Wonderland
Lewis Carroll - Chiara Carrer
7+, 22 x 27 cm, 48p., 20 €
Sold to Netherlands
Vassilissa
Chiara Carrer
5+, 21 x 21 cm, 52p., 16.25 €
Papattes
Isabelle de Catalogne
Marion Pradier
6+, 20 x 24 cm, 40p., 12 €
Sabotage
Isabelle de Catalogne
Marion Pradier
6+, 20 x 24 cm, 40p., 12 €
Vacharabia
Yves Juillerat
Simon Kroug
6+, 21 x 28 cm, 36p.,
15.70€
La Rumeur / The Rumor
Anne Salem-Marin
Simon Kroug
6+, 21 x 28 cm, 36p.,
5.70 €
Il faut le dire aux abeilles
We have to tell the bees
Sylvie Neeman
Nicolette Humbert
6+, 15 x 23 cm, 28p., 11.20 €
Quand je referai le monde…
The day I solve
the world’s problems
Olivier Bardy
François Aubin
5+, 16 x 22 cm, 40p., 11 €
Le Mystère du Monstre
The Monster Mystery
S. Corinna Bille
Fanny Dreyer
6+, 23 x 28 cm, 64p., 19 €
Les Musicens de Brême
The Musician of Bremen town
Wilhelm and Jacob Grimm
Fanny Dreyer
6+, 23 x 29 cm, 40p., 14 €
La Dame de l’ascenseur
The Lady of the elevator
Olivier Sillig
Fanny Dreyer
6+, 16 x 29 cm, 32p., 13.90 €
Le Rugby c’est facile
Rugby it’s easy !
Olivia Decorte
8+, 20 x 32 cm, 56p.,
16 €
Le Bobobook
Stéphane Malandrin
Françoiz Breut
6+, 21 x 28 cm, 36p., 16 €
D’un monde à l’autre
From a world to another
Daria Michel Scotti
Kalonji
6+, 19.5 x 28.5 cm,
40p., 12.50 €
Des jours pas comme
les autres / Unusual days
Taro Miura
4+, 19 x 26 cm, 32p., 12 €
Sold to England
Le Grand Frère
The Old Brother
Christophe Nicolas
Franziska Neubert
6+, 21 x 28 cm, 36p., 13 €
La Dispute
The Quarrel
Florence Ducatteau
Chantal Peten
2+, 25 x 19 cm, 32p., 12.50 €
Sold to Spain and England
Quelle frousse !
What a fright!
Florence Ducatteau
Chantal Peten
2+, 25 x 19 cm, 32p., 12.50 €
Sold to England
La Rencontre
The Encounter
Florence Ducatteau
Chantal Peten
2+, 25 x 19 cm, 32p., 12.50 €
Sold to Spain and England
Underground
Shimako Okamura
4+, 21 x 21 cm, 48p., 15 €
Kako le terrible
The terrible Kako
Emmanuelle Polack
Barroux
all ages, 28 x 20 cm, 32p.,
14.90 €
Sold to Germany
Ma sœur et moi
My sister and I
Cécile Roumiguière
Bobi+Bobi
7+, 33 x 23 cm, 36p., 14.50 €
Où est mon chapeau ?
Where is my hat?
Masanobu Sato
4+, 21 x 30 cm, 36p., 15 €
Sold to Korea
and Spain (worldwide)
Affaires de loup
A wolf’s business
Pascale Trimouille
4+, 18.5 x 14 cm, 48p.,
10.15 €
Sold to United Arab Emirates
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Les Jeux Olympiques des
insectes / The Insects’
Olympic Games
Eugène - Tom Tirabosco
5+, 27 x 21 cm, 32p., 14.20 €
Sold to Korea and Iran
Arnold
Tom Tirabosco
5+, 22 x 20 cm, 36p.,
15.10 €
Le cafard
The Cockroach
Kornei Tchoukovski
Yassen Grigorov
5+, 20 x 15 cm, 32p., 13 €
Raoul
Sylvie Wibaut
5+, 21 x 27 cm, 40p., 14.70 €
101 bonnes raisons
de se réjouir de lire
101 good reasons
to enjoy reading
6+, 13 x 18 cm, 64p., 10 €
Sold to Italy and Russia
101 bonnes raisons de se
réjouir d’être une fille
101 good reasons
to enjoy being a girl
B. Masini - G. Long
6+, 13 x 18 cm, 64p., 10 €
Sold to Spain and Catalonia
101 bonnes raisons de se
réjouir d’être un garçon
101 good reasons
to enjoy being a boy
B. Masini - G. Long
6+, 13 x 18 cm, 64p., 10 €
Berlin
Orith Kolodny
Francesca Bazzurro
6+, 24 x 24 cm, 40p., 14 €
Sold to Germany
Chiens de rue
Street dogs
Antonio Ventura
Pablo Amargo
5+, 20 x 15 cm, 32p., 13 €
Sold to Brazil
Le Rêve de Pablo
Pablo’s dream
Antonio Ventura
Pablo Auladell
6+, 25 x 27 cm, 32p., 14.90 €
Sold to United Arab Emirates
Boris
Giovanna Zoboli
Francesca Bazzurro
5+, 28 x 28 cm, 32p., 16 €
Mondocane
Giovanna Zoboli
Francesca Bazzurro
6+, 20 × 27 cm, 32p., 13 €
Sold to Italy
La Chaux-de-Fonds
Orith Kolodny
Francesca Bazzurro
6+, 24 x 24 cm, 40p., 14 €
Genève
Orith Kolodny
Francesca Bazzurro
6+, 24 x 24 cm, 40p., 14 €
Paris
Orith Kolodny
Francesca Bazzurro
6+, 24 x 24 cm, 40p., 14 €
Tel Aviv
Orith Kolodny
Francesca Bazzurro
6+, 24 x 24 cm, 40p., 14 €
Le gentil petit livre rouge
The kind little red book
Tang Zhifang
5+, 13 x 18 cm, 64p., 10€
Le Blues de Jean Lhomme
The blues of John Theman
Enzo Corman
Natasha Krenbol
Jean-Marc Padovani
14 x 17 cm, 68p., musical
cd, 12.90€
L’arbre
The Tree
Hervé Tullet
5+, 11 x 6 cm, 96p., 4.50 €
Sold to Spain
Le champ
The Meadow
Hervé Tullet
5+, 11 x 6 cm, 96p., 4.50 €
Sold to Spain
Amadou - L’Opinel
Amadou - The Opinel Knife
Alexis Peiry - Suzi Pilet
6+, 17 x 21 cm, 76p., 12 €
Amadou - Le Radeau
Amadou - The Raft
Alexis Peiry - Suzi Pilet
6+, 17 x 21 cm, 76p., 12 €
Amadou - La Bâche
Amadou - The Tarpaulin
Alexis Peiry - Suzi Pilet
6+, 17 x 21 cm, 76p., 12 €
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Collections Le Lutin | Les Imagiers
Nicolette Humbert
ALBUMS
Le Lutin de l’univers
The Universal Pixie
Chiara Carrer
3+, 24 x 20 cm, 50p., 16 €
Le Lutin des arts
The Art Pixie
Chiara Carrer
3+, 24 x 20 cm, 50p., 16 €
Le Lutin des chiffres
The Number Pixie
Chiara Carrer
3+, 24 x 20 cm, 50p., 16 €
Sold to Korea and Italy
Le Lutin des couleurs
The Color Pixie
Chiara Carrer
3+, 24 x 20 cm, 50p., 16 €
Sold to Italy
Goélands et salicorne
Gulls and saltwort
Nicolette Humbert
18 months+, 20 x 15 cm,
20p., boardbook, 10 €
Que s’est-il passé ?
What has happened ?
Nicolette Humbert
18 months+, 20 x 15 cm,
20p., boardbook, 10 €
Potirons et cornichons
Pumpinks and gherkins
Nicolette Humbert
18 months+, 20 x 15 cm,
20p., boardbook, 10 €
Veau, vache, cochon…
Calf, cow, pig…
Nicolette Humbert
18 months+, 20 x 15 cm,
20p., boardbook, 10 €
Le Lutin des lettres
The Letter Pixie
Chiara Carrer
3+, 24 x 20 cm, 50p., 16 €
Sold to Korea and Italy
L’Imagier d’Albertine
Albertine’s picture book
Albertine
2+, 13 x 10 cm, 96p., 11 €
L’Imagier de Barroux
Barroux’s picture book
Barroux
2+, 13 x 10 cm, 96p., 11 €
L’Imagier de Chiara Carrer
Chiara’s picture book
Chiara Carrer
2+, 13 x 10 cm, 96p., 11 €
À nous de choisir !
It’s us who choose…
Nicolette Humbert
18 months+, 25 x 20 cm,
32p., 13 €
À la ferme
At the Farmhouse
Nicolette Humbert
18 months+, 25 x 20 cm,
32p., 13 €
À la ferme de tout près
The farm in details
Nicolette Humbert
18 months+, 25 x 20 cm,
32p., 13 €
Au jardin fruitier
The Orchard
Nicolette Humbert
18 months+, 25 x 20 cm,
32p., 13 €
L’Imagier de Guillaume
Guillaume’s picture book
Guillaume Long
2+, 13 x 10 cm, 96p., 11 €
L’Imagier de Haydé
Haydé’s picture book
Haydé
2+, 13 x 10 cm, 96p., 11 €
L’Imagier de Patrick
Patrick’s picture book
Patrick Pasques
2+, 13 x 10 cm, 96p., 11 €
L’Imagier de Tom
Tom’s picture book
Tom Tirabosco
2+, 13 x 10 cm, 96p., 11 €
Au Jardin Fruitier
de tout près
The Orchard in details
Nicolette Humbert
18 months+, 25 x 20 cm,
32p., 13 €
Les Gestes de la ferme
Farm Activities
Nicolette Humbert
18 months+, 25 x 20 cm,
32p., 13 €
Les Gestes de la ferme
de tout près / Farm
Activities From Up Close
Nicolette Humbert
18 months+, 25 x 20 cm,
32p., 13 €
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Collection Les Versatiles
Collection Les Versatiles
Les Rêves d’Angèle Molinot
Angèle Molinot’s Dreams
Marie Bouchane
Simon Kroug
7+, 17 x 15 cm, 28p., 8.50€
Sold to Korea and Japan
Les Nuages
The Clouds
Francine Bouchet
Yassen Grigorov
5+, 20 x 20 cm, 48p., 8.90€
Si papa si maman…
If Dad if Mom…
Francine Bouchet
Bruno Heitz
5+, 20 x 20 cm, 48p., 8.90€
Le Cri des animaux
Animal Cries
Anne-Lise Boutin
4+, 17 x 15 cm, 32p., 8.50€
Les Boîtes à mots
The Word Boxes
Eduardo Galeano
Constanza Bravo
4+, 20 x 20 cm, 32p., 14.90€
Les Anges gardiens
Guardian Angels
Yassen Grigorov
6+, 17 x 15 cm, 32p., 8.50€
Sold to Mexico and Bulgaria
Et alors ?
So what ?
Oleg Grigoriev
Vitali Konstantinov
5+, 20 x 20 cm, 40p., 8.90€
Quelle est ma couleur ?
What is my Color ?
Antoine Guilloppé
Géraldine Alibeu
5+, 20 x 20 cm, 40p., 8.90€
Sold to Spain and Galicia
Pourquoi les chiens
font comme ça ?
Why do Dogs do that ?
Vitali Konstantinov
4+, 17 x 15 cm, 32p., 8.50€
Etre et paraître
Being and seeming
Jorge Lujàn
Isol
3+, 20 x 20 cm, 28p., 14.90€
Je suis… / I am…
Taro Miura
4+, 17 x 15 cm, 32p.,
8.50€
Sold to Japan
Astrophysique
Astrophysics
Sara
6+, 20 x 20 cm, 28p., 8.90€
Très chic
So Chic
Lucia Sforza
3+, 20 x 20 cm, 84p., 10.90€
Ailleurs, au même instant
Somewhere, at the same
time
Tom Tirabosco
4+, 20 x 20 cm, 40p., 8.90€
Sold to USA and Korea
J’ai bien le droit
I do have the right
Tom Tirabosco
5+, 20 x 20 cm, 48p., 8.90€
ALBUMS
J’ai des droits mes j’ai aussi
des devoirs
I do have rights but I do
have duties too
Tom Tirabosco
5+, 20 x 20 cm, 48p., 8.90€
13
NOVELS
14
Collection Encrage Collection Rétroviseur
Coup de Meltem
Meltem shot
Sigrid Baffert
15+, 14 x 21 cm, 112p., 13 €
Sold to Italy, Germany, Spain,
Korea and Macedonia
Tant pis pour elle
Too bad for her
Valérie Dayre - Pierre Leterrier
15+, 14 x 21 cm, 112p., 13.20 €
Sold to Italy and Korea
Autopsie d’un papillon
Autopsy of a butterfly
Jean-Noël Sciarini
15+, 14 x 21 cm, 112p., 13 €
Sold to Italy, Germany, Spain,
Korea and Macedonia
Tarja
Jean-Noël Sciarini
15+, 14 x 21 cm, 112p., 13.20 €
Sold to Italy and Korea
Temps interdits
Forbidden times
Thérèse Aouad Basbous
Autobiographical story,
15+, 14 x 21 cm, 96p., 12 €
Quand ma mère
When my mother
Francine Bouchet
Poeme,
15+, 14 x 21 cm, 48p., 7.50 €
Mi-figue Mi raisin
Somewhat mixed
Christophe Léon
Autobiographical story,
224p., 17 €
Le Temps des mots à voix
basse / The Time for soft
spoken words
Anne-Lise Grobéty
15+, 14 x 21 cm, 112p., 13 €
Sold to Italy, Germany, Spain,
Korea and Macedonia
Le plus grand footballeur
de tous les temps / The
greatest footballer of all time
Germano Zullo
15+, 14 x 21 cm, 112p., 13.20 €
Sold to Italy and Korea
Lily
Cécile Roumiguière
15+, 14 x 21 cm, 208p.,
14.50 €
Embardée
Swerve
Christophe Léon
15+, 14 x 21 cm, 96p., 13 €
Sold to Germany
Du côté de grand-mère
On my grandmother’s side
Jürg Schubiger
Autobiographical story,
15+, 14 x 21 cm, 144p., 14 €
Un amour à trois temps
A love in three-four time
Antonio Ventura
Fiction,
15+, 14 x 21 cm, 240p., 17.50 €
Quelques années de moins
que la Lune / Few years
younger than the moon
Germano Zullo
Autobiographical story,
15+, 14 x 21 cm, 208p., 10 €
Dernier Métro
The Last Subway
Christophe Léon
15+, 14 x 21 cm, 136p.,
13.50 €
Délit de fuite
Hit and Run
Christophe Léon
15+, 14 x 21 cm, 176p., 14.20 €
Sold to Spain, Czech Republic,
Italy and China (simple chinese)
La Vie est belle
Life is beautiful
Christophe Léon
15+, 14 x 21 cm, 160p.,
14 €
X-Ray la crise
X-Ray crisis
Christophe Léon
15+, 14 x 21 cm, 176p.,
14.50 €
La Vallée de la Jeunesse
The Valley of youth
Eugène
15+, 14 x 21 cm, 176p., 14 €
Sold to Germany, Russia
and Sweden
NOVELS
Comme un autre
Like another one
Guy Poitry
Autobiographical story,
15+, 14 x 21 cm, 240p., 12 €
15
NOVELS
16
Collection Récits
Collection Hibouk
Tu seras une formule 1,
mon fils / You’ll be a Formule
1 car, my son
Dorine Bertrand
12+, 11 x 18 cm, 132p., 9.05 €
Ici ou ailleurs
Here or Elsewhere
Janine Bruneau
12+, 11 x 18 cm, 170p., 8.50 €
Les Deux font la paire
Two make a pair
Léopold Chauveau
7+, 11 x 18 cm, 248p., 10.85 €
All rights available except Japan
Langues étrangères
Foreign languages
François Chignac
12+, 11 x 18 cm, 96p.,
10.80 €
La Force du Berger
The Shepherd’s strength
Virus
Valérie Dayre
6+, 80p., 6.90 €
Sold to Italy
Les Mises en boîte
The boxes-filling
Eugène
10+, 11 x 18 cm, 112p., 13.20 €
Sold to Spain and
United Arab Emirates
Le Muche
Phlippe Meslé
14+, 11 x 18 cm, 172p., 8.50 €
Dans l’enfer de Dante
In Dante’s Inferno
Christophe Léon
14+, 192p., 9 €
Mado m’a dit
Mado told me
Christophe Léon
10+, 84p., 6.90 €
Jules en Amérique
Jules in America
Daniel de Roulet
8+, 11 x 18 cm, 102p., 9.20 €
Qui a volé la marionnette ?
Who has stolen the puppet ?
M.-C. Ruata-Arn
9+, 11 x 18 cm, 192p., 9.15 €
Nina au paradis
Nina in Paradise
M.-C. Ruata-Arn
10+, 11 x 18 cm, 216p., 9.15 €
Un Secret de famille
A Family Secret
M.-C. Ruata-Arn
10+, 11 x 18 cm, 192p., 9.15 €
Sold to Germany
followed by Le Temps des Villages
Azouz Begag
8+, 13 x 18,5 cm, 84p., 5.90 €
Sold to Spain and Germany
Ce cahier est pour toi
This copybook it’s for you
Valérie Dayre
10+, 108p., 8.90 €
Dr Parking
Franz Hohler
10+, 13 x 18,5 cm, 72p., 5.90 €
Sold to Iran
NOVELS
Dom, Do, Dom !
Ervin Làzàr
8+, 13 x 18,5 cm, 256p., 10.90 €
Matilda à l’heure d’été
Matilda at summer time
Marie-Christophe Ruata-Arn
11+, 13 x 18,5 cm, 240p., 10.90 €
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Comics
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COMICS
Chocottes au sous-sol !
Heebie-jeebies in the basement !
Blanquet
6+, 21 x 28 cm, 40p., 9.80 €
Sold to USA
La Colline
The Hill
Sophie Clermont
Simon Kroug
6+, 21 x 28 cm, 40p., 9.80 €
La chèvre de M. Seguin
The Tale of Mr. Seguin’s Goat
Alphonse Daudet
Adrienne Barman
6+, 21 x 28 cm, 40p., 9.80 €
Le Pêcheur et les revenants
The fisherman and the ghosts
Max Estes
6+, 21 x 28 cm, 40p., 9.90 €
L’enfant sans visage
The Faceless Boy
Mickaël Roux
6+, 21 x 28 cm, 40p., 9.80 €
Lala
Malika Fouchier
6+, 21 x 28 cm, 40p., 9.80 €
Sold to Germany
La Fugue de Milton
Milton’s Runaway
Haydé
6+, 21 x 28 cm, 40p., 9.80 €
Le grand méchant huit
The great bad roller
Guillaume Long
6+, 21 x 28 cm, 40p., 9.80 €
Plâtatras !
Crash!
Guillaume Long
6+, 21 x 28 cm, 40p., 9.80 €
Vacances sur Vénus
Holidays on Venus
Germano Zullo
Albertine
6+, 21 x 28 cm, 40p., 9.80 €
Hérold & Pissenlit
Herold & Dandelion
Matthieu Maudet
6+, 21 x 28 cm, 40p., 9.80 €
Bonnes vacances Salbette
Good Holidays Salbette
Noyau
6+, 21 x 28 cm, 40p., 9.80 €
Fourmi ?
Ant?
Isabelle Pralong
6+, 21 x 28 cm, 40p., 9.80 €
Le Tigre bleu
The Blue Tiger
Nicolas Robel
6+, 21 x 28 cm, 40p., 9.80 €
Le Dessert
The Dessert
Tom Tirabosco
6+, 21 x 28 cm, 40p., 9.80 €
Le Pingouin volant
The Flying Pinguin
Wazem
6+, 21 x 28 cm, 40p., 9.80 €
La Balade de l’enfant-chat
The Journey of the Cat Child
Willy Ze Cat
6+, 21 x 28 cm, 40p., 9.80 €
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Founded in 1987 by Francine Bouchet, La Joie de Lire is a Swiss publishing
firm that publishes books for youth. It prints about thirty books per year, has a
catalogue of more than 500 titles and is keen to defend contemporary creation
through its collections of illustrated books and novels.
The house publishing La Joie de Lire nurtures its diversity in the French-speaking
and international publishing scene.
Since 29 years already, authors, illustrators and translators trust us with their
talent. What a pleasure to share their esthetic taste as well as their passion for
literature. All of us, in our different fields, grow together.
This is what we wish for you to discover in this catalogue.
Francine Bouchet
Publisher
5 chemin Neuf - 1207 Geneva - Switzerland
Foreign Rights: [email protected]
www.lajoiedelire.ch
Illustration by Albertine, from La mer est ronde