New Titles - Seuil Jeunesse - Frankfurt 2018

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BACKLIST HIGHLIGHTS EMMETT AND CAMBOUY

ZOO-OLOGY

RIGHTS SOLD: ENGLISH (UK), BASQUE, SIMPLIFIED CHINESE

RIGHTS SOLD: GERMAN, ENGLISH (UK & US), SPANISH, CATALAN, KOREAN, GEORGIAN, GREEK, DUTCH, ITALIAN, FINNISH, POLISH, RUSSIAN, SIMPLIFIED CHINESE

“Each page is a picture that swarms with details, in the objects, clothes, setting and attitudes. All of it being delicate and right.“ — Graou Magazine

THE NIGHTMARE’S UNDERPANTS RIGHTS SOLD: SIMPLIFIED CHINESE, RUSSIAN

“A mischievous story to master the night fears.” — Le Télégramme

FRIDA AND DIEGO IN THE SKELETONS’ COUNTRY RIGHTS SOLD: ITALIAN, SPANISH (WORLD), KOREAN, TURKISH

Selected in Martin Salisbury’s 100 Great Children’s Picture Books, Laurence King, 2015

A classic and an absorbing read! More than 92 000 copies sold in 13 languages!

ZOO-OPTIC

A fascinating work that will broaden your perspective of the world! RIGHTS SOLD: ITALIAN, GERMAN, DANISH, SPANISH, DUTCH, JAPANESE, RUSSIAN, SIMPLIFIED & COMPLEX CHINESE, TURKISH, KOREAN, ENGLISH (WORLD)

“It’s entertaining and very clever” — L’Humanité

OVER AND UNDER ANIMALS RIGHTS SOLD: GERMAN, RUSSIAN, SIMPLIFIED CHINESE

“Flaps to lift and clear explanations reveal the secrets of the animals' functioning with dazzling illustrations.” — ADEM NEXT COEDITION: DELIVERY FOB HONG-KONG – APRIL 2019 (translated pdfs january 2019)


EARLY YEARS

4 – 13

PICTURE BOOKS

11 – 31

REFERENCE

32 – 39

NOVELTY & ACTIVITY

40 – 45

FICTION

46 – 47



EARLY YEARS/ AGES: 3+

PINPIN’S FIRST DAY AT SCHOOL HE ZHIHONG AUGUST 2018 210 X 260 MM – 32 PAGES – HARDBACK ROUND CORNERS – CUT EDGES – €13.90

It’s the first day of school for Pinpin. This day will be filled with emotions and learning for this little penguin worried to leave his mummy… How difficult it is to release mummy’s hand to go to daycare or school for the first time…

SELLING POINTS: • A tender picture book to be read with the family.

In this book, He Zhihong’s tenderness and gentleness guide the reader over the pages. In this way, worry and apprehension give way to the pleasure of discovery and the joy of making new friends. An essential book to approach the topic of separation with little ones.

• The topic of separation approached with sensitivity. • Watercolour illustrations full of emotions.

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EARLY YEARS/ AGES: 3+

NO GIFTS FOR THE ANIMALS PAUL MARTIN, ILL. BY ANTONIN LOUCHARD OCTOBER 2018 210 X 270 MM – 40 PAGES – HARDBACK – €13.90

The animals of the forest can’t believe it: this year Santa Claus didn’t forget them! But how can one gift be shared between all the animals of the forest? It’s going to be a long night… The animals didn’t dare to hope for it, this year Santa Claus didn’t forget them: a gift is there, in the middle of the forest, waiting to be open by their eager little paws.

SELLING POINTS: • A Christmas book by Antonin Louchard! • A nice Christmas gift for young and old.

The bear dreams of a honey jar, the fox of a pâté terrine, the long neck heron of a warm scarf, the snake fears might be a bike… But there is only one gift. To cut the rising quarrel off, the owl decides that the gift will be open when midnight chimed and that animals will have it in turns. But when midnight chimed, the owl opened an empty box… The disappointment is huge, but while being all gathered, why not celebrate together? The animals spent a splendid night laughing and enjoying themselves. As for the fox, what will he do with his brand new raclette grill?

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EARLY YEARS/ AGES: 3+

LISON AND CLEANLINESS ANDRÉ BOUCHARD AUGUST 2018 260 X 200 MM – 64 PAGES – HARDBACK – €12,50

Lison gives us her definition of cleanliness and it’s not certain that it will be to parent’s liking! The least we can say is that Lison has a very personal vision of cleanliness, sometimes inspired by animals. So we won’t be surprised if Lison, like elephants, rolls on the dirt to wash herself!

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Through these fourteen comic strips as funny as relevant, André Bouchard chronicles the everyday life of our dear Lison, always whimsical and impertinent.

• The fourth book of André Bouchard’s first series for early years! • An orignial style, halfway between a picture book and a comics. • By the same author, Les lions ne mangent pas de croquettes (2012) was translated into 5 languages.

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PICTURE BOOKS/ AGES: 3+

DENIS FIFTY-FIFTY OLIVIER COSTES, ILL. BY LAURENT SIMON AUGUST 2018 200 X 200 MM – 32 PAGES – HARDBACK – €13.90

An irresistible picture book playing with the children’s habit to do things by half. Denis Fifty-fifty is six and a half years old and he does everything in half. In the morning, he eats half bread for breakfast, and then he brushes his bottom teeth. Playing football, he is midfielder. For every game he gives 50% of himself. So that means he scores half goals. But what he prefers above all is half-time. At school, Denis always gets average grades. His dad and stepmom are moderately happy…

SELLING POINTS: • A stylish and full of humor picture book. • Endearing characters coming to life thanks to the vivacious pencil stroke of Laurent Simon. • The topic of reconstituted family is dealt with offbeat humour.

Anyway, it’s quite simple, what he wants is to spend half his life playing and the other half having fun. Denis also has a dog called Bowie, he has a blue eye and a brown eye. And when he is scolded, he only listens to with one ear. Together, they share everything, to the extent that Denis absolutely wants to share his birthday candles with him, sure but, even when one does everything in half, one can succeed its mischief in full…

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PICTURE BOOKS/ AGES: 3+

WOOD’S CORNER STREET BRUNO HEITZ OCTOBER 2018 215 X 297 MM – 48 PAGES – HARDBACK – €14.50

“ She lived on Wood’s Corner Street. He lived in the neighbourhood of Aloof. They didn’t go the the same school and should never have met. “ And yet… One morning, late for school, a boy and a girl rushing bump into each other on the street’s corner. Bang! The story could have stopped there. But the schoolbags were identical and each one leaves with the bag of the other. The amazement is huge when the mistake is discovered. A meeting at the park is planned to swap the bags. But at this young age, the relationships between boys and girls or not of the easiest. The older brother gets involved. Then passers-by. Then Grand-parents. Everything rapidly degenerates. The disorder peaks when an aggressive tow truck takes Grandpa and Grandma, locked in an old phone box, to the cemetery of useless objects… How will it all end?

SELLING POINTS:

A zany and wildly cadenced tale. (With a happy end, of course!)

• The come-back of Bruno Heitz, a leading author of Seuil Jeunesse. • A vintage, zany and off-the-wall tale.

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PICTURE BOOKS/ AGES: 3+

WHEN CHICKS HAVE TEETH ANDRÉ BOUCHARD OCTOBER 2018 240 X 310 MM – 48 PAGES – HARDBACK – €13.50

Colette is a city hen, and like every city hens, she lives in a building… This story begins like many others but a little boy and his father are going to tell it upside down !

SELLING POINTS: • An original picture book where the reader interferes in the story! • The humour and spirit of André Bouchard in this new picture book of the end of the year. • A book that will make children want to play with stories. • Les lions ne mangent pas de croquettes was translated into 5 languages.

Colette has a well-ordered life: she wakes up every morning with the rooster call, takes her breakfast and the right amount of gravel. She hurries to the bathroom to clean herself and brush her teeth… But what’s happening?? A father and his young boy are intruding into Colette’s story! Antoine disagrees: we never saw hens with teeth! That suits the father well: if she doesn’t have to brush her teeth, Colette will be at the egg-laying factury faster. And the story resumes… Colette goes to work then comes back home in the evening, exhausted. She sits on the sofa, puts on music and takes a book. Once again, Antoine disagrees: since when hen can read? The father gives in: Colette watches the TV instead… The story resumes: Colette goes back to the factory but she can’t lay any egg. Fired, she meets an albatross with a broken wing, heading to seashore on foot. Once arrived at the ocean, Colette is dying to plunge in the waves. But Antoine stops her momentum saying she can’t swim: she doesn’t have a bathing suit… This is too much for our little hen who shows up in Antoine’s bedroom. There is no way they are going to stop her from swimming: she opens every drawers of the dresser and finds a bathing suit. Clearly the roles have switched!

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PICTURE BOOKS/ AGES: 6+

XOX & OXO GILLES BACHELET NOVEMBER 2018 240 X 330 MM – 36 PAGES – HARDBACK – €15

After relating the story of a cat which is not really one; the going off to war – which won’t happen – of a snail; or the love story of George and Josette, two rubber gloves, Gilles Bachelet offers us a journey far away from our planet at XOX and OXO’s two handy aliens.

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XOX and OXO live billion of light years away from us, on a planet far away from the solar system. There is not much to do on planet Ö, except watching reruns of the same show over and over on TV, except when they can catch a glimpse of human TV. To eat they have five glimouilles a day, because it’s the only thing growing on the planet. However, these glimouilles have limitless properties, and when XOX and OXO begin mixing them with the drawings OXO makes out of what he sees from human TV, the real fun can begin…

SELLING POINTS: • Gilles Bachelet, a renowned and awarded author translated into 19 languages. • A hilarious picture book to celebrate creativity and imagination!

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PICTURE BOOKS/ AGES: 3+

STORY OF AN APPLE TREE WHO DREAMED OF BEING A FIR JOANIE DESGAGNÉ, ILL. BY JULIETTE BARBANÈGRE OCTOBER 2018 260 X 200 MM – 40 PAGES – HARDBACK – €13.50

How to grow up in the middle of firs when you are an apple tree? A beautiful picture book to talk about the difficulty to be yourself.

SELLING POINTS: • A simple and profound text about the difficulty of being yourself. • A strong and poetical illustration. • A picture book tackling Christmas tales from a new perspective.

In the forest, a little apple tree has grown by accident, in the middle of a fir field. He grows up there, sad and lonely among huge trees of which he envies the existence. He also would like to fly every year to a warm and welcoming house, to decorate himself with jewels and to watch over treasures. But destiny has planned a softer life for him than the one of his neighbours…

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PICTURE BOOKS/ AGES: 3+

COYOTE AND THE TEARS SONG MURIEL BLOCH AND MARIE NOVION AUGUST 2018 240 X 175 MM – 40 PAGES – HARDBACK – €12.50

A wildlife tale filled with humour to enjoy with family!

SELLING POINTS: • A story from the famous soryteller Muriel Bloch, whose art of storytelling is uncontested. • The touch of freshness and fun in the illustrations of a young and talented illustrator.

A dove hurts her leg while gathering seeds. While she cries out in pain, Coyote passes by and, charmed by what he believes to be a song, wants to learn it before continuing on his route. Well might the dove explains to him that she isn’t singing but crying, obstinate, Coyote doesn’t hear it and gets threatening. Forced to give in his request, she repeats her complaint for him to learn it. Three times Coyote leaves with the song, three times he loses it on the way and turns back. But the dove, bored, finds a way to get rid of him. It could well be that the third time, the stupid Coyote will hit a brick wall with the song. The smartest isn’t always the one people believe!

• A tale reminding that the smartest and strongest isn’t always the one people believe!

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PICTURE BOOKS/ AGES: 3+

WE HAVE AN APPOINTMENT… MARIE DORLÉANS SEPTEMBER 2018 234 X 347 MM – 40 PAGES – HARDBACK – €14.50

A picture book, looking like a rite of passage, which depicts with sensitivity and poetry a walk through the night. One night, two children are awakened by their parents: “We have an appointment” their mum whispers. But where are they going that way, through the night? After leaving the house, the family crosses over landscapes bathed in the night, reinvented by the light of the windows, of the passing train, of the shining moon, of the torch, of the Milky Way.

SELLING POINTS: • A large format picture book.

The striking pictures bring the reader on a journey at the heart of the night until the Sunrise.

• Pen and ink striking illustrations. • The third picture book by Marie Dorléans at Seuil Jeunesse after C’est chic! and Odile? Rights sold in German, Simplified Chinese, Korean, Russian, Dutch and Spanish.

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PICTURE BOOKS/ AGES: 6+

RUN AWAY TIGER! GAUTHIER DAVID, ILL. BY GAËTAN DORÉMUS OCTOBER 2018 320 X 228 MM – 40 PAGES – HARDBACK – €14.50

A spectacular fable dealing with exile, uprooting and hope for a better life. A tiger runs away, crawls, jumps to escape from the fire. It has to leave its native land and goes to foreign land, discovering the domestic world. The tiger hides, avoids rats and finally finds shelter in the bedroom of a little boy. Against all odds, they will become friends.

SELLING POINTS: • A beautiful picture book about exile and uprooting. • Gaëtan Dorémus: a noticed illustrator, appreciated by teachers, librarians and booksellers.

When the boy’s father discovers it, fear will take over and he will scare away the wild beast. In front of the boy’s insistence, the parents decide to hide the tiger in their house, taking risks to shelter it. A new life begins, made of discoveries and learning.

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PICTURE BOOKS/ AGES: 6+

PRINCESS MABELLE MARC DANIAU SEPTEMBER 2018 215 X 320 MM – 64 PAGES – HARDBACK – €15.50

A deeply touching picture book on destiny… Mabelle is a princess like any others, despite being born blind. Her parents won’t rest until they protect her from the world, even if it means having her living in a golden prison… The day after Mabelle’s birth, when her blindness is discovered, the king renames his kingdom “the kingdom of thousand and one blisses”. Joy and celebration become the watchwords at the palace.

SELLING POINTS: • A large picture-book written and illustrated by Marc Daniau. • Wonderful crayon illustrations printed in multichromy.

For her sixth birthday, Mabelle goes to the great Autumn hunt. Despite all the measures taken, the little girl falls over her horse and finds herself alone in the middle of a clearing. At dawn she is woken up by the song of a bird, and by the light that she sees for the first time! It’s the birdsong of the nuthatch that restores her sight; when it stops, darkness comes back. The bird is caught and brought to the Kingdom, but locked inside a cage, it sings no more. Mabelle frees the bird. At daybreak, it is back on the princess’ windowsill and it sings for her. The landscape is displayed before her eyes. Mabelle decides to leave the palace and to follow the bird.

• A picture-book reminiscent of philosophical tale on destiny.

Then she chooses to live outside the kingdom, far from the splendor. Her parents pay her a visit and learn from her new sight. “the kingdom of thousands and one bliss” becomes “the good country”, where everyone have their share of work and rest, of sorrow and of joy.

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It’s an elegant, lively and beautiful Earth who wins the crown with flying colours.

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PICTURE BOOKS/ AGES: 3+

THE HIDDEN PRINCESS OF THE WOODS THIERRY DEDIEU OCTOBER 2018 245 X 345 MM – 40 PAGES – HARDBACK – €18

Alaric and Hilde are twins. Prince and princess, they should have lived happily ever after in their kingdom but their fate will be utterly different. A sober and sumptuous picture book depicting the greatness of sacrifice.

SELLING POINTS: • Looking for Santa Claus, A Christmas for the Wolf and Snowmen live forever have been translated into six languages. • A beautiful picture book in black red and gold for the end of the year by a renowned author, Thierry Dedieu.

From the day of their birth, the future of the twins Alaric and Hilde is likely to be brilliant. However, around the age of three, Alaric becomes seriously ill. After consulting every healers, the queen decides to pay a visit to a witch, as her last resort. She was already waiting… The sentence is hard for the queen: the boy will survive if she leaves Hilde to the witch. Facing this terrible dilemma, the queen gives in. Years go by. Hilde becomes a beautiful young lady: she rules over the woods as if it were her kingdom. She received the gift to turn into every animal of her choosing, whenever she wants to. To keep her close, the witch has warned her that if she came back to her family, her brother will die. Alaric, ignorant of this curse, has become a brave hunter, the best of the whole kingdom. One day, the young man glimpses his twin sister bathing in the river. He falls madly in love. Hilde recognises him immediately: to escape him she turns into a deer. During a hunt, the young man hits the deer with one of his arrow. But the deer is his sister and he brings her back to the castle. The queen immediately recognizes her daughter and has her treated. When Hilde gets better, Alaric falls severly sick once again. Then, the princess goes back to the woods to let her brother live…

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PICTURE BOOKS/ AGES: 6+

TINTE-CABOCHE M. LEROUGE OCTOBER 2018 225 X 290 MM – 40 PAGES – HARDBACK – €14.50

The story of World War I by the way of an object. A heart-rending and universal picture book. Once upon a time a helmet went off to war. There, it met a soldier, of whom it became the headgear and saved the life several times. It was called Tinte-Caboche (Tinkle-Noggin), because the sound of bullets on its iron armour was similar to the one of bells ringing. But when the soldier died, pulverized by a shell, Tinte-Caboche had no more head to protect. Then, with a handle and several strings, it was made into a musical instrument…

SELLING POINTS:

Heart-rending text and impressionnist drawings, Tinte-Caboche talks to children about one of the major conflict of History. A powerful picture book to relate the war.

• The story of an object: an original point of view to talk about war to children. • A young author illustrator with a powerful drawing. • A publication for the commemorations of the centenary of the Great War.

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REFERENCE/ AGES: 6+

CAMOUFLAGES FRÉDÉRIC CLÉMENT OCTOBER 2018 285 X 255 MM – 40 PAGES – HARDBACK – €15.50

A lyrical reference book that narrates with words and pictures the wonderful power of eleven plants and animals which have become masters in the art of camouflage! In order to hide and protect themselves from their predators, nature gifted animals and plants with the wonderful power to blend into the landscape.

SELLING POINTS: • Eleven camouflages explained to children with text and pictures.

This is why, walking in the woods, the stick insect is hard to distinguish from a common leaf and the butterfly Gastropacha quercifolia looks like two water drops on an oak leaf. At the bottom of the seas, the lemon sole is the exact same color than seabed sand. As for the snowshoe hare, its fur whitens in the winter to be invisible in the snow. In the plant world, Frédéric Clément takes interest in the corydalis hémidicentra, a China mountain plant capable of adapting its colour to the rocks surrounding it to escape from caterpillars!

• A book between reference and artist’s book. • Parades and Métamorphoses translated into 4 languages.

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REFERENCE/ AGES: 8+

THE WORLD IN 100 WORKS OF ART BÉATRICE FONTANEL AND DANIEL WOLFROMM NOVEMBER 2018 240 X 310 MM – 96 PAGES – HARDBACK – €22.90

Take a journey back in time with this fascinating art and history book! Through 100 works of art from all eras and from all places, this reference book offers children and their families a history of the world from Antiquity to nowadays.

© Hyderabad, Jagdish and Kamala Mittal Museum © akg-images / Jean-Louis Nou

Conceived as a journey around the world, the reader goes chronologically from civilizations to civilizations and discover their flagship works of art.

SELLING POINTS: • A well-known author in the field of art history for children (Ma première histoire de l’art, Palette was translated into 5 languages).

Rock paintings from the Chauvet caves, the Mayan empire, the Vikings and the art of the Mughal princes, the Edo era in Japan and Inuit art: a profusion of historical periods and masterpieces that tell History. A wonderful journey across countries, eras and cultures!

• An approach to the history of the world not only confined to the West hemisphere, both original and up-to-date. • A rich iconography beautifully highlighted with a refined layout.

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REFERENCE/ AGES: 6+

IN EVERY SENSE PHILIPPE NESSMANN, ILL. BY RÉGIS LEJONC JANUARY 2019 245 X 330 MM – 48 PAGES – HARDBACK – €18.50

In this reference book profuse in information, the five senses are turned upside down! What does it mean to be a “nose“? Who was Helen Keller? What inside the ear enables us to hear? In this reference book richly illustrated by Régis Lejonc, every secret of the five senses are revealed to little curious ones. Within the pages, interviews, expressions explained by images, scientific explanations or anecdotes give a better understanding of the sense of touch, of smell, of hearing, of sight and of taste. Readers will pick information up in this book according to their questions or they will devour it from beginning to end!

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SELLING POINTS: • Award Winning Régis Lejonc, renowned illustrator for children publishing. • A reference book gathering every graphic styles of Régis Lejonc. • A book that will rapidly become essential!

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REFERENCE/ AGES: 9+

MONSTERS & WONDERS ALEXANDRE GALAND, ILL. BY DELPHINE JACQUOT NOVEMBER 2018 265 X 380 MM – 48 PAGES – HARDBACK – €19.50

A luxurious look and find across the history of curiosity. In 15th and 16th centuries, the first cabinets of curiosities, full of wonders, from unicorn horn to exotic shells and suspended crocodile, were built by their owners as a collection of the known world. It is through that common thread – to collect the world – that the reader is invited to wander in the four large pictures imagined by Delphine Jacquot as cabinets of curiosities from the 15th century to nowadays. Readers will lose themselves into details of the picture, then find each element reproduced alone with an anecdote often surprising, funny or extraordinary in the following pages.

SELLING POINTS: • The beautiful illustrations of Delphine Jacquot are magnified by a large format and flaps to wander into the pictures’ details.

From bezoars to mummy’s powder, first balloon trips to the birth of museums, from magical lanterns to freak shows, find out a history of curiosity as you have never seen it!

• A book between look and find and a prolific reference book on a topic that children of every age will enjoy.

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NOVELTY & ACTIVITY/ AGES: 3+

SHOO THE ZOO!

POP-UP OF ANIMALS ON THE RUN CÉCILE ROUMIGUIÈRE, ILL. BY ÉRIC SINGELIN OCTOBER 2018 180 X 265 MM – 28 PAGES – HARDBACK – €19.90

An exhilarating pop-up of animals on the run! In a zoo, the alligator sighs… It wants to see its river and its warm and silky mud again. “Nothing could be more simple, said the whale. Take your bundle and go on!“ Then begins a funny conversation between the animals: from cockatoo to ant-eater via the lion, the peacock or the rhinoceros, every animal has something to add. Cécile Roumiguière plays with sounds and alliterations for this pop-up not like any other.

SELLING POINTS: • A sparkling and humorous pop-up! • Exhilarating texts, to be read again and again!

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NOVELTY & ACTIVITY/ AGES: 3+

HIDE AND SEEK IN THE CITY AGATHE DEMOIS, VINCENT GODEAU MARCH 2018 240 X 190 MM – 32 PAGES – BOARD BOOK – €14.50 RIGHT SOLD: ITALIAN, SPANISH

A walk, a dive in the heart of the city to discover what is hidden inside the houses and the fantasies of their inhabitants...

SELLING POINTS: • This is the second picture book of the duo after their success with The Great Journey, which has sold more than 10,000 copies and has been translated into twelve languages. • This picture book has a digital app which received a mention at the 2018 Bologna Book Fair!

At the beginning of the book: a red filter magnifying glass. The little reader walks in the city and makes the magnifying glass slide on the pictures, revealing the inside of the houses. The reader meets their strange inhabitants and discovers the poetry of their everyday life. The red drawings disappear under the red filter to reveal the blue drawings resting underneath: a thousand scenes, details, situations and zany characters are brought to life under our astounded eyes. The book ends on a surprise: all the cages in the zoo are empty! It's time to take a second look through the book and see if you can find them!

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NOVELTY & ACTIVITY/ AGES: 3+

INSIDE MY FEELINGS CLOTILDE PERRIN, EMMA GIULIANI AND ARIANE GRENET OCTOBRE 2018 270 X 400 MM – 12 PAGES – HARDBACK – €19 RIGHT SOLD: ITALIAN

A clever novelty book full of surprises to explore your feelings from every angle! Through flaps to lift and contraptions to activate, this novelty book reveals the special features of six essential feelings to know them and all their subtleties in order to have a better understanding of them and, why not, managing to master them!

SELLING POINTS:

Joy, Sadness, Anger, Disgust, Surprise and Fear, every feeling is personified with creativity and imagination by Clotilde Perrin, and going with and ID card with their strength and weaknesses, their favorite hobbies, their physical characteristics, their sensations and their favorite meals.

• A novelty book with various systems and flaps to lift and discover what the feelings are hiding: their strength, weaknesses, games and favourite meals…

Did you know that Fear liked wimp soup? Did you know that if Disgust finds it difficult to control its stomach, it is also very useful to detect danger? Did you know that Anger can be a great righter of wrongs if you know how to control it?

• A book full of humour and surprises to deal with a theme affecting the little ones.

Dive inside the secrets of feelings!

• In the same series Inside the Villains was translated into 6 languages and sold at 53 000 copies.

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FICTION/ AGES: 13+

I AM BARELY EXAGGERATING FABRICE COLIN SEPTEMBER 2018 240 X 330 MM – 36 PAGES – HARDBACK – €15

A child turning into a toucan, a mermaid in a public swimming pool, an invasion of spider soft toys… A wild and fanciful creation on the power of imagination. Just for the pure joy of telling - and being told - stories. Would you believe it if someone told you that one day, when confined to the bed because of a flu, he turned into a toucan and flew above the clouds? Or that he invented the formula for the time machine and invited Victor Hugo to travel to dinosaur era? That God himself, having pressented that he was a real genius, went down on earth to meet him? That he fell in love with a mermaid in the public swimming pool and had planned to invade the city with spider soft toys?

SELLING POINTS: • An original and outstanding story! • A leading author that keeps surprising us.

The narrator of this story has really lived all that, believe it or not. Proof is? He is telling you. But he asks himself: what am I good at, in the end? What is the meaning of my life? Of my being here on earth? And if it was to be a writer, precisely? Because such stories, have to be read to be believed in. And someone has to make them up…

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FICTION/ AGES: 13+

THE SHERLOCK TEAM VOL. 2 THE MARA KHOL MA MYSTERY STÉPHANE TAMAILLON MAY 2018 140 X 205 MM – 224 PAGES – SOFTCOVER – €12.50 – FANTASY THRILLER

A thrilling storyline full of twists and turns! After solving the Moriarty affair risking their lives, Celandine, Haruko and Alejandro are about to enjoy richly-deserved holidays. But their friend Watson has disappeared and a very old Tibetan cylinder once brought back by Sherlock Holmes was stolen in his library. When they receive the key of a locker at the Zurich airport and a mysterious message indicating the address of a tattoo shop located in the hot spots of Tokyo, the three friends understand that their holidays will have to wait.

SELLING POINTS: • Investigation, action and fantasy: an explosive cocktail! • The renown Sherlock Holmes adapted by a French author with growing fame.

It is in Japan that they have to go! Their mission: to find Watson and to give him the object found in the locker, a goad decorated with Tibetan signs. Their adventure will take them from the hot spots of Tokyo, home of the dangerous Yakuzas, to ancient Buddhist temples lost in the mountains. To achieve their ends they would need to solve the enigma of Mara's testament, the object of all greed which would have been written by the Buddha himself...

• The second volume of a breathtaking new series.

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