My grandfather often tells of salads, of all shapes and colours, or just curly ones. Sometimes my grandmother will take one and make it her own. When I grow up, I want to tell stories as beautiful as those of my grandfather. So to be ready, I've already planted my first salad.A simple, tender and above all very funny first album that is less about gardening than about intergenerational complicity.This album was selected for the Grain de sel, Chronos des vacances, Jérôme Main 2018 awards, for the 2019 Tatoulu Award, Yellow Armadillo category and for the 2020 Winter Book Youth Award.

When he was working, Salomé's grandfather was a chocolatier. Unfortunately, since he retired, he no longer wants to hear about chocolate. No more truffles or mochas for his little girl! It's impossible to make him change his mind. The grandfather is determined to take advantage of his retirement to have a good time. But the little girl is just as determined to find her Papi Chocolat, the one with the truffles and mochas.This album received the Chronos Vacances 2018 Prize and was part of the Opalivres selection, category 4-5 years.

Amadeo is a tram driver in Lisbon, but not just any tram driver. In his Éléctrico 28, it's great happiness: people all fall in love with his panoply of skilful and amusing manoeuvres. All of them? Except Amadeo himself, who has a heart as big as this... At the end of his journey, will the driver of this emblematic tram of the Portuguese capital find his sweetheart?

Gogo and Golo are on a boat. Gogo falls into the water. Who is left? Golo is alone on the boat looking for Gogo in the water, when a sperm whale appears. A literary fantasy full of humour and colour. Pay attention, don't lose sight of the characters!This album has been selected for the Prix Première œuvre de littérature jeunesse, category 3-5 years, 2019.

To discover the job of an airplane pilot: first choose your hero, Thomas or Marianne. Follow his steps throughout his working day, as if you were there. Add documentary sections to learn all about the sound barrier, the exploits of Charles Lindbergh, the aeronautical alphabet and other treasures. Complete the adventure with the companion blog! This book won the 2015 Aeronautical Book Award for Youth at the 6th annual Stars and Wings Aerospace Festival.

On the way home, Michel tells his father about his horrible day at school. Fortunately, the illustration helps us to untangle the truth from the false by revealing Michel's real day.A large-format album to remind us that, even if school is not always rosy, it is always exciting.For his first book, Tanguy Loridant plunges us directly into his very graphic style, close to the comic strip, and accompanies with pleasure the text of Séverine Vidal.This album has received the Bulle de lecture 2020 Prize

Annabelle refuses to let her grandmother go to a retirement home: she doesn't want her to end up like a flowerpot that hasn't been watered enough! With her best friend Léo, she organizes Mamilou's escape, while her worried father tracks down the fugitive. But old Gustave discovers their hideout. Fortunately, he might have a solution for his childhood friend.This album is part of the selection of the Chronos Prize, category CM1-CM2, 2021.

Hello, my name is Sila. I'm a polar bear, and my job is to mend the ice floe. Unfortunately, my friends and I are the only ones who are concerned about the ice floe's woes due to global warming...This album was awarded the Winter Book Prize, album category, by the students of the town of Montgiscard, near Toulouse in 2019.

My father decided that we would move to Montgomery to live with my grandmother. Blacks aren't treated any better there, but I would be safer. Besides, my grandmother makes the best red bean casserole in the neighborhood! We often took the bus across town. The blacks sat in the back, the whites sat in the front. One day, before Christmas, a lady refused to give up her seat to a white man. She dared to say no to him. This was the beginning of a great protest.This album was the winner of the Fleur de sel Prize at the Nau Belles Rencontres 2016.

Three princesses, Curious, Chatterbox and Coquette despair of their father. The king would have preferred sons, capable of succeeding him! In spite of this, the three princesses love their grumpy father deeply. A deep tenderness unites them. One day, war breaks out. Each princess tries to propose solutions but their father does not listen to them. Defeated by his enemy, the king is taken prisoner. The opportunity for our three sisters to prove their true worth and qualities. This album has been selected for the 2013-2014 Incorruptibles prize.

Granny is sitting in the yard reading. But what was supposed to be a quiet, relaxing activity turns into a nightmare when everyone in her family decides to get busy around her. A fine and amusing book by Rhéa Dufresne, illustrated by Aurélie Grand, who fills her illustrations with little details that children (and parents too) will love.This book was the winner of the 2019 Harry Black Award.

- She opened the door of her house and Calypso, the cat, and I walked on the moor along the cliffs. Tonight, we'll look at the stars. Then the seagull, a beautiful white bird with extraordinary powers, swirled around our heads. This book is part of the Chronos Prize selection, category CE1-CE2, 2021.

"Once upon a time there was a naughty little chick. Who knows why, she had always been naughty. Right out of the egg, when she was still a little ruffled thing, she attacked the other chicks in the clutch. She then attacked the other animals of the farm. Since then, her bad temper had not been denied. There was no more obnoxious or pretentious little chick for miles around! "Upon learning that a wolf (elderly and retired, but a wolf nonetheless) is moving into the village, the meanest chick on the continent pulls out her superheroine costume and decides that the village isn't big enough for her and the wolf. Happy to finally be able to take on a big enemy, she will give the poor wolf a run for his money, as he was certainly not prepared for this confrontation. This album was the winner of the Lancemot Favorite Book Award 2016.

Once upon a time, there were four friends who never left each other, they had too much fun together. For several weeks, however, the gang was terribly bored because it was raining incessantly. Fortunately, they had the fabulous idea of going on a picnic sheltered from the water. They decided to repair a large boat to cross the river and go to the Blue Mountain. Accompanied by several friends, including a weasel, a fox and a wolf, they set off for this new land where they would all be so wonderfully, wonderfully, wonderfully happy! This musical tale will make children laugh like never before. The story is carried by a few well-known traditional songs and a dozen compositions that are as tender as they are funny. Very fine illustrations accompany this joyful and unbridled journey.

A little moment of everyday life captured on film, Mon chien-banane is a jewel of absurdity that will make children and adults laugh. This is Roxane Brouillard's first album with this hilarious situation comedy. Giulia Sagramola provides the illustrations for this album with her old-fashioned charming characters, evoking the great culture of American strips. With her minimalist and punchy approach, she brilliantly brings to life this cast of characters that we have all met at least once in our lives.

This album won second place in the Grand prix du livre de la Montérégie 2019. It was also a finalist for the Jeunesse des Bibliothèques de Montreal 2021' Prize, for the Peuplier 2021' Prize and for the Cécile Gagnon 2021' Prize.

Jean Leroy has written an amusing book about friendship and what scares us (or not), featuring, on the one hand, a little girl who has seen it all, and on the other, a big bad wolf who no longer scares anyone. This book has been selected for the Prix lecteurs du bord de mer 2020.

With her walking stick and her bamboo flute, the storyteller went from village to village, from one country to another, enjoying each encounter as a gift. But one day, as she took out her instrument, all the villagers left the square. Even the children, usually so curious, turned their backs on her. A beautiful tribute to freedom of expression. This album is supported by Amnesty International. It was part of the selection "Tous nos coups de coeur" Opalivres and the selection Lire et Faire lire 2016.

Berlin 1988. While playing in the attic, I discovered a cello that belonged to my grandmother. I took it in my arms and we never left each other. Music sounds like a language to me. What's more, my parents fled East Berlin with this instrument, while my grandparents are still on the other side of the wall. But today, more and more people are angry, they demonstrate in the streets and soon, this wall will have to come down.This album has been selected for the Prix Michel Tournier, category CM1-CM2, 2020.

The Whale on Bus 29 evokes in a very warm and poetic way a little girl's view of a colourful and moving woman who has been sitting in front of her bus stop for a week. In the eyes of the little girl, this woman looks like a whale stranded on the sidewalk. In creating this story, in which one of the two characters is a homeless woman, the author succeeds in creating a very endearing book, rich in tenderness, poetry, imagination, humour and emotion. This album was awarded the 2015 Jérôme Main Prize at the Cherbourg Children's Book Festival.

The arrival of a computer in the Cubichou family is a revolution! Julien can't do without the internet, social networks, blogs and his new "friends". But he still needs to know who is behind the screen...

One evening, the child, the cat, the dog, the bird and the frog stopped talking. Then the sun got angry and went down. It was dark and cold, a nightmare, so the parents surrounded the child, "It's all right, it's a bad dream, tomorrow the sun will shine in all its splendour". Inspired by a Balkan tale, a poetic text, a rhythm that repeats like a ritornello to address bad dreams in a reassuring way.This album is part of the Litteralouest 2020-2021 selection.

Capricieuse, a rather ill-bred little girl, finds herself dropped into the world of animals and other insects in the forest. An overbearing and impatient child, she will have to slow down because of a foot injury and move around on the back of a turtle. This moderate pace will lead her to observe everything around her more closely... this is the beginning of many adventures! This book received the Graines de lecteurs prize at the Salon du livre jeunesse de Montauban 2021.

An elephant is about to cross the river. Two tigers in love ask him to take them on his back. Then three monkeys, a family of mongooses, a young cobra and finally a parrot. Loaded up like an ocean liner, the elephant takes off when a small spider falls gently on the parrot's head. The fragile crew wobbles... Splash! By the way, has anyone noticed the tiny ant that has been climbing and climbing since the beginning of the story?

The neighborhood is in an uproar, mobilized to welcome Nadim and his family. At school, Tom and his friends are waiting with curiosity for this new pupil, straight from the Jungle. The one in Calais is far from the colourful forest Tom imagined. But friendship doesn't care about misunderstandings and differences.This album was part of the Lire et Faire lire 2019 selection, the UNICEF 2018 "refugees and migrants" selection, the Saint-Etienne 2018 Children's Literature Prize selection, the P'tits d'monts Prize selection (CE2-CM1-CM2) in Saint-Martin-en-Haut. It was also selected for the Prix Ruralivres Nord 2019-2020, intermediate category, and selected for Brouillons de culture 2019, 6-7 years old category.

"Am I my shadow? Does my shadow weigh the same as me? When I sleep, is it my shadow that dreams?" So many questions asked by a little boy who spends an ordinary day in the company of his shadow... this duo takes us on a poetic and philosophical walk.