Jack and his mother are poor. The day Jack trades their goat for six bean seeds, his mother gets angry. But the seeds are actually magic! In one night they grow into a huge ladder of greenery, like a giant bean. Jack climbs to the top of the ladder and, beyond the clouds, enters the ominous home of an ogre and an ogress...

Odette is a delicious little chick. She likes sewing and gossiping, so she sews and gossips.

Hidden in a flowery thicket, a little rascal is spying on her. The fox would like to bite into her. So he's watching her. He watches the pudgy young hen and waits for the appropriate moment to catch her...

Three little pigs have to leave the family cocoon, set out on their own on the great road of life and build themselves a house: build a straw shelter, assemble a shed of branches, build a house. Everything gets complicated when a big bad wolf comes around. And that's when the story takes an unexpected turn...

The text is in French and English.

Little Goldilocks is walking in the forest when she sees a house and, full of curiosity, decides to enter it... But who does it belong to? Goldilocks then goes to taste the three soups on the table because one is too hot, the other is too cold, and the last one is just right!

"In the midst of the gusts, in the freezing cold, a poor girl walked down the street: she had nothing on her head, she was barefoot." Discover or rediscover this Andersen fairy tale through the moving illustrations of Isabelle Desternes, who makes each scene in this story a truly delicate, fragile, and deeply touching tableau.

Abandoned by their parents, Margaux and Jeannot are lost in the forest. In this Grimm's tale, a mysterious white bird guides them to a wonderful house made of bread, cakes and sugar. But this house belongs to a wicked witch who has a habit of eating children...

The adventures of Tom Sawyer took place a long time ago in America at the time of the conquest of the West, the cowboys and the Indians. It is the story of a boy who was a bit wild, as was his country at that time.

Four farm animals find themselves bound by an unfortunate fate: their owners want to get rid of them! The four friends leave their respective homes and set off for Bremen where they want to become musicians. The journey is not without danger. In a house in the middle of the forest live some robbers. Thanks to their team spirit, the four friends chase the thieves away. From now on, they will live free and happy in their new home.

The king has sent his inspector to Hameln to investigate the disappearance of all the children in this Lower Saxon town. The royal inspector questions the innkeeper and the latter recounts the invasion of the rats, the arrival of the foreigner, the deal made with the town and how the inhabitants welcomed him and rewarded him handsomely. The two of them discuss and the images scroll by, showing a very different reality: the greed and contempt of an entire town for this flute player who finally punished them. This kamishibai can be read by two people: the king's inspector and the innkeeper. The text is composed in the form of a dialogue.

Alice is getting seriously bored sitting next to her sister. Suddenly, a white rabbit dressed in a frock coat and holding a pocket watch in his paw passes by her. Driven by curiosity, Alice chases him down his rabbit hole where she takes a dizzying fall and finally lands in Wonderland where she meets some wonderful people and develops some surprising friendships.

Theseus was silent. They thought he was dumb, stupid, crazy or even worse, a stranger! So, out of fear and as a precaution, he was chased away. Always forced into exile, he finally landed one day in Crete. The little people were in full effervescence. It was the big day, according to tradition, each year a young man was chosen to go and confront the frightening half-man half-bull creature: the Minotaur... Beautiful illustrations and suspense to revisit with humour the astonishing myth of Theseus and the Minotaur.

Once upon a time there was a little Bou who lived in the forest with her maïe and her païe. One day she went camping in the forest to gather flora.

This book is deliberately written in a French that is not grammatically correct.

"Cleopatra watches the city from the palace windows. The spectacle is terrible. Ptolemy has stirred up the people against her and a civil war has broken out. The young woman stamps her feet, if she could, she would go and fight, herself: "We have to fight back," she rages. This is my kingdom and I cannot let my brother humiliate me further.- We only have two legions, Caesar replies. "

"On the top of a hill, in a small hut, the light of a candle shines. Through the window, a figure wearing an apron can be seen. A headband holds back a long head of red hair. A few patients lie in makeshift beds. Young Charles Robinson, nine years old, is watching with an attentive eye the woman who has taken such good care of him for three long days and who is known as "Calamity Jane".

The first night, Robinson slept in the shelter of a palm tree. The next day, in the company of the dog, whom he called Nestor, he set out to explore the island. Was it inhabited? By men? By ferocious beasts? He set off, armed with a rifle and a horn filled with gunpowder.

Yexian, sensitive and wise, is tormented by her stepmother and stepsister. She finds comfort in a golden-eyed fish who will grant her every wish. At the ball, Yexian loses one of her beautiful shoes. The golden shoe, in the hands of a king, will finally lead the young girl to her happiness. The wonderful story of Cinderella, told eight centuries before Charles Perrault. Adapted by Chun-Liang Yeh from a story by Duan Chengshi, a Chinese scholar of the Tang dynasty. Illustrations by Wang Yi.

This is the story of a little girl named Alice, who lived not so long ago in a place not so far from here. Alice had incredible adventures in a place called Wonderland...

All German speakers know the first two lines of Goethe's famous poem, sometimes they also remember the last one: In seinem Armen das Kind war tot. This kamishibai includes the poem in German and its translation into French, so the reading can be done with two actors.

The text is in French and German.

Chicken Little tells the story of a little chicken who receives an acorn on the head. Frightened, he starts to run screaming that the sky is falling apart. He panics and all his friends run away too! Then they come across a real danger... 

Heureux qui comme Ulysse, ou le premier voyage, transports you to the heart of the ancient Mediterranean and its legends... It tells the story of the long journey of a young cat from an island in ancient Greece, Ulysses, who, in spite of himself, embarks on a fisherman's ship that gets lost at sea after a terrible storm. Ulysses and the sailors will have to search for the way back for nearly 5 years, marked out by trials, discoveries and adventures that will lead them to the legendary kingdom of Sebes.

The story of the whale's gullet by Joseph Rudyard Kipling is here "revisited" by the translation of Eric Bétend and the illustrations of Caroline Gormand. Both invite you to share their interpretation of this story and to (re)discover the pleasure of this famous tale.

A great classic of Andersen's tales: In a distant land reigns an emperor who thinks only of his wardrobe, only of interest to him new and sumptuous clothes. So when two foreign tailors show up and promise him the most beautiful and most magical clothes, he doesn't hesitate. The deception is going to take an incredible extent until the voice of a child remarks out loud what the whole people thought down.

Hansel and Gretel, abandoned in the forest, have to find their way back to the house on their own. But, beware of the temptations on the way back...

From the text of the Grimm Brothers, a traditional tale adapted in "comfortable reading".