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...

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...

"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.

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.

This new track by the Delaunois/Beha duo is about wealth. This wealth so obvious in a country like ours that we don't even appreciate it anymore. It allows us to live in peace, to make choices, to share our opinions, our joys and our sorrows. Without being moralistic, this album is an excellent starting point for a discussion on the true value of things.

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.

A very old fisherman lived with his wife by the sea, an old woman, in a very small cottage. One day in his net he discovered a beautiful golden fish. "Fisherman, let me go, I'll make all your wishes come true by way of thanks." He needs nothing, but his surly wife is demanding to the point of madness.

Manon and Theo are cousins of the same age. She lives in a tiny house that she compares to a doll's, he lives in a big building that looks like a castle. She plays on the shores of an imaginary sea, he owns a swimming pool. One day at the end of summer, when the two children are together for the first time at Manon's house, Théo discovers his cousin's world, and they spend the day playing games somewhere between the real and the imaginary. That evening, they were about to fall asleep in a tent, when Theo said something that upset Manon: "It's not so bad to be poor, after all...".

Is it really her that her cousin is referring to? This picture seemed rather extreme to her. She couldn't make the connection between the word "poor" and what she experienced in her daily life. A series of questions about Manon's social condition follows. After debating for a long time without being able to really agree, the children turn to the dictionary. But the answer they find in the dictionary fails to satisfy them! They decide to write down their own definition.

"A good sweep... "That's what Malba heard from the passers-by who passed by him with a contemptuous look. Until he came across a real broom that was going to help him make his way...

Mina has no home. Every morning, Mama goes in search of a place to shelter her children. But it's not enough. Until one day...

At the end of the winter, the play ceased to be performed, and Gavroche lost his job. He resumed his former existence, helping out here and there, picking a few apples from the stalls. Sometimes the shopkeeper saw him:

- Rascal! You rascal's seed! I'll teach you to steal!

What happens when a little box doesn't fit anymore? What could it be used for? A sardine tin, a coupon tin, a candy tin? Her future will depend on an encounter that will be decisive for her as well as for him.

This is the story of a poor man who has nothing to feed his three sons. So, the day he finds a gold coin, he runs to the market and buys a goat... Elisabeth Calandry's masterpiece, "La chèvre menteuse" (The lying goat) is a popular story that has been passed down by word of mouth for centuries. It appears in several reference works and one can read the versions collected by Charles Joisten, Henri Pourrat or the Serbian Vouk Karadijtch. Beyond its cruelty, it speaks of the power of the word and the damage caused by mistrust.

To have a chance of her birthday wish coming true, Sofia decides to meet Tullio, the travelling salesman, every week when he passes by. She won't be able to buy anything from him, but who cares? As time goes by, Tullio introduces her to melodies, smells, flavours and textures that she never knew existed. A strong bond is formed between them. However, just as the little girl is about to see her wish come true, the merchant's truck stops coming... An exquisitely sensitive album that tells the story of a little girl's hope to have a grandfather in her life.

This album received the Prix Saint-Exupéry, Francophonie selection 2020, was a finalist for the Prix Chronos de littérature, kindergarten-CP category 2020, and for the Prix Peuplier 2021. It was selected for the Prix Tatoulu 2021, Yellow Tatoulu category and the Prix des Incorruptibles, CE1 category, 2021-2022.

Every night before going to sleep, Mia's father tells her about the sea... Stories about extraordinary fish, exceptional waves, adventurous sailors, brave fishermen, magical moments and a thousand other things that the sea and its mysteries can contain. Despite the lack of time, the increasingly difficult work and the increasingly rare pennies, she knows that one day her father will take her there... What she doesn't know is that, for her father, it will also be a great moment.This album has been selected for the Prix des Incorruptibles, category CE1, 2021-2022.

Christine lived in a small town under the endless skies of Manitoba where time passed most slowly in the heat of summer. She explored its streets on roller skates or stilts, to go faster or see further. One morning, under the leaves of a small maple tree, she discovered an old man, Mr. Saint-Hilaire, who invited her to spend a whole day on the shore of Lake Winnipeg.

This is the story of two children who are ragpickers, pepenadores, as they are called. They live in a slum and work in a huge garbage dump in South America. Digging, finding, fighting, trading, selling: that's their daily life. A Dickensian story of life and the plight of children who must work to help their parents survive.This book was a finalist for the Governor General's Literary Award, Children's Illustration category in 2014, a finalist for the Prix Tatoulu 2015 and the Prix du livre jeunesse des bibliothèques de Montréal 2015, as well as for the Prix TD 2015. It was shortlisted for the 2015 Tamarac Express Award and the 2017 Skipping Stones Honor Book Award, as well as for the Bank Street College of Education's Best Children's Picture Books of the Year in Spanish 2019.

One morning, Mr. Lucien Chastellux, known as "the prince", receives a letter from abroad from a young woman who introduces herself as his daughter. His daughter? But which daughter? Lucien has no children, as far as he knows. And then, what arrogance, what shamelessness! To claim to be the descendant of the prince! He searched in his memory, no, nothing, nothing of this kind. Perhaps, all the same, it would be necessary to go to look at it more closely, and here he is thus on his way to the Americas. For God's sake, will the mystery be solved there? Wouldn't this young woman, Idiotie, be after his fortune (his heart's fortune, at least, because he is broke)? We shall see, as we read this story, which will hold a few surprises for the prince, since across the Atlantic he will have a rendezvous with the woman who calls him "Daddy", but also, providentially, with Love... 

Through hard work, the director became rich. He became Mr. Director. Exhausted, his doctor forces him to take a vacation. For the first time in his life, Mr. Director has to take the time to do nothing, under the sun of the seaside. A fisherman, back from the sea with two beautiful fish, makes him discover his own conception of life. An encounter that will influence the course of their lives. This album, inspired by a Mexican tale, reminds young and old that there is always time, you just have to know how to take it. This album received the 2013/2014 literary prize for citizenship, awarded by the public schools of Maine-et-Loire. It was also elected "coup de coeur" by the Revue des livres pour enfants de la BNF.

A children's novel on the theme of difference.

It's the beginning of the school year. There is a new boy, Camille, who seems very different from the other pupils, and who provokes the hostility of some of them...

Through the portrait of this free and generous child, this novel makes the reader aware of the notions of respect, tolerance and mutual aid, and makes the reader think about current issues such as homoparentality, family relations and social inequalities.

On a road in Ohio, a Chinese-American family picks up wild cress. While the parents put their whole heart into it and the young boy has lots of fun, their daughter lives with this as a shame. Back home, she shuns the cooked meal by her mother, who then tells her a hurtful episode of her childhood in China, where cress played a role. That night, the cress tasted like a family reunion.