Every year, for his birthday, a father paints a picture for his son. But not just any painting! Because on those mornings, he invites his child to enter his painting in order to pass on to him some of the values that he himself has received from his own parents. Thus, over the years, he helps him to climb a step or take up a challenge. Until the child, now grown up, takes flight.

At the edge of a footpath, Old Laolao is worried. In this cool season, no one to buy her fans. Where will she find the money to feed her grandson? Passing by, the famous calligrapher Wang is touched but he has his own idea to help Laolao. He will embellish the fans with his beautiful writing and he will work miracles! This story of giving and generosity is inspired by the life of the most famous Chinese calligrapher, WANG Xizhi (4th century).

A long time ago, night did not exist. The sky was a huge yellow picture from which the day never faded away... Sometimes, clouds, rain or snow came to shade the light, but that was not enough to make life less monotonous, less boring... One day, Naîm decided to take his courage in both hands as well as a ladder and his brushes, and to attack this invariably yellow sky...

Ava, a Cro-Magnon woman who lived between the Loire and the Pyrenees 22,000 years ago, shares with us her drawings and stories of wild animals she encountered in her daily life.

Paloma and her parents left Spain because of the war. However, in Paris too, people talk about the dictator Franco, especially since he bombed the town of Guernica. During the May 1st demonstration, Paloma finds a wounded dove. She nurses it, feeds it, and her father builds it a cage. The bird, nestled in her shoulder, accompanies her everywhere. During one of her walks in the streets of Paris with her dove, Paloma exchanges a few words with a man who marks her mind. Later, when she sees the painting of Guernica during her visit to the World's Fair, she realizes that it is Pablo Picasso.This book has been selected for the Prix Michel Tournier 2020 and for the Prix jeunesse Alé of the LEC Festival 2020 (Littératures européennes de Cognac).

From the power of water come oceans and seas, but also the fine rain that enchants the snail. Around this aquatic world, a thousand destinies and stories mingle, which Sophie Leï Thuman distils, mixing the destiny of the mythical basilisk with the hopes of a champagne bubble, letting the idea that water is a rare and precious resource float through the waves.

If there's one thing the Grrr's agree on, it's that they're not happy. Everything is either too much or too little, but never as it should be.Until the day mysterious red dots appear on the facade of a building and turn their lives upside down.A story to remind the grrr grrr in us that sometimes we need to overflow a little to take life on the bright side.

This album has been selected for the Prix Atout lire 2019-2020.

Crayon (Pen) dreams of drawing. It comes at the right time, P'tit Homme dreams of being seen! So, Crayon draws and P'tit Homme appears on paper. A flamboyant story is born!

In the imperial court of China in the 8th century, Princess Lan ("Mountain Mist") misses her native Sichuan. The red disappears from her cheeks. The emperor is not resigned to seeing the one he loves fade away. He commissioned two very famous painters to paint two frescoes representing the fabulous landscapes of Sichuan, the land of clouds. The two painters, Master Li and Master Wu, one meticulous, the other spontaneous, have three months to honour the prestigious commission. Each of them will use his art. Will they achieve the marvellous?

The Fujisan, sacred mountain of Japan, tells the life of Hokusai, this madman of drawing, who represented it dozens of times, from near and far, in The Wave, at dawn or at dusk, under the snow or the storm...

In this book, for once, the narrator is not a person, nor an animal. She is not really an object either, even if she spills out onto a sheet of paper, a young student's paper in the middle of a dictation, because she is a stain. And the stain speaks, the stain tells its story and says how sad it is that it is never welcome, not at school, not on a piece of clothing, not at work. Until our heroine finds herself by chance among other stains, of different colours, on a painter's canvas. And everything will be transformed!

Mina has a secret: everything she draws becomes real. With her 3 Magicrayons - one blue, one yellow and one red - this tireless drawer creates clouds with funny shapes, a huge forest, a very cute bird (Zozio), or even a very hungry BIG bad wolf. But Mina also has a secret weapon: an ERASER, well hidden in her pocket...

Mina and her Magicrayons are back! When the little girl draws, anything can happen, anything comes to life. For example, a dog. But not just any dog: a little doggie who wants to become the King of the Animals. Not easy when you are a curly dog who looks like a soft sheep. Fortunately, Mina has her 3 secret tools, well hidden in her pouch. With them, she can turn her new bad-tempered friend into a lion, a bear... or anything else she wants!

The lemur Otto has made a long journey to join his friends Lisa and Nils in the far north. There he wants to paint the magnificent aurora borealis. But the night is cold and his frail coat is not enough... Lisa and Nils will make him a very special sweater. Otto really has great friends!

But what a mess all these ideas are!

As soon as night falls

they enter one by one

they jostle, dance, follow each other

they sit on the arm of the sofa

they moo

and off they go!

welcome to the great circus of ideas!

The Spring Bunny slept too long. He let winter erase the colors and everything is white! Hurry! The rabbit must repaint everything! The flowers, the birds, the animals! But he needs help and all his friends offer different colours. Will he manage to paint all these things with the right colours? Will he be fast enough to bring Spring to life, without getting his brushes mixed up...

Out of his score, Gaspard, little guardian of the sounds of Mozart's time, discovers the city of today. Gaspard listens and sees... To the rhythm of his discoveries, music, sounds and colours join together to create paintings inspired by the works of great modern painters.

Three stories written with the students of the Joseph Hennequin secondary school in Gannat. Discover a giraffe who has no spots, a somewhat clumsy painter and the meeting between Lucas Tatastrophe and Fatou Vabien.

There are treasures made of diamonds, gold and gems. And then there are others, even more precious. This book offers a wonderful and fantastic journey to discover some of these treasures. We discover the mysterious nightlife of the Louvre and the secret of a safe. We come across a magic elevator and a store full of unusual objects. We meet a madman who becomes a king and an angel sent to earth on a strange mission.

Six independent stories, yet united by a secret link.