Against the dictatorship of a thin and perfect body. The mouse Moussy, with a slim figure, is at the Opera to take the little rat contest. The Fluettes sisters, ill-intentioned mice with ultra-thin waists, point out to her that it will be difficult to pass the contest without losing weight. Moussy, influenced and destabilized, goes on a diet until she stops eating and loses all her strength. Fortunately the VSS, the Old Wise Mouse, watches over Moussy...

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.

A mouse feels too small and weak. She then decides to slip into the skin of different bigger and stronger animals... In turn snake, cat, elephant, whale and others, the little mouse discovers sensations and powers that she did not know! In the end, what will she choose?

Rabbit, fox, here is a very ordinary duo. However, a neighbour discovered by chance will make certainties waver and question appearances. The burrow remains to be dug...

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.

How to turn your faults into qualities Moussy is a plump little mouse who is a broom attendant but dreams of dancing in the opera. When her mouse friends advise her to give up because of her looks, she starts to cry. Then VSS appears: the Wise Old Mouse. She knows everything and solves the most complicated problems. She will help Moussy to take advantage of her looks and teach her that "a defect can become a quality, it's only a question of will"...

My neighbor is really weird. I think she's a witch. She puts salt in her coffee and dips her carrots in her tea. She holds her umbrella askew and collects earthworms. It's all very strange, and to think that some people don't believe me...

It's the big day for Jules: today, he enters the first grade. Things don't start well for him. Indeed, the young schoolboy is late. But he is not at the end of his troubles... When he enters the classroom, he is stunned: all the students are animals!

Léon, Martin, Vivien, Solène and Hector are on the same basketball team. Only Hector knows how to play... well, that's what he says.

Nothing pisses me off more than a guy who can't smile, so I picked up a rock...

Un matin, un jeune loup plein du désir de vivre sa vie et de trouver un ami quitte la meute. Mais partout dans la forêt, on pense qu’un loup est un loup, gourmand, effrayant et imprévisible. Aussi, tous les animaux le craignent et l’évitent. Même lorsque, tombé à l’eau, il court le plus grand des dangers et crie à l’aide. C’est alors qu’une main lui porte secours, la main d’un enfant…

Un très joli album, touchant et attendrissant, sur l’amitié entre deux personnages que tout oppose ! La Mare aux mots

Ardi est chasseur d’éléphants. Grâce à lui, il n’y en a aucun dans son village. Et d’ailleurs il n’y en a jamais eu, c’est bien la preuve qu’il fait correctement son travail ! Aucun éléphant ? Dans tout le village ? Alors, si c’est vrai, à qui sont ses oreilles qui dépassent des maisons ? Et pourquoi les arrosoirs semblent bouger tout seuls ? Un jour ou l’autre il faudra bien dire la vérité à Ardi : son village est rempli d’éléphants ! Et ce jour là il pourra compter sur Violette pour lui ouvrir les yeux et lui montrer que les éléphants ne sont ni méchants, ni monstrueux. Et qu’on peut se faire des amis en regardant un peu plus loin que le bout de sa trompe… euh… de son nez !

Un livre amusant et drôle qui aborde les thèmes des non-dits et des préjugés de manière subtile dans une fable éléphantesque. Magazine Nine

I have a friend. A real one. He doesn't look at all like the friend I imagined him to be. But even when we don't see each other, I think of him, and that really helps me!

In paper format, this book is a double-sided book. Discover this story from the point of view of "Mon amie".

Don't be fooled by appearances! Karl Klaus Bouzy, known as KKB, is a beetle of the dung beetle family, those who forage and feed on dung. But KKB prefers flowers to poop, and his ambition is to become a perfumer. To do so, he must leave his family and try his luck in Paris. He is recommended to Marcelle, an ant who could help him set up shop. But when he arrives at her house, he is kept at a distance, because a dung beetle smells like manure. Despite the prejudices, will Bouzy succeed in convincing people and in realizing his dream: to become a perfumer?

My name is Marius, I am five years old and I have two houses. My father also has a new lover.

There is a flat world where the tribe of the very small and the tribe of the very large live. Each one of them is not lacking in ingenuity to show the other who is the strongest.

In their cabin, the guardians of the great forest had always dreamed of having a child. But it was in vain. One morning, in the four times too big sweater she was knitting to forget her sorrow, the woman discovered a tiny baby. The child wanted nothing more than to eat. After eating for several hours, it finally fell asleep. In the morning, the guards did not find the baby they had laid in the bed, but a little boy. Overnight he had grown to the size of a two-year-old... This album was selected for the Lire au jardin 2012 prize, in the Graine de jardin category, awarded by the Château de Versailles.