In the middle of Oceania was stretching Papua. In the shadows of its thick forest, the village of the young Tahirou was living in perfect harmony. Never a quarrel, never a conflict until the terrible day when pirates landed of his island...

Around the lake, the situation is serious. The birds of bad luck have invaded parts of the country, imposing their terrible laws. Jojo and Jolie, two young birds have to flee, leaving their parents behind. Without any other choice than making a deal with dishonest trespassers, they'll be confronted with many dangers and start a new life! A touching graphic novel with just and moving illustrations.

Hana is a refugee in France because there is a war in her country. At night, she sleeps with her mom in a museum, very close to "Mademoiselle Vole". But, that is a secret, you mustn't say it. Until the day where...

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).

The day should have started very simply. The shutters would have opened. We would have smelled the air from the balconies. We would have put on our skirts and underpants... prepared the chicory. We would have argued, or kissed. But on June 9, 1944, a countdown had started somewhere...

In the year 1943, the world was at war. Every day bombs were falling on the city of Tokyo, Japan. The Japanese army was afraid that bombs would hit the Ueno Zoo and wild animals would escape, threatening the public. So the army ordered the keepers to kill all the large animals. Despite their sadness, the guards obeyed. The lions, tigers, leopards, bears and large snakes were the first to perish. Yukio Tsuchiya's book tells the sad and true story of what happened when it was the elephants' turn to die.

The day the disaster occurred, Bassem was on his way to school. There was nothing but ruins around him. In other words, nothing... Suddenly, in the silence that always followed the explosions, he heard music. On top of the rubble, a piano. Sitting in front of the instrument, a young man was playing...

August 1914. Paul, a nail driver at the Saint-Nazaire shipyards, is mobilized. How to explain the war to his beloved son? How to tell him that he may not come back from it? Paul chooses to lie to him. Months pass, father and son exchange letters. As the horror gains ground, Paul is caught in the trap of his lie...

Barbe bleue and Tison rouge are about to fight. The battle is going to be terrific! Let's go to the opposing camp, the two armies bump into odd knights playing an even odder game. No time to think, they're already on board.

In a vast plain stood a huge and solitary tree. It was inhabited by more than a thousand ravens who lived there in harmony. The young respected the elders and their king ruled with wisdom and kindness... 

The war of the crows and the owls, transposes in the animal world, the lies and the ambitions of the human kind. Two peoples confront each other, but cunning and strategy allow them to triumph over brutality.

The text is in English and in French.

« La route de Babylone, la capitale de l’empire, s’ouvre devant Alexandre. Il fait son entrée dans la ville avec son armée, où se côtoient maintenant des chevaux, des chameaux, des dromadaires et des éléphants, suivis par des dizaines de milliers de soldats venus de toutes les régions du monde. Mais, au lieu de s’arrêter dans sa nouvelle capitale, Alexandre décide de poursuivre ses conquêtes. »

In the city of Aubaka, the new king has sounded the alarm: a horde of barbarians is prowling around the city. Without further ado, the king imposes increasingly restrictive measures on the inhabitants to protect the kingdom from this terrible danger. Even if no one has seen the first shadow of a threat, little by little, fear is building its nest. Everyone hides at home and the kingdom sinks into a cold, gray winter. Until the return of Milann who brings with him spring...

Behind the apparent carefree attitude, we gradually discover a country at war. Soon, a face-off between the girl and a soldier from the opposing camp. Will he dare to pull the trigger? A sensitive text, a true story, and the war is replayed in the middle of the wheat fields.

A long time ago, in a distant land, two flocks of birds lived in neighbouring territories: peacocks and swans. Their differences gradually led to mistrust and each group began to accumulate weapons to defend themselves in case of danger... Then, one day, blinded by their own fear, the peacocks started a bloody war, until only two eggs remained. How will the chicks that will be born from them behave?

This book has been selected for the Prix des Incorruptibles, category CE1, in 2003.

Il était une fois un jeune homme qui vivait paisiblement avec sa mère sur une colline verte. Guidé par la flamme de la sagesse, il va se battre contre le terrible tyran qui règne sur le pays, et dont la haine des animaux à plumes n'a d'égale que la peur qu'ils lui inspirent. À l'aide de poules merveilleuses et des habitants du pays, il deviendra un héros libérateur de son peuple.

Amal is my everyday brother.He was born on a night of rage.No lightning,No thunder,Just his machine-gun scream.I arrived much later.It was normal for him to teach me about life.Is it normal to be born in a war?This book was a finalist for the Prix des libraires du Québec, category 6-11 years old 2016, received the Chen Bochui International Children's Literature Awards, category Illustrated Book 2016 and was selected for the Prix Tatoulu, category Blue Armadillo 2017.

This book, written and illustrated by Anne Villeneuve, is inspired by the life of Kees Vanderheyden, author of La guerre dans ma cour, published by Boréal, and tells the story of his youth under the German occupation. Sometimes funny, sometimes shocking, the book tells the story of this young boy's confrontation with the enemy, who becomes human, and then finally a friend. This book was a finalist for the 2009 Alvine-Bélisle and Boabab awards. It received the 2009 TD Award and the 2010 Marcel-Couture Award.

August 1914. The world enters the war. Franck is proud to enlist, with his friend Mario. They will be back for Christmas, for sure! Let's go for the adventure. After training in England, it's the battlefields of northern France, the trenches, the offensive: in a word, hell!

A nice fable about tolerance and a way to escape from war... Red ants and black ants can't see each other, it's hatred and it's a problem... Sophie, a red ant, decides to cross the border to escape this war. On his side, Edward, a black ant, runs away because he is fed up with all these fights. Will they meet, quarrel, love each other? This album was chosen by the Ligue de l'enseignement de l'Essonne to illustrate the fight against discrimination.

War, refugees, life that starts again. Un morceau de lumière is a poetic and optimistic album about resilience.

Agatha Christie's life matches her work! It's fascinating!

Agatha Christie traveled the world by boat, train and car. She explored the landscapes and customs of the countries she met, while keeping one foot in the Victorian era she loved so much.

She was a nurse during the First World War. Her diploma in pharmacy preparation gave her a taste for poisons and other relentless concoctions for the crimes of her future novels... Thanks to her second husband, she immersed herself in archaeology. Her plots took on the color of excavation sites! Her life and work are one and the same.

We're in the wake of the Second World War. Europe is missing everything. In 1947, the American people came together and sent food, medicine, and clothes, transported by a train named the Friendship Train. A few months later, a French railroad worker created a national comity to thank them.

A book to talk about History from 8 to middle school.

"Tu me prends en photo" is dedicated, as it says on the title page, "To the children whose pictures we take when war has already taken everything from them; to the photographers without whom the rest of the world would be unaware of their existence."

It's all about the relationship between photographer and subject.

The subject has lost everything, and the photographer is powerless to compensate for the slightest loss.

The photographer has nothing more to offer than a testimony to the devastation, like an appeal to the rest of the world.

This docufiction tells the story of Wei, a Chinese worker who came to France, like 140,000 others, to take part in the war effort between 1916 and 1918. When more than 20,000 will die, a few thousand will settle in Paris or around, for a life they hadn't imagined. They constituted the first Chinese immigration in France.

A book, published for the 100th anniversary of this event not well-known, to reconnect with our history and strengthen our memory.

Edgar, Gaston and their friends are determined to fight against the concrete development of Basse-Terre, Guadeloupe, the chlordecone scandal and the proliferation of commercial zones.

But how?

With imagination and bananas! Lots of bananas!