Our two friends, Oscar and Zoë, return to see Aristotle the learned orangutan, so that he can reveal the mysteries of sleep and how dreams work.

- She opened the door of her house and Calypso, the cat, and I walked on the moor along the cliffs. Tonight, we'll look at the stars. Then the seagull, a beautiful white bird with extraordinary powers, swirled around our heads. This book is part of the Chronos Prize selection, category CE1-CE2, 2021.

Falling back into childhood... remembering a specific fact and a memorable encounter! What could be better than meeting your future best friend on your birthday? "She is the friend I dreamed of, I am the friend she was waiting for. "However, this beautiful meeting has a very high price... the little girls will not be able to see each other again except with the agreement of the Queen of the Night. What will she decide?

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.

A pretty parable that mixes the life of a cherry tree with a mother's fight against illness.Usually, Clotilde and her mother liked to go for a walk, with the cat Pépère at their heels. They would climb to the top of the cherry tree to pick ripe fruit. But now, if Clotilde clutches her mother's breast a little too tightly, it hurts!

Do you know Molougolo, the island where it's always sunny? It's there that Hervé is going on Christmas vacation with his parents and his sister Lucie. Except that once there, it's always raining, perfect weather for frogs! But, Hervé doesn't care: he loses track of time: he plays with the super console Jeuga XMP 345 that he was gifted. Until the moment when CARABISTOUILLE appears. And then, everything goes crazy!

Aimy lives as a recluse in the woods at the behest of her mother, Rose, who tries to protect her. She has never been to school, cannot read or write, is unaware of the existence of cities, and has no idea that her lifestyle is out of the ordinary. But one day, Aimy becomes aware of the size of the world around her. Being excluded from it makes her deeply nostalgic. Why does Aimy live isolated from others? Will she be able to overcome her loneliness?

When I was little, at school, if they wanted to make me cry, they called me a "nigger". So there was no shortage of that, I would burst into tears... It is this story, the true story of her real life, that Jo Hoestlandt loves to hear her mother tell.

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...

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...

The series Alex et les monstres takes you in a comical universe where reigns twists and turns, humor and literature in a joyous mess.

Read the second volume here: Alex et les monstres - à la rescousse du restaurant

The Milkmaid and her Pail is a fable by Jean de La Fontaine about a little milkmaid who gets carried away by her daydream on her way to the city. The return to reality is rather brutal: she drops all the milk she was supposed to sell...

Louise lives in the city. She lives in a semi-detached house in a quiet neighbourhood in Limpertsberg. She has her attic room on the second floor, under the roof. From her window she has a beautiful view of the city.

Olga is 8 years old. She has already moved six times. The last one took her to a crooked house, flanked by multiple turrets. She starts tearing off the wallpaper in her new room to freshen it up, and discovers a tiny locked door. On the other side, someone is trying to communicate. But who is it? Another mystery arises: Olga's parents, who have gone for a walk in the nearby woods, are nowhere to be seen.

Lola is seven years old. She likes to draw with Daddy on the big table in the living room, to go to the Vincennes zoo with her Mummy and to eat waffles sprinkled with sugar-ice. She loves her damaged rabbit Léopold, her friend Maou and snail races in the rain. She also likes scary stories, especially stories about witches.

Peter is moving with his parents to a bigger house with a garden. All the furniture is loaded into the truck. All that's left to do is to leave. A last little tour of the house to see if anything has been forgotten. But, where is Pipite, Pierre's little cat ? Stuck somewhere, locked in a room? The truck is waiting in front of the house. Pierre can't leave without his cat.

The text is in French and English.

The Evening Poems are a ritornello dedicated to what frightens us, what we don't know, the tiny things that crawl under the earth or that rummage in the dark when night comes, the worries that creep up on us... These are poems on the theme of twilight and mystery, of the night that is both frightening and attractive, with the instruction to use rhymes, wordplay, and alliterations in -oir and -uit.

Despite the laws that say you have to love the king, the tyrant Crowfoot doesn't feel loved by his subjects. So he invents nightmare pillows that make their days better than their nights. But Antoine, the schoolmaster, and his pupils try to foil the plot.

 “Come on Dad ! Quick ! quick ! I want my birthday present !” Simon exclaims, pulling his Dad by the hand. There are many boats on the river Erdre and the Nantes Jazz Festival is about to begin but Simon does not see that, he is too impatient to discover his surprise.