LES ÉDITIONS DES ÉLÉPHANTS · 12 devinettes pour découvrir les animaux ... Tiger licks his lips. But the cunning Fox asks for freedom; ... That is till they meet a wise

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LES ÉDITIONS DES ÉLÉPHANTS

picture books • 3

Pour arriver dans un pays où on n’attendrait que moi !

2 • board book

PAPILLOTEVIOLAINE MARLANGE

Follow Papillote’s baby steps.Papillote parents loved each other so much that one day he came to be. Papillote goes through all childrens’ first steps, onto emancipation and then to explore the world !

2016•boardbook•2 years and up• 18 x 18 cm•34 p.•12 €

Rights sold : Chinese

EARTH CHILDFRANCE QUATROMME, SANDRINE BONINI

Poetic and universal.Be it Africa, Greenland, West Indies, China, Brazil or Australia, France Quatromme draws multiple inspirations for her beautiful lullaby rhymes from bedtime around the world. Each time she creates the familiar surroundings of the baby she is talking to by the pitch of the melody, the bark of a dog, a star shining bright. Indeed, for babies everywhere she has created a charming and universal picture book beyond compare.

2017•2 years and up•20 x 22 cm•32 p.•14 €

Pour arriver dans un pays où on n’attendrait que moi !

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HIDE AND SEEK When Grey suggests a game of hide and seek all the animals come to play.At the slightest breath of wind, Brown, the small donkey jumps and hides behind her,Grey the large horse. Today Grey is in a bad mood. But, after nibbling plenty of fresh grass, saying hello to Blanchette in the field next door and laughing as she chases the train going by, boredom starts to set in… So Grey suggests they play hide and seek. They start to play but Brown is no fun at all; first she cries out where she’s hiding, second, despite the help of cat and bird, her ears and hooves can still be seen. Then dog comes along and he knows an excellent place to hide…

2017•3 years and up•21 x 24 cm• 32 p.•hardcover•14 €

« Rose comme un bonbon, j’ai la queue en tire-bouchon.

Devine qui je suis ? »

12 devinettes pour découvrir les animaux de la ferme en s’amusant.

16 €ISBN : 978-2-37273-028-0

DIFFUSION : HARMONIA MUNDI 9782372730280

© Les Éditions des Éléphants, 2017 – 16, av. Robert-Schuman, 75007 Paris – www.les-editions-des-elephants.comLoi n° 49-956 du 16 juillet 1949 sur les publications destinées à la jeunesse, modifiée par la loi n° 2011-525 du 17 mai 2011

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MAY ANGELI

May Angeli is the author and artist of a great variety of books. Her work has been admired for some fifty years most particularly her skill in woodcuts. She has received many awards, including the Grand Prix de l’Illustration de Moulins in 2013. Her books are collected by many national libraries.

ANIMAL RIDDLEA cross between an art book and an animated book.Featuring twelve different families of farm animals. The French version the book opens on a riddle teamed with a woodcut. The riddles aim to have the child and reader guess which animal will be revealed before lifting the flaps. When the first of the two flaps is lifted it reveals the illustrated answer to the riddle, the second to show images of animals from the same family composing triptych as shown above.

2017•2 years and up•14 x 20 cm• 24 p. with flaps•hardcover•16 €

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THE PUDDLE Magnificient woodcuts illustrate this lovely picturebook for toddlers.The rain has stopped. There is only one puddle left on the path. A bee, a swallow, some sparrows, a turtle, and a few ducks in turn cool down in this puddle. When a little girl arrives and says: « Me too! I want to play to play with you! »; the ducks, waddle away. But playing alone is no fun! Luckily, a small pig arrives. The strength of this picture book resides in its simplicity: the artist turns a prosaic puddle into a real piece of art. Children will be filled with wonder to see nature come to life shortly after the rain, and the animals’ parade to quench their thirst or to frolic in the water. The Puddle is an artist’s book for toddlers.


Rights sold : Complex Chinese (except China)

RITA WANTS A BABY A witty picturebook on a theme close to children’s hearts : the arrival of a new baby. Rita wants a baby. The idea fills her with joy so as soon has she lays an egg she sings ! And Irma the farmer comes and collects her egg… Finally she decides to lay her egg quietly and out of Irma’s way, a ways further by the cats have their playground. Beware she warns them both her beak and her claws are sharp. By day Rita keeps and eye on her egg but by night she must return to the hen house. There the very idea of her baby left to the mercy of any lurking danger gives her the nightmares. So when on her next visit she finds only egg shells her heart is filled with angst. Will Rita find her little baby?



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MAGIC MAMAM

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He Zhihong received her diploma from the Fine Arts School of Pekin. She illustrated over twenty childrens’ books, she paints using traditional Chinese techniques both on silk and on rice paper. Guillaume Olive, her husband, a chinese translator, rewrites these traditionnal chinese tales.

THE TAIL OF THE RABBIT Find out how the rabbit got his little round tail.Back in the day, when rabbits had beautiful bushy tails, a rabbit and his mate were on the riverbank and wished to cross to the other side of the river where the grass seemed greener. While as they were trying to find a way across, mama turtle came swimming down the river. Spotting her, the rabbits think they can trick her into helping them cross the river. Their ruse will not go unpunished…

2016•3 years and up•16,5 x 28 cm•32 p.•hardcover•14 €


Les lapins et la tortue Guillaume Olive ~ He Zhihong

THE FOX AND THE TIGERThe triumph of intelligence over force!On a beautiful sunny morning, Fox decides to go for a walk. But suddenly, here is the tiger! Happy to have found his future breakfast, Tiger licks his lips. But the cunning Fox asks for freedom; he claims that he has been appointed master of the wood by the Emperor himself. As a proof, he asks Tiger to accompany him through the forest, so that he can see with his own eyes how respected he is. Indeed, as they drew near, all animals scamper...

2017•4 years and up•28 x 16,5 cm•32 p.•hardcover•14 €


THE SPLASH A traditional tale that brings to light the dangers of spreading rumours, and of the importance of questioning the information one receives.Playing on the riverbank, rabbit hears a terrific «SPLASH». Terrified he flees through the forest, spreading the news, “Beware the SPLASH is coming after us”. Soon all the animals are running in panic. That is till they meet a wise tiger, who is the first to inquire as to what exactly is this SPLASH they are all running from? This tale exists in various cultures; here it is accompanied by paintings on rice paper.

2015•3 years and up•16,5 x 28 cm•32 p.•hardcover•14 €


GUILLAUME OLIVE, HE ZHIHONG

Le Plouf Guillaume Olive ~ He Zhihong

Au bord de la rivière, un énorme Plouf retentit.

Terrifié, le lapin détale en criant à tue-tête : « Au secours, voilà le Plouf ! »

La panique gagne la forêt...

Diffusion : Harmonia Mundi

ISBN : 978-2-37273-009-9

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Guillaume Olive ~ He ZhihongLE PLOUF

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NIGHT EXPLORERSANNE BROUILLARD

Anne Brouillard has published more than thirty picture books. She is renouned for her poetic universe in which, animal, and nature live in peacful harmony.

An ode to imagination, nature, and time passing. In the deap dark forest Gaspard, his rabbit, and Mimi the cat have built a tree house before setting out to explore the world… The world, we soon discover stops at the edge of the garden. Indeed just beyond their deep dark jungle is the House and as night falls its glows reassuringly.

2015•4 years and up• 23 x 30 cm• 32 p.• hardcover•15 €

Rights sold : Arabic

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ZOE’S CARAVANCLAUDE CLÉMENT, MAGALI DULAIN

Home is where the heart is…Once upon a time, there was a little farmer named Zoe. Having been evicted from her house, she creates a new cosy home in a wooden caravan. She lives there with only her young goat and her cat, until… a squirrel, a little hen, an owl, and an old horse… knock on her door. Each time, Zoe opens her heart and her home. With each new housmate, things get more snug and happier!... A beautiful fable on the meaning of solidarity and the value of a community.

2015•4 years and up•22 x 28,5 cm•32 p.•hardcover•14 €

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Il y avait un jardin. Un jardin tellement grand, un jardin sans fin. Un jardin sauvage

qui avait été habité par des princes et des princesses. Des vrais, pas ceux des histoires inventées.

Avant notre arrivée, le jardin avait été abandonné. Les princes et les princesses avaient été chassés,

les grands portails de fer avaient été fermés. La ville où se trouvait ce jardin secret avait sombré

dans la guerre, et plus personne n’avait entendu chanter les oiseaux ni l’eau des fontaines…

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THE INSIDE-OUTSIDE GARDEN CHIARA MEZZALAMA, RÉGIS LEJONC

Chiara Mezzalama is an italian author. Inspired by her youth, this story is a powerful evocation of childhood. Régis Lejonc, a famous french illustrator, captures the innocence, hope and enchantment of new friendships.

A wartime friendship between two children, living on different sides of a wall.

In 1980, Chiara’s father is appointed italian ambassador in Teheran in war torn Iran. The rest of the family will follow in the summer. One warm evening Chiara packs her suitcase. She takes toys, where they are headed she is not sure to find some. Where they are headed, there is an Inside and an Outside. Inside: a wild and enchanted garden. Outside: a monster city, soldiers, bombs. Between both a wall. One day, a boy climbs over the wall and into the garden... Soon they become fast friends…

2017• 7 years and up•21 x 33 cm•40 p.•hardcover•15 € THE GREAT FIREGILLES BAUM, BARROUX

Published in partnership with Amnesty International France.

This timeless fable is an ode to books and freedom; to the power of words and culture in the face of oppression.Black smoke is rising from the city where a fire has been raging for months. In his palace, the Sultan rejoices as one by one, his kingdom’s books are tossed into the flames. Soon, all traces of the past will have disappeared. Only his own history will remain. When the fire dies, a child sifts through the ashes and finds a few words that haven’t perished resisted the flames: “O wonder, a garden in the flames.” Overcoming his fear, he copies them onto the palace walls. The crowd starts to imitate him, writing before words disappear from memory. The weight of these words leads to the collapse of the wall – and the tyrant. Barroux’s paintings offer splendid variations on colours. Lines of Arabic poetry appear here and there in the text and images.

2016•7 years and up•24 x 29 cm•32 p.•hardcover•14 €

14 • Igor & Souky

THE PALACE OF VERSAILLES

THE CENTRE POMPIDOU

THE SHADOWS OF THE CAVE

IGOR & SOUKYSIGRID BAFFERT, SANDRINE BONINI

5 years up•17 x 22 cm•40 p.•hardcover•11 €

The Igor and Souky series are a story and a guide all in one.

THE PARIS SEWERS

THE EIFFEL TOWER

Sigrid Baffert Sandrine Bonini

À LA TOUR EIFFEL

Chaque mercredi, Igor et Souky visitent un monument de Paris.

Avec eux, découvres-en plus sur les lieux emblématiques de la capitale !

Savais-tu que la tour Eiffel a d’abord été rouge ? Qu’elle pèse plus lourd que 2 000 éléphants ?

Qu’à ses débuts, beaucoup la trouvaient laide ?

C’est ce qu’apprend Igor ce mercredi en visitant avec son papa la fameuse Dame de fer.

Ce qu’il ignore, c’est qu’il va rencontrer pour la première fois une petite fille qu’il ne connaît pas

encore. Elle s’appelle Souky…

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Aujourd’hui, Igor et Souky visitent le zoo de Paris ! L’occasion de faire le tour du monde des animaux

et de croiser près de 200 espèces différentes. Mais juste après les otaries, les choses se gâtent

pour Souky : « J’ai perdu mon lapin nain ! Je voulais qu’il voie du pays, lui aussi… »

Et voilà que leur visite pédagogique tourne à la course contre la montre !

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« Puisque je te dis que, sous Paris, il y a une autre ville ! Si tu ne me crois pas, on va envoyer un message. »

Pour retrouver le message ultracon dentiel disparu dans une bouche d’égout, Igor et Souky font appel à

Mamido. La grand-mère entraîne nos petits héros dans le dédale souterrain des égouts parisiens…

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L’Opéra Garnier ? Souky le connaît comme sa poche,

sa maman y travaille ! Elle entraîne Igor derrière elle, lui faisant découvrir la salle de spectacle, les coulisses,

les sous-sols… Mais très vite, la visite tourne à la cavale : Igor en est sûr,

il a aperçu une sorcière rousse à leurs trousses !

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BABEL - The Big Book of ReligionsPASCALE HÉDELIN, GAËLLE DUHAZÉ

Using simple words to describe each religion, this documentary attempts to bring to light their common features instead of their differences and emphasizes the importance of living together. In the Babel building reside 3 families of different faiths : 1 Muslim, 1 Jewish and 1 Christian. Below, is Mister Felix’s grocery store, he is atheist. 4 floors (like 4 mini books), 4 seasons during which we follow each family in their customs, celebrations, traditions, and diets. This book also breifly introduces other religions such as Buddhism or Hinduism.

2015•7 years and up•4 independently cut floors•spiral bound•16 x 40 cm•32 p.•16,50 €

Rights sold : Italian

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16 • narrative nonfiction

THE CHILDREN OF HOPEANNICK DE GIRY, BRUNO PILORGET


The journey of 8 of today’s children to change their world.They live in the Philippines, Pakistan, Colombia, India and Brazil. Despite experiencing the worst, they never once thought they were too weak, too young or too alone to fight injustice. Their strength of character helped them change things for themselves and other children. The text and images in this book tell the story of these battles, creating hope and setting examples for other young people.

2016•9 years and up•22 x 23 cm•64 p.•hardcover•15 €

Rights sold : Korean

RUBY – HEAD HIGHIRÈNE COHEN-JANCA, MARC DANIAU


Louisiana 1960s, Whites and Blacks do not mix. But times are changing.Ruby cannot study at school close to home, reserved for Whites – she has to go to another school, far away. But segregation is coming to an end. When she is 6 years old, Ruby is admited to a school, which used to be reserved for the Whites. The population is highly hostile. When Ruby arrives in her new classroom, she is the only student... Ruby Bridges has become an icone, notably by becoming the subject of Norman Rockwell’s famous painting, The Problem We All Live With, where she is seen on the way to school escorted by 4 federal agents.


TALES OF THE CHINESE PEOPLEGUILLAUME OLIVE, HE ZHIHONG

Seven wonderful traditional chinese tales.The characters in this book are as varied and as interesting as the people who invented them: an old man with a green beard, a dog that was born in an ear, a fierce and flea-infested ogress, a child who walked all his life to find the sun. Each of these stories reflects a different tradition. The authors, who love popular myths and customs, collected these tales from minorities living in China’s distant south-west mountains. Those presented here were selected for their impact and originality. Each ethnic group is portrayed in a painting on silk. The stories themselves are illustrated with paintings on rice paper.

2016•7 years and up•17,5 x 24,5 cm•96 p.•clothbound•16,90 €


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THE NECKLACE OF PRINCESS FLORIMONDEMARY DE MORGAN, YVONNE GILBERT

Mary de Morgan (1850-1907) is the British author of 3 volumes of fairy tales. Mary de Morgan was a member of women’s suffragist group the Women’s Franchise League.

A traditional fairy tale in which women are strong and indepent.Once upon a time there was a wicked princess named Fiorimonde. With the help of a witch, she uses black magic to maintain her beauty. When her father demands she marry, Fiorimonde, not wishing her suitors to discover her secret, transforms them into beautiful beads strung upon an enchanted necklace. Her maid Yolande, and a friend of one of the suitors, learns of the Princess’ true nature and decides to free the suitors from their curse.

2015•9 years up•17,5 x 24,5 cm• 64 p.•clothbound•18 €

Rights sold : Russian

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