Rights Catalogue Rouergue Fall 2013

FOREIGN RIGHTSAUTUMN 2013

Already published in the Pyjamarama collection:

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ACTIVITY BOOK MY PYJAMARAMA ROBOTS (P. 3)

PICTURE BOOKS BIGGER THAN YOU / I CAUGHT DYSLEXIA / MELI-MELODY (P. 4)

LOLA / COSTA BRAVA / (P. 5)

A DOG’S LIFE / POINTS – A GRAY GIANT ADVENTURE (P. 6)

THE MOUSTACHE BROTHERS (P. 7)

LITTLE RED LAUGHING HAT AND OTHER STUPENDOUS TALES (P. 7)

KID’S NOVELSBOOMERANG COLLECTION: THE ROCK BESIDE THE SEA/ON HE OTHER SIDE OF THE SEA,

TOTEM/I LOVE YOU, THE BOY OF THE BANKS/THE BOY OF THE SPUME (P. 8-9)

BENJAMIN AND HIS BUDDIES/SUPER DIVA AND TINY PIRATE (P. 10)

MARABOUT TO THE GOOSE (P. 11)

JUNIOR NOVELSMY BROTHER IS A WITCH (P. 11)

IN A WEEK COLLECTION: PHILOSOPHY IN A WEEK / MATH IN A WEEK (P. 12)

YOUNG ADULT NOVELSTHE WILD BOYS/THE HEART OF THE SHE-WOLVES (P. 13)

A LIZARD IN LOVE/SEVEN DAYS UPSIDE DOWN (P. 14)

ON THE ROOF / THE RUNAWAYS (P. 15)

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MY PYJAMARAMA ROBOTSBy Michaël Leblond and Frédérique Bertrand

In the Pyjamarama workshop, all drawings become magic.Using the technique Ombro-cinema, Frédérique Bertrandand Michaël Leblond create an activity book where eve-ryone can bring to life the robots of their dreams. The flas-hing lights, eyes and mechanism are provided, readersthen just have to imagine the contours and environment.Bringing the robot to life means gluing, drawing and era-sing. Certain inevitable repairs are also required.3 years + • 22 x 30 • 32 pages • 9.90 euros

Rights Sold : Chinese (simplified rights), Dutch, English, German, Italian,Japanese, Korean, Portuguese (Portugal and Brazil), Spanish.

MELI-MELODYby Henri Meunier and Martin JarrieA score with notes as well-behaved as images. An exer-cise designed as a simple musical scale – A to G – witha series of double pages with illustrations that echo eachother. The pictures of the objects all contain syllables fromthe scale. This musical alphabet is one way of familiarizingchildren with these universal syllables.3 years + • 15 x 15 • 24 pages • Boardbook • 10 euros




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I CAUGHT DYSLEXIAby Zazie SazonoffThe journey of a girl who muddles her ps and qs and is at6s and 7s with numbers. How does she do it? Perhapsshe's caught dyslexia. A sweet amusing album that playswith words and portrays dyslexia in a positive light.3 years + • 15 x 19 cm • 40 pages • Softback • 4.95 euros

BIGGER THAN YOUby Orit BergmanA story confronting two characters, an elephant and abird, in which the power relation is inversed. But while thebird is older and lighter the elephant has the final word,and the bird has further to fall. The second volume in a series for younger children (afterMolly Mollo), Bigger than you presents clearly definedcharacters living their day-to-day adventures.2 years + • 17 x 20 • 32 pages • Hardback • 10 euros

COSTA BRAVABy Olivier Douzou and Frédérique BertrandCosta Brava is the precious poodle that UncleJosé brought back from Spain. The dog is madeof plaster and sequins and has the ability to fore-cast the weather. Blue means sun and pink meansrain. After performing several experiments tocheck on the poodle’s reliability, Peter ends upbreaking it, and the weather and time go haywire.To conceal his crimes, Peter lurches from catas-trophe to catastrophe, as his guilt and secret grow.5 years + • 20 x 25 • 40 pages • Hardback • 16 euros

LOLAby Olivier DouzouRouergue Jeunesse birthday book!20 years after his first work, Olivier Douzou has produ-ced the sequel to “Jojo the Moo”, the story of the cowwho loses her horns, her tail and body before setting offon a journey around Milky Way. The tale also tells thestory of all cows, through birth, growing up and death,the story of life itself. Lola is the story of Jojo the Moo’sgrand-daughter, who also grows and changes, traver-sing adolescence before setting out on her own journeythrough the Milky Way. Once again there are multiple references, plays on words in this story of life renewed.3 years + • 18 x 23.8 • 32 pages • Hardback • 14 euros

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THE MOUSTACHE BROTHERSBy Alex Cousseau and Charles DutertreIn Burma, alongside the Nobel Peace Prize winner,Aung San Suu Kyi, they symbolize the popular re-sistance against oppression. For over twenty years,they have challenged power with a single weapon:laughter. In many countries throughout the world,there are loving buffoons like Charlie Chaplin or theMarx Brothers who act as a force of opposition be-neath the nose of the powers. People who are so-rely missed when they disappear or when they areabolished. In the eyes of the authority, they are ne-cessarily guilty and dispensable. In Burma they callthem “moustache brothers” because they alwaysgrow back. 5 years + • 29.7 x 21 • 40 pages • Hardback • 17 euros

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LITTLE RED LAUGHING HAT AND OTHERSTUPENDOUS TALESby Henri MeunierThis is a tribute to fairytales, a mainstay of children’s li-terature: Cinder-elephant, Little Red Laughing Hat, Bal-loon Beard and the Little Sly Wren, etc ...The titles of traditional folktales are twisted to create funpuzzles and plays on words, frolicking with sounds andhomonyms. The puzzle creates a new title offering freshnarrative possibilities, bringing with it an original tale. Atale that seems always to have existed. Seven puzzlesengendering seven original tales, illustrated in a 19thcentury fashion, whose relationships with the originaltales create endless fun.6 years + • 19 x 26 • 48 pages • Hardback • 14.50 euros

A DOG’S LIFEby Christian VoltzThe hero, an unhappy subject of the animal kingdom, disil-lusioned with his life sets out on a small journey pepperedwith animal expressions. Along the way he comes acrossa dog who agrees to help him find a new meaning in life. A book where stubborn destiny turns on a dime and is turnedupside down for no reason at all. An album where humansare treated like animals and where dogs are finally consideredwith affection. 3 years + • 21 x 21 • 48 pages • Hardback • 12.50 euros

POINTS – A GRAY GIANT ADVENTUREby Gaëtan DorémusThe Gray Giant flees the humdrum life of his gray land andheads off on a new adventure (after the first volume: Monami – Une aventure de géant gris – My friend, a Gray Giantadventure) in search of the land, where forms, figures andreliefs appear and disappear with no idea whether theyreally exist, where the border is made of dotted lines. It isthe land of points and suggestions, where everythingseems to have been left hanging in the air. The giant’s biggame will be to wake everything up by twirling his armsaround or blowing.4 years + • 17.7 x 27 • 40 pages • Hardback • 16.50 euros

gaëtan dorémusUNE AVENTURE DE GÉANT GRIS

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TOTEM Victor’s village is poised on the frontier between two lands.When Victor is not at school, he amuses himself at the footof a tree that has become his totem. One day, as he is dra-wing his favorite animal, beneath a piece of bark he discoversan inscription: A and V, encompassed by a heart. Should hefall in love with a girl whose first name begins with A?

I LOVE YOUAt the foot of a mountain, an immense burrow has been dug.Vasco the Giant has always lived there. One evening whenout walking, he finds the abandonned head of a giant. But ifyou find a head, should you or shouldn’t you pick it up?Vasco heads out looking for the body that must be waitingsomeone for its head to return.




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ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE SEAOyana grew up on the other side of the sea. She has agift for taming the wild. When she sets out with half of hervillage to take refuge in an unknown port, Oyana tamesthe sea. Awaiting the day of their departure, Oyana spendsher days in the water. She tells the water of her life anddreams and is surprised that anyone could find the seadangerous when Oyana finds her so sweet and gentle.

THE ROCK BESIDE THE SEA Cedric has always lived by the sea and goes for walksalong the beach with his dog. In the sand, he comesacross all manner of trinkets, but this time, he finds agirl. The girl has dark eyes and golden skin. Cedric isconvinced she is a princess from the sea.

BOOMERANG COLLECTION7 years + • 12 x 17 cm • 48/64 pages • €6/6.50

A double-edged collection, with an A-side and a B-side to be read in both directions,symbolically looking at the desire of reading. Fun books for 7-9 year olds offering two

short novels, which, while cultivating differences shed light on each other. The “boomerang effect” brings two stories in one book to prolong and vary the pleasures.

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THE ROCK BESIDE THE SEA / ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE SEABy Claudine Galea

On one side of the sea, a child awaits a boat with his family to cross the ocean and es-cape from war. On the other side, a solitary child wanders along the beach with his dog

waiting for school to start again.

TOTEM / I LOVE YOUBy Alex Cousseau

The text provides a joyous combination of contemporary reality and fantasy providing apoetic image of love.

THE BOY OF THE SPUMESylvain’s parents spend their lives on their canal barge. Sylvainwould never dream of living on land. But he is intrigued by aboy who watches him from the bank. Each time Sylvainchugs by his home, he sees him and notices his hands, handthat dance.

THE BOY OF THE BANKSamuel’s parents are deaf, so to make themselves unders-tood they set their hands dancing. Samuel also knows signlanguage, but what he wants to know about above all is thename of the boy of the spume, a boy the same age as himwho never leaves his parents’ barge. From the banks of thecanal, Samuel watches him pass and sometimes dares towave.

THE BOY OF THE BANKS / THE BOY OF THE SPUMEBy Cathy Ytak and Thomas Scotto




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MARABOUT TO THE GOOSEBy Sébastien Joanniez and Régis LejoncLeo is an only son. He doesn’t look like his buddies and thatbugs him. So he goes chasing after “another”, someone wholooks like him, a twin brother, a clone. Fortunately in his hou-sing project, there is Nora, his girlfriend. He has never stop-ped loving her, and she is always there when he needs her.It is her who takes him down to the basement of the buildingto meet a mysterious African, a Marabout who knows whatto do to get a twin. You have to wait for the full moon andslip a puppet with straw hair beneath your parents’ bed. 7 years + • 12 x 17 • 96 pages • 7 euros

SUPER DIVA AND TINY PIRATEBy Julie Bonnie and Charles DutertreOne evening an elder sister becomes afraid of the white bear that eatschildren. To comfort her, her younger brother crawls into bed with herto protect her with his magic hand. To overcome her boredom and herfear, the elder sister imagines that elves will come and help her sleep.Except this time, the elves really do arrive and toss the children into theland of dreams. Hence begins a series of journeys: a surprising confron-tation with the famous white bear, a frenetic chase with a would-begrandmother and a slice of pizza. Followed by a well deserved journeyhome because, after all, traveling can become tiring and the elves areexhausted. 7 years + • 12 x 17 • 96 pages • 7 euros

BENJAMIN AND HIS BUDDIESBy Vincent Cuvellier and Aurélie GrandIn this volume Vincent Cuvellier’s three great works: Tu parles, Charles !(You’re telling me, Charles) La Chauffeuse de bus (The lady bus driver)and Jean-Débile Monchon et moi (John-Dummy Munchon) are finallybrought together! Benjamin has been delegated by his teacher to take homework to hisbedridden classmate. The boy has the head of an old man and hugeglasses. Gradually this daily chore brings friendship. Benjamin takes the bus to school and the bus driver is both ugly andmean. One morning he falls asleep and misses his stop and finds himselfalone with the bus driver, dreading what might happen. His day skippingschool, however, turns out to be highly memorable. At school John Christopher Munchon is the dunce of the class and thebane of Benjamin’s life. So when he has to spend a whole evening withhim, he expects the worst. And he is right too, because Munchon livesup admirably to his reputation.7 years + • 14 x 19 • 170 pages • 11.50 euros

MY BROTHER IS A WITCHby Arnaud TiercelinIn Arnaud’s school, all the teachers are female, except Mathieu, hisschoolmaster, whom he adores. When he goes off on a trainingweek, Arnaud fears the worst. The replacement teacher is called Viviane and Viviane isn’t a very promising name. Imagine if she won’teven let them lift a finger! When his older brother, an unbearableteenager who always makes fun of Arnaud tells him that some ofhistory’s most famous witches are called Viviane, Arnaud is reallyworried. Arnaud becomes increasingly scared of the replacementteacher to the point of making himself ill. Fortunately Viviane has afew tricks up her sleeve to unmask the real witches in life. 10 years + • 12 x 17 • 80 pages • 8 euros approx.

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THE WILD BOYSby Ahmed KalouazThe events take place in the 19th century. After the death of his father,Hippolyte Darasse, 14 years old, is entrusted by his mother to anunaffectionate uncle. The boy immediately flies the coop in pursuitof a highway robber. The pair is arrested and the boy is sent to a pe-nitentiary colony for delinquent children, Boussaroque. The colonyis much more prison than education center. Hippolyte recounts hishard labor in the fields, the famine, the illness and the dungeon, butalso the friendships and solidarity. The adventure really begins whenhe decides to run away with Julian, a boy whom he has taken underhis wing. Later, his love of freedom takes him to the port of Cette,before he returns to the colony to militate against the conditions oflife and injustice of the place.12 years + • 14 x 20.5 • 144 pages • 10 euros env.




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PHILOSOPHY IN A WEEKLena’s older sister, Charlotte, has just discoveredphilosophy and at each dinner browbeats her fa-mily with what she has just learned, be it Plato,Kant or Hegel. All her jargon really annoys Lena. So, each day the girl cannot prevent herself frominterpreting everything she hears in her own wayand applying it to her daily life, especially to whatshe has on her plate. This hilarious work in the“In a Week” collection also provides an initiationinto the essential concepts of philosophy.

MATH IN A WEEKLena doesn’t understand math, but Yvon in herclass is a real genius with numbers. Her eldersister Charlotte is in the twelfth grade, and jug-gles with equations with several unknowns.There is something else Lena does not unders-tand: why Yvon and her have bumped into eachother and spoken more during this particularweek. What if love, like math, was a secret languagethat requires deciphering? We are gradually ledinto a blossoming love life through the prism ofmathematics.

“… IN A WEEK” COLLECTIONBy Rachel Correnblit and Cécile Bonbon

8 years + • 15 x 21 • 24 pages • 7.50 euros

Each book covers a week in the life of Lena, a bright observant child, who isn’t necessarily top of the class, and who asks a lot of questions.

The authors have created a form of schoolbook revisiting issues relating to school subjects with great humor.


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THE HEART OF THE SHE-WOLVESby Stéphane ServantCelia and her mother Catherine, a one-time successful writer nowsuffering from writers’ block, go to live in the house of Celia’s long-dead grandmother in the heart of a lost village in the mountains. Thelocal residents seem far from happy about their return. Only Alice, awild girl who lives outside the village with her father, is pleased to wel-come Celia. When they were kids, the pair would play together, whe-never Celia spent her holidays with her grandmother. Soon a strangerelationship forms between the pair, as though Alice has found herdouble in Celia. On the plateau overlooking the village, a dark lakeseems to have engulfed many secrets. Some in the village still believein the secret legend of the she-wolf who commands a pack of wildbeasts. In this land where past and present are intimately related, no-body forgets a single thing.14 years + • 14 x 20.5 • 544 pages • 17.50 euros

Press reviews :Le Monde – An initiatory and powerful story about the search of freedom and budding identities.Magazine LIRE – Undoubtedly The novel to read this autumn.

SEVEN DAYS UPSIDE DOWNby Thomas GornetWhat did happen in this junior high school boy’s life to make himspend a Sunday afternoon in the cemetery with his parents?We rewind through time and each chapter revisits a different dayof the week, gradually revealing clues and, as in a criminal inves-tigation, we gradually discover who is dead and how. From theday of the funeral rewinding back to the previous Sunday, theday of the fatal event. The tone of the novel is lighter than onemight expect and often tongue in cheek, saving the reader frommorbid reflections. Instead we share several days in the life of afamily, a schoolboy and his friends.12 years + • 14 x 20.5 • 68 pages • 8 euros

ON THE ROOFby Frédérique NiobeyOne Saturday night, twelve teenagers meet up on the roofof a building overlooking the city. Alix has brought his cameraalong to film them. Each is to tell a story, a story that is im-portant to them, a story they have never told anyone. Thesetwelve teenagers want to tell the story of their lives, expresstheir anger but also their desire for freedom, love and joy.Everything their parents would be frightened to hear. Per-haps they could project the film on big screens, in the city,so that finally they are heard? The camera homes in on eachface and the voices start to speak: Dek tells of the day heshaved his head. Eïla tells of her brother Ali whom she’s onlyseen three times in her life. The only person missing is Flora,the girl with the funny Eastern accent, who turned up oneday out of the blue. They send her text messages to jointhem. They want to hear her tale, she must have one to tell.13 years + • 14 x 20.5 • 144 pages • 11 euros approx.

THE RUNAWAYSby Sylvie DeshorsLisa and Laurie have been friends since junior high. Lisa isa rebel and for months her anger against her stick-in-the-mud parents and society has been growing daily. For Laurie,meanwhile, life hasn’t been rosy since her mother startedworking away from home during the week. The two girlsdecide to rebel and run away to a forest occupied by eco-logical warriors protesting against the construction of theNotre-Dame-des-Landes airport near Nantes. Here theydiscover community life and collective struggle. A woman,an old militant, takes them under her wing. She too onceran away from home to “change the world”. In several days,Lisa and Laurie learn much about themselves and others. 13 years + • 14 x 20.5 • 96 pages • 9 euros approx.

A LIZARD IN LOVEby Alex CousseauTobias is set to turn 16 and lives in an isolated spot amongstreams and forests. Karim has always been his best friend and,a year ago, Zoe joined the pair to make a trio. Zoe is a year olderand, without anyone saying anything, the two boys come torealize they are both in love with her, and that if ever she has tochoose between them, their friendship would be over. Tobias is overwhelmed by his secret desire. Zoe’s eyes andsmile make him weak at the knees. He can’t help but repeather name over and over; even his father realizes his son is inlove. The tale covers five stories that take place between springand summer telling of the discovery of love during adolescence,how love brings a different perspective on life, and how fear andshame can be overcome. From silence, to the first kiss, to the“first time”, Tobias experiences all the feelings related to love.14 years + • 14 x 20.5 • 96 pages • 8 euros









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Rights Catalogue Rouergue Fall 2013