Rouergue Rights Catalogue Fall 2012

FOREIGN RIGHTSAUTUMN 2012

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BOARD BOOKS PONY / DACHSHUND / BEAR / CAT (P. 3)

PICTURE BOOKS ME IN PAJAMARAMA (P. 4)

THREE LITTLE PEAS / TICK-TOCK TRUCK (P. 5)

MY FRIEND, A GRAY GIANT ADVENTURE

GOOD DOCTOR MADLOUSE / MISTER 2D (P. 6)

A BREEZE / GOLDILOCKS AND THE TWO BEARS

THE ADVENTURES OF ALEXANDER THE ACORN (P. 7)

KID’S NOVELSBOOMERANG COLLECTION: MY BROTHER IS A HORSE/A HORSE NAMED STORM,

BENT DOUBLE/GREEN WITH FEAR (P. 8-9)

SUPER-FERRET / DOWN WITH KISSING! / WHEN I GET BORED, I SAVE THE WORLD /

THE PROBLEM WITH CHRISTMAS (P. 10-11)

JUNIOR NOVELSARISTOTLE IN LOVE / THE GHOST-TRAP (P.12)

WHAT DOES CRUSOE DREAM ABOUT? / POP SUMMER (P.13)

YOUNG ADULT NOVELSHOW TO BECOME A ROCK STAR (OR NOT) / MY HEART IN THE RAPIDS (P. 14)

ASKTHEIMPOSSIBLE.COM / THE THREE LIVES OF ANTOINE ANARCHASIS (P. 15)

YOUNG ADULT THRILLERSLEEP TIGHT, SHRIMP! (P. 16)

3BOARD BOOKS

- One nursery verse per collection- Theme: Animals- Each collection features a variation around one animal: pony, dachshund, cat, poodle, trout, piglet, hen, etc. - Rolling cover principle: the cover visuals placed in sequence form a bigger picture- With each new book published, a picture of the animal in the book joins pictures of the previous animals- A 20 page cardboard book for the very young- 12 titles planned

ROLLING NURSERY VERSE2 years + • 15 x 20 cm • 20 pages • Boardbook • €10

A new collection of illustrated storybooksOlivier Douzou and Frédérique Bertrand

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PONYThe first in the continuous rolling series stars Ponywho takes stock of himself and decides he is in fora great future. Naturally, nobody believes him.

DACHSHUNDThe second volume of verse looks at a disobedientDachshund who refuses to lie down. This time he’sreally gone too far.

BEARThe third volume of verse looks at a bear who en-ters a race with something striped reminiscent ofthe bars of his cage.

CATFrom early morn, throughout the day, then at sun-down, through to the heart of the night. One clue:Meeoow! Who can it be?

THREE LITTLE PEASby Marine Rivoal

Two plump little peas go AWOL, laughing and bouncing untildanger appears. Each picture holds clues - a marble, a key,a car – about what they encounter along the way, a referenceto the passage from childhood to the more material world ofadults. Pursued by all manner of beasts, they manage to es-cape and burrow themselves away next to each other. Fi-nally, they germinate. Life keeps rolling on and goes full circle,like two peas in a pod. The third pea finally turns up, but tosee it you have to prize your own mental pod wide open. 2 years + • 25 x 20 cm • 40 pages • €15

TICK-TOCK TRUCKby Olivier Douzou

A tiny truck is transporting 49 crates. On the crates is written a longsentence. But in his race against time the tiny truck sheds his load.The abandoned crates now spell out a different message, usingthe same letters as before: “Fire, police stop! Turn around!” Duringthe trip, the first sentence gradually disappears leaving only oneprecious crate when the truck finally arrives. T for truck! 3 years + • 21 x 28 cm • 32 pages • €14.50




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ME IN PAJAMARAMAMichaël Leblond and by Frédérique Bertrand

A child goes to bed and takes a journey through his body: Lightsflicker beneath his eyes, and inside his head he notices tingling.He imagines things circulating, feels his heart beating, and lis-tens to his breathing. What an incredible machine it is! After NewYork in pajamarama and Lunapark in pajamarama, the body be-comes the latest dream world. When the gears get rusty, theshivers and sweats start. Our hero breaks through the bars ofhis pajamas and his body escapes; the dream turns into a fever.A book in two dimensions: vertically, there is Frédérique Ber-trand’s illustrated story responding to the horizontal and tactileimagery of Michaël Leblond, who has created graphics thatspring magically to life thanks to a striped acetate sheet.4 years + • 24 x 32 cm • 24 pages • €16.80

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THE ADVENTURES OF ALEXANDER THE ACORNby Olivier Douzou

This is the tale of an acorn, the last descendant of a great oak,who refuses to follow the time-honored family tradition of falling,burrowing to survive then growing to ensure the survival of thespecies. It is a work about life in general, about its learning curveand moral values. It is a work that pays tribute to Collodi’s Pinocchio and draws similar lessons through a series of encoun-ters and fables exploring laziness and cowardice.7 years + • 20 x 26 cm • 112 pages • €24.80




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MISTER 2Dby Bruno Heitz

Paper-cut-out Mister 2D is curious to discover the world in 3 di-mensions. With an accordion he creates a staircase, and disap-pears into an unknown world where all he wants to do is“surface” again and rediscover his true nature. Bruno Heitz’spaper constructions (photographed in black and white) unfoldwith magical simplicity in this tale.5 years + • 21 x 28 cm • 40 pages • €16.50

A BREEZEby Juliette Binet

An accordion book connecting two characters together, one onthe front cover, the other on the back. The book unfolds andencounters the two extremities, formed by the two characters. When you want to speak to someone close, sometimes youhave to use special methods. Two people standing back to backseem to ignore each other. One talks to the other in a whisperthat turns into a breeze, a gust, and a storm that is unleashedover the oceans. It is strong enough to go around the world orat least around a book, which is here imagined as a panoramicpoem, unfolding like a silent but ever so eloquent landscape.5 years + • 21 x 17.5 cm • 14 pages • €18

GOOD DOCTOR MADLOUSEby Olivier Douzou and José Parrondo

Little Edgar Allan keeps on coughing. His mom calls out gooddoctor Madlouse, the general practitioner to the lice. He returnswith his diagnosis the following day, and there can be no doubtabout it, little Edgar Allan has caught hair. Hair is very contagiousamong lice and soon Doctor Madlouse is overwhelmed bycases. The epidemic spreads like wildfire, even the larvae catchhair. Doctor Madlouse scratches his head and thinks: He has ahunch about where the problem comes from. What if he, thegood doctor, was in fact some kind of “fire-raising firefighter”?After all, why do so many lice catch hair just after his visits?5 years + • 18 x 24 cm • 40 pages • €15

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GOLDILOCKS AND THE TWO BEARSby Zidrou and illustrations by Monika Hanulak

Once upon a time there were three bears who lived in a house.Happy with life, they sat down to a bowl of soup which turnedout to be too hot, so they went for a walk in the forest. But whenthe bears return, there are only two of them. Cutesy little babybear has gone missing. A little girl by the name of Goldilocksturns up but this time she is welcomed with open arms. She isoffered soup in a tiny bowl which has been tidied away in a spe-cial place, because, for mummy and daddy bear, hope springseternal. As in the traditional version of the tale, Zidrou evokes thequestion of adoption but also of borrowing. Monika Hanulak’s illustrations offer us a contemporary versionof the tale as well as a simple evocation of broader themes suchas disappearance and adoption.6 years + • 23 x 28 cm • 48 pages • €17.70

MY FRIEND, A GRAY GIANT ADVENTUREby Gaétan Dorémus

Gray Giant sets out to meet the sun but bumps into Barium,a tricky little yellow man who turns out to be a bit of a liar,something of a joker and slightly deceitful. Barium and GrayGiant finally end up as friends, before Gray Giant heads offback into his giant gray world.The author creates a manifesto for the color yellow and allthe values it represents through a simple tale about relation-ships with others, about difference and friendship. This firstGray Giant adventure looks at color, pointillism, shadow andmore. Gray Giant is a new character who will feature in a se-ries of picture books.4 years + • 17.7 x 27 cm • 40 pages • €16.50

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BENT DOUBLE by Rachel CorenblitJoseph is afraid of nothing: wolves, ogres, monsters and vam-pires – all make him burst out laughing. What’s more, he loves in-venting and telling horrible histories. At school, his teacher callshim Mister Terror because Joseph makes Leila, the prettiest girlin the class, cry. He also terrorizes Alexandre, the school’s bestsoccer player and the toughest in the playground. Instead of ma-king her cry, though, Joseph would love to make Leila smile, theway she smiles when Alexandre scores a goal. But that’s an en-tirely different question.

GREEN WITH FEARby Rachel CorenblitWhat is this ridiculous book with a pink cover that his sister has lefton her desk? Joseph opens it up with a sneer, until he is horrified todiscover the most terrifying story he will ever read: The story of aboy who’s terrible at sport, but who’d love to attract the attention ofthe prettiest girl in the class. The story gives him goosebumps. NowJoseph understands what he’s really scared of: love stories.




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A HORSE NAMED STORM by Alex CousseauOn the day of his eighth birthday, Sarantoya receives the present she’dbeen dreaming of: a horse. The horse is wild and has a lively tempera-ment. Sarantoya decides to name him “Storm”. That night, Sarantoyacannot sleep. She slips into Storm’s enclosure in her pajamas andmounts the horse. Barely is she on Storm’s back when Storm takes off,through the open stable door. For two days and two nights, Storm gal-lops without stopping. On the third day, when the pair is totally exhaus-ted, Storm stops and a boy comes over to them. It is Elvis. He has beenwaiting for them.

MY BROTHER IS A HORSE by Alex CousseauElvis was born on exactly the same day and at exactly the same timeas a foal, who is also called Elvis. In the Mongolian desert where helives, a shepherd’s life is hard, but as long as he can go horseriding,he is happy. Elvis is a wild horse, running free and only his younghuman namesake knows how to ride him. When Elvis is eight, thewinter is even harsher than the year he was born. Elvis decides to sellhis horse to help his parents. He promises his horse, however, that,one day, they will see each other again.

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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Two stories about a horse, that brings two children together.

Two stories about what makes Joseph laugh or cry.




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WHEN I GET BORED, I SAVE THE WORLDby Guillaume Guéraud and illustrations by MartinRomeroEugène is bored with everyday life and wants to live more ex-citing adventures. With disconcerting ease, he starts projec-ting himself into different fictional worlds: pirates, astronautsand manga comics. He loves imagining he’s a superhero de-feating bad guys. Often he casts his teacher, Miss Charbon-neau, as the enemy to be defeated, while Lisa the prettiest girlin the class is the princess who needs saving from the mons-ter’s clutches. Eugène’s natural tendency to hide his head inthe clouds isn’t to his teacher’s liking. His parents are worriedand his friends bewildered. Eugène doesn’t understand theproblem. When he grows up, he’s going to save the world.The doctor manages to reassure everyone. Eugène just needsescapism in life, and it’s something that he’s very good at. It isthis ability that is his real super-hero power, the kind of thingyou never learn at school.

THE PROBLEM WITH CHRISTMASby Agnès de Lestrade and illustrations by ClémencePolletSince the death of her mother in a car accident, Christmasholidays remind Cerise just how much she misses her mother.That year, like every year, Cerise and her father are invited toAunt Nina’s house. Nina is her mother’s twin sister. For Ceriseand her father, finding themselves in the whirl of Aunt Nina’shappy family life is like a knife in the heart. On the way to AuntNina’s house, a snow storm forces them to stop in a small vil-lage. The mayor of the tiny village invites them, along with theother stranded motorists, to sleep in the community hall. Thehall, though, is empty and cold, and there isn’t even a Christ-mas tree. With a little imagination, a disco ball, a nice hot soup,and everybody’s help, Cerise and her father spend one of thebest ever Christmas eves for years.

EARLY READING COLLECTION8 years + • 12 x 17 cm • 96 pages • €7

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SUPER-FERRETby Elisa Vix and illustrations by Chiara DattolaSince the start of the year, a number of little objects have disap-peared in Noémie’s class. With her friends, she decides to seekout the thief. To lead her investigations, Noémie has the perfectcompanion: Fly, a highly intelligent ferret. Apart from his unfortu-nate smell, he is extremely efficient and discreet. It is thanks toFly that Noémie manages to ferret out Etienne. But why Etienne?He’s such an unassuming kid and usually he causes zero pro-blems. What could possibly be his motivation? Noémie and herfriends understand that Etienne’s step-mother is beating him andis trying to distance him from her father. How can Noémie help?Noémie calls up her friend, super-ferret, to elucidate the problemso that Etienne can win back his father’s love and trust.

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DOWN WITH KISSING!by Thomas Gornet and illustrations by Aurore PetitKaï has just turned 9, and at the age of 9, kisses are finished. Onthe day of his birthday, he proudly announces his decision andshakes his uncle and aunt’s hands. Everybody is dumbfounded,his parents have real difficulty accepting the situation. His grand-pop meanwhile doesn’t notice the difference (must said, he’s get-ting on). But Kaï feels so much better. Until the day he meetsPascal. “Why does Pascal cry all the time?” wonders Kaï. Tocheer him up, Kaï invites him home after school. But when Kaï’sgrandfather embraces Pascal, he breaks down in tears oncemore. His own grandfather has just died and he wasn’t allowedto embrace him one last time. Kaï starts asking himself a lot ofquestions. What do kisses mean? Is his own grandfather on theverge of dying? How do you show someone they matter to you?And how do you console a friend?

WHAT DOES CRUSOE DREAM ABOUT?by Florence DelaporteMia and her twin brother Thor live in Sydney, Australia, in a districtwhere the relations between Whites and Aborigines are highly strained.Since they were small, the twins have always dreamed the samedreams. But they lose touch with each other when Thor joins an anti-Aborigine gang. In Mia’s class, there is a new student, Crusoe. He isof Aboriginal original and asks Mia to help him with his school work. Inexchange for the private lessons, Crusoe initiates Mia into his cultureand into aboriginal symbols. Thor and Mia suddenly start dreamingthe same premonitory dreams that their home falls down or is flooded.As the dreams start, Crusoe disappears without a trace. Thor and Miaput their differences behind them to plunge into Aboriginal culture, toelucidate the meaning of their dreams and to find Crusoe.

POP SUMMERby Vincent CuvellierMario lives with his father in a hippy community where he makes hisown bread and cheese, and listens to jazz. The community is frownedupon in the village. Michel, meanwhile, spends his holidays in the samevillage with his parents. He has joined the local brass band and getshis kicks from throwing stones at the “hippies” with his gang. When they first meet, the pair does not hit it off. But Michel and Mariosoon learn to get along through music. Michel plays the snare drum,while Mario sings the blues and rock with an incredible voice, like ablack star. Accompanied by Michel, Mario wins over the audience at the villagefair and they are selected for a young talent television show. Togetherthey go to Paris for this big event. But who cares if they don’t win ? It’splaying music and enjoying the pleasure that counts.




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THE GHOST-TRAP by Alex CousseauAntonin is doing his homework and has to write a poem. What’s poetry?Everybody in his family gives him a different answer. One day his momcomes back from work with a dead deer in the trunk of her car. Havingknocked it over accidentally in the road, she is distraught. Grandmawants to chop it up and hang it to have roast game at the weekend. An-tonin is suddenly beset by dreams of a deer running through the forestand starts to ask himself: “Do ghosts really exist?” Like in a movie heonce watched with his parents, Antonin gathers up the remains of thedeer and buries them in the forest. His dreams suddenly stop. Using theghosts and imagery that haunt him, Antonin finds his poetry. Like a spi-der’s web clinging to the fur of an animal in flight, his words catch hisghosts and recapture the lifestory of the deer. Ghosts do exist after all,and so does poetry.

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ARISTOTLE IN LOVEby Anne-Gaëlle BalpeSince he joined the junior high, Aristotle has been asking himself ques-tions: 1) Where does his name come from? 2) Who is Aristotle? 3) IsYasmine much more than a friend? And 4) Who is his father? Thischain of questioning is initiated when Yasmine, who sits next to himin class, says, “Aristotle? Sounds like the name of a warrior!” Sud-denly, he is forced to find out about this Aristotle character. When hefirst discovers he’s a philosopher he is disappointed. Philosophy isless sexy than war. But this gives him an idea: What if he opened upa philosophy agency to help people answer their questions? His firstclient, Mathieu Robinier poses Aristotle with his first question, free ofcharge. Aristotle is forced to grapple with logic to answer Mathieu’stricky question. “Will Yasmine go on a date with me?” It is out of thequestion that Yasmine goes on a date with Mathieu. A fight ensuesand the music teacher gets involved. Aristotle is summoned by theprinciple… But things start turning out better for our philosopher-war-rior: He has his first kiss with Yasmine and finally talks to his motherabout his father.

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JUNIOR COLLECTION9 years + • 12 x 17 cm • 80-150 pages • €7-9

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ASKTHEIMPOSSIBLE.COMby Irène Cohen-Janca“I’m going to tell you about my pathetic life,” such is the narrator’s goal,which he sets about with great humor. Antonin is a happy child, in bodyand mind. However, he does ask himself a lot of questions about themeaning of life. Like, for example, how do you live it to the full? Lookingat the adults around him, it’d worry him to grow old. His parents are nicebut quiet, and turn a blind eye to the drama unfolding at home: Theirdaughter, Emma, 18, is perfect in every way, but anorexic. It is Antoninand not his parents, who decides to help her. To Antonin, his parents areso normal they’re dull. Antonin prefers his uncle, Max, who was involvedin the May ’68 revolt, is proud of it, and still lives by its slogans, such as“Be realistic, ask the impossible”. Antonin has long, involved conversa-tions with his adolescent-minded uncle about history and literature, butMax refuses to broach certain issues from his youth, such as: Why hehas a hidden photo of Antonin’s mother at the age of seventeen? Adultshave secrets to tell too.13 years + • 14 x 20.5 • 202 pages • €13.20

THE THREE LIVES OF ANTOINE ANACHARSISby Alex CousseauThis is the story of the three lives of Antoine Anacharsis, told by himself. Ahero of extraordinary adventures. The great-great-great grandson of thefamous pirate, Olivier Levasseur (a real historical character), Antoine is stillin his mother’s belly when his parents are taken prisoner by slave tradersoff the coast of Nosy Boraha Island near Madagascar. Antoine is finallyborn in 1831, and en route for the West Indies, his mother drowns in astorm, leaving him with a medallion around his neck containing a crypto-gram supposedly telling the secret hiding place of his ancestor’s treasure.His adventures have only just begun. He spends the first twenty five yearsof his life on the move, traveling from the Caribbean to North America,then South America. He is confronted with the major upheavals of the19th century: the struggle against slavery, the great technical inventions(telephone, railway, photography), and he meets extraordinary characters,both real and fictional: the writer Edgar Allan Poe, and Phineas Gage, oneof the first curiosities to join the Barnum circus. He becomes a slave on aplantation in South Carolina, a whaler on Cap Horn, and a hoodlum inNew York. On his way, he has his tongue sliced off, and encounters lovebefore finally finding the island of his ancestors and the genuine treasure! The novel includes maps tracing the hero’s journeys, photographic docu-ments from the time as well as an index of real characters that the novelbrings back to life. 13 years + • 14 x 20.5 • 288 pages • €15.70




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MY HEART IN THE RAPIDS by Ahmed KalouazThe summer before returning to high-school, Juliette leaves for a canoe campwith her leisure center. At the last minute, Léa, a friend from school, also signsup. They’re not really best buddies but they get along Ok. Léa has a tendencyto fall in love too often for Juliette’s liking. Juliette isn’t “really into boys”. Betweentwo canoe lessons, the girls meet a boy, Nicolas, at the village snack bar. Nicolas is too shy to talk to them. They bump into him a few times and learnthat he is staying with his aunt for the holiday to help her look after her goats.The boy is a daydreamer and a bit of a mystery. He is also very handsome.Juliette feels her heart waver. She has to make the first moves, however, be-cause Nicolas is far too shy. In this beautiful tale, they soon fall in love and learnhow to talk to each other, express their fears, and kiss, all in the preciouslyshort space of a holiday camp.13 years + • 14 x 20.5 cm • 96 pages • €9 approx.

HOW TO BECOME A ROCK STAR (OR NOT)by Anne PercinHere at last, the long-awaited third volume of the Percin series after How toruin your vacation and How to take control of your love life.Maxime is trying to rescue his Christmas holidays that have been a disaster.Instead of going straight home to his parents’ house, he takes refuge at hisUncle Christian’s house. His uncle is a first-class loser who, with his recordcollection and Fender guitar, has never grown up. During the three days theyspend together, Maxime is delighted to find out that his uncle is not only aliving encyclopedia of rock but that he plays the guitar. He’s been dreamingof forming a group since the second volume of the series. What if he hookedup with his uncle? Their musical adventure turns out to be pretty freakish inevery sense of the word. His taciturn, depressive uncle enrolls a cop-drummer(the same cop who, in the first volume, wrongfully arrested Maxime and ac-cused him of stealing a handbag), as well as a lunatic bassist who dresseslike a Tellytubby. The unlikely quartet manages to extract themselves from allmanner of comic scrapes. In the meantime, Maxime’s life continues its chaoticcourse, especially with Natacha, who is still just as jealous as ever, as we dis-cover here. As for the Mainard family’s secrets, in particularly concerningGrandma’s Brazilian lover, finally we’re going to find out more.5 years + • 21 x 17.5 cm • 14 pages • €15.70

How to ruin your vacation: 30 000 copies sold in FranceHow to take control of your love life: 10 000 copies sold in France

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SLEEP TIGHT, SHRIMP!by Sylvie DeshorsOn the day before Christmas, a teenager accompanies his mom to a hugeshopping mall in town. It soon becomes apparent that his mother has at-tempted to shoplift a games console to offer her son a Christmas gift andwas stopped by a guard as she made her getaway. The mother, who is onwelfare, doesn’t have the money to buy him one. Haunted by his mother’sarrest, he spends the evening alone, takes refuge on the beach and hidesunder a rock. A twenty-something dropout by the name of Nasta discovershim. Nasta has been living on the street since his father-in-law kicked himout. Nasta dubs the boy “Shrimp” because even if he is fifteen, he is tiny com-pared to him, a shaven-headed giant. Shrimp climbs aboard Nasta’s scooterand together they go stealing Father Christmas decorations from house-fa-çades. But their game soon gets out of hand when, on the road, they meeta real live Father Christmas, a vagrant, who takes them to a blockhouse.When Nasta steps outside for a moment, the vagrant locks the reinforceddoor and takes Shrimp prisoner. With his stooge, the vagrant decides to de-mand a ransom in return for Shrimp’s freedom. Sylvie Deshors’ story tellingbrings in elements of video games and mangas, as she creates a thriller withmultiple twists and turns, where baddies really are bad and the fighting isdirty. It is a world teens will identify with, a world packed with thrills and fear.13 years + • 14 x 20.5 cm • 96 pages • €8 approx.

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