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Type : Comics
Cover : hardback
Number of pages : 32
Age: from 5 years old on
Format : 21 x 28 cm
Price: 9.80 €
Guillaume Long was born in Geneva in 1977 and works and lives in the Jura. Having graduated in Fine Arts at the St
Etienne College of Art, he spends his time between comic books (Casterman, Vertige Graphic) and the press (Phosphore,
J’aime lire, Le matin, Moi je lis, Bilan...). He received the Töpffer Price in 2003 for his book Les Sardines sont cuites.
Le Grand Méchant huit
The Great Bad Roller Coaster
Blurb
Robin is the happiest boy of the
world : for his birthday his parents
offered to him and his friend Rémi
one complete day to Youpiland
where he will be totally free to
do whatever he wants. And here
they are gone for adventure in this
so cool amusement park where
flowers can talk, where hamburgers
are crispy and where smiling
is a duty.
But can you really keep smiling
when two girls from the school
come to tease you, when the activities
are a bit disappointing compared
to your expectations, or
when the fear of the great mean
oller-coaster is hanging over all
day and that you know you’ll have
to face it soon ? And what to think
about this strange white-haired
guy with this 8 printed on his shirt
who seems to be following them
since the beginning of the day…
Swimming Poule mouillée
Blurb
Robin is a small boy who loves
to talk about stories in which he
always is the winner. Every Tuesday,
he goes to his swimming
class. That day, he will have to
pass a terrible test called “ the
golden sardine ”. Will Robin
manage to face the events that
he will have to pass and show the
terrible swimming teacher that
he isn’t a coward ? A tender and
comical story in which children
and adults will recognize themselves.
Plâtatras!
Crash!
Blurb
A few months after their fairground
adventure, Robin and Vincent play
tightrope walkers on a tree climbing
site. With a lot of recklessness and
an element of the unexpected, Robin
ends up in hospital, a leg in a splint,
waiting for surgery. The visits he
receives do not make up for the injections,
the tray meals and the doctors.
Robin gets to know his roommate, a
teenager who is familiar with the surgical
unit and who will convince him
to escape with him and so avoid the
fatal operation. Nothing will go as
planned and Robin will have to face
the ordeal of the operating room
alone. And this will earn him, a few
days later, quite a bit of success
among the girls at school...
What makes the strength and charm
of Guillaume Long’s albums is that
he knows how to depict childhood
fears with a sense of humour which
defuses the drama, while maintaining
some tension.
La chèvre de M. Seguin
The Tale of Mr. Seguin’s Goat
Author : Alphonse Daudet
Illustrator: Adrienne Barman
Adrienne Barman spent her childhood in
the high plains of Italian Switzerland
between a briard dog and canaries.
Blurb
French writer and playwright,
Alphonse Daudet was born in Nîmes
in 1840 and died in Paris in 1897. La
Chèvre de monsieur Seguin is one
of the short stories included in Les
Lettres de mon Moulin (Letters from
my Windmill). According to Claude
Gagnière, it is now clearly attributed
to his ghostwriter, Paul Arène.
A friend of the author, Pierre Gringoire,
does not want to become a
columnist. Daudet sends him, in the
form of a letter, this friendly warning,
inspired by a popular Provençal story:
the tale of Mr. Seguin’s goat.
The famous story of Blanquette, a
little goat with a great love of liberty,
has for once been adapted to comic
book form. A scenario that has been
edited in a clever and varied manner.
Hérold & Pissenlit
Herold & Dandelion
Author : Matthieu Maudet
Matthieu Maudet was born in Nantes
and spent many years illustrating the
margins of his notebooks. Since then,
he has grown up and settled down
in Rennes, where he devotes himself
to comic books and picture books
illustration. He has already published
a dozen of books, notably for the École
des Loisirs and Frimousse publishing
houses.
Blurb
Hérold is a nice, rather solitary child,
the kind of boy who gets his game
console stolen by stronger kids. As
with every year, he is spending the
summer in the countryside, at his
grand-parents’, who surround him
with love while he endures the sarcastic
remarks of older kids. But then
Hérold meets... a flying pink cow!
Fear gives way to friendship.
With bright colors and a fresh style
the author astutely broaches the
need for children to resort to imaginary
friends in order to overcome
their shyness.
L’enfant sans visage
The Faceless Boy
Author : Mickaël Roux
Mickaël Roux is 29 and lives in Chinon.
He is an autodidact influenced by
the worlds of Tim Burton, Tarantino
and Rodriguez, alternately funny
and poetic, absurd and cruel, just
like the childhood world which he is
particularly fond of.
Blurb
Tim sneezes and looses his face.
Helped by his friends, he embarks on
a chase throughout the house to collect
the missing pieces.
An unpretentious story in which the
characters, coming straight out of the
world of Japanese drawings and that
of Tim Burton, manage to get themselves
out of a rather embarrassing
situation with good humour.
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