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La Rumeur de Venise
The Venetian Rumour
Format: 11 x 26 cm
Age: from 4 years old on
Number of pages: 52
Price: 14.90 €
Germano Zullo was born in
Geneva on 16th May 1968.
After a degree in business
studies, he spent two years
travelling around Europe. From
1992 to 2002 he worked as an
accountant. Since 1996 he has
published numerous children’s
books in collaboration with
the illustrator Albertine for La
Joie de Lire. He also writes
Prix Jeunesse et
erotic stories and poetry and
médias 2009
has published, still with La Joie
de Lire, a novel for adolescents
entitled Quelques années de moins que la Lune.
Albertine has already several books to her name. She has
taken part in numerous exhibitions in Switzerland and
abroad. She also illustrates for newspapers. She teaches
silk screen at the art school in Geneva. Albertine is the
first Swiss artist to have been awarded the prestigious
“Pomme d’Or” from Bratislava.
Blurb
A fisherman catches a fish in the Venetian lagoon. Is it
really a fish? Or maybe a sea monster or a unicorn from
the deep? What if it were a real mermaid ? The rumour
grows, spread by buxom women, leaning on their balconies,
dreaming gondoliers and giggly, curious children.
Albertine expresses her work in three dimensions, which
she started in La Marelle, and stages her imaginative
world. The canals of Venice are a special setting for this
story of images and allusions.
Le Chat botté
Puss in Boots
Author: Charles Perrault
Illustrator: Albertine
Format : 18 x 23 cm
Number of pages : 32
Age: from 4 years old on
Price: 13.50 €
Blurb
After his death, an old miller gives all his belongings
to his three sons. The youngest one inherits a cat.
Penniless and not knowing what to do with such a
present, he considers eating it. But it turns out that
the cat can talk. In exchange for a bag and a pair of
boots, and with a lot of craftiness, the cat will transform
the young man into a powerful gentleman, the
Marquis of Carabas, and thus make it possible for
him to marry the princess of the kingdom.
Albertine’s fine and colourful gouaches delicately
illustrate this classic tale. Playing with the suppleness
of the bodies and the freshness of the slightly
acid colours, her pictures give a sparkling and light
sensuality to Perrault’s text.
Germano Zullo was born on the 16th of may 1968 in Geneva and got the swiss nationality in 1985. In 1990, he passed
his degree at the Superior Commercial School of Malagnou. Then, he travelled during two years across Europe and, from
1992 up to 2002, he worked as an accountant. Since 1996 he and his wife Albertine (illustrator) have published many
children books at La Joie de Lire editions. He has also published some poems and erotic stories.
As a young artist from Geneva, Albertine already exhibited her works several times. Since 1992, she cooperates with
many daily newspapers in French-speaking Switzerland. She teaches silkscreen printing at the Superior School of
Visual Arts of Geneva. She has been the first Swiss artist to receive the Golden Apple in 1999.
Type : Album
Cover : hardback
Format : 19.5 x 19.5 cm
Number of pages : 32
Age: from 4 years old on
Price: 14 €
Marta et la bicyclette / Marta and the Bicycle
Sold to Korea, USA, Japan, Israël and Thailand
Blurb
Marta isn’t a normal cow. She is orange and
has peculiar ideas. One day, she feels like
biking. Since she always gets what she decided
she would, she puts her name down for
a bike race, and she wins ! Her friends naturally
feel like doing the same ; but Marta will
soon dream of other activities...
Golden Apple, biennale de bratislava 1999
Nominated by the
Prix des incorruptibles
Le Retour de Marta
Marta’s return
Publication date : November 2008
Sold to Thailand
Blurb
Here we find Marta again, the very beautiful orange cow, belonging
to Mr. Pincho. Contrary to her fellow cows, Marta has no interest in
watching the trains go by. Maintaining her independent spirit, she prefers
to go cycling, to travel by hot air balloon or in a submarine. She
reappears in this new book, and no doubt her return to the farm brings
plenty of surprises!
Marta et la pieuvre
Marta and the Octopus
Sold to Taiwan, Japan and Thailand
Blurb
Marta has travelled all around
the world with her balloon. In
this new adventure, she’s going
to discover the Ocean on board
of a submarine. When they see
her, the fish are very anxious and
the octopus is the only one who
dares approach her…
Marta au pays des montgolfières
Marta in the land of Hot-air
Balloons
Sold to Netherlands, Japan
Korea and Thailand
Blurb
If you don’t know Marta yet,
she’s an unusual cow, well
known for her peculiar ideas.
Throughout this new adventure,
she invites us to discover
Baloon country.
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2008-2009