Albums collection Albums collection - La Joie de Lire

Albums collection Albums collection
Type : Album
Cover : hardback
Format : 21 x 28 cm
Number of pages : 36
Age: from 6 years old on
Vacharabia
Author : Yves Juillerat
Illustrator : Simon Kroug
Price : 15.70 €
Yves Juillerat was born in 1968 in
Switzerland (Jura). He has graduated
from the Visual School of Art in
Zurich in illustration (Schule für Gestaltung)
and has worked several years
(1995-2001) in the Departement of
Archeology of the Canton of Jura as a
scientific illustrator. He is also trained
in computer graphics and has worked
for a printer. Now he’s training as
a graphic web-designer in Geneva.
Blurb
The Vacharabia is a specimen born
from the meeting of a cow and a scarab.
What can a scarab do when he
is in love with a cow who has become
very small after having eaten a magic
flower ? Love gives wings and sometimes
also good ideas !
La Rumeur
The Rumor
Author : Anne Salem-Marin
Illustrator : Simon Kroug
Price : 15.70 €
Anne Salem-Marin was born in Sierre
(Switzerland). She is a valaisan writer
and has a marked preference for
short and poetic writing. As well as
being passionate by poetry and literature,
she likes translating and working
with publishers. She is also the
author of “ Un jour je serai grande ”
and “ Colette ”, published by La Joie
de lire.
Simon Kroug was born in Geneva in
1977. He has graduated from the
Ecole cantonale d’art in Lausanne
and teaches visual arts to young students.
He finds his inspiration in all
his travels and in his big family circle.
He lives and works in Lausanne
(Switzerland).
Blurb
A gold bracelet must have been stolen
in the Hammam of Mrs Malika.
Everybody in town is speaking about
it and the rumour spreads round
inside the palace. The illustrator has
brought back images and feelings
used for the décor of this book from
a travel in Morocco.
Le Grand Frère
The Old Brother
Author : Christophe Nicolas
Illustrator : Franziska Neubert
Price : 13 €
Christophe Nicolas was born in a small
town in France. He studied literature.
For ten years now, he has been living
in Paris and working in children books
publishing. He has already published
three books, among which “ Nom,
prénom ” published by Le Seuil.
Franziska Neubert was born in 1977 in
Leipzig (Germany). She studied at the
Visual Arts Academy of Leibzig. She
also studied illustration at the “ Ecole
nationale supérieure des arts décoratifs
” in Paris for one year. She has
received a special prize in her home
town, where she is working today as
a freelance in visual communication
and illustration.
Blurb
For the younger brother, the elder
brother is a kind of idol, very difficult
to approach, but with whom it
would be so nice to play.However,
the elder brother has other projects
and doesn’t seem disposed to play.
Sometimes, if one insists and if one
finds some convincing arguments,
relations can change and evolve.
Le Fromage
The Cheese
Author : Germano Zullo
Illustrator : Albertine
Price : 14.90 €
Germano Zullo, writer, was born
in Geneva in 1968. He collaborates
regularly to the publications
of Albertine.
Albertine, genevan artist, has
already published many books.
She has taken part in many
shows in Switzerland and
elsewhere.
Blurb
All the children have the same
anguish : during a school theatre
show, being alone on stage,
facing a public waiting for your
performance, and having completely
forgotten the text you
have to declaim : what a nightmare
! Our little hero Gaston
must recite “ The Crow and
the Fox ”, the fable of La Fontaine.
But unfortunately he has
totally forgotten what the crow
holds in his beak ! Why do we
all have the feeling that his disguise
could help him find the
answer…
36 37
Arnold
Author : Tom Tirabosco
Price : 15 €
Tom Tirabosco, Swiss illustrator
born in Rome in 1966, is
established in Geneva since
1971. He graduated from the
School of Superior Visual
Arts of Geneva. Award-winner
of numerous competitions
of comic strip, such as the
Hebdo/Festival BD of Sierre
in 1993. He regularly attends
shows in Switzerland, signs
several cultural and political
posters, and works with the
Swiss and French press.
Blurb
Arnold is a small obedient boy
who dreams of pulling tricks
as his compagnons Jonas and
Paul-Louis. However, he is
much too nice and timorous.
One day, he meets Camille, the
most terrible boy in his school,
who teaches him the tricks of
the trade to be a perfect bully.
Nevertheless, Camille the brute
begins to get tired of his role...
thus begins a great friendship.
Le Bobobook
Author : Stéphane Malandrin
Illustrator : Francoiz Breut
Price: 16 €
Stéphane Malandrin is a script writer for the
cinema. He lives between Paris and Brussels
and has signed a first book for children called
Pourquoi pleut-il de Haut en Bas et pas
de Bas en Haut ?, published at Editions du
Rouergue.
Francoiz Breut is a singer. Since 1998 she has
come out with three discs. She interprets
songs written by Dominique A, Philippe Poirier,
Philippe Katerine… In addition to singing,
she is illustrator and is interested in the
‘ book-object ’. She has illustrated several
books : La Mer a disparu (Nathan), Je suis un
garçon (l’Ecole des loisirs)…
Blurb
Welcome to the land of pains ! It is a land
where everyone can come and leave her
hurts, but be careful ; there is no space for
fake ones ! Here, to get in, one has to show
entry rights and declare one’s hurt to the
guardian. In this land, In the mornings, they
disinfect themselves. At midday, they put on
ointment. In the evening, they put a bandage
on their heads. And at night, they sleep.
There is even a chief of hurts to whom one
can give a hurt, but after : out ! Until the next
time… Le Bobobook wants to be a means
to ease the sometimes difficult situations
that children live. At the end of the book one
finds a questionnaire to fill in at each hurt
and to send to the land of hurts !