With Ton by Taro Miura, published by Editions Panama, we are dealing with globalization as it likes, since the book designed by a Japanese author, was published in an Italian publisher and was inspired by the Constructivist school Russian.
Tonne deals with the weight of things and means of men to carry them.
Thus, over the cardboard pages, is presented an object and its weight:
For example:
per 20 kg, the worker only the door
a metal bar to 50 kg, it takes two!
But for 50 kg of sand, using a wheelbarrow.
A measure that change of scale, the masses invade the pages to quadruple the final page, which once unfolded reveals all charges, carried by a huge tanker.
It is rare in an album dedicated to youth to honor human activity attached to the working world. This is not really the point here, but still ...
Unclassifiable book, half album, half documentary, he asked about man's relationship to his work and in addition it is very beautiful.
A strongly recommend from 3 years
Here, now a history of armadillos fun to wish. Story written and illustrated by Vladimir Radunsky and published by Picador.
The title is 10 (ten). Is this a book learning? Yes and no; Finally, rather yes. No, rather not. You will see.
The history is that we contée is the story of a couple of armadillos love one another. Of course, u armadillo it is unclear how it lives, then the book begins with a small lesson in anatomy.
And history starts up when there is not the birth of 1 armadillo, but of 10 armadillos! Can you imagine?
And when the family arrived to celebrate the event, imagine the gifts come in ten!
What makes ten chamber pots
ten tutus
ten animals company etc ...
Finally everyone is on board a boat with wheels for a journey that we guess have to be very happy.
This is a book full of gait. a good exercise to count and to dream. It's fresh, it is dynamic. It is delicious.
The text, illustrations disclaims any joie de vivre and good humor.
Beneficial in this world of gloom.
A hand from 3 years.
Here is a wonderful atypical album: the title is tasty simple: Moi is Blop Hervé Tullett unt appeared in any new small collection Panama.
With this book, we have, at the time of a book to count, a book to read text and a book to read images.
But first, which is Blop? A sort of form in the naive trait of a flower. so innocent. In fact Blop is the child we were and it is the child who reads history.
Blop it is me and others. Other blop, my fellow men. But there are also animals and blop blop blossom.
Throughout the album, to cover flexible and smooth pages, we share the daily life of a small blop the move, which surprised that discovers. And it goes with him in rapturous delight.
The colors are acid tonics. Typography calls for playback. The text to quiet humor encourages its oralisation. Transparencies, games on colors, a graphics firm provide all the poetry in this album axceptionnel.
Can not be seduced by this book entirely successful, full of tenderness jubilant.
Recommended 3 years
| I have a penchant for works by Beatrice Poncelet, an illustrator of great finesse. In Plant is the title of the book published only where the talents of illustrator once again marvel. Over the months, we move work around the garden and children's games. These are the first day of summer, is not it? I open the album: a chair in the garden, a watercolor representing a flower of dog rose, that of a butterfly, stains pastel colors, a small watering can and then a dense wood for games. The child has to be played mechanical? A large structure is derived: blocking Sowing for the child is not fun. Only the game account. The next page opens on a scrabble we discovered behind a one fourche.On can read the words trained or prepared to be: harvesting, weeding, weeding, rfleurs seed ... At the top of the page, above the garden, peonies orange. Time passes, the child grown acknowledgment home. The mother continues its work Semeuse. Then one day, the young son and escorting s visit. It's party. Christmas maybe? Superb festive meal that ends with a question to which the mother responds surprised and delighted by another: Tools, you want tools ... I also put in the garden! A history of transmission and therefore patience .. We must turn the pages of the book to appreciate beauty. The lvre while arrivals lends itself to a layout of a major refinement mixing watercolors, photographs, representations of objects and elements naturels.j This is a gift to offer, to afford. It is a marvel |
I have here an album that will not fail to seduce some and challenging others. It is "Monster sick" Emmanuelle Houdard for the text and illustrations, published by Thierry Magnier.
Our little monsters are sometimes sick, you agree? But curiously large monsters, devils and other terrifying creatures, are sometimes met with the same illnesses and is also serious, very serious because their reactions are to their monstrosity.
Thus, Emmanuelle Houdard declines Does the great evils of our great monsters. : Sleeping sickness, indigestion, sore throat, sleepwalking, loss of voice, chickenpox, migraines and other rages teeth, not to mention the disease of love ...
Between poetry and science, this is an album that does not lack boldness. The author shows our monsters in a pitiful and pathetic. The large format allows us to deploy spectacular illustrations, absolutely fascinating.
Sii illustrations lend themselves to reading from the age of 5 years, text, he will smile and larger adults
Discover Family, therefore, from 5 years
 The dream of Icarus, Jean-comes Nogues and Hippolytus Posted 20.06.2006 by parolimage The ancient myths have always fascinated. Original explanation of the world, of human behavior interpretation by the metaphors and symbols all through them to us and we appealed. Car myths through time and are often violent, but also poetry with the great questions of humanity. Their universality ensures their survival since ancient times where there were known and handed to us. Thus, the myth of Icarus, the mad dream of a wise old man and his son: transgressing the will of the gods wanting to realize the human dream: to escape Earth gravity to fly free as birds. For those who know the result is a genuine pleasure to read. And for new readers an opportunity to enter the wonderful world of the story of Daedalus and Icarus his son. A careful editing. Jean-comes Nogues, famous for its historical towards youth, proposed a text that writing well aware of the climate in both violent and full of poetry text revisited here. Hippolyte illustrations, graphics precise play of black and ocher and make so striking the tragic fate of heroes. The album, edited by Nathan, very successfully recommend for everyone from 9 years |
Here's a rare book, a book surprisingly, a book sublime. 
It is a book Kveta Pacovska. Its title is simply: "A book for you", published by Picador.
A book for you, is this book is a gift? Yes, a book gift, since it is an order made at the famous Make books "artist" by the General Council of Val de Marne to give every child born in 2005.
In Val de Marne, is now a long tradition.
It is a superb book object. When it opens, it is a succession surprises: colors, materials, folding, effects of mirrors, work opportunities through openings in the paper suggest that suggest ...
And use of colors is an incredible dynamism.
Here's what Vetka Pacovska responded to a one crtique art who asked about the predominance of red in his work:
I like all colors but some are harder to work than others:
White is the best color for me because it is pure
The yellow color is the best for me by its heat
Red is the best color for me, warm and brilliant
The green color is the best for me reflects the living.
The blue color is the best for me because it is linked to our minds
Black is the best color for me because it is the queen of colors that contains all the colors, covers all.
Each color is for me the best.
But this book offers so much beauty and poetry when it is deployed on the ground and on whether it is at the center, they will be right in the middle of a magic circle where you discover a whole world, a other world.
Kveta Pacovska, originally from Prague, received his albums for multiple international awards including the famous Hans Christian Andersen prize and his works are set in the world. It sees its job as the close link between art and life. And it is beautiful!
To discover and recommend to everyone from 3 years
| Last year, worldwide, we celebrated the bicentenary of the birth of Andersen. Andersen, who wrote stories, plays, vaudevilles has really showed with his tales. In 1835 that are published "The tales told to children:" Little Claus and the Claus, "" The Princess on a Pea, "" The flowers of the small Ida, "The Titch". Andersen wrote at the age of thirty years and he did until his death at a rate of once or twice a year, a collection of stories were published to the delight of his contemporaries. Its fame crossed borders and we all head these little stories, we offered as a gift that crosses time and space: "The Ugly Duckling-The new Emperor-the-wild swans The shepherdess and chimney sweep-The-Little Mermaid The Little Match Girl-The Snow Queen ..." If these tales, translated into all languages, originally targeted to children, although this information out and became literary and for all .. Andersen, in his writing beyond the tales of folklore. It creates a work entirely personal imprint of humanity that draws the attendance of children. For him, inspiration comes from all the elements, object, plant, a dwarf, a princess. In a word about the most ordinary object to be magical. There are at Andersen, a mixture of emotion and amused distance, a lightness and a game on the double meaning. For this reason, his stories are read by all. In this great and beautiful book, worthy of inclusion in all libraries, you find anything enchanted evening. The illustrations, by themselves, call the eyes and dreams. Hans Christian Andersen, illustrated by Nikolaus Heidelbach. Editions du Seuil |
Here are "29 February" Rémi Stefani, published by Metis.
It is the story of a long day, exactly 34 hours, which will change the life of Leo.
Leo is other than a young man, an employee of a funeral. In his car hearse, he left Alsace to get to Saint-Jean-de Luz and quietly preparing to cross the center of France. It carries the coffin in one death: the remains of Joseph Bardot.
But the death wakes up and takes the lead. The man is somewhat surprising: dressed in a yellow costume that looks like a canary, self-confident, proud of his success in textiles on which he built his fortune. To cap it all, even Joseph Bardot was dismissed in a first batch Loic's father, then a second time Loïc itself.
The verve is old and young, to reject, is seduced by the memories Bardot pours his ear. And it is in the flow as confidences of its Bardot unveil the secrets of his past when the date of February 29 plays a role, as a mark of an inexorable fate.
Everything began on 28 February 2004 at 7:40! And I let you discover more ...
We read novel is a pleasure constantly renewed. In addition to the mix of genres: thriller, fantasy, existential, to humor, "February 29" is a tasty blend of darkness, of social romanticism. It is a road movie across France that will lead our hero till the end of his adventure, as he had never imagined.
In addition, the story is cleverly constructed with round trip past / present and questions about the future that the outstanding household. It is constantly in doubt, pending, and literally immersed in the fun.
A novel that reads a trafficking. The story of this bill, you coming back.
A recommendation for everyone from 13 years
"The Charm" is a story of Jean-François Chabas, edited at the Ecole des Loisirs in the series Medium.
Jean-François Chabas is an author of adventure novels recognized and appreciated. The quality of his texts is both the order and the intimate story of initiation through large areas crossed ..
Here, it is an adventure is adventure UINEA "immobile" in question because everything happens in the middle of a closed city.
Three boys, now three friends. The fortnight. three friends, so that nothing destined to become except that ...
There is writing the novel A scholarly alchemy of language and language elegant "city". this language "city" who escaped to become the language "young". Thus, the story unfolds with a natural disconcerting.
And then the routine is broken without expect a day, Tsen, said "The charm" dry college. Sick he said. His friends believe not. Tsen leaks. Tsen is actually sick. Sick of love. And this is not simple: The young woman is much older than him, is the mother of a boy she likes a love her deceased husband, takes drugs and can not "win" .
The discovery by his friends a situation unthinkable the rout somewhat. But the friendship seems unbreakable for these musketeers of modern times.
The adventure "immobile" is present in the novel: action, violence, the presence of death, and ultimately iévasion of Tsen to Spain with his bienaimée and her little boy.
At the end of the story, and all grew as in any adventure novel, are ready to face life.
U novel is much to recommend for everyone from 13 years.
| The year 2005 is the 60th anniversary of the first atomic bomb. There are some events that we tend to shut while others are under the spotlight of the news. Editions "Rue du monde" in their collection "History of History" took the initiative to recall this event with great distance and restraint. The text is by Alain Serres and illustrations of Zau. How to address a young player this terrible episode? The tale, perhaps, is a way of saying these things and this edition succeeds perfectly. As every year, Yoko prepares his gift for his old great aunt Tsukyo long hospitalized. As every year, Yoko, wants to know the facts by the mouth of the grandmother. As every year, his old great aunt took refuge in the chaos of a lost memory. AND Yoko not know about this year because Tsukyo has been a long time in a psychiatric hospital because the injury was too great. A sensitive and full of restraint in the history of Hiroshima. Small vignettes punctuate the story reminding us of the facts accurately, supporting photographs. The dialogue between the girl and her great aunt who had his age at the time of the events shows the trauma of victims of the bomb, many victims who have fled into oblivion. The text of Alain Serres describes the desire to know the child and the problem of transmission. The illustrations are in line with the connection by using colors that reflect unhappiness and beauty of life. A recommendation from age 8 |
For older children, here is an illustrated story, published in 2002 by Nathan, which retains its strength and its current philosophy.
It's "the strange case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde" by Robert Louis Stevenson. The theme of modern sorcerer here is brought vividly. The adaptation is made is particularly careful. Shadow and light of leux, lags situations and treatment of the plot are expressed here with great efficiency and elegance.
The strangeness of the connection is made by a certain color narrative in the introduction to history.
The opposition between Jekyll, human, while finesse and cordial and Hyde aspect to signs bestial and pushing the duality between good and evil.
We learn eventually that the experiments of Dr. Jekyll created his evil double in Mr Hyde. And when Hyde is trying to become Jekyll, unable to find the right formula of its mixture, it kills to escape the police while the good Dr. Jekyll dies in turn.
The battle of good and evil, old myth of humanity, is handled through the album in a masterly outstanding. And the beautiful illustrations by Ludovic beautifully Debeurme make the strangeness of the story.
No doubt this album seduce young readers and adults.
A recommendation from age 12
Here is a story absolutely delicious. Published in Didier youth in the "colored time," Praline Gay-Para offers a text inspired "Lutins III" by the Brothers Grimm and here adapted for young children. It is "The monster and the baby."
The history of elves (or fairies) that benefit the mother has turned his back to remove her baby and replace it with a "CHANGELIN" (a supernatural being) are several variants in Europe. Here, Praline Gay-Para we offer a version that is both simple and funny. The kindness and freshness of about provide a real pleasure.
The illustrations are lovely, beautifully colored and full of humor
