Foreign rights

autumn 2010

PiCture BooKs«Boris»

i Want Kisses! / it’s snoWing! / BunCh oF CoWarDs!

the teDDY that sPeaKs / LittLe man / iF i Were a Penguin

the surPrise / the PerFeCt PrinCess

From PaPuan reD to green tWentY stories oF CoLours

CooKBooK CooKing With ChiLDren aLong the Year

CoLouring BooK the CraZY CoLoring BooK

KiD’s noVeLs aLBert’s eYes / the ChiLDren, the sheriFF anD the ugLY

the FairY anD the FuLL montY / it haPPeneD here

Young aDuLt FiCtiongranDPa / Prisoners oF Chaos / John ii the gooD

CoLine, 17 Years, in the street / eVerYone is an iDoL

short stories maD FroggY / What’s Wrong With us?

essaYteenage Crisis? WhiCh Crisis, 20 PreConCeiVeD iDeas aBout teenagers

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i Want Kisses!Boris is capable of the worst abominations to

get hugs from his mom and dad.

“there isn’t a good day without kisses” he says,

but everyone doesn’t think so. his toys for

example, think that the end doesn't always jus-

tify the means! ...

it’s snoWing!Boris loves snow. and what he loves above all

is to bombard his toys with snowballs after ca-

refully setting them on a tree branch. his toys

are impatiently waiting for spring to come...

BunCh oF CoWarDs!Like a Prince, Boris welcomes in his bed all toys

afraid of the dark. But suddenly he panics:

While he protects everyone, who protects him?

his mom and dad of course!

Borisby Mathis

Boris is a small bear funny and lovable with quite a strong personality.he has a love hate relationship with his toys…. Boris can be stubborn,

mischievous, domineering, quick-tempered, but never boring.

age 2+ • 14 x 14 cm • 32 pages • hardcover • 6.50 €

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LittLe manby Sara

this little awkward pencil-drawn man comes out of his

bubble to explore the world, and tries to find his place

by moving around on the page. he will have to cross

obstacles (to face hurricanes and storms) and go a long

way before entering a room and find his place on a...

child's drawing!

it’s a marvel to once again discover sara’s world full of

poetry, whose torn up papers and collage immediately

communicate intense emotions.

3 years + • 15.6 x 24 cm • 32 pages • hardcover • 13€

the teDDY that sPeaKs By Frédéric KesslerIllustrations by Élisa Géhintonight, Lea doesn’t want to sleep. she takes the op-

portunity to discuss seriously with her teddy: “tell me,

my dear talking teddy, why are you mY teddy?”.

a tender exchange follows on Lea’s feelings towards

her teddy: his smell, his tenderness and even his belo-

ved wear. anything that makes him unique and irre-

placeable and so reassuring... and she falls asleep while

talking to him!

a true vision on the intimate relationship that exists

between a child and his "teddy", cheerfully and cleverly

illustrated by elisa géhin.

3 years + • 16 x 21,5 cm • 32 pages • hardcover • 12€

iF i Were a PenguinBy Juliette Le Roux

“if i were a penguin, i would have lots of friends, a

big family, live on ice” a little boy dreams himself as

a penguin, games and journeys on ice, loads of

friends… a simple ice setting, an unfamiliar world

and yet reassuring were the child’s imagination runs

wild. Picturing yourself as a penguin, surrounded

and alike all the other penguins can help one be

oneself!

5 years + • 21 x 16 cm • 32 pages • hardcover • 14€

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devra surmonter ce petit bonhomme avant de trouver enfin sa place sur un dessin d’enfant ?

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the surPriseBy Nadia Roman Illustrations By Jean-Pierre Blanpain

the narrator’s grandmother behaves in a very strange

way lately: she has changed hair colour, bought new

clothes, and never leaves without her cell phone! she’s

also more secretive and dreamy…

the narrator and his sister will soon get to know the

surprising news: grandma is in love!

Jean-Pierre Blanpain’s engravings wonderfully illus-

trate this sparkling and topical story which proves that

it is never too late to fall in love!

5 years + • 25 x 25 cm • 32 pages • hardcover • 15€

the PerFeCt PrinCessBy Frédéric Kessler Illustrations By Valérie Dumas

When the Princess was born, her godmother gave her a

rather burdening gift : being perfect . While growing up,

the child meets the expectations of those around her wi-

thout raising any objections. But before she dies, the mo-

ther she makes the princess promise her to choose upon

her 16’s birthday, the godmother who will give her the

gift to be... herself!

a queen who dies leaving her princess forlorn, a king

completely lost and fairies and godmothers all over the

place… gathering all the ingredients of the fairy tale but

at the same time the author plays with all these traditional

codes. this is also a story specifically written for Valérie

Dumas and her chubby and deliciously exuberant women.

5 years + • 22.5 x 27.5 cm • 40 pages • hardcover • 15,50€

Jolie, pétaradante et à roulettes,c’est la « bleue », la mob’, la mobylette,la bleue véloce…

Bleu mob’

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CooKing With ChiLDren aLong the YearBy Virginie Aladjidi and Caroline Pellissier Illustrated by Marion Billet

Cold cucumber soup, green peas in “jardinière”, strawberry

salad with mint and dash of lemon juice...

in this cookbook, the authors teach children about seaso-

nal products and offer to young buds tasty recipes, simple

but also sophisticated. easy for children, to learn how to

cook and eat well, while respecting seasonal products.

an awakening to simple food, joyful and vitaminized!

3 years + • 21.5 x 25.5 cm • 56 pages • hardcover • 15€

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From PaPuan reD to greentwenty stories of coloursBy Olivier Besson

olivier Besson, illustrator and engraver, tells us about

his colours. the big red Vermillon, fearing stains, the

yellow "in a hurry to leave," that briefly exposes himself

on façades late in the afternoon, or the raven’s black and

blue, because one way to be black is also to be blue...

accompanied by short texts often humorous, these pic-

tures arouse in all of us stories and memories, like win-

dows open both towards our intimate life and the world.

5 years + • 27.5 x 37 cm • 48 pages • hardcover • 19,90€

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the CraZY CoLoring BooKBy Lily Scratchy

after Crazy Coloriage, we find the offbeat world of Lili scratchy in a new, large

colouring book and book of games. Based on the "Where's Waldo?" series

with large pages full of wacky and unusual details where a multitude of crea-

tures or strange things are to be found... and coloured! as fresh, funny and

lively as the previous book.

5 years + • 29 x 41,50 cm • 34 pages • Pasting writing paper style • 15,80€

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the FairY anD the FuLL montYBy Frédéric KesslerBeing son or daughter of a fairy, it's not funny every day! all right,

there is the art of magic that fills the pockets of incongruous ob-

jects (Barbie for girls, tools for boys, it's great!), but even for ge-

raldine and oliver there is a line you can’t cross: going up to the

sixth floor is forbidden. it is well known though that restrictions

are made to be transgressed, even if a very wicked witch lives on

the sixth floor, a witch that loves fresh meat.

Children will tremble in fear…

it haPPeneD hereBy Emmanuel Bourdierit’s 1:23 p.m. on the sidewalk, the crowd is watching the marcel-

Pagnol e building. as the minutes pass by, each spectator tells us

something from his life in the building, big or small memory, they

are all moments of emotion impossible to share. and then at 2

o’clock! a loud bang. With very few words, emmanuel Bourdier re-

veals some intense moments that will make great memories. a

poetic text, where characters parade for just a few minute wait.

the ChiLDren, the sheriFF anD the ugLYBy MathisJane is ten years old and lives in a farm with her parents in the out-

skirts of Creek Village. sheriff robert Farnum needs her father, who

is a very good shot, to rid the village of a fearsome outlaw. But Jane

doesn’t want to lose her father, and she doesn’t want him to kill

anyone either. Jane and her classmates will then develop a strategy

to arrest the outlaw John moore without any bloodshed. the chil-

dren who are terrified by a violent and unjust schoolteacher will

show great courage facing of the danger that even adults would

envy them for…

a real western written with inspiration, humour and subtlety.

aLBert’s eYesBy Claudine Aubrungrandma marcelle is the best of grand-mothers, her old car is a

mess, she smokes cigarillos, sings anything and loves macDonalds.

a grandmother attentive and understanding: in one word, she’s

great. But grandma marcelle also has secrets, and manon would

like to know about them, because they create a lot of fuss with her

mother. When grandmothers have complicated love stories, the re-

lationship with daughters and grand-daughters can be confusing.

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sgranPa’ By Christophe Léonit has become an obsession for granpa’; the arizona oil Company

won’t take over Bullfrog ranch, where he raises Quarter horses!

since John is seven, he lives with his grandfather, and shares his

beliefs, and follows him in his fights. at night, he follows the old

man on the arizona oil Company’s site to sabotage machines in

order to delay the construction work. But the powerful company

has the means to fight granpa’, who resists...

a generous and flouted nature, a preserved ranch, a combative

and stubborn old man, a determined oil company, this is the set-

ting for an unequal struggle that by all means has to be carried

on. When environmentalists are leaving their old hippie clothes

and take arms, it becomes a western!

12 x 21 cm • 80 pages • softcover • 7.20€

Prisoners oF ChaosBy Roland GodelFifteen is the ideal age for a “life experience” – anyway, that is what

maxime’s parents think, sending him to spend the summer holiday on

a mediterranean island, in a “humble” family. the gap is big, and even

if he is welcomed by angelo, the little brother in the family, maria, the

big sister, won’t lift a finger for the young rich man who squats her bed-

room. it’s very hot outside, a black cloud stagnates in the sky and old

people lament a haywire in the climate. maxime, angelo and marie leave

for an ordinary trip to the mountain which will turn into a nightmare.

a typhoon strikes the island, wiping out all benchmarks. the three chil-

dren will have to walk and climb days in a row. they will meet a hermit,

half crazy but warm-hearted and find refuge in a monastery lost in the

mountains. maria and maxime cling desperately, passionately, to one

another, and in this chaos they will fall in love with each other. Coming

back to civilization is difficult, as everything is destroyed, but life goes

on for the two adolescents who now have a different outlook on life.

12 x 21 cm • 240 pages • softcover • 10.50€

eVerYone is an iDoLBy Marie-Sophie Vermotmatthias Vernier, who was a carefree, funny and rowdy boy, doesn’t

exist any longer. his class was the victim of a massacre and matthias is

the only survivor. everyone wants to help him… but he doesn’t want to

see anybody. he leaves for his grandparents in tuscany, to take some

rest. Bohemians, attentive and warm, his grandparents want to show

him that life goes on. Bianca, a forty-year-old bilingual woman, will

help him. matthias begins to trust her, but the woman hides a big secret

that matthias will have trouble hearing under the current circumstances.

Yet he has to, as the only thing that matters when you are 16 is life.

12 x 21 cm • 144 pages • softcover • 8€

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short storiesmany adolescents of today are too busy to read, even if the needof stories still remains essential for them. that is why this collec-tion proposes books filled with high quality short stories, written

by well known authors, to be read without great effort!

age 12 + • 13.5 x 16 cm • 160-168 pages • 9.80 €

What’s Wrong With us?By Hervé Giraud

some time has passed since we read the adventures of Pas folle

la guêpe. the family is as nuts as ever, the father’s Jaguar has

even more kilometres on the clock and the narrator’s point of

view, now a teenager, is even sharper.

high school, friends, girls, the torments of desire, resourceful-

ness to make pocket money ... the short stories in this book fit

between the regrets of childhood and the impatience to grow

up and to become an adult.

maD FroggYBy Vincent Crouzet

mad Froggy is the driver of rikki, one of these colored taxi-

buses that crisscross the city of Cape town. if this is the less

expensive method of transport in Cape town, it is also the most

random: vehicles that are put-putting, run down and driven by

a bunch of nuts, amongst whom the craziest one is mad Froggy.

he is the eccentric French man, the favourite of the city’s drop-

outs. a big beanpole with long hair, always wearing ray-Ban

sunglasses, he drives along all social categories and, awkward

but bold, is often involved in adventures that overtake him.

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CoLine, 17 Years, in the streetBy Valérie LacroixColine has had enough of everything: high school with the finals co-

ming up, her father who left home and hasn’t been heard of ever

since, and especially her mother for whom she saves all her resent-

ment. and so, she leaves, disappears, runs away. not far away, but

yet Lyon is a big city. along with her dog, who protects her, she gets

used to life in the street, she sleeps anywhere, works at mcDonalds

and refuses any connection with her former life. she knows very well

this can’t last forever but she needs this social "vacation" to start over

again. her mother, an alcoholic, barely manages to get up to work

and is too ashamed of herself to even look for her daughter. Like her

daughter, she needs to spend time on her own.

a first novel written without drama or pathos, it is simply the story

of a teenager who needs to get to the bottom with her problems, but

without any self-destructive temptations.

12 x 21 cm • 176 pages • softcover • 9€

John ii the gooDBy Fabrice VigneWe remember John ist, the Posthumous, king for a few hours and about

whom the adolescents arthur, stan and elsa had written a story (John

ist, the Posthumous, an historical novel, by Fabrice Vigne, 2005). Four

years have passed, the teenagers have grown up and they have forgot-

ten their work. Well, not completely, as arthur would like to write ano-

ther novel much more important but in the same vein, about John ii the

good. elsa has become an underground singer: more intellectual and

more cultured than ever, she approaches literature in a theoretical and

political way (revolutionary, of course!) stan is very keen on pictures, on

DVD, on experimental film shot with his cell phone and posted on his

blog, and he likes nothing more than action, gore and sensation.

the three of them are off on conversations where everyone defends

fiercely his vision of literature, always in connection with the events of

everyday life. Juicy and scholarly dialogues, literary concerns and other

more down to earth ones, the connections are closely woven together.

12 x 21 cm • 240 pages • softcover • 10.50€

thierry magnier • Publisher

18, rue séguier - 75006 Paris

France - tel: +33 (o)1 44 83 80 00

Fax: +33 (0)1 44 83 80 01

Johanna Brock Lacassin • Foreign rights

B.P. 90038 - 13633 arles

France - Cedex - tel: +33 (0)4 90 49 57 25

Fax: +33 (0)4 90 96 95 25

e-mail: j.brock-lacassin@actes-sud.fr

nathalie alliel • Foreign rights assistant

e-mail: nathalie.alliel@actes-sud.fr

www.editions-thierry-magnier.com

teenage Crisis? WhiCh Crisis,20 PreConCeiVeD iDeas aBout teenagersBy Gérard Dhôtel

the author, tired of all the alarming talks and articles

in the newspapers about teenagers, is reviewing all of

the preconceived ideas on teenagers with a close up

on the 20 most popular ones whether true or false.

the arguments the author develops here are accom-

panied by notes from specialists (psychologist, socio-

logist, educators…)

a journalist’s book, lively and uplifting for parents

who are at a loss and worried.

13.5 x 22 cm • 200 pages • softcover • 14,50€

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