Frankfurt 2014 - Hall 6.1 - B 111

Look for me!

- Crocodude, do you want to play with me? Hummingbird asks.- No, you’re a midget.- So are you, Hummingbird says. You can’t even fly!- Hem... That’s true! Crocodude answers.- Shall we play hide and seek then?Did the rabbits, the lion, the deer... see Hummingbird?

32 pages / 225 x 225 mmIllustrations: Kristien AertssenText: Natalie Louis-Lucas

Grubby Santa!

Santa Claus would also like to receive his presents!“Tut-tut! Santa will get his present later!” Big Raindeer says.“Why?” ask the elves. “Because Santa is grubby!” There’s only one thing to be done: throw his coat, socks, shirt, pants and un-derpants... into the washing machine!

32 pages / 210 x 240 mm Jean Maubille

Kristien Aertssen was born in Antwerp in 1953. After studying graphics at the Antwerp Academy, whereshe now teaches, Kristien received a scholarship to specialise in illustration in Pasadena, US. She cur-rently lives in Gent and publishes her picture books in the Flanders, Holland and France. Inspira-tion comes to her from primitive and naïve arts, Indian and Islamic miniatures, children’s drawingsand toys.

Natalie Louis Lucas lives in Strasbourg, where she studied at l ’Ecole des Arts Décoratifs. She created chil-dren's stories before turning to psychology. She currently works in specialised institutions for children.

JeanMaubille was born in 1964 in Leopoldville, Congo. He lives in Belgium, where he is an illustratorand a child carer.He gets his inspiration in the daily observation of children. Before devoting himself tochildren and books, he was an art teacher. He usually works with collage.

Olaf laf laf

On a nice autumn afternoon, Olaf the lion, goes for a walk and picksberries. He reaches the foot of a mountain. He breaks into a roar which re-verberates all around. “By the hair of my mane, this mountain is redoubtable!” Table table table…Softhair the rabbit, is having breakfast in his cottage. Surprised by thisstrange sound, he almost chokes. “There’s somebody on this mountain who rumbles like a storm.” Storm storm storm…Irritated, Olaf and Softhair shout with one voice: “Who keeps repeatingafter us all the time?”

40 pages / 190 x 270 mmMagali Bardos

Joy Boxes

“What would you like as the present I promised you, Lola?”“Mum, I want those two boxes to assemble on my own! The small one forsmall joys and the big one for big joys!So, Alphonse, my old teddy-bear, my seashell collection, the card I got fromSimon, my best friend in the world, small pebbles, big or small joy?”

32 pages / 200 x 170 mm Illustrations: Claude K. DuboisText: Carl Norac

Claude K. Dubois was born in Verviers, Belgium, in 1960. She teaches sketching at the Saint-Luc Institutein Liège, where she studied herself. At school she worked on drawing from life, sketching and watercolours,which she particularly enjoys.

Born in Belgium in 1960, Carl Norac worked as a French teacher, a television scriptwriter, and a journalistbefore devoting himself to writing. In addition to poetry and plays, he has written many children’s books(most of which are published by Pastel) and received a lot of prizes (Honour List for The Andersen Prize in2004). Carl Norac is the father of a little girl called Else.

Magali Bardos lives in France. She majored in staging-design and drawing at l'Institut Saint-Luc inBrussels and has been a full-time illustrator since 2000. Her work has been published by several publishers;she also works for newspapers.

10th title in the Lola series!

Mother MedusaKitty Crowther44 pages / 210 x 250 mm

Irisée’s life begins in her mother Medusa’s hair. Irisée, like the mother-of-pearl which covers and protects the inside of certain shells. You are my pearl, Medusa thinks. In the village, everybody says that she is adorable. “She’s mine”, Mother Medusa says.Irisée would like to meet the children outside, to go to school…

Island-Dad

Once upon a time there was a bear named Betty and a bear named Jean-Louis. - You’re going to be a father soon! Betty whispers gently. Jean-Louis is happy, but he’s also worried. What kind of a dad will I be, Jean-Louis wonders. Will I be a super dad?A super dad likes to play football, or go to the swimming pool and buildswonderful huts for his kid. I hate all of that. - But you’ll be a hut-dad, and protect our little one from the wind and therain. You’ll be a horse-dad and take our cub on adventures. You’ll be anisland-dad, so our baby can rest, Betty says with a smile.

Émile Jadoul was born in 1963 in Avennes, Belgium. Since he left the Fine Arts Academy, he’s been livingin the countryside in a house in the the woods, out of which rabbits and foxes regularly come, aswell as pigsand even bears! All these animals inspire him with pictures full of colour.When he’s not drawing in his stu-dio, he talks about his work and gives classes to future illustrators.

Kitty Crowther was born in Brussels in 1970, from a Swedish mother and a British father. Children’s li-terature - especially that from Great Britain and Scandinavia - has always been a passion for her. Becauseshe’s hearing-impaired, Kitty has always been captivated by images, signs and the hidden meaning of things.She has two sons, Théodore and Elias. Since 1994, she’s devoted herself to children’s books. Kitty has wonmany important prizes in Belgium and France, and in 2010 she received the prestigious Astrid LindgrenMemorial Award (ALMA), the world’s largest prize for children’s and young people’s literature.

32 pages / 200 x 295 mmÉmile Jadoul

I live here

The hunter is living in a small log house. On the wall, he hung his tro-phies. That evening, the hunter is tired, tired... But hardly had he startedsnoring that a noise wakes him up. Downstairs in the kitchen, he discov-ers a wolf looking for the coffee. But this wolf seems to float, he is trans-parent. “It’s a ghost wolf ! What is he doing here?” “I live here,” says theGhost Wolf. “Nope, it's me who lives here!!” said the hunter.

36 pages / 170 x 240 mm Michel Van Zeveren

Give Me a Story

- Hey, Dad? Give me a story...- Ok! Let me think.Hmm... A princess story? - Dressed in pink? Boo!- All right, all right... A knight’s story? - Aha! Heeey! A lady knight!

Jean-Luc Englebert 32 pages / 170 x 240 mm

Jean-Luc Englebert was born in Verviers, Belgium, in 1968.He attended courses at the Saint-Luc Institute in Brussels and, after being tempted by comic strips, becamean illustrator of children’s books. His stories are tender and focus mainly on interior life, illustrated by airy,luminous and sober watercolours. He also works for children’s magazines. He lives in Brussels and has twolittle daughters.

Michel Van Zeveren was born in Gent, Belgium, in 1970.He enrolled in the School of Graphic Studies(Erg) in Brussels, where he turned towards the illustration course and children's books in particular. He nowdivides his time between creating picture books and comic strips and collaborating with different magazines.

- Yes, yes, of course. - I need soldiers. - Here’s an army. And the ladyknight commands it. Followed by her powerful army,the lady knight goes to war…

Goodbye, Adélaïde

Adelaide,The day I crossed paths with you, by Jove, it was love at first sight! I wasthe happiest of kangaroos. With you, I was ready to do anything. When ourchildren grew up and left home, there were so many places to discover:Paris, the Black Forest, Australia, Japan… So many memories! I started to worry the day you made rose soup. Little by little, I understoodwhat was happening to us. Illness crept in on us like slow poison. It carriedaway your words, your smile, and your reason.

Adelaide, I’ve loved you for a long long time, I will never forget you.

Your Maturin

40 pages / 225 x 225 mm Geneviève CastermanHänsel & Gretel

Illustrations: Rascal

This very famous story is presented here in a version without text. In blackand white purely, through a play of shadows and outlines. The visual lan-guage, simple and original, enables children to reconstruct stories... or in-vent them.

Rascal was born in Belgium in 1959. After working in advertising, drawing posters for the theatre andhaving different jobs, he decided to devote himself to children’s books. He has been awarded the Great Prizefor children’s literature of the French-speaking community of Belgium for 2009-2012.

Geneviève Casterman has always loved books. When she was a teacher, she read picture books instead oftextbooks in class. To create thousands of stories with children. This is probably the reason why she wantedto create her own picture books.

36 pages / 200 x 200 mm

Other classic tales illustrated by Rascal

Big Calao and Little Man

Amoila lives with his mother near a village up in the mountains. Whilst hismother weaves, and weaves, and weaves, Amoila gets bored. One morning,his mother sends him to the village, but suddenly a shadow appears. A pairof giant wings... It’s the Big Calao.“Stand up, Lazybones! You’re bored, it seems. Go to the market and fetchme Sweetness and bring her back to me before this evening. Otherwise I’llsend Yagana, the hyena, after you.”

56 pages / 240 x 310 mm Illustrations: Anne-Catherine De BoelText: Carl Norac

Where is Light?

In those days, everything was dark. “Where is light?” the child asked. “Where we bears live, they say it’s hiding deep down in a cave in themountains.”So the bear, the squirrel and the child decided to go and look for light. Theyclimbed the highest mountains, searched the deepest caves. For a long time,they didn’t find anything. Finally, one day, they climbed very high, wherethe snow never melts, and went into a cave. The bear saw a small glimmer.He scratched at the surface and pulled out some pieces of light. “Look what I’ve found! Let’s hang them in the sky, they will illuminatethe earth.”

Stibane 32 pages / 210 x 295 mm

Stibane lives in Belgium. He grew up in the Liège province and used to spend his holiday in the Ardennes,filled with fields, woods and legends. After working several years in the comics industry, he started a career inchildren’s literature.

Anne-Catherine De Boel was born in 1975 in Namur, Belgium. She studied illustration at the Saint-Luc Institute in Liège. She lives now in Africa which she particularly loves because of its range of coloursbursting with sun and heat. She mainly uses gouache and acrylic paint.

Born in Belgium in 1960, Carl Norac worked as a French teacher, a television scriptwriter, and a journalistbefore devoting himself to writing. In addition to poetry and plays, he has written many children’s books(most of which are published by Pastel) and received a lot of prizes (Honour List for The Andersen Prize in2004). Carl Norac is the father of a little girl called Else.

8 Minutes and 19 Seconds

Hubert Grooteclaes was born in Belgium in 1927. He died in 1994. A self-taught photographer, he was aprofessor at the École Supérieure des Arts Saint-Luc in Liège for over twenty years. Internationallyacclaimed, he photographed famous artists such as Jacques Brel, Jean Marais, Romy Schneider, Samy DavisJunior, Léo Ferré, Serge Gainsbourg...

Rascal was born in Belgium in 1959. After working in advertising, drawing posters for the theatre andhaving different jobs, he decided to devote himself to children’s books. He has been awarded the Great Prizefor children’s literature of the French-speaking community of Belgium for 2009-2012.

32 pages / 294 x 191 mmPhotographies: Hubert GrooteclaesText: Rascal

It takes sunlight 8 minutes and 19 seconds to reach the Earth. Your eyes went faster to tell me you loved me.My sadness is hidden like the secret of the trees. Like the rainbow bird flying between sun and rain. But the swallows will return.

The Ogre’s Promise

The Ogre was uncouth and must have weighed, without his boots and hisanimal skin clothes, as much as a Charolais ox. He’d been bald for a longtime and his long beard, often straggly, was always dirty because of touch-ing the ground. As for the Ogre’s son, he had a sensitive and delicate heart.The father had an ogre’s appetite and cooked wonderfully.“You are the Ogre’s son and a well respected ogre eats children!”

Illustrations: Régis LejoncText: Rascal

48 pages / 210 x 297 mm

Born in 1967, Régis Lejonc lives and works in Bordeaux. A self-taught man, he spends his time betweenchildren’s books (he even directs a series), advertising and comics. He has received many awards, includingthe Montreuil children’s book fair Baobab prize for Au bout du compte.

Rascal was born in Belgium in 1959. After working in advertising, drawing posters for the theatre andhaving different jobs, he decided to devote himself to children’s books. He has been awarded the Great Prizefor children’s literature of the French-speaking community of Belgium for 2009-2012.

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