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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€
Sara
SaraQui sait combien d’obstacles
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.
already published
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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