Spring 2016 FOREIGN RIGHTS CATALOGUE

Spring 2016
FOREIGN RIGHTS CATALOGUE

MIX ME UP, A MIX-AND-MATCH BOOK
• Michio Watanabe
Can you imagine a robot dancing
in the snowy mountains? Or a
yeti saying hello, ‘Hey, there!’ in
an apple? Or… a siren grocery
shopping… in a bathtub?!
Once you’ve started playing
with this clever mix-and-match
book, you won’t be able to stop.
By flipping through the cut
pages, children can create quirky
characters, each accompanied
by its own amusing verbal
description. With beautiful
illustrations, interactive
cut-outs.
A perfect book for playful minds and little fingers.
> From 3 up • board book • 16,8 x 26 cm • 32 pages
Michio Watanabe was born in 1961 in Kobe, Japan. He studied
oil painting and printmaking at Kyoto Seika University. After
graduation, he worked in a silkscreen print studio as printer.
In 1989 he became a free-lance illustrator and founded his own
design studio, STUDIO14. He works for magazines, designs book
covers and advertisement material. He was selected for the
Illustrators Exhibition at the Bologna Children’s Book Fair in
2009, 2011 and 2014.
WHAT ARE YOU UP TO?
A POP-UP BOOK FOR TODDLERS
• Olivia Cosneau & Bernard Duisit
Hey, little owl, what are you up
to? – I’m waking up.
Hey, busy pelican, what are you
up to? – I’m tidying up.
A pop-up book where kids can
learn in a fun way how to grow
and become more independent,
just like little birds until they fly
and leave the nest!
Also: a charming and funny
introduction to nature,
throughout those endearing and colourful birds!
> From 3 on • Soft cover • 15 x 18 cm
8 spreads • French retail: 11,90€
Olivia Cosneau is an illustrator who has published many children’s
books about animals and nature, with Amaterra, Casterman,
Grund, La Martinière... Birds are a huge favourite of hers!
Bernard Duisit is a talented paper engineer who has worked on
dozens of pop-ups and pop-up books.
THE FIVE SENSES
• Pepillo
Five playbooks to learn about the
five senses. 11 images per title,
front and back, each title focusing
on one sense throughout vivid
visual examples.
I hear everything • I taste
everything • I smell everything
• I touch everything • I see
everything
With the simple and strong
illustrations and the nursery
rhyme like texts, these double-
sided fold-out formats will
definitely enthral toddlers.
> From 1 up • 1 landscape foldout
board book in a polybag (x5)
• 12 panels per book, front and back
• 15 x 16,5 cm • French retail: 7,50€
Pepillo is a very prolific artist:
as well as being a designer and
a photographer, she created her
own brand, Pepillo, and conceives
colouring books, stamps, posters,
stickers and apps. She lives
in Paris.
Pour faire plein de choses tout seul,
comme les oiseaux si colorés.
Avec des tirettes faciles à manipuler,
des rabats, et beaucoup de surprises !
Texte et illustrations • Olivia Cosneau
Ingénierie papier • Bernard Duisit
Ne coNvieNt pas aux eNfaNts
de moiNs de 36 mois
© hélium / Actes Sud, 2016
Loi no 49 956 du 16 juillet 1949
sur les publications destinées à la jeunesse
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No d’édition : JE 255
Réalisation : Katie Fechtmann
lmprimé en octobre 2015 à Hong Kong par Toppan Excel
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Olivia Cosneau • Bernard Duisit
Olivia Cosneau • Bernard Duisit
Un pop-up pour les petits
Tu
fais
quoi ?
Un pop-up pour les petits
Tu fais quoi ?
CE PROTOTYPE NE PEUT ÊTRE VENDU
SAM SAYS…
• Delphine Chedru
Turn the page to discover the
new image!
An element, animal or object
can lead to something totally
different, once you’ve turned
the page to reveal what’s
hiding under the laser cut!
With a new injunction at
each new image (Bite! Look!
Fly! Feel! Hurry!), the young
reader will be delighted to
see a hat turn into a turtle, or
the wheels of a bicycle into the huge round eyes of an owl!
> From 1 up • 1 board book with 7 laser cuts • 14 x 15 cm
• 28 pages • Estimated French retail: 9,90€
1,2,3... LET’S GO!
(ALL THE WAY WITH YOUR FINGER)
1,2,3… let’s go! With your
finger, you will be able to
follow the path all through
the book, being paved all
along with spot varnish for
a better feel. You’ll discover
the dark woods, have fun in
the sky with the birds, hop
with the frog or build a castle
with the brave knight!
> From 1 up • 1 board book with spot varnish • 14 x 15 cm
• 28 pages • Estimated French retail: 9,90€
Delphine Chedru is a free-lance author and illustrator. She has
published many children’s books for Albin Michel jeunesse,
Gallimard jeunesse…
TOURNE LA PAGE ET DÉCOUVRE LA SURPRISE
Delphine Chedru
PAUL A DIT !
Delphine Chedru
1, 2, 3 PARTONS !
SUIS LE CHEMIN AVEC TON DOIGT
AND ALSO!

MUSEUM DINOS
• Text by Gaëlle Mazars & illustrations by Jean-Baptiste Drouot
Not so long ago, little dinos
managed to escape from big
dinos. The problem was, they
found themselves in the centre
of a big city, filled with noise,
lights, cars, and very, very weird
animals that call themselves
human beings. Whilst our
two little friends try to find
somewhere to hide, they realize
this is nearly impossible.
Whether it’s at the swimming
pool or in the middle of the
funfair, the little dinos realize
the ‘humans’ are after them.
What is the safest place in the city? Maybe this dark, stone cave
called Museum... WAIT. Isn’t that where other dinos, BIG HUGE
dinos, would also hide?...
A fun, quick-paced adventure through the city, with two small
huge characters more endearing than ever.
> From 5 up • hardcover • 18 x 23 cm • 40 pages • French retail: 12,50€
Gaëlle Mazars and Jean-Baptiste Drouot are both graphic designers.
Jean-Baptiste Drouot is also an illustrator, and Gaëlle Mazars
writes children’s stories. Together, they published Cache-cache
dinos (Dino Hide and Seek).
AND ALSO!
TINA’S SOCKS
• Okay Tina
Today, Lili is throwing a big
party: a socks party! Tina, her
best friend, is eager to get ready,
but… there’s a hole in the sock
she wanted to wear! What if... she
wore two different socks? Off she
goes! On her way to the party,
Tina hears the teasing of all the
friends (animals or humans) she
runs into.
How will Lili react?
A sweet and festive book with charming characters to remind us
that friendship and singularity are precious gifts.
> From 3 up • hardcover • 20 x 18 cm • 40 pages • French retail: 12,50€
Okay Tina was born in Seoul. She lived in Japan, in New York...
After studying art, she became and illustrator and now works for
magazines or brands like Levi’s or Playmobil. Her favourite subject
is childhood. Her work has been exhibited in Seoul, New York
and Bologna.
FROM MORNING TILL NIGHT
• Flavia Ruotolo
A bowl or a mushroom? A
megaphone or a volcano?
From one page to the next,
Flavia Ruotolo transforms
a very mundane day into an
extraordinary visual journey.
On the left page, an element
representing a moment of the
day appears, while on the right,
the same element, introduced
differently, becomes an item of a
different story, full of adventures
and fantasy. A kind of workshop
for the imagination, this is an
exciting graphic invitation in
blue and orange, to look at things from a different perspective,
reminding us of the most famous words by French surrealist
author Paul Éluard: «The Earth is Blue like an Orange.»
> From 4 up • hardback • 2 direct tons • 15 x 20 cm
• 40 pages • French retail: 12,50€
Born in Italy in 1973, Flavia Ruotolo studied experimental cinema
and animation in Bologna and Paris, then worked in independent
film-making until 2004. She is now a graphic designer (her studio
is called Le Macchinine) and works in the fields of publishing and
culture. She is the author of Zoo (Editions MeMo, 2011). She lives
and works in Genoa.
http://www.lemacchininedesign.it/
ISBN : 978-2-330-06335-1
helium-editions.fr/
12,50 €
Tina arrive enn chez Lili.
Ls anniversaires, c’est ce que je préfère dans la vie.
En premier le mien, en deuxième celui des autres.
Aujourd’hui je suis invité à l’anniversaire de Julie.
Je vais y aller avec Chaussette, mon lapin bélier.
Et je sens qu’on va drôlement bien s’amuser…
14,90 €
helium-editions.fr
978-2-330-0XXXX-X
Le Pire anniversaire anniversaire de ma vie Benjamin Chaud
Julie c’est mon amoureuse, seulement elle ne
le sait pas encore.
Alors pour son anniversaire, je lui prépare une
surprise, dans une boîte en forme de cœur.
Je m’applique pour que ce soit le plus beau des
cadeaux. Comme ça, elle va tomber amoureuse
de moi.
Mais rien ne se passe comme prévu.
Déjà, il y a d’autres enfants. Moi qui pensais être le seul
invité, c’est até. En plus, ce n’est pas un anniversaire déguisé.
Personne ne m’a prévenu. C’est très gênant d’être le seul
en costume de lapin.
THE WORST BIRTHDAY PARTY EVER
• Benjamin Chaud
I am really happy. I love
birthdays: especially mine,
but also other birthdays.
I have been invited to
Julie’s birthday party,
and I’m taking Floppy,
my rabbit, with me. I’m
really excited, even though
Floppy is useless, because
Julie is my girlfriend, even
though she doesn’t know
that yet. I’ve decided to
go dressed as Floppy, and
Floppy will go dressed as
me. I’m sure Julie will find
this hilarious. But when we
arrive, I notice nobody else
is wearing a costume, and
from then on nothing really
goes on as planned…
Five years after we met the young narrator and Floppy in Adieu
Chaussette (Farewell Floppy), here they are again, with a new
story that proves us that good friends stick together no matter
what, even if there might be new friends in the mix!... and that
being a bit awkward may well be as cute as hell.
An improbable duo just as sweet, fun, and realistic as ever.
> From 5 up • hardback • 12 x 27,5 cm • 40 pages
• French retail: 15,90€
Benjamin Chaud is the renowned illustrator of Pomelo and La Fée
Coquillette (Albin Michel jeunesse), Adieu Chaussette, Farewell
Floppy and the series Une chanson d’ours, A Bear’s song (hélium),
sold in 13 languages.

PLEASE HAVE A SEAT
• Didier Cornille
Please have a seat takes readers on a fun-
filled tour throughout various seats such
as the farmer’s stool, the director’s chair
or public benches, alongside the most
important chairs created by the greatest
designers of the twentieth and twenty-
first centuries such as Sottsass, Perriand,
Jacobsen or Eames.
Whether beautiful, easy to use,
comfortable, playful, artful... each chair
or seat was chosen for what it says of its
designer, who, as an engineer, an artist or
as a craftsman, listens to the needs of the
society he lives in, in order to create the
best possible seat of all time!
Beginning each subject with a brief perspective of its designer
and its work, illustrator Didier Cornille pays special attention to
key design innovations and signature details. His acute and
THE HOTEL OF AN ELEPHANT,
AN ENCYCLOPAEDIC INVESTIGATION
• Text by Sophie Strady & illustrations by Jean-François Martin
It’s the Indian summer
in the city. Marcel the
Elephant leaves his car
in the parking lot of
the Grand Hotel, while
Limousines wait in the
street. «Room 66, Sir, on
the sixth floor; here are
your keys». It’s a relief to
stay here for a while after
having been traveling
for so many weeks.
But as he’s unpacking,
Marcel realizes one small
suitcase is missing...
He has to investigate
throughout the rooms and
other areas of this Grand Hotel, questioning the many artists and
musicians living there, hidden behind the doors and their golden
plates...
As in The Memory of an Elephant, Marcel takes the reader
throughout a unique and encyclopaedic journey. The various
entries are featured in full-page spreads packed with facts about
transportation, kitchen utensils, movie props or board games,
all this alongside his investigation through the corridors of this
Hotel, inspired by the mythical Chelsea Hotel in New York City.
Part story, part miscellany, this unforgettable book with dream-
like illustrations will transfix both parents and children.
> From 8 up • hardback • 28 x 36 cm • 40 pages • French retail: 15,90 €
Sophie Strady is an editor passionate about art and facts who lives
in Paris, France.
Jean-François Martin is an illustrator for publishing and
advertising. He has published more than 50 books for children
and won many awards for his work, such as the Bologna Ragazzi
Fiction Award for his book, Fables. He also lives in Paris, France.
OUR HUMANITIES
• Caroline Souffir (texts by historian Robert Frank and author
Didier da Silva)
Led by the renowned historian
Robert Frank, beautifully
illustrated by the young
illustrator, artistic director
and graphic designer
Caroline Souffir, and filled
with the witty, literary
little explanatory texts of
writer Didier da Silva, this
modern History of Humanity
is filled with breathtaking
illustrations. The lay-out
navigates between sequences
overflowing with details,
encyclopaedic sequences,
close-ups on monuments, historical figures or major events of the
History of the World.
Robert Frank will have us discover or rediscover the history of
Humanity with powerful, concise explanations, the text being
divided into chapters (Myths and Religions, Ancient Greece, Marco
Polo and the discovery of China, the Pilgrims…).
A bold and never seen before Art and History book, led by one of
the major specialists. A timeless gift for adults and teenagers.
> From 14 up and for all ages • 18,5 x 26,5 cm • 504 pages including
endpapers • Hardcover, headband • Printed in 4C + 5th colour (gold)
on offset natural paper • Cloth cover, title embossing • 250 000 signs
• around 26 000 words • Estimated French retail: 28€
Robert Frank is a Professor of the History of Contemporary
International Relations at University of Paris I, Panthéon-
Sorbonne, and Director of Identities, International Relations
and Civilisations of Europe (IRICE). He is also Chairperson of
the Commission of History of International Relations. He has
published many publications and articles about the history of
international relations in the twentieth century. He now devotes
his time to writing.
Caroline Souffir graduated in 2012 from the French Esag
Penninghen Art School, in the artistic direction and numeric
design sessions. This book is her very first.
Didier da Silva is an author of fiction. He has written several novels
and books on various topics, including an essay on the movie
Groundhog Day.
Ce soir-là, il y a bien longtemps, Marcel se gare devant le Grand Hôtel. C’est l’été indien dans la grande ville,
et il fait encore très doux.
charming drawings along with the accessible text unlock the
secrets of design. Readers of all ages will delight in this colourful
introduction to chairs, all in all extraordinary pieces of work. A
book to enjoy… comfortably seated, of course.
> For all ages • hardback • 12 x 27,5 cm • 128 pages
• French retail: 15,90€
Didier Cornille has published all his books with hélium, including
the famous ‘introduction to architecture’ series Who built that:
houses, skyscrapers or bridges, all together sold in XX languages.
He has been awarded several prices at the Bologna Book Fair and
French Montreuil Book Fair. He teaches design at the Fine Arts
school in Le Mans, France.
Histoire des histoires!
Histoire des histoires!
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endant la première moitié du e
siècle, les romantiques prônent la
liberté dans les arts et en politique.
Dans la littérature, au théâtre, en pein-
ture, ils refusent les règles qui édictaient
la mesure et l’harmonie, pour donner libre
cours au mouvement, à la couleur, à l’émo-
tion, à la passion amoureuse et à l’expres-
sion de leur mal de vivre.
Dans leurs pays, face aux monarchies
autoritaires, ils se battent pour obtenir
une presse libre et plus de pouvoirs pour
les Parlements. À l’échelle
européenne, ils luttent
pour la libération des
nations. Le poète Lord
Byron s’engage dans la
guerre d’indépendance de
la Grèce contre l’occupa-
tion turque. Shelley écrit
un poème pour mobiliser
l’opinion en faveur de ce
peuple : « Nous sommes
tous Grecs » et Delacroix
peint des tableaux pour faire connaître
leurs sourances. L es barricades qui sont
érigées pendant les révolutions de 1830 en
France, puis pendant le « printemps des
peuples » en Europe, en 1848, symbolisent
le caractère romantique de ces soulève-
ments. Les résultats espérés ne sont pas
atteints : la Deuxième République française
a juste le temps d’abolir l’esclavage ; elle
est vite confisquée par Louis-Napoléon
Bonaparte qui, en 1852, se fait proclamer
Napoléon III, empereur des Français ; l’Em-
pire d’Autriche mate la révolte des nation-
alités. Mais, les rêves subsistent.
Et certains deviennent réalité. La généra-
tion suivante, en eet, plus réaliste, s’y
prend autrement à partir des années 1860.
Cavour, avec l’aide militaire de la France,
fait la guerre à l’Autriche et réussit à ce
que son royaume, le Piémont, construise
l’unité de l’Italie. Bismarck, chancelier,
obtient que son roi de Prusse, Guillaume
Ier, de la dynastie des Hohenzollern, devi-
enne empereur allemand et fasse l’unité de
l’Allemagne après une victoire contre les
Habsbourg d’Autriche et une autre contre
la France en 1871. Face aux nations, l’em-
pire ottoman continue à reculer en Europe :
après les Grecs en 1830, les Roumains en
1859, les Serbes et les
Bulgares en 1878 devi-
ennent indépendants.
Après leur défaite les
Français parviennent
à établir une Troisième
République durable,
ayant désormais l’ap-
pui des paysans qui
faisait jusqu’alors
défaut aux répub-
licains. Ces derniers
croient au progrès : il passe selon eux par
l’éducation des masses qu’il convient d’ar-
racher à l’emprise de l’Église, grâce à l’école
obligatoire, gratuite et laïque. Remonter
Jules Ferry et l’école dans ce sous-chapitre
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Editor • Gilberte Bourget
Foreign Rights • Elsa Giroux
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WHEN WE GROW UP • Maria Dek
"When I grow up, I’m going
to be really big". This is
how begins this book in
which a child imagines all
the things he’ll be able to
do (and enjoy) when he’s an
adult. "I will eat ice-cream
for lunch. I will have a
different job for each day of
the week. My favourite one
will be walking animals.
I will live in a tree house."
While he lists all these
things, the reader can see
and count them: 5 scoops
of ice-cream, 7 jobs a week,
8 animals to walk around (including a pig and a giraffe) and so
on. A poetic tale about a child’s vision of adulthood transformed
into great and absurd adventure, lovingly rendered in Maria Dek’s
delightful and elegant illustrations.
> From 3 on • hardcover • 20 x 25,5 cm • 48 pages • Estimated French
retail: 14,90€
Maria Dek is an illustrator based in Warsaw, Poland. She holds
an Art Degree from both the Academy of Fine Arts In Warsaw
and the University of Arts, London. She creates children books,
editorial illustrations, and pictures for cultural and educational
institutions.
Rights for English, German, Italian, Polish, Danish, Swedish and
Norwegian handled by Debbie Bibo : [email protected]
Other territories with hélium.