New Children’s Books to Read This Fall

Good news little friends! This fall, beloved authors Kris di Giacomo, Olivier Tallec, Anne Herbauts and Géraldine Cosneau are back with new stories! In Est-ce qu’il dort, blackbird has stopped singing, Amir is fascinated by a red door in Encore un peu, Martin Minet is obsessed with measuring everything in Grandeur Nature, and in Une ferme à Paris, the city disappears to make way for an ever-growing farm.

Reading List

Est-ce qu’il dort ?by Olivier Tallec

This morning, the blackbird doesn’t sing. His comrades find him lying at the foot of his usual tree, in the yellow meadow. He’s dead. First the questions: “Is he asleep?”, then the realization, and finally the time for tributes. A poetic stroll through the heart of the forest that helps us understand the stages of grief.

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Encore un peuby Kris di Giacomo and Michaël Escoffier,

Amir is a little boy. And therein lies the problem. In Amir’s house, there’s a locked red door. When he asks his parents what’s behind it, they tell him he’s not allowed to know because he’s too small. Amir has only one goal in mind: to grow up.

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Grandeur Natureby Anne Herbauts

Sometimes it’s hard to find your bearings in space. What if you could measure everything? Your house, your blanket, your nose… everything? Martin Minet feels overwhelmed by nature. So instead of trying to measure everything, he decides to plant seeds. Because watching a tree grow is a lot more fun than knowing its exact size.

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L’ABC des animaux by Géraldine Cosneau

Colorful drawings to learn the names of animals through the 26 letters of the alphabet. Each page of L’ABC des animaux is dedicated to a letter, an animal and an anecdote about it.

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Florence et Léon by Simon Boulerice and Delphine Cote-Lacroix

One day, two strangers bumped into each other, literally. One couldn’t see well, as if through a straw. The other has trouble breathing, as if breathing through a straw. So, they decide to have a drink together. What could be better than getting to know each other by drinking through a straw? 

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Une ferme à Paris by Anne Crahay

Who hasn’t dreamed of turning off the city’s sound and seeing a tree grow in the middle of their apartment? With this album, Paris disappears to make way for an ever-growing farm. The drawings hide fruits, vegetables, bees… enough to cook a feast without ever going back to the supermarket!

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Louise is an intern at Albertine Books and a student at Nanterre University. She loves poetry, sending postcards, and anything sweet. The last book she read? The Tarot of the Magicians by Oswald Wirth. She might even read your tarot cards to help you discover your next bedside book.
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