Peony struts her stuff. To embalm is to smile", murmurs the freesia.Peony, odourless, blushes.Flagrant delight: The fragrance of lilacs.

From the power of water come oceans and seas, but also the fine rain that enchants the snail. Around this aquatic world, a thousand destinies and stories mingle, which Sophie Leï Thuman distils, mixing the destiny of the mythical basilisk with the hopes of a champagne bubble, letting the idea that water is a rare and precious resource float through the waves.

For the shepherds and peasants who engrave their memories in the arid mountain landscape where time seems to have stopped, life is only reborn when a ray of sunlight gives the stolen fruit the flavour of childhood. Through Jean Siccardi's poems, a landscape is drawn that is constantly threatened, a witness to a past that reappears under Joly Guth's stroke.

A collection that is sure to please gourmets, as Monique Ribis offers a real tour of the world of colours and flavours: from strawberries to pineapples, from roses to buttercups, these poems are full of humorous descriptions and tasting tips, beautifully illustrated by Serge Ceccarelli.

Like a baker, the poet kneads the words, letting them rest before obtaining a tasty batch of warm breads, so many little poems to savour. From one journey to the next, reality merges with the imaginary, and everyday animals come to life under the pen of Daniel Schmitt, who transforms everyday moments into an invitation to dream.

Poems in Landscapes is a collection of poems for children written from engravings and engravings painted from poems. The poems evoke the sensation of bodies in nature, the engravings integrate the body as a natural element. Here, everything is playful, everything echoes the world of childhood and the particular attention paid to details in the world. The tiny and the gigantic rub shoulders, marvellous animals appear, mountains, trees, water, beasts and the human body merge.

These Poems to face the good weather and enjoy the bad are humorous considerations on the passing of time and the scansion of the seasons. The form responds to the content of the text: thus the word tunnel becomes graphic thanks to two enlarged -nn-. Bad weather is written in raindrops.

The child is born crying, then he smiles, then he cries again, then he smiles againt, hen he laughs.

This fabulous bestiary with feathers and beaks, full of flavor and inspiration, invites us to take a tour of the world of birds through a subtle and sparkling work on language. Constantin Kaïtéris' word games and sounds are a real pleasure to discover in a playful and humorous way the mysterious, bizarre or often funny names of birds, whether they are from gardens, seas or the tropics. It chirps beautifully in the ears and the eyes are not left out with the illustrations of Kotimi who stages with a lot of tenderness and humor our mischievous companions of the air. The whole enhanced with touches of blue azure to better escape!

This book invites them to embark on the adventure of writing, inviting them to let the little voice of their sensibility blossom, to celebrate the unexpected treasures of existence and to follow the unpredictable thread of inspiration... 

The cat whispered to the man one morning and the man said, "That's just like you," and the dog meowed, and everyone was happy;

All the chairs on which I have sat, all the chairs that have counted, the chairs of my life... Based on this theme, Raphaële Frier recounts her first chair as high as the roof of the world, the waiting chair, the long chairs that obscure the short ones, the kitchen chair that stands next to flour and the smell of gravel, sad chairs like the one of the absent person, or wacky chairs like the flying chairs. And in turn, Clothilde Staës engraves with her beautiful heightened engravings, the chairs that have counted in her life.

This book is a collection of poems by Paul Bergèse, a French poet, who has written a series of poems about trees and their relationship with the world, and who has written a series of poems about trees and their relationship with the world. The tree has a soul that must be cared for.

On the menu: poetry and derision in every sauce and succulent secrets of the kitchen. Michel Besnier has a lot of fun revisiting recipes with mischief and making fun of the imperative tone of the great "chefs" of gastronomy that we see on television. And what a pleasure to discover his great and fine complicity with Henri Galeron whose images are as beautiful as they are surprising and so rich in humor. Besnier-Galeron, it's 5-star cooking!

The Evening Poems are a ritornello dedicated to what frightens us, what we don't know, the tiny things that crawl under the earth or that rummage in the dark when night comes, the worries that creep up on us... These are poems on the theme of twilight and mystery, of the night that is both frightening and attractive, with the instruction to use rhymes, wordplay, and alliterations in -oir and -uit.

"As a curious bird or an overgrown boy, I entered these secret landscapes with their travelling colours, thinking that rocks and mists speak to us and that we only need to know how to listen to them." So begins Poèmes de roches et de brumes, where raw materials and volutes rub, brush against each other and mingle in Carl Norac's poems and Arno Célérier's illustrations, between masses of cut-out paper and mists of openwork lace.

Just before going to bed, drink a cup of time that passes. It's good for your health.

30 magical poems to be amazed, to smile at the little things that make everything and everything else that is not nothing ... A collection full of originality, inventiveness and inspiration, in perfect harmony with the illustrations rich with humor and tenderness of Pierre Pratt.

In Branchez-vous ! Et autres poèmes biscornus, François Gravel questions the curiosities of the French language and has fun with them. He even goes so far as to mix English with French to twist his words and his head even more.This album was selected for the Prix Des liv'Retz vous - Bibliothèques du Pays de Retz (Sud Bretagne - France) 2020 and received the Prix Lux Illustration, category Edition, 2019

Éliane Jules has created and drawn a fantastic universe around the leaves of different species of trees, and has written a poem for each character - a clown, a poet, an infanta, an insolent elf or a timid woodland fairy. Thus was born the Little Forest People, a herbarium of leaves to be tamed, recognized and dreamed of.

This volume contains the following fables: The Crow and the Fox, The Ant and the Grasshoper, The Tortoise and the Hare, The Milkmaid and the Her Pail, The Wolf and the Lamb, The Frog and the Ox. It was in 1668, on March 31, that Jean de La Fontaine published his first work: "Les Fables Choisies".

Enter my housethe music flutters between the beamsthe swallows announce the beauties of the worldand the foreign words open all the doors

From poem to poem, the seasons pass by. Summer, autumn, winter, spring... Silence of the wind, murmur of the pines, roar of the sea, song of the birds... These poems which are inspired by the form of haikus (small Japanese poems of three lines) are a hymn to nature, to its beauty, to the passing of time.