We all have the image of the cunning and cunning fox, who deceives his world. Master Raven discovers this to his cost in one of Jean de La Fontaine's most famous fables.

A famous fable by Jean de La Fontaine, written in 1668. On March 31, 1668, Jean de La Fontaine published his first book: "Les Fables Choisies".

A famous fable by Jean de La Fontaine, written in 1668. On March 31, 1668, Jean de La Fontaine published his first book: "Les Fables Choisies".

The Frog and the Ox is a famous fable by Jean de La Fontaine. It is the story of a frog who, out of envy and jealousy, will inflate himself to become as big as an ox. But by trying too hard to imitate, he will pay the price... This fable criticizes human vanity: it is better to stay as you are.

My lords and ladies, I will now tell you of the astonishing adventures that befell the mad Renart long ago. You will learn how the wolf, who knew many tricks, committed so many pranks and larcenies that he almost drove his companion, the wolf Ysengrin, crazy, but also all those who crossed his path. Listen in this second story, how Renart played a bad trick on his uncle Ysengrin, to get himself out of an unfortunate situation...

My lords and ladies, I will now tell you of the astonishing adventures that befell the wolf Renart long ago. You will learn how the wolf, who knew many tricks, committed so many pranks and petty crimes that he almost drove his fellow wolf, Ysengrin, crazy, as well as all those who crossed his path. In this third story, you will learn how Renart tricked the poor, hungry and gullible Ysengrin...

My lords and ladies, I will now tell you of the astonishing adventures that befell the mad Renart long ago. You will learn how the wolf, who knew many tricks, committed so many pranks and petty theft that he almost drove his fellow wolf, Ysengrin, crazy, but also all those who crossed his path... Discover in this first story, which nasty trick Renart committed against Sire Ysengrin.

Jack and his mother are poor. The day Jack trades their goat for six bean seeds, his mother gets angry. But the seeds are actually magic! In one night they grow into a huge ladder of greenery, like a giant bean. Jack climbs to the top of the ladder and, beyond the clouds, enters the ominous home of an ogre and an ogress...

Odette is a delicious little chick. She likes sewing and gossiping, so she sews and gossips.

Hidden in a flowery thicket, a little rascal is spying on her. The fox would like to bite into her. So he's watching her. He watches the pudgy young hen and waits for the appropriate moment to catch her...

Three little pigs have to leave the family cocoon, set out on their own on the great road of life and build themselves a house: build a straw shelter, assemble a shed of branches, build a house. Everything gets complicated when a big bad wolf comes around. And that's when the story takes an unexpected turn...

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Little Goldilocks is walking in the forest when she sees a house and, full of curiosity, decides to enter it... But who does it belong to? Goldilocks then goes to taste the three soups on the table because one is too hot, the other is too cold, and the last one is just right!

"He felt as if he were being propelled through the air by a strange force. He opened his eyes and looked around haggardly."

Theseus was silent. They thought he was dumb, stupid, crazy or even worse, a stranger! So, out of fear and as a precaution, he was chased away. Always forced into exile, he finally landed one day in Crete. The little people were in full effervescence. It was the big day, according to tradition, each year a young man was chosen to go and confront the frightening half-man half-bull creature: the Minotaur... Beautiful illustrations and suspense to revisit with humour the astonishing myth of Theseus and the Minotaur.

A collection of traditional Argentinean stories. A big campfire in the Argentine countryside. A party. Traditional storytellers have come from all over the country to tell us adventures of animals that resemble us and make us all, young and old, go from laughter to tears. Thanks to them, let's discover Argentina, its landscapes, its customs and a little bit of its history...

The miller can't sleep, bothered by many intruders. To chase them away, his mill will turn faster and faster.

A green mouse, running in the grass, I catch it by the tail, I show it to these gentlemen... A nursery rhyme for the little ones.

Gogo and Golo are on a boat. Gogo falls into the water. Who is left? Golo is alone on the boat looking for Gogo in the water, when a sperm whale appears. A literary fantasy full of humour and colour. Pay attention, don't lose sight of the characters!This album has been selected for the Prix Première œuvre de littérature jeunesse, category 3-5 years, 2019.

We all know the rhyme "Marabout... bout d'ficelle... "which has lulled our childhood. Here it is revisited, enriched and transposed into the colourful world of the circus. Jugglers, stagehands, animals and clowns illustrate in their own way the various expressions of the song. The authors manage to create a real story, that of a day at the circus, from expressions more heterogeneous than the others. The multitude of details and the dynamism of the images arouse the curiosity of children, who enrich their vocabulary with great pleasure. The concept is supported by the plastic quality of the dry pastel illustrations by ZAD, who interprets this zany song with a lot of pertinence.

Against the dictatorship of a thin and perfect body. The mouse Moussy, with a slim figure, is at the Opera to take the little rat contest. The Fluettes sisters, ill-intentioned mice with ultra-thin waists, point out to her that it will be difficult to pass the contest without losing weight. Moussy, influenced and destabilized, goes on a diet until she stops eating and loses all her strength. Fortunately the VSS, the Old Wise Mouse, watches over Moussy...

A famous fable by Jean de La Fontaine, written in 1668. On March 31, 1668, Jean de La Fontaine published his first book: "Les Fables Choisies".

A famous fable by Jean de La Fontaine, written in 1668. On March 31, 1668, Jean de La Fontaine published his first book: "Les Fables Choisies".

Jean the elephant is terrified of causing the end of the world by farting. But nothing happens when he cannot hold it anymore.

Let me tell you about my life. Every day I pick up candy wrappers...

Philippe Barbeau polished his text for a long time. Then, patiently, Marion Janin made it her own, imposing her own breath on it.Her precise, almost precious line respects the universality of the tale, while at the same time imposing a very personal touch.The stones sometimes have silences that separate.

I had decided to wait for him forever...

The Whale on Bus 29 evokes in a very warm and poetic way a little girl's view of a colourful and moving woman who has been sitting in front of her bus stop for a week. In the eyes of the little girl, this woman looks like a whale stranded on the sidewalk. In creating this story, in which one of the two characters is a homeless woman, the author succeeds in creating a very endearing book, rich in tenderness, poetry, imagination, humour and emotion. This album was awarded the 2015 Jérôme Main Prize at the Cherbourg Children's Book Festival.

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.

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.

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.