A new series
In the Sattouf family, we ask for the little brother. After recounting his childhood between Syria and Brittany in “The Arab of the Future”, the designer takes us to meet Fadi, whose existence we discovered through the void left behind following his kidnapping by their father. To complete this missing piece in his story, Riad questioned Fadi. On the kidnapping, on the atrocious maternal loss, on life returning to normal in Syria, the big brother takes a lucid look. Between cruelty and tenderness, as always.
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“Me, Fadi the stolen brother, volume 1, 1986-1994”, by Riad Sattouf (Les Livres du futur, 144 p.).
A new heroine
Catel and Bocquet take on the life of Anita Conti, a French oceanographer, photographer and pioneer of ecology who lived a thousand lives.
We let ourselves be carried away to the bottom of the ocean by the epic breath and the intimate portrait of this destiny
As with most of the other portraits in the collection (Joséphine Baker, Alice Guy, etc.), the duo offers a chronological reading of the life of this woman who was never shy, nor for the rest, since she happily embarked on expeditions to the Far North. And we let ourselves be carried away to the bottom of the ocean by the epic breath and the intimate portrait of this destiny, completely astonished at not having known it sooner.
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« Anita Conti », de Catel & Bocquet (Casterman, 368 p.).
A new look
What if we reversed the perspectives? What if we looked at life no longer from the painter’s eyes, but from the canvas itself? It is the bias of Luz who tells us the vicissitudes of an entire century, the 20th, by choosing the point of view of a painting by Otto Mueller. From its conception in 1919, then its banishment by the Nazis, until its return to the walls of a museum at the dawn of the 21st century, the painting is a survivor. The former cartoonist for “Charlie Hebdo” composes here a fascinating and curiously airy story, like a magnificent counterweight to the gravity of the century.
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“Two naked girls”, by Luz (Albin Michel, 192 p.).
A rabbit wonder
And off we go for hours of observation and laughter in this “seek and find” at the Musée d’Orsay, in the company of Simon, the Superrabbit, and his super-friends. Between the vivid drawings and the spectacular staging where a host of characters, clues and works of art parade, Stéphanie Blake, casually, spices up the game for the greatest pleasure of the little ones.
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“Simon searches and finds – come to the museum!” », by Stéphanie Blake (The School of Leisure/Musée d’Orsay).
A cow’s love
Since he was as tall as three feathers, whenever he is sad, Aldo snuggles up against his black cow, and everything works out. As he grew up, he rode to school and later lived with her in the city. But one day, he notices that “a few tears are flowing from her large, black-rimmed eyes” that she is unhappy. A very beautiful album about fusional love, and the need to break away from it in order to love oneself differently.
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“The story of the black cow”, by Brune Bottero and Amandine Meyer (Seuil Jeunesse).
A doggie heart
Woke up at 6 a.m. by a cocorico, without kibble for breakfast, shaggy, Mr. Dog still leaves his house.
A delicate book to explain that sorrows do not last, that the sun returns
Outside, it’s raining hard, and Mr. Dog is grumbling when a bookseller with unreal blue eyes bumps into him. It’s love at first sight, but will he meet her again? A delicate book to explain that sorrows do not last, that the sun returns.
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“A poem from Mr. Dog”, by Sébastien Mourrain (Actes Sud Jeunesse).
A pig’s trick
But where did Maryse’s eggs go? At the farm, the hen is devastated. Félicien, the magician pig, immediately runs over. In a few pages of prose and graphics with vintage humor, offbeat as desired, the hero dons his midnight blue cape dotted with stars and teleports into the thief’s den… Make you laugh!
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“Félicien, the pig magician”, by Christian Oster and Maud Begon (Albin Michel Jeunesse). In bookstores October 30.
An immersive show
Dressed in a velvet cape, you are ready for this immersive show in the footsteps of “Beauty and the Beast”. Misty underground, forest, fascinating clock room and wardrobe: we explore the settings where the different episodes of the tale play out. A captivating stroll through the Hôtel Le Brun, a listed 18th century building which has become the Grand Hôtel des Rêves.
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Until November 10 (1 hour), Grand Hôtel des Rêves, Paris-5e. From 4 years old.
A classic reincarnated
Olivier Solivérès, the Moliérized director of the “Cercle of Disappeared Poets”, is also a brilliant creator of shows for young audiences.
A tale full of fantasy and humor, between theater and music, in sumptuous settings
After the story of Notre-Dame de Paris or Snow White, he revisits that of Collodi’s wooden puppet who became a little boy. A tale full of fantasy and humor, between theater and music, in sumptuous settings. YEAR
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Until May 8, 2025 (1:20 a.m.), Théâtre des Mathurins, Paris-8th. From 5 years old.
A trip in green class
After “I have too many friends” and “I’m too afraid”, “I’m too green” completes David Lescot’s childhood trilogy. His hero, now in sixth grade, goes to green class. Community life, fresh air, work in the fields… so nice, really? The author and director paints like no other the joys and dizziness of childhood and preadolescence.
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From November 2 to 16 (50 mins), Théâtre de la Ville, Paris-1er. From 8 years old
