Chauvigny: after Poitiers Pratique 2024, publisher Matthieu Noirot is releasing two children’s books
After the release of the Poitiers Pratique 2024 guide in March, the manager of the Pictavian publisher will publish two books by children’s authors in May, which will complete its offering.
It’s not tomorrow that Matthieu Noirot, the local independent publisher, risks turning the page. After the release of the Poitiers Pratique 2024 guide, in free paper version and on the Internet on March 1, two new youth publications from Pictavian Éditeur will be released in bookstores and supermarkets in May: The little vampiresby Mellie Joffre (author) and Manon Mallet (illustrator), and Elyne and Lilou, by Murielle Olivereau (author) and Lydie Floch (illustrator). Without forgetting the Book Fair for regional authors, at the Charles-Trenet theater in Chauvigny on Sunday May 5. Overview of this news with Matthieu Noirot.
For 2025, the paper edition of Poitiers Pratique is on hold
Its new edition of the Poitiers Pratique guide has found success. “It is distributed in all places where people live in the department. There you will find all the good addresses for shops, services, leisure and the heritage of Poitiers and its surroundings »says Matthieu Noirot. “Advertising is limited to provide content with quizzes, tributes to deceased personalities, a Did you know… section? It is a quality product of 100 pages with laminated cover and glossy paper which is printed at more than 30,000 copies for 2024. There are already no more, we’re jumping on it”he continues. “I launched this guide in 2011. It has no equivalent but I will probably be forced to stop the paper version in 2025 due to the increase in the price of paper. It would be heartbreaking, people are attached to it. »
Two new products before the Regional Show
Printed at Megatop in Naintré, The Little Vampires is an educational book for 4-6 year olds, the first for the author, who is from Poitiers, and the illustrator. “He explains all the little creatures that suck us, the insects, etc. with a bestiary »explains Matthieu Noirot. Elyne and Lilou is an educational coloring book, a treasure hunt for children aged 6 and up. “The first step is to read the story, identify key words, with clues to find throughout the pages and coloring breaks. The author is Good », specifies the editor. ?
This year at the Regional Authors Book Fair, “we will have between 80 and 90 authors and editors, including around twenty new ones”, says Matthieu Noirot. Later, the Pictavian Éditeur will also co-organize the historical literature fair on October 13 in Savigny-Lévescault and the general literature fair on November 3 in Saint-Benoit. Registrations are already open.
Launch of a new magazine in 2025
If his other publications Le Pictavien journal and Le P’tit Blancois “work very well”Matthieu Noirot announces the creation of a new magazine in 2025, “Zoom on the city”, “to talk about small towns through culture, associations, heritage or businesses”. It is Saint-Savin who should have the honors of number 1.
