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Simon Goes Right | Nicole Van Brummelen | Luitingh-sijthoff
An interactive and hilarious book that teaches you the difference between left and right
Did you know that 42% of the adults have trouble in knowing where left and right is? Just like seagull Simon!
It’s season of migration... but Simon has trouble with differentiating left and right and loses his companions. In his search for his friends, he comes across many animals that will help him find his way back in a peculiar manner: ‘turn two pages to the right and you’ll find the whale, maybe he knows where your friends are’. Including a trip from Paris to Australia and many funny interactions, clumsy Simon learns what left and right is while staying completely true to himself.
A character you’ll 100% fall in love with!
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32 p. ·
Age: 4+ | Non Fiction
Original language: Dutch | Full English text available
Rights sold: Catalan & Spanish (Tramuntana)
Link: Simon
The man who listened to the birdsong | Chistian Merveille & Valeria Docampo | Alice Éditions
In a country ruled by a tyran, a man dares to resist the king’s orders. He refuses to lay down when the king passes by, because he wants to listen a bird singing. The police arrests him and tortures him. They will tear out his eyes and ears but he will still believe in the birdsong.
An album to address the subject of torture with good words and poetic images, without being infantilizing and with the most beautiful illustrations by Valeria Docampo.
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40 p. | 19 x 30 cm
Age: 8+ | Fiction
Original language: French | Full English text available
The Gnome Book | Loes Riphagen | Gottmer
"Dear publisher,
'The Gnome Book' is a book I have always wanted to make. I took all the time I needed for this project and worked on it for more than eighteen months. I felt The Gnome Book had to be very original and modern. It shouldn’t be about the gnomes you might know from stories and fairy tales from the past, but about the modern gnome of our time." Loes Riphagen
Discover with Riphagen how gnomes live, what they’re up to during the day and how they keep themselves hidden so well. As per usual, Loes has created a work with lots of hidden jokes in every single one of her illustrations. Whether it’s a step by step plan for fabricating a gnome’s red hat or a cross section of a gnome’s house. Loes Riphagen’s work is a feast to the eyes!
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64 p. · Album Hardcover · 23 x 28
Age: 4+ | Fiction · #...
Original language: Dutch - Full English text available
Rights sold: English World Rights, French, Italy, German, Sweden, Simple Chinese, Complex Chinese
Wait, I'll help you! | Charlotte Bellière Orbie | Alice Éditions
Letting a child dress alone is sometimes a... let’s say... startling experience for parents, but it’s good for autonomy!
"Wait, I'll help you" is what Lisette hears every morning. Mom takes a long time to dress her, her hair, prepare her and especially to choose everything for her. One day Lisette gets fed up and when mom interrupts her with her usual "Wait, I'll help you", Lisette says "NO". Mom, will have to pacient to see the results...
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40p · Hardcover · 21 x 24cm
Original language: French
Bird is Dead | Tiny Fisscher and Herma Starreveld | Gottmer
Bird is dead. Yesterday he was alive. Some of the other birds cry a little. And that’s alright. Crying together can be nice. Then it’s time to give Bird a funeral. All of Bird’s friends and even some of the birds who didn’t like him that much are helping. They dig a grave. They speak lovely words. They sing a song. They miss him a lot, and cry some more. And after? Tea and worms. Or cake, if you don’t like worms.
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32p · Hardcover · 25 x 25 cm
Age: 6+ | Fiction
Original language: Dutch. English complete version
Rights sold: English World rights, France, Germany, Japan, Spanish & Catalan (Birabiro)
Farting Cows and Cars | Mark ter Horst & Yoko Heiligers | Gottmer
In a light-hearted and humorous way, multiple-award-winning children’s non-fiction author Marc ter Horst tackles climate change for curi- ous young readers – and anyone else who wants to listen. He does this honestly, without hiding the truth, but always in an optimistic, hopeful manner. Just like his book for slightly older readers, Palm Trees at the North Pole, Farting Cows and Cars is an enlightening read about the climate issues and its solutions. His most recent book, Virus World, won a Silver Pencil in 2022.
A Little Book on Climate Change
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32p · Hardcover · 23 x 27 cm
Age: 5+ | Nonfiction
Original language: Dutch. Full English text available
Rights sold: Korean
Take my hand? | Tjibbe Veldkamp & Wouter Tulp | De Fontein
Anne wants to visit the apes, but her father wants to go home. Then she meets a boy whose father is going to the zoo. They swap fathers. Anne keeps swapping fathers until she reaches the apes.
Wouter Tulp is known for his versatility and has illustrated many children’s books. He now mainly works as a character designer for feature animation and has worked on several international film projects by, among others, Netflix, Paramount, Sony and Skydance. Tjibbe Veldkamp is a renowned writer and writing coach. He has won five Silver Slate Pencils, the Children’s Book store Award, Picture book of the year 2022, the Boekenpauw 2020 and was nominated for the Woutertje Pieterse Prize in 2021.
Rights held: Spanish, Catalan, Basque, Galician, Portuguese (P&B)
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32 p · Hardcover · 22 x 29
Age: 3+ | Fiction
Original language: Dutch. English translation available
Rights sold: Korea (Kookminbooks), Taiwan (Complex Characters, Grimm Press), China (Simplified Characters, Hangzhou Zhuochuang Cultural Media)
Why a Table is Not an Animal | Meneer Zee & Melvin | Horizon
When the crocodile comes ashore one day, he sees a table on the riverbank. He has never seen anything so strange. It has four legs, but no fur. And it has no sharp teeth either. The elephant, the skunk and the snake also think the table is not a real animal. According to them, it does not belong in the jungle at all. This makes the table sad. He so wants to be an animal.
One day, when four chairs join the table, they manage to cheer him up. Maybe he can do more than he thought...
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24 p · Hardcover · 29 x 22
Age: 6+
Original language: Ducth. Full English text available
Jealous Apes, Frightened Dogs and Empathetic Rats | Lotte Stegeman & Mark Janssen | Luitingh-Sijthoff
In this unique and fascinating book Lotte Stegeman delves into the hidden emotional lives of animals. For a long time, humans believed that animals did not have emotions. We now know better. But what exactly do they feel? At times, it can be difficult enough to understand other people, but fortunately we have words. But what if you are an elephant in mourning? A jealous monkey? Or a terrified dog? In a lively, infectious narrative style, Lotte Stegeman takes you on an amazing journey where you will discover that there is an awful lot going on in many animals’ heads. Because sometimes animals are just like people...
With an extensive and personal foreword by Jane Goodall
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112 p · Hardcover · 28 x 22
Age: 8+ | NonFiction
Original language: Dutch. English sample available
Rights sold: Korean (Dasan Books)
The Ball | Oukje Akveld & Myriam Berenschot | Gottmer
Who could’ve thought a single ball could be the source of so many feelings? You might be jealous when others have a ball to play with, or surprised when you get one for your birthday. You could be proud when you kick it hard, and oops... startled when it bounces through a window.
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20 p · Hardcover · 19 x 19 cm
Age: 2+
Original language: Ducth. Full English text available
Rights sold: China
The Mammoths Class | Jerôme Poncin & Ian de Haes | Alice Éditions
September. Back to school. Professor Jeremy Vanderelst gives his students a diary, the Crazy Diary, where each student will write their feelings and experiences along the year.
It all begins with the discovery of a mammoth horn in the school's backyard that leads the boys and girls to consider how life was 2.000 years ago and what the roles of men and women were, which will lead to a debate on many topics that each child will reflect in the diary from their own experiences: there is Adam, the leader, Caeli who does not want to look like a girl, Julius who loves dancing but who hides so that we do not make fun of him... etc. Through this notebook, sexist stereotypes are approached according to each person's position.
Every chapter is written by a different kid which not only gives a dinamic rythim but it allows the reader to change their point of view on the same fact.
#equality #sexism #genderstereotypes #prehistory #discovery #friendship
Rights held: Spanish, Catalan, Basque, Galician, Portuguese (P&B)
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120p · Trade
Age: 6+ | Fiction
Original language: French
Link: Docu_Theatre
The Mice Library | Carmen García Iglesias | Lata de Sal
Managed by mice, the library lends books to all the animals in the forest. The daily life is happy and readers celebrate book picnics. But one day, some rats (intrigued by the success of the books) decide to eat and destroy as many books as possible. The mice shocked and surprised, decide to get back all the books and to do so, they will need to learn how to make books and to travel back in time to look for its authors. Will they save the destroyed library?
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64 p. | Hardcover | 17 x 24 cm
Age: 7+| Fiction
Spanish. Full English text available
Rights sold: Portuguese (Palavras & Rimas)
Gagaroo goes to the Moon | Lida Varvarousi | Book-a-tale
Gagaroo the donkey has a big dream: taking a special trip to the moon with his best friend Apollo. But how will he get there? By elevator, canon ball, a catapult or rocket? They decide by rocket is the best way to go. GAGAROO GOES TO THE MOON is an irresistible story of a donkey/inventor who takes his best friend on his journey to the moon. What a character Gagaroo is!
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32p · Hardcover/Softcover · 23 x 29
Age: 4+ | Fiction
Original language: Dutch. Full English text available
Rights sold: Dutch, Greek