To celebrate the arrival of this fabulous season with its beautiful warm colours, chestnuts, pine cones, acorns, leaves, and other autumnal wonders... we offer you a selection of books on the theme of autumn and the seasons, to share with your children.

 

 

THIS IS AUTUMN (2-3 years)

An album full of softness and tenderness to help your little ones discover the joys of autumn.

 

Designed to be a sensory album, it invites children to explore their senses: the warm, soft colours of autumn to observe, materials to caress, flaps to lift to discover hidden surprises. A lovely little imagier of autumnal joys and discoveries, such as picking mushrooms, jumping in puddles, drinking a good soup...!

 

A real autumnal gem full of poetry and beautiful illustrations.

 

TEXTS AND ILLUSTRATIONS : Pauline Kalioujny

EDITION : Seuil jeunesse

PUBLICATION: September 2021

 

I WOULD HAVE LIKED (3-5 years)

An irresistibly funny album about the search for identity!

In the middle of a forest with autumnal colours, we follow a little squirrel who would like to be someone else... a beaver, a deer, a hedgehog, an owl... EVERYTHING BUT a squirrel! Because being a squirrel is neither funny nor interesting!

He then takes on the attributes of the animals he meets in the forest, naively envying the life of these animals...

But our little squirrel realises through his experiences that the grass is not necessarily greener elsewhere and that in the end, it's good to be a squirrel... that is, to be just yourself.

 

The beautiful and expressive drawings make our little squirrel funny and endearing with his funny little face and big eyes. 

 

J'AURAIS VOULU is a very funny album that allows us to discuss the search for identity and self-acceptance. Because who hasn't dreamed of being someone else?

 

AUTHOR / ILLUSTRATOR : Olivier Tallec

PUBLISHER: Collection Pastel / Ecole des Loisirs

PUBLICATION: September 2021

 

LE PETIT GLAND (4-6 years)

 

The pretty story of a little acorn to discover the life cycle of the oak tree.

 

LE PETIT GLAND is an adorable book with colourful, lively and very cute illustrations to discover the life cycle of the oak tree and the germination of the acorn.

 

We follow the adventures of a little acorn, drawn in a Kawai style with a smiling and endearing face. The child becomes fond of this little hero and wants to discover his adventures.

 

The album accurately traces the life cycle of the acorn through the different seasons of the year, from the moment the acorn grows on the oak and falls off the tree, to the moment it sprouts and grows into an oak tree!

 

The lexicon is rich and appropriate, and your children will be able to discover the precise terms: "sprout", "peduncle", "bud", "root", "stem", "branch", etc.

 

The last page is in the form of a document page that allows the child to find the cycle diagram with the different stages and terms seen throughout the story.

 

THE LITTLE GLAND is a lovely document album in the form of a real story!

 

TEXTS : Melanie Joyce

ILLUSTRATIONS : Gina Maldonado

PUBLISHER: 123 Soleil ! (collection: Cycles Naturels)

PUBLICATION: September 2018

 

THE 4 SEASONS (from 5 years old)

 

A magnificent musical tale that transports us into Vivaldi's work for 30 minutes, and offers us a beautiful story about the origin of the seasons on Earth, each more beautiful and enchanting than the next!

We follow the story of Princess Earth who, in her search for a husband, meets four princes one after the other: the Prince of Spring, the Prince of Summer, the Prince of Autumn and finally the Prince of Winter, who will seduce the princess in turn by revealing their charms and powers. 

The story is enriched with excerpts from Vivaldi's Four Seasons music that punctuate each season. And at the end of the story, you can also listen to Vivaldi's music alone. 

 

The album, which includes the text of the story on the CD, is a marvel, with beautiful, colourful illustrations full of details related to each season.

 

The music is beautiful, so is the book! And it reminds us that every season is beautiful and full of wonders! 

MUSIC: Antonio Vivaldi

TEXTS: Claire Frédéric

ILLUSTRATIONS: Aurélia Fronty

NARRATION: Delphine Seyrig

PUBLISHER : Gautier Languereau

PUBLICATION: 2016