To celebrate the arrival of this fabulous season with its beautiful warm colors, chestnuts, pine cones, acorns, leaves, and other autumnal wonders... we offer 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 sweetness and tenderness to make your little ones discover the joys of autumn.

 

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

 

A real autumnal gem full of poetry and magnificent illustrations.

 

TEXTS AND ILLUSTRATIONS: Pauline Kalioujny

EDITION: Youth threshold

RELEASE: September 2021

 

I WOULD HAVE WANTED (3-5 years)

An irresistibly funny album about the quest for identity!

In the middle of a forest with autumn colors, we follow a small squirrel who wants to be someone else... a beaver, a deer, a hedgehog, an owl... ANYTHING BUT a squirrel! Because being a squirrel is neither fun nor interesting!

He then endorses the attributes of the animals he meets in the forest, naively envying the lives of these animals...

But our little squirrel realizes from his experiences that the grass is not necessarily greener elsewhere and that finally, it is good to be a squirrel... that is to say, to be just yourself.

 

The very beautiful expressive designs make our little squirrel funny and endearing with his little ball too funny and his big eyes.  

 

JAURAIS WANTED 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: Pastel Collection/ Ecole des Loisirs

RELEASE: September 2021

 

The LITTLE ACORN (4-6 years old)

 

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

 

The LITTLE ACORN is an adorable album with colorful, lively and very cute illustrations to discover the life cycle of the oak and the germination of the acorn.

 

We follow the adventures of a small acorn, drawn in a Kawai style with a smiling and endearing face. The child then falls in love with this little hero, whose adventures he then wants to discover.

 

The album accurately traces the life cycle of the acorn over the different seasons of the year, from the moment the acorn grows on the oak and falls from the tree, to the moment it will germinate to grow and become an oak in turn!

 

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

 

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

 

The LITTLE ACORN is a nice album-docu that comes in the form of a real story!

 

TEXTS Mélanie Joyce

ILLUSTRATIONS Gina Maldonado

PUBLISHER: 123 Soleil! (collection: Cycles Naturels)

RELEASE: September 2018

 

ALL 4 SEASONS (from 5 years)

 

A magnificent musical tale that transports us to the work of Vivaldi for 30 minutes, and which offers us a very beautiful story on the origin of the Seasons on Earth, all more beautiful and enchanting than the others!

We follow the story of Princess Earth who, in search of a husband, will meet 4 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 to her each their charms and their powers.  

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

 

L’album, qui reprend le texte de l’histoire sur le CD, est une pure merveille, offrant des illustrations magnifiques, colorées et pleines de détails en lien avec chaque saison.

 

La musique est magnifique, le livre aussi !! Et ça nous rappelle que chaque saison est belle et pleine de merveilles ! 

MUSIQUE : Antonio Vivaldi

TEXTES : Claire Frédéric

ILLUSTRATIONS : Aurélia Fronty

NARRATION : Delphine Seyrig

EDITION : Gautier Languereau

PARUTION : 2016