La voie romane

Minet, a young kitten abandoned by his owners, gets lost in the forest and falls asleep. When he wakes up, he meets a rabbit and a squirrel who name him Scaredy-Cat before leading him to their village, a community where animals speak, dress and stand on their legs. But Minet is not one of these free-born animals, and despite his desire to go in search of his mistress, he is forced to undergo an ordeal to free himself from the taint of his connection with humans in order to be accepted by the other animals. Deceived, hunted and then trapped, Minet will discover a pitiless animal society that has nothing to envy to the human one…

Paris. Gilles has a really wicked sense of humor and writes absolutely brutal articles. He has left his small-town life and his family behind him long ago, but one day professional difficulties force him to return home to his family. And there, cut off from the media, he is confronted with the realities of his past… why has he put up this wall of dark humor between him and others?

Somewhere between autobiography and fiction, and in the same graphic and narrative style as “The Lost Singer,” Tronchet, through the story of initiation, brings to us his vision of building and learning humor.

The only memories Treasure has of his mother are the stories his father tells him. Well, that, and the beaten-up ship that’s been stuck in the harbor for the past 10 years! With his gang of friends, Dico, Yav, and Nisette, they spend their free time trying to imagine where Treasure’s mother could be on the high seas. His father tells them that she’s a pirate! But when the 8-year-old boy learns that the ship is to be sold to the sinister Gaspard Pivoleurx, he decides to take his gang on a treasure hunt that is far more real than the games they usually play…

Young Turo has spent his peaceful childhood in a secluded village.  Blessed with extraordinary strength, he spends his time hunting the giant wild boars that allow his whole community to eat.  One day, he crosses the path of a band of tomb raiders whom he saves from certain death.  He decides to go along with them, to explore the wide world.Turo will be plunged into an ancient battle… and involved in the kind of story that legends are made of.

This complete set includes the four albums of the series.

A plane full of children on their way to holiday camp crashes in the middle of a forest. Left to their own devices, the survivors try to figure out how to get out of the woods and back to civilization. But strange things happen that they don’t understand. Who are the chicken-children that keep attacking them? Who is the talking fox who seems to be trying to help them? How come there are other plane wrecks in the exact same place if the crash was an accident?

They’ll have to move quickly if they want to survive, because in the place called the “Lozère,” everything is steeped in danger and mystery. A tale full of humor and suspense, accompanied by simple illustrations. Get ready for an adventure!

From 1973 to 1981, in the pages of the ‘Nouvel Obs’, Claire Bretécher wrote a weekly portrait of the Frustrated (Frustrés), which earned her the title of “best sociologist of the year” in 1976 by Roland Barthes. She sketches, certainly with tenderness, but above all with a pitiless lucidity, these French snobs, intellectuals, leftists and, above all, the totally lost.

Nearly 30 years later, these hilarious pages are a joyful testimony of all our shortcomings and they are also the best way to realize that nothing has changed, from Frustrated we have just become bobos, but the symptoms are the same.

Former boxer “Grizzli” seems to owe his nickname to his abundance of hair rather than his size—though quite impressive. He and his friends, Toine and Joe, live a happy life in Paris until, one day, Joe has a problem… An old friend from his wild days that he’d rather forget, Bébert-la-Gambille, has just got out of jail and is causing him trouble. Well, when your friend is having a hard time, what do you do? Grizzli and Toine pull out all the stops to help him by confronting the evil Bébert and assisting the tiresome detective Jean-Pierre Gourme, better known as “The Leech.” But Bébert has a few surprises up his sleeve and Grizzli isn’t out of the ring yet…

First and foremost an evocation of 1960s France—of its atmosphere, style, language—”Grizzli and Friends” is also a heartfelt homage to the literature, cinema, and writers, each of which is recalled with a tinge of nostalgia. While staying true to their major themes and means of expression: friendship, betrayal, ingenuity, mockery, slang, it serves all the ingredients of a classic French thriller!

Albert Algoud tells Florence Cestac about his crazy years when, as a young teacher with a fresh diploma, in the early 1980s, he landed in the asshole of the world: a village in Haute-Savoie. A non-conformist who ignores the old educational lunatics, Algoud is the crazy counterpart of the teacher Daniel Pennac (Chagrin d’école). A good teacher can really change lives, starting with his own!

It is in the magnificent palace of the thousand and one gems that Petit Poilu meets a fierce young princess named Suzette. In a psychedelic world, this little elephant will welcome our hero like a prince! But, unfortunately, Petit Poilu will soon realise that the princess is having trouble entertaining herself… Suzette’s anxiety prevents her from playing as she would like. The fear of the darkness, the water, the other people are all obstacles that prevent the princess from enjoying these shared moments…

A touching story of Petit Poilu, in a sparkling atmosphere, is great for talking with your child about fears of all kinds. Their own fears, of course, but who knows, maybe yours too…

Everyone dies at some point and ends up on the other side. For more than twenty-five years, Stuf and Janry have been telling us what happens after death. And the reception in heaven (or in hell) is not sad: there are single socks, dinosaurs (a big influx 65 million years ago), Sneezy, Prof. and Shy (that was the time Snow White decided to make an apple pie…). As for the charm singers and other charming princes, they are likely to end up in hell, since Saint Peter can’t stand the competition of these handsome men…

In short, while waiting for your last hour to come, Passe-moi l’ciel is a healthy and funny read, highly recommended!