Summer Reading List for Kids!

What is better than a great book to entertain your kid over the long summer break? Nothing, if you ask us. Here is our new book selection to help you pack your child’s suitcase. Suitable for children ages 3 to 8.

Staff picks translated by Victor Grandet.

Reading List

Le Doudou de bébé Tupa by Sandrine Beau et Margaux Grappe

For children aged 3+

In Tahiti, Chouchou doesn’t stop crying: her teddy has disappeared! Luckily her grandmother has a little idea of what might have happened to it… This wonderful tale in all softness exploits the polynesian imagination to reassure children on their separation with their teddy.

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For children aged 3+

On the doorstep, something clings to his slipper. “Go away, dirty beast!” says the grumpy man. But it’s without the kitten’s stubbornness who comes back every day. This sun-lit album tells the story of a friendship between a grumpy man and a kitten who little by little gets tamed.

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Papa by Nicolas Mathieu et Stéphane Kiehl

For children aged 3+

A dad watches his son grow up… Can we stop time? Will he always be his dad when he gets older? This album, as tender as it is touching, tells the story of a dad and his sin… or rather all dads and their sons.

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La tournée de Gaspard by Arnaud Nebbache

For children aged 5+

Gaspard wakes up very early every morning: he is a binman. His daily shift is punctuated by little joys: the cat on the roof, the mailman’s greeting, the little boy in yellow wax on his scooter … But today, no one is riding the scooter as Gaspard finds it broken on the sidewalk. Will Gaspard manage to fix the device and give back the smile to the yellow wax boy.

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Le Bateau de Fortune by Olivier de Solminiac et Stéphane Poulin

For children aged 6+

This is the first day of summer! Michao brings his friends to the beach. But how can one keep busy without bathing suits, shovels, buckets and balls? Michao’s poetic reply takes on the full meaning “we have to imagine”.

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L’ogre de la librairie by Céline Sorin et Celia Chauffrey

For children aged 6+

Maya and her mom go to the library. Maya has a special appointment: she’s going to meet the bookstore’s ogre… And here is Maya, like the reader, embarked on an adventure full of twists and turns during which they don’t risk getting bored.

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Les frères Zzli by Alex Cousseau et Anne-Lise Boutin

For children aged 6+

Bienvenue is a little girl who feels a little lonely in a house too big for her… Until the day where she greets three traveling bears, who present themselves as the Zzli brothers. This house is filled with laughs and fantasy but the neighbors are wary…

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Le cœur caché by Angélique Villeneuve et Marta Orzel

For children aged 7+

Emma isn’t a little girl like the others: from the front and back, she is similar without a face. But very quickly, Bob doesn’t worry about how she looks: they talk, they find themselves, they find fun in the shape of words, they sing and dance and paint a world which looks like ours and yet perfectly strange… An album full of tenderness to put between your hands.

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