Author: Sophie

In bookstores from 12th May, and with lots of springtime meetings for our young and old readers !

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Workshop “To story tell, is to travel” Imagine the journey of an animal. A crocodile in the desert, a bat in a large city, a frog in a colourful forest…It’s up to you to draw it ! Creating a small notebook will enable you to tell its story, with or without words, in drawings and…

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Course during Spring Break – 8 to 12 years old Would you like to make a book ? The story, the pictures, all the pages, the cover? Here is an opportunity for you to see how it’s done.First of all, we look at different children’s books to capture all the possible ways of telling a…

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Artistic workshops at the Lycée français (French high school) After reading two books released by MeMo Publications (Le cirque poète – The Poet Circus and Monsieur Cheng – Mr. Cheng), and the booklet “Hauteurs” (Heights) (published by the Wallonia-Brussels Federation), we discussed how to make a book, from the story to the drawings, through to…

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Explain and demonstrate the technique of Kamishibaï. With the help of “butaï” (wooden theatre), the presentation of a few stories helps children understand what “kamishibaï” is. From the Japanese, kami : paper, and shibaï : theatre play. In one week, create your Kamishibaï, with your story illustrated on a series of boards and written on…

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Do you dream of being ”Indiana Jones”, an archaeologist who discovers an ancient civilisation? Do you dream about watching dinosaurs, looking at maps and Egyptian pyramids? Well this course is for you! We will invent an alphabet, make painted vases, small sculptures, paintings and plenty of other objects that would have come from a human…

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From September 2013 to January 2014, pupils from a primary school in Schaerbeek had the opportunity to participate in a course on motion graphics.”India in stories and pictures” is a course in motion graphics proposed around the book “Contes du vampire, contes de l’Inde” (Tales of Vampires, Tales of India). The vampire in the Indian…

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Six unpublished texts written specifically for the “Fureur de lire” (Passion for reading) by authors and illustrators, to be found at participating outlets or can be obtained free of charge upon request, for teachers especially : http://www.fureurdelire.cfwb.be/index.php?id=11687 Hauteurs (Heights) : a hot air balloon trip with a giraffe on board – for children, and adults…

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As part of the Indian Europalia cultural exhibition from October 2013 to January 2014. After presenting and reading several Indian books, we delve more closely into the books “Bestiaire du Gange” (Bestiary of the Ganges) of Rambharos Jha and “Bestiaire indien” (Indian Bestiary), both published by Actes Sud junior. Rhambharos Jha, in his “Bestiaire du…

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As part of the Indian Europalia cultural exhibition from October 2013 to January 2014. The objective of this course is to introduce children to Indian art through one of the two great epic tales of sacred Hindu literature : the “Ramayana”. The tale of Rama, attributed to the legendary sage Valkimi, is teeming with exciting…

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