Board book / 0-3 years / 36 pages / 20 x 20 CM / 11.90 € August 2021
English and Spanish translation available
Rights sold: Korean
Baby
Pauline Martin
A perfect birth gift, this irresistible board book presents the new born as the actor of his own awakening and development.
Baby swims. Baby listens. Baby tastes, and tastes again. Baby observes. Except in a few scenes indicating that the loving parent is never far, Baby is performing alone, and he is acting! Guided by his senses, Baby progressively connects with the world. From the first sensory experiments (the softness of suckling, the touch of water on his skin), his interest grows for what is going on outside his body: the objects he is starting to grasp, the music of a bird singing, the interaction with other actors of his immediate environment (a dog, another baby). Exploration and observation develop Baby’s motor functions and stimulate his autonomy.
Pauline Martin, illustrator of the best-selling Mon amour series (600,000 copies sold), insists on the importance of letting babies live their own experiments to increase their awareness of themselves and build their own landmarks.
Pauline Martin
The author and illustrator
Pauline Martin was born in 1975. After giving up medical school, she studied art at the Atelier de Sèvres and at the Institut des arts appliqués, where she took the class of Killoffer and met Dupuy and Berberian. At Ego Comme X, she published two autobiographical stories, La Boîte and La Meilleure du monde. She also published Leonora with David B. at Denoël Graphic.
Pauline Martin is also the author and illustrator of about 20 children’s books among which Ce que je sais de ma maman, Mon grand frère and Mon gros chat published by Albin Michel Jeunesse. Since 2015, she has been illustrating the best-selling series “Mon amour” published by Albin Michel and “Max et Lapin” published by Nathan, both written by Astrid Desbordes.
She lives and works in Paris.
