Collections
Victoire de Changy & Fanny Dreyer

“Every time Lise finds a new horse to put on the mantelpiece, her heart beats so loud it makes her whole body tremble.”

Seven children display their collections here. Some of them are quite common, others more original, but all are passionately important to their owner. Bastien, who doesn’t have a garden, creates one of his own by picking up various beautiful flowers; Omar collects all things relating to Autumn, a season his parents dislike; and Lise’s collection started when her grandfather sculpted a wooden horse to help her overcome her fear of touching a real horse… Each collection is the result of a heritage, a taste or a need, and is the source of multiple joys for the collectors: the pleasure to seek the rare objects, but also to organize them as a collection and take care of them as their own little treasure. The last chapter takes us to the Teshima island where contemporary artist Christian Boltanski collects… heartbeats.

This poetic but simple text explores a fascinating topic that will speak to every child, while Fanny Dreyer’s bewitching images confirm her immense talent, her great precision in the representation of the bodies and her mastery of colours. 

Victoire de Changy
The author

Victoire de Changy has published two novels, Une dose de douleur nécessaire and L’île longue (Autrement), a poetry collection, La paume plus grande que toi (L’Arbre de Diane) and two children’s books, L’ours Kintsugi and Le Bison Non-Non, illustrated by Marine Schneider (Cambourakis). In 2022, she took over the Brussels bookstore Les Yeux Gourmands.

Fanny Dreyer
The illustrator

Fanny Dreyer is an illustrator, graphic designer and decorator. She has published several children’s books at La Joie de Lire and Cambourakis. La Colonie de vacances, published in 2021 at Albin Michel Jeunesse, was particularly noticed.