Ice Hunter
Séraphine Menu & Marion Duval

A stunning picture book telling with sensibility the life of a little boy around the Lake Baikal.

Yuri lives in Siberia, on the edge of the Lake Baikal, the oldest lake in the world. With him, we discover life in this remote, fascinating environment: the short but dazzling winter days, the Buryat neighbours, the fast ongoing depopulation movement…

During winter, Yuri’s father hunts, not animals, but ice: giant ice cubes from the lake that people use to drink, wash, and cook until summer… indeed, it’s so cold the taps are frozen! Yuri’s story alternates with non-fiction pages that describe the regional wildlife and plant life: trees, birds, fishes…

A beautiful book that mixes fiction and non-fiction and takes the reader to a captivating setting.

Séraphine Menu
The author

Séraphine Menu was born in Normandy in 1990, in a small town near the sea. She works as an editor for Møtus and also writes children’s books. She writes novels, non-fiction books, theatre plays and comic books. The idea of Chasseur de glace came to her during a Trans-Siberian journey, a few years ago, along the frozen shores of the lake Baikal.

Marion Duval
The illustrator

Marion Duval is an author and illustrator. A graduate from école Estienne and of the Arts Décoratifs of Strasbourg, she published Toi-même (Albin Michel Jeunesse . Trapère) and recently illustrated a series of board books, Le Feu, Le Ciel, La Terre, L’Eau (Seuil Jeunesse). She also works for the press and lives in Strasbourg.

For Chasseur de glace, she particularly worked on the light, to immerse the reader in this remote region. Her images unveil the subtility of the various shades of lights