Olga loves her garden, especially the hole and the pile of dirt. A valley and a mountain: a whole world to explore! This corner of uncultivated nature is full of life, with wild bees flitting about. But there are plans to level the garden. The bees are in danger! The big digger rakes, flattens and destroys.
Fortunately, life is reclaiming its rights. Bindweed seedlings are sprouting from the ground right before her eyes, accompanied by ants, woodlice and earthworms. Olga is arranging a new garden for them, so that they feel at home.
Aimed at very young children, this book invites them to look at the living world in a different way, to observe and listen to animals and plants rather than trying to tame them. Julie Rouanne accurately captures the birth of an ecological consciousness, rooted in concrete reality and a child’s feelings. Marina Philippart paints a lush, vibrant vegetation teeming with life.
Publication : 17 Avr 2026•Age : From 3 years•Size : 23 x 27 cm•Volume : 40 pages•Price : 16.5€•ISBN : 978-2-931296-39-4•Rights sold :
Julie Rouanne was born in the Hautes-Pyrénées and grew up in a house very close to the mountains. She remembers vividly the landscapes and sensations of her childhood, which she draws on to recount the unique experience of growing up. She feeds her writing practice with her travels and encounters with worlds that are not her own. With a master's degree in speculative fiction, Julie Rouanne lives in Brussels, dividing her time between her work as a bookseller and her writing.
She is the author of the Fanzino-Radio podcast, the children's book Ici souffle le vent (Here Blows the Wind), published in 2025 by Panthera and illustrated by Mélodie Baschet, and Ito, published in 2025 by Pastel and illustrated by Violette Pasques.
Marina Philippart is a Belgian author and illustrator. After a long trip to New Zealand, she studied painting at La Cambre, where she also attended workshops in engraving, bookbinding and illustration. Alongside her art studies, she took courses in anthropology at the ULB and Japanese language classes, which had a particular influence on her work. After meeting Kitty Crowther and having children of her own, writing and illustrating children's books became a natural choice. Passionate about children's artistic creation, she regularly gives art workshops in schools and various cultural venues in Belgium and France.
Her first children's book, Sorcière et Chanoir, was published in November 2022 by Le Diplodocus. In 2023, this book won the Jérôme Main Prize at the Cherbourg-Octeville Children's Book and Comic Book Festival. She produced two board books, 1, 2, 3, miam ! in 2024 for Albin Michel and Plic-ploc in the same year for Bayard. Her book Dévacance colère was published by MeMo in 2024. Notre ami Lépi was published by the same publisher in 2025.
