"My name is Nina, I have nine years. I live on the seventh floor of a Rococo. Home, the floor creaks, the corridor is twisted like a pretzel, and my small room with a large window. I have three girlfriends at the life and death, a cat, two older brothers and a neighbor of my age very annoying. My new life started the night I found a brand new pillow lying on my bed ... " D ince that Nina was offered a new pillow 100% goose down, it makes all kinds of incredible dreams more than each other - she never dreamed. That his room is a jungle, they drink cocktails with her girlfriends in neon on the playground, she is Mary Read, the female pirate ...
But when she discovers that borrowing pillows members of his family and friends, she can slip into their dreams, the adventure really begins ...
P o her first album for youth is a story the elegant simplicity Maylis of Kerangal , Prix Médicis 2010, has imagined. For many years an editor for youth in addition to his work as a writer, this writer strongly influenced by the book by Selma Lagerlöf The Wonderful Adventures of Nils Holgerson through Sweden, wanted to enter the magic of childhood dreams, halfway between the daily concerns and extraordinary adventures. D anniversary this story that oscillates between the life of a family today and imagination shaped by the reading and movies, a little girl goes to meet the others, his parents to his brothers, until this little annoying next door neighbor, at school she had never wanted to meet ...
Writing light of this text echoes the fuzzy illustrations done in colored pencil by Alexandra Pichard, where white page and pillow meet a vivid palette and tightened.
Maylis of Kerangal has written five novels, including The Birth of a bridge (2010, Prix Médicis) Corniche Kennedy (2008), I walk under a sky train (2000), traveler Life (2003) and new highly esteemed Neither flowers nor Kroner (2006) (Vertical) or the naive session In Rapids (2007). In helium, it is also the co alongside Joy Sorman's book Women and Sport (2009).
Alexandra Pichard , a graduate of Decorative Arts of Strasbourg, has illustrated the album Herman and Dominique at Thierry Magnier.
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