La famille Artenni
Read-aloud picture books, from age three, set in the same world as the novels.
The collection is still being made. No volume is out yet.Two brothers of five, and everything you can get dirty in a day
Before the novels, before the magic and the wars, there is a village of red earth and brick. That is where Ano and Oro grow up — twin brothers of five — with their little sister Siella.
Nothing epic here: a hen that refuses to move, a rain that will not stop, a stream, potatoes. The smallest doors into the world of Eka.
It is the same family as the novels, in the twins’ early childhood. A reader of the novels will recognise them; a three-year-old needs to know nothing at all.
The object
- Age
- Read aloud, from 3 years old
- Format
- Square picture book, 15 × 15 cm
- Pages
- 18 illustrated pages, plus the covers
- Text
- About 400 words per book
- Images
- One illustration per page, oil painting
- Collection
- Ten books, in two waves of five
Nine titles are written. The illustrations are under way.
What makes it a collection
Every book shares the same opening page and the same closing page. At three, you do not want novelty — you want the same thing, again.
La Maison
Les Patates
La Grande Pluie
Trop haut
Le jour où on a semé
Où est Siella ?
L’homme qui fait des briques
La nuit dehors
La Poule qui ne veut pas
Titles written so far, in the author’s French. English titles are not fixed.
Where to find them
The books will be published print-on-demand and ordered online. Nothing is available yet.
Purchase links will appear here, book by book, as each one comes out. Curious about the world in the meantime? The novels and the encyclopedia are already here.