Collections

“Every time Lise finds a new horse for her 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.

 

• A fascinating topic that will speak to every child.

• A poetic but simple and appealing text.

• Fanny Dreyer’s bewitching images confirm her immense talent, her great precision in the representation of the bodies and her mastery of colours.