author/illustrator: Céline Claire, Anouk Ricard
ages: 3+
32 pages
24.7x 19.7 cm
hardcover
French
Comme des géants (Canada)
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Three Cute Babies
The debut collaboration between popular French creators Céline Claire and Anouk Ricard, taking an absurd, whimsical look at identity.
One night, completely in the dark, three cute babies are born. And when we say “in the dark,” we really mean it: apart from being babies, this trio has no idea what kind of babies they actually are!
Are they penguins? Are they pigs? Are little talking trains!? Slathered in clouds of cotton candy after a fall into a vat of pink sugar, the three cute babies go on an adventure to find clues as to the nature of their existence — until they’re captured by a big, bad wolf! What will become of the three cute babies and, more importantly, will their identities ever be revealed?
IN THE MEDIA
"An identity quest can only be serious, can't it? Céline Claire sees things differently, and her Three Cute Babies is a hilarious demonstration of the fact that you can go in search of your roots in a light-hearted way. (...) In a delightful nod to the fable of the three little pigs, their quest comes to a conclusion as unexpected as it is delicious. With its cleverly iterative writing and illustrations where mystery is covered in ridicule, this story tickles the delicate identity issue while eliciting the most harmless laughter." - Yannick Marcoux, Le Devoir (Canada)
"A humorous story with a end as funny as surprising." - La Presse (Canada)
"What a cute, funny, but above all absurd and whimsical story about the quest for identity!" - Le Journal de Montréal
THE ILLUSTRATOR
Anouk Ricard was born in Istres, studied two years at the École supérieure d'art d'Aix-en-Provence and received a diploma in illustration from the École supérieure des arts décoratifs de Strasbourg. She then settled in Marseille where she produced animated films, worked for youth publishers and produced her first books. She returned to Strasbourg, where she began working on graphic novels. Her work was selected three times for awards at the Angoulême International Comics Festival. In 2023 she has received the Jury's Special Award at the FIBD Angoulême for Animan. In 2014, she was named by GQ France magazine as one of the 25 funniest women in France and in 2018 one of the 15 funniest women in France by Vanity Fair. She currently lives in Lyon.
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