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Tom is playing with his friends on the beach when he sees a crab and follows it in the water. When he dives, he finds himself transformed into an octopus! With only his shorts left, off he his, exploring with curiosity the beauty of the seabed. There he hides from a moray, learns how to defend himself and, most of all, makes friends with a whole family of fish. When he safely returns to his human form, Tom has lost his shorts, but won an underwater family…

This touching, textless friendship story between beings who should never have met is also an extraordinary exploration of the dangerous and magic depths of the sea.

Umbrella the bat wakes up from a long winter sleep. A gust of wind takes her to an unknown place. Her eyes hardly recognize things, but they can feel the light: a treasure is shining in the water. It’s an egg! Umbrella broods on it, and one day realizes that bats don’t lay eggs… when the egg hatches, a duckling comes out of it! The duckling doesn’t know the first thing about ducks or bats, but one thing he does have is a loving parent standing above him as he learns how to smooth his feathers and to swim in the water.

The mind-blowing and light-emanating gouache paintings echo a strong, poetic text. By up-and-coming author Pierre Alexis, winner of the Montreuil Festival Pépite Award of the Best Illustrated Book 2022 for Règlobus.