Charlotte Erlih

La belle Airelle

September 20, 2018
Children’s Book
24 pages
195 × 260 mm
9782362662355
978-2-3626-6235-5
Illustré par
Chloé Fraser
																Charlotte Erlih, La belle Airelle
																Charlotte Erlih, La belle Airelle

Au grand bal du village, la belle Airelle, autruche de son état, est impatiente de se lancer dans la danse. C’est elle qui a les lèvres les plus rouges, les talons les plus hauts et les bijoux les plus fous. Elle est d’ailleurs si bien apprêtée… qu’elle ne peut même pas danser ! À quoi bon se faire belle : pendant que ses amies bambochent, elle reste assise comme une cloche. Bien décidée à profiter de sa soirée, Airelle ôte ses souliers et ses colliers. Elle se jette dans la fête si guillerette qu’elle se sent plus grande qu’avec des talons et plus étincelante qu’avec des bijoux.

The author

Charlotte Erlih was born in 1978. A graduate of the École Normale Supérieure and holder of the agrégation in Modern Literature, she taught Performing Arts at university before dedicating herself to writing and directing in 2008. From her first short films, adapted from texts by Maylis de Kerangal, she has interwoven literature, live performance, and cinema in her work, enjoying blurring the boundaries between genres.

She has published around twenty works, mainly in young adult and children’s literature (novels, comics, picture books), including Bacha Posh, 20 Feet Underground, and The Last Wrong Note, which have won numerous awards in France and abroad.

Her debut, Funambules, was published by Grasset. In 2023, she wrote and co-directed (with M.-P. Camus) her first documentary, A French Woman in Kabul, which won the Audience Award at the Pessac International Historical Film Festival and the Terre(s) d’Histoire – INA Award at FIGRA.

September 20, 2018
Children’s Book
24 pages
195 × 260 mm
9782362662355
978-2-3626-6235-5
Illustré par
Chloé Fraser