Benoît Reiss
Pierre-Emmanuel Lyet illustrator

Le bonheur

Happiness

January 22, 2022
Children’s Book
36 pages
250 × 250 mm
18 €
9782491011109
978-2-4910-1110-9

“Fiction” collection

																Benoît Reiss, Le bonheur
																Benoît Reiss, Le bonheur

At the school, at the factory, at the barracks, at the grocery store, a great celebration resounds for a whole year without knowing what animates all the inhabitants. A wind of freedom blows through the dances, music and songs that invade the city. The inhabitants formed farandoles, parades of dancers, singers and musical instruments in the middle of the streets. They danced, played and sang until they were exhausted. Then they lay down in the grass of the gardens. They smiled broadly, their bodies and hearts satisfied. It threw a thousand and one colors! But why these dances, these musics, these songs? One day they got up and went out into the streets. No more music, no more dancers. Everyone’s eyes were shining. Nobody knows what happened that year...

A musical flight, a colorful whirlwind that takes us into a huge and crazy party that finally doesn’t need to justify itself to exist.

the authors

Benoît Reiss was born in 1976. He studied literature in Lyon and Paris. He worked in educational publishing before moving to Japan in 2007, where he taught French. Since 2017, he has been co-director of Cheyne Editions, with Elsa Pallot. As an author, he published the novel Le petit veilleur with Buchet Chastel in 2019, poetry with Cheyne, and stories including O’Yu, un éloge de l’eau chaude with Esperluète Editions in 2021.

A graduate of the Ecole Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs de Paris, Pierre-Emmanuel Lyet divides his time between illustration, animation and art direction. He has directed several acclaimed short films, including the multi-primed Parade (2009) and La Nuit américaine d’Angélique (2013) and a typographic adaptation of Pierre et le loup (2014). His graphic inventiveness is also deployed in the press and children’s publishing sector. He created the illustrations based on typographic games for the CD-book Pierre et le loup (Hélium, 2014), then for the Retour du loup (id., 2016). He teaches art direction at Lisaa.

January 22, 2022
Children’s Book
36 pages
250 × 250 mm
18 €
9782491011109
978-2-4910-1110-9

“Fiction” collection