Odilon Thorel illustrator
Karol Beffa

Guillaume Métayer

Sol & Rémi

Le Mystérieux Boléro avec Ravel

The Mysterious Boléro with Ravel

September 22, 2022

Youth Novel

96 pages

130 × 160 mm

12 €

978-2-2321-4577-3

Summer 1928, Montfort-l’Amaury, Sol and Rémi, brother and sister, 5 and 8 years old, inaugurate their new football. When Sol sends the ball so high that it lands on the other side of the wall, the two children enter the home of a strange character. Very quickly, a surly housekeeper named Mme Revéleau greets them with a verb as high as her bun: no one must disturb the master, who is busy working on his boléro. A Boléro? But what on earth is it? A chair? A hat? Consumed by curiosity, listening only to their courage, Sol and Rémi decide to investigate…

the authors

Odilon Thorel graduated from the School of Architecture of Normandy in 2013. He has worked in various agencies, Rouen and Parisian, while developing illustration under the pseudonym Pedrov.
In 2018 he illustrated his first album, Sissi, aussi libre que le vent, by Sylvie Baussier and Jean des Cars published by Perrin and Gründ. This will be followed by Les saisons et Les renards de Londres written by Eugène Green at the École des loisirs editions in 2019 and 2021.

Karol Beffa is a composer, pianist and academic. He graduated first in his class at the ENS, has a degree in music education and a doctorate in musicology, and has been a lecturer at the ENS since 2004.

Research director at the CNRS, Guillaume Métayer is a writer, poet and literary translator, particularly of German and Hungarian poetry.

The edition

By scanning the QR code at the end of the book, readers can access streaming playlists created by the authors and Universal Music experts in connection with the book. This way, children can extend the pleasure of reading with a fun and original musical exploration.