A little garden

A highly graphic board book for very young children, introducing shapes and colours, how they can be arranged, and encouraging the imagination — all within a world of plants and nature.

In this highly graphic board book, we first see a patch of ground made up of simple rectangles, representing a piece of bare earth. Then, little by little, colourful shapes begin to appear, like plants growing from the soil, until, page after page, they come together to form a magnificent multicoloured garden — a little corner of paradise!

The book uses a limited number of shapes and colours — the same ones featured in A Little Town, published simultaneously — to encourage imaginative play and construction. Through the medium of the book, it revisits classic childhood games and activities such as building blocks, LEGO bricks, stickers and tangrams.

Exploring the themes of plants and growth, the book is also an ode to nature and to the power of living things when they are listened to and respected. It shows how even a patch of barren, neglected or trampled ground can burst into beautiful new life. It invites children to imagine and create while caring for the environment, in a spirit of freedom, complementarity and harmony.

Publication: 27 October 2026

Author & Illustrator

Alice de Nussy, a graphic designer and art director, has written and illustrated several picture books published by Grasset-Jeunesse, including La Malédiction des flamants roses, illustrated by Janik Coat; Monsieur Nourse et la vie (mode d’emploi), written by Christian Demilly; Chasser le chat, illustrated by Jean-François Martin; and Nuit noire, nuit blanche, illustrated by Stéphane Kiehl.

Christian Demilly, a series editor, children’s author and translator, has written a number of books for Grasset-Jeunesse, including Mon oiseau…, illustrated by Marlène Astrié; Le Grand voyage en Abécédaire, illustrated by Alain Pilon; Bulle dans sa bulle, illustrated by Audrey Calleja; and De 0 à dix, illustrated by Alice de Nussy. He has also recently published Christine de Pizan, une dame dans la cité : une autrice féministe au Moyen Âge? with Éditions Talents hauts.