This year is the illustrated album Work a Laki, by Marine Schneider, winner of the Golden Nugget at the Montreuil Youth Book Fair (Seine-Saint-Denis). This mysterious and poetic book tells of the encounter of a small whirling character with Laki, an old giant who lives alone in a crater. “A strong, singular, intimate book and spectacular settings”, comments his editor of Albin Michel jeunesse.
The other Nuggets go to comics Furious by Geoffroy Monde and Mathieu Burniat (Dargaud) for its parodic dimension; to adolescent fiction Great Passage Stéphanie Leclerc (Syros) for her atmosphere; to the picture book Reglobus Pierre Alexis (La Partie) who made the young jurors laugh; and in volume I of I do not feel well by Philippe Lechermeier (young Flammarion). He was arrested for its independent heroes who get by with no one
, sums up Léon, 11, one of the jurors in the junior fiction category.
A selection of “high quality”.
Both children and adults agree that the 2022 selection was of high quality
, observed Sylvie Vassallo, director of the Salon du livre et de la presse jeunesse, during yesterday’s announcement of the Pépites 2022. This moment marked the beginning of the 38And Fair, an unmissable appointment for children’s literature. And it’s not the author-illustrator Émile Bravo who contradicts him. The new president of the CPLJ-93 association (Centre for the promotion of children’s books in Seine-Saint-Denis) had « did not understand from the outset that the jury of professionals had to decide between twenty finalists to award the Gold Nugget. It’s very difficult!
Among the twenty books chosen by the SLPJ reading committee, four Pépites are awarded by thirty-six children aged 8 to 18, selected following a call launched by France Télévisions.
