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The Institut français organized a FOCUS BD jeunesse on the occasion of and in partnership with the Salon du livre et de la presse jeunesse en Seine-Saint-Denis, in Montreuil, from November 24 to 28, 2025 for 12 foreign comics publishers.
The program included visits to book and printed image venues (École des arts décoratifs de Paris, La Maison des histoires de l'École des loisirs), participation in the Salon du livre et de la presse jeunesse, and meetings with publishers, authors and mediators from this publishing sector in Paris and Montreuil.
The aim of this FOCUS was to encourage the identification of graphic design creation for young people, and more specifically for teenagers, which are dynamic publishing sectors in France and internationally, and to develop new collaborations and publishing partnerships.
This portfolio invites you to relive in images the various highlights of this event.
The delegation
This FOCUS brought together a delegation of 12 foreign publishers, keen to develop their knowledge of French graphic publishing for young people, from 12 countries and territories: Canada, China, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Poland, Romania, South Korea, Taiwan and Vietnam.
Delegation welcomed at the Institut français
On November 24, the FOCUS delegation was welcomed at the French Institute alongside foreign professionals invited as part of the program Images Voyageuses, an Institut français scheme for illustrators in children's publishing organized as part of the Livres des deux rives.
Visit to Ensad
The second day of the FOCUS was held in Paris, first at the École des arts décoratifs - PSL (Ensad) where the delegation was welcomed by Katy Couprie and the teaching team within its Image imprimée. L'Ensad trains image-makers by focusing on their singular identities and their commitment as authors or artists.
The program for the visit to Ensad: discovery of the workshops and the School; exchanges with the teaching team, Sandrine Bonini, artist in residence, and students; presentation by students of illustration projects exploring the diversity of text-image relationships in all artistic and editorial fields, both paper and digital.
Discovery of La Maison des histoires
Welcome to La Maison des histoires in Bastille for two delegations of foreign professionals. A children's play museum, this École des loisirs project opened in July 2025 and aims to pass on a taste for reading to children in a fun, interactive way.
Presentation of the Maison des histoires - Bastille by directors Camille Kiejman and Agathe Jacon, and author Marc Boutavant. Inspired by Scandinavian literary museums, the venue deploys multifaceted mediation including a café, bookshop, readings-shows, and offers young audiences an immersive experience in the pages of iconic albums from the École des loisirs catalogs.
Professional meetings at the Institut français
The FOCUS Paris program continued at the Institut français with a day of professional meetings. 19 foreign rights managers from French children's and comics publishers or publishers' agents took part: Albin Michel, Actes sud, Bayard, Cambourakis, Cat on a book, Delcourt, École des loisirs, Eddy Agency, Flammarion, Glénat, La Ville brûle, Mediatoon Foreign Rights, Nathan, Steinkis.
At the Seine-Saint-Denis Children's Book and Press Fair
The 4the day of the FOCUS included an immersion in the 41e edition of the Salon du livre et de la presse jeunesse de Seine-Saint-Denis in Montreuil. Meetings with programmed authors and publishers from the comics and illustrated book segments, conferences and themed visits were on the program.
Two themed tours, organized by 10 publishers of illustrated books and children's comics, were offered to the delegation in partnership with the Syndicat national de l'édition to grasp the latest news and challenges in these publishing sectors.
Participation of one of the delegation's publishers, Anca Maria Pănoiu from Frontiera Editions in Romania, in the round table "Illustrating a story: the power of images" with Pauline Mermet (Dargaud), Nicolas Leroy (Gallimard), Thomas Baas, author, moderated by Lucie Servin, journalist.
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