PAULINE KERLEROUX

Author: Sébastien Joanniez
Illustration: Pauline Kerleroux
Publishing house: L’Étagère du bas
French

Age: from 7
Pages: 32
Format: 24 x 32 cm
ISBN: 978-2-490253-48-7
2022

He-from-the-last-row-of-the-class doesn’t like school, he feels different from his classmates and is bored. But a new pupil arrives and sits in the front of the class. Her name is Jessica. A whole class separates them… He-from-the-last-row has no choice: to meet She-from-the-first-row, he has to go all the way to the blackboard. Will he dare to do it?

“A wonderful album with a poetic and slightly offbeat tone, with clean, essential and accurate graphics, which speak beautifully of difference, the look of others, the interiority of children, and, above all, of love! Infinitely touching.” (Librairies Sorcières)

Awards
Prix littéraire de la Somme (Shortlist)
Atout Lire 2023-2024 (Shortlist)

Series of illustrations and workshop for The French Institute, London
May-November 2023

Illustrations

French illustrator Pauline Kerleroux has a thing for socks and she's imagined a series of sock portraits that have a lot to say about you.

Workshop

What makes you you? London-based French illustrator Pauline Kerleroux invites you to create your self-portrait... as a sock.
Discover how to use colour, composition and detail to give inanimate objects a personality. A fun exercise that will change the way you perceive yourself - and your socks - forever.

Author: Stéphanie Demasse-Pottier
Illustration: Pauline Kerleroux
Publishing house: Saltimbanque
French

Age: from 3
Pages: 48
Format: 28,5 × 21,5 cm
ISBN : 9782378012458
2022

Written like a letter from a little boy to his grandmother, this book is about new beginnings, and the various emotions that accompany them.

“The simplicity of the text is reinforced by the impact of the graphic images: neat strokes, block colours. Everything contributes to showing the small joys of a new beginning through the eyes of a child.” (Ricochet)

“… We will not be surprised to discover behind this beautiful graphic talent a Breton woman from Quimper, Pauline Kerleroux, …” (L’Obs)

Awards
Official selection by the Bibliothèque Nationale de France, with encouragements

Author: Thomas Gerbeaux
Illustration: Pauline Kerleroux
Publishing house: La Joie de Lire
French

Age: from 9
Pages: 212
Format: 13 x 18.5 cm
ISBN: 9782889085613
2021

Who wants to silence Maurice? What secret hides the trial of the superstar rooster of Sheep Island, a wonderful Breton island where roosters sing rock, where cats talk to children and where all chickens are called Mathilde?

Jeanne, an apprentice journalist tall as three eggs, will conduct the investigation and take all the risks to expose the truth.

After The incredible story of the sheep that saved a school and The incredible story of the lobster that saved its shell, this new episode revisits the true story of Maurice the rooster, whose trial had made a lot of noise, in France and beyond.

Awards
Libération 10 best children books of 2021
Prix des Collèges du Finistère (nominated)
Kibookin Salon du Live Jeunesse (selection)
Prix Jeunesse des Monts d'Or (nominated)

Author: Thomas Gerbeaux
Illustration: Pauline Kerleroux
Publishing house: La Joie de Lire
French

Age: from 9
Pages: 148
Format: 13 x 18.5 cm
ISBN: 978-2-88908-501-9
2020

Trapped in the fish-tank of a restaurant on a tiny island, a lobster understands death is approaching. When a cook throws him into a boiling hot pot, the lobster manages to escape. As he runs away, he meets a lonely little girl. The two friends set out to free the other crustaceans still trapped in the fish-tank.

Another story taking place on the Isle of Sheep in French Brittany, inspired by the real "great escape" journey of a crayfish that escaped a restaurant's boiler.

Awards:
Libbylit 2021 (Brussels Book Fair, winner)
ALODGA 2021 (Youth Novel winner)
Prix Versele 2022 (Belgium, winner)
Litteralouest 2021 (winner)
Les Embouquineurs 2021 (nominated)
Prix Jeunesse des Monts d'Or (nominated)
Kibookin Salon du Livre Jeunesse (selection)
Internationale Jugendbibliothek (Munich)'s White Ravens Catalogue 2020

Author: Thomas Gerbeaux
Illustration: Pauline Kerleroux
Publishing house: La Joie de Lire
French

Age: from 9
Pages: 96
Format: 13 x 18.5 cm
ISBN: 978-2-88908-432-6
2018

The Education Secretary has decided to close all classes with less than 30 pupils. To save the school of Sheepyville, which only class has twenty-nine pupils, the mayor of Sheepy Island enrols Vincent, a sheep. Vincent is quickly exposed and the Secretary goes to the island, where a storm will force him to spend the night. The mayor and his daughter Jeanne will do everything they can to save their school. With Vincent’s (precious) help.

Inspired by a true story
In 2012, a sheep called Vincent P. (named after the Education Secretary) was enrolled in a French school to avoid closure. This happened again in 2019.

Awards:
Prix des Incorruptibles 2019-2020 (winner)
Prix Litteralouest 2020 (winner)
Prix Unicef 2019 (winner)
Prix Kitab 2022 (winner)
Prix La Vache qui lit 2019 (Shortlist)
Selection Festival Lire à Bron

Visual for the new audiovisual show by Elvett, destined to children.

Author: Nicolas Frey
Music: Elvett
Illustration: Pauline Kerleroux
Publishing house: La Joie de Lire
French

Pages: 64
Includes a CD
Format: 17 x 14 cm
ISBN: 978-2-88908-512-5
Out on June 30, 2020

This book is my first “picture album”, where every spread is illustrated.

The sounds are as important as the characters, so I treated them visually as one of the main characters.

Awards:
Prix Littéraire 2022-2023 des Enfants, Gennevilliers (winner)
Prix Littéraire 2022-2023 des Parents, Gennevilliers (winner)

Author: Marie-Françoise Lücker-Babel
Illustration: Pauline Kerleroux
Book design and layout: Adela Svobodova et Pauline Kerleroux
Publishing house: La Joie de Lire
2019 (French)

Pages: 300
Format: 15 x 21 cm
Paper: Munken

How to represent the rights of the child in a telegraphic way, yet avoiding cliches?

This project was created at the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the International Convention on the Rights of the Child (2019).
From “abandon” to “zoom”, 580 definitions to discover and understand the rights of the child. Education, family, health, personal data protection, migrations, equality, non-discrimination, justice, peace, environment: near all themes are tackled in this dictionary.

Illustration for Hobulet newspaper, Prague
Czech Republic
2019

I was invited to illustrate the cover, and the main article of the April 2019 issue, about the cafes and restaurants in town who welcome kids, for the better — and sometimes for the worse.

Hobulet is a free newspaper designed by @20yydesigners for Prague’s borough of Holesovice. Each month, an illustrator or artist is invited to design the cover and the main article.

2021

What does London means to me?
Post for the @tbwamal Instagram handle launch.
I love that line by Jo Forel, to accompany it: “When London rains, it rainbows”

2020

Personal project.
How motherhood can make you a better creative: 8 skills I developed during maternity leave.

Service de Famille is a porcelain dinner set composed of 2 small plates, 2 main plates and 2 soup plates. Each plate features a member of the family with something important missing: their hair. 

It’s up to you to get creative and give them a style. Using food. A spaghetti short-back-and-sides. A bob built from burger. Or a mullet made of, er, a mullet. Anything goes as long as it’s fun. So go on, forget what your mum and dad told you: play with your food!

A micro-business from A to Z: concept and design of the plates, creation of visual identity, promotional materials, packaging, marketing, etc. 
Produced by The Hidden Factory.

2018

Drawings on iPad.

Sketches made on the streets of Prague, in 2005.

Donnez-leur le petit doigt, ils prennent toute la main.

(Give them your small finger, and they take the whole hand)

Illustration for a printed card, format A5.
JK International specialises in the export of French luxury goods.

2018

Pencil

2018

Pencil and black marker.

This is a random series of sketches I made when working at Leagas Delaney Prague, while concepting for diverse projects. They were done quickly to express ideas, and they still make me smile.