PAULINE KERLEROUX

Series of illustrations and workshop for The French Institute, London
Since May 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: Sébastien Joanniez
Illustration: Pauline Kerleroux
Publishing house: L’Étagère du bas

32 pages, 24 x 32 cm.
From 7 years old
ISBN: 978-2-490253-48-7
French
2022

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

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)

Client: Elvett & Simon Aeschimann
Illustration: Pauline Kerleroux
2024

Visual for Elvett’s new musical, for a young audience.
A Le Petit Théâtre Lausanne - Barbarella records - Brico Jardin coproduction.

Phlip is alone on stage in front of a microphone. Paralyzed. His heart is racing, he can't remember anything, he's lost confidence in himself. How is he going to get through this?

Thanks to Phlop, his conscience (sometimes unconscious!), who will guide him through his body and emotions, Phlip will learn to tame this curious beast called Stage Fright.

After the success of Sinus & Disto, here is the new all-public show by Elvett & Simon Aeschimann. Still as wacky in style, this electro-pop show immerses us in the world of fear and nervousness about the judgment of others.

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

48 pages, 28,5 × 21,5 cm
From 3 years old
ISBN : 9782378012458
French, Italian
2022

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

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)

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

212 pages, 13 x 18.5 cm.
From 9 years old.
ISBN: 9782889085613
French
2021

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)

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.

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

148 pages, 13 x 18.5 cm
From 9 years old
ISBN: 978-2-88908-501-9
French, Chinese
2020

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

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.

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

Pages: 96 pages, 13 x 18.5 cm
From 9 years old
ISBN: 978-2-88908-432-6
French, Korean, Chinese
2018

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

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.

Client: Brauer & Co Leipzig
Branding and label design for Funky Forelle craft beer

Funky Forelle (Funky Trout in German) is a craft beer made in Leipzig.
I designed the logo and the labels for the packaging.

The creator of Funky Forelle started by opening a bar in an old fishmonger shop, Fischladen in German.

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

64 pages, includes a CD. 17 x 14 cm
ISBN: 978-2-88908-512-5
French
2020

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

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.

Service de Famille is a porcelain dinner set featuring 2 small plates, 2 main plates, and 2 soup plates, each showcasing a family member missing their hair. It’s up to you to get creative with food to style them—think spaghetti for a short-back-and-sides or a burger bob. Anything goes as long as it’s fun!

A micro-business from concept to production, including design, branding, and marketing. Produced by The Hidden Factory.

Author: Marie-Françoise Lücker-Babel
Illustration: Pauline Kerleroux
Book design: Adela Svobodova et Pauline Kerleroux
Publishing house: La Joie de Lire

300 pages, 15 x 21 cm
ISBN: 978-2-88908-492-0
French
2019

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.

2020
How motherhood can make you a better creative: 8 skills I developed during maternity leave.

When London rains, it rainbows
2021

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

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