A tender, dazzling bestiary celebrating every creature’s place in the world.

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On Earth, there are millions of different animals. Each one is the king or queen of its own kingdom: the caterpillar, the leopard ray, or the ring-tailed lemur. And you, what are you the king or queen of?

Through a dozen sumptuous full-page illustrations, this marvelous bestiary features, among others, a short-eared owl, a leopard ray, and a family of ring-tailed lemurs, inviting young and old alike to reflect on their place in the world. A picture book full of tenderness and inventiveness.

— LOUISE MALEBRAISE (France) was born in Poitiers in 2001. She studied illustration at the HEAR (Haute .cole des Arts du Rhin) in Strasbourg. Kingdoms is her very first book. She wants to show children what is beautiful in the world around us, and within themselves.