author/illustrator: Françoise Johnen, Élodie Flavenot
ages: 5+
32 pages
21 x 27.5 cm
hardback
French
La Cabane Bleue éditions
The Day of the White Butterfly
A sensitive and luminous story about climate migration. It’s raining...
The perfect moment to start a big tidy-up in the room. Toy cars, birthday cards, lychee pits... Esther doesn’t want to throw anything away, much to Virgile’s dismay! But when the river, overflowing from its banks, floods the room, Esther and Virgile must leave their home and abandon everything behind.
What will they have left to rebuild their lives?
THE AUTHOR
Françoise Johnen lives in Belgium, where she studied at the Université libre de Bruxelles before working for nearly twenty years in a library. It was there she discovered children’s literature and enjoyed telling the stories of others. A few years later, she began writing her own stories: her first texts are published in 2024 and 2025 by A pas de loups, Voce verso, and La cabane bleue.
THE ILLUSTRATOR
A graduate of the École des Beaux-Arts in Besançon, Élodie Flavenot is a nomadic artist who draws inspiration from nature and the cultures she encounters during her travels, particularly in Latin America. Sensitive to colours and textures, she has notably collaborated with Albert, a French upmarket children's magazine. She enjoys experimenting with different mediums, adding her own touch of poetry.