Ideas are strange creatures

It's difficult to describe an idea. Ideas fall from the sky, they are contagious, they lurk, they evaporate... The paths of thoughts are unfathomable, although sometimes they behave like strange creatures: floating beings that shed their skin, camouflage themselves, look at us, dive, swim, fly, or dig. Often ideas are unpredictable; we pursue them or they pursue us, we give them away, they are snatched from us, or we stumble upon them. And sometimes they are born within us and we take them for a walk around the world.

• Imaginales Award 2022, album category
• À l’ombre d’un grand arbre Award 2022
• Grand Prix de l’Illustration 2022, Musée de l’Illustration Jeunesse de Moulins.

Isabelle Simler is an author and illustrator. She worked for several years in advertising and animation as a director, screenwriter, and illustrator. Since 2012, she has focused on children's literature.