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The 2025 Prix Albertine Jeunesse Shortlist
Books & Ideas
(c) Jennifer Knotts
Explore exciting titles in Francophone youth literature shortlisted for the 2025 Prix Albertine Jeunesse, a program reinforcing the practice and love of reading in both French and English.
About the Prize
An annual young readers’ choice award, the Prix Albertine Jeunesse invites children from ages 3 to 11 to vote for their favorite book from a selection of works of Francophone youth literature available in English translation.
Presented by the Cultural Services of the French Embassy, Albertine Books, and the Agency for French Education Abroad, the program is open to the network of accredited French schools (AEFE-FISNA) and all American public schools with a French section/program.
Books can be purchased from Albertine Books by clicking here.
The 2025 Shortlist
This year’s selection was made by a committee that includes the staff of Albertine Books in New York, the AEFE network of North America, the Cultural Services of the French Embassy in the United States, and the French Embassy in Canada. The selected books are divided into three categories according to age groups: 3-5 years; 6-8 years; 9-11 years.
3-5 years old:
- The Gift (Eerdmans Books for Young Readers / Les éditions des éléphants) by Alan Serge Dzotap and Delphine Renon
- Harriet’s Reflections (Eerdmans Books for Young Readers/ Éditions de l’Agrume) by Marion Kadi, translated by Marion Kadi and Abram Kaplan
- Never, Not Ever (Harper Collins/L’école des loisirs) by Béatrice Alemagna, translated by Jill Davis
6-8 years old:
- At the Drop of a Cat (Enchanted Lion Books/Le Rouergue) by Élise Fontenaille and Violeta Lópiz, translated by Karin Snelson and Emilie Robert Wong
- The Coat (Flyaway Books/Gallimard Jeunesse) by Séverine Vidal and Louis Thomas
- Aiko and the Planet of Dogs (Levine Querido/Les fourmis rouges) by Ainhoa Cayuso and Christoffer Ellegaard, translated by Irene Vázquez
9-11 years old:
- Meet the Lithographer (David Zwirner Books/ Éditions MeMo) by Gaby Bazin, translated by Vineet Lal
- Sheperdess Warriors, Volume 1 (Ablaze/Glénat) by Jonathan Garnier and Amélie Fléchais, translated by Ivanka Hahnenberger
- The Wondrous Wonders (Macmillan – First Second Books/Actes Sud Jeunesse) by Camille Joudry, translated by Montana Kane
Resources for Teachers
Starting in September 2024, teachers can register their students to vote in the next round of the Prix Albertine Jeunesse.
Learn more about engaging students in the program via this dedicated website for teachers.
For further information, please contact:
Program Officer, Fiction, Children’s Books, and Comics.
In partnership with
Cultural Services of the French Embassy
The Cultural Services of the French Embassy, alongside Villa Albertine, promotes the best of French arts, literature, cinema, digital innovation, language, and higher education across the US. Based in New York City, Washington D.C., and eight other cities across the country, the Cultural Services brings artists, authors, intellectuals, and innovators to cities nationwide. It also builds partnerships between French and American artists, institutions and universities on both sides of the Atlantic. In New York, through its bookshop Albertine, it fosters French-American exchange around literature and the arts.
Albertine Bookstore
Albertine is a bookshop that brings to life French-American intellectual exchange. A permanent venue for free events and debates, the space offers more than 14,000 contemporary and classic titles from over 30 French-speaking countries around the world.
Agence pour l’enseignement français à l’étranger (AEFE)
The Agence pour l’enseignement français à l’étranger (AEFE) is a government institution supervised by the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Founded in 1990, it is responsible for monitoring and managing the network of French schools abroad. The AEFE is the guarantor of the French education system abroad. It plays a key role in expanding France’s cultural and linguistic influence throughout the world and serves to boost the appeal of French higher education.
Service culturel de l’Ambassade de France au Canada
The Cultural Service of the Embassy of France in Canada promotes the best of French culture across Canada, including arts, language, education, science and research.
