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This month, L'ecole des loisirs' Le Renard Dore imprint releases the 48-page Japanese picture book Pisuke's First Journey on August 26 at 16 euros. Author Makiko Futaki, best known as a leading Studio Ghibli animator (also published in France by Ynnis in 2022 with The Great Tree at the Center of the World), tells a nature-themed coming-of-age story about young duckling Pisuke leaving home to search the natural world for a comfortable, welcoming place to start her new life, encountering unsuitable spots along the way before settling near a peaceful river.