Add friendship to imagination and an exciting adventure unfolds.

Timothy feels abandoned by his older sister.
I was gripped by loneliness and isolation.
Then, in an unknown world, he meets a new friend named Morgan.
They have completely different experiences and live in different worlds.
But the two boys overcome their shame and tell their stories, and as they empathize with each other, feelings of solidarity begin to sprout.
Timothy became a completely different person after deciding to help Morgan return home.
He is filled with a freedom, creativity, ambition, and courage he has never experienced before.
What made all this possible was none other than friendship.


Through adventure, children reconstruct their prior experiences, develop a sense of purpose, and develop artistic sensibilities.
Additionally, it can foster beautiful emotions and proper character, and create a foundation for joy such as curiosity, challenge, cooperation, and a sense of accomplishment.
Through the experience of interacting and communicating with friends in their daily lives, children naturally develop the right character and beautiful emotions to value each other.
It was as if both boys were moved by Morgan's story and had a good heart to help him, which made them grow up.

Reality becomes imagination, imagination becomes reality, breaking down the boundaries between reality and imagination.

The painting on the wall is a secret passage leading to another world.
Timothy freely moves between the real world and the unknown world through his paintings.
Children often see things that adults don't.
It may be a sublimated imagination of reality, or there may truly be a world that is invisible to adults.
Max Ducos said he wrote the book with the hope that children would be able to advance into a bigger world through their imagination without being blocked by the walls of reality.
“What I want to convey to children through picture books is to make them stop in front of the smallest ant and imagine a special microcosm that only they can create around it,” he says.


Timothy returns to the real world and falls asleep, exhausted from exhaustion.
When he wakes up, all his secret memories with Morgan are forgotten.
I don't remember anything.
Like a midsummer night's dream.
When the older sister removes all the wallpaper in Timothée's room, a mural unfolds covering the entire room.
Timothy looks at the mural and old memories come flooding back.
So, were Morgan's memories real? A dream? Or did imagination create reality? Like the question, "Which came first, the chicken or the egg?" For children, reality and imagination are indistinguishable.


Returning to a collection that stimulates the desire to own

From Robinson Crusoe and sea monsters to French history, a variety of borrowed materials are interwoven.
Not only the story, but the pictures are enough to lead children into a world of imagination.
The deep blue sea, the waves swaying in the wind, and the cloudy sky appear three-dimensional even in a flat painting, drawing you in like you are watching a movie and leading you into a world of imagination.
It is produced in a wide format so that you can enjoy the picture book with your eyes full.
Max Ducos's paintings are powerful even in thin lines, delicate yet deep and vibrant.
Every time I turn the page, I feel like I'm looking at a collection of works.
Once you see this new work, "The Lighthouse Boy," you will definitely want to own it.

Paintings using gouache are praised as the best works.
Gouache is a painting technique that mixes rubber with watercolor paint to create an opaque effect.
The author explains that this technique makes drawing technically accessible to children by working with paints actually used in schools.
Pictures drawn with easy-to-access paints will resonate with children.
In times when it's difficult to go out and play, why not embark on an adventure with "The Lighthouse Boy"? I hope the protagonist's adventures will resonate with children's lives and help them grow together.