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Cut-paper picture books

Élodie Marchand

Nine picture books cut from painted paper, one scalpel, no screens.

Represented by Alder Lane Literary · Montréal

A child sailing a folded paper boat with a red sail under a yellow sun, cut from painted paper

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The Lighthouse Keeper's Cat

Harbor Lane Books · 2025

Eleven papers, four blues for the sea.

A striped cat on the railing of a red and white lighthouse at dusk, gulls and a paper moon — 2 3

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Where the Bus Goes at Night

Little Harbor Press · 2025

Stars punched from one navy sheet.

A yellow bus at a night bus stop under paper stars, a red fox waiting — 2 3

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Counting book

Ten Tomatoes

Marigold House · 2024

Ten reds, no two the same.

A child in a blue coat watering a row of tomato plants heavy with red tomatoes — 2 3

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The Great Sock Migration

Little Harbor Press · 2024

Forty socks, flown in a V.

A flock of mismatched socks flying in a V over rooftops with red chimneys — 2 3

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Bathtub Ocean

Marigold House · 2023

The whale is torn, not cut.

A child in a white bathtub beside a navy whale surfacing, blue water spilling over the rim — 2 3

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Grandpa's Umbrella Shop

Windward Editions · 2023

Rain, one strip at a time.

A shop front in the rain with umbrellas of every color and a grandfather at the door — 2 3

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Winter Comes on Tuesdays

Harbor Lane Books · 2022

The only red is the mittens.

A snowy street of tall houses, a child in red mittens pulling a wooden sled — 2 3

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The Bakery Under the Bridge

Windward Editions · 2021

Kraft bread, a mouse in an apron.

A bakery under a stone bridge arch, a mouse baker sliding loaves into a red oven — 2 3

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Cut-paper self-portrait of Élodie Marchand in a red scarf, holding a scalpel and a piece of blue paper

About the illustrator

Painted papers, one scalpel, no screens. Since 2016.

Based in: Montréal, Mile End
Medium: Cut painted paper
Books: 9 published, 2 coming
Publishers: 5, in 3 languages
Represented by: Alder Lane Literary
Available: From January 2027
Also: Covers, editorial, murals
Working in: English and French

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Let's make a book.

Dummies and proofs on request. Write to Harriet, or to the studio.

Agent Harriet Lowe Alder Lane Literary

Studio [email protected] Two working days

Based Montréal, Mile End Eastern time

Email Harriet

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