Jaguars

In this big format beautiful album, Jean-Paul Delfino reinterprets the legend of the black wolf and the white wolf in the heart of luxuriant, magnificently illustrated Guyana. In this initiatory tale, accompanied by young Yaou, we go to meet Grand-Man, the shaman, to discover ourselves…

Yaou is a young boy who is unpredictable, like the river, overflowing and sometimes seems capable of sweeping away everything in his path. In the heart of the Guyanese forest, Grand-Man, with strength and simplicity, will help him discover the duality of the human soul, similar to two jaguars, one black and the other white, that are constantly fighting and that he will have to be tamed, fed and loved equally to find balance. A powerful, initiatory tale for young and old alike.

Publication: October 2024

Jean-Paul Delfino born in Aix-en-Provence in 1964 is a writer, scriptwriter and dialoguist. After graduating top of his class from the Bordeaux Institute of Journalism (1987), he published his first book on Brazilian music the following year and became a freelance journalist. In 2001, he decided to devote himself exclusively to writing. Today, his some twenty novels and 70 publications travel the world incessantly. He received Prix du Livre de Plage and Prix Saint-Exupéry for Guyanes (2023), Prix étoile du Parisien for Assassins ! (2019), Prix des romancières for Les voyages de sable (2019).

Rebecca Romeo was born in 1986 in the Paris region and graduated from LISAA Paris. As a child, she was fascinated by animals, which today populate the forests she loves to draw. She cultivates a dreamlike, colorful universe of lush vegetation, in which textural interplay and a sense of detail come together. Her preferred techniques are gouache and watercolor, as well as the graphic tablet. She draws her inspiration from artists such as Le Douanier Rousseau, Jérôme Bosch… Occasionally exhibited in Paris and Brussels at Huberty & Breyne Gallery, she has also worked for INC Architecture & Design, and currently for Mila Éditions and La Librairie des écoles.