La maison de la plage #[nn]

A sun-warmed ensemble of nine figures — spanning grandparents to young children — stands atop a large sandcastle surrounded by lapping waves, lending the cover an immediate sense of family, summer, and the bittersweet impermanence of things built by hand. Séverine Vidal and Victor L. Pinel bring a relaxed, intimate warmth to this French-language album from Marabout, with a teal sky and billowing clouds framing the group in a way that feels both celebratory and quietly tender. Published in 2019, La Maison de la Plage looks like exactly the kind of story that lingers with you long after the last page.