Once upon a time there were four friends who never left each other, they had too much fun together. Now, for several weeks, Bébert's gang had been terribly bored, because it had been raining constantly. Fortunately, they had the fabulous idea of ​​going for a picnic away from the water. They then decided to repair a large boat to cross the river and go to the Blue Mountain. Accompanied by several friends, including a weasel, a fox and a wolf, they left for this new country where they would all be so wonderfully, so magnificently, so wonderfully well!
This musical tale will make children laugh like never before. The story is carried by a few well-known traditional songs and a dozen compositions as tender as they are funny. Illustrations of great finesse accompany this joyful and totally unbridled journey.
Over the past thirty years, Christiane Duchesne has written some sixty novels and stories, texts for theatre, television, radio and cinema. She has won the Governor General's Award three times and was a finalist for the Hans Christian Andersen Lifetime Achievement Award in 1996. Jérôme Minière is from Orléans and moved to Montreal in 1995. As a singer-songwriter, he has released a dozen albums since his debut, including Le vrai le faux (Prix Rapsat-Lelièvre ) and Petit Cosmonaute (Félix for best songwriter). He has also created music for several theatrical productions, including La Fête de Boris, directed by Denis Marleau, which was presented at the Festival TransAmériques in Montreal and the Festival d'Avignon.
Born in Venezuela, Marianne Ferrer arrived in Canada in 1998. She studied graphic design at the University of Quebec in Montreal. She recently published The Invisible Garden (Monsieur Ed) and A Cancer Story That Ends Well (La Watermelon).