The Music Box

For her eighth birthday, Nola receives a marvelous present: her late mother’s music box. What an enchanted melody it plays! But looking closer, Nola discovers there is a little girl waving inside—and she’s calling for help! Wasting no time, Nola follows the tiny girl’s instructions and shrinks down to enter the music box. There, she discovers Pandorient, a world as extraordinary as it is dangerous. Can Nola unravel the mysteries of this magical realm and reveal her mother’s connection to it? Find out in The Music Box. Bursting with rich, full-color art, vibrant characters, and wondrous creatures, this graphic novel will captivate young readers who love a mix of magic, mystery, and fantasy.

Having always been drawn to the world of children, Bénédicte Carboneill, aka Carbone, made the logical choice when it came time to decide on a profession by becoming a teacher. After joining the teaching ranks in 1995, she went on to become a principal before writing entered her life and quickly took over. Starting with publications on education (La Classe Maternelle, Jocatop/Bordas), she soon developed her own publishing house, Pas de l'échelle, which brought together comics and education. As an editor and author, Bénédicte began writing for young children and teenagers, including books published by various French-language publishers (Fleurus, Larousse, Mijade). In 2015, she tried her hand as a comics author with Le Pass'Temps (published by Jungle), taking on the pen name Carbone. She soon followed with La boîte à musique (Dupuis; The Music Box, Europe Comics, Capstone), and already has multiple other series in store, which readers can look forward to discovering over the coming years.

Jérôme Gillet, aka Gijé, was born in 1988 in Lubumbashi (Congo). Following his studies at the Saint-Luc Institute in Liège (Belgium), specializing in illustration, he moved to Luxembourg to continue his training in animation. After graduating in 2012, he started out as a freelance 2D artist before joining Zeilt Production as a computer graphics designer, and gained experience working on advertising campaigns, short films (such as Long Live New York), and animated series (Barababor, Prochain arrêt). The year 2018 marks a major evolution in his career, as Gijé turned to the comics world with the adventure series La boîte à musique (Dupuis; The Music Box, Europe Comics, Capstone), written by Carbone.