Author: Thomas Gerbeaux
Illustration: Pauline Kerleroux
Publishing house: La Joie de Lire
148 pages, 13 x 18.5 cm
From 9 years old
ISBN: 978-2-88908-501-9
French, Chinese
2020

Awards:
Libbylit 2021 (Brussels Book Fair, winner)
ALODGA 2021 (Youth Novel winner)
Prix Versele 2022 (Belgium, winner)
Litteralouest 2021 (winner)
Les Embouquineurs 2021 (nominated)
Prix Jeunesse des Monts d'Or (nominated)
Kibookin Salon du Livre Jeunesse (selection)
Internationale Jugendbibliothek (Munich)'s White Ravens Catalogue 2020

Trapped in the fish-tank of a restaurant on a tiny island, a lobster understands death is approaching. When a cook throws him into a boiling hot pot, the lobster manages to escape. As he runs away, he meets a lonely little girl. The two friends set out to free the other crustaceans still trapped in the fish-tank.

Another story taking place on the Isle of Sheep in French Brittany, inspired by the real "great escape" journey of a crayfish that escaped a restaurant's boiler.