Isabelle Simler in her wonderland

Reviews, interviews, selection... "Libé" guides you through the aisles of the 47th edition of the Nancy Book Fair, a major literary event, which takes place from September 12 to 14.

Calm reigns at Isabelle Simler's house. The apartment in a bourgeois building in the 11th arrondissement of Paris appears tidy and carefully decorated. Even her 15-year-old son doesn't make a sound in the next room. This tranquility is superficial: the illustrator has the spirit of an explorer. For two years she has been losing herself, body and soul, in the twists and turns of Lewis Carroll's labyrinth, Alice in Wonderland . It comes out on September 12, the same day its illustrator visits Le Livre sur la Place. Like the curious and courageous child imagined by the British writer and mathematician in 1865, Isabelle Simler doesn't shy away from any closed door. She transforms herself to fit through a keyhole or a crack.

At the end of August, Isabelle Simler has just returned from vacation in the Esterel. This coast perhaps reminds her of