Famille Summerbelle News

I’m so proud to present the SCHOOLJARENBOEK that I illustrated and made together with my beautiful friend Esther van de Paal along with our fantastic Dutch publisher Snor and talented Studio Fabienne for the book layout! You will love this book as finally you will be able to keep in one place your child annual school photos and memories from...

I am very happy to finally announce the launch the Friends Book, Vrienden Boek in Dutch. It’s been such a pleasure to collaborate on this book with my friend Esther from Babyccino Kids and the wonderful Snor publisher. We started to work on this project back in September so I can tell you it is really nice to finally hold...

I cannot tell you how happy Ophelia was when she received the new book written by our friend Al MacCuish The Bee Who Spoke. It is her sitting in the middle reading the story to her friends. When we lived in Paris, Al came to visit us with his family and mentioned to us later that Ophelia inspired him to...

Yesterday I received a copy of the Dutch magazine Flow on my desk. It was such a nice surprise. Do you know Flow? I only discovered it since we moved to Amsterdam. It's a creative magazine with beautiful illustrations, articles about designers and other creative people. It is also full of little paper products to tear and to keep such...

I received yesterday a copy of the book The Little Bookroom Guide to New York City with Children with our Morning in Manhattan design illustrating the cover. Isn't it sweet?! This book follows the successful Little Bookroom Guide to Paris and is packed with cool addresses of restaurants, shops and activities to do with children -and adults- in the big...

This month French magazine Bubble Mag has invited Famille Summerbelle to illustrate how to decorate wooden sticks! It's a fun activity to do after school or during the weekend (or soon the holidays!) with your children. We live near a forest and we often go there with the children for a walk. Lucien and Ophelia's favourite game is to replace...

I am very excited to share with you the new book by New York based travel editor The Little Bookroom. I am pleased to have the illustration from our collection Un Dimanche à Paris featured on the cover. The Little Bookroom Guide to Paris with Children by Kim Horton Levesque is a very well documented guide for sophisticated parents who...

My favorite online magazine Papier Maché has just released a Déco supplement of Children's rooms and it has been illustrated by the talented Laura Callaghan. The contributors are designers like Apolline à Paris, Morghan from Little Circus, Allison at Larkmark, Famille Summerbelle (well Ophelia's bedroom) and many more. You can download it from their website Papier Maché for just $3....