A Grimoire? But What For!

A Grimoire: A Playground for Your Child's Imagination

« For me, a grimoire is the object that allows me to become a researcher of a lost world.»


Matisse, 15 years old

We have all been children. We have all collected cards, objects, stamps, seashells, or even created a herbarium. Behind those activities often lay the same desire: the desire to understand. To understand our world, to understand what surrounds us, and to understand how our actions, discoveries, and experiences fit into our own little universe.

That is exactly where the strength of a grimoire lies.

Beyond containing simple fragments of a world, it allows us to discover that world and embark on our own quest within it. Gathering clues, maps, characters, and stories becomes a way of exploring a universe and gradually uncovering its secrets

My Secret Book of Arcadia

In other words, creating your own grimoire means giving a tangible form to your imagination. To be honest, even at 56 years old, I felt like a child again when I illustrated our world and created our grimoire. I reconnected with my own sense of magic and, without exaggeration, it felt like a fountain of youth. A renewal of my creativity. What began as an idea or a dream slowly became an object, I would even say a sacred object. Today, holding it in my hands fills me with pride, and I cannot begin to describe the joy I feel as I continue to enrich this magical object day after day.

And that time is essential, because creativity is a process.

Creativity has its own rhythm and cannot be ordered like an Uber Eats delivery. It grows and develops gradually through the nourishment we give it. That is why every new page, every discovery, and every element we add helps enrich an inner world that is constantly evolving. After all, the imagination of a five-year-old child is not the same as that of a twelve-year-old.

What is certain, however, is that through this process of collecting, assembling, and investigating, children experience situations, explore emotions, and play roles that they may not always encounter in everyday life. They learn to observe and imagine, to make connections, and to create their own meaning from what they discover.

Useless magical thinking, or the magic of thought itself, essential to the construction of your child's identity?

As an illustrator trained in child psychology, I firmly believe that magical thinking is part of healthy development and that imagination plays a fundamental role in a child's growth.

That is why we created The Secret Book of Arcadia, where your child becomes an active participant in the story. Far more than a simple collection of tales, the grimoire becomes a true field of exploration where children can collect, dream, search, create, and grow at their own pace.