La fête des deux mamans

Overview

La fête des deux mamans is a 2010 French picture book about Prunelle, a child whose Mother's Day classroom activity assumes one mother when her family includes Maman and Mamou. The conflict is modest but precise: one string for one necklace makes a two-mother family temporarily invisible. Prunelle's parents help her name the mistake, and the teacher later recognizes the family structure. Public French cataloging places the book in homoparentality and children's album contexts, while publisher and creator sources connect it to the short-lived Les Petits pas de Ioannis list. In the collection, the item is valuable for its language, its school setting, and its holiday frame, especially beside other books where classroom rituals assume a single mother or father.^[1][2][3][5]

A One-Mother Assumption

The plot turns on a small material detail: Prunelle receives one string for a necklace when the class prepares Mother's Day gifts. That single string stands in for the institution's default assumption that each child has one mother. The story does not need a dramatic confrontation to make the point. Its emotional movement comes from sadness, family conversation, and the teacher's later correction. This gives the item a focused place in the collection's school-recognition cluster, where classroom routines make some family structures visible and others briefly disappear.^[1][4][3]

French Homoparentality Context

French public records classify or describe the book through homoparentality, a term that matters for interpretation as well as translation. The word places the item in a French social and bibliographic field around same-sex-parent families. That differs from English-language records that often use subject headings such as lesbian mothers or gay parents. The collection can therefore read the book as both a two-mother story and a language object, showing how cataloging terms, family vocabulary, and children's publishing developed across national contexts.^[2][3][4]

A Small Publisher's First List

Les Petits pas de Ioannis gives the item a concentrated publishing setting. A 2010 interview identifies the press as newly founded and places La fête des deux mamans among its early titles. Later creator biographies connect Ingrid Chabbert to the press and identify this book as her first album. That origin history matters because the book is not only a story about a child's family. It is also evidence of a brief publishing project organized around subjects that larger lists often handled unevenly.^[5][6][7]

Chadia Chaïbi-Loueslati

The illustrator's public career gives the book another line of context. Library and institutional sources document Chadia Chaïbi-Loueslati's later work in illustration and comics, including autobiographical graphic narrative. For this item, her role is tied to watercolor picture-book form and to the visual recognition of Prunelle's family. The local copy can refine the exact credit form, but the public record already supports reading the book as part of a creator network that extends beyond a single children's album.^[3][8][2]

Timeline

1. 2003French comparatorAn earlier French two-mother school-recognition title in the collection provides a nearby language comparison.^[14]
2. 2010-03Publisher foundingLes Petits pas de Ioannis was founded in 2010, shortly before the album appeared.^[5]
3. 2010-09Publication monthChildren's literature cataloging places publication in September 2010.^[2]
4. 2010-09-18Book-trade dateBook-trade metadata lists 18 September 2010 as the publication date.^[4]
5. 2010-12-06Publisher interviewA French interview discussed the publisher, its editorial line, and the book's place in its first list.^[5]
6. 2010-2013Publisher activityCreator biography records identify Les Petits pas de Ioannis as active during this short period.^[7]
7. 2017Illustrator's later workInstitutional coverage documents Chadia Chaïbi-Loueslati's later graphic-novel work.^[8]
8. Later catalogingLibrary and catalog persistenceFrench and international catalog searches continue to preserve ISBN and title discovery points.^[10][9][11]

Edition Notes

Public records agree on the 2010 ISBN but differ in page-count language.

Citation

La fête des deux mamans. Ingrid Chabbert; illustrated by Chadia Chaïbi-Loueslati. Les Petits pas de Ioannis, P'tites bulles de vie, 2010. Tarpey-Schwed LGBT Families Children's Book Special Collection, Mechanics' Institute. Collection ID: KB-114.

Sources

Image from Strasbourg Médiathèques / Syracuse cover service.

1. Local collection catalog record for la fête des deux mamans · catalog
2. Ricochet record for La fête des deux mamans · children_lit_database
3. Strasbourg Médiathèques record for La fête des deux mamans · library
4. LaLibrairie record for La fête des deux mamans · book_trade
5. Komitid/Yagg interview with Les Petits pas de Ioannis · interview
6. Dargaud author page for Ingrid Chabbert · creator
7. Astiberri author page for Ingrid Chabbert · creator
8. Institut du monde arabe article on Chadia Chaïbi Loueslati · creator
9. Open Library search API for La fête des deux mamans · library_api
10. BnF catalogue search for ISBN 9782953691306 · library
11. Google Books search for ISBN 9782953691306 · book_database
12. Ricochet cover image for La fête des deux mamans · image
13. Strasbourg/Syracuse cover image for La fête des deux mamans · image
14. Existing v3 record for Dis... mamans · internal
15. Existing v3 record for Jean a deux mamans · internal
16. Existing v3 record for Mother's Day on Martha's Vineyard · internal