In her picture books, the author and illustrator Anne Herbauts questions the material dimension of the page by exploring its blank spaces, and the folds and cuts that appear on it. The dialogue between text and image, which in her work is often flawed or tends to overflow outside the book, invites the reader to reflect upon missing details. The materiality of the book as an object emerges in this hybrid space, in between the pages. This article will examine three picture books, Lundi, Les moindres petites choses, De quelle couleur est le vent ? in which texture is used as a vocabulary.