Good evening,
I've been looking for this book for like 15 years. I discovered it when I was a child in public libraries in France in the years 2005-2007. Even Claude and GPT are unable to find it.
It's an album with surrealistic paintings in the style of René Magritte and Chris Van Allsburg. All with some kind of expressions. The cover (if I'm not wrong) is a Titanic-like cruiser liner half about to fall in a giant blue waterfall. I remember a painting with a big wheel of cheese by a fancy window with a moon crescent in the sky. There is also another one with highway bridges set in a big knot with the expression "sac de nœuds". It left a big aesthetical mark in me as a child and caused a big interested in painting in my life. Yet, I've never been able to hold my hand on it since.
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With a long research in libraries repertories I finally managed to find it: it's "Il y a encore quelque chose qui cloche" by the french illustrator and caricaturist Guy Billout, published in 2002 at Seuil Jeunesse. Not clearly how I remembered it but this is clearly it! It's about scenes each with an anomaly that is to by found by the reader.