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Laissez-vous guider par votre imagination en découvrant dans les mots et les images les personnages dans ces petites rimes amusantes. Histoires quelquefois vraies, quelquefois imaginées, voilà pour vous des contes à lire et à écouter. Grand-maman raconte sur la lune est le 6e et dernier album de la série Grand-maman raconte.

It isn't easy being a big brother when your little sister’s always in your hair. You look over here. You look over there. Everywhere you look—she’s always there! It’s impossible to find peace! The author takes us along a sibling's quest to discover the calm, peaceful corners of the world. The story shows us that often, the most marvelous wonders are right under our noses when we take the time to look for them. This is a heartfelt tale for readers of all ages, in which often-overlooked simple wonders are unveiled before the eyes.

If you have ever seen the Great White North, you may have been lucky enough to come across the magnificent light show in the sky that are the aurora borealis—the Northern Lights. But have you ever wondered how they came to be? Raven’s Great Light Show relates the wonderful story of how Raven, the trickster figure common to the Oral Tradition of many Indigenous Peoples in Canada, once used his legendary wiles to paint the empty night sky with the billions of stars that vigilantly watch over us.

Lili, la libellule, est dans tous ses états. Elle ne sait pas quoi faire. Il lui faut à tout prix l'aide de Monica-Claire. Leur ami, Pas d'queue, doit jouer dans une pièce de théâtre dans une heure exactement, mais il est introuvable. Elles s'élancent à sa recherche! C'est l'hiver à Saint-Boniface, au Manitoba, et l'écureuil dodu n'est pas du genre à rater une occasion de s'amuser. Ce taquin serait-il parti au Festival du Voyageur? Découvrez ce qui attend Monica-Claire, Lili et leurs amis à cette grande fête hivernale.

Vie quotidienne d'une famille bretonne etablie au Manitoba. Coutumes, humour, croyances et anecdotes sont racontees avec humour dans une langue facile.

Si vous avez déjà visité le Grand Nord, vous avez peut-être eu la chance d'assister au magnifique spectacle de lumières connu sous le nom d'aurores boréales. Mais vous êtes-vous déjà demandé comment elles, et les constellations, sont nées? Le livre raconte la merveilleuse histoire de la manière dont Corbeau, le personnage commun à la tradition orale de nombreux peuples autochtones du Canada, utilisait son talent légendaire pour peindre le ciel nocturne avec des millions et des millions d'étoiles qui veillent sur nous.

With sensitivity and tenderness, Starkie Mak has captured a tale of the immigrant experience, from the eyes of a child. Masterfully rendered with careful homage paid to the children’s books that have touched the hearts of so many, Mak’s brush strokes and calligraphy evoke the turbulent emotions and difficulties a child must surely experience when having their little world upended, only to have a much larger and foreign world unfold before them. In a heartbreaking parting, a child says goodbye to her family and is left with her imagination as guide.

The author weaves the story's other main characters - the sun, rocks, earth, water, air, fire, animals and people - into scenic treed landscapes and brings them all to life through the use of lyrical prose. Each character in turn claims ownership of the trees, but the trees have the final say. Scientific details in both the text and illustrations depict the natural beauty of our world.

Two best friends, a young boy and a monster truck, cooperate to clean up the big mess they make when they CRASH into the recycling bin, after Gus's imagination takes over and let's Buck do the driving.

Little Hare is young, and it is his first winter. He wants to learn about the things he sees in the yard, so he asks his friend, Wilson for help in identifying them.