Best Selling Books by Frank Asch

Afin de s''éloigner de Jonathan, sa peste de petit frère, Alex, un garçon un tantinet prétentieux, décide d''aller vivre ailleurs dans l''univers. Bien que son projet soit souvent interrompu par son frère cadet, notre jeune génie arrive néanmoins à construire un vaisseau intergalactique, à confectionner une combinaison spatiale et à inventer un "faufileur intra-atomique". Lors de sa première tentative de vol, alors qu''il a presque atteint l''espace, Alex se rend compte qu''il n''a aucune protection et décide de revenir sur Terre pour fabriquer un dispositif de sécurité. Malheureusement ou heureusement, l''invention de son "microfoudroyeur" retardera son départ définitif ... -- Le récit, mélangeant fiction et théories scientifiques, illustre avec un certain humour les relations parfois houleuses entre frères et soeurs. Même si, à la fin du récit, les frictions entre les deux frères sont toujours présentes, on sent toutefois poindre des sentiments meilleurs chez le frère aîné, qui ne cache pas sa fierté de voir son cadet suivre ses traces d''inventeur hors pair. [SDM].

Young children love to mimic their favorite animals. I Can Roar Like a Lion plays with a variety of animal sounds. A simple action word under each picture gives them a clue how to animate the picture shown -- with die-cut openings in the center of each picture -- and an unbreakable Mylar mirror to peek in at the back of each book -- this sturdy board book is made to be handled again and again by babies and toddlers.

Moonbear ends up with lots of friends going along on his canoe trip.

When a bear discovers that the moon shares his birthday, he buys the moon a beautiful hat as a present.

All the animals on the farm create a beautiful lullaby for babies. Full-colorillustrations.

A boy, a yellow hard hat, and a dizzying urban landscape, from the artist of Who Needs Donuts? Yellow Yellow is a charmingly simple story of a child whose playground is a gritty urban cityscape, written by Frank Asch and drawn by Mark Alan Stamaty. With no parent in sight, the boy wanders the sidewalks to find a yellow construction hat that quickly becomes his favorite belonging, earning him many compliments from strangers on nearby stoops. Eventually the boy meets the owner of the hat and must return it, leading the child to make his own yellow hat. Yet the story comes alive via the visual feast of urban oddities that the Who Needs Donuts? cartoonist Stamaty packs in the background of this rediscovered children’s classic. As the boy innocently wears his yellow hard hat down city streets, he is oblivious to his surrealist fun-house surroundings filled with fantastical neighbors, such as an old lady on a unicycle and a punk with a head full of fish vacuuming the sidewalk. In scratchy black ink drawings, Stamaty builds a bygone city filled with small storefronts—shoe stores, bookshops, delicatessens, and barbershops—all packed with detail upon detail. Delightfully grotesque humor lurks in the scenery of Yellow Yellow from page to page, rewarding multiple readings. Stamaty’s imagination to fill the space is as limitless as the world was to a young boy in 1970.

A bright, sturdy, and non-toxic board book features Moonbear as he examines his beloved books, which come in all shapes and sizes. For children under four.

A wordless story in which many unexpected magic things can happen--and do.

A calf and fawn meet and learn about each others'' lives, but in the end prefer to be near their mothers.

Petit ours Oscar veut donner un cadeau à la Lune son amie. Mais comment savoir quel est le jour de son anniversaire et quoi lui offrir? Récit amusant. Illustrations naïves.

Mother, Father, Junior, and Sis Goose get tired of looking after the new egg, so the egg must look after itself

Rachel discusses running, including how her interest began, proper shoes, diet, exercises, and competition.

Worried that the moon is growing smaller each night, Bear decides to do something about it.

Bear has a wish. He wants to dance with moon. But the moon is so special. Will she want to dance with Bear? This is a child''s book.

Fourteen poems describe various aspects of country life.