Most Popular Books by Jane Ray

Este libro ofrece una divertida discusión filosófica sobre un concepto cotidiano: el tiempo. En él se muestran diversas perspectivas de lo que el tiempo significa para unos y para otros. Las originales ilustraciones que acompañan al texto ayudan a clarificar las controversias a las que se somete este concepto tan abstracto.

A beautiful, golden, jewel-studded statue and a little swallow give all they have to help the poor.

Nominated for the 2018 Hans Christian Andersen Award This is the first extraordinary volume of tales collected, retold and illustrated by Jane Ray, one of the world's leading artists of stunning picture books. This volume, The Emperor's Nightingale and Other Feathery Tales, includes many favourites such as The Happy Prince, The Owl and The Pussy Cat, and lesser known, but equally enjoyable stories such as Jorinda and Joringel.

Jane Ray is one of todays foremost childrens illustrators and won the Smarties Prize in 1992 for The Story of Creation. With this picture book, she retells the Christmas story, with a fold-out Nativity scene and stand-up characters'

Bicycle spokes still flay afternoon avenues, tumbleweeds still roll a stumbling plain. We stray into an uprooted acre, and Inna binds the blind seat of the heart. Inna Jane Ray's poems in California Hours move between childhood memories and imagined futures across a dramatic human and natural landscape. Written in the late 1970s, Ray's eight-poem cycle painted the effects of drought, flood, fire and urbanization in her native California. Bonnie Barrett's new design of the original hand bound book makes Inna's work accessible now and includes samples of her art gleaned from her sketchbooks, paintings and photography. The edition includes a foreword by Janet Nippell.

Jasmine works hard in the Raja's garden, but someone is eating all the fruit. Who can it be? Little does Jasmine know her curiosity will lead her up into the very skies - to a very different type of garden in the heavens.

Nominated for the 2018 Hans Christian Andersen Award Introducing the second magnificent volume of tales collected, retold and illustrated by Jane Ray. This volume, The Little Mermaid and Other Fishy Tales, includes something for everyone: The Fisherman and His Wife; Whalesong; The Lobster Quadrille, A Ballad of John Silver and many more.

Nominated for the 2018 Hans Christian Andersen Award The third volume in Jane Ray's stunning story collection featuring The Lion and The Unicorn, Brer Wolf, The Singing Ringing Tree, Theseus and the Minotaur and many more. Beautifully illustrated and designed with stories that keep you turning the pages. A perfect gift.

Atalanta is the fastest runner in the world but will only marry the man who can beat her in a race; Perseus must destroy the snake-headed gorgon, Medusa; Pandora has been given the gift of curiosity, what will happen if she opens the forbidden magic jar? Pegasus, the miraculous flying horse, has never been tamed, can Bellerophon catch him? These ten wonderful tales from the world of Greek mythology are perfect for reading aloud to younger children. The stories are told by Sally Pomme Clayton, one of the UK’s most spellbinding storytellers, with beautiful, glowing illustrations by the award-winning artist Jane Ray. Included are notes and a map showing the real places in Greece that are connected with the stories.

Ce n'était pas un silence ordinaire, C'était le silence de la Lune. Orlo est un petit prince très silencieux isolé par une bulle de Lune. Il n'entend pas les sons de la nature, il ne répond pas quand sa mère l'appelle. Mais l'Oiseau-Lune aux pouvoirs magiques va lui apprendre à parler avec ses mains et à écouter avec ses yeux. Ses parents à leur tour sauront-ils ouvrir leur esprit et leur cœur pour le comprendre ?

Biblical text and illustrations depict how Noah and his family were singled out by God to be saved from the great flood, along with two animals of each kind.

Shortlisted for the 1991 Kate Greenaway Medal, this is an illustrated interpretation of the story of Noah's ark, with text from the authorized version of the King James Bible. The author's A Balloon for Grandad was runner-up for the Mother Goose Award in 1989.