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Charlie and his family are about to embark on another trip, to another out-of-the-way place off the beaten path. This time they are heading to an island in Croatia, a country Charlie has never even heard of. An incredibly beautiful country that lives in the shadow of war and conflict. Even for a seasoned traveler like Charlie, Croatia is a very different experience. To travel in a country where the language is completely unfamiliar and half the words have no vowels. To visit remote villages where the Internet is so slow, you might as well not have it at all. Where goats are a traffic-calming device, red cliffs loom like fortresses over an impossibly blue sea, and luggage porters are a line of women pushing wheelbarrows. Still, Charlie and his little brother, Max, manage to find adventure wherever they go. There’s cliff diving, pigs on spits, hair-raising ferry crossings and snake juice for breakfast (“Breakfast in Croatia — at your own risk!”). And there’s a sober side to their adventures this time, too. A friend who was sentenced to Croatia’s version of Alcatraz, despite committing no crime. An unsettling encounter with the Hermit of Vrgada. The sight of a half-destroyed village divided by a war that nobody won. Charlie finds out that this area of the world has a long and troubled history, that wars are complicated, and that long-time feuds can continue to divide neighbors generations later. But he also discovers that you don’t need to speak the same language to communicate with people. Not when you’re having a party in a field, surrounded by goats and dancing in the glow of car headlights with the radio blaring out Croatian music. A warm, funny and thought-provoking book that celebrates a child’s love of adventure and boundless curiosity about the world.

Vive les vacances ! chante Pistache. C''est l''aventure, c''est la liberté ! Et pour bien commencer l''été, elle va enfin explorer la caverne du cimetière avec ses amis. Mais sa maman a un autre plan... Un plan qui a des oreilles de lapin, une cape de Superman et de drôles d''idées.

Boston Globe, Best 2018 Books for Children TD Canadian Children''s Literature Award Finalist Mustafa and his family traveled a long way to reach their new home. Some nights Mustafa dreams about the country he used to live in, and he wakes up not knowing where he is. Then his mother takes him out to the balcony to see the moon — the same moon as in their old country. In the park, Mustafa sees ants and caterpillars and bees — they are the same, too. He encounters a “girl-with-a-cat,” who says something in a language that he can’t understand. He watches an old lady feeding birds and other children playing, but he is always looking in from the outside and he feels that he is invisible. But one day, the girl-with-the-cat beckons to him, and Mustafa begins to become part of his new world. Marie-Louise Gay’s remarkable ability to write and illustrate from the perspective of a young child is movingly exhibited in this gentle, thoughtful story about coming to feel at home in a new country. Correlates to the Common Core State Standards in English Language Arts: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.1.2 Retell stories, including key details, and demonstrate understanding of their central message or lesson. CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.1.4 Identify words and phrases in stories or poems that suggest feelings or appeal to the senses. CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.2.5 Describe the overall structure of a story, including describing how the beginning introduces the story and the ending concludes the action.

Sophie n''en mène pas large. À l''école ses résultats sont médiocres. Son père, en voyant son bulletin, a menacé de lui interdire son émission favorite, une émission de variété qui élève au rang de star de jeunes recrues des arts du spectacles. Devant la menace de ne plus pouvoir écouter "La route des étoiles", Sophie se met au travail, mais pas au point de manquer sa soirée de télé. Voyant que cela ne sera pas suffisant, elle choisit de travestir la réalité et de copier le devoir d''une copine en plus de tricher à l''examen de français ... -- Une petite leçon de vie lors de laquelle l''héroïne mesure les inconvénients de la tricherie et les avantages de résultats bien mérités. [SDM].

Pour avoir obtenu de bonnes notes en français, Sophie se rend chez ses grands-parents à Paris.

Sophie veut un baladeur. Il lui faut gagner de l''argent. Un rčit amusant, rďig ̌dans un style dčontract.̌ [SDM].

En l''absence de ses parents, Sophie loue la cassette ##L''exterminateur##, un film violent. Mamie veille au grain. Elle est capable de mettre K.O. les peurs, les cauchemars et les exterminateurs de tout acabit. Un thm̈e d''actualit ̌trait ̌dans un style alerte et avec humour. [SDM].

"Sophie voudrait renouveler sa garde-robe. Fidèle à elle-même, elle trouvera une solution pour le moins surprenante pour y arriver!" Réf. La Sélection de livres pour enfants et adolescents de Communication-Jeunesse 1999-2000.

Instead of dream vacations to Disney World and hotels with swimming pools and water slides, the parents in "Travels with My Family" insist on obscure destinations in the middle of nowhere. They''re determined to go, even if it means hours of dull driving filled with countless back-seat, argument-inducing games of Twenty Questions and out-loud readings of the "How to Change a Tire" chapter from the owner''s manual. But bad as the travel is, it''s nothing compared to what happens when they arrive: eating grasshoppers in Mexico, forgetting the tide schedule while collecting sand dollars off the coast of Georgia, and mistaking alligators for logs in the middle of Okefenokee Swamp. "Travels with My Family" is told from the point of view of a long-suffering big brother who must attend to many responsibilities in this eccentric family -- keep little brother out of trouble; humor artistic Mom while she seeks out beauty and inspiration in the least likely places; and discourage nearsighted, tone-deaf Dad from pulling out the road map to search for yet another strange destination.

Estela y su hermanito van a pasar un día al mar. Estela ya fue una vez y conoce todos los secretos del mar, pero es la primera vez que Sam va y tiene muchas preguntas. Estela sabe todas las respuestas, lo único que no sabe es si Sam, finalmente decidirá meterse al agua...

Sélection lab-elle: album attentif aux potentiels féminins et à la représentation des genres.

Kleine Sam vindt de zee nog een beetje eng en stelt zijn grote zus ontelbare vragen voordat hij met haar mee durft. Prentenboek met grote tekeningen in mooie kleuren. Vanaf ca. 3 jaar.