New Releases by Satomi Ichikawa

Le papa de Rosa et Napo part tous les jours pêcher sur l''un des grands fleuves de la forêt amazonienne, pour nourrir sa famille. Un soir, il rapporte un bébé caïman paniqué qui le mord en se débattant. Furieux, papa veut se venger. Mais les enfants ont appris à l''école que la chasse au caïman est interdite. Ils sont bien décidés à se faire un ami du bébé perdu, et à l''aider à retrouver sa famille... (site de l''éditeur).

Little Train toots along, taking all his passengers exactly where they want to go. "To the pond!" says the duck. "To the forest!" says the monkey. "To the mountain!" says the bear. But Little Kangaroo doesn''t say a word. He wants to go on an adventure with Little Train-adventure that leads him up a mountain, off a cliff, and back where he belongs: in his mama''s pocket. This endearing picture book is perfect for train, toy and adventure lovers everywhere.

Le père de Juma est conducteur d''un petit camion-bus qui s''appelle un dalla-dalla. Son grand-père était lui aussi conducteur de dalla-dalla quand il était jeune mais espère tout de même que Juma ait un meilleur travail. Alors Juma se demande ce que pourrait bien être un meilleur travail...

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There is a rug in his fathers shop that Mustafa loves. (It has a hole in it, so you can put it over your head and still see out.) No one else wants the rug, though lots of tourists visit the shop. His father always welcomes them"Bienvenue"and offers them tea"O cha wa ikaga desu ka?" Mustafas father would like him to know some words in other languages too, and he tells Mustafa that he may have the rug if he agrees to learn. But after the first lesson, Mustafa is so bored he runs out of the shop (with the carpet on his head). Ending up at the market, he finds a very different way of learning foreign languages....and of getting tourists to visit his fathers shop.

Mango is a stuffed penguin, but he and his boy Danny are best friends. They love to do everything together, especially visit the Central Park zoo. But when Danny gets newer stuffed animals for his birthday, Pangoo is left behind, wondering where he belongs . . . is it with the real penguins he sees with Danny every Saturday, swimming at the zoo?

Bundundun vit seul avec sa grand-mère dans un village au bord d''une forêt tropicale. Un matin, tandis qu''il joue seul, il aperçoit un magnifique papillon rouge. Voulant par-dessus tout que ce dernier se pose sur lui, le petit garçon décide de courir après l''animal.

Pablito, a Guatemalan boy whose pet pig Amarillo has disappeared, uses a kite to send him a message that he still loves him.

Pablito a un ami extraordinaire : il s''appelle Amarillo, un petit cochon jaune. Les deux amis sont inséparables, jusqu''au jour où Amarillo disparaît..

The animals of the African savanna help Meto as he tries to return the toy bear left behind by a young tourist.

Ignored while the other trees talk about how they will be dressed for Christmas, a small fir tree finds her dreams fulfilled on Christmas morning.

A la lisière de la forêt, les sapins échangent sur la robe rêvée pour Noël: une robe à fleurs, couleur du soleil couchant, de l''arc-en-ciel, étincelante d''étoiles... Le petit sapin qui n''a pas droit à la parole se retrouve seul après le passage de l''homme. Le jour de Noël, le ciel se charge de le revêtir d''une robe blanche, scintillante de mille éclats. Un thème connu, exploité avec sensibilité.

Rosie va séjourner chez tante Nina, oncle Gilles et les cousins. Elle découvre alors la campagne, la vie à la ferme, l''hiver, la chaleur du feu et celle d''une famille unie. Ce portrait champêtre et idyllique est entrecoupé de contes et de travaux manuels. Dans ses illustrations, Satomi Ichikawa reproduit cette atmosphère par de nombreux détails et la sensibilité qui caractérise son oeuvre.

Nora finds a duckling in the woods and takes it to Doctor John, who provides love and care for many wild and domestic animals who have come to grief.

Tanya loves ballet dancing, repeating the moves she sees her older sister using when practicing for class or a recital, and soon Tanya is big enough to go to ballet class herself.

A little Puerto Rican girl uses her basket full of colorful ribbons to help her hide and to help her make some new friends.

Nora''s outdoor tea party with her toys at the home of some friendly geese is disrupted by Benji, the greedy sheep from next door, but he eventually makes amends.

In this story for young children, Nora is invited to a most unusual tea-party by the geese in the wood. Unfortunately Benjy the sheep makes rather a nuisance of himself, but later he manages to make amends in an unexpected way.

Poor Nora has stayed inside all week with a cold with only Kiki the dog, Teddy the bear, and Maggie the doll for company, while the roses bloom just outside her window. One by one, visitors pass, each stopping to pick a rose on his way. Soon there won''t be any roses left! But with a little imagination, Nora discovers just the right way to cure her sick-in-bed boredom and make her roses last forever.