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Go, Speed Racer, Go

Kelly, Sophia

Publié en 2008 Price Stern Sloan
32p.

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The youngest Speed Racer fans will love this reader which begins with Speed as a young boy. He loves car racing and he idolizes his racing brother, Rex. Speed grows up to become the best race-car driver in the world.

Level 4Niveau : 4-5-6-7-8 ans

Mots clefs :

• Voiture de course

Langue : Français

Monet's Impressions

Monet, Claude

Publié en 2009 The metropolitan museum of art
48p.

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Similar in format and concept to Vincent’s Colors (2005), this handsome volume pairs paintings by Claude Monet with short phrases from his personal letters as well as articles in which he was quoted. Varied in mood and subject matter, the vivid paintings are beautifully reproduced on the heavy, white pages, while on facing pages, pithy phrases offer either a brief accompaniment to each picture or a starting place for conversations between adults and children reading the book together. The book gives a sense of the artist’s purpose, style, and range. Although in the full-page reproductions the artworks have been cropped to fit the book’s format, each painting can be found in full, though in miniature, in the book’s closing pages, along with its name, medium, date, and location as well as the source of the quote that appears with it in the book. Produced by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, this is a fine, early introduction to Monet’s paintings.

Niveau : 5-6-7-8-9

Mots clefs :

• Impressionnisme
• Monet, claude : 1840-1926

Langue : Français

Biggest, Strongest, Fastest

Jenkins, Steve

Publié en 1997 Houghton Mifflin Company
32p.

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Beautiful double-page-spread cut-paper collages illustrate a picture book about "some of the biggest and smallest, fastest and slowest, strongest and longest" record holders in the animal world. The facts are amazing. Their juxtaposition makes you gasp, not just about size and speed but about comparative wonders. Right after the African elephant, which eats more than 300 pounds of grass and leaves every day, there's a close-up two-page picture of an ant, which turns out to be the strongest animal for its size: it can carry five times its own weight. The book's design makes it accessible at many levels. The youngest can identify the various creatures. Preschoolers can enjoy the one-sentence descriptions in large type ("The cheetah can run faster than any other animal. . . . The flea is very small, but it is the world's best jumper"). Older kids will love thinking about the additional facts regarding scale and proportion that are printed in small type, accompanied by a tiny silhouette in the corner of each picture ("If a 5 1/2-foot-tall woman could jump as well as a flea, she could leap to the top of a 65-story building"). Here's proof that power isn't just about size and that science can be a lot of fun.

Niveau : 4-5-6-7-8 ans

Mots clefs :

• Collage
• Animaux

Langue : Français

The Haunted House

Montgomery, R.A.

Publié en 2007 Chooseco
64p.

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Your dog Homer is your best friend. One afternoon he chases a white cat into a creepy old house. You call Homer's name, but he doesn't come back! You think this house looks haunted. You can follow Homer inside the old house, but if you meet a ghost or ghoul, you'll have to decide what to do. Will you take candy from a strange talking turtle? Should you follow a mouse down a dark tunnel? Do you trust the unicorn? YOU choose what happens next! Good luck...

Niveau : 4-5-6-7-8 ans

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Langue : Français

Secrets of the Stone

Taylor, Harriet Peck

Publié en 2000 Farrar, Straus And Giroux
32p.

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While hunting together one afternoon, Coyote and Badger chase Jackrabbit into a hidden cave filled with ancient pictographs. Other animals soon join them, and the small band wonders about the meaning of the pictures. "Could the artists have been trying to speak to the spirit world?" asks one, while another muses, "I feel as if they're talking to us." The animals hunker down to wait out a storm, and Coyote dreams of encounters with many of the figures from the cave drawings. The palette changes from golden hues to deep blues and greens as Coyote dreams of an idyllic world where herons and bears peaceably coexist and a mysterious flute player serenades him. Even in his sleep he can't catch Jackrabbit, however. Vivid descriptions ("faster than tumbleweed in a windstorm") inspire borders of patterns and hues associated with the regional setting. An author's note explains more about the rock art of the Anasazi people.

Niveau : 4-5-6 ans

Mots clefs :

• Conte et légende
• Indiens d'amérique

Langue : Français

Grignotin et Mentalo

Publié en 2006 Ecole des Loisirs

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Langue : Français

The Great Kapok Tree

Cherry, Lynne

Publié en 2000 Harcourt
40p.

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If a tree falls in the forest... someone or something will always be there to hear it. Many, many creatures will feel the effects when their source of sustenance and shelter falls to the earth. So when a man is sent into the Amazon rain forest one day, under instructions to chop down a great kapok tree, many eyes watch him nervously. It's not long before he grows tired, though, and the "heat and hum" of the rain forest lulls him to sleep. One by one, snakes, bees, monkeys, birds, frogs, and even a jaguar emerge from the jungle canopy to plead with the sleeping ax-man to spare their home. When the man awakens, startled at all the rare and marvelous animals surrounding him, he picks up his ax as if to begin chopping again, then drops it and walks away, presumably never to return. Unfortunately, there's always someone else who is willing to take his place, but the message of this environmental book is plain: Save the rain forest! The story itself is not overly compelling, but each personalized entreaty from the animals provides an accurate and persuasive scientific argument for preserving nature's gifts. Lynne Cherry's fertile watercolor and colored-pencil illustrations, including a map of the tropical rain forests of the world, are vivid and colorful. A fine starting point for a discussion about conservation.

Niveau : 4-5-6-7-8 ans

Mots clefs :

• Protection de la nature
• Amazonie
• écologie : science

Langue : Français

The Jungle Book

Kipling, Rudyard

Publié en 2002 Dk Publishing
24p.

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Rudyard Kipling pours fuel on childhood fantasies with his tales of Mowgli, lost in the jungles of India as a child and adopted into a family of wolves. Mowgli is brought up on a diet of Jungle Law, loyalty, and fresh meat from the kill. Regular adventures with his friends and enemies among the Jungle-People--cobras, panthers, bears, and tigers--hone this man- cub's strength and cleverness and whet every reader's imagination. Mowgli's story is interspersed with other tales of the jungle, such as "Rikki-Tikki-Tavi," lending depth and diversity to our understanding of Kipling's India. In much the same way Mowgli is carried away by the Bandar-log monkeys, young readers will be caught up by the stories, swinging from page to page, breathless, thrilled, and terrified.

Niveau : 5-6-7-8 ans

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Langue : Français

1001 Cool School Yard Jokes

Singleton, Glen

Publié en 2004 Hinkler books
203p.

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Niveau : 6-7-8-9-10 ans

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Langue : Français

A trois on a moins froid

Publié en 2011 Ecole des Loisirs

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Langue : Français

We Honestly Can Look After Your Dog

Child, Lauren

Publié en 2006 Puffin audiobooks
32p.

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Lola and her best friend, Lotta, just love dogs, and when they get the chance to watch an adorable sausage pup named Sizzles, they are thrilled! Everything goes well until they lose hold of the leash . . . and Sizzles runs off. Will they find him before his owner returns, or be banned from dog-sitting forever?

Niveau : 4-5-6-7-8 ans

Mots clefs :

• Chien

Langue : Français

The Year of the Rabbit, Tales from the Chinese Zodiac

Chin, Oliver

Publié en 2011 Immedium

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Rosie Rabbit reveals she's more than the sum of her unusually long ears in this jaunty but meandering tale, second in this Chinese zodiac centric series. When a mother and son catch Rosie in their garden, the boy, Jai, decides to keep her in a barn hutch, along with other zodiac animals. When Rosie's parents rescue her, Jai and his dog follow, but are hunted by a crouching tiger. Rosie's bravery (and an absurd turn of events involving a dragon) save the day. The thread of Rosie's misfit nature carries through only weakly, and despite plenty of action, the story's point is murky. Ages 4 8. (Jan.)

Niveau : 4-5-6 ans

Mots clefs :

• Anglais : langue

Langue : Français