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The Mouse and the Motorcycle

Cleary, Beverly

Publié en 2007

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Fiction
Roman

Ralph is a mouse who lives in the run-down Mountain View Inn, a battered resort hotel in the Sierra Nevada mountain range of California. Ralph longs for a life of danger and speed, wishing to get away from his relatives, who worry about the mice colony being discovered. One day a boy named Keith Gridley and his family visit the hotel on their way through California. Keith leaves a toy motorcycle on his bedside table. While Keith is away, Ralph attempts to ride it, but cannot figure out how to start it. Startled by a telephone ring, both Ralph and the motorcycle fall into a metal wastebasket. Keith discovers his missing motorcycle in the wastebasket. Although Ralph's mother worries that he is in contact with humans, Keith shows Ralph how to start the motorcycle—make an engine-like noise—and lets Ralph ride it at night. While Keith and his family explore California, Ralph recklessly rides the motorcycle through the depths of the hotel. One night he is spotted by Keith's mother, who initially thinks she is imagining things, but later is sure that she saw a mouse riding a motorcycle. Ralph and the motorcycle are almost sucked up by a maid's vacuum cleaner, but Ralph escapes, riding into a pile of linen and dirty bedsheets. He escapes by chewing holes in the sheets, forced to leave the precious vehicle behind. After Ralph loses the motorcycle, Keith loses trust in him. He still brings the mice colony food. One night Keith becomes very sick, because his parents don't have any more aspirin and are unable to obtain one until morning. To regain Keith's trust, Ralph searches the hotel for an aspirin tablet, at risk to himself, for the medicine could prove fatal to a small mouse if ingested (in fact, Ralph's father was taken down with a bad cold and died in spite of all they could do). Ralph is able to find an aspirin tablet and borrows Keith's toy ambulance to retrieve it. When Ralph is successful, Keith's health is restored. In gratitude, Keith gives Ralph the motorcycle to keep—one of the hotel's housekeepers had found it among the linens from which Ralph escaped. Ralph uses the space under the TV set in the lobby as a garage; the motorcycle is his to keep.

The World of Beverly Cleary Collection.

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• Moto (Transport / Véhicule)

Langue : Français

Ribsy

Cleary, Beverly

Publié en 2007

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Fiction
Roman

Like most of the Henry Huggins books, the incidents in this book follow an ongoing plot line. In it, the Hugginses have a new car, and go out shopping; Ribsy, denied a ride, chases it at up to 25 miles per hour, and is finally allowed in. At the mall, he is left in it, and lowers the electric window with the button. He eventually wants to return to await Henry, and gets into the first new-smelling car he finds. But a different family, with several daughters and a son, gets in and takes him home with them. He endures a bubble bath and escapes, wandering in search of Henry. Ribsy finds an old lady named Mrs. Frawley who is telling him to go away when he raises his paw in greeting and she invites him in. After she feeds him dinner, he sleeps while she goes out to shop for her new pet. He chafes at a coat and colorful leash, then escapes. Soon after, he finds himself becoming the unofficial mascot for a class of elementary school students until he is kicked out over an incident with a squirrel. Later, Ribsy sneaks into a high school football game, wanders onto the field, and makes the game-winning tackle. He is caught by a boy who, pleased at the attention he gets for people thinking it was his dog who won the game, takes him in. The story of the game gains the attention of the Hugginses, who attempt to retrieve him. However, he escapes again after hearing Henry's voice on the phone and runs off in search of him. Later, Ribsy is found by a boy with a tennis ball who lives in an apartment building. He decides to adopt him, but panics when confronted by his landlady and hides him on a fire escape where he is spotted by the Hugginses as they drive through the neighborhood in search of him. Mr. Huggins manages to retrieve him with the help of some nearby workmen and he is happily reunited with Henry. They offer the boy, whose name is Larry, a portion of the reward and help him deal with his landlady before getting back in their car where Ribsy sits beside Henry as they drive home, finally reunited.

The World of Beverly Cleary Collection.

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• Relation enfant animal (Comportement / Animal / Enfant / Enfants animaux)

Langue : Français

First Grade, Here I come !

Carlson, Nancy

Publié en 2009 Puffin Books

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Fiction
Album

After the first day of first grade, Henry's not sure how he feels about it. The teacher isn't like his kindergarten teacher, and the fifth-graders hog the monkey bars. But as Henry tells his mother about a new friend who likes soccer and about how he'll learn to read books, he begins to realize that maybe first grade won't be so bad after all.

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• Relation adulte enfant (Société)
• Relation entre enfants (Enfance / Société)

Langue : Français

Heaven is Having You

Andreae, Giles

Publié en 2007

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Fiction
Album

Grandma explains to Little Bear what heaven is from her perspective Heaven is eating homemade cookies and wrapping up Little Bear in a warm towel after a bath. And it's the feeling she gets from watching Little Bear play with Grandpa. But most importantly, she tells him, Heaven is just having you. This is a lovely sequel to the bestselling Love is a Handful of Honey. The soft padded covers, rounded corners and sturdy board pages make this title a perfect fit for preschoolers!

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• Relation adulte enfant (Société)

Langue : Français

100 facts, Endangered Animals

Parker, Steve

Publié en 2010

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Documentaire

Take a closer look at some of the most threatened animals on our planet.

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Langue : Français