New Releases by Jim LaMarche

A magical summer in life. During this summer vacation with grandma, Nikki fell in love with forests and rivers, slowed down, calmed down, and harvested the inner abundance that nature gave. International Reading Association Teacher's Choice Book, New York Public Library Book of the Year, American State Core Curriculum Standard Reading Program Book.

"A group of friends discovers a neglected pond in the woods and decides to fix it up together"--

Daniel was tired of being little. "Mouse!" They'd been calling him that since he was born. He hadn't used to mind it, even liked it once, but not anymore. He poked at some crackers on the table. "Someday I'll be so strong," he mumbled. "Someday . . ." And then it happened. Something so strange, Daniel wasn't sure he could believe his eyes. One little cracker trembled for a second, then lifted up off the table. Not much. Not even an inch. Then, just as suddenly, it dropped right back down. Daniel blinked. Had that really happened? How? Had he done it? Up is the story of an ordinary boy with an extraordinary talent, a talent no one knows about but him. Can Mouse really lift things off the ground? Or is it enough that he believes he can? Once again Jim LaMarche has mixed the magical with the everyday to create a book that stretches our imaginations and our dreams. Plus, this is the fixed format version, which will look almost identical to the print version.

“This timeless tale will leave readers suffused with the pleasure of seeing gifts received and appreciated.” –Kirkus Reviews, starred review Here is the classic tale of elfin magic, loved by generations of children and made new by an artist of international acclaim. Jim LaMarche's stunningly rendered paintings, reminiscent of his earlier work in The Rainbabies, are the perfect complement to this favorite Grimm fairy tale. Plus, this is a fixed format version of the book, which looks nearly identical to the print version! “LaMarche sets every picture glowing, whether with lamplight, starlight, shafts of morning sunlight or just some inner light that all the characters in this kindliest of tales seem to possess.” —The Washington Post “Children and adults alike will enjoy the story, beautifully realized in the beguiling artwork.” —Booklist “The drawing seems so realistic that viewers will be tempted to reach out and touch the duo's little pointed ears.” —Publishers Weekly “Luminous.” —School Library Journal

Three stories about being lost, being found, finding home, and, most importantly, about the dogs that help us find the way.

Il neigeait et un ours, ou plutôt un ourson, vit tomber sur son nez deux ou trois gros flocons. Il comprit que l'hiver venait de s'annoncer et que jusqu'au printemps, il devrait sommeiller...

En su paseo diario por el bosque, un joven oso encuentra un trozo de papel escrito junto a un seto. Aunque no puede leerlo, causa en él tal magnetismo y curiosidad que lo guarda como un tesoro. Algunos años más tarde durante el verano, dando un paseo, observa a una joven con la mirada puesta en un libro. Este espectáculo, que relaciona con el papel que todavía conserva, le empujará a acudir todos los días a oír su mágica voz, aun sin comprender nada, y a escuchar las historias que la joven lee todas los días sentada junto a su cabaña. Dennis Haseley escuchó de pequeño la voz mágica de su madre al contarle muchas historias y leerle novelas, incluso de adultos. Es autor de numerosos libros para niños. Vive en Nueva York con su familia. De pequeño, Jim LaMarche quería ser mago, aunque después estudió Biología hasta que descubrió su auténtica vocación: ilustrar libros para niños. · Un álbum sobre la magia de leer y escuchar historias. · La lectura a los niños como parte del vínculo afectivo padres-hijos. · La fascinación que producen los libros como objeto. · A partir de 6 años.

Un jour qu'il s'aventure loin de sa caverne, Un ours découvre une jeune femme qui habite dans la forêt. Intrigué par l'étrange objet qu'elle tient entre ses mains, il s'approche tout doucement. C'est alors qu'elle commence à lui raconter une histoire.

A flock of birds was moving toward me along the river, hovering over something floating on the water. It drifteddownstream, closer and closer, until finally it bumped up against the dock. Though it was covered with leaves and branches, now I could tell that it was a raft. I reached down and pushed some of the leaves aside. Beneath them was a drawing of a rabbit. It looked like those ancient cave paintings I'd seen in books--just outlines, but wild and fast and free. Nicky isn't one bit happy about spending the summer with his grandma in the Wisconsin woods, but them the raft appears and changes everything. As Nicky explores, the raft works a subtle magic, opening up the wonders all around him--the animals of river and woods, his grandmother's humor and wisdom, and his own special talent as an artist.

Two sisters find that the horses of a broken carousel have come alive in the rain.

Two sisters remember their dead mother's love and what she told them about the carousel horses in the park: that they sleep all winter and wake in the spring, but peeping behind the carousel canvas one cold grey day, the sisters cannot believe their eyes: the horses are alive. A picture book with luminous illustrations by Jim La Marche.

Hearing-impaired Mandy risks going out into the scary night, during an impending storm, to look for her beloved grandmother's lost pin.