Best Selling Books by Kate Banks

A friendship transcends distance and time Ollie is a great whistler, while Lucrezia can’t whistle at all. Ollie has traveled the world, but Lucrezia is afraid of the dark and hates goodbyes. Yet, despite their differences, Ollie and Lucrezia have been best friends forever. When Ollie is eight, he moves from Rome to Milan, and Lucrezia feels as though her world has ended. But their friendship blooms, against the backdrop of beloved family and beloved places, until their thirteenth summer together, when a change in plans alters Lucrezia’s life forever. Narrated by Lucrezia, this haunting novel exquisitely captures through vivid language and sense of place both the beauty and enduring nature of human relationships. Set in modern-day Italy, this is a book about journeys to places new and old, toward self-discovery, toward adulthood, and toward things bigger than ourselves.

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Each piece of sea glass, just like each person, is uniquely created. This book compares sea glass to people through God''s eyes. It''s a book for all ages and a great reminder that God loves us always, no matter what.

Max and his older brother, Pete, are getting a dog. A dog needs to be played with. That’s the fun part. But a dog also needs to be fed, bathed, and walked. Max and Pete promise to share the responsibilities. But when Fudge comes to live with them, it isn’t long before Pete decides that a dog is more work than he thought, and Max discovers that there are unexpected rewards for being the dependable one. With simple yet lyrical language and bright illustrations, Kate Banks and Tomek Bogacki team up to introduce Monkey Readers, a new series for beginning readers who like to monkey around.

When he finds out that he was born on Friday the thirteenth, third-grader Howie Bowles becomes convinced that bad luck is causing all his problems.

A perfect book for anyone who loves to walk the beach and hunt for treasures. Walk through the pages of this book and enjoy the photographs of Michigan sea glass while you dream of your own sea glass adventure.

Afraid to swim across the river because of the hippopotamus there, a turtle takes inspiration from other animals in trying other ways to get across. Features rebuses.

As a young boy watchers a spider crawl across the floor and tells his mother he will become a spider, he and his mother tease each other back and forth about what he will do once he becomes a spider, and what she will do to him.

Max is looking for words that rhyme. His dragon is in his wagon - or was, for now its tail has left a trail, which Max follows. He finds an umbrella on the ground-- "Found, ground," he says, while his older brothers mock him for believing in dragons and sitting under an umbrella when it isn''t even raining. But Max believes in possibilities--and when he can show his brothers not only a dragon in the stormy clouds but also a dinosaur, they begin to come round. When Max demonstrates the power of his rhyming words to tame the dinosaur and the dragon and make the rain come, he wins them over completely. With amusing wordplay and beguiling illustrations, Kate Banks and Boris Kulikov celebrate language and imagination in a collaboration that is bound to be oodles of fun for everyone.

When fourteen-year-old Rachel reads the journal of her brother, who died when she was seven, she learns secrets that help her understand her parents and herself.

An award-winning team again join their talents When summer ends, a family pack their suitcases and bid the big blue house farewell. All seems quiet. But soon the leaves change color; then comes the snow. A cat creeps into the house and curls up in the woodbox. A mouse tucks himself into a cupboard. When spring comes, the garden awakens, and by summer the house is bustling with human life once more. This unusual story about a summer house that welcomes all sorts of guests in the off-season celebrates the rhythm and cycle of the seasons, and reminds us all that we share our world – even our homes – with other living creatures.

Kleine tijger wil niet gaan slapen, want er is zoveel te zien en te doen om hem heen. Prentenboek met grote, naïef aandoende schilderingen in kleur. Vanaf ca. 3 jaar.

Tous les soirs, Papa vient embrasser Alex avant de coiffer son casque de chantier, car il travaille la nuit. Un soir, il apporte un casque pour Alex et ils partent ensemble à la rencontre d''autres travailleurs de la nuit.

This book of encouragement showcases nature as God''s canvas for his daily paintings.

Papa prepares dinner and the boys set the table as they, the dog, and the cat eagerly await Mama''s return home after work.

Um pequeno babuíno, espécie de macaco africano, conhece os encantos e perigos da floresta ao lado de sua mãe. Com ela, aprende com rapidez que o mundo é bem maior do que aquilo que sua vista alcança.

Dillon est un jeune garçon un peu rêveur. Pour l''été, il part avec ses parents, son frère et sa sœur sur les bords d''un grand lac américain, où la famille possède une maison. Amoureux de la nature, il s''aventure dans une île qui devient rapidement son monde, son refuge. Mais cet été-là ne sera pas un été comme les autres : Dillon fait une découverte qui va bouleverser sa vie. Entouré des siens, curieux de tout, il vit alors des vacances inoubliables...

After his owner dies, a cat wanders across the countryside of France, unable to forget the home he had in the stone house by the edge of the sea.

A mother tiger entices her child to sleep by telling of all that can been seen with one''s eyes closed.

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

Fantasque et distrait, Lenny dit toujours ce qui lui passe par la tête, exaspérant ses professeurs. Sa mère pose pour des publicités et doit constamment porter des gants. Est-ce parce qu''il ne connaît pas la douceur de ses mains, que Lenny doit aller voir Muriel ? Ils discutent ensemble dans son bureau, et aucune question n''est incongrue. Heureusement aussi, il y a Van, son copain, ils se comprennent à demi-mot... Le monde de Lenny est un roman joyeux. L''histoire d''un garçon de neuf ans pas tout à fait comme les autres, dont l''acuité du regard vous transperce. Son infatigable bonne humeur est communicative.

Papa prepares dinner and the boys set the table as they, the dog, and the cat eagerly await Mama''s return home after work.

Papa prepares dinner and the boys set the table as they, the dog, and the cat eagerly await Mama''s return home after work.

Les 20 histoires les plus belles, les plus drôles, les plus tendres, pour de joyeux moments de complicité. Pour tous les enfants, leurs papas et leurs mamans. Avec les titres suivants : "Patience, Petit Renard", de Kate Banks et Georg Hallensleben "Le papa de Trotro", de Bénédicte Guettier "De tout mon coeur", de Jean-Baptiste Baronian et Noris Kern "Voilà Maman !", de Kate Banks et Tomek Bogacki "Motordu papa", de Pef "Pénélope est polie", d''Anne Gutman et Georg Hallensleben "Monsieur Bout-de-Bois", de Julia Donaldson et Axel Scheffler "La première fois que je suis née", de Vincent Cuvellier et Charles Dutertre "Un chaton à la mer !", de Ruth Brown "Le Roi PaPa", d''Alex Sanders "La maman de Trotro", de Bénédicte Guettier "N''aie pas peur !", de Jeanne Willis et Tony Ross "Papa est un ogre", de Marie Saint-Dizier et Amato Soro "Maman, ne t''en va pas !", de Rosemary Wells "La famille Flopsaut, de Beatrix Potter "Mama !", de Jeanette Winter "Tous les soirs du monde", de Dominique Demers et Nicolas Debon "J''ai un problème avec ma mère", de Babette Cole "Je veux ma maman !", de Tony Ross "Zagazou", de Quentin Blake.

Korean edition of THE ERASERHEADS by Kate Banks, illustrated by Boris Kulikov. The three eraserheadsan owl, a crocodile, and a piglive atop three pencils in the land of paper, rulers, letters, and numbers. Their job is to help a little boy correct his mistakes. But one day they make a mistake of their ownand what happens next is something nobody expected - . Translated by Shin Hyeong Geon. In Korean. Distributed by Tsai Fong Books, Inc.

Le meilleur moment pour partir à la recherche d''un éléphant, c''est par un temps gris et maussade, quand tu t''ennuies un peu. Le meilleur endroit pour le trouver, c''est dans la nature sauvage. Glisse quelques provisions dans ton sac et prends tes jumelles ! Sois attentif aux empreintes sur le sol, mais ne t''attends pas à le repérer au bruit de ses pas : les éléphants marchent sur la pointe des pieds... [www.payot.ch]

Octavius " les notions " A l''aube, la nature s''éveille et, avec elle, les couleurs. Rouge, le coq : pourquoi chante-t-il si fort ? Verte, la grenouille : pour qui coasse-t-elle ? Jaune, l''oiseau : qui entend sa chanson ? Octavius : la nouvelle façon de lire qui multiplie par 4 le plaisir.

Papa prepares dinner and the boys set the table as they, the dog, and the cat eagerly await Mama''s return home after work.