New Releases by Kate Banks

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.

During the summer that he turns ten years old, Dillon Dillon learns the surprising story behind his name and develops a relationship with three loons living on the lake near his family''s New Hampshire cabin that help him make sense of his life.

Al terminar el verano, se cierran las puertas y ventanas de la casa azul y todo parece silencioso. Pero si pudiéramos observarla, sigue llena de vida y ruidos... En invierno la gata se refugia del frío, en primavera un pajarito hace su nido en el desván y

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 quatorze ans, Rachel sait peu de choses de son frère Jake. Ses parents n''évoquent jamais le souvenir de leur fils, mort dans un accident de voiture à l''âge de dix-sept ans. Ce passé, Rachel va le trouver dans le journal de Jake, qui lui révèle de terribles vérités sur un garçon en apparence parfait. Au fil des pages, elle découvre celui qu''elle n''a pas eu le temps de connaître et qui l''aidera à comprendre ses propres doutes, les faiblesses cachées de ses parents, pour les conduire ensemble à guérir de leurs blessures. Tout un puzzle familial qu''elle sait observer avec courage, avec humour parfois. Tout en finesse, le roman de Kate Banks, qui nous entraîne dans les tréfonds du subconscient, est une quête bouleversante de la vérité.

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

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.

After a storm knocks their tree down, a bird, a monkey, and a snake travel the jungle in search of a new home, which they end up sharing together with their new friend, the frog, in a rebus picture book. Reprint.

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

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...

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

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

La mamá tigre le cuenta a su tigrito, que no quiere dormir, de todo lo que se puede ver con los ojos cerrados.

El petit tigre no vol dormir, vol seguir veient els núvols, els ocells, els arbres... Només quan la seva mare el convenç que quan es dorm es veu tot això i molt més, el petit tigre consentirà a tancar els ulls.

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.

"Banks and Hallensleben make beautiful books together." -- American Bookseller A boy picks up a rock that he finds on the beach. He holds it in his hand, and admires it. He doesn''t know that the rock has been on a great journey through time in making its way to him: that it was spewed forth from a fiery volcano, then altered by eons of wind and rain, frozen during the ice age, and finally carried out into the ocean, where it lay on the floor of the sea before being thrust onto the shore at his feet. But he does know that it is a gift from the sea. Kate Banks and Georg Hallensleben combine their talents to tell a story that is as wonderfully simple as it is profound.

Third-grader Howie Bowles copes with having to change schools twice in one year by pretending to be a secret agent named Agent Bean Burger.

Un niño recoge una piedra medio escondida en la arena de la playa. Ignora todo sobre ella, pero desde que la ha tomado entre sus dedos sabe que es un don maravilloso del mar. Y este libro explica la historia de esta piedra. Desde que formó parte del mag

Stimmungsvoll illustrierte, poetische Geschichte über die Abenteuer eines kleinen Mädchens im Kinderzimmer, an nahen und fernen Schauplätzen.

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.

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.

Una nena a la seva habitació es prepara per anar a dormir. La nit apareix per la finestra oberta. Si la lluna pogués enraonar, li parlaria de les nits del mon sencer: de com són al poble del costat, al desert, a la vora del mar, a la muntanya, a la selva

C''é una grande finestra aperta. La notte si intrufola nella cameretta di un bambino che sta per addormentarsi. Se la luna potesse parlare, racconterebbe della sera che entra di nascosto nel bosco e della lucertola che corre verso casa per la cena.

A young baboon''s view of the world changes as his mother shows him various parts of his environment.

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.

Une fenêtre grande ouverte. Le soir se glisse dans la chambre de la petite fille, qui va bientôt s''endormir. Si la lune pouvait parler, elle raconterait le soir qui se glisse dans la forêt et le lézard qui se dépêche de rentrer dîner chez lui...

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.

Peter, the son of a music man, is led on an adventure by the voice of his talking shoes.