Kyo Maclear

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Virginia, la soeur de Vanessa, est d'humeur féroce - elle grogne, elle hurle à la lune et elle fait des choses très étranges. Elle est prise d'un cafard si intense que toute la maison semble sens dessus dessous. Vanessa fait tout ce qu'elle peut pour lui remonter le moral, mais rien n'y fait. Jusqu’à ce que Virginia parle à Vanessa d'un lieu imaginaire, un endroit merveilleux nommé Bloomsberry...

Librement inspiré de la relation qu'entretenait l'écrivaine Virginia Woolf avec sa soeur, la peintre Vanessa Bell, Virginia Wolf est une fable émouvante destinée aux lecteurs de tous âges.

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In this gently told picture book, a young girl is unhappy about having to leave the city for a family vacation on the Pacific Ocean (which she used to call the Specific Ocean). As the days pass, however, she is drawn to spend more time in and near the water, feeling moved by its beauty and rhythms. “The ocean does its own thing, rolling backward and forward. Wash, swash, splush, hush. There is no late or hurry or racing in ocean time.” By the end of the vacation, the girl has grown to love the ocean and now feels reluctant to leave it behind. But as she soon realizes, it doesn't ever have to leave her. “Calm. Blue. Ruffled. Gray. Playful. Green. Mysterious. Black. Foggy. Silver. Roaring. White. No matter where I am, this specific ocean will be with me.”

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Un jour, un garçon très contrarié entre dans une bibliothèque pour tenter de se calmer. Avec réticence, il s'empare d'un livre et se met à le lire. Le voilà absorbé par son histoire et emporté dans un tourbillon où l'imagination est sans limites. Le bon petit livre et le garçon sont désormais de fidèles compagnons. Jusqu’à ce que le destin les sépare. Les deux amis sauront-ils vivre l'un sans l'autre?
Quand il s’agit du sujet livre/lecture, je ne peux tout simplement pas résister.

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Charles aimerait tant trouver un arbre de souhaits! Même si son frère et sa soeur ne croient pas qu'une telle chose existe, il saisit son toboggan et part à l'aventure. Sa route sera semée d'expériences merveilleuses qui lui feront découvrir que les souhaits se réalisent parfois de façon inattendue.
Le texte poétique et des illustrations chaleureuses réussissent avec brio à évoquer l'atmosphère douce et réconfortante du temps des fêtes. À relire toute l'année afin de renouer avec la magie de cette période si paisible.

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Les Liszt font des listes. Ils font des listes en hiver, au printemps, en été et à l’automne. Ils font des listes tous les jours sauf le dimanche. Mama Liszt, Papa Liszt, Winifred, Edward, Frederick et grand-père font des listes toute la journée. Puis un jour, un visiteur arrive. Comment vont-ils gérer quelque chose d’inattendu? Il n’est pas sur la liste de personne…

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Pourquoi le brouillard est-il venu ? Quand partira-t-il ? Pourquoi personne ne remarque-t-il sa présence ? Campée dans un Nord froid et lointain, voici l’histoire envoutante et mystérieuse d’un brouillard soudain, d’une fauvette jaune et d’un petit humain.

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A dazzling picture book biography of one of the world's most influential designers, Elsa Schiaparelli.
Elsa dared to be different, and her story will not only dazzle, it will inspire the artist and fashionista in everyone who reads it.
By the 1930s Elsa Schiaparelli had captivated the fashion world in Paris, but before that, she was a little girl in Rome who didn’t feel pretty at all. Bloom: A Story of Fashion Designer Elsa Schiaparelli is the enchanting story for young readers of how a young girl used her imagination and emerged from plain to extraordinary.
As a young girl in Rome, Elsa Schiaparelli (1890–1973) felt “brutta” (ugly) and searched all around her for beauty. Seeing the colors of Rome’s flower market one day, young Elsa tried to plant seeds in her ears and nose, hoping to blossom like a flower. All she got was sick, but from that moment, she discovered her own wild imagination.
In the 1920 and '30s, influenced by her friends in the surrealist art movement, Schiaparelli created a vast collection of unique fashion designs—hats shaped like shoes, a dress adorned with lobsters, gloves with fingernails, a dress with drawers and so many more. She mixed her own bold colors and invented her own signature shades, including shocking pink.
Bloom: A Story of Fashion Designer Elsa Schiaparelli is a stunning and sophisticated picture book biography that follows Schiaparelli’s life from birth and childhood to height of success.
Kyo Maclear and Julie Morstad have gorgeously interpreted Schiaparelli’s life. Maclear tells a lyrical story with moments both poignant and humorous and Morstad’s elegant imagery saturates the pages with Schiaparelli-inspired shapes and colors.
Informative backmatter and suggested further reading included.

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A story that poignantly portrays the life of Gyo Fujikawa, a groundbreaking hero in the fight for racial diversity in picture books.
 
Gyo Fujikawa’s iconic children’s books are beloved all over the world. Now it’s time for Gyo’s story to be told — a story of artistic talent that refused to be constrained by rules or expectations.
Growing up at the beginning of the twentieth century, Gyo learned from her relatives the ways in which both women and Japanese people lacked opportunity. Her teachers and family believed in her and sent her to art school and later Japan, where her talent flourished. But while Gyo’s career grew and led her to work for Walt Disney Studios, World War II began, and with it, her family’s internment. But Gyo never stopped fighting — for herself, her vision, her family and her readers — and later wrote and illustrated the first children’s book to feature children of different races interacting together.
 
This new book openly touches on Gyo’s difficult experiences and growth. Through Julie Morstad’s illustrations, alternating between striking black-and-white linework and lush colour, and Kyo Maclear’s writing, the story of this cherished figure is told at last.

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A charming, whimsically illustrated picture book about joie de vivre, told from the perspective of a child named Julia who loves to cook. Sure to be savored by readers of all ages.

Julia and Simca are two young friends who agree that you can never use too much butter -- and that it is best to be a child forever. Sharing a love of cooking and having no wish to turn into big, busy people who worry too much and dawdle too little, they decide to create a feast for growing and staying young.
A playful, scrumptious celebration of the joy of eating, the importance of never completely growing up and mastering the art of having a good time, Julia, Child is a fictional tale loosely inspired by the life and spirit of the very real Julia Child -- a story that should be taken with a grain of salt and a generous pat of butter.

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A glorious celebration of all the reasons to love the rain!

Internationally acclaimed writer Kyo Maclear has partnered with printmaker Chris Turnham to create a colorful and lively celebration of rain.

Flowers bloom in the garden. Umbrellas bloom on the streets. There are puddles for jumping and, later, a cozy home for hot chocolate and books. There's so much to love about the rain!

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La fin des classes approche, et Charlie doit trouver " sa " chanson pour un travail scolaire. Mais comment se concentrer alors qu'elle n'a d'yeux que pour Emile, ou qu'elle se demande pourquoi Luka a cessé de venir à l'école ? En plus de tout ça, elle a accepté à contrecœur de participer à un numéro musical avec ses meilleures amies pour le spectacle de fin d'année. Un jour, le professeur de musique fait entendre un opéra à ses élèves, et Charlie découvre Maria Callas. Plus elle en apprend sur la vie de cette artiste, et plus elle l'admire. Charlie saura-t-elle suivre l'exemple de la plus grande des divas dans sa propre vie ?

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A joyful celebration of Japanese cultural traditions and body positivity as a young girl visits a bath house with her grandmother and aunties

You'll walk down the street / Your aunties sounding like clip-clopping horses / geta-geta-geta / in their wooden sandals / Until you arrive... / At the bath house / The big bath house.

In this celebration of Japanese culture and family and naked bodies of all shapes and sizes, join a little girl--along with her aunties and grandmother--at a traditional bath house.
Once there, the rituals leading up to the baths begin: hair washing, back scrubbing, and, finally, the wood barrel drumroll. Until, at last, it's time, and they ease their bodies--their creased bodies, newly sprouting bodies, saggy, jiggly bodies--into the bath. Ahhhhhh!
 
With a lyrical text and gorgeous illustrations, this picture book is based on Kyo Maclear's loving memories of childhood visits to Japan, and is an ode to the ties that bind generations of women together.

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When you have to leave behind almost everything you know, where can you call home? Sometimes home is simply where we are: here. An imaginative, lyrical, unforgettable picture book about the migrant experience through a child's eyes.

When a little girl and her younger brother are forced along with their family to flee the home they've always known, they must learn to make a new home for themselves -- wherever they are. And sometimes the smallest things -- a cup, a blanket, a lamp, a flower, a story -- can become a port of hope in a terrible storm. As the refugees travel onward toward an uncertain future, they are buoyed up by their hopes, dreams and the stories they tell -- a story that will carry them perpetually forward.

This timely, sensitively told story, written by multiple award--winner Kyo Maclear and illustrated by Sendak Fellowship recipient Rashin Kheiriyeh, introduces very young readers in a gentle, non-frightening and ultimately hopeful way to the current refugee crisis.

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Kumo veut dire nuage en japonais.
Kumo, la petite nuée timide, n’a qu’une seule ambition : flotter dans l’azur sans être vue. Cependant, une circonstance imprévue la forcera à sortir de son coin de ciel pour effectuer le travail d’un vrai nuage : donner de l’ombre et mouiller le sol de pluie.
Au cours de ce voyage, elle rencontrera d’autres nuages avec lesquels elle partagera plusieurs aventures avant de revenir à son point de départ.
Magnifiquement illustré, Kumo, la petite nuée timide est un album très zen et d’une grande finesse qui rejoindra les jeunes et les invitera à un voyage tranquille en admirant la course des nuages.