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Age range 0 to 3 A finger puppet book like no other!
Age range 3 to 6 A lion roars, a dog chases a ball, a mouse jumps into a puddle... Watch animals popping-up and having fun at the turn of each page! This is the perfect introduction to the animal world, with six softly illustrated animals to be discovered in their natural environment. The large pop-up animals on each spread will wow little readers and make early learning fun.
Featuring over 20 fabrics and textures, each page has a tactile centre-piece surrounded by images for children to name.Touch the fabrics and look at the pictures for a great introduction to colours.
Press on the buttons to discover the sounds of eight different instruments!
Gender by the Book investigates the gender representations that French children's literature transmits to readers today. Using an interdisciplinary, mixed methods approach, this book grounds its literary analysis in a sociohistorical examination of three key institutions – libraries, book clubs, and subscription magazines – that circulate reading material to children. It shows how French policies, cultural beliefs, and market forces influence the content of children's literature, including tensions between State support for unprofitable artistic endeavors and a belief in children’s right to high-quality products on the one hand, and suspicion of activism as anathema to creativity and f...
First Published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Connoisseurs of fantasy, science fiction, and horror have long recognized the important contributions of thousands of French authors, filmmakers, and artists. The volume is divided into two parts. Part I gives historical overviews, complete lists, descriptions, and summaries for works in film, television, radio, animation, comic books, and graphic novels. This section also includes interviews with animation director Rene Laloux and comic book artist Moebius, as well as comments from filmmaker Luc Besson. Biographies are provided for over 200 important contributors to television and graphic arts. Part II covers the major authors and literary trends of French science fiction, fantasy, and horror from the Middle Ages to the present day. (French-Canadians and Belgians are also examined.) There is a biographical dictionary of over 3,000 authors, a section on major French awards, and a complete bibliography. Many illustrations (!) illuminate this thorough presentation.
Touch the fabrics and look at the pictures for a great introduction to classic fairy tales and other stories!
Wolf devours books, literally. After helping a librarian find some missing books, he learns to like reading.