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Each summer, a girl travels with her family to the same beachside resort, with everything being comfortably predictable, but this year, the pattern of her vacation changes when she meets a new friend.
A wordless story about the power of words
Little Wolf decides to do things his way, including starting his story at the back of the book instead of the front, wearing pants on his head, and playing piano with his toes.
Anna Swan dreamed of a life as big as she was. “When I was small, I was already big news,” begins this picture book biography of Anna Swan. “Because when I was small, I was already TREMENDOUS.” Anna was thirteen pounds at her birth in Nova Scotia in 1846. She grew steadily until she was nearly eight feet tall, and never felt that she fit into her small country life. Then, at age seventeen, Anna moved to New York City to be part of P. T. Barnum’s Gallery of Wonders — and her life changed forever. Fame, world travel, true love! This real-life giantess lived a real-life storybook adventure!
How and why do we spend so much time talking about forgotten books, books we've skimmed or books we've only heard about? In this mischievous and provocative book, Pierre Bayard contends that the truly cultivated person does not need to read books: understanding their place in our culture is enough.
« On attend avec impatience la suite. » Le libraire « Avec une mise en image serrée, un fin calcul des rebondissements et un sens de la dérision assez fin merci qui, au final, place ce premier tome, intitulé sans surprise Souffrir pour écrire, dans la catégorie des petits bonheurs à lire » Fabien Deglise, Le Devoir « ... mandat réussi pour Stéphane Dompierre et Pascal Girard avec ce titre. » Francis Hervieux, Magazine Bang Bang « À dévorer sans modération. » Nicolas Houle, Le Soleil Souvent amusant, et parfois profond, ce tome 1 a, au final, tous les parfums du succès. »*** Tristan Malavoy-Racine, Voir Montréal « Le coup de crayon minimaliste de Pascale Girard s'avère...
Les livres documentaires jeunesse accompagnent merveilleusement l’enfant dans de multiples découvertes. Leur facture attrayante et l’abondante information qu’ils renferment en font des outils privilégiés pour réaliser des apprentissages en classe. Dans cet ouvrage, les auteures proposent: • un parcours des différents types de documentaires et les notions que l’on peut y puiser; • plus de 40 activités de lecture en classe offrant des pistes d’exploitation et des conseils pour leur mise en œuvre, selon l’ordre d’enseignement ou le cycle visé; • une importante sélection de livres permettant d’aborder d’une manière ludique les domaines généraux de formation; • un tableau-synthèse précisant les liens entre les activités de lecture proposées et les compétences transversales et disciplinaires touchées.
For his twelfth birthday, Thomas decides to build the biggest poutine in the world so he can get his name into the Guinness World Records and possibly convince his estranged mother to come home.
Recent debate around the potential decriminalization of marijuana, along with a growing perception that illicit drug use is on the rise, has brought the role of the state in controlling intoxication to the forefront of public discussion. Until now, however, there has been little scholarly consideration of the legal and social regulation of drug use in Canada. In The Real Dope, Edgar-Andre Montigny brings together leading scholars from a diverse range of fields—including history, law, political science, criminology, and psychology—to examine the relationship between moral judgment and legal regulation. Highlights of this collection include rare glimpses into how LSD, cocaine, and ecstasy have historically been treated by authority figures. Other topics explored range from anti-smoking campaigns and addiction treatment to the relationship between ethnicity and liquor control. Readers will find intriguing links across arguments and disciplines, providing a much-needed foundation for meaningful discussion.