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I'm Not Sydney! (Hardcover)
Marie-Louise Gay; Illustrated by Marie-Louise Gay
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Sydney and his friends gather outside to play, transforming one by
one to climb, leap, lumber and soar into a shared jungle of their
imagination. Hanging upside down in a tree, Sydney imagines he is a
sleepy, sun-bathing sloth. And that's where Sami finds him. Sami
thinks sloths are too slow, so she scampers up the tree and becomes
a spider monkey. “Fast is fun!” she chatters. “Fast is
best!” And that’s where Edward finds them… One after
another, the neighborhood kids wander by and slip into a shared
imaginative world where leaves and giant flowers unfurl, playing,
laughing, teasing and bickering, until Edward the elephant fills up
his trunk and—WHOOSH!—sends the children “galloping home like
a herd of small wet animals.” As always, Marie-Louise
Gay’s writing and artwork are wonderfully pitched to young
readers, capturing the effortless way that children travel back and
forth between the worlds of real life and make believe. With its
sun-dappled watercolors, depiction of time spent outdoors with
friends, and quiet, wistful ending, I’m Not Sydney perfectly
illustrates the slow-moving magic of a childhood summer. Key Text
Features illustrations Correlates to the Common Core State
Standards in English Language Arts: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.1.4
Identify words and phrases in stories or poems that suggest
feelings or appeal to the senses. CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.1.7 Use
illustrations and details in a story to describe its characters,
setting, or events.
Even for an experienced traveler like Charlie, Cuba is a place
unlike any he has visited before - an island full of surprises,
secrets and puzzling contradictions. When Charlie's artist mother
is invited to visit a school in Cuba, the whole family goes along
on the trip. But the island they discover is a far cry from the
all-inclusive resorts that Charlie has heard his friends talk
about. Charlie has never visited a country as strange and puzzling
as Cuba - a country where he often feels like a time traveler.
Where Havana's grand Hotel Nacional sits next to buildings that
seem to be crumbling before his very eyes. Where the streets are
filled with empty storefronts and packs of wild dogs, but where
flowers and sherbet-colored houses may lie around the next corner,
and music is everywhere. Where there are many different kinds of
walls - from Havana's famous sea wall to the invisible ones that
seem aimed at keeping tourists and locals apart. Then the family
heads "off the beaten track," traveling by hot, dusty bus to
Vinales, where Charlie makes friends with Lazaro, who often flies
from Miami to visit his Cuban relatives. The boys ride a horse
bareback, find a secret cache of rifles inside a little green
mountain and go swimming with small albino fish in an underground
cave. A rent-a-wreck takes the family into the countryside, where
they find an abandoned hotel inhabited by goats, and a modern
resort filled with tourists. And as he goes from one strange and
marvelous escapade to another, Charlie finds that his expectations
about a place and its people are overturned again and again. Key
Text Features illustrations Correlates to the Common Core State
Standards in English Language Arts: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.5.6
Describe how a narrator's or speaker's point of view influences how
events are described.
When her family must move once more, Ophelia uses her imagination
to make magic out of a scary situation. Giant rabbits with sharp
teeth circle the old motel where they are staying. Ophelia can also
hear crow-witches cackling from the trees. And when it’s time to
go to her new school, she encounters an ogre who blocks the road
with his giant ogre laughs. But most frightening of all is
when Ophelia is left in her new class and realizes that everyone
speaks French. Except her. The kids stare, and Ophelia feels
like a fish in a fishbowl. But equipped with the magic of a sheet
of white paper and a rainbow of pencils, she will find a way to
cast her own spells over the class. Inspired by events from
her own childhood, beloved children’s author-illustrator
Marie-Louise Gay weaves a wonderful tale of imagination, creativity
and resilience as the keys to children’s power in an uncertain
world. Key Text Features illustrations Correlates to the Common
Core State Standards in English Language Arts:
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.K.3 With prompting and support, identify
characters, settings, and major events in a story.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.1.4 Identify words and phrases in stories or
poems that suggest feelings or appeal to the senses.
In this book in the Stella and Sam series, Marie-Louise Gay has
gone back in time to answer the questions often asked by the
children who read and love the books. Where does Stella get her
wild ideas? How big is Stella's imagination? What did Stella look
like when she was small? How did Stella come to be the big sister
to Sam that we all know and love? Although Marie-Louise Gay didn't
know what she would find when she started to explore Stella's
childhood, she soon realized that when Stella was very small, she
saw the world in her own unique way -- with wonder, curiosity and
the sense that everything is possible. And when Sam came along,
what could be more natural than to pass this sense of wonder on to
him? A story of a lovely, tiny Stella, whose world is full of small
adventures and slivers of magic.
Stella and her little brother are spending the day at the sea.
Stella has been to the sea before and knows all its secrets, but
Sam has many questions: "Does a catfish purr? Does a seahorse
gallop?" Stella has an answer for them all. The only thing she
isn't sure of, and neither are we, is whether Sam will ever come
into the water. Exquisite, evocative watercolors bring a diaphanous
day at the beach alive in this perfect summer story. Gently
humorous, Stella, Star of the Sea also captures the relationship
between an older sister and her baby brother — a responsibility
that can be both lots of fun and very trying.
In the sequel to Travels With My Family, the family is on the road
again -- this time to spend a year in a tiny village in southern
France. They experiences the spring migration of sheep up to the
mountain pastures, the annual running of the bulls (in which
Charlie's father is trapped in a phone booth by a raging bull), and
other adventures large and small. Most of all, though, Charlie and
his little brother, Max, grow fond of their new neighbors -- the
man who steals ducks from the local river, the neighbor's dog who
sleeps right in the middle of the street and their new friends
Rachid and Ahmed, who teach them how to play soccer in the village
square.
Husband-and-wife team Marie-Louise Gay and David Homel create a
sequel to the enormously popular Travels with My Family and On the
Road Again! - but with a twist. This time Charlie and his family
stay home, and find adventure in their own Montreal neighborhood.
Charlie can't wait for school to be over. But he's wondering what
particular vacation ordeal his parents have lined up for the family
this summer. Canoeing with alligators in Okefenokee? Getting caught
in the middle of a revolutionary shootout in Mexico? Or perhaps
another trip abroad? Turns out, this summer the family is staying
put, in their hometown. Montreal, Canada. A "staycation," his
parents call it. Charlie is doubtful at first but, ever
resourceful, decides that there may be adventures and profit to be
had in his own neighborhood. And there are. A campout in the
backyard brings him in contact with more than one kind of wildlife,
a sudden summer storm floods the expressway, various pet-sitting
gigs turn almost-disastrous, and a baseball game goes awry when
various intruders storm the infield - from would-be medieval
knights and an over-eager ice-cream vendor to a fly-ball-catching
Doberman. Then of course there's looking after his little brother,
Max, who is always a catastrophe-in-the-making. Key Text Features
illustrations key text features Correlates to the Common Core State
Standards in English Language Arts: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.3.9
Compare and contrast the themes, settings, and plots of stories
written by the same author about the same or similar characters
(e.g., in books from a series).
Another adventure begins in this book in the Stella and Sam series
as the pair explores the wonders of the natural world. A vast
luminous sky, the sun, the stars and the rising moon form the
backdrop for their nocturnal expedition. As they encounter
raccoons, fireflies, tree frogs and bats, Sam wonders if the moon
can swim, if the sun wears pajamas or if he can catch shooting
stars with his butterfly net. Stella, as always, has an answer for
every question. Marie-Louise Gay's whimsical prose and enchanting
illustrations capture the joys of young children making their first
discoveries of the world around them.
Boston Globe, Best 2018 Books for Children TD Canadian Children's
Literature Award Finalist Mustafa and his family traveled a long
way to reach their new home. Some nights Mustafa dreams about the
country he used to live in, and he wakes up not knowing where he
is. Then his mother takes him out to the balcony to see the moon -
the same moon as in their old country. In the park, Mustafa sees
ants and caterpillars and bees - they are the same, too. He
encounters a "girl-with-a-cat," who says something in a language
that he can't understand. He watches an old lady feeding birds and
other children playing, but he is always looking in from the
outside and he feels that he is invisible. But one day, the
girl-with-the-cat beckons to him, and Mustafa begins to become part
of his new world. Marie-Louise Gay's remarkable ability to write
and illustrate from the perspective of a young child is movingly
exhibited in this gentle, thoughtful story about coming to feel at
home in a new country. Correlates to the Common Core State
Standards in English Language Arts: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.1.2 Retell
stories, including key details, and demonstrate understanding of
their central message or lesson. CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.1.4 Identify
words and phrases in stories or poems that suggest feelings or
appeal to the senses. CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.2.5 Describe the overall
structure of a story, including describing how the beginning
introduces the story and the ending concludes the action.
Forced to abandon exciting plans with her friends and take baby
Penny to the park, Pistachio is sure her first day of summer
holidays will be boring. But keeping Penny out of trouble proves to
be more exciting than Pistachio expected It's the first day of the
summer holidays and Pistachio Shoelace has big plans. Plans that
involve a compass, a cave, and a buried treasure. Plans that do not
involve a troublemaking little sister wearing bunny ears and a
Superman cape. Forced to take baby Penny to the park, Pistachio
prepares for a dull day. But between fruit thefts, a witch's
garden, and an angry park warden with a rulebook, a day with Penny
is anything but boring. Marie-Louise Gay's engaging Princess
Pistachio returns in her second book for early readers. Winningly
translated from French by Gay's son Jacob Homel and illustrated
throughout with Gay's distinctive, brightly-coloured art, Princess
Pistachio and the Pest will charm young princesses and
Super-Bunnies everywhere.
Marie-Louise Gay and David Homel combine their writing and
illustrating talents with their own family memories to produce a
very unique travelogue. Family vacations are supposed to be
something to look forward to. Unless, that is, your parents have a
habit of turning every outing into a risky proposition -- by
accident, of course. So instead of dream vacations to Disney World
and motels with swimming pools, these parents are always looking
for that out-of-the-way destination where other tourists don't go.
Their adventures involve eating grasshoppers in Mexico, forgetting
the tide schedule while collecting sand dollars off the coast of
Georgia, and mistaking alligators for logs in the middle of
Okefenokee Swamp. Travels with My Family is told from the point of
view of a long-suffering big brother who must fulfill many roles in
this eccentric family: keep little brother out of trouble, humor
artist Mom, and discourage Dad from pulling out the road map to
search for yet another off-the-beaten-track destination.
Husband-and-wife team Marie-Louise Gay and David Homel and have
combined their prodigious writing and illustrating talents with
their own family memories to produce a very different travelogue.
Correlates to the Common Core State Standards in English Language
Arts: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.2.1 Ask and answer such questions as
who, what, where, when, why, and how to demonstrate understanding
of key details in a text. CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.4.3 Describe in
depth a character, setting, or event in a story or drama, drawing
on specific details in the text (e.g., a character's thoughts,
words, or actions).
In their third adventure, Stella and her little brother, Sam,
explore the magic of the forest. Butterflies, snakes, rocks and
sheep provide fuel for Sam's curious little-brother questions and
Stella's confident big-sister answers. "Stella, Fairy of the Forest
is gently humorous and perfectly captures the playful yet trusting
relationship between Stella and Sam.
Marie-Louise Gay's exquisite, joy-filled watercolor illustrations
bring the wonder of the forest alive as the duo journey towards
their very own fort where Sam resolves to stay forever.
Winner of the Elizabeth Mrazik-Cleaver Award Stella and her little
brother, Sam, are spending the day playing in the snow. The forest,
snowballs, snow angels and the mysterious white stuff itself
provide fuel for Sam's questions and Stella's answers as they
discover the world of winter together. Exquisite, evocative
watercolors bring a snowy day alive and make this a wonderful
winter story. Gently humorous, the book also captures the
relationship between an older sister and her little brother -- a
fun yet sometimes trying responsibility. Stella and Sam explore the
wonders of snow with the same magic that they bring to all their
adventures.
The creators of the E. B. White Read Aloud winner HOUNDSLEY AND
CATINA offer a charming sequel about taking time out from the
hustle and bustle.
The first snow of winter has fallen, and Houndsley is very happy,
as he loves the quiet time. Catina does not like the quiet time,
however, and she does not enjoy being snowed in. What about all her
plans for the day? What if their evening concert has to be
canceled? With a bit of pretending, a few books and board games, a
flourish of creativity, and
some time to dream, Houndsley helps Catina let go of her worries
and enjoy the snowy day, wherever it might take them.
In the first new Stella book in four years — in a series that has
sold two million copies in ten languages — Stella introduces
little brother Sam to the pleasures of reading. Sam is as busy and
worried as ever, and Stella almost always has her nose in a book
these days, but she finds time to help him out, while sharing her
new pastime with contagious enthusiasm. Sam has gathered a
wagonload of branches to build a doghouse for Fred, and he wonders
if the book Stella is reading tells you how to make one. It doesn't
(although it is very funny), but Stella is more than willing to
give Sam a hand. As soon as the doghouse is built though, Sam
worries that a wolf might come along and blow it down. Stella
breezily banishes his fears, suggesting a picnic at Lily Pond.
Stella cools her feet in the water, reading a story, while Sam
tries to catch a frog. Are there frogs in Stella's book, he
wonders. No, Stella tells him, but there is a toad wearing a velvet
jacket… With her characteristically light touch, Marie-Louise Gay
imparts the pleasures and importance of reading to her young
audience, whether it be humor, fiction, nonfiction or poetry. Her
detailed, beautifully rendered and often-amusing watercolor
illustrations (spot the tiny bunny reading a book!) show yet again
that Marie-Louise Gay is one of the very best artists creating
picture books today.
The internationally acclaimed author of the Stella and Sam series
has created a collection of short, funny illustrated stories. This
hilarious collection of illustrated stories gives us a glimpse into
the things children wonder about every day. What do cats really
see? What do trees talk about? Should you make funny faces on a
windy day? Do worms rule the world? Do mothers always tell the
truth? Do snails have nightmares? These short stories are
illustrated in vibrant watercolor and collage in cartoon style.
They are rich in detail and tiny humorous subplots that will
delight all little sharp-eyed monsters. Key Text Features humour
speech bubbles panels Correlates to the Common Core State Standards
in English Language Arts: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.K.5 Recognize common
types of texts (e.g., storybooks, poems). CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.K.7
With prompting and support, describe the relationship between
illustrations and the story in which they appear (e.g., what moment
in a story an illustration depicts). CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.1.7
Compare and contrast two or more characters, settings, or events in
a story or drama, drawing on specific details in the text (e.g.,
how characters interact). CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.2.7 Use information
gained from the illustrations and words in a print or digital text
to demonstrate understanding of its characters, setting, or plot.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.3.7 Explain how specific aspects of a text's
illustrations contribute to what is conveyed by the words in a
story (e.g., create mood, emphasize aspects of a character or
setting)
Maddie dreams she is having breakfast by the pool, a tropical
breeze ruffling the palm trees as her limo warms up in the
garage?until her baby sister's screams wake her up, and she goes
downstairs to find her brothers fighting over dry toast.
Maddie's aim is to have her own life, new friends, and new
experiences. In this story, Maddie finds herself looking up to an
older kid -- a really cool guy -- hoping to get into his gang. Her
troubles begin when she creates a cover-up for her after-school
activities.
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