Titres dans Livres et bibliothèques

Award-winning, bestselling author Sara Pennypacker and illustrator Matthew Cordell come together in this hilarious absurdist tale about a precocious girl who transforms her community in surprising ways. What are people for? That’s the burning question on the mind of Leeva Spayce Thornblossom...

Return to the world of Nightbooks . . . if you dare. Dead stories—and dead witches—are back to haunt Alex and Yasmin. To find a happy ending, Alex will have to write it, in this sequel to Nightbooks from acclaimed author J. A. White. Alex thought he was done with witches. But when Natacha...

When you're the third of six kids, it's easy to get lost in the shuffle, but Sunday Fowler is determined that this summer she'll find the one thing that makes her stand out from her siblings. And when she discovers a silver box in the basement of the library her parents are renovating, she might just have found something to gain her the attention she so craves. Inside is a series of letters addressed to "The Librarian" and a manuscript. But who wrote them?

From Newbery Medal winner Patricia MacLachlan comes a poignant story about two children, a poet, and a dog and how they help one another survive loss and recapture love. ""Just what I needed,"" raves Brightly. ""It's a heart-warming story of loss and love that filled me with hope for a better...

Madeline Finn does not like to read. Not books. Not magazines. Not even the menu on the ice cream truck. But Madeline Finn does want a gold star from her teacher. Stars are for good readers. Stars are for understanding words. And saying them out loud. Fortunately, Madeline Finn meets Bonnie, a library dog. Reading out loud to Bonnie isn't so bad. When Madeline Finn gets stuck, Bonnie doesn't mind.

Emmy, their rapidly growing dragon, has become a real grouch, saying she's missing "something," and the cousins don't have a clue what that something is. Jesse and Daisy go online to ask Professor Andersson, their favorite dragon expert, for help and end up seeing him being kidnapped!

Babies could learn how to cook; they could learn how to sew; they could learn to drive baby cars to and fro! From running barber shops to styling everyone in the latest diaper fashion, just think of all the chaos babies could cause if we let them loose in the library! Books can teach us anything we want to know. Can we really trust babies with that power?

Ivy is an isolated, daydreaming girl in the "real" world. Forest is a scrawny, unlikely hero in Ivy's "pretend" story. Never the two shall meet . . . until Forest unexpectedly walks through a portal and finds himself in Ivy's queendom. All Forest wants to do is talk to the author of his story about a few edits to his character arc—he has no idea what kind of narrative stakes he is up against. As soon as Ivy and Forest try to rewrite Forest's story, the pair gets caught in an evil wizard's plot for world domination.

Upon learning that the books with kids who look like her have been banned by her school district, Kanzi descends into fear and helplessness. But her classmates support her, and together—with their teacher’s help—they hatch a plan to hold a bake sale and use the proceeds to buy diverse books to donate to libraries. The event is a big success: the entire school participates, and the local TV station covers it in the evening news. Prodded by her classmates to read the poem she has written, Kanzi starts softly but finds her voice. “

In this story the Child is invited on a fantastical journey to their local library. The adventure that the library offers is brought to life in this story. Magic, creativity, and imagination, are a few elements embodied by libraries and they are celebrated in this book.

Eine Reise voller Wunder, Mut und Magie. Eine Welt, in der Bücher und Geschichten verboten sind: für die Geschwister Robert und Rachel ist sie traurige Realität. Bis ihr Vater den beiden eines Tages das Buch der gestohlenen Träume anvertraut, das ihr Leben für immer verändert. Denn der böse Präsident Malstain ist auf der Jagd nach ebendiesem Buch und wird nicht ruhen, ehe er die Kinder gefunden hat. Ein Roman über den Zauber von Sprache – inspiriert von David Farrs jüdischen Großeltern, die vor dem Nazi-Regime nach London flohen.

Fred is working diligently on his writing assignment when a mist fills the room, and the words on his page literally come to life. Suddenly Fred—now Frankinschool—and Luisa—now Princess Luisa—need to save the school from the mysterious potion and devious ghost living in the school attic.

Melvil Dewey loved order (Organize mother’s jelly jars), efficiency (Why spell his name Melville when Melvil has fewer letters and sounds the same?), and keeping records (Height! Weight! Earnings!). Melvil also loved books and numbers and decimals. When he realized every library organized their books differently (Size! Title! Color!), he wondered if he could invent a system all libraries could use to ORGANIZE them EFFICIENTLY.

Pierwsze spotkanie Oli i Pani bibliotekarki wywołało zupełnie nieoczekiwane wydarzenie, które zakłopotało dziewczynkę. Jednak wrażliwe, pełne empatii dziecko nieświadomie zaczyna pomagać kobiecie pokonać alergię na... dotyk! Dzięki wspólnemu spędzaniu czasu obie dowiadują się o sobie nowych rzeczy i przez to mogą bardziej wpłynąć na swoją przyszłość. Czy może istnieć przyjaźń między dzieckiem a dorosłym? Czego w takiej relacji może nauczyć się dziecko od dorosłego, a czego dorosły... od dziecka?

As soon as artist Robert McCloskey saw the ducks in Boston Public Garden, he knew he had to write about them. But how? Studying stuffed birds didn’t help. Would inviting some into his apartment work? What? Was he quack-ers? For months ducklings slept on his sofa and swam in his bathtub, making incredible messes. Quack! Quack! His roommate was not amused and his neighbors complained, but Robert did not give up. As the ducklings grew, he got down on his hands and knees and followed them with pad and pencil.

Who HQ brings you the stories behind the most well-known characters of our time. Discover the origins of one of literature's most famous couples, Romeo and Juliet, and their creator, William Shakespeare, in this fun and informative addition to the What Is the Story Of? series. In 1597...

Anna tiene casi 10 años y le encanta leer. Le gusta tanto que Monsen, el bibliotecario, se ha convertido en uno de sus mejores amigos. Un día, su amigo le cuenta a Anna qué sucede con los libros que nadie quiere tomar prestados de la biblioteca. Estos libros desaparecen, se destruyen. Pero, ¿qué ocurre con quienes viven dentro de esos libros, se pregunta Anna, desaparecen también? La idea de que todo ese mundo mágico y sus habitantes se pierdan para siempre se le hace insoportable.

Sandro ha una compagna di classe molto simpatica, con cui condivide l'amore per la lettura. Un giorno decidono di scrivere una lettera al loro autore preferito, che però risponde in modo antipatico, dandosi un sacco di arie. I due ragazzini perciò decidono di non leggerlo più e di cimentarsi loro stessi nell'impresa di scrivere un romanzo. Aiutati dalla sorellina di Sandro, Luisa, che ha solo 6 anni ma in tante cose è più sveglia di loro, passano tutti i pomeriggi delle vacanze estive a scrivere le avventure e disavventure di un bruco innamorato di una farfalla.

Becky und ihre Freunde trauen ihren Augen kaum: Alle magischen Wesen in der Bücherwelt sind in einen tiefen Schlaf versunken! Wer steckt nur hinter dieser schwarzen Magie? Schnell fällt der Verdacht auf die dreizehnte Fee, die vor vielen Jahren schon den Dornröschenschlaf heraufbeschworen hat. Becky, Hugo und Ben brauchen dringend Verbündete, um sie aufzuhalten. Sollten sie die Fee nicht überlisten können, droht der magischen Welt ein ewiger Schlaf...

A remarkable tale of books and reading, now in a bilingual Spanish-English edition. On most days, teacher and librarian Luis Soriano Bohórquez packs his two burros, Alfa and Beto, with books and makes his way over mountains and through valleys to visit children in far-flung villages in rural...