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Astronomy-loving Calliope June has Tourette's syndrome, so she sometimes makes faces or noises that she doesn't mean to make. When she and her mother move yet again, she tries to hide her TS. But it isn't long before the kids at her new school realize she's different. Only Calliope's neighbor, who is also the popular student body president, sees her as she truly is - an interesting person and a good friend.

This program is read by Bradley Whitford, brother of the author and best known for his roles in The West Wing, The Handmaid's Tale, and Get Out. With its playful rhymed verse, this bedtime favorite from author Ann Whitford Paul, If Animals Kissed Good Night, is sure to delight time and again...

Timothy is on probation. It's a strange word - something that happens to other kids, to delinquents, not to kids like him. And yet, he is under house arrest for the next year. He must check in weekly with a probation officer and a therapist and keep a journal for an entire year. And mostly, he has to stay out of trouble. But when he must take drastic measures to help his struggling family, staying out of trouble proves more difficult than Timothy ever thought it would be. 

Kathryn Tucker Windham begins this montage of stories with the sounds of summer and ends with a joyful Christmas memory. The mixture of tales, from the mouth-watering description of good Southern food to the story of a governor more familiar with Tom Sawyer than Tom Jefferson, comes together to evoke the image of a happy childhood.

Two heavy-hitters in children's literature deliver a critically acclaimed, bestselling biographical novel of cultural icon Muhammad Ali. "This utterly delightful story about Ali's childhood is a smash hit."—School Library Journal (starred review) Before he was a household name, Cassius Clay...

An award-winning novel in verse about a boy who navigates the start of seventh grade and life growing up on the border the only way that feels right—through poetry. They call him Güero because of his red hair, pale skin, and freckles. Sometimes people only go off of what they see. Like the...

Les Poèmes en peluches sont une plongée dans le monde et les bruits de l'enfant, ses peurs un peu terribles parfois, ses jeux, ses instants de folie, ses gros mots… Les gros mots de celui qui apprend à parler. Car c'est bien cela, le parti pris d'Edith Azam : le parti pris de l'enfance, replonger en enfance, retrouver les sensations crues et les émotions nues, sans censure du gros mot ni de la peur enfouie.

Ces Poèmes pour affronter le beau temps & profiter du mauvais sont des considérations humoristiques sur le temps qui passe et la scansion des saisons. La forme répond au fond du texte : ainsi le mot tunnel devient-il graphique grâce à deux -nn- agrandis. Le mauvais temps, quant à lui, s'écrit en gouttes de pluie.

Les tireurs sportifs est un long poème écrit par Golan Haji dans les premières années de la révolte syrienne, après 2011. Les vers s'égrènent, chapelet d'observations minutieuses du quotidien, de scènes, d'images, d'instants vécus qui nous plongent dans un monde en lutte, un monde en guerre. L'écriture n'est jamais sinistre, jamais obscène, elle donne seulement à voir et à entendre par le truchement d'une magnifique langue poétique.

À force de fréquenter deux chemins parallèles, roubaiyat et haïkus en arabe, il nous est apparu évident de les croiser, et dans un grand tissage des genres poétiques, les thoulathiyat sont nées. Elles sont des haïkus ou des tercets, comme l'indique leur nom issu du chiffre thalatha, trois. Elles sont autant de méditations sur la vie, la mort, le temps qui passe, les mots sans frontière.

mais quel bazar toutes ces idées ! à peine la nuit tombée elles entrent une à une se bousculent, dansent, se suivent s'installent sur l'accoudoir du canapé couinent, meuglent et hop, c'est parti ! bienvenue au grand cirque des idées ! À partir de créatures imaginaires dessinées par l'illustrateur égyptien Walid Taher, Ramona Badescu a inventé un grand cirque des idées, la rouge, la simple, celle perdue sur la dernière marche de l'escalier, l'idée neuve et même… oh la merveilleuse idée !

Poète itinérant du macadam, Mo Abbas observe et croque en détails et en jeux de mots les incongruités urbaines, consigne les panneaux de signalisation, les noms des rues insolites, des devantures de snacks, les cris des goélands, les cris des mamans, les bruits, les voix, les sons, les têtes, les bêtes… Julien Martinière a mis en scène un bestiaire et un ours dans les rues de la ville. Un ours avec un chapeau, des lunettes, une moto, des oiseaux, des lézards et des hommes, tout cela est-il bien urbain ?

Édith Azam écrit sur l'amour, les raisons de vivre, la joie, l'attente, l'exaspération, l'invocation, la joie à nouveau. Son écriture est magnifique et puissante. Elle se lit et s'entend à tous les âges. Elle s'oralise et s'amplifie à chaque nouvelle lecture. Pour accompagner cette écriture fleuve, Juliette Iturralde remplit des pages et des pages de femmes qui chantent dans l'eau, qui crient, se baignent, dansent et se promènent, de paysages aux feutres et feuillus qui, on ne saurait dire pourquoi, semblent chanter eux aussi.

Ormanda okul başlıyordu ama Minik Rakun okula gitmek istemiyordu. Onun korkularını yatıştırmak isteyen Anne Rakun, "Avucundaki Öpücük" adını verdiği aile sırrını yavrusuyla paylaştı. Amacı dünyası ne zaman birazcık korkutucu hale gelse, onu çok sevdiğini hatırlamasını sağlamaktı. 1993 yılındaki ilk basımından beri insanın içini ısıtan bu kitap, çocuk klasikleri arasındaki yerini alarak, özellikle de okula, yuvaya başlamak ya da bir kampa gitmek gibi ayrılık anlarında, milyonlarca çocuğun ve velinin yaşamına dokunmuştur. Çok sayıda yuva öğretmeni bu öyküyü ilk günde okumayı sever.

At last - here from the team behind the beloved international best seller comes a companion to Goodnight, Goodnight Construction Site. All of our favorite trucks are back on the construction site - this time with a focus on team-building, friendship, and working together to make a big task seem small!

Brought to you by Puffin. Meghan, The Duchess of Sussex's first children's book, The Bench, beautifully captures the special relationship between father and son, as seen through a mother's eyes. The book's storytelling and illustration give us snapshots of shared moments that evoke a deep sense...

Join Rene and Glumfoot at the Café at the Edge of the Woods – this time with some unexpected visitors beneath the floorboards … When Rene hears gnawing, clawing and scratching sounds from underneath the café, she just can't ignore them. Using every skill she can muster, she lays an...

Prepare to soar to faraway lands in this heartwarming tale of adventure and the power of family and finding our flock, from award-winning author Rob Biddulph. Swoop, soar and see the world in this epic migrating story all about one flock of geese and one very big journey. When Pip’s family fly...

“Every so often a book comes along that is so brave and necessary, it extends a lifeline when it’s needed most. This is one of those books.” —Katherine Applegate, author of the Newbery Medal–winning, The One and Only Ivan Revered teacher, librarian, and story ambassador John Schu...

A Jewish boy’s bravery and kindness are tested after an antisemitic attack on his middle school in this rousing novel in verse. Ever since twelve-year-old Josh Kline found an antisemitic note in his family’s mailbox in third grade, he has felt uncomfortable about his Jewish identity. At a...