Matilda is a young girl in Bougainville, a tropical island where the horror of civil war lurks. Mr. Watts, the only white person, is the self appointed teacher of the tiny school where the only textbook is the Dickens novel 'Great...
Storytelling
- Auteur:Jones, LloydSommaire:
- Auteur:Lee, Ingrid, Grimard, GabrielleSommaire:
Long, long ago, Johnny's grandpa found a bottle on the beach. When Johnny roots it out of the back of Grandpa's closet, he can see a mysterious shadow through the green glass. "We should break it," Johnny says. "Maybe later," says his...
- Auteur:Jain, MahakSommaire:
A little girl discovers how stories can help overcome fears.
- Auteur:MARTEL, YannSommaire:
Sixteen-year-old Pi's father owns a zoo in India, until the family decides to immigrate to Canada. On the way tragedy strikes and the ship sinks. Pi finds himself in a lifeboat with a hyena, a zebra, a tiger and an orangutan. He...
- Auteur:Chartrand, LiliSommaire:
À l'orée d'une fabuleuse forêt, un gros monstre découvre un jour un étrange objet. Après l'avoir reniflé et léché, il le rejette, furieux. Ça n'a aucun goût! Pourtant, cet object étonnant va changer sa vie...
- Auteur:Beck, IanSommaire:
À coeur vaillant rien d’impossible, telle est la devise de la famille d’aventuriers Coeurvaillant. Et du courage, il va en falloir à Tom… Ses six frères ont disparu, une terrible menace pèse sur le Pays des Contes. Tom réussira-t-il à...
- Auteur:Brand, MaxSommaire:
When a stranger cheats in a game of poker, Jigger Bunts takes off to get the money back. But this decision sends him down a path outside the law from which there appears to be no return.
- Auteur:LaRochelle, DavidSommaire:
A child imagines that he is in a story where he encounters a tiger at every turn.
- Auteur:Funke, Cornelia CarolineSommaire:
Imagine it were possible to bring the characters from a book to life. Not like when you listen to an audiobook with such enchantment that the characters seem to jump off the pages and into your bedroom ... but for real. Imagine they...
- Auteur:Whitehead, JoshuaSommaire:
Evolving from a conversation between Joshua Whitehead and Angie Abdou, Indigiqueerness is part dialogue, part collage, and part memoir. Beginning with memories of his childhood poetry and prose and travelling through the library of his...
- Auteur:Archibald, Jo-AnnSommaire:
Jo-ann Archibald worked closely with Coast Salish Elders and storytellers, who shared both traditional and personal life-experience stories, in order to develop ways of bringing storytelling into educational contexts. Indigenous...
- Auteur:Archibald, Jo-AnnSommaire:
Indigenous oral narratives are an important source for, and component of, Coast Salish knowledge systems. Stories are not only to be recounted and passed down; they are also intended as tools for teaching.
Jo-ann Archibald worked...
- Auteur:The MothSommaire:
From toasts to eulogies, from job interviews to social events, this book will help you with ideas, structure, delivery and more. - CNN. Over the past twenty-five years, the directors of The Moth have worked with people from all walks of...
- Auteur:Black, HollySommaire:
Holly Black reveals a deeper look into the dramatic life of Elfhame's enigmatic high king, Cardan, including familiar moments from the Folk of the Air trilogy, told wholly from Cardan's perspective.
- Auteur:Hale, Thomas A.Sommaire:
On May 17, 1967, the American writer Alex Haley went to Juffure, a village in The Gambia on what was once the western fringe of the Mali empire. There he met a griot, or jali, who recounted a story about Haley’s roots in Africa. Haley...
- Auteur:Van Camp, RichardSommaire:
Stories are medicine. During a time of heightened isolation, this bestselling author shares what he knows about the power of storytelling--and offers some of his own favourite stories from Elders, friends, and family. Gathering around a...
- Auteur:Crummey, MichaelSommaire:
Sprawling and intimate, stark and fantastical, Galore is a novel about the power of stories to shape and sustain us. This is Michael Crummey's most ambitious and accomplished work to date. An intricate family saga and love story...
- Auteur:Nayeri, DanielSommaire:
At the front of a middle school classroom in Oklahoma, a boy named Khosrou (whom everyone calls "Daniel") stands, trying to tell a story. His story. But no one believes a word he says. To them he is a dark-skinned, hairy-armed...
- Auteur:Bail, MurraySommaire:
In order to marry Ellen Holland, a suitor must identify every species of the five hundred trees on her family's property in Australia, a test set by her possessive father. To Ellen's alarm--she is attracted to a young man--an...
- Auteur:McLachlan, BrianSommaire:
Whether kids want to write or draw a comic that's funny or scary, long or short, made-up or true-to-life, cartoonist and author Brian McLachlan maintains there are just ten crucial things they need to know to get started. Using...