Garth Williams reste à jamais célèbre comme l'illustrateur qui a donné une forme inoubliable à des personnages de fiction bien-aimés. Sa touche artistique a donné vie à l'élégante souris Stuart Little, à l'aimable araignée Charlotte, à son ami Wilbur, ainsi qu'à d'innombrables animaux, créatures fantastiques et enfants. Bien que Williams ait également écrit plusieurs livres pour enfants, c'est principalement son style illustratif unique et sa capacité à insuffler aux personnages des personnalités distinctes qui ont cimenté son héritage. Son travail a également démontré le pouvoir de l'art pour engager le dialogue sociétal.
La petite Fern passe l'été chez son oncle Homère. Dans la grange, les animaux parlent librement devant elle. Elle entend la brebis dire à Wilbur le cochon, que les hommes l'engraissent pour le manger. Il en est bouleversé. Charlotte l'araignée le console puis conçoit un plan pour le sauver. Tous les animaux sont mis à contribution, même Templeton le rat, qui ne fait jamais rien sans contrepartie ...
Célèbre série formant une chronique devenue, depuis la parution du premier volume en 1935, un classique pour les jeunes que la télévision a ravivé pour les parents. [SDM].
The Big Woods was getting too crowded. So Pa sold the little log house and built a covered wagon. The family was moving to Indian country! They traveled from Wisconsin to Oklahoma, and there, finally, Pa built the little house on the prairie. All year long, Ma, Pa, Mary, Laura, and Baby Carrie put their hearts into the land and their safe little house. But the prairie belonged to the Indians, and in the end the government made them move on again.
Fifteen-year-old Laura learns that living away from home and teaching school can be a bit frightening when most of the students are taller than she is, but every week Almonzo Wilder arrives to take her to her family for the weekend.
A little bunny sets forth to find his very own home.
The little settlement that weathered the long, hard winter of 1880-81 is now a growing town. Laura is growing up, and she goes to her first evening social. Mary is at last able to go to a college for the blind. Best of all, Almanzo Wilder asks permission to walk home from church with Laura. And Laura, now fifteen years old, receives her certificate to teach school.
Un grillon à New York ! Et qui plus est, dans le métro... Mario, le jeune garçon du kiosque à journaux, étonné et ravi de sa découverte, l'adopte aussitôt. Le grillon fait bientôt la connaissance de Harry-le-Chat et de Tucker-laSouris. Chaque soir, les trois amis se retrouvent pour bavarder et faire la fête. Le grillon se révèle un chanteur incomparable. Mais ces virées nocturnes tournent parfois au drame... Chester-le-Grillon, Harry-le-Chat et Tucker-la-Souris, dans une aventure trépidante, drôle et pleine de charme. Un grand classique.
LITTLE HOUSE. BIG ADVENTURE: A fresh, photographic repackage of the original Little House books just in time for the series' 75th anniversary.
The adventures of Laura Ingalls and her family continue as they move from their little house on the banks of Plum Creek to the wilderness of the unsettled Dakota Territory. Here Pa works on the new railroad until he finds a homestead claim that is perfect for their new little house. Laura takes her first train ride as she, her sisters, and their mother come out to live with Pa on the shores of Silver Lake. After a lonely winter in the surveyors' house, Pa puts up the first building in what will soon be a brand-new town on the beautiful shores of Silver Lake. The Ingallses' covered-wagon travels are finally over.
This is the delightfully warm and enjoyable story of an old Parisian named Armand, who relished his solitary life. Children, he said, were like starlings, and one was better off without them.But the children who lived under the bridge recognized a true friend when they met one, even if the friend seemed a trifle unwilling at the start. And it did not take Armand very long to realize that he had gotten himself ready-made family; one that he loved with all his heart, and one for whom he would have to find a better home than the bridge.Armand and the children's adventures around Paris - complete with gypsies and a Santa Claus - make a story which children will treasure.
