Cette auteure a découvert la magie des histoires dès sa plus tendre enfance, accompagnée d'un jouet canard jaune lors de ses aventures de lecture. Ses premières lectures comprenaient des comptines, de la poésie et des livres d'images qui ont façonné son imagination. Les rêves de personnages animaux et de leurs péripéties l'ont finalement inspirée à semer ses propres graines d'histoires. Ses œuvres sont ancrées dans la joie de raconter et de partager des récits avec une nouvelle génération.
Adelaide loves writing. Bear loves writing. Thankfully, Adelaide and Bear are ready to team up and persuade the entire class, including Mrs Fitz-Pea, that Bears make the best writing buddies. After all, who better to teach you how to fish and forage for new ideas than a bear? This third picture book in Carmen Oliver's Bears Make the Best...
"When a children's orchestra in Cateura, Paraguay, grows to have more students than instruments, music teacher Favio Chavez works with a brilliant local carpenter to create instruments out of garbage from the local landfill"--
It's time for the first science experiment, but nobody can agree on which one to do. But why pick just one when Bear is around? Bears make the best science buddies, and Bear proves it by helping each group use the scientific method for its special experiment. This fourth picture book in Carmen Oliver's Bears Make the Best ... series will bring the excitement of science to a new audience.
Oliver and Lora have created an homage to the ability of words to paint pictures in the imagination more powerful than anything the real world holds.– School Library JournalSnuggle up for a story that’s sure to captivate your senses!There’s a special place deep in the heart of the wilderness where the creatures of the night gather—where everyone wants to go—where the Night Librarian spins a tale of mystery.Fireflies, nighthawks, bats, mice, and brightly colored beetles make themselves comfortable on the forest floor as the Night Librarian transports them into the land of imagination with her silver silken stories. From feasts of tangy berries and salty seeds, to honey comb hives and whisker kisses, to the scent of evergreens, crashing waves of blue oceans, and echoing canyons, Carmen Oliver’s lyrical text and Miren Asiain Lora’s ethereal art is sure to evoke your senses and send you into dreamland to spin stories of your own.
An endearing and humorous picture book about friendship, authority - and reading.
Adelaide and Bear have tackled reading together, and now they are tackling maths. Adelaide stands up for her best friend Bear and his many talents. But will Adelaide be able to convince her teacher to let Bear be her maths buddy?
Wenn der Tag geht und die Nacht kommt, erwachen Käfer und Fledermäuse, Raupen und Nachtfalken. Gemeinsam machen sie sich auf den Weg und besuchen die Bibliothek der Dämmerung. Dort spinnt die Erzählerin der Nacht ihre Geschichten und weckt schönste Fantasien. Erst mit dem Morgengrauen kehren die Tiere wieder in ihre Verstecke zurück und spinnen die Erzählungen in ihren Träumen fort. Carmen Oliver und Miren Asiain Lora fangen die Magie des Vorlesens und die Schönheit der Nacht in all ihren Schattierungen ein. Mit diesem Buch feiern die beiden Künstlerinnen ihr Debüt bei NordSüd und ihre erste Zusammenarbeit über den Atlantik hinweg.