Five-year old Matilda longs for her parents to be good and loving and understanding, but they are none of these things. They are perfectly horrid to her. Matilda invents a game of punishing them each time they treat her badly and she soon discovers she has supernatural powers.
Biographical noteVictor Hugo (1802-85) was the most forceful, prolific and versatile of French nineteenth-century writers. He wrote Romantic costume dramas, many volumes of lyrical and satirical verse, political and other journalism, criticism and several novels, the best known of which are Les Misérables (1862) and the youthful Notre-Dame de Paris (1831). A royalist and conservative as a young man, Hugo later became a committed social democrat and during the Second Empire of Napoleon III was exiled from France, living in the Channel Islands. He returned to Paris in 1870 and remained a great public figure until his death: his body lay in state under the Arc de Triomphe before being buried in the Panthéon. Main descriptionNow a major musical film from Oscar-winning director Tom Hooper (The King's Speech), starring Hugh Jackman, Russell Crowe and Anne Hathaway, and also featuring Amanda Seyfreid, Helena Bonham-Carter and Sacha Baron-Cohen, Victor Hugo's Les Misérables is one of the great works of western literature.Victor Hugo's tale of injustice, heroism and love follows the fortunes of Jean Valjean (Hugh Jackman), an escaped convict determined to put his criminal past behind him. But his attempts to become a respected member of the community are constantly put under threat: by his own conscience, when, owing to a case of mistaken identity, another man is arrested in his place; and by the relentless investigations of the dogged Inspector Javert (Russell Crowe). It is not simply for himself that Valjean must stay free, however, for he has sworn to protect the baby daughter of Fantine (Anne Hathaway), driven to prostitution by poverty. Victor Hugo (1802-85) wrote volumes of criticism, Romantic costume dramas, satirical verse and political journalism but is best remembered for his novels, especially Notre-Dame de Paris (1831), also known as The Hunchback of Notre-Dame and Les Misérables (1862) which was adapted into one of the most successful musicals of all time. 'All human life is here'Cameron Mackintosh, producer of the musical Les Misérables'One of the half-dozen greatest novels of the world'Upton Sinclair'A great writer - inventive, witty, sly, innovatory' A. S. Byatt, author of Possession
Auggie wants to be an ordinary ten-year-old. He does ordinary things - eating ice cream, playing on his Xbox. He feels ordinary - inside. But ordinary kids don't make other ordinary kids run away screaming in playgrounds. Ordinary kids aren't stared at wherever they go.
Joyeux, triste, excité, jaloux... Loup change d'humeur à cent à l'heure. Avec lui, ses amis finissent par avoir le tournis ! Loup n'a pas le choix : il doit apprendre à se calmer. Oui, mais comment ?
Le Loup qui apprivoisait ses émotions en langue corse.
Une adaptation sonore de l'album "Le loup qui voulait changer de couleur" en version bilingue français/anglais : un livre ludique pour apprendre les jours et les couleurs en anglais. À chaque double page, l'enfant appuie sur une puce sonore et entend le loup parler anglais, grâce à la voix du comédien bilingue Stéphane de Vaux. Grâce au jeu de la répétition, l'enfant s'initie à l'anglais en s'amusant !
En page de gauche, l'enfant retrouve l'histoire en français.
Un jour, Loup met la patte sur la carte au trésor du fameux pirate Barbeloup.
Commence alors une aventure extraordinaire qui va le mener à la découverte des secrets de l'océan : merveilles des fonds marins, rencontre avec le roi Poséïdon maisa ussi pollution et dangers...
Loup n'est pas au bout de ses surprises !
Madeline Whittier is allergic to the outside world. So allergic, in fact, that she has never left the house in all of her seventeen years. But when Olly moves in next door, and wants to talk to Maddie, tiny holes start to appear in the protective bubble her mother has built around her. Olly writes his IM address on a piece of paper, shows it at her window, and suddenly, a door opens. But does Maddie dare to step outside her comfort zone?
Fleeing the workhouse, Oliver finds himself taken under the wing of the Artful Dodger and caught up with a group of pickpockets in London. As he tries to free himself from their clutches he becomes immersed in the seedy underbelly of the Capital, amongstcriminals, prostitutes and the homeless. Dickens scathing attack on the cruelness of Victorian Society features some of his most memorable and enduring characters, including innocent Oliver himself, the Artful Dodger, Fagin, Bill Sikes and Nancy.
Loup a une super-idée : et s'il devenait un super-héros ? Le temps d'enfiler un super-costume et le voici transformé en Super-Extra-Fabuloup ! Il ne lui reste plus qu'à trouver quelqu'un à sauver... Facile ? Pas si évident quand on est super-maladroit !
Emile is an eight-legged hero who has twice as much courage and four times as many legs as most people - except, of course, other octopuses.
When deep-sea diver Captain Samovar is attacked by a ferocious shark, Emile comes to his aid. Grateful to his rescuer, the Captain invites him to stay at his home, where Emile sleeps in a bathtub full of salt water. Emile turns out to be a fantastic octopus: he is a gifted musician (able to play three instruments simultaneously) and a great lifeguard, teaching children to swim and saving people from drowning. One day, Emile and the Captain, who works on a police launch, encounter a suspicious-looking boat in the ocean, with a dangerous group of smugglers on board...
A charming tale of a fearless crime-fighting, eight-legged hero that will delight two-legged readers of all ages.
When Harry and his friends go back for their third year at Hogwarts, the atmosphere is tense. There's an escaped murderer on the loose and the sinister prison guards of Azkaban have been called in to guard the school. Lessons, however, must go on and the subjects include Care of Magical Creatures.
Un grand livre très coloré aux pages remplies d'activités créatives et de jeux sur le thème d'Halloween à l'intention des jeunes enfants.
Les pages colorées de ce livre conçu pour les jeunes enfants sont remplies d'activités créatives toutes simples qui les invitent à se plonger dans l'ambiance d'Halloween. En suivant les explications illustrées pas à pas, ils pourront créer ou dessiner de nombreuses décorations : des squelettes avec des pailles, des guirlandes en papier, des araignées, des citrouilles... Avec au fil des pages un tas de choses à observer, à compter, à faire correspondre ou à dessiner, les apprentis-sorciers ne risquent pas de s'ennuyer.
Retrouvez l'adaptation sonore du Loup qui ne voulait plus marcher en version bilingue anglais/français. Les petits apprendront ainsi les mois de l'année et les moyens de transport en anglais, en suivant l'histoire de leur loup préféré au fil des pages.
