Montreal West Children's Library

'Ghoulia-Making New Friends can be Scary' - by Barbara Cantini

10/22/2022

Ghoulia lives in Crumbling Manor with her Auntie Departed and spends most of her time playing with Tragedy, her beloved albino greyhound. But things aren’t as easy as they seem for this little zombie girl—all she wants is a real friend. She tries to venture past the manor’s walls, but she can’t hide her pale green skin. The other children will be afraid of her, and no one will want to be her friend. But when Halloween rolls around, Ghoulia hatches a brilliant plan. All the other children will be dressed up like monsters, so Ghoulia can go out into the town and be entirely herself. In the end, all the kids realize that Ghoulia is (almost) just like them and learn that friendship can come in many forms.
(www.goodreads.com)

'Jean-Blaise, le chat qui se prenait pour un oiseau' d'Emilie Bore & Vincent

9/20/2022

En apparence, Jean-Blaise a tout d’un chat : de grands yeux verts, un petit nez rose, de longues moustaches, une barbichette noire et des chaussettes blanches. Mais au fond de lui, il se sent plutôt comme un oiseau. Il secoue ses pattes à la manière des canards, grimpe en haut des arbres, se prend pour un pinson chanteur, s’élance même, convaincu de pouvoir voler… avant de s’écraser lamentablement dans un massif de tulipes perroquet. Alors, Jean-Blaise, désespérant de voir aboutir un jour ses rêves, s’en va piteusement errer à travers les rues, lui, autrefois adulé et désormais vilipendé, rejeté de tous comme un vulgaire « sac à puces ».
https://www.ricochet-jeunes.org/

'The Ogress and the Orphans' by Kelly Barnhill

9/5/2022

Stone-in-the-Glen has fallen on hard times. Fires, floods, and other calamities have caused the people to lose their library, their school, their park, and even their neighborliness. The people put their faith in the Mayor, a dazzling fellow who promises he alone can help. After all, he is a famous dragon slayer. Only the clever children of the Orphan House and the kindly Ogress at the edge of town can see how dire the town’s problems are. One day a child goes missing from the Orphan House. At the Mayor’s suggestion, all eyes turn to the Ogress. The Orphans know this can’t be: the Ogress, along with a flock of excellent crows, secretly delivers gifts to the people of Stone-in-the-Glen. But how can the Orphans tell the story of the Ogress’s goodness to people who refuse to listen?
(www.goodreads.com)

'La boîte aux lettres' - Pierrette Dubé et Aurélien Galvan

7/30/2022

Octave envie beaucoup son amie Félicie qui reçoit des lettres de sa cousine Célestine. Pourquoi n’en reçoit-il jamais, lui? Probablement parce qu’il n’a ni boîte aux lettres ni cousine. Pour régler ces petits détails, Octave se rend chez le quincaillier. Celui-ci lui vend une magnifique boîte aux lettres et lui donne l’adresse de sa cousine Winifred, qui vit en Australie. Maintenant qu’Octave a tout ce qu’il faut, il peut envoyer sa première lettre. Il choisit le W, pour Winifred. Commence alors une longue correspondance qui fera voyager l’alphabet d’un bout à l’autre du monde et donnera naissance à une belle amitié.
(www.groupecourteechelle.com)

'The Language of Flowers' by Dena Seiferling

7/10/2022

Deep within a magical meadow, some lonely flowers receive a very special gift: a baby bumblebee in need. The flowers name her Beatrice, they care for her and help her find her wings. And as she grows older, Beatrice learns the language of her floral family -- messages of kindness and appreciation that she delivers between them. A gently fanciful tale of the miracle of pollination and the important relationship between flowers and bees, this sweetly affirming story, inspired by the Victorian practice of floriography, suggests the secret to flourishing is kindness and appreciation.
(goodreads.com)

'Le grand voyage de Petit Pois' de David Cali et Sébastien Mourrain

5/26/2022

Petit Pois est illustrateur de timbres. Il a déjà peint des insectes, des tomates, des voitures et des fleurs. Mais voilà qu'il se retrouve en panne d'inspiration. Il décide alors de faire un voyage pour faire le plein d'idées. Le Grand voyage de Petit Pois est la suite des aventures de notre petit illustrateur préféré !
(Renaud-bray.com)

'Everything Sad is Untrue' by Daniel Nayeri

5/19/2022

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 boy with a big butt whose lunch smells funny; who makes things up and talks about poop too much. But Khosrou's stories, stretching back years, and decades, and centuries, are beautiful, and terrifying, from the moment he, his mother, and sister fled Iran in the middle of the night, stretching all the way back to family tales set in the jasmine-scented city of Isfahan, the palaces of semi-ancient kings, and even the land of stories. Like Scheherazade in a hostile classroom, author Daniel Nayeri weaves a tale of Khosrou trying to save his own life: to stake his claim to the truth. And it is (a true story).
(www.goodreads.com)

'L'histoire du cinéma' (v.2) - Philippe Lemieux

4/26/2022

Philippe et Mélanie, deux mordus du grand écran vous racontent l'émergence du cinéma burlesque. Qui est Mack Sennett, et quel rôle a-t-il joué dans la carrière du célèbre Charlie Chaplin? De quelles façons Buster Keaton et Harold Lloyd ont-ils contribué à l'avènement du cinéma muet?
Installez-vous confortablement et découvrez pourquoi les films de cette époque ont fait rire le monde entier.
(https://www.editionsmichelquintin.ca/)

'Rory Branagan (Detective)' - Andrew Clover and Ralph Lazar

4/2/2022

Meet Rory Branagan – he eats bad guys for breakfast. Well, not actually. But he IS the best detective in town. 'Hello. I am Rory Branagan. I am actually a detective. People always say, ‘How do you become a detective?’ And I say, ‘Ahhhh… you don’t just find yourself suddenly sneaking up on baddies, or diving out of the way as they shoot, or hurtling from an open plane towards the ground! You have to want it.’ And what made me want it? I needed to find out what happened to my dad…'
(goodreads.com)

'M. Tigre le magnifique' - David Cali

3/27/2022

Attention, voici Monsieur Tigre ! Le plus courageux, le plus fort, le plus grand lutteur de catch du monde. Avec son célèbre saut, il a vaincu tous ses redoutables rivaux. Mais... en dehors du ring, malgré ses muscles et son masque féroce, il est très timide. Pourtant, il aimerait tant parler à cette fille dont il est secrètement amoureux...
(www. goodreads.com)

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