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Estela y su hermanito van a pasar un día al mar. Estela ya fue una vez y conoce todos los secretos del mar, pero es la primera vez que Sam va y tiene muchas preguntas. Estela sabe todas las respuestas, lo único que no sabe es si Sam finalmente decidirá meterse al agua... ... Read more

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Chapters: Gerald Potterton, Scot Ritchie, Michael Martchenko, Marie-Louise Gay, Charles Van Sandwyk, Torill Kove, Elizabeth Mrazik-Cleaver, Wallace Edwards. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 32. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Gerald Potterton (born March 8, 1931) is a British/Canadian director, producer and animator. He is best known directing the cult classic Heavy Metal and his animation work on Yellow Submarine. Potterton was nominated three times for an Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film: as director on the National Film Board of Canada animated shorts My Financial Career and Christmas Cracker, and as producer for The Selfish Giant. Born in London, Potterton attended the Hammersmith Art School. He emigrated from England to live in Canada in 1955. Potterton currently lives in Cowansville, Quebec, Canada, where he is still involved in the production of live an animated motion pictures. Inspired by Quebec's pastoral Eastern Townships, he continues to paint landscapes and aviation subjects. After working as an assistant animator in London, Potterton joined the NFB in 1954 where he directed both animated and live-action films. He collaborated with Harold Pinter on Pinter's People in 1969 and Buster Keaton on The Railrodder in 1965. After contributing to George Dunnings animated feature Yellow Submarine in 1968, he returned to freelance work in the United Kingdom, the United States and Canada. During the early 1970s, among other projects, he directed live-action and animated sequences for Sesame Street and The Electric Company. In 1981 he was hired by producer Ivan Reitman to direct the animated feature Heavy Metal. Potterton coordinated more than one thousand artists, animators and technicians from seventeen countries working in Los Angeles, New York, London, Montreal and...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=23700583 ... Read more

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3 Stories by Marie-Louise Gay. Rainy Day Magic, Fat Charlie's Circus and Angel and the Polar Bear all in one soft cover ... Read more

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Chapters: Rob Gonsalves, Allen Sapp, Marie-Louise Gay, Governor General's Award for French Language Children's Illustration, Governor General's Award for English Language Children's Illustration, Wallace Edwards. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 22. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Rob Gonsalves is a Canadian painter of magic realism with a unique perspective and style. He produces original works, limited edition prints and illustrations for his own books. Rob Gonsalves was born in 1959 in Toronto, Canada. During his childhood, Gonsalves developed an interest in drawing from imagination using various media. By the age of twelve, his awareness of architecture grew as he learned perspective techniques and he began to create his first paintings and renderings of imagined buildings. After an introduction to artists Dalí and Tanguy, Gonsalves began his first surrealist paintings. The "Magic Realism" approach of Magritte along with the precise perspective illusions of Escher came to be influences in his future work. In his post college years, Gonsalves worked full time as an architect, also painting trompe-l'il murals and theater sets. After an enthusiastic response in 1990 at the Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition, Gonsalves devoted himself to painting full time. Although Gonsalves' work is often categorized as surrealistic, it differs due to the fact that the images are deliberately planned and result from conscious thought. Ideas are largely generated by the external world and involve recognizable human activities, using carefully planned illusionist devices. Gonsalves injects a sense of magic into realistic scenes. As a result, the term "Magic Realism" describes his work accurately. His work is an attempt to represent human beings' desire to believe the impossible, to be open to possibi...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=2401953 ... Read more

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Caramba is a fat, furry, striped cat with a big problem. "Every single cat in the world can fly," he sighs, "except me!"Caramba would love to swoop and glide between the clouds, to feel the wind whistling through his fur. He tries to soar into the sky over and over again but always lands flat on his face, until finally he sadly accepts that he is earthbound. "Don't be such a scaredy-cat," cry his cousins. "All cats are meant to fly!" They grab his paws and whisk him up into the sky for an impromptu flying lesson that ends with a big splash… and a surprising discovery in this beautifully illustrated story with a special message of self-acceptance. ... Read more

Customer Reviews (3)

first book my daughter loved...
this was the first book (with a plot and real live edible pages) my daughter sat through at 15 months.She loved the pictures.She still chooses it as a bedtime story today. Lovely story about friendship and the challenges of being different.

Enchanting!
This story is about diversity and meeting a challenge in a different way.And it's cleverly done with a cat who is supposed to swim.He can't, but he does try anyway.His best friend is a pig who can't fly either.But she encourages him to find his niche.The cat does discover that he can swim and other cats cannot.

It teaches a valuable lesson about believing in yourself and searching for what really makes you happy.The book is beautifully illustrated.Makes a great gift for a child.

Pigs don't fly either
What an ego blow!Imagine being the only cat in the world incapable of flight.Woe is you...Wah, wah...Then, you discover you can swim and the other cats cannot swim. Total joy!Maybe this book is an epiphany on diversity.Maybe it means we should accept ourselves for what we are, as long as we have a super power no one else does.Maybe it means nothing at all...In spite of the really nifty watercolors a huge number of this title are offered for sale on the Amazon Marketplace. ... Read more

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Written by Lois Wyse, the author of "Funny, You Don't Look Like a Grandmother", with her 10 year-old granddaughter, Molly Rose Goldman, this is a charming story of an adventurous little girl and her willing and eager grandmother, and the things they discover during a museum outing together. It mixes color photos with whimsical full-color illustrations for a realistic view of the museum, and includes two pages of additional information about the exhibits. ... Read more

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Great gift for a grandchild
This is a wonderful book!I purchased it for my 8 year old grandson who loves dinosaurs, which he has seen at a museum, and he loved it.
The idea of the child showing the Grandmother around the museum is brilliant! Nicely constructed, well written, educational, funny and colorful!
I highly recommend the book.

enjoyable for the whole family
we borrowed this book from the library and we fell in love with it. when it was time to return it my little girl cried, so now we own it. it truley is a great story.

"Remember to wear comfortable shoes."
I only checked this book out from the library because the cover illustration included some dinosaur fossils (my son is always looking for new dino books), but I was pleasantly surprised at how much I enjoyed this story of a girl taking her grandmother on a visit to the Museum of Natural History.

Molly is accustomed to going to "Interesting Places" with her grandmother, but after a school field trip to the Museum of Natural History, she is delighted to realize that at last, she has found an Interesting Place her grandmother has never visited.She offers to take Grandma to the Museum and takes charge, right down to reminding Grandma of the importance of comfortable shoes and using the bathroom before leaving the house.

The illustrations are drawings incorporating photos of items on exhibit at the American Museum of Natural History (NY), which I thought was a nice touch.Molly and her grandmother visit many exhibits--dinosaurs, Africa, the Arctic, ocean life, rocks, bugs, human biology, the Ice Age--and their conversation about what they see presents many interesting facts without sounding too didactic.

This might have a bit too much text for younger readers/listeners, but there are plenty of interesting pictures to look at.A fun read for both me and my 4 1/2 year old son.

How to Take Your Grandmother to the Museum
One of my first grade students brought this book into school one day.I read it and decided I had to have it.Lois Wyse wrote a humorous story perfect for a Grandparents' Day Celebration or just for casual reading for children of all ages.

A great book
A cute and heart worming story about a girl and her Grandmother.I love this book with all my heart.The book was fantastic! ... Read more

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uVivan las vacaciones! canta Pistacho. uEmpieza la aventura, es la libertad! Y para empezar bien el verano, por fin ira a explorar la caverna del cementerio con sus amigos. Pero su madre tiene otro plan... Un plan con orejas de conejo, una capa de Superman y montones de ideas raras. Un plan que no es otra cosa que Paulita, la hermana menor de Pistacho. uQue desgracia! Pistacho se va a aburrir mortalmente con ese bebe sin cerebro?No es seguro uporque Paulita ama tanto las aventuras como Pistacho! ... Read more

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El dia de su cumpleanos, Pistacho Zapato se entera de que es unaprincesa. uUna verdadera entre verdaderas! uSe acabaron las espinacas, la escuela y los deberes! De pronto, la princesa Pistacho de Papuasia se vuelve elegante, graciosa y muy caprichosa. Pero sus amigos y su familia se burlan de ella. Nadie cree que sea una verdadera princesa. Pistacho esta trastornada. Como probar que si lo es?Una historia comica y emocionante de princesas y falsos dragones. ... Read more