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(0)David Colmer
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
This delightfully humorous collection of poems offers children and the young at heart a refreshing, inventive look at the world from the well-known Dutch author, Annie Schmidt. Ordinary events and places become extraordinary adventures full of imagination.
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"It's the first day of the holidays and Sam is roaming the island of Texel, imagining what it'd feel like to be the last person on earth. Then, like a whirlwind, 12-year-old islander Tess swoops into his life. Sam's only option is to go along for the ride. Soon he's dancing the waltz, burying a pet canary, and coming up with an especially weird plan to help Tess find her father, who doesn't even know she exists"--
7) Mr. Coats
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Mr. Coats is freezing cold. No matter how many heaters he turns on, how many blankets he sleeps under at night, or how many layers he wears, he can simply never get warm. Being this cold all the time is lonely. And loneliness is a chilly feeling. Mr. Coats thinks he'll be alone in the cold forever, but he's wrong. There's someone out there just like him.--
Author
Pub. Date
2021
Edition
First Archipelago Books edition.
Language
English
Description
"One of the most beautiful novels that I've written." - Willem Frederik Hermans Alberegt, a public prosecutor and self-proclaimed "man of minor failings," speeds through Hook of Holland in his black Renault on May 9, 1940. His every move is guided by the cool and patient hand of a guardian angel. Flitting about from the hood of Alberegt's car to the rim of his windswept hat, the angel attempts to quell their unhappy ward's fears and secrets. (On occasion...
9) Little Fox
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Father warms Little Fox of the danger around them. But Little Fox can't help but frolic with butterflies, scavenge, for food, and search for new friends. Then one day he takes a tumble, bumps his head, and starts dreaming of things that reflect both the beauty he's seen and the scary thing's he's heard"--Back cover.
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"A translated book of poems for children that explore life, love, and feeling from a child's perspective, with accompanying illustrations"--
"Sometimes our feelings are so big, our dreams and our worries so wide, that we can't find the words to express them. How MUCH love we feel; what a new sibling will bring; exactly what it's like to take a hard tumble, or to want the sun to shine on a rainy day. These thoughts and questions are explored by...
11) If only
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Features vivid creatures in a jewel-tone natural setting to explore the longing we all feel at times to be like somebody else.
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"It's the first day of the holidays and Sam is roaming the island of Texel, imagining what it'd feel like to be the last person on earth. Then, like a whirlwind, 12-year-old islander Tess swoops into his life. Sam's only option is to go along for the ride. Soon he's dancing the waltz, burying a pet canary, and coming up with an especially weird plan to help Tess find her father, who doesn't even know she exists"--.
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First Archipelago Books edition.
Language
English
Description
"In this dark, unnerving work of wartime fiction, W. F. Hermans exposes humanity's essential savagery, barely concealed by its mores and morals. The year is 1944, and a Dutch partisan chances on an abandoned estate, where he decides to take refuge duringa lull in the hostilities. The house seems untouched by the war, a kind of haven, its ornament and grandeur intact (not to mention its walls), clothes and sheets to spare, a kitchen stocked with food...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
English-language edition.
Language
English
Description
"'Maybe we don't have it in us to get really angry," said the squirrel. The animals looked at each other and frowned. Nobody knew what Firebelly's anger felt like. Maybe it wasn't like their idea of anger at all. Maybe it was more like when they were happy! You never know, they thought... More stories from the world of the acclaimed The Day No One Was Angry" --
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