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Quand il pleut
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Junko Nakamura dévoile en une suite d’images accompagnées de phrases courtes un épisode de pluie lors d’une journée ensoleillée.
Quand il pleut
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Junko Nakamura dévoile en une suite d’images accompagnées de phrases courtes un épisode de pluie lors d’une journée ensoleillée.
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October 2014
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Who Built That? Modern Houses takes readers on a fun-filled tour through ten of the most important houses by the greatest architects of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Beginning with a brief biographical sketch of each architect, illustrator Didier Cornille uses a light touch to depict the various stages of construction, paying special attention to key design(...)
Who built that? modern houses: an introduction to modern houses and their architects
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Who Built That? Modern Houses takes readers on a fun-filled tour through ten of the most important houses by the greatest architects of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Beginning with a brief biographical sketch of each architect, illustrator Didier Cornille uses a light touch to depict the various stages of construction, paying special attention to key design innovations and signature details. Cornille's charming drawings and accessible text unlock the secrets of modern classic houses, ranging from Le Corbusier's Villa Savoye (1931) and Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater (1939) to Shigeru Ban's Cardboard House (1995) and Rem Koolhaas's Bordeaux House (1998).
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Nothing in the built world captures the imagination like the skyscraper. Behind every soaring tower stands a designer with courageous vision and enough engineering know-how to pull off incredible feats of architectural derring-do. Who Built That? Skyscrapers is a colorful tour of the world's tallest buildings and the larger-than-life personalities who built them.(...)
Who built that? skyscrapers: an introduction to skyscrapers and their architects
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Nothing in the built world captures the imagination like the skyscraper. Behind every soaring tower stands a designer with courageous vision and enough engineering know-how to pull off incredible feats of architectural derring-do. Who Built That? Skyscrapers is a colorful tour of the world's tallest buildings and the larger-than-life personalities who built them. Beginning with a brief biographical sketch of each architect, illustrator Didier Cornille imaginatively depicts the construction of eight of the world's most impressive skyscrapers. From Gustave Eiffel's Eiffel Tower (1889) in Paris and Mies van der Rohe's Seagram Building (1958) in New York City to the tallest man-made structure in the world, Adrian Smith's Burj Khalifa (2010) in Dubai, this primer will introduce readers of all ages to new heights of architectural wonder.
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Flashlight
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Inside a tent it's cozy. But what is going on outside? Is it dark? Is it scary? Not if you have your trusty flashlight!
Flashlight
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Inside a tent it's cozy. But what is going on outside? Is it dark? Is it scary? Not if you have your trusty flashlight!
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Work: an occupational ABC
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An alphabetical tour through the coolest jobs you can imagine—and some you might never have heard of! With a sophisticated, minimalist design and visual jokes to interpret on every page, Work: An Occupational ABC introduces children both to the alphabet and to a range of alternative careers. The ideal reader for this book is the child (or adult) who is interested in(...)
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An alphabetical tour through the coolest jobs you can imagine—and some you might never have heard of! With a sophisticated, minimalist design and visual jokes to interpret on every page, Work: An Occupational ABC introduces children both to the alphabet and to a range of alternative careers. The ideal reader for this book is the child (or adult) who is interested in exploring all manner of professions through original and inspired illustrations. Must be open to adventure. Knowledge of the alphabet is desirable but not required, since successful applicants will receive training from A to Z.
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With deft strokes of his paintbrush and a witty voice to match, master illustrator and storyteller M. Sasek captured the essence of the world’s major capitals and brought them to life for an entire generation of young readers with is iconic This Is series. Collected here for the first time in one affordable volume are some of Sasek’s most beloved adventures. From Notre(...)
This is the world : a global treasury
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With deft strokes of his paintbrush and a witty voice to match, master illustrator and storyteller M. Sasek captured the essence of the world’s major capitals and brought them to life for an entire generation of young readers with is iconic This Is series. Collected here for the first time in one affordable volume are some of Sasek’s most beloved adventures. From Notre Dame in Paris to a trolley car in the hills of San Francisco, with stops for sausages in Munich and a yacht race in Sydney, this book takes children and adults alike on a whirlwind trip to some of the world’s greatest destinations.
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Maira Kalman’s exuberant illustrations and humorous commentary bring design history to life in this inspired ABC book that celebrates thirty-one objects from the Cooper Hewitt, in time for its long-awaited reopening. "A. Ah-ha! There you Are." begins Maira Kalman’s joyfully illustrated romp through the treasures of Cooper Hewitt’s design collection. With her signature wit(...)
Ah-ha to zig-zag: 31 objects from Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
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Maira Kalman’s exuberant illustrations and humorous commentary bring design history to life in this inspired ABC book that celebrates thirty-one objects from the Cooper Hewitt, in time for its long-awaited reopening. "A. Ah-ha! There you Are." begins Maira Kalman’s joyfully illustrated romp through the treasures of Cooper Hewitt’s design collection. With her signature wit and warm humor, Kalman’s ABC book introduces children and adults to the myriad ways design touches our lives.
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La grande traversée
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"C'est l'heure du grand départ ! Chaque année, rendez-vous est donné aux oiseaux du monde entier. Même jour, même heure, même arbre. Pour Rouge-Bec, c'est la première traversée. Il lui faut voler jusque l'Autre Côté." De la banquise à la forêt tropicale, l'oiseau traverse à tire-d'aile 10 tableaux monochromes, au trait rouge, survolant tantôt une ville, un bateau, une(...)
La grande traversée
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"C'est l'heure du grand départ ! Chaque année, rendez-vous est donné aux oiseaux du monde entier. Même jour, même heure, même arbre. Pour Rouge-Bec, c'est la première traversée. Il lui faut voler jusque l'Autre Côté." De la banquise à la forêt tropicale, l'oiseau traverse à tire-d'aile 10 tableaux monochromes, au trait rouge, survolant tantôt une ville, un bateau, une gare... Au début du livre, une loupe à filtre rouge est insérée. En la faisant glisser sur les images, un incroyable univers surgit sous nos yeux. Le filtre rouge annule en effet le dessin rouge pour faire surgir le dessin bleu dissimulé dessous.
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Et toi, où habites-tu ?
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Chaque double image de « Et toi où habites-tu ? » représente une ville et donne quelques détails de la vie de ses habitants : chez Marek ça sent le poisson fumé, chez Lucia les maisons ont les pieds dans l’eau, Anna et Guillaume arrivent toujours à l’heure et Jeffrey vend des donuts. Comme des indices pour le lecteur, qui doit deviner de quelle ville il s’agit : New(...)
Et toi, où habites-tu ?
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Chaque double image de « Et toi où habites-tu ? » représente une ville et donne quelques détails de la vie de ses habitants : chez Marek ça sent le poisson fumé, chez Lucia les maisons ont les pieds dans l’eau, Anna et Guillaume arrivent toujours à l’heure et Jeffrey vend des donuts. Comme des indices pour le lecteur, qui doit deviner de quelle ville il s’agit : New York, Lisbonne, Rio, Moscou, Paris etc. Les dessins naïfs et colorés, justes et détaillés de Gaia Stella, offrent un tour du monde subtil et décalé pour rêver d’ailleurs…
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Matisse's garden
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One day, the French artist Henri Matisse cut a small bird out of a piece of paper. It looked lonely all by itself, so he cut out more shapes to join it. Before he knew it, Matisse had transformed his walls into larger-than-life gardens, filled with brightly colored plants, animals, and shapes of all sizes! Featuring cut-paper illustrations and interactive foldout pages,(...)
Matisse's garden
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One day, the French artist Henri Matisse cut a small bird out of a piece of paper. It looked lonely all by itself, so he cut out more shapes to join it. Before he knew it, Matisse had transformed his walls into larger-than-life gardens, filled with brightly colored plants, animals, and shapes of all sizes! Featuring cut-paper illustrations and interactive foldout pages, Matisse’s Garden is the story of how the artist’s never-ending curiosity helped turn a small experiment into a radical new form of art.
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