Une jeune princesse chinoise dit au revoir aux mille splendeurs du royaume de son père, qu'elle aime tant. " Adieu, pétales rosés. Adieu, lune blonde. " A la fin de l'été, elle devra partir vivre dans une oasis au fin fond d'un désert sec et brûlant. Mais, en secret, elle ose emporter un petit morceau de son pays natal avec elle. Papillon rouge réinvente. La Légende de la princesse douce, mais rebelle, qui fit sortir de Chine un secret gardé jalousement depuis deux mille ans : le secret de la soie.
The idea behind the World Through Picture Books is to create a list of picture books from around the world that have been recommended by librarians, as a tool for building bridges and developing understanding between countries.
Represents an exploration of the relationship between imagination and reality as seen through the eyes of the dying Serge Valene, an inhabitant of a large Parisian apartment block.
The phenomenal New York Times bestseller that “explores the upstairs-downstairs goings-on of a posh Parisian apartment building” (Publishers Weekly).
The tale follows the ups and downs of a well-born but penniless aristocrat who casts aside his birthright in favor of the traveling life. Fans of The Three Musketeers will delight in this picaresque page-turner.
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In this funny picture book about the all-familiar bedtime negotiations between child and parent, Edward and his mother talk about everything from yellow dogs to corn on the cob.
The works of Zola, Tolstoy, Pérez Galdós, and George Eliot are in the most profound sense inimitable, yet continue to dominate the novel form to this day.
This spellbinding novel narrates the many-layered recollections of a hallucinating man in devastated Beirut.