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Simon tries to realize a dream that many children share: to build homes for animals, birds, and fish. But the animals don’t want to live in his cardboard box houses. They like their old homes instead. In the end, Simon learns a new respect for nature as he studies the animals homes, and a new environmentally-friendly use for his many boxes. ... Read more

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Maria Chapdelaine is the quintessential novel of French Canada, the single undisputed classic, opening up new understanding of the past for each generation that reads it, challenging artists to explore and recreate that lonely heroic world afresh. ... Read more

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Simon loves summer so much that he never wants it to end. When he sees the first signs of fall, he seeks advice from a heron and a cow, who tell him how to make summer last. Simon tries by making the frogs sing, pleasing the butterflies with paper flowers, and keeping the sun high in the sky. Even though he fails, Simon discovers that there are definite advantages to the coming of fall. ... Read more

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Simon loves the moon, especially when it is full and shines high in the sky. Then he discovers that it gets smaller every night. Why? And where do the pieces fall? Simon tries to find the answer and the missing pieces, before he happily discovers the moon returning to its original shape, round and shiny, like a bright balloon. ... Read more

Reviews (9)

Au clair de la Lune, mon ami Simon...
With a good rhythm and a simple text, Gilles Tibo introduces us to the worries of the little Simon who sees his beloved moon disappearing... Will he be able to save the moon? The young ones will love this book which translates so well the emotional turmoils of a 3 to 4 years old boy.
The text is simple and short and thus readable by young readers.
The illustrations are beautiful and translate the story really well. The graphic evolution of the moon is obvious throughout the book and shows well the moon cycle, a good pedagogic opportunity.
In its French version, this is also an excellent book to use in French as a foreign language classes. The illustrations are good support material that can be accompanied by the acting of a parent or of an instructor. The intervention of Pierrot is also a good opportunity to introduce, if it's not already done, his very popular song "Au clair de la Lune, mon ami Pierrot..."

Au clair de la Lune, mon ami Simon...
With a good rhythm and a simple text, Gilles Tibo introduces us to the worries of the little Simon who sees his beloved moon disappearing... Will he be able to save the moon? The young ones will love this book which translates so well the emotional turmoils of a 3 to 4 years old boy.
The text is simple and short and thus readable by young readers.
The illustrations are beautiful and translate the story really well. The graphic evolution of the moon is obvious throughout the book and shows well the moon cycle, a good pedagogic opportunity. This is also an excellent book to use in English as a foreign language classes. The illustrations are good support material that can be accompanied by the acting of a parent or of an instructor.
The intervention of Pierrot is also a good opportunity to introduce, if it's not already done, his very popular song "Au clair de la Lune, mon ami Pierrot..."

Au clair de la Lune, mon ami Simon...
Avec un texte simple et bien rythm?, Gilles Tibo nous fait d?couvrir les soucis du petit Simon qui voit sa lune ador?e dispara?tre... Va-t-il r?ussir ? la sauver ?
Les jeunes enfants adoreront ce livre qui traduit si bien les tourments ?motionnels d'un jeune gar?on de 3 ? 4 ans.
Le texte est suffisamment simple et court pour que de jeunes lecteurs puissent le lire par eux-m?mes.
Les illustrations sont superbes et traduisent tr?s bien l'histoire. L'?volution graphique de la lune est tr?s visible au cours du livre et illustre bien le cycle lunaire (une occasion p?dagogique ? ne pas rater).
C'est ?galement un excellent livre ? utiliser pour des classes d'anglais langue ?trang?re. Les illustrations apportent un support important qui peut-?tre accompagn? par l'animation d'un parent ou d'un enseignant. L'intervention de Pierrot est aussi une bonne occasion d'introduire, si cela ne l'a pas d?j? ?tait fait, sa chanson tr?s populaire "Au clair de la Lune, mon ami Pierrot..."

Au clair de la Lune, mon ami Simon...
Avec un texte simple et bien rythm?, Gilles Tibo nous fait d?couvrir les soucis du petit Simon qui voit sa lune ador?e dispara?tre... Va-t-il r?ussir ? la sauver ?
Les jeunes enfants adoreront ce livre qui traduit si bien les tourments ?motionnels d'un jeune gar?on de 3 ? 4 ans.
Le texte est suffisamment simple et court pour que de jeunes lecteurs puissent le lire par eux-m?mes.
Les illustrations sont superbes et traduisent tr?s bien l'histoire. L'?volution graphique de la lune est tr?s visible au cours du livre et illustre bien le cycle lunaire (une occasion p?dagogique ? ne pas rater).
C'est ?galement un excellent livre ? utiliser pour des classes d'anglais langue ?trang?re. Les illustrations apportent un support important qui peut-?tre accompagn? par l'animation d'un parent ou d'un enseignant. L'intervention de Pierrot est aussi une bonne occasion d'introduire, si cela ne l'a pas d?j? ?tait fait, sa chanson tr?s populaire "Au clair de la Lune, mon ami Pierrot..."

Au clair de la Lune, mon ami Simon...
With a good rhythm and a simple text, Gilles Tibo introduces us to the worries of the little Simon who sees his beloved moon disappearing... Will he be able to save the moon? The young ones will love this book which translates so well the emotional turmoils of a 3 to 4 years old boy.
The text is simple and short and thus readable by young readers.
The illustrations are beautiful and translate the story really well. The graphic evolution of the moon is obvious throughout the book and shows well the moon cycle, a good pedagogic opportunity. This is also an excellent book to use in English as a foreign language classes. The illustrations are good support material that can be accompanied by the acting of a parent or of an instructor.
The intervention of Pierrot is also a good opportunity to introduce, if it's not already done, his very popular song "Au clair de la Lune, mon ami Pierrot..." ... Read more

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Simon tries to use the wind to fly. As he blows bubbles into the breeze, he thinks he can make one large enough to carry him. His friend Marlene brings him a cardboard box, and Simon asks the birds to carry it like a plane across the sky. Finally, Simon learns he cannot fly, but discovers a game he and his friends can play with the wind. ... Read more

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Simon wants to share his love of music with the animals. He tries to get them to play along with his flute, trumpet, cowbells, guitar, harp, violin, drums, and xylophone, but find the animals uninterested. When an old accordionist tells Simon that animals listen to music all their own, Simon invites his friends to form an orchestra…with surprising results. ... Read more

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Great little story.
I really enjoyed reading this to my 8 month old. It's a fun little story in french with great pictures to stimulate your child's vision. ... Read more

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Simon, the intrepid dreamer and eternal optimist, is on a new adventure. Riding his horse, telescope in hand, he sets out to finda hidden treasure. Marlene helps at first and they discover that a butterfly, a turtle, and a squirrel each has its own particulartreasure. But none is the treasure Simon seeks. As he goes onalone an old gold miner asks Simon what treasure he’s looking for. He’ll know when he finds it, he answers. How he does just that provides a charming ending to Simon’s search. ... Read more

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They call him the Cowboy Kid, the strange boy who lassoes trash cans and whinnies like a horse. He dreams of escaping the city, of riding away on a golden steed of his own. And then, one wonderful night, the Cowboy Kid’s dreams come true. A magnificent stallion carries him to the heavens on a magical ride. Soon they are joined by other horses, leaping from paintings, jumping down from stone pedestals in parks, and breaking free of merry-go-rounds – and they lead a riotous stampede of marble, wood, and paint through the streets of the town and beyond. A beautiful book about freedom and the urge to break away for the child in everyone. ... Read more

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The Cowboy Kid
A story about a boy who roams the streets of the city in reality but in his imagination he's a cowboy in the Wild West. One day his dreams come true and a beautiful horse appears to him and takes him on a magical trip. Wonderful story about imagination and the power it has to transport you. The illustrations (many 2 full pages) are stunning. ... Read more

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Simon finds a beautiful feather and decides to return it to the bird who lost it. But which one? It belongs to none he asks: not the chicken, the peacock, the dove, or the seagull, who each give him one of their own feathers. When Simon finds the owner of the first beautiful feather, he finds the ones he received from the other birds come in handy. ... Read more

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The ever-imaginative little character, Simon, dreams of being the ringmaster of a circus. In a cardboard box he creates a circus with his animal friends, but his efforts to stage the show are frustrated. When he acts as lion tamer to a paper lion, a goat tries to eat the star attraction. When he tries to walk a tightrope, he is foiled by a flock of tame birds.

As usual his sensible friend, Marlene, comes to the rescue. Her common-sense advice saves the day and Simon creates a circus that will never be forgotten. ... Read more

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The ever-imaginative Simon dreams of the great adventures he can have if only he could be in disguise. In his fantasies he becomes a magician, a daring knight, a funny clown, a scary bear, and even the trunk of a tree. His friend Marlene, as usual, comes to the rescue in a gentle story sure to charm the youngest readers. ... Read more

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Simon is a curious little boy. He wants to know how many snowflakes fall in a snowstorm, but they come down too fast to count. When he learns that there are as many snowflakes as stars in the sky, he tries to count them, but they race across the night sky. Simon decides to visit his friends in the forest, and finds something much better to count there. ... Read more