Home (Hardcover)

Isabelle Simler

ISBN 10: 0711287090 / ISBN 13: 9780711287099

Published by Quarto Publishing PLC, London, 2023

About this Item

Hardcover. From the winner of the New York Times Best Illustrated Childrens book, comes a beautiful meditation on what makes a home. Each creature featured in this beautiful collection shows a unique way that they build their home, and poetic text accompanies each, making this both a narrative, non-fiction treasury and a poetic reflection on what nature can teach us. Discover how a beaver builds a safe dam for its family and how a tailor bird forages for grasses and animal hairs to use as threads, to sew a truly tailor-made nest. In this book, children and parents alike will discover in vivid colour and poetry, all the wild ways there are to build a home. Home is a beautiful and poetic reflection on all sorts on homes made and found in nature, by award winning French illustrator Isabelle Simler. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Seller Inventory # 9780711287099

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Home (Hardcover)
• Publisher: Quarto Publishing PLC, London
• Publication Date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0711287090
• ISBN 13: 9780711287099
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: new

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Synopsis

Dans Maison, Isabelle Simler de´crit avec de´licatesse et poe´sie les habitats de diffe´rents animaux. Vingt-sept personnages sont mis en situation dans l’intimite´ de leur chez-soi. Le trait exceptionnel de l’auteure re´ve`le les effets de matie`re, les couleurs et les lumie`res des diffe´rents milieux dans lesquels ils e´voluent. On passe ainsi d’une maison a` une autre, d’un univers a` un autre, toujours au plus pre`s de leurs habitants. On de´couvre alors le castor qui se faufile dans le trou de sa maison a` e´tages, la te^te de la re´miz penduline sortant de son cocon de plumes, de fils et de ve´ge´taux, ou le poulpe qui se pare de coquilles pour se prote´ger...