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Books : Children's Books : Authors & Illustrators, A-Z : ( T ) : Tibo, Gilles
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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 find a hidden treasure. Marlene helps at first and they discover that a butterfly, a turtle, and a squirrel each has its own particular treasure. But none is the treasure Simon seeks. As he goes on alone 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.
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In this second book of the series featuring Pikolo and his extraordinary nighttime adventures, Pikolo travels through the starry night in a magical train. He is seeking a special Treasure Tree that lies somewhere toward the ends of the earth. On his way, Pikolo discovers fantastic new worlds, and has adventures that will enthrall young readers.
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Nominated for the IBBY Honour List 2004 by the Canadian Section of IBBY for the quality of its translation
Naomi is seven and three-quarters years old. Her mother says she’s old for her age, but not as old as her best friend, Mrs. Lumbago. Mrs. Lumbago lives upstairs with her frail husband, Emile. Although the Lumbagos are poor, their apartment holds many charms for the lonely little girl. In fact, there may be a real treasure hidden there and Naomi is determined to find it.
Her search for the Lumbago’s treasure reaps Naomi more than she realizes, for in their modest home she finds companionship and the love she craves.
Long a favorite in Quebec, Gilles Tibo’s sensitive and funny exploration of intergenerational friendship received the Governor General’s Literary Award and appears in English for the first time, with the original art by Louise-André Laliberté.
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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.
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Edgar Allan Poe’s dream poem is as close to music as words can ever come. First published on October 9, 1849 – two days after Poe’s death – this haunting, lyric poem is thought to have been written in memory of Poe’s young wife, Virginia, who died in 1847. Gilles Tibo has set the poem in his native Quebec, where the narrator and his childhood love Annabel Lee discover the beauty of the rugged, wind-swept Gaspé Peninsula. But when Annabel Lee dies and is borne away as mysteriously as she had come, the dream goes on, refreshed each time that the moon beams and the stars shine down upon the great rock of Percé that becomes her sepulcher.
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As a work of art, as an insight into history, and as a moving story of survival in the midst of pitiless nature, Maria Chapdelaine has cast its spell over millions of readers around the world. At least 230 different editions have been published in twenty-three countries since it first appeared in 1916.
Maria lives with her family near Peribonka in Quebec, a snowy, harsh world where work is hard and pleasures are few. She has three suitors from whom to choose, but in the end, her destiny is hers. After her mother dies, she takes up the family duties and stays with her younger siblings to care for them.
Ever since it was published, Maria Chapdelaine was controversial. Was Maria right to submit to fate?
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Pikolo's room is overflowing with the wonderful paper cut-out friends he has made. He has taped them to the walls and strung them over his bed so they float and turn slowly around him. Sometimes he feels as if he's in the middle of the jungle; Pikolo imagines he can hear animals calling to each other from far away.
Miraculously, one of his cut-outs, a little man named Max, comes to life and leads Pikolo through his closet to a magical fantasy land made of paper.
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Meet Simon, a little boy with big dreams. His imagination leads him to all kinds of wonderful adventures. With the help of his friend, Marlene, and with his own special spirit, Simon makes each season a memorable one.
Simon welcomes spring — As the snow begins to melt, Simon decides he will hurry spring’s arrival. When his drum fails to call it forth, he tries fantastic but charmingly imaginative ways to pull flowers from the earth, tempt birds to return, and encourage bears to awaken — only to discover that spring will come in its own time, despite what we try to do to make it come any sooner.
Simon in summer — 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.
Simon and the wind — 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.
Simon and the snowflakes — Simon is curious. 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 too, but they race across the night sky. Simon decides to visit his friends in the forest and finds something much better to count there.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.