Children's & YA

Description

Everyone Sleeps is an ABC-book for the whole family. This book presents 26 animals, depicted both awake and asleep. It combines several educational features: promoting thoughts of sleep, teaching children about various worldwide animals and how they sleep, learning the alphabet, enhancing vocabulary, instilling a passion for animals, and promoting original artwork. The book is also characterized by a high quality and colorful graphic design.

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World rights available

Reviews


« Non seulement la plupart des animaux mis en scène permettent au lecteur de découvrir certaines espèces moins connues, mais la signature graphique prend des airs d’œuvre d’art. Pnina C. Gagnon illustre chaque animal de façon intuitive, enveloppant chacun d’eux d’une aura poétique. On entre dans cet ouvrage comme on entre dans un musée, en silence, se délectant de chaque tableau, se laissant porter par l’univers particulier de chaque animal. » - Le Devoir


« C’est une riche idée : proposer un abécédaire sur le sommeil des animaux. Comment dort l’abeille ? La girafe ? La loutre ? Un duo mère-fille (la mère Pnina C. Gagnon est artiste, sa fille Iris Amizlev est historienne de l’art) répond à ces questions avec de belles doubles pages. On y apprend que les antennes de l’abeille s’immobilisent quand elle dort, que la girafe dort peu et que la loutre de mer flotte sur le dos pour dormir. Voilà qui donne envie de s’allonger…» - La Presse


Author Biography

Iris Amizlev is an art historian and works as a curator at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts.  She was inspired by her role as a parent of two children when she wrote Everyone Sleeps. Since their birth, Iris read to Aidan and Na’ama before going to sleep. Iris was motivated to create a book that would be part of a nightly routine, thereby helping other parents.


The illustrations are by Pnina C. Gagnon, a professional artist whose works are featured in public and private collections in Canada and abroad and exhibited in both group shows as well as solo exhibitions. She illustrated Confessions animales. Bestiaire (more than 6500 units sold) by the famous anthropologist Serge Bouchard.

Les éditions du passage

Les éditions du passage

Livres Canada Books

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Bibliographic Information

  • Publisher les éditions du passage
  • Publication Date October 2019
  • Orginal LanguageFrench
  • ISBN/Identifier 9782924397640
  • Publication Country or regionCanada
  • FormatPaperback
  • Primary Price 24.95 CAD
  • Pages64
  • ReadershipChildren
  • Publish StatusPublished
  • Original Language TitleEveryone Sleeps
  • Copyright Year2019
  • Dimensions25.5 x 19.5 cm
  • IllustrationColor, painting, drawings and collage

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