Skip to main content Skip to search Skip to search

Children's Fiction Humorous Stories

Un ours pour déjeuner! / Makwa kidji kijebà wìsiniyàn

by (author) Robert Munsch

illustrated by Jay Odjick

Publisher
Scholastic Canada Ltd
Initial publish date
Feb 2019
Category
Humorous Stories, Multigenerational, Native Canadian
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781443175128
    Publish Date
    Feb 2019
    List Price
    $9.99
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9781443180078
    Publish Date
    Jun 2019
    List Price
    $8.99

Add it to your shelf

Where to buy it

Recommended Age, Grade, and Reading Levels

  • Age: 3 to 8
  • Grade: p to 3

Description

See below for English description.

Autrefois, le grand-père de Donovan mangeait de l'ours pour déjeuner… mais puisqu'il n'y en a pas dans le réfrigérateur, Donovan décide d'en attraper un lui-même!

Dans cette aventure étonnante, le jeune Donovan aperçoit tour à tour une fourmi, un écureuil et un chien, mais comme il ne s'agit pas d'ours, il les repousse chaque fois. Quand il tombe sur un énorme ours qui gronde en sa direction, Donovan court se réfugier chez lui, mais la bête le suit jusque dans la cuisine!

C'est finalement son grand-père qui fera fuir l'animal en le frappant sur la tête avec une poêle à frire. BOÏNG! La famille peut alors savourer un succulent déjeuner qui n'a pas de dents : de la pizza!

Cette édition bilingue comprend le texte français et la traduction en algonquin

 

It's breakfast time and Donovan knows exactly what he wants this morning! Not eggs, not pancakes, not cereal. No, what he wants is BEAR, just like his grandfather used to eat for breakfast!

So Donovan sets off to bag a bear of his own, going on an adventurous hunt through the woods, where he stalks and is stalked by an ant, a squirrel, and a dog — but they are not bears, so he shoos them away!

When Donovan finally meets a real, big and growling bear, he quickly learns that sometimes breakfast tastes best when it doesn't have any teeth!

This dual language edition includes both the originalFrench text and an Algonquin translation.

This story was inspired by Donovan, a first-grader in in La Loche, Saskatchewan, a community in northern Saskatchewan that Robert Munsch visited in January, 1990. When Robert asked what the kids liked to eat, Donovan said that he liked to eat BEAR!

Original title: Bear for Breakfast

About the authors

El reconocido narrador ROBERT MUNSCH ha escrito decenas de libros para niños, entre ellos: Paper Bag Princess y Mortimer. Él vive con su familia en Guelph, Ontario.

Robert Munsch's profile page

 

Jay Odjick est artiste, auteur et membre de la communauté algonquine Kitigan Zibi Anishinabeg pas loin de Maniwaki, au Québec. Il a créé des bandes dessinées, produit la série d'animation Kagagi: The Raven, diffusée au Canada, aux États-Unis et en Australie, et a illustré Vilains maringouins! de Robert Munsch.

 

Add bio for Jay Odjick
JAY ODJICK is an artist and writer from the Kitigan Zibi Anishinabeg Algonquin community, just outside of Maniwaki, Quebec. He has created comic books and produced the animated TV seriesKagagi: The Raven, which airs in Canada, the US and Australia. He previously illustrated Robert Munsch's picture books Blackflies, Bear for Breakfast / Makwa kidji kijebià wìsinyàn as well asThe Ocean Goes on Forever, which appears in the anthologyMunsch Mania. He is thrilled to be able to join forces with Robert Munsch to bring stories about today's Indigenous kids to a broad audience. Visit him online at www.kagagi.squarespace.com.

Jay Odjick's profile page

Other titles by

Other titles by