• Age: 3 to 8
• Grade: p to 3

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Une histoire classique, maintenant disponible dans une toute nouvelle version! Cette aventure est la première histoire de Robert Munsch qui a été publiée sous forme de livre. C'était en 1979. Depuis, elle fait rire bon nombre d'enfants (et d'adultes!) dans le monde entier.

Julianne sort dehors quand soudain, une flaque de boue se jette sur elle et la salit de la tête aux pieds. Sa mère l'aide à se nettoyer, mais à peine Julianne a-t-elle remis le pied dehors que la flaque de boue récidive. Comment Julianne déjouera-t-elle cette insupportable flaque de boue pour rester propre?

Illustré par l'artiste à succès Dušan Petri?i?, ce délicieux album de Robert Munsch séduira une nouvelle génération de lecteurs.

Une histoire classique, maintenant disponible dans une toute nouvelle version! Cette aventure est la première histoire de Robert Munsch qui a été publiée sous forme de livre. C'était en 1979. Depuis, elle fait rire bon nombre d'enfants (et d'adultes!) dans le monde entier.

Julianne sort dehors quand soudain, une flaque de boue se jette sur elle et la salit de la tête aux pieds. Sa mère l'aide à se nettoyer, mais à peine Julianne a-t-elle remis le pied dehors que la flaque de boue récidive. Comment Julianne déjouera-t-elle cette insupportable flaque de boue pour rester propre?

Illustré par l'artiste à succès Dušan Petricic, ce délicieux album de Robert Munsch séduira une nouvelle génération de lecteurs.

When Julianne goes outside, a mud puddle jumps on her and gets her dirty all over. No sooner does her mother scrub her clean than she ventures out again, only to be pounced upon by the pesky mud puddle. The cycle continues until finally Julianne gets the better of the mud puddle with cheerful ingenuity and two bars of smelly yellow soap. Lively, clever artwork by award-winning illustrator Dušan Petricic gives this bestselling picture book a fresh and energetic look that will charm a new generation of young readers.

Original title: Mud Puddle

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.

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Duan Petricic was born in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, but loved to pretend that he grew up in Zemun, an old city located just across the river (and now a part of Belgrade). As a boy he did all the forbidden things that children do, but what Duan loved most was to draw. He started drawing at age four and, encouraged by his parents, he never stopped. He found inspiration in everything, and drawing became a way to communicate with the people around him. Two books that were very important to his childhood were an old encyclopedia with lots of pictures and The Boys from Pavel’s Street by Ferenc Molnár. Early on, he was moved by the drawings found within the encyclopedia. As he grew older, he adored many artists, including Leonardo da Vinci, Dürer, and Picasso. Duan has been illustrating children’s books for many years. He has received numerous honors and awards for his work, in North America and internationally, including an IBBY Certificate of Honour and an Alberta Book Award for On Tumbledown Hill (Red Deer Press). The Longitude Prize (FSG) was selected as a Robert F. Siebert Honor Book for a Distinguished Informative Book for Children in the US. His beautiful, evocative illustrations for Mattland (2009) by Hazel Hutchins and Gail Herbert garnered Duan the Amelia Frances Howard-Gibbon Illustrator’s Award from the Canadian Library Association as well as the Marilyn Baillie Picture Book Award. His illustrations for Better Together (2011) by Sheryl and Simon Shapiro were described as “sublime” by Kirkus Reviews. When it came time to reissue Robert Munsch’s Mud Puddle (2012), Duan was Annick’s first choice to reillustrate the classic. The results are a fresh and energetic look that will delight a whole new generation of young Munsch fans. Duan’s latest book, The Man with the Violin (2013), was greeted with rave reviews, including starred reviews in Kirkus and uill & uire. Written by Kathy Stinson, this beautifully evocative picture book tells the true story of world-renowned violinist, Joshua Bell, who conducted an experiment by anonymously playing his priceless violin in the Washington D.C. subway station. Luckily for Duan, his profession is his favorite hobby and he is happy when at work. To young artists he would give this advice: “Think, think, think, think, draw!” Duan lives in Toronto where he is a regular contributor as an editorial cartoonist in the Toronto Star.

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