Colette can’t find something to talk about with the new kids in the neighborhood…so she invents a pet! Her fib quickly escalates, and suddenly her parakeet is a larger-than-life world-traveler named Marie Antoinette. Have her new friends figured out her secret? What will they do?
This charming story both clearly identifies the struggle of navigating a different experience, and demonstrates to kids a lovely and welcoming way to treat someone new in their community.
“With a graphic-novel-like format, arresting artwork, and a story that will ring true to many little kids with big imaginations of their own, this warm, funny picture book hits all the right notes.” — Starred Review, Booklist
“[a] charming urban tale …” —Montreal Review of Books
Isabelle Arsenault is a graphic-design graduate who has applied her skills to illustration. She contributes to magazines and newspapers across the US and Canada, and has been the recipient of major illustration awards such as the prestigious Governor General’s Literary Awards for Illustration, Communication Arts Illustration Annual, and the National Magazine Awards of Canada. Arsenault lives in Montreal, and Le coeur de monsieur Gauguin, the original French version of Mr. Gauguin’s Heart, is her first book.
Author/Illustrator: Isabelle Arsenault
Format: Hardcover
Product dimensions:
48 pages, 9.31 X 7.38 X 0.44 in
Published:
May 23, 2017
Publisher: Tundra
Recommended for ages 4-8.