Le Cachalot Qui En Voulait Trop

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Voici Horacio le cachalot, un gentil g ant qui vit sous la surface de la mer. Horacio est en qu te de quelque chose. Il ne sait pas de quoi exactement, mais il cherche sans r pit. Il fouille les paves et les r cifs, ramassant une foule de bibelots et des coquillages, mais il veut autre chose. Jusqu'au jour o il rencontre Cracos le crabe, qui essaie de lui transmettre un message tr s important. Si seulement Horacio coutait Cracos, il trouverait peut- tre ce qu'il cherche depuis des lustres...

Les rimes engageantes et le message universel de l'album Le cachalot qui en voulait trop nous rappellent d'appr cier les choses simples de la vie. Un indispensable

Meet Horacio the whale: he's a great gentle giant who lives under the sea. He is a whale with a quest. What he's searching for he's not quite sure, but he knows there must be something more out there He rummages through shipwrecks and reefs, collecting trinkets and shells galore, but he still wants more. That is, until the day he meets Crystal the crab, who has a powerful message to share. If only Horacio could open his heart to Crystal's advice, maybe he'd discover what he's really looking for...

Engaging rhymes and a heartfelt message make Le cachalot qui en voulait trop a must-read for anyone needing reminder to appreciate the little things in life.

Original title: The Whale Who Wanted More/em>

Rachel Bright
est à la fois auteure, dessinatrice d'images et créatrice de pensées
heureuses. Grâce à ses personnages éclatants qui sortent de son imaginaire,
Rachel est l'un des talents les plus prolifiques de l'Angleterre du
Sud-Ouest. Son portfolio comprend des histoires pour enfants et un empire
de cartes et de cadeaux. Rachel apporte de la joie tant aux jeunes qu'aux
moins jeunes.

RACHEL BRIGHT is the author of Side by Side and the Love Monster series. She is also the creator of a bestselling card and gift line, the brightside. She lives on a farm by the sea in England with her family and all manner of animals. For more information, go to lookonthebrightside.co.uk.

JIM FIELD est un illustrateur de talent. Son premier album, Cats Ahoy!, écrit par Peter Bently, a remporté le prix Booktrust Roald Dahl Funny en 2011 et a été finaliste pour le prix Kate Greenaway. Jim vit à Londres.

Jim Field is an award-winning illustrator, character designer, and animation director. He has worked on a wide variety of projects, from music videos and title sequences to advertising and books.

His first picture book, Cats Ahoy!, won the Booktrust Roald Dahl Funny Prize and was nominated for the Kate Greenaway award. Since then he has illustrated a string of bestselling, multi-award-winning children's books, including Frog on a Log? and The Lion Inside, as well as young fiction series Rabbit & Bear, middle-grade novels by David Baddiel, and his debut author-illustrator picture book Monsieur Roscoe On Vacation, a bilingual book that introduces first French words. He grew up in Farnborough, UK, worked in London, and now lives in Paris with his wife and young daughter.