Bøger af Alan Mills

Une collection de chansons pétillantes et drôles composées il y a plus de 50 ans. Une mémé avale une mouche, un oiseau et même un chat. Mais qui donc ferait ça? Cela se bouscule dans son estomac! C'est sur cette histoire abracadabrante que s'ouvre cet album en hommage à l'auteur/compositeur montréalais Alan Mills, qui a enregistré plus d'une vingtaine de disques chez la prestigieuse maison américaine Folkways Records. La sélection rassemble des chansons pétillantes et drôles comme les illustrations qui les accompagnent, et permet aux enfants d'apprendre les chiffres, les lettres, les mois de l'année et les pays! Un trésor de simplicité et d'espièglerie. Le disque comprend 12 chansons. The children's classic "I Know an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly," for which singer-songwriter Alan Mills is best known, precedes a potpourri of simple singable songs, often focusing on numbers and letters and featuring hysterically funny animal characters. Singers Thomas Hellman and Emilie Clepper breathe new life into old traditions, performing rootsy renditions of catchy songs written for children more than 50 years ago.

Life passes by so quickly that sometimes we don't have chance to stop and consider what's going on around us. If we did, maybe we'd find a story to tell. After all, our lives are just a story, aren't they? Each of these short stories began with Alan thinking "What if . . .?" They've been created by imagination, but how far from the truth are the

The (very) hungry goat has a big appetite which gets him into all kinds of adventures. Abner Graboff's timeless illustrations bring this greedy animal to life in a comic rhyming tale for younger children.