The boy who didn't want to be sad

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Tiziana Bendall-Brunello

A penguin can't quite get the hang of dancing like the other animals in the zoo until he finds a dancing style that suits him.

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Lina Rousseau, Marie-Claude Favreau

Une collection d'albums mettant en scène Galette, un sympathique animal en peluche jaune affublé d'oreilles mauves, qui se propose d'ouvrir aux tout-petits les portes de l'univers fascinant des livres tout en les guidant dans l'apprentissage de leurs premières notions et en leur permettant d'exprimer, dans cette sous-série, les émotions qui rythment leur vie. Chaque titre propose une courte fiction rimée qui se clôt par une question amenant le lecteur à effectuer des liens avec son propre quotidien. Ici, Galette est fou de joie: son oncle lui a offert le livre tant espéré de la princesse et du chevalier. Le voilà qui invite tous ses copains pour leur raconter cette histoire qu'il apprécie, mais également pour partager avec eux rires, activités et câlins, symboles de sa bonne humeur! [SDM]. De tendres aquarelles délicatement rehaussées à la plume animent avec une naïve et coquine fantaisie ces récits aux courtes phrases bien rythmées, rédigées dans une large typographie. Un outil de très belle qualité, empreint de la candeur et de la fraîcheur de l'enfance, réalisé sur papier glacé dans une maquette joyeusement colorée. Adorable. [SDM].

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Denise Robertson

'Remember the Moment' poses some challenging questions, and doesn't shrink from uncompromising answers, as it tackles the problem of what we owe others, born and unborn, living and dead, in our own pursuit of happiness. An author familiar to many for her 'agony aunt' role on ITV's This Morning brings us a compelling new novel. At 32, Emma Gaunt is in control of her life. She has wealth, independence and a married lover. Then 2 unlikely events overturn Emma's well-ordered world. 'Denise Robertson writes perceptively about the age-old dilemma of falling in love with the wrong man.

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Peggy Fitzhugh Johnstone

George Eliot has been widely praised both for the richness of her prose and the universality of her themes. In this compelling study, Peggy Fitzhugh Johnstone goes beyond these traditional foci to examine the role of aggression in Eliot's fiction and to find its source in the author's unconscious sense of loss stemming from traumatic family separations and deaths during her childhood and adolescence. Johnstone demonstrates that Eliot's creative work was a constructive response to her sense of loss and that the repeating patterns in her novels reflect the process of release from her state of mourning for lost loved ones. How then does Eliot's internalized aggression, rooted in her early life, find its way into her characters? How and why is it, in turn, denied by the author? And finally, how does the process of writing fiction help resolve it? Eliot's inner rage, Johnstone argues, was transformed into works of art and gradually dissipated as she developed her creative gifts and finally achieved her sense of identity as an artist. The Transformation of Rage explores the connections between self-disorder and aggression, anxiety and creativity, and narcissism and mourning in the full range of Eliot's novels - Adam Bede, The Mill on the Floss, Silas Marner, Romola, Felix Holt, Middlemarch, and Daniel Deronda. It will appeal to a broad audience, including those interested in the nineteenth-century British novel, the life and work of George Eliot, and the interdisciplinary study of literature and psychoanalysis.