A day with Mousse

"Mousse loves his solitary life by the sea. In the mornings, he strolls on the beach to take in the fresh air. He swims in the cool water. And he waits for the tide to bring him the day's small treasures. Today, however, a visitor comes ashore in his living room, a truly unexpected visitor. A creatu...

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Main Author: Lebourg, Claire, 1985- (Author, Illustrator)
Other Authors: Lewis, Sophie (Translator)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
French
Published: Berkeley, CA : Transit Children's Editions, [2024]
Series:Lebourg, Claire, 1985- Mousse ; 1.
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Summary:"Mousse loves his solitary life by the sea. In the mornings, he strolls on the beach to take in the fresh air. He swims in the cool water. And he waits for the tide to bring him the day's small treasures. Today, however, a visitor comes ashore in his living room, a truly unexpected visitor. A creature named Barnacle..." -- Amazon.
Physical Description:79 pages : color illustrations ; 22 cm
ISBN:9798893389067
Author Notes:After studying at the School of Decorative Arts in Strasbourg, Claire Lebourg now lives and works in Rennes. Since then, she has published several picture books, including How Dreadful! , and an early reading series. In addition to her work as an author-illustrator, she creates maps and posters and organizes talks and workshops for children and adults.


Sophie Lewis has translated works from French and Portuguese by Stendhal, Jules Verne, Marcel Aymé, Violette Leduc, Leïla Slimani, Mona Chollet and Annie Ernaux, as well as Natalia Borges Polesso, João Gilberto Noll, Sheyla Smanioto, Victor Heringer and Patrícia Melo, among others. With Gitanjali Patel, she co-founded the Shadow Heroes workshops enterprise. Lewis's translations have been shortlisted for the Scott Moncrieff and Republic of Consciousness prizes, and longlisted for the International Booker Prize. She was joint winner of the 2022 French-American Foundation prize for non-fiction translation, for Nastassja Martin's In the Eye of the Wild .