Marie-Louise Gay

Stella assures her little brother Sam that she has seen hundreds of fairies and says that if she and Sam venture across the meadow and into the forest, they are likely to find some.

Sam takes a roundabout route to getting dressed and, as usual, his big sister Stella is there to help--but this time Sam has the last laugh.

Many children want to know where stories come from and how a book is made. Marie-Louise Gay's new picture book provides them with some delightfully inspiring answers in a fictional encounter between an author and some very curious children, who collaborate on writing and illustrating a story. Marie-Louise has scribbled, sketched, scrawled, doodled, penciled, collaged and painted the words and pictures of a story-within-a-story that show how brilliant...

Collects a series of humorous short stories that explore the things kids think about, from what trees talk about to lies their mother tells them.

In this book in the Stella and Sam series, Marie-Louise Gay has gone back in time to answer the questions often asked by the children who read and love the books. Where does Stella get her wild ideas? How big is Stella's imagination? What did Stella look like when she was small? How did Stella come to be the big sister to Sam that we all know and love? Although Marie-Louise Gay didn't know what she would find when she started to explore Stella's...

Roslyn Rutabaga is a rabbit. One day she has a plan to dig the biggest hole on earth. Will she succeed?

An adaptation of the classic fairy tale of the miller's daughter who became a queen with the help of Rumplestiltskin, who spun her straw into gold. At various points in the text the reader is asked to state what is missing from the picture.

One night, Rosie and Toby, accompanied by a plump white cat and a mouse in pajamas, discover a way to steal the moon out of the sky.

Houndsley and Catina run into trouble when they decide to prove that they are the best at cooking and writing, respectively.

The charming duo returns with a love letter to the library, good friends, the joy of learning, and self-reinvention.