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Author Massenot, Véronique, 1970- author.

Title The great wave / inspired by a woodcut by Hokusai ; text by Véronique Massenot ; illustrations by Bruno Pilorget ; English translation, Cynthia Hall, Stephanskirchen.

Imprint Munich ; New York : Prestel, [2011]

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Location Call No. Status
 Simsbury Public Library - Children's Department  J OLDER MASSENOT    Check Shelf
Description 1 volume (unpaged) : color illustations ; 33 cm
Note Original French edition: L'Elan vert (Paris, 2010), Orginal French Title: La grande vague.
Language Translated from the French.
Summary A Japanese couple adopts a boy found in a giant wave who does not grow, in a story inspired by Hokusai's "The Great Wave Off Kanegawa" and featuring information on the artist and his work on the back lining papers.
Subject Foundlings -- Juvenile fiction.
Adoption -- Juvenile fiction.
Body size -- Juvenile fiction.
Ocean waves -- Juvenile fiction.
Japan -- Juvenile fiction.
Children's stories -- Pictorial works.
Foundlings -- Fiction.
Adoption -- Fiction.
Growth -- Fiction.
Ocean waves -- Fiction.
Japan -- Fiction.
Adoption. (OCoLC)fst00797076
Body size. (OCoLC)fst00835387
Children's stories. (OCoLC)fst00856632
Foundlings. (OCoLC)fst00933305
Ocean waves. (OCoLC)fst01043594
Japan. (OCoLC)fst01204082
Genre/Form Illustrated works. (OCoLC)fst01423873
Fiction. (OCoLC)fst01423787
Juvenile works. (OCoLC)fst01411637
Pictorial works. (OCoLC)fst01423874
Fiction.
Illustrated works.
Children's stories -- Pictorial works.
Added Author Katsushika, Hokusai, 1760-1849.
Pilorget, Bruno, illustrator.
Hall, Cynthia, translator.
ISBN 9783791370583
3791370588
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