Mimi is so little, "I might as well be called Mini," she says. Everyone is taller than her, even the family dog! She can barely reach the bottom of the blackboard at school and isn't tall enough to see all the pretty cakes in the display case at the bakery. Though her friends try to tell her there are lots of advantages to being her size --- like fitting into the best hiding places and easily scooting to the front of the cafeteria line --- to Mimi, being small is the worst. But then one day, she hears that there's a surprise waiting for her at home. A very little surprise. And Mimi is about to discover a little something about being little. In her authorial deb ..

Le Canada, c'est moi est un po me en vers libres de Heather Patterson, publi pour la premi re fois en 1996. Le revoici dans un livre tout carton, parfait pour une nouvelle g n ration de petits lecteurs. Les diff rents types d'illustrations et le texte limpide illustrent les grands espaces et la libert que ce pays offre aux enfants pour grandir, r ver et partager. Id al pour lancer une discussion sur l'identit canadienne, le multiculturalisme et l'infinie vari t des paysages du Canada. ..