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Below is a list of 18 the books by this author.

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1 2 3
By: marthe jocelyn | Published: August 2006

Created in deceptively simple paper cuts, this is a counting book with a difference: each image is not only an introduction to numerals but also to...

Created in deceptively simple paper cuts, this is a counting book with a difference: each image is not only an introduction to numerals but also to the shapes and colors of modern art. Small children, and those with an interest in modern art, will find much to enjoy in this gorgeous picture book. Tom Slaughter’s vibrant prints are in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art and the Whitney Museum. This, his first children’s book, was inspired by the paper cuts of Matisse, Dick Bruna, the art of his late brother-in-law – the renowned fabric artist, Tim Jocelyn – as well as the work of his wife, Marthe Jocelyn, creator of Hannah and the Seven Dresses and Hannah’s Collections.

  • ISBN
    9780887767883
  • Binding
    Hardcover Canadian
  • Category
    Board Book
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1 SOME MANY
By: marthe jocelyn | Published: January 2004

One Some Many by Marthe Jocelyn and Tom Slaughter is an excellent early introduction to numbers and to the principles of modern art. It is the...

One Some Many by Marthe Jocelyn and Tom Slaughter is an excellent early introduction to numbers and to the principles of modern art. It is the perfect companion to 1 2 3, a counting book with a difference. Slaughter’s bold, Matisse-inspired paper cuts illustrate basic artistic elements, including color, form, and line, while the playful and inventive text introduces the concepts of quantity that children find most puzzling (and that adults have the most difficulty explaining!). After all, how many is many? Some? A few?

  • ISBN
    9780887766756
  • Binding
    Hardcover Canadian
  • Category
    Picture Book
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ABC X 3
By: marthe jocelyn | Published: October 2005

Dans cet ouvrage de livre d'initiation à l'art moderne s'adressant aux jeunes enfants, Marthe Jocelyn et Tom Slaughter explorent l'alphabet...

Dans cet ouvrage de livre d'initiation à l'art moderne s'adressant aux jeunes enfants, Marthe Jocelyn et Tom Slaughter explorent l'alphabet dans trois langues. Les découpures de papier étonnamment simples accrocheront l'oeil des jeunes lecteurs pendant qu'ils apprendront les mots dans d'autres langues. Le livre inclut les quatre lettres qui existent en espagnol, mais pas en français ni en anglais. Comme d'habitude, les gros caractères et le texte clairsemé en font un document idéal d'initiation à la lecture. Les images en coupures de papier dépeignent des objets familiers qui présentent les couleurs, les formes et les motifs aux enfants. Son livre d'images Hannah's Collections a été inscrit sur la liste des finalistes du Prix littéraire du Gouverneur général pour les illustrations. C'est son premier livre disponible en français. Les oeuvres de Tom Slaughter ont été exposées aux États-Unis, au Canada, en Europe et au Japon. Ses gravures font partie des collections du Musée d'art moderne et du Musée Whitney. Ses livres pour enfants incluent 1 2 3: A Counting book, One Some Many et Over Under.

  • ISBN
    9780887767074
  • Binding
    Hardcover Canadian
  • Category
    Picture Book
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AGGIE MORTON 01 BODY UNDER THE PIANO
By: marthe jocelyn | Published: February 2020

A smart and charming middle-grade mystery series starring young detective Aggie Morton and her friend Hector, inspired by the imagined life of Agatha...

A smart and charming middle-grade mystery series starring young detective Aggie Morton and her friend Hector, inspired by the imagined life of Agatha Christie as a child and her most popular creation, Hercule Poirot. For fans of Lemony Snicket and The Wollstonecraft Detective Agency. Aggie Morton lives in a small town on the coast of England in 1902. Adventurous and imaginative but deeply shy, Aggie hasn't got much to do since the death of her beloved father . . . until the fateful day when she crosses paths with twelve-year-old Belgian immigrant Hector Perot and discovers a dead body on the floor of the Mermaid Dance Room! As the number of suspects grows and the murder threatens to tear the town apart, Aggie and her new friend will need every tool at their disposal -- including their insatiable curiosity, deductive skills and not a little help from their friends -- to solve the case before Aggie's beloved dance instructor is charged with a crime Aggie is sure she didn't commit. Filled with mystery, adventure, an unforgettable heroine and several helpings of tea and sweets, The Body Under the Piano is the clever debut of a new series for middle-grade readers and Christie and Poirot fans everywhere, from a Governor General's Award--nominated author of historical fiction for children.

Theme: Mystery, Historical Fiction

  • ISBN
    9780735265462
  • Binding
    Hardcover Canadian
  • Category
    Junior Fiction
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AGGIE MORTON 01 BODY UNDER THE PIANO
By: marthe jocelyn | Published: April 2021

A smart and charming middle-grade mystery series starring young detective Aggie Morton and her friend Hector, inspired by the imagined life of Agatha...

A smart and charming middle-grade mystery series starring young detective Aggie Morton and her friend Hector, inspired by the imagined life of Agatha Christie as a child and her most popular creation, Hercule Poirot. Aggie Morton lives in a small town on the coast of England in 1902. Adventurous and imaginative but deeply shy, Aggie hasn't got much to do since the death of her beloved father . . . until the fateful day when she crosses paths with twelve-year-old Belgian immigrant Hector Perot and discovers a dead body on the floor of the Mermaid Dance Room! As the number of suspects grows and the murder threatens to tear the town apart, Aggie and her new friend will need every tool at their disposal -- including their insatiable curiosity, deductive skills and not a little help from their friends -- to solve the case before Aggie's beloved dance instructor is charged with a crime Aggie is sure she didn't commit.

  • ISBN
    9780735265486
  • Binding
    Paperback Canadian
  • Category
    Junior Fiction
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AGGIE MORTON 02 MYSTERY QUEEN PERIL AT OWL PARK
By: marthe jocelyn | Published: September 2021

Filled with mystery, adventure, unforgettable characters and several helpings of tea and Christmas pudding, Peril at Owl Park is the second book in a...

Filled with mystery, adventure, unforgettable characters and several helpings of tea and Christmas pudding, Peril at Owl Park is the second book in a new series for middle-grade readers and Christie and Poirot fans everywhere.

  • ISBN
    9780735265516
  • Binding
    Paperback Canadian
  • Category
    Junior Fiction
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AGGIE MORTON 02 PERIL AT OWL PARK
By: marthe jocelyn | Published: September 2020

For young detective Aggie Morton and her friend Hector, Christmas becomes a lot more exciting when a dead body is found in this second book in the...

For young detective Aggie Morton and her friend Hector, Christmas becomes a lot more exciting when a dead body is found in this second book in the Aggie Morton, Mystery Queen series, inspired by the life of Agatha Christie as a child and her most popular creation, Hercule Poirot. For fans of The Wollstonecraft Detective Agency. Aspiring writer Aggie Morton is looking forward to Christmas. Having just solved a murder and survived her own brush with death in her small town of Torquay on the coast of England, Aggie can't wait to spend the holidays with her sister Marjorie, the new Lady Greyson of Owl Park, an enormous manor house in the country; Grannie Jane and her fellow sleuth and partner in crime, Hector Perot. Owl Park holds many delights including Aggie's almost cousin Lucy, exciting and glamorous visitors from Ceylon and disguises aplenty in the form of a group of travelling actors, not to mention a secret passageway AND an enormous, cursed emerald. Not even glowering old Lady Greyson (the Senior) can interfere with Aggie's festive cheer. But when Aggie and her friends discover a body instead of presents on Christmas morning, things take a deadly serious turn. With the help of a certain nosy reporter, Aggie and Hector will once again have to put their deductive skills and imaginations to work to find the murderer on the loose. Filled with mystery, adventure, unforgettable characters and several helpings of tea and Christmas pudding, The Body on the Library Carpet is the second book in a new series for middle-grade readers and Christie and Poirot fans everywhere.

Theme: Mystery

  • ISBN
    9780735265493
  • Binding
    Hardcover Canadian
  • Category
    Junior Fiction
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AGGIE MORTON 03 DEAD MAN IN THE GARDEN
By: marthe jocelyn | Published: October 2022

For young detective Aggie Morton and her friend Hector, a spa stay becomes a lot more thrilling when TWO dead bodies are found in this third book in...

For young detective Aggie Morton and her friend Hector, a spa stay becomes a lot more thrilling when TWO dead bodies are found in this third book in the Aggie Morton, Mystery Queen series, inspired by the life of Agatha Christie as a child and her most popular creation, Hercule Poirot. For fans of Enola Holmes. Aspiring writer Aggie Morton is ready to enjoy an invigorating trip to a Yorkshire spa, where her widowed mother can take the waters and recover from a long mourning period. Having solved yet another murder -- not to mention rescuing her best friend Hector from certain death -- over Christmas, Aggie is looking forward to more splendid adventures with Hector, who has joined Aggie, her mother and Grannie Jane on this trip. There is even a potential new friend in George, a young patient at the spa. But rumors abound about the spa's recently deceased former patient, and then another body appears under mysterious circumstances. Has there been a murder -- or even two murders? Aggie's Morbid Preoccupation kicks in and once again she and Hector will have to put their deductive skills and imaginations to work, as their restful trip takes a sudden, dangerous turn.

Theme: Mystery

  • ISBN
    9780735270787
  • Binding
    Paperback Canadian
  • Category
    Junior Fiction
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AGGIE MORTON 03 DEAD MAN IN THE GARDEN
By: marthe jocelyn | Published: September 2021

Aspiring writer Aggie Morton is ready to enjoy an invigorating trip to a Yorkshire spa, where her widowed mother can take the waters and recover from...

Aspiring writer Aggie Morton is ready to enjoy an invigorating trip to a Yorkshire spa, where her widowed mother can take the waters and recover from a long mourning period. Aggie is looking forward to more splendid adventures with Hector, who has joined Aggie, her mother and Grannie Jane on this trip. But rumours abound about the spa's recently deceased former patient, and then another body appears under mysterious circumstances. Aggie's Morbid Preoccupation kicks in and once again she and Hector will have to put their deductive skills and imaginations to work.

Theme: Mystery

  • ISBN
    9780735270817
  • Binding
    Hardcover Canadian
  • Category
    Junior Fiction
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AGGIE MORTON 04 SEASIDE CORPSE
By: marthe jocelyn | Published: October 2023

After an invigorating but not exactly restful trip to a Yorkshire spa during which she survived a near brush with death and foiled a murderer,...

After an invigorating but not exactly restful trip to a Yorkshire spa during which she survived a near brush with death and foiled a murderer, aspiring writer Aggie Morton and her friend Hector are thrilled to have the opportunity to stay at a camp by the sea and watch real paleontologists at work. The famed husband and wife team of the Blenningham-Crewes are about to become even more famous with the recovery of the fossilized bones of an ichthyosaur from the sea by Lyme Regis. This news has already caught the attention of an American millionaire, a British museum and a travelling circus owner, who each want the bones for their own collections. Tensions are running high throughout the camp, from the cook, to the collectors, to the Blenningham-Crewes themselves, and become downright dangerous after Aggie and Hector make a discovery of their own- a body on the beach. Not a fossil, but a human body.

  • ISBN
    9780735270848
  • Binding
    Paperback Canadian
  • Category
    Junior Fiction
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AGGIE MORTON MYSTERY QUEEN 04 THE SEASID
By: marthe jocelyn | Published: November 2022

For young detective Aggie Morton and her friend Hector, an opportunity to dig up fossils becomes even more thrilling when a corpse washes ashore in...

For young detective Aggie Morton and her friend Hector, an opportunity to dig up fossils becomes even more thrilling when a corpse washes ashore in this fourth book in the Aggie Morton, Mystery Queen series, inspired by the life of Agatha Christie as a child and her most popular creation, Hercule Poirot.

Theme: Mystery

  • ISBN
    9780735270824
  • Binding
    Hardcover Canadian
  • Category
    Junior Fiction
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ONES & TWOS
By: marthe jocelyn | Published: May 2011

Marthe Jocelyn’s ability to present important-to-learn concepts to the very young has garnered accolades from around the world. Ones and Twos...

Marthe Jocelyn’s ability to present important-to-learn concepts to the very young has garnered accolades from around the world. Ones and Twos is her first book collaboration with her nineteen-year-old art student daughter, Nell, and, together, they explore numeracy, sorting, and pairing. Each brightly illustrated page invites children to identify familiar objects ranging from kites to socks, from one nest to the two birds sitting in it. Ones and Twos gives little toddlers and their caregivers much to discuss and to enjoy together, and it introduces an exciting new creative team.

  • ISBN
    9781770492202
  • Binding
    Hardcover Canadian
  • Category
    Concepts
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OVER UNDER
By: marthe jocelyn | Published: March 2005

Presents the concept of opposites with simple, bold pictures, including images of over and under, short and tall, square and circle, and dark and...

Presents the concept of opposites with simple, bold pictures, including images of over and under, short and tall, square and circle, and dark and light.

  • ISBN
    9780887767081
  • Binding
    Hardcover Canadian
  • Category
    Concepts
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SAM SORTS
By: marthe jocelyn | Published: February 2017

Marthe Jocelyn is back with another clever concept book to follow Hannah's Collections, Ones and Twos and Where Do You Look? This time, she...

Marthe Jocelyn is back with another clever concept book to follow Hannah's Collections, Ones and Twos and Where Do You Look? This time, she tackles counting and categories. Sam's things are in a heap. Time to tidy up! He starts to organize his things, but quickly runs into trouble. He can make a pile of black and white things. But the penguin also belongs in the things with wings pile. He can make a pile of rocks. But the round rock also belongs in the round things pile. How will he ever sort his 100 things? Marthe Jocelyn takes a fun look at categories and counting in this very cleverly conceived story. Kids will delight in the cut-paper images of everything from a zipper pull to a robot, and Sam's surprising solution makes for a tidy end to this unique story.

Theme: Math

  • ISBN
    9781101918050
  • Binding
    Hardcover Canadian
  • Category
    Picture Book
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$22.99
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SAME SAME
By: marthe jocelyn | Published: January 2009

Forget about differences! Here’s a wonderful new concept book to explore and enjoy! Marthe Jocelyn and Tom Slaughter team up again to...

Forget about differences! Here’s a wonderful new concept book to explore and enjoy! Marthe Jocelyn and Tom Slaughter team up again to deliver a delightfully simple book. Jocelyn’s marvelous concept — finding common characteristics in different creatures and objects — coupled with Slaughter’s masterful paper cuts makes Same Same a clever introduction to similarities, as well as a preface to modern art. The duo’s previous titles have received numerous awards worldwide; from Japan to Denmark, from France to Mexico. Fashioned in the traditional and stunning style of the pair’s past books, Same Same is a wonderful addition to their already impressive library.

  • ISBN
    9780887768859
  • Binding
    Hardcover Canadian
  • Category
    Concepts
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VIMINY CROWE'S COMIC BOOK
By: marthe jocelyn | Published: May 2014

When chubby, geeky Wylder Wallace spills lunch on cool and aloof Addy Crowe at Toronto's Comicon, she dashes to the bathroom, leaving behind the...

When chubby, geeky Wylder Wallace spills lunch on cool and aloof Addy Crowe at Toronto's Comicon, she dashes to the bathroom, leaving behind the latest issue of her uncle's steampunk comic hit: FLYNN GOSTER in GOLD RUSH TRAIN. Wylder, a fan of the Flynn comics, opens this new one eagerly, astounded to see the girl who was just yelling at him inside the comic. Fascinated, he follows Addy into the bathroom, and the adventure begins...      Is there a personality conflict? Oh, yes. Addy wants to go home; Wylder wants to stay and explore the world of Viminy Crowe's comic book. Do things go wrong? You bet they do, from the very start, when Addy loses her pet rat, Catnip, and almost gets shot by a Red Rider. All the while the actual comic book story is going on around them. The train carries a fortune from the Yukon goldfields, and both dashing Flynn Goster (hero of a thousand disguises and thief extraordinaire) and villainous Professor Aldous Lickpenny (criminal genius, aided by malevolent robots but somewhat hampered by doltish nephew Nevins) have plans to steal the gold. There's romance too -- Flynn's old flame, the brilliant aviatrix, Isadora Fortuna, is traveling across Canada with her balloon, and her strangely familiar protégée Nelly Day. Addy and Wylder navigate the story with the aid of the comic book itself. Every page turn sends them to a different setting, from the Banff Springs Hotel to an alligator-wrestling arena in Florida. But when they finally find a portal back to the real world, catastrophe follows ... A hilarious thrill-ride of a story that will have kids laughing and on the edge of their seats with every turn of the page.

  • ISBN
    9781770494794
  • Binding
    Hardcover Canadian
  • Category
    Junior Fiction
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WHAT WE HIDE
By: marthe jocelyn | Published: April 2014

Americans Jenny and her brother Tom are off to England. Tom to university to dodge the Vietnam draft, Jenny to be the new girl at Illington Hall,...

Americans Jenny and her brother Tom are off to England. Tom to university to dodge the Vietnam draft, Jenny to be the new girl at Illington Hall, which the students call Ill Hall. This is Jenny's chance to finally be special and stand out, so when she arrives she tells everybody a lie. But in the small world of Ill Hall, everyone has secrets. Jenny pretends she has a boyfriend. Robbie and Luke pretend they don't. Brenda won't tell what happened with the school doctor. Percy won't tell about his famous dad. Oona lies to everyone. Penelope lies only to herself. Deftly told from multiple points of view in various narrative styles, including letters and movie screenplays, What We Hide ia a provocative, honest, often funny and always intriguing look at secrets.

  • ISBN
    9781770496422
  • Binding
    Hardcover Canadian
  • Category
    Young Adult Fiction
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WHERE DO YOU LOOK
By: marthe jocelyn | Published: February 2013

Where do you look for glasses? On a shelf? Or on a face? In this playful exploration of homonyms, readers will discover the fun they can have with...

Where do you look for glasses? On a shelf? Or on a face? In this playful exploration of homonyms, readers will discover the fun they can have with language. Is a wave at a beach? Or at a train station? Is a trunk in a garden? Or on an elephant? Kids will love the juxtaposition of words and meanings, and the detailed collage illustrations will have them coming back again and again. The mother and daughter team of Marthe and Nell Jocelyn know where to look for a story: Not in a skyscraper, but in the dictionary!

  • ISBN
    9781770493766
  • Binding
    Hardcover Canadian
  • Category
    Picture Book
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