Sony Pictures a fait l’acquisition des droits d’adaptation audiovisuelle de LYLE, LYLE, CROCODILE, un classique de la littérature jeunesse publié en 1965 aux États-Unis. Le film, qui mêlera animation et prises de vues réelles, sera produit et réalisé par Will Speck & Josh Gordon (Une famille très moderne, Joyeux bordel !). Pasek and Paul, le duo de compositeurs des bandes originales de La La Land et Cher Evan Hansen, vont écrire des chansons spécialement pour le film, et c’est le célèbre chanteur Shawn Mendes qui prêtera sa voix au personnage principal, aux côtés de Javier Bardem, Constance Wu ou encore Brett Gelman qui incarneront les autres personnages à l’écran. La sortie du film en France est prévue pour décembre 2022. (Lire l’article de Deadline)
Dans le livre de Bernard Waber, Lyle est un joyeux crocodile que ses voisins du quartier à New York adorent. Lyle aime rendre des petits services et jouer avec les enfants du coin. Mais Mr Grumps et son chat, eux, ne l’apprécie pas du tout car ils détestent les crocodiles. Lyle va tenter par tous les moyens de s’en faire des amis…
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When a young girl visits her grandparents at the beach, she stays in a little house and walks along the shore gathering seashell s which were once little houses of their own. As she wanders the beach, she wonders about the creatures who used to live in each shell, about the hidden treasures of the sea, and about what it would be like to know the answers to everything. Kevin Henkes’s text features striking imagery, depth of meaning, and a lovely multigenerational relationship. He deftly captures the feeling of wonder and imagination that is fostered by a trip to the shore.
Jacob is nine years old when his life changes. He wants a litter of puppies. But instead his parents have a different surprise. Jacob will be an older brother soon. And there won’t be only one new baby. There will be three! When the triplets are born, Jacob thinks puppies are cuter. The babies look identical to him and he gives them a name: “the Trips.” For a school science project, Jacob decides to study the Trips. It feels like magic as they begin to smile, talk, and grow. Slowly, he gets to know each of them. They call his mother “Mama” and his father “Da.”
When Eleni comes home from a lonely summer at camp only to get dumped by her BFF since kindergarten, she figures there’s got to be something wrong with her. Who loses two friends in span of a couple of months? So, she sets out to revisit her top five “friendship fails” in an attempt to figure out where she went wrong and what makes a good friend. 
Yolanda Cicerón has big dreams. One day she’s going to become the scientist who gives Silo – the most connected and advanced town in the Valley – the technology the world lost. But as she and her older sister Cami struggle to maintain their family farm that dream floats farther away. With relentless storms across the country, hurricanes on the coast, freezes bearing down from the north, depending on fickle nature for a good harvest is getting Yoly nowhere fast. And when she discovers that they can no longer afford her ticket out of farm life, she decides to take matters into her own hands.