Le temps des fleurs, le temps des neiges fait découvrir le mythe des saisons grâce à une histoire riche en rebondissements, où les magnifiques illustrations de Philippe Béha éveillent l'imaginaire. Perséphone, fille de la déesse Déméter, a osé, par une jolie hardiesse, cueillir un bouquet de narcisses appartenant à Hadès, roi des Enfers.

Includes Author-Curated Discussion Questions! From small-town Alberta, Curtis comes to Edmonton to obtain a teaching degree. There he forms a close friendship with his elderly, blind Aunt Harriet, considered a family pariah due to her eccentric enthusiasm for a lost world of artists and musicians.When Curtis begins reading aloud to Harriet the diary her intended husband Phillip kept before his death during World War One, an obsessed Curtis examines parallels to his own life: his desire to become a skillful artist and to find fulfilling love.Timeless and essential, award-winning author Glen Huser's Burning the Night spans across generations and distance, traversing from Vancouver to Halifax, as it bears down on the history of Canadian painting and Curtis's awakening as a gay man.