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| Stelle Bilingual Triglot Senior Member Canada tobefluent.com Joined 4132 days ago 949 posts - 1686 votes  Speaks: French*, English*, Spanish Studies: Tagalog | Message 9 of 12 27 July 2013 at 3:50pm | IP Logged | ||
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Le petit Nicolas and Le petit prince are both classics. Can't go wrong with either one
of those. If you're interested in branching out and reading some entertaining present-day French- Canadian authors, I can recommend: Mélanie Watt for picture books She's a writer/illustrator and her books are absolutely hilarious. I especially love the Frisson l'écureuil series (translated by Mélanie to English as well, under the name Scaredy Squirrel). Kids love them - but there's a lot there for adults too. I actually use them in my adult French courses. Danielle Simard for easy illustrated chapter books My fourth- and fifth-graders (immersion students, so reading at a slightly lower level than they would be in English) really loved her series that follows the days of the week, about a little boy named Julien. The first one is called Le champion du lundi. All of her books are very readable, though. Alain Bergeron, also for easy illustrated chapter books One of his books - Zzzut! - is about a little boy who can't do an oral presentation in class because his zipper gets stuck in the bathroom. Ridiculous, right? Well, this book made the rounds of my all-male adult French class. Everyone wanted to read it - and everyone loved it, even the self-professed non-reader who hadn't read a book in any language since high school 25 years earlier. Dominique Demers She writes all levels of children's books. I especially love her series that begins with La nouvelle maîtresse - about a very unorthodox substitute teacher who takes over a class. It's aimed at a slightly higher age group than the books I mentioned by Bergeron and Simard. This series is very popular with the 'tween crowd in French Canada. They made a movie out of the first book a few years ago. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| freakyaye Senior Member Australia Joined 4826 days ago 107 posts - 152 votes | Message 10 of 12 27 July 2013 at 4:21pm | IP Logged | ||
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Merci pour vos suggestions, je vais tous les essayer!
Ps, is my français ok? 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
 songlines Pro Member Canada flickr.com/photos/cp Joined 5197 days ago 729 posts - 1056 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French Personal Language Map | Message 12 of 12 05 August 2013 at 11:58pm | IP Logged | ||
I hope you don't mind my adding a qualifier (despite not having yet read the book), but from online reviews etc., it definitely doesn't sound like a children's book at all. From what I can gather, it deals with the "savagery of war", and is about twin brothers, themselves victims of war and displacement, who - in order to survive - themselves become monsters. If this were a film, warnings about sado-masochism, bestiality and murder (among other things) might seem to be applicable. Which would not preclude it being a very good book, and worth tackling (perhaps for an older teen or adult readership?). - Comparisons with William Golding's The Lord of the Flies have been made. But given the topic of this thread (and some of the preceding titles, which may have more general rather than just child- specific appeal), a bit more description (rather than just the somewhat mild disclaimer in the post) might have been / might be useful. Edited by songlines on 06 August 2013 at 3:26pm 2 persons have voted this message useful |
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