juman Diglot Senior Member Sweden Joined 5231 days ago 101 posts - 129 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English Studies: French
| Message 1 of 19 09 January 2013 at 1:22pm | IP Logged |
I'm looking for material written by a french author to dig in to. So what I would prefer
is if it was books in a series, several books from one author (if I like the first one I
have more to look forward to). I'm still at the beginner level but an adult so I some
youthbooks could be interesting enough. I know there is translations of Harry Potter /
Narnia but I would prefer if was written by a native to start with. So any ideas? Is
there any books in french that most french children have read?
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agantik Triglot Senior Member France Joined 4648 days ago 217 posts - 335 votes Speaks: French*, English, Italian Studies: German, Norwegian
| Message 2 of 19 09 January 2013 at 3:42pm | IP Logged |
In the same fantasy genre as Harry Potter you've got the Oksa Pollock series, or the Tara Duncan series,
both written by French female writers. I haven't read them but I've heard good reviews.
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meramarina Diglot Moderator United States Joined 5980 days ago 1341 posts - 2303 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: German, Italian, French Personal Language Map
| Message 3 of 19 09 January 2013 at 3:59pm | IP Logged |
I moved your thread into this room because it was in the French-language only area, and I think you'll get more answers to your questions here. Feel free to use the French subforum to ask any question orpractice writing in French whenever you want to, though.
I'm interested in the responses - this is information I can use, too.
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emk Diglot Moderator United States Joined 5545 days ago 2615 posts - 8806 votes Speaks: English*, FrenchB2 Studies: Spanish, Ancient Egyptian Personal Language Map
| Message 4 of 19 09 January 2013 at 4:06pm | IP Logged |
I posted a list of various suggestions in juman's log, including both regular books and BDs. Not all of these are series, though.
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luke Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 7218 days ago 3133 posts - 4351 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Esperanto, French
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There are the Free French audiobooks for young people which doesn't contain a series of youthbooks per se, but does have multiple works from the same author. It also contains links to the French texts. Note there are currently 18 pages of audiobooks for young people, so if the first page doesn't tickle your fancy, just click on the next page. I'm an adult and I see several that interest me.
Edited by luke on 09 January 2013 at 4:44pm
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sans-serif Tetraglot Senior Member Finland Joined 4572 days ago 298 posts - 470 votes Speaks: Finnish*, English, German, Swedish Studies: Danish
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Thanks for the link, luke. I now know where to go when the time comes for me to start working on my French! I've always wanted to read Jules Verne's books and the Arsène Lupin stories, so this is a gold mine for me.
By the way, how dated is the language in these late-1800s/early-1900s books?
Edited by sans-serif on 09 January 2013 at 6:21pm
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Cavesa Triglot Senior Member Czech Republic Joined 5022 days ago 3277 posts - 6779 votes Speaks: Czech*, FrenchC2, EnglishC1 Studies: Spanish, German, Italian
| Message 7 of 19 09 January 2013 at 6:56pm | IP Logged |
For exemple Erik l'homme writes fantasy for young readers.I've read his trilogie Le Livre
des Étoiles and I liked it, despite it being obviously meant for younger readers. The
story is quite good, there is a lot of useful language.
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osoymar Tetraglot Pro Member United States Joined 4749 days ago 190 posts - 344 votes Speaks: English*, German, Portuguese, Japanese Studies: Spanish, French Personal Language Map
| Message 8 of 19 10 January 2013 at 12:20am | IP Logged |
As an aside, I'm not familiar with the term youthbooks- I would use "YA books" or "YA
literature." YA stands for young adult.
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