| |
|
Livres a Ecouter: Le Petit Nicolas Et Les Copains 8 reviews
"Sempe", Gosciny
Gallimard-Jeunesse, 1999
C'est Magnifique!
I spent the past year learning French and found this book at a local bookstore. It is HYSTERICAL! It has made learning and maintaining French truly an enjoyable experience. There is so much wonderful humor in this book. I am excited to learn there are more in the series. The situations are funny, nothing is too precious, the kids seem to act like real kids and those poor adults...! I wish I ...
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
Danse De Gengis Cohn3 reviews
Gary Romain
Gallimard-Jeunesse, 1999
La Danse de Gengis Cohn by Romain Gary
This book is a gem of post war Jewish literature. Romain Gary, born in Russia and raised in France, was a cosmopolitan figure, and at one time was married to the actress Jean Seberg. Gary's work is insightful and sprinkled with a black humour that gives you goose bumps. How did the perpetrators of Nazi atrocities live with themselves after the war? The anti-hero of this book is haunted by the ...
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
Le Seigneur des Anneaux, tome 1 : La Communauté de l'Anneau2 reviews
J.R.R. Tolkien, Philippe Munch, ...
Gallimard Jeunesse, 2000
une fabuleuse histoire
cest un livre qui ma profondement toucher. jai lu cette histoire il y a 20 ans jai lu le seigneur des anneaux avec un coeur adolescent et l,an dernier avec un coeur d,adulte il ma fait rire, pleurer et ma fait voyager aux travers des peuples, des villages, et d,une guerre. jai aimer le courage des hobits, de la sagesse de gandalf, et de la noblesse d,aragon et la beaute des elfes. cest un livre ...
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
Le Vicomte De Bragelonne18 reviews
Alexandre Dumas
Gallimard-Jeunesse
Focus of the Story Changes
If you are reading this review, you have probably already read the Three Musketeers and Twenty Years After. You are wondering if it is worth it to continue with the series. If you decide to go on, you have three more 600+ page novels ahead of you. That is a lot of time and energy.
If you are foremost into the swashbuckling aspect of the Musketeer stories, I would not go forward. The ...
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
Le Colonel Chabert9 reviews
Honore de Balzac
Gallimard-Jeunesse, 1999
The best translation...
...of a great Balzac novella. Ms. Cosman captures the rigorous, logical quality of Balzac's prose - most translators get lost in unidiomatic wordiness. This 100 page novella showcases the Master's comfort with legal matters, his profound understanding of "the fang and the claw" and features at its center the incomparable Derville, Balzac's great, recurring lawyer character. I usually recommend ...
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
Les Thibault: v. 34 reviews
Roger Martin du Gard
Gallimard-Jeunesse, 2003
An Immortal Classic
This is one of the best pieces of literature ever written well deserving of the Nobel prize for literature. It is hard to understand why it is almost unavailable in English. Important notice: this is only one part of the opus titled "Les Thibaults" in French and "The World of Thibaults" in translation. The whole series has 8 parts, usually published as two tomes "Les Thibaults" and "Summer ...
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
Eloise a Paris/Eloise in Paris2 reviews
Kay Thompson
Gallimard Jeunesse, 1999
I laughed through the whole book
I think this is the best of the Eloise books. I read it as a child and still remember the picture of her walking down the street using baguettes as skis. What a coquine! I think the more French you know the funnier the book is--partly because many pages have a hilarious hash of French and English words. My 7-year-old son and 4-year-old daughter also loved it, although they might just have ...
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
La Maison Tellier2 reviews
Guy de Maupassant
Gallimard-Jeunesse, 1995
Great Story
This is one of my favorite stories. It details the trip of a group of brothel prostitues on holiday for the first communion of the Madam's niece. In the course of the story, it highlights both the virtues of the prostitutes and the corrupt morals of the general public, thus exposing the hypocrisy of burgeoisie society. Pick it up in French if you are able, there is wonderful slang and interesting ...
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
Le Livre des étoiles, tome 1 : Qadehar le Sorcier2 reviews
Erik L'Homme
Gallimard Jeunesse, 2003
Super book
Guillemot is a very interesting young man with his friends and fascinating world! All the characters are very intringuing with their very own attitude! I found this book by chance and I am very happy because it is without a doubt excellent. The action is constant, the author keeps you hanging all the way. I have read it in a couple a days and then I went to get the two others right away. They ...
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
Le Peste5 reviews
Albert Camus
Gallimard-Jeunesse, 1996
THE NOVEL "POR EXCELENCIA" FROM CAMUS
Having submitted this review in spanish and not having it posted, I'll try again in english....... Camus reached fame with his elaborations about the concept of the absurd (the purposeless search of the meaning of existence in a universe void of any)in three works: The Stranger, a novel; Caligula, a teathrical opus; and The Myth of Sisyphus, a recopilation of philosophical essays. In his second ...
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
De tout mon coeur1 review
Jean-Baptiste Baronian, Noris Kern
Gallimard Jeunesse, 2001
Adorable story
I have this in board book format and my baby loves it. The story is very simple and easy for any child to follow. The illustrations are wonderful. I would recommend this book to anyone who knows French and wants to get a quality French story book to help their child learn the language too.
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
Coco et les Pompiers (livre-CD)1 review
Paule du Bouchet
Gallimard Jeunesse, 2002
A great CD book
I ordered this book that comes with a CD for my son who only speaks French and he absolutely loves it. The CD is only 8 minutes long, it's all in French and at first the music seemed a bit too much for the very simple story. But then upon further listening I think the music perfectly represents the story and the sound effects. we love it. We've had it for a couple of months and my son (2 years ...
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
Harry Potter, coffret 4 volumes : Tome 1 à tome 41 review
Joanne K. Rowling
Gallimard Jeunesse, 2000
Harry Potter et le prisonnaire d'Azkaban
I really liked the book beacause it was exciting.
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
Alice Au Pays Des Merveilles1 review
Carroll
Gallimard Jeunesse
Edition speciale is fantastic!
All the original artwork by Tenniel and a special section in the back of the book w/ games, trivia, logic tests, etc. Well worth it. I love it!
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
Rhinoceros2 reviews
Eugene Ionesco
Gallimard-Jeunesse, 2000
An stampede of
Euguene Ionesco (1912-1994) was born in Romania, but lived a great part of his life in France. He was an important exponent of what became known as "the Theatre of Absurd", a kind of avant garde theatre that was born more or less in the 1950s and that somehow manages to transmit a message through irrational speech and strange occurrences that take place in what seem at first glance as common ...
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
Zazie Dans Le Metro (Foliotheque)2 reviews
Queneau
Gallimard-Jeunesse, 1994
Strange and Funny!
Raymond Queneau has written a strange but tantalizing little novel about an adolescent named Zazie... she has a New York accent, and the mouth of a Henry Miller. Her misadventures in Paris, prove challenging to those around her,and amusing to the reader. It's am amusing collage of seemimgly misplaced dialogue and eccentric characters, yet is easy to read and laugh with. (Note: Queneau is, I ...
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
Carmen1 review
Prosper Mérimée
Gallimard Jeunesse, 1993
Très Bon!
This is an excellent edition of Carmen for French students, natives, and lovers. It is an easy read, great price, and simple to translate.
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
Droles De Petites Betes1 review
Antoon Krings
Gallimard-Jeunesse, 1994
An instant classic!
What a sweet story with beautiful illustrations -- as are all of the books in the series by Antoon Krings. Perfect for a baby to toddler who speaks French, or for a somewhat older child who is learning French.
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
L Homme Qui Regardait Passer Les Trains1 review
Georges Simenon
Gallimard-Jeunesse, 1966
"There's not truth, don't you think so?"
If I had to stick to a maximum of ten writers or so to read and re-read for the rest of my life one of them would be Simenon. He's such a genius it's hard to me to start describing his narrative skills. Despite how great the killer plot is the book is also a great insight into the life of Kees Popinga, a character who spends his quiet life of peaceful citizen of Holland lying to himself and ...
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
Gaspard De La Nuit1 review
A. Bertrand
Gallimard-Jeunesse, 1980
Excellent
The book's thorough introduction offers valuable insight into this pivotal author, Aloysius Bertrand, and his contribution to the evolution of modern poetry. The prose poems themselves are beautifully translated, steeped with haunting images of the middle ages--sublime, brutal, and devilish at a turn. One clearly sees how Gaspard de la Nuit influences the prose poems of Charles Baudelaire ...
|
|
|
|
|
|