by Nathalie Paris | Feb 13, 2017 | Book blog, Books, Families, Schools
I was not looking for another book, I really wasn’t… However when a friend (Vicky Cooke, in the Facebook group “Languages in Primary Schools”) recommended this one for World Book Day I just felt the urge to order it (I don’t normally buy...
by Nathalie Paris | Feb 6, 2017 | Book blog, Books, Families, Schools
What Soledad (the illustrator) didn’t tell me when I met her in Paris in December is that Lili, who wrote the text for this book, is her 14-year old daughter! Great collaborative work!! To be fair she had a bad back that day and looked very uncomfortable sitting down...
by Nathalie Paris | Jan 30, 2017 | Book blog, Books, Families, Schools
One Saturday, at a meet up of the Francophones de Newcastle I saw a little boy wearing this t-shirt. I knew it was from a book I had ; it took me a couple of minutes to remember which one then I was so excited I went over to him and said : “Je mangerais bien un...
by Nathalie Paris | Jan 23, 2017 | Book blog, Books, Families, Schools
Before I met him in Paris, I knew I likes Matthieu Maudet’s illustrations (check out “Les orteils n’ont pas de nom” & “Bonjour docteur” as well as others here); however I didn’t know he wrote stories of his own! Here is...
by Nathalie Paris | Jan 16, 2017 | Book blog, Books, Families, Schools
I already had a few stories by Grégoire Solotareff when I went to the book festival in Paris in December and this is why I wanted to meet him; however they were a little difficult for younger people, which is why I bought this book: it is just perfect!! Please...
by Nathalie Paris | Jan 9, 2017 | Book blog, Books, Families, Schools
I fell in love with this book during my visit to the book festival in Paris in December 2016 and was lucky enough to meet its lovely author and its equally lovely illustrator (see pictures below). When I got back my 16-year old couldn’t stop reading it and...
