by Nathalie Paris | Feb 5, 2018 | Book blog, Books, Families, Schools
This is another brilliant story by the Belgian author Michel Van Zeveren who has also written “C’est à moi, ça!” (read more about it here). This is book published by l’école des loisirs; you can read their sypnosis in French here. This hunter...
by Nathalie Paris | Jan 29, 2018 | Book blog, Books, Families, Schools
I discovered the author Gaëtan Dorémus and this brilliant book, “Les oreilles”, at the South Ken Kids Festival at the Institut Français in London in November 2017. I was a volunteer there and he was kind enough, right at the end of a book signing, to make...
by Nathalie Paris | Jan 22, 2018 | Book blog, Books, Families, Schools
This is the Loup story I read the most on my bus after “Le loup qui voulait changer de couleur” because it is so accessible to children who have done very little French but more proficient learners can really be challenged with it too. It is also...
by Nathalie Paris | Jan 18, 2018 | Book blog, Books, Families, Schools
None of these stories are exactly about Valentine’s Day but they are all original stories about love! Click here for more ideas and free resources to use around “La Saint Valentin”, including a very useful video which you can use with the children,...
by Nathalie Paris | Jan 18, 2018 | General blog, Schools
Looking for stories about love? Find my favourite ones here! For a poem in French (which you can adapt) with a simple video you can use, click here. I have compiled here some recommendations from the Facebook group Languages in Primary Schools, AKA LiPS, where great...
by Nathalie Paris | Jan 15, 2018 | Book blog, Books, Families, Schools
This was a birthday present: when I found out it was coming out, as I had loved “Le livre qui dort”, I asked my parents for it! Watch here a short video I have made to introduce the story, then come back to read the blog and all the ideas! Language of...
