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My First French/English Visual Dictionary
• Jean-Claude Corbeil
• LANGUAGE & PHRASEBOOKS
• YOUNG READERS (Age 4-8)
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Each commonly encountered word gets a photograph and an English and French label in this introduction for youngsters.
(FRN391, $14.95)
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This is Paris
• Miroslav Sasek
• CULTURAL PORTRAIT
• YOUNG READERS (Age 4-8)
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First published in 1958, this is a facsimile edition of Sasek's classic portrait of Paris for children. The Louvre, Eiffel Tower and other attractions are depicted with bright, stylized illustrations. Ages 4-8.
(FRN466, $17.95)
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Anni's Diary of France
• Anni Axworthy
• TRAVEL NARRATIVE
• MIDDLE READERS (Age 9-12)
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Taking the form of an illustrated diary, this book is a lively record of a family trip to France, featuring food, art and history. Written for young readers ages 8-10.
(FRN46, $6.95)
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Cathedral, The Story of its Construction
• David MacAulay
• ART & ARCHITECTURE
• MIDDLE READERS (Age 9-12)
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In this illuminating book for young readers, master draughtsman MacAulay presents text and innovative drawings that detail the planning and construction of a 13th-century Gothic cathedral. It's a masterpiece.
(EUR24, $18.00)
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Marie Antoinette, Princess of Versailles (Austria-Hungary, 1769)
• Kathryn Lasky
• LITERATURE
• MIDDLE READERS (Age 9-12)
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The ill-fated future queen of France records life at the Habsburg palace in Austria in this novel-in-diary-format, written by the reliably excellent children's author Kathryn Lasky.
(FRN342, $10.99)
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The Family Under the Bridge
• Natalie Savage Carlson
• Garth Williams
• LITERATURE
• MIDDLE READERS (Age 9-12)
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This Newbery Medal winning book is a charming, wonderfully human story recounting the Parisian adventures of the hobo Armand and the three homeless children who make him shed his grumpy ways. Ages 9-12.
(FRN313, $5.99)
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The Yellow House, Vincent Van Gogh and Paul Gauguin Side by Side
• Susan Goldman Rubin
• Joseph A. Smith
• ART & ARCHITECTURE
• MIDDLE READERS (Age 9-12)
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An illustrated book depicting the two months Vincent Van Gogh and Paul Gauguin spent together in Provence. Intended for children, but appropriate for anyone with an interest in the painters and their friendship.
(FRN285, $18.95)
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Vincent Van Gogh, Portrait of an Artist
• Sandra Jordan
• Jan Greenberg
• BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
• MIDDLE READERS (Age 9-12)
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A compassionate, unsensationalistic biography, well written and geared for kids ages 9-12. With an eight-page insert of color reproductions.
(NTH60, $6.99)
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A Proud Taste for Scarlet and Miniver
• E.L. Konigsburg
• LITERATURE
• YOUNG ADULTS
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A marvelous fictionalized portrait of Eleanor of Aquitaine, queen of France and England successively, traveler to Constantinople, wife of a future saint, mother of Richard the Lionheart and for 15 years a prisoner of the English Crown. For young adults.
(GBR245, $5.99)
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Bel Ria, Dog of War
• Sheila Burnford
• LITERATURE
• YOUNG ADULTS
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In the summer of 1940, a performing dog whose gypsy owner has been killed by the Nazis wanders through war-torn Europe, affecting the lives of the humans he encounters. A moving tale for readers aged 10 and up.
(FRN621, $17.95)
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I Is Someone Else
• Patrick Cooper
• LITERATURE
• YOUNG ADULTS
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Set in 1966, fifteen-year-old Stephen embarks on a search for his missing brother that takes him on a cross-continental journey and forces him to address his own dark past.
(ASA57, $6.50)
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Pardon My French
• Cathy Hapka
• LITERATURE
• YOUNG ADULTS
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Missing her boyfriend, Nicole is lonely in the City of Lights when she studies abroad. But with the help of some new friends -- and a handsome Frenchman -- she might change her mind. In the S.A.S.S. series.
(FRN617, $6.99)
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The King in the Window
• Adam Gopnik
• LITERATURE
• YOUNG ADULTS
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Classic Parisian settings are thrown into an otherworldly light as the adventures of 12-year-old Oliver and the Window Wraiths unfold, with many historical figures making appearances throughout. Fun and absorbing.
(FRN540, $9.99)
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The Ramsay Scallop
• Frances Temple
• LITERATURE
• YOUNG ADULTS
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A young husband- and wife-to-be take a pilgrimage France and Spain in the year 1299. It's a sprawling young adult novel for those with a taste for historical fiction.
(FRN389, $7.99)
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The Red Keep: A Story of Burgundy in Year 1165
• Allen French
• Andew Wyeth
• LITERATURE
• YOUNG ADULTS
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A classic tale of knights and robbers in the French countryside for young adults, much enhanced by Andrew Wyeth's incomparable illustrations.
(FRN81, $15.95)
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The Scarlet Pimpernel
• Baroness Orczy
• LITERATURE
• YOUNG ADULTS
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Wildly popular since his debut in 1903, the man known as the Scarlet Pimpernel is a foppy English lord by day and a daring genius by night. Here's the rip-roaring classic, set during the French Revolution.
(FRN363, $9.95)
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The Three Musketeers
• Alexandre Dumas
• LITERATURE
• YOUNG ADULTS
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This French standard may be long -- and written almost 200 years ago -- but it is page-turning fare for young adults, who'll stay up 'til the wee hours to find out what became of D'Artagnan, Aramis, Athos, Porthos and the nefarious Lady DeWinter.
(FRN362, $12.95)
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The Little Prince
• Antoine de Saint Exupery
• Richard Howard
• LITERATURE
• FAMILY
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Antoine de Saint-Exupery's modern fable, enshrined in the hearts of many. First published in 1943, it tells of a naif extraterrestrial who wanders from planet to planet, learning wisdom as he goes.
(FRN361, $10.00)
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