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TASTE OF FRANCE
For Kids
My First French/English Visual Dictionary
• Jean-Claude Corbeil
LANGUAGE & PHRASEBOOKS •
2003 •
HARD COVER
• 80 PAGES
• YOUNG READERS (Age 4-8)
With labelled photographs offering the English and French words for the human body, clothing, home furnishings, foods, animals, plants, space, weather, vehicles, buildings, colors, shapes, musical instruments, sporting goods and other familiar items.
(FRN391, $14.95) |
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This is Paris
• Miroslav Sasek
CULTURAL PORTRAIT •
2004 •
HARD COVER
• 64 PAGES
• YOUNG READERS (Age 4-8)
A classic portrait of Paris for children. First published in 1958, this is a facsimile edition of Sasek's charming original. The Louvre, Eiffel Tower and other famed attractions are depicted with bright, stylized illustrations. Ages 4-8.
(FRN466, $17.95) |
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Cathedral, The Story of its Construction
• David Macaulay
ART & ARCHITECTURE •
1973 •
HARD COVER
• 77 PAGES
• MIDDLE READERS (Age 9-12)
In this illuminating book for middle 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 •
2000 •
HARD COVER
• 238 PAGES
• MIDDLE READERS (Age 9-12)
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. The teenaged Marie is almost of marrying age, and the future is full of possibility. An entry in Scholastic's "Princess Diaries" series, for ages 9 to 12. The book is designed to feel like a real princess's diary, with gold-embossed pages and a sturdy binding.
(FRN342, $10.99) |
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The Family Under the Bridge
• Natalie Savage Carlson
• Garth Williams
LITERATURE •
1989 •
PAPER
• 123 PAGES
• MIDDLE READERS (Age 9-12)
Armand was a hobo back in the days when hoboes threw Christmas parties -- and were Parisian! This charming, wonderfully human story recounts the Parisian adventures of Armand and the three homeless children who made him shed his grumpy ways. It won a Newbery Medal. With illustrations by Garth Williams, of "Little House" book fame. 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 •
2001 •
HARD COVER
• MIDDLE READERS (Age 9-12)
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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A Proud Taste for Scarlet and Miniver
• E.L. Konigsburg
LITERATURE •
2001 •
PAPER
• 208 PAGES
• YOUNG ADULTS
A marvelous fictionalized portrait of Eleanor of Aquitaine who was 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. E.L. Konigsburg's irreverent, feminist, educational young-adult novel begins on a cloud in heaven, where Eleanor is awaiting the induction into heaven of her husband Henry II of England, who has spent the last 800 years in -- well -- not in heaven, at any rate. The rest of the book is a flashback.
(GBR245, $5.99) |
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Bel Ria, Dog of War
• Sheila Burnford
LITERATURE •
2006 •
HARD COVER
• 256 PAGES
• YOUNG ADULTS
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. Brumford is also the author of The Incredible Journey.
(FRN621, $17.95) |
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Betsy and the Great World
• Maud Hart Lovelace
LITERATURE •
1996 •
PAPER
• 321 PAGES
• YOUNG ADULTS
• COMING IN
Irrepressible Betsy Ray -- would-be novelist and romantic idealist with two left feet -- is 21 years old and bound for Europe in this delightful installment in the "Betsy-Tacy" series. Beginning with a transatlantic voyage, her 1917 "grand tour" encompasses Madeira, Paris, Munich, Oberammergau, Venice and London. There's plenty of cultural detail and lots of trademark Betsy heartache, as well as some high drama at the outbreak of World War I. Ages 12 and up.
(EUR116, $6.95) |
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I Is Someone Else
• Patrick Cooper
LITERATURE •
2007 •
PAPER
• 304 PAGES
• YOUNG ADULTS
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 •
2005 •
PAPER
• 192 PAGES
• YOUNG ADULTS
The fourth book in the Students Across the Seven Seas series. 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 just might change her mind.
(FRN617, $6.99) |
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The Ramsay Scallop
• Frances Temple
LITERATURE •
1995 •
PAPER
• 320 PAGES
• YOUNG ADULTS
Highly recommended for young teens with a taste for historical fiction and a modicum of patience, this sprawling novel tells of a medieval pilgrimage through France to Santiago, Spain. The book takes a cue from Chaucer, telling the stories not only of the protagonists (teenaged fiances who don't get along) but also of the strangers they meet. In doing so, it recreates much of the 13th-century western European world within its pages. Ages 12-14.
(FRN389, $7.99) |
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The Red Keep: A Story of Burgundy in Year 1165
• Allen French
• Andew Wyeth
LITERATURE •
1997 •
PAPER
• 370 PAGES
• YOUNG ADULTS
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 •
2000 •
PAPER
• 320 PAGES
• YOUNG ADULTS
Odd's fish, m'dear, you must read this novel. 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. The time is the French Revolution, specifically Robespierre's Reign of Terror, and in Paris the aristos are going to the guillotine by the hundreds. One man, and one man only, seems poised to save their lives…"is he from heaven, or is he from hell, that damned elusive pimpernel?" Ages 12 and up.
(FRN363, $9.95) |
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The Three Musketeers
• Alexandre Dumas
LITERATURE •
2009 •
PAPER
• 663 PAGES
• YOUNG ADULTS
This French standard is rip-roaring 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 •
2000 •
PAPER
• 83 PAGES
• FAMILY
Antoine de Saint-Exupery's modern fable, enshrined in the hearts of thousands, is re-translated by Richard Howard. First published in 1943, "Le Petit Prince" tells of a naif extraterrestrial waif who wanders from planet to planet, learning wisdom as he goes. Though not set in France, it's a French classic.
(FRN361, $10.00) |
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