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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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Eyewitness: Impressionism
• Jude Welton
• ART & ARCHITECTURE
• MIDDLE READERS (Age 9-12)
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A visual survey of Impressionism for kids ages 9-12, including hundreds of images and ingeniously arranged facts.
(GEN194, $15.99)
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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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Fodor's Around Paris With Kids, 68 Great Things to Do Together
• Fodor's Guides
• GUIDEBOOK
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A compact colorful guide to Paris for families, featuring a handpicked selection of attractions that kids will find especially interesting. With games, activities, color photographs, maps and diagrams.
(FRN658, $11.00)
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The Invention of Hugo Cabret
• Brian Selznick
• LITERATURE
• MIDDLE READERS (Age 9-12)
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This imaginative novel brings to life the adventures of a young orphan on the streets of Paris in the 1903s through an artful blend of text, sketches and illustrations. Ages 9-12.
(FRN731, $22.99)
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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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Lily B. on the Brink of Paris
• Elizabeth Cody Kimmel
• LITERATURE
• YOUNG ADULTS
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This imaginative story of a teenager separated from her class on a field trip to Paris and the adventures that befall her will appeal to any teen or pre-teen on vacation in the City of Light.
(FRN615, $16.99)
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Linnea in Monet's Garden
• Christina Bjork
• Lena Anderson
• Joan Sandin
• ART & ARCHITECTURE
• YOUNG READERS (Age 4-8)
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A very floral introduction to the art of Monet and his Impressionist circle for children ages 5 to 8. Linnea and her neighbor frolic in Monet's garden at Giverny and look at Impressionist paintings in Paris.
(FRN312, $16.00)
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Mad about Madeline
• Ludwig Bemelmans
• Anna Quindlen
• LITERATURE
• YOUNG READERS (Age 4-8)
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This omnibus is a treat indeed: all six of Bemelmans's "Madeline" stories, collected in a single volume.
(FRN327, $35.00)
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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, $10.95)
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Ooh-La-La (Max in Love)
• Maira Kalman
• CULTURAL PORTRAIT
• FAMILY
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A colorful chapter of the ongoing adventures of the poet dog Max, this time in the Paris of his dreams.
(FRN450, $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 young adult novel 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.
(GBR245, $5.99)
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The Red Balloon
• Albert LaMorisse
• LITERATURE
• FAMILY
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The boy and the balloon traipse through Paris, until finally the balloon takes flight high, high above the rooftops. This abiding children's classic consists of still images (taken from the "Red Balloon" movie, shot in Paris) and no text.
(FRN326, $12.95)
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This is Paris
• Miroslav Sasek
• CULTURAL PORTRAIT
• YOUNG READERS (Age 4-8)
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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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Vero and Philippe
• Caroline Hatton
• Preston McDaniels
• LITERATURE
• MIDDLE READERS (Age 9-12)
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An episodic, unassuming book about the exploits of Veronique Vo and her haughty older brother Philippe, Vietnamese-French children who have recently moved from Normandy to Paris.
(FRN323, $14.95)
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