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Fodor's Around Paris With Kids, 68 Great Things to Do Together

Fodor's Around Paris With Kids, 68 Great Things to Do Together


by Fodor's Guides

  • GUIDEBOOK
  • 2011
  • PAPER
  • 160 PAGES

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, $11.99)

Mad about Madeline

Mad about Madeline


by Ludwig Bemelmans | Anna Quindlen

  • LITERATURE
  • 2001
  • HARD COVER
  • 352 PAGES
  • YOUNG READERS (Age 4-8)

This omnibus is a treat indeed: all six of Bemelmans's "Madeline" stories, collected in a single volume. (FRN327, $35.00)

This is Paris

This is Paris


by Miroslav Sasek

  • CULTURAL PORTRAIT
  • 2004
  • HARD COVER
  • 64 PAGES
  • YOUNG READERS (Age 4-8)

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)

Cathedral, The Story of its Construction

Cathedral, The Story of its Construction


by 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)

Marie Antoinette, Princess of Versailles (Austria-Hungary, 1769)

Marie Antoinette, Princess of Versailles (Austria-Hungary, 1769)


by 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. For ages 9-12. (FRN342, $10.99)

The Family Under the Bridge

The Family Under the Bridge


by Natalie Savage Carlson | Garth Williams

  • LITERATURE
  • 1989
  • PAPER
  • 123 PAGES
  • MIDDLE READERS (Age 9-12)

This Newbery Medal winning book for children ages 9-12 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. (FRN313, $5.99)

Vero and Philippe


by Caroline Hatton | Preston McDaniels

  • LITERATURE
  • 2001
  • HARD COVER
  • 120 PAGES
  • MIDDLE READERS (Age 9-12)

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)

A Proud Taste for Scarlet and Miniver

A Proud Taste for Scarlet and Miniver


by E.L. Konigsburg

  • LITERATURE
  • 2001
  • PAPER
  • 208 PAGES
  • YOUNG ADULTS

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)

Lily B. on the Brink of Paris

Lily B. on the Brink of Paris


by Elizabeth Cody Kimmel

  • LITERATURE
  • 2006
  • HARD COVER
  • 192 PAGES
  • YOUNG ADULTS

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)

The Invention of Hugo Cabret

The Invention of Hugo Cabret


by Brian Selznick

  • LITERATURE
  • 2007
  • HARD COVER
  • 544 PAGES
  • FAMILY

An intricate mystery told as a graphic novel for middle schoolers, Brain Selznick's captivating tale of an orphan boy on the streets of Paris in the 1930s seems a brilliant choice for Martin Scorsese's first 3-D venture, a family film starring Ben Kingsley and Sacha Baron Cohen. The movie opens November 23. (FRN731, $24.99)

The Red Balloon

The Red Balloon


by Albert LaMorisse

  • LITERATURE
  • 1976
  • PAPER
  • 44 PAGES
  • FAMILY

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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