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Materials from France

Polo: The Runaway Book

While trying to retrieve his new book from a thieving alien, Polo has a series of adventures and eventually helps the alien and his people.

Wordless Book

Published: 2007,
Tags: Dogs, Extraterrestrial beings, Wordless
Categories: EuropeEurope, FictionEurope, Fiction, FranceEurope, Fiction, France, Primary (ages 6-9)

Kipling’s Choice

In 1915, mortally wounded in Loos, France, 18-year-old John Kipling, son of writer Rudyard Kipling, remembers his boyhood and the events leading to what is to be his first and last World War I battle.

Published: 2005,
Tags: Death, Fathers, World War I
Categories: EuropeEurope, FranceEurope, France, GermanyEurope, France, Germany, Historical FictionEurope, France, Germany, Historical Fiction, Young Adult (ages 14-18)

The Princetta

Rebelling against the rigid constraints of her life as Princetta of Galnicia, fifteen-year-old Malva escapes with her maid Philomena and together they embark on a perilous and adventurous journey that will change the course of their lives forever.

Published: 2006,
Tags: Adventure, Coming of age, Parent and child, Princesses, Voyages and travel
Categories: EuropeEurope, FictionEurope, Fiction, FranceEurope, Fiction, France, Young Adult (ages 14-18)

Monsters Are Afraid of the Moon

When Marie brings the moon into her bedroom, it scares away the monsters who have tormented her but also causes problems which only the village cats can help solve.

Published: 2001,
Tags: cat, fairytale, Fear, Monsters, Moon
Categories: EuropeEurope, FranceEurope, France, Picture BookEurope, France, Picture Book, Primary (ages 6-9)

Different like Coco

Simple text and color illustrations present the life of Coco Chanel.

Published: 2007, Candlewick Press
Tags: Fashion
Categories: Biography - Autobiography- MemoirBiography - Autobiography- Memoir, EuropeBiography - Autobiography- Memoir, Europe, FranceBiography - Autobiography- Memoir, Europe, France, Picture BookBiography - Autobiography- Memoir, Europe, France, Picture Book, Primary (ages 6-9)

Cyrano

Ashamed of his ugliness, long-nosed Cyrano de Bergerac, a brilliant 17th-century poet and expert swordsman in the French army, helps a rival woo and win Roxane, the beautiful cousin Cyrano loves in silence.

Published: 2006,
Tags: beauty, Poets
Categories: England (UK)England (UK), EuropeEngland (UK), Europe, FictionEngland (UK), Europe, Fiction, FranceEngland (UK), Europe, Fiction, France, Intermediate (ages 9-14)England (UK), Europe, Fiction, France, Intermediate (ages 9-14), Romance

The Pull Of The Ocean

Loosely based on Charles Perrault’s “Tom Thumb,” seven brothers in modern day France flee their poor parents’ farm, led by the youngest who, although mute and unusually small, is exceptionally wise.

Published: 1999,
Tags: Siblings, Size
Categories: EuropeEurope, Folklore and Fairy TalesEurope, Folklore and Fairy Tales, FranceEurope, Folklore and Fairy Tales, France, Intermediate (ages 9-14)

My Grandma Leonie

A child describes all the things she did with her grandmother and how she felt when her grandmother died.

Published: 1987,
Tags: Death, grandchild, Grandmother, memory
Categories: EuropeEurope, FranceEurope, France, Picture BookEurope, France, Picture Book, Primary (ages 6-9)Europe, France, Picture Book, Primary (ages 6-9), Realistic Fiction

Mommy Time!

A child who wonders what mother is doing during school hours comes up with a wide variety of likely and unlikely ideas, from doing housework to flying to Mars, and hopes that she will be fine on her own.

Published: 2002,
Tags: Imagination
Categories: EuropeEurope, FictionEurope, Fiction, FranceEurope, Fiction, France, Primary (ages 6-9)

Crepes by Suzette

Suzette sells a variety of her crepes, or French pancakes, from the street cart she takes all over Paris. Includes a recipe, a short glossary of French words used, brief notes on Paris sites, and more.

Published: 2004,
Tags: food, recipes
Categories: EuropeEurope, FictionEurope, Fiction, FranceEurope, Fiction, France, Picture BookEurope, Fiction, France, Picture Book, Primary (ages 6-9)

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