Surprising adventures, talking animals, revisited tales or love in CM2: children aged 6 to 10 have beautiful stories to read at the end of the year.
“A snow story”, by Madeleine Assas
Where do the words go that we discovered by reading a book? What are they capable of? After having devoured, one evening, a story that takes place in Lapland, in the Far North, the very young reader, who lives in a place where the weather is almost always good, wakes up in an unusual silence and discovers, through her bedroom window, snowflakes swirling. The hours that follow take him on a unique adventure. Did she dream it? With infinite delicacy, between realism and poetry, fiction and reality, Madeleine Assas marvelously expresses the subtle power of books.
r Illustrations by Ella Coutance, Ed. Actes Sud Junior, coll. Solo, 64 pages, €8.90. From 6 years old.
“Bonaventure and company”, by Alex Cousseau
At the start, there are images in Indian ink, with a thousand and one details, by Charles Dutertre. An inextricable forest where the flowers are as big as the trees, taller than the houses. This is where Bonaventure Édredon, his cousin Susie (shrews), and their neighbors Salvador Tricotin (a frog) and Piotr Opalkalovitch (an earthworm) live. Their names immediately indicate a poetic and eccentric note that Alex Cousseau’s imagination and words will happily resonate. The story bounces from question to question. Is it better to leave or to stay? wonders Bonaventure, who will solve it by adding wheels to his house. And off we go for a patchwork of surprising adventures, with irresistible charm.
r Illustrations by Charles Dutertre, Ed. from Rouergue, 80 p., €13. From 7 years old.
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