Favorite readings can be shared and every day our community recommends one of the ten novels selected among the Nuggets of the Montreuil Youth Book Fair.
Today, the novel which won the nugget of the “junior fiction” category, “Les Filles do not go so high usually” by Alice Butaud and François Ravard, appeared on May 20, 2021 by Éditions Gallimard jeunesse.
Christian Dorsan, novelist, blogger and contributor to the
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Les Filles do not rise so high usually
by Alice Butaud, illustrations by François Ravard, published on May 20, 2021 by Éditions Gallimard jeunesse.
This novel won the Nugget of the junior fiction category at the Montreuil children's book fair on Wednesday.
Her favorite quote:
He closes the door, which creaks disapprovingly. It is the first time in his life that he has gone out alone at night. He doesn't feel like he's running away, yet it looks like it. He's not afraid, or maybe he doesn't have time to think about it. Diane gestures to him at the end of the garden.
Why this book?
Because this book takes us into a magical story
in the sense that we do not know very well if what our young hero is experiencing is true, if it is a dream or if it is the fruit of his imagination. We let ourselves be drawn into this improbable story in spite of ourselves, without asking ourselves if it is plausible. And it works: we turn the pages to find out a little more, to find out what really happens at the end.
Because where an adult would have thought before following
this unknown young girl, a child does so with the intuition that he is going to live a great adventure.
And it is this adventure to which the author invites us, as if he held us by the hand while whispering to us: "go ahead, do not be afraid!"
The dialogues between Diane, mischievous, and Timoti, shy, are tasty, full of poetry and tenderness.
Because reading this story to a child should be fun,
funny and lively.
The central question remains: who is this Diane and what does she want from Timoti?
And if behind this fugue - or adventure - there was a secret… Because after all, Diane's effrontery hides a revelation that will change Timoti's life.
The essentials in 2 minutes
The plot.
Timoti lives alone with his father Gérard, apart from the postman M. Jacqueline, he sees no one and suffers from school phobia.
One morning he finds a doll in his room and a mysterious girl asks him to be ready to go on an adventure that same evening ...
Characters.
Tomoti and her father Gérard, Diane her mother, the postman M. Jacqueline, Diane's mother, a doll, a not very nice hunter and the Flouzatte circus.
Places.
This story could take place anywhere.
The time.
Current era.
The author.
Alice Butaud is a theater and film actress.
She also writes radio plays.
The illustrator is François Ravard, he collaborates with
Fluide Glacial, Le 1 Hebdo
and
La Revue Dessinée.
This book was read with
pleasure, like a modern tale.
We do not really know what adventure we are in, and that is the whole point of this book.
It's fresh, light;
it is a book about the family and the bonds between sister and brother, and the complicated stories of adults.
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