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  • Today, a novel in the "junior fiction" category (7-11 years old), "Thank you for tenderness" by Myren Duval and Emma Constant was published on August 31, 2022 by Éditions Rouergue

Christian Dorsan, author, blogger and contributor to the 20 Minutes Books reading group, recommends

Merci pour la tendresse

by Myren Duval and Emma Constant, published on August 31, 2022 by Éditions Rouergue and selected among the Pépites for the best junior novel (7-11 years) at the Book and Youth Press Fair, from November 30 to December 5 in Montreuil.

His favorite quote:

I watch my clothes spin in the washing machine.

They seem to be having a good laugh in their wet-foamy merry-go-round.

Afterwards, I'll lay them out in the garden, for them it's tree climbing.

I think that's the life of a coat.

It is better to be a suit than a child in my opinion.

Why this book?

  • Because this book offers a skillful way

    of approaching the problem of depression with children.

    Doudou, a little girl, finds herself facing a sick mother.

    It is assumed that she has a painful past from which she cannot free herself.

    It is this relationship that is told in this book, a loving relationship between a daughter who takes care of her mother while her mother lets herself go.

  • Because the family is not only reduced to the mother and the father but also to the uncles and aunts, to the cousins, etc.

    Here it is the aunt who takes over from the mother.

    Myren Duval shares with us with a lot of humor and vivacity, the exchanges between Doudou and his Tata, behind all this energy, hides an immense tenderness.

  • Because this book is a treasure for its illustrations, worthy of a comic book: we follow box by box the summer of Doudou thanks to the magic brush of Emma Constant.

The essentials in 2 minutes

The plot.

Doudou is a bubbly and imaginative little girl whose mother is sick.

For the holidays, her Tata will take her out and take care of her.

Chronicle of a summer of tenderness.

Characters.

Doudou, a dynamic and mischievous little girl, her Mum, sick, immersed in the past, and her Tata, colorful.

Places.

Doudou's house.

The time.

One summer.

The author.

Myren Duval is a traveler, she is the author of several youth novels.

Emma Constant is a Belgian illustrator from a family background who is immersed in comics.

This book was read with

fun and seriousness, Doudou's relationship with his mother and his aunt are quite distinct, proof that children adapt to adults and take care of them.

The illustrations are dynamic, a real pleasure to read.

From 9 years old.

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