Favorite readings are something to be shared and our community recommends one of the ten novels selected from the Nuggets of the Montreuil Children's Book Fair every day.
Today, a novel in the "junior fiction" category (7-11 years old), "Spaghetti with lipstick" by Fabien Arca, published on January 13, 2022 by Éditions Espaces 34.
Christian Dorsan, author, blogger and contributor to the 20 Minutes Books reading group, recommends
Spaghetti with lipstick
by Fabien Arca, published on January 13, 2022 by Éditions Espaces 34 and selected among the Nuggets for the best junior novel (7-11 years old). ) at the Book and Youth Press Fair, from November 30 to December 5 in Montreuil.
His favorite quote:
Mon Plumeau, you know, a mother never leaves completely, she always stays there, in the heart of her child.
That's also the magic of a mother who has to leave.
Why this book?
Because this book is touching.
The little boy, Plumeau, is very affected by the departure of his mother, Fabien Arca describes with accuracy and in a few words, the feeling of abandonment.
There is no excess in the idleness of this little boy, but a lot of simplicity and calligrams that lead us into his discomfort.
Because the dad plays an important role,
and it is he who will “cure” Plumeau of his melancholy through play, imagination and laughter.
Perhaps this is the birth of a bond between father and son?
Because children's books sometimes have virtues
or are examples.
The young reader will learn with this book that a dad can replace a mom at a given time and that a mom, wherever she is, is never separated from her children.
The essentials in 2 minutes
The plot.
A man facing the ocean remembers that as a child, his oceanographer mother had gone on a mission and that her departure had made him lose his appetite.
Characters.
Duster the little boy, his oceanographer mom and his dreamy dad.
Places.
A city and the ocean.
The time.
Current.
The author.
Fabien Arca is a playwright for children.
Several times awarded, he also writes radio dramas for France Inter.
This book was read with
fondness.
Fabien Arca has the talent to tell a simple story and bring a child's grief to life.
For 6-8 year olds.
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