2024-01-31 16:42:19
A little girl with defective sphincters, Juliette is mocked and excluded by her classmates. A seemingly funny story, which allows you to tackle much more serious subjects.
Beneath its pee-poo exterior, Juliette Qui Pète is a book of public utility. Yes Yes. Let’s start with said surroundings. The title speaks for itself, and the rest is to match: Juliette… farts. As soon as she was born, she farted so hard that she flew off like a rocket. And then when Juliette relieves herself, well it stinks. To the point of causing anyone who is not his parents, olfactory accustomed to the thing, to faint. We could even call her Juliette who stinks, who farts, who mistakes her ass for a trumpet, but that’s not the question.
So, Juliette goesof off, including at school, causing laughter among her classmates. And rejection. Playing with the service degasser is out of the question! Especially at the swimming pool, where the little girl transforms into a water jet. Through teasing and being pushed aside, the little girl feels very sad. Until this meeting with Lila, a student who has no sense of smell. And here the two kids embark on a beautiful friendship, where Juliette’s disability turns out to be an impossible asset for enjoying a deserted beach or amusement park. And even a formidable weapon in a situation of great danger.
The word “harassment” is never mentioned in this album with dynamic and colorful drawings, but that is what it is about. Because she is different, Juliette is mocked (“Juliette the farting skunk!”), excluded, deliberately kept away from this group of children who form a body. The initial situation makes you smile, the young reader will easily immerse themselves in the story. Before quickly realizing that something is wrong. “It’s not nice to make fun,” reacted our child tester of Young Pages, quickly interrupting his first snickers. A great opportunity to engage in an exchange on difference, solidarity, rejection, in short harassment, at an age where we wrongly believe that this is a problem reserved for older people.
Juliette who farts, by Alicia Acosta and Alicia Más, Crackboom! editions, 32 pp., €11.90. From 3 years.
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