2023-06-30 17:35:18
On the occasion of Partir en livre, a selection of twelve youth albums and novels read and reviewed by the young pages of “Liberation”.
Summer is a good time to read. Albums and novels, our youth selection for a year, books to devour on vacation.
101 ways to read all the time by Timothée de Fombelle, illustrated by Benjamin Chaud (Gallimard Jeunesse). From 5 years. An amusing album with 101 reading postures, from the “cat perched” where a young reader is seated on a branch to “the descent of the bed”, where a young boy reads lying on his back on the floor, his legs up high. A book that makes you want to read everywhere. From 6 years old.
The book that (won’t) make you sleep by Jory John, illustrated by Olivier Tallec, Gründ editions. From 3 years. The hero of this album, a blue-booted kangaroo, does everything he can to help the child get to sleep – or so he claims. For example, yelling into his megaphone: “GETTING READY FOR SLEEP!!!!!!” Read a little before bedtime.
Charlotte and the invasion of the blocks by Laurène Smagghe and Jean-Claude Alphen (D’Eux). From 3 years. Charlotte is “the queen of blocks”, these little colored plastic bricks. Except that his room is a shambles… A beautiful album on construction and in kaleidoscopic colors.
The Great Book of Uselessness by Bruno Gibert (The Party). From 4 years old. A magnificent album that changes the reasonable and invites you to let your imagination run wild, with a huge machine for counting peas on a red background, or even how to drink soup with a fork or even drive a nail with a cushion…
The painting of Yulu by Suzy Lee and Cao Wenxuan, translated and adapted by Alain Serres, (Rue du Monde). From 5 years. Tall as three apples, Yulu always has a brush in her hand. A virtuoso album by South Korean illustrator Suzy Lee, in an ode to perseverance imagined by Cao Wenxuan. Stunning.
Fables of Marie de France, illustrated by Fred L. (Talents Hauts). Starting from 7 years old. Who remembers Marie de France today? Who, apart from specialists, knows that she was the first French fabulist, in 1180, half a millennium before Jean de la Fontaine? His fables, which often denounce the oppression of the weak by the strong, the greed of those who are already well off, are very nicely illustrated by Fred L.
Romans
Ottoline and the monster veterinarian by Yann Apperry and Laurent Gapaillard (Pocket Jeunesse). From the age of 8. A strange veterinary office where to treat fantastic creatures, this novel with Gothic accents takes the little orphan Ottoline, 11 years old, far from her aunt Eudora, in a parallel world. A beautiful story of monsters.
Jefferson does his best to Jean-Claude Mourlevat (Gallimard Jeunesse). From 9 years old. The hedgehog investigator involved in the murder of Mr. Edgar the hairdresser by his own scissors (see Jefferson, published in Folio Junior), sets off on a new adventure. With Gilbert the pig and his new Renault heating van, Jeff sets off in search of Simone, a young rabbit who is a bit depressed, who has disappeared. A novel that questions free will, belief, control, friendship, loyalty and courage.
The Lighthouse Girl by Annet Schaap translated from Dutch by Maurice Lomré (L’Ecole des Loisirs). From 11 years old. The heroine of Annet Schaap’s first novel, Loupiote, daughter of a lighthouse keeper, climbs to the top of the building every evening and revives with matches the lamp which will prevent shipwrecks, she must work there for seven years to expiate a paternal fault. But it is said that the building is home to a monster…
Riposte by Louisa Reid, translated from English by Clémentine Beauvais (Bayard Jeunesse). From 12 years old. the story of a teenager bullied by her classmates because of her weight. The solution ? “It’s taking control. /Dealing with things /difficult to deal with.” So she starts running every night and becomes a boxer.
The Day I Dared by Claire Castillon, Orianne Charpentier, Claudine Desmarteau, Manon Fargetton, Hugo Lindenberg, Vincent Mondot, Marion Muller-Colard, Isabelle Pandazopoulos (Gallimard Jeunesse “Scripto”). From 13 years old. Eight intense and exhilarating short stories by as many talents of contemporary literature, a whole web around the verb dare (and disobey) is woven. All take their distance with the order whatever it is.
The Revolt in the heart of Maia Brami (Albin Michel Jeunesse). From 13 years old. A novel about childhood Gisèle Halimi, the committed lawyer, born Zeiza Gisèle Taïeb in 1927. “Driven by her refusal of injustice and her curiosity, she fights against her parents, the condition of women and the society of her time says author Maia Brami. “Gisèle Halimi is a ball of fire to put in all hands.”
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