We've got another SUPER cute library book at home that I don't want to forget about. Dain actually picked it out on a day he took D to the library and he's not letting me live this one down.
Everybody Bonjours - by Leslie Kimmelmana
This book is based on my husband's favorite city in the world, and one of my top favorite destinations of all time - PARIS!
The book is perfect for a cutie little one - who might be interested in French or whose parents are forcing it on him (HA) - and yes we have bi-lingual English/French books in our home!
This book focuses on how everyone says "hello" in Paris - BONJOUR! It's adorably rhymed, "They bonjour while sweeping floors, doing chores...eating petit fours. Everybody Bonjours!"
Illustrated by a family of four clearly on vacation in the city of light, they visit the Mona Lisa, Eiffel Tower, the Metropolitan subway, etc. Everywhere people are bonjouring to eachother. The graphics are almost like a watercolor painting - though a bit more vivid. They are beautiful and perfectly capture that Parisian spirit, while keeping the cartoonish flair that keeps a child glued to the page. In addition, the author and illustrator added a mouse "hidden" on each page that the little reader can try to locate. D LOVES finding the mouse!
The cute story gives Paris the benefit of the doubt - when a lot of people think that the French people as a rule are not the friendliest culture to tourists. I did not experience that at all, and I was happy to see a book that totally blew up that theory. The family bonjours all over Paris - but at the end, when they get back home "everybody HELLO's"!
Love this book. It's a quick, cute, perfectly Parisian story. And it makes me dream even more about taking our family to Paris someday. I would love to take D to that beautiful place, and let him BONJOUR all over the place! Someday my friends, someday.
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