Used book – *Les Belles Lectures de notre enfance* [Beautiful Readings from Our Childhood], Béatrice Mandopoulos, Albine Novarino-Pothier

93 texts from the reading books of our childhood to rediscover our first literary emotions.

First literary emotions are encountered in excerpts from works in school textbooks. And this book invites us to rediscover them through text and images – vintage covers, illustrations from textbooks or children's editions, paintings... Organized by major themes ("Play Days, Festive Days", "Seasons and Landscapes", "Adventures of all Kinds", "Glimpses of History", "Laughter and Smiles", "Fears and Frights", "Did You Say Mystery?", "Childhood Secrets", "Everyone on Stage!", "Unforgettable Heroes"), the 93 texts in this volume will revive everyone's memories: Daudet's Christmas in Provence, a classroom scene by Vallès, Erckmann-Chatrian's L'Ami Fritz, Jules Verne's dive into the bowels of the earth, King Arthur and Joan of Arc, Renart and Tartarin, Hector Malot's little Rémy and Eugène Le Roy's Jacquou, Arsène Lupin and Edmond Dantès, Cyrano's tirade des nez or Topaze's dictation...

Texts compiled and presented by Béatrice Mandopoulos and Albine Novarino-Pothier 9782258107496