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France: Elementary

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PICTURE BOOKS
BH   1-124  French Nursery Rhymes
♥   Abroad   by Thomas Crane (1882)
A delightful picture-poetry book of an outing to France.
♦   $   ​Beauty and the Beast   ill. by Craft
♦   $   ​Beauty and the Beast by Carol Heyer
Through her great capacity to love, a kind and beautiful maid releases a handsome prince from the spell which has made him an ugly beast
$   ​Beauty and the Beast ill. by Michael Hague
$   ​Beauty and the Beast ill. by Ruth Sanderson
♦   $   ​Cinderella  ill. by Ruth Sanderson 
  • $   ​ill. by Craft
♦   $   ​Cinderella ill. by Susan Jeffers
♦   $   ​Joan of Arc  by Josephine Poole
♦   $   ​Madeline   by Ludwig Bemelmans (1939)
$   ​Madeline's Rescue
♦   $   ​Mirette on the High Wire  by Emily Arnold McCully
One day, a mysterious stranger arrives at a boardinghouse of the widow Gateau—a sad-faced stranger, who keeps to himself. When the widow’s daughter, Mirette, discovers him crossing the courtyard on air, she begs him to teach her how he does it.  
But Mirette doesn’t know that the stranger was once the Great Bellini—master wire-walker. Or that Bellini has been stopped by a terrible fear. And it is she who must teach him courage once again.

$   ​Puss 'n' Boots ill. by Jerry Pinkney
$   ​Sleeping Beauty  ill. by Craft
Gorgeous illustrations.
$   ​The Sleeping Beauty ill. by Ruth Sanderson
$   ​The Clown of God  by Tomie dePaola
The retelling of an old French legend where a juggler offers the only gift he has to the Christ Child at Christmas..
$   ​The King's Day   by Aliki
A look at the lavish life of King Louis XIV at Versailles.
♦   $   ​​The Story of Babar, the Little Elephant  by Jean de Brunhoff (1931)
Classic story of the orphaned elephant who is taken in by the kindly Old Lady, who educates him and sends him home where he is made King of the Elephants.
BEGINNING READERS
$   ​Discovery in the Cave by Mark Dubowski
This amazing true adventure story about the discovery of the Lascaux Cave will have young readers feeling that they've discovered something pretty special, too!  Step Into Reading Level 4
$   ​Joan of Arc by Shana Corey
Step Into Reading Level 4
♦   Now You Can Read Sleeping Beauty
IMAGINATIVE
FC   S3-1   French Fairy Tales
FC   S11-109   Lampblack
BH   3-114   The Honest Woodman
BH   4-12   Cinderella
BH   6-11   The Sleeping Beauty
BH   6-184   The Fairyland of Science
JC   1-54    Cinderella
JC   2-120   Sleeping Beauty in the Wood
JC  2-130   Puss in Boots
♦   Favorite Fairy Tales Told in France by Virginia Haviland
♥   Favourite French Fairy Tales   by Barbara Douglas (1921)
♥   French Fairy Tales  trans. by M. Cary (1903) Ill. by E. Boyd Smith
♥   Old French Fairy Tales   by Sophie Segur (1920)
♦   The Blue Bird Retold from an Old French Fairy Tale  by Madame d’Aulnoy (1938)
♥   ​The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault (1922 edition)
►  ♥   The Sleeping Beauty and Other Fairy Tales from the Old French  by Arthur Quiller-Couch (1910)
LEGENDARY/EPIC HEROES
FC  S5-259   Roland
FC  S6-93   Roland and the Jewel
BH   7-173   The Knights of the Silver Shield
BH   10-38   The Song of Roland
JC   7-219   The Death of Roland
♥   Page, Esquire and Knight  by Marion Lansing (1910) 
Roland, A Knight of France pp. 79-102, simple retelling for children.
CULTURAL
FC  S1-11   Julius Adam
FC  S1-101   Madame LeBrun
FC  S1-103   Ronner
FC  S1-114   Rosa Bonheur
FC  S1-137   Bouguereau
FC  S1-140   Millet
FC  S1-200   Le Page
FC  S1-207   Emile Renouf
FC  S1-212   Corot
FC  OC5   French
♥   Little Jeanne of France  by Madeline Brandeis
"To every child of every land . . . may you learn to love each other."
♥   Our Little French Cousin   by Blanche McManus
Something of the daily life of a little French girl living in a Norman village.
♥   The French Twins  by Lucy Fitch Perkins (1918)
"The Twin books helps one feel that children all over the world are really like one's own twin brother or sister."
CLASSIC LITERATURE
FC   S11-349  The Good Bishop from Les Miserables
BH   10-165   As You Like It ​by Shakespeare
FICTION
JC   1-287   Susanna's Auction
JC   3-330   Twenty-One Balloons
At the age of 66, Professor William Waterman Sherman decided he needed a rest from teaching arithmetic.  So he built himself a huge balloon and set off on a trip, leaving his destination to the winds.  Naturally, he ran into trouble right away.
♦   $   ​The Family Under the Bridge  by Natalie Savage Carlson
Warm story of an old Parisian who is taken in and loved by a family.
♦   $   ​The Happy Orpheline by Natalie Savage Carlson (1957)
A story of love and friendship among a group of French orphans.
♦   $   ​The Little Prince by Antoine de St. Exupery
Classic fable of love and loneliness.
♦   $   ​​Twenty-One Balloons by William Pene du Bois
Professor William Waterman Sherman intends to fly across the Pacific Ocean. But through a twist of fate, he lands on Krakatoa, and discovers a world of unimaginable wealth, eccentric inhabitants, and incredible balloon inventions.Winner of the 1948 Newbery Medal
HISTORICAL
BH  10-98   Joan of Arc
♦   $   ​Joan of Arc by Diane Stanley
Against the fascinating tapestry of Frances history during the Hundred Years' War, Diane Stanley unfolds the story of the simple thirteen-year-old village girl who in Just a few years would lead France to independence from English rule, and thus become a symbol of France's national pride. It is a story of vision and bravery, fierce determination, and tragic martyrdom.
♦   $   ​Joan of Arc, The Lily Maid by Margaret Hodges
HISTORICAL FICTION
FC   S9-101   The Story of Gilbert, the Page
$   ​Huguenot Garden   by Douglas Jones
The daily adventures of two young twin sisters in a 17th century French protestant family.  It's a story of faith and persecution for that faith.
►  ​Weiss, Jim,  The Three Musketeers
BIOGRAPHIES
FC   S6-29    Bonheur
FC   S6-243   Jean Francois Millet
FC   S6-251   The Little Corporal
FC   S11-175  Boy Who Conquered Fire
FC   S11-211  Boy Who Could Give Up
FC   G2-267   Claude Lorraine
FC   G2-313   Bonheur
FC   G2-321   Bonheur
JC   8-251   The Discovery of Radium:   Madame Curie
♦   $   ​Louis Braille   by Margaret Davidson
The blind French boy who invented books for the blind. Includes Braille alphabet on the cover. Your kids can create their own braille pages by gluing split peas on a piece of paper.
♦   Millet Tilled the Soil by Opal Wheeler
♦   Rosa Bonheur: Her Life by Catherine Owens Peare
The story of the French artist who loved animals.
♦   $   ​The Story of Louis Pasteur by Alida Sims Malkus
A Signature Biography
♦   $   ​​The Story of Madame Curie by Alice Thorne
A Signature Biography
SYMBOL LEGEND
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$    ​​= Purchase
FC  = Forgotten Classics Family Library
JC   = Junior Classics (1962 edition)
BH = My Book House (1971 edition)
Delphian Course (1913 edition)
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