The Dunderheads
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minutia_rI know it’s okay to be fannish about YA books, and middle-grades books … picture books are cool, too, right? Right.
Anyway, The Dunderheads by Paul Fleischman and David Roberts. I can’t remember the last time I was so utterly charmed by a book. The basic plot is that a mean teacher confiscates a kid’s birthday present for his mother, and he and his classmates team up to get it back. The execution is . . . it’s like Charles Addams and Roald Dahl got together to write Ocean’s Eleven for preschoolers.
I kind of ship Einstein/Hollywood? In a third-graders-in-love way, not a sexy way.
Apparently a sequel has recently come out, I should try to get my hands on that.
Anyway, The Dunderheads by Paul Fleischman and David Roberts. I can’t remember the last time I was so utterly charmed by a book. The basic plot is that a mean teacher confiscates a kid’s birthday present for his mother, and he and his classmates team up to get it back. The execution is . . . it’s like Charles Addams and Roald Dahl got together to write Ocean’s Eleven for preschoolers.
I kind of ship Einstein/Hollywood? In a third-graders-in-love way, not a sexy way.
Apparently a sequel has recently come out, I should try to get my hands on that.
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Date: 2012-06-13 11:04 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2012-06-13 02:55 pm (UTC)Personally, I fangirl Charlotte Gastaut.
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Date: 2012-06-13 06:03 pm (UTC)You've talked about Charlotte Gastaut before, I think--is her French particularly difficult? Because I'm up to general picture-book standard, I think.
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Date: 2012-06-13 06:43 pm (UTC)I haven't read Gastaut in French, only the two books translated into Swedish. One of them (Poucette) is Thumbelina in translation, so you could read it in French and keep an English version nearby. The other, Le grand voyage de mademoiselle Prudence, has a few pages with lots of text (an adult nagging at the protagonist), and then there's pretty much no text at all. So that should be fine too. This page shows pretty well what it's like. (http://anyuka.canalblog.com/archives/2011/04/08/20841898.html)