Ooh, heists! I'm still in a heist mood. :-) *Immediately adds book to adlibris wishlist.*
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)
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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)