For this season 3 of Read me a story libraries and media libraries are mobilizing. On the program: adventure of course, friendship, suspense, but also love.
Boutique Tic Tic, by Frédéric Clément, it is the wonderful story of Monsieur Madeleine, an old traveler and bargain-hunter who decides, to lighten his house, to open a shop to sell the finds collected during his wanderings. From everywhere, people come to visit the shop; but a little girl from the neighborhood, Mademoiselle Rose, gets into the habit of bartering her own treasures to obtain gifts to distribute, establishing a beautiful bond between them.
What would you like to buy: from the Grand Bazaar of Isfahan, a Turkish delight forgotten by Scheherazade ? Jack’s Beanstalk? A whole batch of sobs so tender, so poignant, that Barbe Rousse, the cruel corsair, was moved? A vial containing four stunted ends of Alice’s mushroom, marvels found in an Oxford apothecary? A seed of the Eiffel Tower, sold under the coat? A hair from the old brush of the young Leonardo, a rare piece of Vinci?
From 6 years old.
“Frédéric Clément spent a large part of his childhood at the foot of Montmartre, in Paris, in the fashion boutique and the back shop of his mother and his grandmother, a seamstress. Which gave him a taste for boxes, lockers, shelves, gift wrap and inventories.Added to this taste for objects is a curious look at the works of art of all kinds to which he pays homage.
Here it is Edgar Degas’ Little Dancer aged 14 who has invited herself. On the text side, he has already bowed to the flowery vocabulary of “small business”, poetic and mischievous, in Zinzin storeand, twenty-three years later, in this swarming and greedy. Boutique Tic Tic. Pleasure of words, linguistic finds, sonorities and musical rhythm of the enumerations, everything in the writing of Boutique Tic Tic sows for the reader literary delights, to read or to hear.”
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