Wednesday, September 29, 2010

Monsieur Seguin's Last Kid Goat

by Alphonse Daudet, ill. by Jean-Luc Buquet
How lovely she is Monsieur Seguin’s kid goat. Lovely and in love with freedom… She doesn’t want to live tied up. She wants to gambol in the mountain, to her liking. But in the mountain, there’s the big bad wolf. Daudet’s most famous text is also one of his most delightful. The encounter of two beings who have a real love for freedom and discovery, but are bound to be enemies on their common ground. As cruel as a true fairy tale, the moral of this story tells children about the happiness of freedom and the dangers of its excesses.
48 pages, 27.5 x 30 cm, 5 years +